Thank you for the prompt reply, Paul. I should have checked more thoroughly. Although I'm very used to the VB6 style, I think the way FireFly handles control properties is just as easy and effective (F8, select, F4, select and Bob's your uncle). Again, thanks for sharing FF!

I've been less constant than usual in checking new posts, so I didn't notice FireFly for FB so far. I'm really impressed, Paul Squires did a great work. IMHO it's certainly the best attempt at making GUI design easy in FB. So, thank a lot for sharing this outstanding tool. I'm an absolute beginner w...

Great!

Edit: ok, i've altered v0.01 to v0.01a! now the results should differ twice. can you please try now? That's right. It takes 66.599 sec, i.e. nearly twice as the previous version. CPU usage is shared between the 8 "virtual" cores of the i7 720, but one of them is busier than the others. CP...

I tried both the very first and the last version on my i7 720. The execution time is almost identical: 37.016 sec first version , single thread, and 36.241 sec last version, dual thread. Reported CPU speed is 2672 MHz. However, there are differences in the way the 8 (insetad of 4, thanks to hyper-th...

I guess that the execution time of your code mainly depends on the clock of the processor. In fact, many recent multi-core processors have slower clock rates than some (older) single-core processor and when it comes to executing a single (single-threaded) task they are actually slower. Moreover, you...

You don't need to Dim FLAG as Integer within the SUB, because FLAG is already declared as an integer argument of the SUB. However, FLAG controls a Do-Loop cycle on the basis of its initial value, that is the one it has when the SUB is called, so you should check whether that value is appropriate. In...

Thank you very much for your help, guys. It's my fault. I was sure I had 0.20 on this PC, but it's 0.18.2 instead, and that is why I had the same buggy output as in MichealW post. I'm glad it has been fixed. Thanks again everybody, I swear I will check more carefully before crying wolf next time. ;-)

I was writing a small program to plot some data using DISLIN, when I noticed that some values in my data files were completely wrong. I checked the data files and they were ok, but still I was not able to read them properly. To make a long story short, I am afraid it is a FB bug. Here is some code t...

I am not sure that the code I am posting here is entirely mine. I guess I based this implementation on something I found, but I just cannot remember and therefore I cannot give credit to the author, in case it is not me! As for the code: Const nodeCount As Integer = 4 'number of nodes Const False as...

Have a look at this thread and you'll be able to turn your code into a screensaver:

http://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopi ... creensaver

To obtain gray scale graphics, you can either define a 256 gray level palette in screen modes 13 to 21 (see SCREEN and PALETTE keywords) or work in any 24 or 32 bit mode and set the same level for R,G and B components (see RGB function). I assume that you want to display your data as pixels: if that...

For a number of good reasons (basically, too much work!), I've been lurking from time to time and my last post was ages ago, but I MUST say that I completely agree with MichaelW and vdecampo. FreeBASIC is my preferred language unless I really need a complex GUI, and version 0.20.0 is just fine. And ...

In MS Windows everything seems to work smoothly in v.0.20 as far as screen/screenres are concerned...

Very nice. And the concept is absolutely original, as far as I know. Really well done!