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is it Possible to make pacman? with ahk

Maybe - but for the efforts!
It will be like painting a whole building with a toothbrush.

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kk thanks

i do that in my spare time so its all cool ;]

Don't forget to send me a copy. I soo can't wait

I miss pacman. Go for it !!!

In case it's of interest, I enjoyed playing niwi's Tetris, which was written in AutoHotkey.

Someday in the far future, I might do what Chris seems to want: a canvas component, were you can draw inside with some easy commands.
If it can be animated, that would be cool, too...

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

That is exactly what I have wanted for a maze game I am creating but I got the idea from someone to just use arrow keys to move a picture.

Sounds great.

I wouldn't use it myself (in fact, I don't even use GUI); I was only echoing the desires others have expressed in the past few years (though not so much lately).

Thanks.

Yes, at least, you are not against such thing, if kept reasonably small of course... That's enough to make me think about it, even if right now it is pure vaporware...
Would be pure GDI, ie. a bit slow (slower than DirectX or OpenGL) but probably fast enough for most need with a modern computer.

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

With my limited knowledge of such things, I would think it could be done either as:

1) A static/pic control containing an bitmap whose contents are alterered by the script (i.e. pixels inside are permanently changed each time the script draws a new line or shape).

2) The script stores lines and shapes as abstract objects (just their properties and dimensions). Every time the control does an erase-background and/or repaint, the program draws all of its shapes sequentially directly into the control. This would probably perform more slowly and be more difficult to implement, but would allow the script to alter/delete individual shapes without having to erase everything and start over.

Maybe someone knows a better approach.

You are right.

I would choose the first solution, with double-buffering for animation, leveraging GDI (poor) capability to draw shapes. Not high quality, but simple and small.

The second option is great (we go closer to SVG!), but will eat memory, will be slow, will be quite hard to get right (more or less what you wrote!), and it would be easier to get an external (big!) library like Cairo (pure C) or the high quality Anti-Grain Geometry - (high level C++ with heavy use of templates...).

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")