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ts-soft wrote: Sun Sep 01, 2013 6:10 pm Old bugs good, new bugs bad! Updates are evil: might fix old bugs and introduce no new ones.

FINALLY... Someone who agrees with me.

[...] a donate button, i am sure many us will be ready to help him so it is up to Fred if he is agreed. I already suggested this, but... No effect from Fred.

People could do like I did and just pay for another license. (No donate button required.)

Note that I go there now because I met a ...

#NULL wrote: Fri Jan 23, 2026 4:41 pm

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start "" "C:\Program Files\PureBasic546\PureBasic546.exe" /P "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Roaming\PureBasic540\PureBasic.prefs"

Hi NULL... You were indeed quite correct!
THANKS NULL!!!!!!

Options for launching the IDE:
-p or --preferences <file> loads/saves all the configuration to/from the given file
Command-line options for the IDE:
https://www.purebasic.com/documentation/reference/ide_commandline.html


You say use -p and the doc you sent me to says /P but does not seem ...

Isn't there always a copy of the latest VoiceAccess.exe in C:\Windows\System32?
A simple
RunProgram("C:\Windows\System32\VoiceAccess.exe", "", "")
does not work for you?


No does not open it. It does run it in the background somewhere I cannot see it except in the task manager where I have to ...

No idea how but my voiceAccess just stopped opening up no matter how I tied to launch it. So I wrote and compiled the commented code you see below with admin enabled and it worked. I passed it by ChatGPT and you see the results below:
; The following 2 lines worked after I used "everything to ...

The more I look the less it makes any sense. The help gives this code snippet telling size will be 10 but when I run it I get 18 instead:
Structure Person
Name.s
ForName.s
Age.w
EndStructure

Debug "The size of my friend is "+Str(SizeOf(Person))+" bytes" ; will be 10 (4+4+2)

John.Person ...

if it compiles ok then your likely clobbering memory, compile with purifier compiler options -> Compile / run -> Enable Purifier then set a break point and you can then check the settings Debugger - > Purifier and Change String Variables every line. it might show where the problem is.
If your ...

idle wrote: Mon Jan 19, 2026 10:53 pm if you use pointers to strings in a loop you should increment by + SizeOf(Character) so it will be backward compatible

I'm really going to have to think hard on that one. Not sure how that might apply to my code.

idle wrote: Mon Jan 19, 2026 10:53 pm There are possibly dozens of reasons a 5.40 program won't compile with 6.x not just the missing ascii functions.

Oh it compiles, no errors doing so. The resulting application is broken though.

yes all strings are UCS2 encoded 2 bytes wide

you also have two pseudo types for use with imported function that only accept ascii or utf8 parameters p-ascii and p-utf8
and also two functions ascii(string) utf8(string) which return pointers you need to free them

It doesn't take long to adapt ...

Fred wrote: Sun Jan 18, 2026 12:04 pm It's IA bots Randy, they don't pay a cent to steal all your nice contributions.

I make nice contributions? (Coming from Fred) I'm flattered.
I guess that would account for me not being banned for being a PITA.

This all is just for Windows, right? Because on Linux I wonder why you would need a session manager. You just write your `.ssh/config` file and that's it. Launch the terminal, ssh into something, done. I mean you can do the same on Windows but most people like UI driven tools there.

Around 10 ...

https://www.purebasic.com/documentation/reference/ide_tools.html

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters#Box_Drawing

Simply select a character, copy it, and paste it. :wink:

Thanks for those links breeze4me!! I was not aware of those pages.
Edit:
by AZJIO
https://www ...

"Most users ever online was 8582 on Thu Jan 08, 2026 05:26"
Not up there with MS yet but that's still a nice following. I hope they are all paid Users.

THANKS!!!!!