cavelamb wrote:Will do - as soon as I get this mid string silliness rolling.

It's all in the 'language reference' part of FB-documentation: FBWiki : KeyPgMidfunction

If you're incapable of making sense of well documented code, then I'm forced to feel sorry for you.
(probably didn't understand anything at all, or failed to read it carefully enough)

Show me one example where, in 32-bit code, an integer takes 64 bits. Got it the 'wrong way around' as seems to be 'on purpose' always (and, definitely NOT funny!). The far better question whould be: where is an U/Integer used with only 32 bits of 'pay load' in FBC64. See: <FBC dir>/fbc-int/array.bi...

ron77 wrote:you mentioned "linked-lists" can you give an example of such data structure?

Hi ron77,
before deciding on a specific data-structure, check their advantages vs. disadvantages at:
Wikipedia (linked list), to allow for a informed decision.

Simply to show, in how many different ways, one can obtain the same result.

The various methods have their strengths and weaknesses ... (once, few, multiple, many times).

@dodicat, your code deals with Bytes and Short (NOT byte split into Nibbles). A Nibble is a 'half-Byte' (aka: 4 bits): ' nibbles_and_bytes.bas -- (c) 2020-11-18, MrSwiss Randomize For i As UInteger = 0 To 999 Rnd() : Rnd() : Rnd() : Rnd() : _ Rnd() : Rnd() : Rnd() : Rnd() Next #Define mkUB(l, h) (h)...

Proof of concept (of fxm's statement): ' bits_and_bytes.bas -- (c) 2020-11-18, MrSwiss ' ' SizeOf() returns in: number of byte ' Print "Variable", "Byte's", "bit's" : Print Print "UByte size: "; SizeOf(UByte), SizeOf(UByte) * 8 Print "UShort size: ";...

IT'S FUNNY HOW YOU GUYS TELL ME TO READ THE DOCUMENTION OF FB YET AT THE SAME TIME DON'T BOTHER TO PROPERLY READ DITAILS IN POSTS I fully agree with the "don't bother with the details" part of your sentence. I whould like to stress something thats a bit more to the point: - posts are read...

Hi Dan, first and foremost: I've never needed INP/OUT for serial communications ... they're outdated. (I'm pretty certain that they're only kept for the DOS version of FBC.) 1) Regarding the Hghrez drivers, does anyone have proof they work on Windows 10, using FBC 1.06 or 1.07? Well, I've not tried ...

INP and OUT do NOT work, except, in the DOS version of FBC. It depends on the operating system (OS) to allow/disallow direct hardware (HW) access. Multitasking OS's like WIN/LIN don't allow direct HW access. Therefore, a driver is mandatory. The .dll itself (without the driver being installed) is u...

Build system seems to be broken. Last builds (except FreeBSD32) are from: 2020-11-01.
Not certain about the doc build: 2020-11-02 (last).

@Mrswiss You will never change...... Why on earth should I change a very successful strategy of 'debugging' code??? It's logical, as well as practically oriented pragmatism. Doing things in a step by step way (major problem first). "et voila" all the minors have vanished, too. (not necess...

The fact remains that, as soon as the first 'coding error' has been made:
the following 'error messages' are at times 'misleading'.
Because of that 'erratic' compiler behavior, I typically dismiss then entirely.

First message states: SUB expected ... (which seals the deal, so to speak).

Well, the only 'alowed' procedure type for a thread is a SUB, according to the docs.
(the only alowed parameter is a Any Ptr, to further complicate matters)

Therefore, I fail to see what you call 'strange'.

You appear to be one of those people that always wants to emotionalize technical things. (people running out of real arguments are prone to do that, as a "last ditch" effort) That "personal attack" thing, you seem to cultivate ... If a design is unlikely to deliver "as expec...