Hi group, I am a veritable novice with xbasic but I think it would be nice to be able to print function code either to the printer or to a file from the PDE....
hi Kerry, printing direct to your printer requires going thru some hoops(i never tried it), but if you just highlight your function code then click on edit...
For Albert, I already new I could open a file.x file with a text editor hi light the text I wanted to print and do it that way. What I hadn't thought of was ...
... Dear CW, Thank you for the advice about printing images. However, my query is not about the maximum SIZE of a printable image, but the screen resolution....
... Windows doesn't really like it if a program tries to change the screen reolution. It isn't impossible, video games and media players do that if necessary,...
... actually ... effective. ... maximum ... finding a ... why not ... screen reolution. It isn't impossible, video games and media players do that if...
... Old DOS versions of BASIC actually did allow you to change the resolution, but in DOS your program was the only thing running so it really didn't matter. ...
It is possible to print images directly from XBASIC Using the XPR Library add-on I have been trying to draw various maps based on grid coodinates. In the hope...
Hi Group, On the issue of readability: I am using a SHELL() command and the level of control I need for the shell command makes a long line. is there ...
... I don't recall exactly ... seems to me that XB will merge lines that end in an underline. Not a great answer as it occurs when you load the program, if you...
Thank you Steve. I think I have a question. The other editors you mention I seem to remember a / or \ that has been used in the display to indicate the line...
Hi Group, I am writing a program that I want to repeat a command for as long as the program is running. I am writing a GUI program and I have the question of...
... Some languages, ... well, actually, XBasic and C both use \ as a string escape character. But XBasic was Max's version of QBASIC, while it recognizes \ as...
Steve, I don't think there is a file size on serial port IO. Yes it Linux but serial IO is on a as data is passed through a UART. Most serial data transfer...
Usually you need to define a buffer first to allow reading data into a string. So if you want to read binary data from a serial port, you need to insert some...
To Vincent, I am sorry, I don't see the connection between using a serial bus which usually has a buffer and checking the serial bus for activity before I ...
I'm sorry, My mistake, i thought you wanted to probe the line for data activity instead of probing the port for its status. If the serial bus is busy on a...
For Vincent, I am using Xbasic on Linux Fedora Core 10 x86_64. The OPEN command The open command should still be fileNum = OPEN("fileName$, $RW). fileNum is...
I have a copy of the XBasic manual on my computer. I have been trying (for hours) to find out how to use a dropbox XuiDropbox, I am tired of looking. How do...
Hi People, After some research I have discovered that my XuiDropBox doesn't appear to cause an event in the program to make the choice. Looking for ...
Go to the "Demo" folder of XBasic and locate the file "tdropbox.x". This one will demonstrate you how to use a separate dropbox and how the message is being...
To Vincent, Alas: tdropbox.x doesn't run in my XBasic 6.0.3 on Linux. It gives me the same reaction. There doesn't seem to be an event from the drop box to...
64-bit Linux gives headaches to a lot of Linux users as the majority of applications written for Linux are still 32-bit based and require various 32-bit...
... Pretty much all of the popular FOSS applications (everything but XB it seems) work fine on 64 bit Linux, there really isn't much in the way of 32 bit only...
... What are you expecting it to do? Trying to see if maybe you're misunderstanding what it is ... you see that command box in the PDE? That's an XuiDropBox -...
It depends, the tdropbox source also shows a message box that displays the messages that are generated (it is the most clear way to quickly test if the event ...
For Vincent, I looked at the code for tdropbox.x and and could see what it was supposed to do and yes it was supposed to put a message in a message window as...
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