Grazie, marcov ;-)

Translation, please!

David Watson wrote:I'm at the 2^6-2^4 border... does that make me a whippersnapper?

Kids, keep out of this discussion!

Nice story, David ;-) I can confirm that your brain is in good shape (and so can everybody else who follows your posts). What I find remarkable is that an awful lot of us programmers are beyond the 2^6 border. Is BASIC such an old dialect? Same for Masm coders btw - some are even beyond the 2^6+2^4 ...

marcov wrote:the need to escape with \\.\ for the -W calls.
utf8 support in the terminal is also being worked on.

I've never used the \\.\ escapes, where do you need them? Re terminal: if you mean the console, there has been utf8 support since WinXP, just use chcp 65001

grindstone wrote:Why that complicated? It can be done with just one single line of code:

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Shell Chr(34) & Command(1) & Chr(34)

It seems to me that OP wanted something different:

nuxpergrandis wrote:Can I make a FreeBASIC program that can "open" a file in a sense most windows applications can do nowadays?
If you drag a txt file onto a text editor, usually the editor will start running and automatically display the file.

Here's a version that compiles under fbc 1.07.0 and related headers TmpFb.bas(12) error 23: File not found, "Gir/Gtk-3.0.bi" The OP, nuxpergrandis, has two posts, so he is a definitely a n00b. Throwing untested examples at him, or code that requires external libraries without even giving ...

Your gtk/gtk.bi header doesn't match the parameter list in the source at parameter 2. Why do you think that this is related to the operating system? Why do you compile a GUI program with option -s console ? Note: you've to rename the 'object' variable, since this symbol later became a keyword in FB...

@dodicat: I've tried to understand your code, and especially why you sum up the "total distance". You are not doing two loops as shown below, how will you identify the two closest points? Below pts() is the array of points. It's Assembly but I hope it's understandable. The instructions mov...

Thanks, that is much clearer now. Are you sure that dodicat's code sums up the elements (wrongly) as SQR(X1^2) + SQR(X2^2)?To me, it looks like the correct Pythagoras: A²+B²=C² or rather dx²+dy²=dist²

X1 = 1, X2 = 6 SUMi(Xi^2) = 37 SUMi(SQR(Xi^2)) = 7 X1 = 3, X2 = 5 SUMi(Xi^2) = 34 SUMi(SQR(Xi^2)) = 8 Between these two examples, SUMi(Xi^2) decreases while SUMi(SQR(Xi^2)) increases. Sorry, I can't follow you. What exactly is ...

Seems to be Linux only...

* compiling TmpFb.bas with -t 2000 -s console **
FreeBasic\tmp\TmpFb.bas(17) warning 3(1): Passing different pointer types, at parameter 2 of GTK_WINDOW_SET_TITLE()

Aborting due to runtime error 12 ("segmentation violation" signal)

dodicat wrote:I found a problem (with squared distance) in my first snippet in this thread.

I saw that one but didn't understand at all what you are doing, or what the problem is. Some comments might be helpful ;-)

Windows only - see end of WM_CREATE handler: #Include "windows.bi" ' JJ 29.6.2020 Dim Shared as Handle hEdit ' bat@\AllBasics\FreeBasic\TinyFB.bat Function WndProc(hWnd As HWND, msg As UINT, wParam As WPARAM, lParam As LPARAM) As LRESULT Dim As RECT rc Dim As PAINTSTRUCT ps Dim As HANDLE P...

I see no problem with squared distance - what could possibly go wrong??
My new version does 1,000 points in slightly less than 2 milliseconds.