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srod wrote:Using the ImageDrag functions seems to be problematic with those having the classic Visual Basic on their systems and so I stear away from those at the moment.

I think Microsoft has released a fix for this problem:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=896559

You will need to use the EnumProcesses Windows API function.

Here is a link to MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defau ... cesses.asp

There are some samples on purearea.net
http://www.purearea.net/

I also found this code sample here on the forums written by gnozal:

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=16474

I hope this is of some help to you.

I'm currently using VB6 for my (business) applications and I'm looking for a good alternative. PB looks quite good.

I agree with dmb, DSN-less connections are a much needed feature in PureBasic. Adding this feature would surely attract some current VB users.

I found the following code on ...

Fangbeast - Thanks for posting this. I find it very helpful.

I have been making my living doing software development since 1980 and I have always loved working with the Basic languages.

I started out working with mini-computers (Qantel, Basic Four, etc.) writing accounting systems to run on those computers in their different flavors of Basic (QicBasic ...

Dare2 wrote:What about "Fred"

GetFredAttribute(#OKButton) would return "Brilliant"

I think widgets is already taken by the former wxWindows now called wxWidgets due to Microsoft.

http://www.wxwindows.org/

Dr. Dri wrote:GetGadgetAttribute() and SetGadgetAttribute() would be perfect to do this

Yes, I agree that would be the perfect place to do this.

What I would fear is that Microsoft will now try to patent the "Gadget" much as it did the "IsNot" operator.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/22 ... ms_patent/

[ ] AnimSprite
[ ] AppRunning
[ ] Bignum
[ ] BriefLZ
[ ] CPUmonitor
[ ] CatchDebugOutput
[ ] Cryption
[ ] DDE
[ ] exDatabase
[ ] ExPrinter
[ ] FastFile
[ ] GetExeNameFromSuffix
[ ] GetHWInfo
[ ] GlobalHotkeys
[ ] GlobalSharedmemory
[ ] LoadDllMemory
[ ] MSXML3
[ ] MarqueeTextGadget ...

Thanks for sharing. Very useful indeed. I was just searching for an example like this.

You can configure the new PureBasic IDE to display the ASCII Table. I find this very helpful. Just go to File, Preferences, and then under the ToolsPanel section you can select to display the ASCII Table. Here you will see the ASCII and Hex values for all of the characters.

When I first started working with PureBasic I found blueznl's survival guide to be invaluable. Thanks blueznl!

P.S. Do you have this in PDF format by any chance?

I've got RealBasic 5.5, I find it annoying there is no true main source code, its too oriented towards dragging and clicking. Like the actual basic is an add-on.

A while back my company explored alternative development platforms for desktop applications when it was announced that support for ...