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Robert, I assume that by indexing you also mean to include KEYWORDS. Grep is O.K. but take this as an example: You want to find programs with ARRAYS in. Now...
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bobspringett
bobspringett@...
Dec 1, 2000 1:51 pm
This is as far as I've got with the grid control and there is a problem. Try as I may I cannot get it,at the moment, to print the last entry from a loaded...
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Robert Wishlaw
rwishlaw@...
Dec 1, 2000 7:27 pm
Bob: I get your point, I think. The problem is the KEYWORDS part. What's important ? Would Windows API terms be included or only pure BASIC keywords like PRINT...
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Robert Wishlaw
rwishlaw@...
Dec 1, 2000 8:59 pm
Bob: If you expect 2626 in the last cell then In grid11.bas you can try changing line 28 from CONST TOTALROWS = 100 to CONST TOTALROWS = 102 and ...
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Robert Wishlaw
rwishlaw@...
Dec 1, 2000 11:31 pm
Does GOSUB work in Gui Windows? Robert Wishlaw rwishlaw@......
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Kevin Diggins
kdiggins@...
Dec 2, 2000 1:25 am
Why not? Seems like a loaded question -- are you experiencing a specific problem?...
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David Garner
dgarner@...
Dec 2, 2000 1:41 am
Kevin, LOL! David Garner...
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David Garner
dgarner@...
Dec 2, 2000 1:53 am
Robert, ... That is the problem. ... You only need to list the keywords -I- want to find! ... No, I think you know exactly the point. I think you have to list...
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Robert Wishlaw
rwishlaw@...
Dec 2, 2000 3:32 am
Kevin: What I was trying to do was GOSUB Blorg SUB Blorg A$ = "SOL" RETURN I have since learned that what is needed is CALL Blorg SUB Blorg A$ = "SOL" End Sub ...
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Kevin Diggins
kdiggins@...
Dec 2, 2000 4:11 am
CALL SUB is very different ( & much more powerful ) than GOSUB. Still, GOSUB has it's place in cases where you do not need to pass parameters -- GOSUB -may-...
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Robert Wishlaw
rwishlaw@...
Dec 2, 2000 4:44 am
David: One thing I like about the help files with Microsoft and Borland's compilers are the examples that are included as part of the help file. ... _fstrcat,...
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bobspringett
bobspringett@...
Dec 2, 2000 5:15 am
Robert, I think that you can safely 'bin' GOSUB. Most if not all things that it can do can be done with subName().I notice that in some later examples by Kevin...
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Robert Wishlaw
rwishlaw@...
Dec 2, 2000 6:25 am
Thanks Bob. I am a C neophyte. I've been programming in BASIC for 17 years and old habits are tough to 'bin'. I started on C on an AMIGA and then C++ came...
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Kevin Diggins
kdiggins@...
Dec 2, 2000 8:32 pm
Available for download from EGROUP FILES area mbb10.zip Freeware BCX MsgBox Builder w/source MB is a GUI wizard that lets you create custom MessageBox's and...
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Robert Wishlaw
rwishlaw@...
Dec 3, 2000 3:10 am
Kevin: Message builder is still not displaying properly at 800x600. I think the problem may be in line 443 BCX_ScaleX = BCX_cxBaseUnit/4 and line 444...
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Kevin Diggins
kdiggins@...
Dec 3, 2000 3:44 am
Maybe ... but I don't think so. MB looks great on my display regardless whether I'm in 640x480, 800x600, or 1024x768 ( 8,16,& 24 bit planes ) I have my font...
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Robert Wishlaw
rwishlaw@...
Dec 3, 2000 5:54 am
I'm running Windows 98 SE 800x600 24 bit with Display Properties Advanced font set at Large Fonts. Robert Wishlaw rwishlaw@......
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Kevin Diggins
kdiggins@...
Dec 3, 2000 1:33 pm
Large Font is the problem. MS dialog engine ties to your selected font, not just the display resolution. I wish I understood more about it. ... performed ......
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bobspringett
bobspringett@...
Dec 3, 2000 1:50 pm
Kevin, Were you aware that DIM differs slightly from say the DIM in Power Basic and I would assume in others also. Forgetting about OPTION BASE in PB if you...
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Kevin Diggins
kdiggins@...
Dec 3, 2000 2:44 pm
Bob, Yes, I am aware that BCX <v1.87> forces us to consider DIM as roughly equivalent to: OPTION BASE 0 whereas, earlier versions added 1 to statically ...
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Bradley Callis
bradley@...
Dec 3, 2000 3:44 pm
Hey byte heads. I am trying to write a dll as a plugin for a scripting language and I am stuck. This example is in C and I like to convert it to basic then...
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Robert Wishlaw
rwishlaw@...
Dec 4, 2000 8:06 am
I've been porting some of my QB spaghetti code to BCX. Digging out all the variables from the QB code to be used in the BCX code for declaration in BCX Dim...
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bobspringett
bobspringett@...
Dec 4, 2000 9:44 am
Robert, I remember something like that. Of course these things generally are forgotten or misplaced, but thanks that'll be useful,very useful. While I'm on and...
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Kevin Diggins
kdiggins@...
Dec 4, 2000 11:01 am
Hey all you BCX fans. What you're about to read is my response to an email that I received this morning regarding the availability of a BCX Dialog Editor....
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Doyle Whisenant
mechanic@...
Dec 4, 2000 11:23 am
... I know Dennis and have seen his IDE. It is great! I have always thought that BCX would be greatly improved by an IDE specificly for BCX. The language and...
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Robert Wishlaw
rwishlaw@...
Dec 5, 2000 12:49 am
bob: line 156 in your FMT.bas has a BASIC comment appended to it which prevents the code from compiling in LCC. If the ! is removed from the beginning of the...
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David Garner
dgarner@...
Dec 5, 2000 3:00 am
Kevin (and others), I've attached a zip file with a BCX source file and sample html help file created using the MS HTML Help Workshop. The BCX file creates the...
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bobspringett
bobspringett@...
Dec 5, 2000 3:40 am
Robert, The '!' is not a basic remark. It's a signal to the compiler to treat that line as pure 'C' code and I must say that I'm surprised that removing it ...
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Robert Wishlaw
rwishlaw@...
Dec 5, 2000 4:36 am
Bob: I wasn't referring to ! as the basic remark. line 156 is ! length=sprintf(txt,f,b);' 'C' coded. This does the formatting. The BASIC remark is...
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bobspringett
bobspringett@...
Dec 5, 2000 5:03 am
Robert, I misunderstood you. Yes I put a basic command on a 'C' line. It was only there to emphasise where all the work was being done and not on my copy. ...