Hi, is here some silent way to close console window automatically, without pressing Enter ? Fe., if I invoke from graphic window shell to killing all temporary screenshots as bmp files this way, I still must press Enter to go back into screen 0,0 Shorted code screen 20,16,8 screenset 0,0 ? "pa...

Wow, if I didn't just rehash a bad marketing slogan... Libseven is my attempt to write a library in Visual C++ to wrap up the ITaskbar3 COM object into a FreeBASIC-friendly API. The ITaskbar3 COM object, if you don't know, is the COM control for the Windows 7 Taskbar API. This API allows you to do u...

for complete virgin coding noobs FB is WAY too complex Really? If you use -lang qb, the learning curve matches DOS QBasic. The problem today's n00bs have is that they think writing software for some reason or another does not involve a symbolic instruction language, that is, you program with point-...

I've been going over PsyMP3's source heavily these last few days, doing things such as breaking it's source code down into multiple files, fine-tuning some bits, etc. and I took a look at the "fade" effect code. It's basically this: var blank = ImageCreate(640, 350, rgba(0, 0, 0, 64), 32) ...

Yes! I'd like __FB_UNIX__ (and use of it in all the headers instead of __FB_LINUX__) please; I'm currently defining it myself (plus __FB_LINUX__ when compiling on FreeBSD, argh!). I'm not a FB developer, but some comments on the patch: Sorry that it's not ideal (and that both symbols are always def...

On a side note, this might help someone to this end one day - Digital Mars' C/C++ compiler can target Win32s quite easily. The rtlib and fbgfx code is pure C, so then all'd you need is -gen gcc and to "assemble" the .c and lnk it all manually (as the GNU toolchain used by fbc doesn't handl...

But there is no sandbox this means you can do everything and yes very bad things too. You can get the window handle with all keyboard and mouse messages. This is the point why i don't share my FreeBASIC Browser source code. That's a horrible reason to withhold source code. Everyone that would be do...

First of all, I'd like to request that all the example programs people write be uploaded somewhere... sure, send Paul the screenshots but I'd like to get more familiar with using Firefly and would like to see some actual project examples. Secondly, what is the licensing on the "Firefly Function...

Please upload a .zip file with the DLL and all of it's associated materials (it's source too, if possible), your source code, and the VB source that calls into the DLL and works. Post me a link. I'll take a look and see what needs to be done. Your previous posts already provide useful info. If you n...

Hi all I am trying to run a simple test program on my Pocket PC 2003 unit with DOSBox 0.73 for PocketPC When I do it says no DMPI found so I copied over the DMPI I use in dos and now it starts to load but then exits the program Am I doing something wrong here? Andy Try describing your problem, for ...

There's a few limitation that will get quite annoying real quick: First of all, you need to use the classic "CRTDLL.DLL" C runtime instead of msvcrt. msvcrt (to the best of my knowledge) does not run on Win32s. This would involve recompiling MinGW to target crtdll - which I'm not sure can ...

Are these different from the platform defines already in FreeBASIC? __FB_WIN32__ __FB_DOS__ __FB_LINUX__ etc... -Vince Look at my patch. Notice the huge number of macros I check for __FB_UNIX__? Do you really want to have to check for ALL of those macros each and every time you have a code section ...

Hi all, I wrote this patch to check to see if it's a PC-DOS ish OS or Unix and give a global define for each. Sorry that it's not ideal (and that both symbols are always defined, with true/false being in their value instead) but hopefully someone will come along later and clean it up. I just need de...

WTF? What is the .. before memcpy? This compiles and I have no idea why it is not a syntax error... #Include "crt.bi" ..memcpy 0,0,0 -Vince Like dkl said, it's the global scope specifier. Think of this: You have a function "foo" in the global namespace, as well as in a namespace...

Here's the "standard" example of using Ext's List template with a UDT: http://code.google.com/p/fb-extended-lib/source/browse/trunk/examples/containers/list_udt.bas If you'd like a more advanced example you can check out the source for my build system fake, the files module.(bas|bi) and c...