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Hello, In versions of BASIC such as QBasic, PowerBasic and others, the command: INPUT a$ grabs the entire line of entered text Example: typing "Hello world!"...
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Kevin Diggins
kdiggins@...
Sep 5, 2000 7:49 am
Here is one way. dim a$ Print "Enter a line of text" : gets ( a$ ) Print a$ It uses the "C" keyword "gets", short for get string. Remember to keep your...
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Kye
sky1@...
Sep 9, 2000 12:15 am
I received an email regarding passing a byte array from a BCX dll to VB .. I thought I might post it on the BCX egroup incase anyone else wanted to know. There...
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Kevin Diggins
kdiggins@...
Sep 9, 2000 7:18 pm
I could easily modify BCX to specify __stdcall as an option Here are a few idea's to communicate this to BCX (Option 1) $DLL STDCALL (Option 2) $VBDLL (Option...
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Doyle Whisenant
mechanic@...
Sep 9, 2000 7:56 pm
... I like this one! -- Doyle Whisenant mechanic@... http://mechanic.webjump.com...
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Kye
sky1@...
Sep 9, 2000 10:05 pm
I also like the translator directive. $DLL STDCALL Kye. ... From: "Kevin Diggins" To: <kdiggins@egroups.com> Subject: [BCX BASIC TRANSLATOR] Re: BCX based dll...
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Kevin Diggins
kdiggins@...
Sep 10, 2000 12:42 am
$DLL STDCALL was implemented today. It will be part of the next distribution ( version 1.80 ) which I hope will be uploaded to my site this weekend. I still ...
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Kevin Diggins
kdiggins@...
Sep 10, 2000 10:29 pm
BCX version 1.8 is available for download. Highlights More GUI and Console mode samples Added $DLL STDCALL Added GOSUB/RETURN Updated Windows Help file Enjoy!...
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gdumer@...
Sep 13, 2000 1:50 pm
Hi Kevin, Nice work! I have a few observations/suggestions I'd like to make. I'm using BCX v1.80. First... It would be helpful if you modified LCCEXE.BAT to...
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Kevin Diggins
kdiggins@...
Sep 13, 2000 10:34 pm
Good comments and suggestions Gary ... read on ... command. ... Actually ... there are a couple of additional batch files at your disposal LC.bat and LW.bat....
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Doyle Whisenant
mechanic@...
Sep 13, 2000 11:20 pm
... Now this is what I have been wanting to do for ages! I have used Liberty Basic for 3-4 years now and it's great for a quick and easy GUI. It's also pretty...
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gdumer@...
Sep 14, 2000 4:03 am
Hi Kevin, ... Sorry... I missed those. Thanks. ... function ... I uploaded a file to the eGroup (BCXTest.bas) with a modified and extended menu system. I...
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Dunric Oasis
dunric@...
Sep 14, 2000 5:35 pm
Gary, I've used PowerBasic products for years. If you need any help translating from PB to BCX, perhaps I can be of some help. :) ...
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gdumer@...
Sep 14, 2000 6:29 pm
Hi Dunric, It's not a problem of translating the PowerBasic code... rather it's that I don't know which code Kevin is refering to on the PB site. But if and...
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Kevin Diggins
kdiggins@...
Sep 15, 2000 1:00 am
... I deleted it because it contained bugz and I did not want to confuse new users. Please feel free to upload working code. Perhaps we can develop a BCX...
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gdumer@...
Sep 15, 2000 1:22 pm
... Actually, the code was written syntactically correct. However, because C requires that the "pointer" to FileMenu and HelpMenu be "type casted" with...
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Kevin Diggins
kdiggins@...
Sep 16, 2000 1:25 am
... me ... You can generally include casting directly in your BASIC src w/BCX ... I downloaded them years ago from MS -- they were a part of the Win3.x SDK....
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Doyle Whisenant
mechanic@...
Sep 16, 2000 7:02 pm
... Hi Kevin, if you get anyone interested in this I might contribute as time permits. Do you have some source that shows how to use callbacks with BCX? I am...
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pol
td.pol@...
Sep 17, 2000 12:16 am
Original message from: "Kevin Diggins" ... Hallo, Some time ago i've read that bcx can be used with mingw... if so take a look here: ...
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Kevin Diggins
kdiggins@...
Sep 17, 2000 2:02 am
... William Yu is doing a spectacular job with RapidQ. One major drawback though ... it's interpreted. You CAN call DLL's from RapidQ but you cannot create...
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Kevin Diggins
kdiggins@...
Sep 17, 2000 2:17 am
... Here's an example from the current V. 1.8 distribution. Function EditProc processes its' own messages which, as I understand it, constitutes a callback. '...
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pol
td.pol@...
Sep 17, 2000 1:05 pm
... true! William just released some C++ wrapper classes to use msvctr.dll or ctrdll.dll: "Basically, these classes layout the foundation for a Rapid-Q to C++...
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Kevin Diggins
kdiggins@...
Sep 20, 2000 11:17 pm
After receiving several emails asking the same question, I decided to upload a new BCX sample file ( ICOBUTT2.ZIP ) to this newsgroups FILES section. It is a...
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Pavel Minayev
minayev@...
Sep 24, 2000 1:37 pm
Will BCX ever become a BASIC-to-C++ rather than BASIC-to-C translator supporting classes? I ask because I hate to program in pure WinAPI and I've got used to...
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Kevin Diggins
kdiggins@...
Sep 24, 2000 2:06 pm
Pavel, I seriously doubt that I would voluntarily embark on that journey into hell. BCX is a (mostly pleasurable), part-time hobby for me with lots of room...
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Kevin Diggins
kdiggins@...
Sep 25, 2000 2:32 am
Here's a peek at what to expect in the next release of BCX ( version 1.81 sometime in October 2000 ) These three samples will be included in the CON_DEMO...
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ziggy@...
Sep 25, 2000 8:21 pm
When I try to use the math functions: SQRT and POW, I get the error message from BCX: "missing prototype for SQRT" (or for POW, respectively). I couldn't find...
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Kevin Diggins
kdiggins@...
Sep 25, 2000 11:17 pm
My bad! -- This example will work if you use lower case. The next version of BCX will correct this oversight. Sorry for the confusion! Dim A! A! = sqrt(49.5) ...
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Kevin Zigler
ziggy@...
Sep 26, 2000 3:29 pm
Kevin, Works great! Wonderful software! Thanks, Kevin Zigler ziggy@......
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bobspringett
bobspringett@...
Sep 27, 2000 5:12 am
... Kevin, If you look on the Euphoria forum you will see that they have done exactly that in David Cuny's win32lib.ew. The source is there and it can be...