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I use my own bindings to libwayland in Odin and I'm able to open several windows at once. The vertexshader works as expected, but the fragmentshader is not. It seems to only work in the last window I ...
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If i would compare by references i can deal with raw_data from What is the preferred method of comparing values? I think it's too generic to not exist in std... // Maybe I can make `return false` on `...
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I am trying to learn Odin for Advent of Code and have run into a problem reading a file line by line in a function. I have tried returning the array by value and returning a slice. Each results in ...
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I am new to graphics in general, so I am trying to learn from others. After drawing a triangle, a quad and then a sprite on top, I have been trying to get a batch of them on screen using instancing. ...
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I'm learning odin, and I'm writing a program where the map allocating memory, growing and doing its checks is a considerable part of my program running time, is there a way to have a map where I can ...
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There are a couple of places in Odin language overview where I came across .? operator for unions It looks like this: // - Example 1 v: union{int, f64} i: int i = v.? or_else 123 // - Example 2 halve ...
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I have the following code in Odin: Foo :: struct { x: int, y: int, } a := Foo{1, 1} b := Foo{1, 1} #assert(a == b) According to official documentation I would expect to be able to compare ...
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I am having some issues understanding how the Atomic_RW_Mutex is supposed to work in Odin. I have attached a minimal example that helps illustrate the problem. In the below code I would expect that ...
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I'm new to Odin and am having some doubts on how to read a large Gzip file. I've managed to reach the followng point where I load the to a bytes.Buffer. But assuming the gziped file is a text file I'm ...
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what i'm looking for is a c style vla: int len = 5; int foo[len] = { 0 }; where len is mutable. in odin this is invalid: Array count must be a constant integer, got len len := 4 foo: [len]i32 = {} ...
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I'm working on the Odin project as a way to shake off the rust, being an ex bootcamper from 2 years ago. I'm on the project where you have to take the rock paper scissors game you've made previously ...
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There isn't a lot of documentation of how to do this in Odin but I did find this github issue which seems to be outdated as using that code doesn't compile. I tried doing process_state, stdout, stderr,...
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I want to know whether raylib cleans all the resources on CloseWindow() call. And if it does not cleans up everything then what remains to be cleaned up manually? More context: The program turns into ...
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When loading values from json, if I parse -10.0 from a json file it doesn't get converted to -10.0 but -9.98.. Is this expected behavior? Is it something to do with floats? When I simply multiply 10 ...
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I'm trying to retrieve the positions of the desktop icons. I do get the right item count, but for the positions I always get 0, 0. If I check for the last error I get ERROR_INVALID_WINDOW_HANDLE, ...

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