New to BlitzMax

Hi everyone. I'm new here and pretty hopeless at coding, but am going to give it my best shot trying to port some B3D code to BlitzMax so I can actually compile a game for my own platform, OS X. Please bare with me as I'll probably need a lot of help every step of the way.

I have

timer=CreateTimer(60)

used for displaying logos at the beginning of the game and to have them displayed there for a certain amount of time. BlitzMax hasn't rejected this but it won't allow

FreeTimer(timer)

at the end before End Function.

So I'm wondering what is the BlitzMax equivalent to this.

You can use: StopTimer( timer:TTimer )
As the documentation says: Once stopped, a timer can no longer be used.

Thanks for the quick assist :)

Hey cobra. Welcome!

What did you use to write Soulless? :-)

Thanks Brucey.

I started Soulless in NovaShell. But really can't code so didn't make a lot of progress. Then after searching for an engine that requires no programming I came across Power Games Factory.

I'd never heard of it until now. A game-maker made with REALbasic... interesting :-)

Programming is always something you can learn... and once you get the hang of it, you should find you can do much better than the constraints a game-maker holds you to.

Just stick with it.. and you'll get there in the end!