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Gotcha. I was a bit doubtful myself but was curious. Thank you for your response.

Just a quick question about file handling. Let's say I have a file that is exactly 5 MB long. If I open this file with Purebasic, but overwrite the file with random 1's and 0's exactly 5 MB long, is it overwriting the file in the exact same place on the drive? Or, does the OS delete the first file ...

That is EXACTLY what I need. Perfect. Thank you so much, mk-soft.

Does anyone know of a way to mask an Input() response in the console? Like in a string or input requestor where you can designate a mask (like all "*") to conceal a password?

Not recursive, but also adds folders. The notion of recursiveness is not meant by calling a procedure from the procedure itself, but by going through all the folders. You can also use folder depth and filter-mask for file extension. Here you first get a list of files and then add them to the ...

I see in my anxiousness that I overlooked re-numbering the directory number when recursively calling the procedure. That makes sense now as it would fall into an endless loop of searching the same folder over and over again. And I always forget about #PB_Any, which is incredibly handy for ...

I'm coding up a simple little routine that will pack a given folder into a ZIP file. The ZIP file will have to faithfully recreate the entire folder when unzipped, including empty directories. The best I could do was to have a procedure recursively walk through the folder and record everything it ...

Quin wrote: Wed May 07, 2025 6:11 pm

Catdaddy wrote: Wed May 07, 2025 5:50 pm Quin,

Tried that line in a blank file in the editor and I still get the error. It must be in my install.

Nope, not in your install, that line was me showing how to get the problem to happen

Quin,

Sorry about that. I misread your post. Thank you for confirming.

Aha. Thank you, Miso. I'm NOT crazy, then! Well, at least on this subject

Thank you for confirming.

Quin,

Tried that line in a blank file in the editor and I still get the error. It must be in my install.

Forgive me if this is in the wrong forum. I've searched the bug lists and I'm not sure if this is a bug or if I'm not using it right. But the debugger keeps telling me IsPack() is not a function. I have 6.21 Beta 9 installed. Anybody else having trouble with this?

That worked. Thank you so much, miso.

I may have spoken too soon. ShowCursor_(0) does not seem to work. I've tried ShowCursor_(-1), ShowCursor_(#FALSE). I've even tried SetCursor_(#NULL). Is it not possible to disable the mouse pointer in Windows?

firace - In my haste I overlooked this part in the manual. Is it because the events pile up and eventually crash the program?

infratec - Worked like a charm.

AnC - That definitely helped. I'm used to a regular full graphic screen where the cursor automatically goes away.

Thank you to all for your ...

So, the basic idea for this program is to open a borderless window to the dimensions of the current desktop. This is so I don't have to deal with changing resolutions with a full graphic screen. Then, at some point in the bigger program I would like to have a procedure that I could call that creates ...