Dear friends, I'am new here,so forgive me if some questions have been already answered in the past. I try to convert an application from turbo basic (Borland...
... Why would you solve it like that in the first case? Are you discussing a menubar? i would expect a string array or string with newline characters in the XB...
... Doesn't look very efficient even in TurboBASIC. I used to program in the successor to TurboBASIC, PowerBASIC. Yeah, a separate company bought the old...
Dear Vincent and Steve, Thanks for your advice. I was already convinced to make the move to XB (speed and possebillety making programs >380k in DOS). Did not...
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Steve and Vincent, I fear I did not make my problem clear enough. I have to convert a few 100 shapes (combine all variants with each other like here under)...
... Writing a quick file processor to connect all your line continuations would be trivial, then you could concentrate on the real differences in the...
... From: "Ivo Tonkes" <ijtonkes@...> To: <xbasic@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 10:53 PM Subject: Re: [xbasic] newbe once again Steve and...
Being an absolute profane, I think the ugly blocks used by Ivo aim to reduce computing time. Using IF x THEN IF y THEN IF z... is an old way to "optimize" IF...
On Fri, 19 May 2006 09:35:33 -0400, José G. Moya Y."" ... A PUSH is probably not a big deal. At least, you're not worried about the effect on stack space. But...
Hi all. I'm looking at yabasic, wbbasic, and xbasic to do some program learning. Just wondering if anyone has opinions on the 3. I like yabasic because I "get"...
On Sat, 20 May 2006 16:02:55 -0400, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman ... I really can't speak to the other two. From the ones you mention, presumably you are using...
... Steve, Vic OK.....I'll give it a try. After reading some docs I got off this group I see it looks very learnable, like yabasic. I'm porting a simple ...
On Sun, 21 May 2006 17:36:10 -0400, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman ... XBasic has an overall structure similar to C, but the syntax is more like BASIC. That...
On Sun, 21 May 2006 23:34:07 -0400, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman ... Of course, all those comments (lines that begin with an apostrophe) are not required,...
Hey all! Just wanted to drop a line and let everyone know about another XBasic/XBLite site out there at http://www.xbasicworld.com. This is a projects related...
... Well I've been scared [that it was over my head], frustrated [when things don't work], and relieved to find that I can 'get" it. Think I'll stay with it...
... Thanks, I've always said two pair of eyes will catch what one wont. I'd have been looking at that codea year before I caught that. ... I'm trying. I though...
On Wed, 24 May 2006 19:31:35 -0400, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman ... XBasic has an extremely low level network library, which was left out of the documentation...
Is this a constant which I should use with SHELL() and does it hide the window of the Program I am calling so that it does not display e.g. for a program...
Hey, can you tell me more about that warble.exe? ... From: "chrstoff" <cjlaycock@...> To: <xbasic@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 11:43 PM ...
... I haven't had a chance to look it up yet, but I'm sure you don't. You don't change the values of constants. You don't assign a value to $$SW_HIDE, it...
... The only optional thing i know about the SHELL command is to let applications start in the background is by adding a double colon in front of it e.g.: ...
