If you release anything I for one would try it. I'd love to be able to have gui functions in bgt, I've always wanted that. It would really open up the possibilities of creating things other than games with it. One thing I would also love to see is the ability to create windows with system keys support, so you can press alt to get to the menu where you can maximise the window and what not, heck, maybe even add the ability for us to add menues to the thing and shortcuts to access them, etc.

This would be really awesome. I would try it out and if you can do it and it works, i may also replace my normal bgt compiler with it.

Sounds cool. Though make sure it supports 64-bit out of the box, as 32-bit seems to be dying very quickly.

If these libraries are .so then your on Linux. They should be .dll or .lib for Windows.
Not really sure why you would want to do this; why not go with a language like Python instead?

@9, I get the inspiration, but to me its just not a good idea. BGT needs to die -- hell, its already dead. BGT has limitations that even you cannot overcome, one of which is the extreme lack of recognition by the rest of the world. If you post a BGT question on stack overflow you will never get an answer. If you post a Python question on stack overflow, you'll get an answer, if not several, all of which may be very good ideas. Yes, PB doesn't support object orientation, but that was never, I think, in its design. Hell, its practically discontinued. Your problem with Java doesn't really count as a problem with the language, as there are thousands, if not millions, of programmers who would adamantly disagree, and is more of a problem that you have, which is perfectly acceptable. Java, then, may not be suited to you. Nor may PB. C++ may not be, either -- I will use C++ when I need to, but over the years I have become quite disillusioned about it, especially as the years go by and the C++ standards committee just keeps on piling on feature after feature, without changing the language in a major way that would break backwards compatibility and make it better. A pile like C++ is becoming will never stand for long; sooner or later it will collapse or self-destruct. C, on the other hand, will never suffer such a calamity because the pace of the committee is stable and steady. C has only had a few updates, occurring in 1978, its original year of creation, also known as K&R C; 1989, the year of standardization for the language, formally known as ANSI X3.159-1989, but more commonly as C89; 1999, which braught us C99 and its various features, including inline functions, several new data types, VLAs and FLA members, improved support for floating point operations, variadic macros, and support for one line comments; 2011, also known as C11, bringing us atomics, multi-threading, bound-checking functions in the standard library, etc.; and in 2018, which only introduces technical corrections and clarifications to the C11 standard. C++, on the other hand, has been updated quite a number of times: in 1998, 2003, 2011, 2014, 2017, and now, in 2020.
Sorry about the C/C++ history diatribe. My point is that this reinvention does not need to happen. Go ahead and do it as a learning process, but I just think its generally a bad, bad idea that will only stir up more conflict.
As for your second question, yes, it can be wrapped using C++/CLI, an extension to C++ on the .NET framework. You will need to write your own .NET wrapping APIs, however.

@11, I understand, but as I said, I personally think that continuing this, or at least publicizing it, is only going to stir up conflict and drama. But if you want to, go ahead -- I've already warned you about what I believe will happen.
As for wrapping it, no, I can't, because I don't like the AngelScript API; its far too overcomplicated and weird for me. I'd rather use the Lua C API with a C++ bridge. (Speaking of that... perhaps sometime I can try that, a Lua version of BGT. Interesting thought.)

Offcourse it has, so many of them that sometimes I feel like smashing my head along with my laptop and the phone I use to post my recent replyes against a window, but, rather than using java, I'll choose this every day. I wander how other blind c# programmers deal with this kind of problem. Do they have an offline msdn like there once existed a .hlp file with all the windows apis for integration with the pb editor?
@12: Somewhere deep down, I hoped that you'd say that because I was'nt emotionally prepared for the headake such code would have caused.   

I totally agree with you regarding the angelscript apy, that is why I prefer the iron python api or even the C python api, but I choose this because of backwards compatiblity reasons.
Regarding lua, this Seems to bea verry good idea but for one small reason:
As far as I am concerned, lua does not support oop like python does, so, the question arrises, how can I add .net classes to the environment? How does an user add classe? Are metatables the only solution? This sounds like trying to implement oop in pb using some dirty tricks.
But again, I might be wrong since verry much time passed since I last visited lua and things might change, please correct me if I'm wrong.

I can't use js because microsoft alreadi implemented managed js, so I will stick to ironpython or lua.
Can you think of a way to add a class to lua as a metatable, maybe using reflection?

hi,
as for your idea, My idea is go with python, and you then can use cython to write your stuff for sound management etc. but, I don't recommend you to use Angelscript, because python and lua are interpreted languages, and assume another scripting language is going to be executed on top of them (same is true with .net, though it is JIT compiled).
if you want to use Angelscript, go with C++ because it is natively compiled and you don't need some interpreted language on the background.
also you don't need to write a wrapper for it for another language as well.

Lol, 19. Leveraging the full power of .NET is going to be a hell to implement. Are you seriously going to expose all of the classes and namespaces to BG? That's going to take hours, if not days, just to figure out.

@21, again, I don't know how to wrap Lua in C#. I know how to do it in C++ but I have no idea how .NET classes will fair with the way I wrap classes in C++. You can't wrap namespaces, either, without wrapping all within the namespace first. ts a very complex process even with a bridge and certainly isn't fun. However, if you truly want to know how... https://github.com/ThePhD/sol2.

OK, here's the thing. What has BGT really brought us over the years? Not much at all. OK, Liam's BGT games were the highlight of the language in my opinion. STW and Redspot as well. Other than that, not much worth noting. Now, why would you want to allow leveraging the full power of DotNet when they can't even handle BGT without stealing code? It's ludicrous.