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by Zimboguitar
Sun Feb 26, 2017 7:46 am
Forum: Other topics
Topic: New beginner challenges
Replies: 9
Views: 2594
Flag: Australia

Re: New beginner challenges

Hi, and thanks so much for coming to my rescue with Smart Basic in particular the subject of music. I will certainly look closely at the references you mentioned. I use an IPad mini as my Apple device and use Garage Band which is an astonishingly well written piece of software. I see Smart Basic as ...
by Zimboguitar
Sat Feb 25, 2017 12:52 am
Forum: Other topics
Topic: New beginner challenges
Replies: 9
Views: 2594
Flag: Australia

Re: New beginner challenges

My question re using formulae to manipulate 'note set' data has brought no response. I need this functionality to explore 'artificial intelligence music composing'. Formulae seems only to work with numeral data - not alphabetical as in music note Names. None of the music examples show note manipulat...
by Zimboguitar
Wed Feb 22, 2017 1:53 pm
Forum: Other topics
Topic: New beginner challenges
Replies: 9
Views: 2594
Flag: Australia

Re: New beginner challenges

Thankyou for helping with the Editor settings which has solved my problem (I like the black screen with green font - it reminds me of old computers in the eighties.) I still can't get to see my sprites (they are invisible, even with 'show Sprite') so I am going to try a different project. Artificial...
by Zimboguitar
Mon Feb 20, 2017 2:28 pm
Forum: Other topics
Topic: New beginner challenges
Replies: 9
Views: 2594
Flag: Australia

Re: New beginner challenges

Thankyou for helping with my question re sprites. I am starting to understand. Meanwhile my Smart Basic editing screen has gone black with green font. At the bottom of that screen is a slider which seems to scale the text. I can't put the screen colour back to the default text or the blue screen. Ca...
by Zimboguitar
Mon Feb 20, 2017 4:05 am
Forum: Other topics
Topic: New beginner challenges
Replies: 9
Views: 2594
Flag: Australia

New beginner challenges

Hello. My first question. I am 67 and would like to try to learn programming. Smart Basic suits me. I hope this page is relevant for my question. As an experiment I will try for a simple flight simulator. Cockpit with scenery rotating behind windscreen. I tried cockpit as main graphics window with s...