Just to see if pinochle works.

I am using Win 7 Pro so they aren't intended to be DOS programs per se, just console mode display. Actually, the only reason I included the .bi was to get the constants for the console colors. I am not using any of the functions. The programs compiled and ran just fine before this release. I have ye...

Yes, in fact the ones that fail include dos\conio.bi Here is the output with the -v option: C:\FreeBASIC>fbc -s console -v DollarPoker.bas FreeBASIC Compiler - Version 1.02.0 (04-05-2015), built for win32 (32bit) Copyright (C) 2004-2015 The FreeBASIC development team. standalone target: win32, 486, ...

In the past I had installed new versions from the zip files. This time I installed 1.02 using the Windows installer. Now I am getting an error I've never had before: c:\FreeBASIC\bin\win32\ld.exe: cannot find -lc The odd thing is, I've tested it with several different programs and it doesn't happen ...

Ray,

Thanks. I understand the difference between container frames and WinAPI frames (I'm an old C coder too.) I'm just getting the capabilities of the FF Visual Designer down.

Unfortunately, that is what you will have to do because in FireFly (and the WinAPI in general), a Frame is not a container control. Sorry. I knew that about the frame (same behavior as in a straight C environment,) just didn't know if there was a way to make the FF designer assume I was trying to p...

I have a question that I didn't see an answer for. I have a program for an electrical engineering analysis that I wrote originally in VB. As a learning exercise, I am reworking/improving it in FreeBASIC and Firefly. The organization of the analysis inputs lends itself to grouping the inputs into sev...

Zaxxon, Targ and Galaga.

Just got 2.58 and ran it through its paces. Excellent! Well done.

I don't program for a living; I'm an electrical engineer by trade. I program for the sake of making things (like a woodworking hobby without the splinters.) I already had a fair amount of older BASIC, VB and C background along with some C++ before I discovered FB. A lot of the FB features were very ...

Before you do anything else, make sure you complete a Windows Update. I had a problem with an old hand-me-down box and just getting the whole Windows system updated took care of it.

The current .NET is 4.0, but I would avoid doing any .NET upgrades as much as possible.

Well, it's nice to know that there are more of us than I thought.

If I would venture a guess, C++ would not even be in the top 3. At least Visual Basic, VB.NET, C#, Java and maybe even plain old Delphi, nowadays maybe even a bunch of scripting languages. Simply because C++ is not typically used as an introductory language. Perhaps I have gotten too old (started p...

agamemnus, you are correct, this is not C++. But that does not mean it is a good idea to invent new words to describe something that is already so well known by other terms. I would venture a guess that the vast majority of programmers were introduced to inheritance in C++. "Private", &quo...

"Protected" is well understood to anyone who has any experience with inheritance as used in C++ and it works very well. I agree with not adding a lot of useless keywords but in this case I believe "protected" is not only reasonable but even essential.