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BarryG wrote: Mon Dec 01, 2025 7:53 am The Internet Archive has it from 2024:

https://web.archive.org/web/20241224115 ... eBasic.lzx

Posting this is not piracy because it's the public release.

(a.k.a TJR / Inner)
Good to know.

They are used to automatically convert a PB unicode string to the required string format.
It is not a new type of variable.

But you are the expert I'm only always here :wink:


:o :lol: :lol: :lol: I seriously wouldn't put any stock in that title at all, and I'd hardly call myself an expert ...

How do these Pseudo Types relate to their C Types?

p-ascii,p-utf8,p-bstr,p-unicode,p-variant

Or am I missing the point?

System languages needed pointers to be efficient.
Even Fortran added pointers later.
Basic had clunky varptr() and addressof().

Yes, C++ became a bloated mess with technical debt and over a 1000 pages of definitions.
But, you can still choose to code C++ with a C approach and do very well.


All ...

Very interesting discussion for me as I'm really a beginner coder in C.


As useful as the language is/was has been it's a pig of language, ridiculously overtyped and casted wrapped up in a ball of utterly useless functionality that only aids the 'nerd' get his thing on to bamboozle the rest ...

First sorry for nercoing an old thread..


It's really a shame that the project is at a standstill.
I saw that there was a Github on the project and I tried to understand how it worked to try to improve it, but in fact I understand nothing... :( :)


You're not really missing much to be honest ...

okay, what's life with out sense of humor..

What's #PB_Preference_NoBOM a Pure Basic Anti-Terrorism Flag?

I don't know anything about the C language, so this should be a great help for getting started and going further.
It looks like a big and nice piece of work, I'll be following you closely :)


It's a nightmare, others including myself have tried through many private iterations and attempts to ...

Add a video of the current state of the project, it's just easier/quicker at the moment.

miniaudio supports mp3. But in the PB version, this is disabled (probably the static library is compiled with the MA_NO_MP3 flag). :?
It would be great to add MP3 support to PB. :)


Big +1 on this one. Mp3 would be amazing.


Don't you need to pay some sort of license for mp3? from google I ...

@Inner

Don't know if you care or not, but on the github page you have two occurrences of the word "veriable".
Maybe you want to correct them to "variable" :D


:arrow: Dyslexia for the W .. I swear last night I was looking at the alphabet because I forgot it's order (hadn't slept in 48hrs ...

Very interesting discussion for me as I'm really a beginner coder in C.


As useful as the language is/was has been it's a pig of language, ridiculously overtyped and casted wrapped up in a ball of utterly useless functionality that only aids the 'nerd' get his thing on to bamboozle the rest of ...

something like this:

Prototype.i Prototype_reg(zz_vfs_dri_t.i)
Prototype.i Prototype_unreg(zz_vfs_dri_t.i)
Prototype.u Prototype_ismine(*char)
Prototype.i Prototype_new(*char, *va_list)
Prototype Prototype_del(zz_vfs_t.i)
Prototype.i Prototype_uri(zz_vfs_t.i)
Prototype.i Prototype_open(zz_vfs_t ...

Function Pointer in C
int (*init_fs_context)(struct fs_context *);


I'm guessing I can just ignore the casting then and just translate it to the appropriate type, as what I am reading from your links really doesn't make things much clearer, 'probably' because I'd never do something so ...

struct zz_vfs_dri_s {
const char * name; /**< friendly name. */
zz_err_t (*reg)(zz_vfs_dri_t); /**< register driver. */
zz_err_t (*unreg)(zz_vfs_dri_t); /**< un-register driver. */
zz_u16_t (*ismine)(const char *); /**< is mine. */
zz_vfs_t (*new)(const char *, va_list); /**< create VFS ...