Löwenherz wrote: ↑Apr 22, 2024 15:42 No sorry misunderstanding I am meaning the result of all counts of characters AS a sum found in the String at the end of example

The result of the sum of all counted characters equals the string length...

Generally speaking, to center something, you'd use: p = ( w - l ) / 2 Where: p = the resulting centered coordinate w = the extent where you want to center (in your example, this would be the screen width, in chars) l = the length you want to center (in your example, this would be the length of the s...

FreeBasic supports many neat constructs when you deal with objects, such as constructors, destructors and also properties, and they can all be assigned access rights as well: type Employee public: declare constructor() declare constructor( as string, as string, as integer ) declare destructor() '' G...

@wallyg: Do you need to perform some validation of the data in the property? Because if not, then just a static variable suffices...

At this point why don't you just audit the language for all the crap, broken and obtuse things, gut them, and rebuild them however you like with no regards for what went before (or leave them out altogether) and call it FreeBasic 2.0. Second the motion here. Naturally, it's a lot of work for one pe...

For the last time, I know all this. But I have a hard time figuring out a useful use case for this. Operators be operators; we use them in expressions , we don't pass them as arguments to functions. The only language I can think of that has this feature is Forth, and that only because of its archite...

I know that. I guess I'll have to sit down and think a useful use case for the feature...

What would be a valid use case for this? Either I'm missing something, or I don't see the point of it...

You can add a one-time exclusion of virus scans for the 'FBIDETEMP.exe' file only. I tried this a while back. Turns out it doesn't work, since the file gets deleted after the execution ends. And so the brand new FBIDETEMP.exe is considered a new file and gets scanned anyway :roll: For my PC, it wor...

Turning off real time protection fixed the issue!! However that apparently means leaving it vulnerable to malware. Also it says after a short time it will turn it back on automatically. My indeed. It just shows you why it happens. You shouldn't disable the AV, but you could get the folder of the ex...

Indeed, real-time protection could cause issues with that kind of code. You might try disabling the AV and then run the code again to see if this solves the issue.

No need. Just open a new thread if you want to discuss a different approach

neil wrote: ↑Nov 07, 2023 21:01 Here's another idea this one works. This will always compress any 8 capital letters down to 5 bytes. No patterns or redundancy are required.

Consider opening your own thread if you're gonna try other methods, so as to not pollute this one, yes?

I might be missing something, but what is wrong with simply doing a cast to get the expected values? screen 2 window(-10,-30)-(-5,-10) line(-9,-28)-(-6,-24) print"Window x-coordinate of the last point=";cast( long, point(2) ) print"Window y-coordinate of the last point=";cast( lo...

Seems to me it is, or it isn't. Your explanation states that it could sometimes be a Literal and sometimes not. This applies not just to &H but to all of the prefixes. Perhaps they should be called that: Prefixes or Type Prefixes. That's what he's telling you: it's a prefix for literals , not f...