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I have been looking for something like this for a while. Unfortunately, when I try either of the examples by fabulouspaul or verleihnix InitLibrary() generates an "Invalid memory access. (write error at address 0)" error.
PB 5.70 on Win 7 Ult X64
Any thoughts or pointers would be welcome.
Best ...

Yet again I thank you RASHAD. I had already started down the wrong road with timers in this program and you have pointed me in the right direction.

RASHAD wrote:Hi
skywalk post the first method
Next the second one

Thanks for your always helpful input RASHAD, but my example was misleading in that it omitted the AddWindowTimer, which exists in the real program.

skywalk wrote:Your code dominated the event loop.

Thanks skywalk, your help is much appreciated. Like so may things in my coding (in)ability, I overlooked the need for threading. I can now see the need for threading in other parts of this little program.

Hi Folks,
I am writing a small, relatively simple, program to interface with an external control board via a DLL. The DLL functions are working perfectly and I have no issue there. My problem is with setting the gadget sates in the GUI in one case. Rather than generating a load of "red herrings", by ...

Thanks Marc56us,
Your example made it abundantly clear where I was going wrong in my original attempt.
I always try to use Enumeration, but in some instances it makes coding a bit more cumbersome & clunky. For example accessing gadget IDs in a For loop.
Noted your tip about EnableExplicit to help ...

Thanks Shardik. My target for this exercise is both Windows & Linux, but I will definitely keep a note of this for future reference.
Regards Dave

Thanks again Rashid. Very nice. Lots of possibilities here.
What I like about this forum is you get real help, not just RTFM!
Dave

Thanks Rashad,
The ContainerGadget is the facility I expected to find, but again overlooked it in the manual.
Obviously there is a lot more me to find on my PB voyage of discovery.
Regards
Dave

I need to create 2 independent groups of radio buttons (OptionGadget) in the same window.
For example:
_______________________
|-- Group A -|-- Group B -|
|_____________________|
| o Option 1 | o Option 1 |
| o Option 2 | o Option 2 |
| o Option 3 | o Option 3 ...

Thanks Kenmo, that clarified the whole issue for me.
Dave

GetFileDate() returns 0 for a missing file or wrong path:
Debug FormatDate("%yyyy/%mm/%dd - %hh:%ii:%ss", GetFileDate("missing", #PB_Date_Modified))

OK! That explains the 1970 (0) result, but not the reason.

You're passing a relative file path (just its name), so GetFileDate() is looking in ...

I am trying to learn how to use PB's file system commands.
Using the help file example FileSystem.pb I have added a simple Else statement:
FileName$ = DirectoryEntryName(0)
If DirectoryEntryType(0) = #PB_DirectoryEntry_Directory
FileName$ = "[DIR] " + FileName$
Else
; D$ is not rquired, only ...

Thanks to you both, I now have the pointer for the direction I wanted to go.
Much appreciated.
Dave

I am back trying to expand my knowledge of PB.

The following (highly condensed) code snippet draws shadowed text under Windows, but doesn't utilize the loaded font.
Questions:
1. I got an excellent answer from RASHAD in another thread, but can this this be done without using an API callback?
2. Can ...