For Office programs you can probably use COM to accomplish this. For notepad, you can get whatever it shows in the titlebar by using a couple of FindWindow/EnumWindows/EnumDesktopWindows or whatever it's called, but that's probably just going to be the file name (not the path). You'd have to reverse...

If your mac is an intel, it should be easy: just download a binary of FB for linux. However if it's a PPC, you'd have to write a whole new emitter and you'll have to wait for the GCC backend to be integrated (unless you posess those godlike skillz required to... nevermind).

It's documented in the changelog for .17b (CVS), as is namespace a.b.c.

FB only compiles to little endian machines at the moment. The GCC backend can compile to other architectures, but with Apple switching to Intel they're probably going to be a lot more rare in the near future.

I guess I was thinking of GCC's command line. Thanks.

In the directory plugins_source, after executing the command "fbc -dll first.p.bas -o ..\plugins\first.p.dll", I get (after a long pause of my computer not functioning) "C:\FreeBASIC\bin\win32\ld.exe: out of memory allocating 1952539694 bytes". The file I am compiling is the foll...

That looks really cool, do you have a sample source? And what version of FB are you using (fbc -version)?

When i end this lib -> then put here for free use...

I think I'll be able to use this one, I can understand PB code at least. Thanks.

This is a bug in the mangling; while looking through the mangling file I saw that the eqv operator and the = operator use the same mangling. Maybe "ev" and "eV" would be a better choice for eqv. type stuff a as integer end type operator eqv( byref s as stuff, byval i as integer )...

I created this when extern "C++" was first added, now there are a couple more. http://www.freebasic.net/wiki/wikka.php ... gExternCpp

I haven't done much graphics so sorry if I don't know what I'm talking about, but can't you use the SCREENRES command?

You can only use .RC files on windows, and you have to use the windows API to access them. I don't remember the APIs right now, but look at MSDN for more info.

You can embed the bitmap as DATA statements though, which is cross platform.

Is operator overloading expected (or already) to be compatible with GCC's? And what about the operators that FB doesn't support like ++ and --?

It would be cool if we had something like VC++ has to turn off certain warnings (you'd have to know the number though), like
#pragma warning( 1084:disable )
or in FB maybe
option nowarning 6 '' whatever the "implicit var" number is.

Just wanted to say thanks, I used a little of this topic's code to customize the syntax highlighting of an IDE with not many options.

fbc -h = help

That probably shouldn't be a command line option, it would probably be better as an argument to OPEN. -s gui is a subsystem, only applicable on windows anyway, and a fake subsystem like that would just be weird.