Once again to all many thanks for the input. Just a small twist on this pointer thing all that has been discussed applies to: https://www.freebasic.net/wiki/CatPgMemory or freebasic's Memory Functions, specifically 'Dynamic Memory' calls with regard of deallocation right? So when it come to external...

First of many thanks for the speedy reply much appreciated. @Paul exercise common sense: setting a pointer to null or not 'after use' depends on what will happen with that pointer next for example, if that pointer is owned by some object (you set it to null to indicate 'not owning any pointer right ...

So the pointer thing, does freebasic do something auto-magically regarding declaring a pointer or after use? Should it be: Dim aptr As Integer Ptr = NULL or does this suffice? Dim aptr As Integer Ptr Also it seems that, pending on the structure of the code, setting the pointer to NULL after use is p...

Well ehhr better late then never ... ? As far as I can tell the most platform 'independent' way would be to use 'shell' https://www.freebasic.net/wiki/KeyPgShell however the code would need something along the lines of: ' get metric os dim os as string os = "unknown" #ifdef __FB_WIN32__ os...

Once again a quite sizable update: update v1.3 10/03/2025 - started a baseline sqlite fts5 implementation import datasources csv, json, folder, xml and rudimentary text and exif info specific filetypes issues: fts5 'rank' is a reserved name so the fieldname needs to be renamed there are issues with ...

A small riff on the code of fxm gets the most occurring character in a string optionally checks only alphabetic characters ' search number of occurances of character in string ' courtesy fxm https://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31778 function charcount(byval haystack as string,byval needl...

BASIC as a language is deader than disco nowadays. I beg to differ... :wink: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/583c906ebe659429d1106265/1557352688740-WNKAWAMJ8LTY2HIY1L9J/giphy.gif?format=2500w So for 2025... https://i.makeagif.com/media/1-13-2023/g4mMjb.gif Best wishes for 2025, and yo...

some recent updates: update v1.6 19/11/2024 - rewrite commandline handling - cleanup conf.ini removed unused settings - added default imagefolder in conf.ini - added generate m3u by searching on one tag | artist, title, album, genre and year | slideshow <audiosource> <tag> <tagquery> | example: slid...

some recent updates: update v1.5 19/11/2024 - fix resolvepath handling of ..\<path>\<file> - fix get day of the weeek switched to GetLocalTime > wDayOfWeek - fix to commandline handling resolvepath after switches -v, etc - fixed error handling locale - regression checkpath (see 1.2) fixed again - re...

description This example is a slight twist to djpeters 'offline shadertoy' the twist being the shader output is bound to an sdl window. Also demonstrated is a hybrid usage of opengl with a regular sdl window, some basic proportional placement and the pitfalls with using multiple windows in sdl2. No...

Small snippet of code which helps with resolving the value of an command() argument. examples test with <app> ..\<path> <app> ..\<path><file> <app> <path> path in this case a folder in same dir as <app> <app> <fullpath> fullpath g:\data <app> <switch> switch -v, -h, /? etc #include once "window...

All though posted a while back still many thanks for sharing the code. The following code is a variant which specifically focuses on mode 3 aka compiled in gui mode and launched by an console prompt. Just to clarify there are some snags: AttachConsole() has a nasty habit of adding a crlf which resul...

It might have been mentioned before, could not find a posting on it, but 2024 marks the 60 year anniversary of the language basic... As such I would like to say to all congrats and here's to many more! Here is a nice article going down memory lane in 2014: https://time.com/69316/basic/ 'And eventual...

a recent update adding some basic .m3u (playlist) generation with search via the commandline bass version: update v1.6 20/09/2024 - getuilabelvalue implemented full automatic spacing - added generate m3u by searching on one tag . artist, title, album, genre and year . audioplayer <audiosource> <tag>...

Just a heads up the preview builds of sdl3 are, gradually, being released see: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/releases There are a large number of changes from sdl2 to sdl3 see migration readme: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/main/docs/README-migration.md It will be quite chore to convert...