Hi, I read there is a XB 6.3 beta somewhere to download which runs on newer Linuxes. Where can I find it? It seems not to appear in the "files" section of the...
If I may. If XB 6.3 does bomb out, install the latest release of wine and install XB for windows. I use Suse 10.1 and XB for linux kept on bombing out. Now...
Good day, Can a person use the Xbasic language in Foxpro. We are trying to use a date function to execute an command in Foxpro, but are unable to do so. Does...
No surprise. The copiler outputs i386 (32-bit) assembler, of course it won't be able to convert the assembler to binary if you try to do it in x86-64 mode. On...
I am a newbe: These items frustrate me. I am running Fedora Core 8 on my main machine. And I am running Fedora Core 9 on my laptop computer. I installed...
... 6.2.3 is really a version that predates gcc 4 and thus doesn't work very well. The lead developer, Eddie, has a version up for gcc 4 under the name xbasic...
Hi People, I think I remember a way to convert a string variable of numeric digits to a numeric value. Xbasic doesn't have VAL command like some other basics...
Hi People, I was wanting a function that would decode a string according the the number base I was entering the digits into the string for. In other words, if...
... If your program attaches "0x" to the front of the string - the identifier for hex strings in XBasic - then XLONG("0x"+a$) should work. -- Steve Gunhouse...
I use Ubuntu 8.04 and have same troubles with XB 6.3.0. A possible way is to use Gambas under Linux, but XB seems more usable (if we could make it work...) ......
Hi People, Thank you all for setting my head straight about the conversions I needed to do. I have my program working fairly well to this point using the ...
Hi People, As I explained before I am not an experienced programmer. I am trying to write a program for Linux to control a radio with a computer interface....
... I control a Kenwood TS2000 with a little program I wrote. I just send a string to the xcvr. If you can use a terminal program to send ascii data to...
Hi People, I have been trying to define a user defined type the Xbasic manual has an example: TYPE COLOR USHORT .red USHORT .green USHORT .blue USHORT...
Hi All, According to Vic I was probably trying to define user defined type in the wrong place in my program. Thank you. Sincerely -- Kerry N0WIQ My web site...
Hi People, I defined a type: TYPE OVARS USHORT .preAmble UBYTE .radioAdd UBYTE .controlAdd UBYTE .cOmmand UBYTE .sCommand ULONG .highData ULONG .lowData ...
... Try: IF (outVar.controlAdd >= 0x58 && outVar.controlAdd <= 0x7F) THEN PRINT "address=";HEXX$(outVar.controlAdd),outVar.controlAdd END IF The ampersand...
... I don't think Vince's reply was very clear ... AND (also &) is bitwise and, it has a higher priority than comparison operators (is performed first). There...
Hi Steve, About Vince's answer. It was clear enough to me and what he suggested worked. I have tried bracketing the comparisons with the AND and didn't get...
Hi People, It has finally come to a head in my use of Xbasic. The xbasic manual talks about an upper text area. When I start xb I don't get the upper text...
Hi People, The manual implies upper text area is above the main text area and to the left of the main window. Sincerely -- Kerry N0WIQ My web site URL is: ...
Kerry: What do you mean by manual? Â If you are looking at one of the html files please post which one if not which of the various DOCUMENTATION packs you...