Very cute, thumbs up!

deltarho[1859] wrote:we should mention that MessageBoxTimeoutA, and the other two variants, are undocumented functions.

Correct. I had some weird problems with this function, too. In the end I decided to use the normal MessageBox in a thread that I could kill after a while.

caseih wrote:Yes that will slow the compiler down

Absolutely! With my old Core i5, it's about 0.13 seconds more.

I still have a ZX Spectrum, and a programmable Casio PB 80 Here is mine: http://www.jj2007.eu/pics/CasioFx502P.jpg With the Atari ST, I developed a production data acquisition software for a small enterprise that was used for a decade, in a very rough environment. From time to time the monitors fai...

I had a ZX Spectrum, and before that a programmable Casio calculator. The Atari ST was a huge step forward for me, especially when I could replace the "built-in" Basic dialect with GfaBasic

deltarho[1859] wrote:... used a block image transfer (blit) for the redrawing. It was fairly swift but with a 8MHz CPU in my Atari ST

Welcome to the club ;-)
I used GfaBasic, though, and an assembler called "GST 68000". Memories of a distant past...

badidea wrote:A direct link to an executable from the freebasic homepage is unwise, I think

Just for curiosity: why? I've practised a link to a zip archive with one executable (the installer) for a decade or so (here), no problems so far.

I use the links in the news section of the forum. Or even https://www.freebasic.net/ Yes, that's the one that Google points to when searching FreeBasic . Unfortunately, the "Get FreeBasic" link points to a SF page (i.e., not to an installer), so n00b has to understand that, in this new, u...

The good news is that googling FreeBasic brings you straight to the SourceForge download page, and there is a big green button saying "Download". The bad news is that it starts slowly ("18 minutes left") and ends with "network error". Google SourceForge reputation to un...

What's wrong with just unzipping the zips? Which one of the dozen that is available? And to which folder? Does a n00b know where to put all that stuff? I am sure it's being explained somewhere ;-) Add to that the fact that we have no FB editor but half a dozen competing FB IDEs, and that syntax and...

This is what I have regarding WinFBE. It works fine, but it doesn't resemble at all the contents of WinFBE-master.zip : FreeBasic\WinFBE_Suite\UserTools FreeBasic\WinFBE_Suite\Templates FreeBasic\WinFBE_Suite\Settings FreeBasic\WinFBE_Suite\Sample_Projects FreeBasic\WinFBE_Suite\Languages FreeBasic\...

adeyblue wrote:Tested on Win 7

121 years ago =
07-03-1899 - 23:13:07

Interesting. I'll have to check why my routine stops at 1.1.1900

deltarho[1859] wrote:Glad to here it.

Here, here! (quoting John Bercow)

Munair is correct. You need to create the strings differently, like this:

Yes, it's kind of normal. FindNextFile() behaves like that, see e.g. Find *.xls but not *.xlsx files for a workaround (not FB but the logic should be clear).