Here's a nifty way of displaying a screen before anything in verge is loaded( At least I think ). If I'm wrong and it's pointless... so sue me, it's still nifty.

//print "Loading..." onto the screen before anything else happens


int loading=load();





int load(){


  rectFill(0,0,windowGetWidth(screen),windowGetHeight(screen),0,screen);


  printString(100,100,screen,0,"Loading...");


  showPage();


}





//load Lots of stuff while loading is printed on screen


int lotsOfStuff[1024][1024];


int loadLotsOfStuff=load2();





int load2(){


  int i, k;


  for(i=0;i<1024;i++)


    for(k=0;k<1024;k++)


      lotsOfStuff[i][k]=0;


}





//using this method we never run autoexec,


//hell, we could make a game without out ever using autoexec


//muahaha!!!!


void autoExec(){


  //I'm so lonely ;_;


}

Quote:Originally posted by Omni

Whoa!

I mean, the loading part is stupid...(actually, I take that back), but I was more interested to realize that being able to use function declarations as initial arguments allows you to call actual screen code.

Spiffy. Nice find, RageCage.
Actually a loading screen isn't entirely useless. I saw someone in #vergehelp the other day wondering why his compile times were so long, when the actual slowness happened when he was making a big multidim array. You could use that to mark when compiling was finished and when your code starts running.

the global initializers code is executed just before the autoexec, not before the VC compiler... compiles.... obviously. Heh.

But yeah, it's fun for the whole family!