I would nominate Dodicat. He understands perfectly english and is often here. Thats necessary for this job.

Here you can read the explanation of distrowatchs ranking: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity The DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking statistics are a light-hearted way of measuring the popularity of Linux distributions and other free operating systems among the visitors of this website....

While trying and seeking around, I noticed that in recent years Manjaro climbed the distrowatch list real quick and is now at the top by leaps and bounds. Last time I checked it showed around 4000 HPD. This is interesting because Mint used to top the ranking for years. Remember, the distrowatch ran...

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Had no problems with Mint 18.3 till now. No updates at all and a 99% less busy HD. Sometimes i boot into Win for a few things. Mint is really fantastic!

Hi TJF, i have seen your name many times in threads about gtk. You seem to be one with deeper understanding of gtk together with FB. Yes, i have researched some time about gtk and tried your GladeToBac. But afaik only few of base elements like clist, vbox and hbox are deprecated, so you cant say who...

On Win (or Linux) even a complete manual conversion from glade 2 C files to FB is not quite difficult. Much can be done with search/replace. In case of the above example its mainly 4 steps: Including header in c #include <gtk/gtk.h> becomes in FB #include once "gtk/gtk.bi" Alll other "...

Here i want to describe a procedure of semi-automatic generation of gtk-gui-forms from glade 2 to FB. To keep things short: 1. Find and install glade 2 (not 3, because the code generation was stopped there) in Windows (10 or whatever). 2. Design your form in glade 2. In Options choose a folder on us...

Muttonhead wrote:https://www.freebasic-portal.de/dlfiles ... FBFont.zip

Works here on Mint if in FileRequester.bas

#include once "SimpleToggle.bas"

the "t" is changed to uppercase. Thanks, nice program, used it before.

"If you have to fix something, use fix without becoming a fixer, that fixes all."

Why not?

TurtleProgrammer wrote:Is there a way to convert say: 1.019 to 1.0 and store the result in a variable? I found PRINT USING, but of course that prints to the screen which I don't want to do.

That should be exactly what you want.

Maybe with 14 he would have learned to use the white keys on piano.

This script installs many libs needed for FB examples and others on Mint and Ubuntu.. Just make it executable and run with "./install_libs.sh". Tested on Mint Cinnamon 18.2. #!/bin/sh # install_libs.sh # installs many libs needed for FreeBasic 1.05 examples # under Mint 18.3 or other linux...

On Linux Mint the libs often are much easier to find. Just do
I have posted a script for many libs in the linux forum.
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=26838&p=249012#p249012

Really? Who was that?