Kevin BCX seems like a great tool! Being new to C but somewhat familiar with BASICs I am confused somewhat with the interaction between JFE and Wedit. JFE does...
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bobspringett@...
Jul 10, 2000 4:39 am
Kevin, There is one thing that concerns me about BCX. How much 'C' am I going to need? It occurs to me, and correct me if I am wrong, that any syntax errors in...
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kdiggins@...
Jul 10, 2000 11:57 am
JFE and Wedit are unrelated. I included JFE for those BASIC programmers who lacked a syntax highliting editor like those found in VB, PB, and so on. You can...
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bobspringett
bobspringett@...
Jul 10, 2000 12:40 pm
Ossa wrote:- . ... Go into the \bcx\msdlged directory find the dialog editor and read the literature for it.Run it: Make a simple program, say a frame and a...
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kdiggins@...
Jul 11, 2000 12:46 am
One more suggestion about using BCX ... Years ago I created a folder that I named c:\UTILS\ and into this folder is where I place programs that I might want to...
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ossa
ossa@...
Jul 12, 2000 3:34 am
Hey thanks for the advice....I'm still in the experimenting stage right now but this (BCX) looks good!!...
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TomsOC@...
Jul 13, 2000 5:04 am
Well, I have been using VB 5 Pro, to do some programs for work, but find that they execute very slowly at times. So tonight I downloaded your Basic to C...
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kdiggins@...
Jul 13, 2000 6:44 am
I'm still learning what I can do with this newsgroup so please bear with me as this is all mostly a hobby of mine. I uploaded a simple program to this website...
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bobspringett@...
Jul 14, 2000 3:08 am
I uploaded a file Kevin sent to me recently. I covered it with a message but the message doesn't seem to have arrived,the file did [retest.zip] so this is...
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bobspringett@...
Jul 14, 2000 5:30 am
I am trying to edit the *.RES files of DlgDemo and Clock but when I try to load them in MSdlg I get "This is not a .RES file. What am I doing wrong? Regards ...
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kdiggins@...
Jul 14, 2000 9:43 pm
Bob -- If memory serves me correctly, those were early samples that I put together with the 32 bit resource editor that comes with LCC-win32. The MS Dialog...
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Caglar Toklu
caglartoklu@...
Jul 15, 2000 9:45 am
hi everyone, I'm sorry for the previous empty mail, it was a mistake. BCX allows us to use inline C, yes that's great, so we can use C when we want, but I have...
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kdiggins@...
Jul 15, 2000 3:09 pm
Caglar, You raise a valid point. In fact, I have been asked to address that issue several times before but haven't gotten around to it. I will place it at...
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bobspringett
bobspringett@...
Jul 17, 2000 6:54 am
Kevin, I've tried to make up some data by the following: in a BASIC program:- t$="some data" text$=text$+t$ Both are declared as char(257) when translated by...
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Kye
sky1@...
Jul 17, 2000 10:13 am
... Hi Bob, Its quite simple, all string concatenation must be done with the & operator. Also BCX seems to like clean code rather than obfuscation. ie. ...
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bobspringett
bobspringett@...
Jul 17, 2000 10:38 am
Kye, Many thanks. Seems I got to learn a bit more 'C' to understand the 'BASIC'. I'll go along with you on WEDITRES and DB. It would be nice also to see the...
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kdiggins@...
Jul 17, 2000 11:11 pm
... dim a$ dim i for i=65 to 65+25 step 1:a$=a$&chr$(i):next:?a$ ... All concatenation MUST however exist as it's own statement. For instance, this will not...
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kdiggins@...
Jul 17, 2000 11:26 pm
I can appreciate your suggestion but I don't believe that's very practical. Instead, I would like to see users start contributing libraries of BCX BASIC...
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bobspringett
bobspringett@...
Jul 18, 2000 3:37 am
Kevin Diggins wrote:- ... generating wizards like DB but perhaps with a GUI front end. I personally like keeping all my BASIC source code together and prefer...
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Caglar Toklu
caglartoklu@...
Jul 21, 2000 10:16 am
I have a question about BCX's if-then-else statement, Kevin. I have seen that BCX doesn't support 'elseif' in the if-then-else control statement. To see what I...
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kdiggins@...
Jul 22, 2000 4:05 am
I added ELSEIF to the BCX language today. It will be available in the next release ( 1.72 ), possibly available this weekend, if I tie up some loose ends....
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Doyle Whisenant
mechanic@...
Aug 6, 2000 4:07 pm
First of all, I am new to this group and would like to say hi to all. Kevin knows me as I have corresponded with him before. I wrote the "BCXEditor" example in...
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Kye
sky1@...
Aug 8, 2000 3:41 pm
There is a problem while line inputting a file into a variable where it will truncate the last character of the last line. I've always just added an extra...
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kdiggins@...
Aug 8, 2000 10:17 pm
Ahoy Doyle! This statement in BCX ... Function WinMain (hInst as HWND,hPrev as HWND,CmdParam$,CmdShow) ...produces this working statement in LCC-Win32 extern...
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Doyle Whisenant
mechanic@...
Aug 8, 2000 10:26 pm
... Actually I finally figured this out! Sorry I didn't get back with an update. I am using: Function WinMain (hInst as HWND,hPrev as HWND,CmdParam as...
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kdiggins@...
Aug 8, 2000 10:28 pm
This code works ( correctly ) and predictably ... dim a$ open "z.txt" for input as fp1 while not eof(fp1) line input fp1, a$ print a$ wend close fp1 Am I...
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Kye
sky1@...
Aug 9, 2000 7:58 am
Yeah, sorry. It does work fine. The files that I where using to test with where created by hand and the last line of the file was'nt proceeded with a CrLf...
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Doyle Whisenant
mechanic@...
Aug 10, 2000 10:44 pm
Does BCX handle callback code? I am using the following code: Function HelloWndProc(hwnd AS HWND,Msg AS UINT,wParam AS UINT,lParam AS UINT) AS long and I want...
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Kevin Diggins
kdiggins@...
Aug 12, 2000 8:53 pm
... Here's one approach ( Requires BCX Version 1.72 ) ... CONST LC = LRESULT CALLBACK Function HelloWndProc ( _ HWND hwnd, _ UINT message, _ WPARAM...
