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by Quin
Sun Nov 16, 2025 5:55 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Free, Opensource…
Replies: 19
Views: 1767

Re: Free, Opensource…

This just seems like attention farming. Occasionally he'll come in here and post something totally random that gets no replies. I think it's either attention farming or a massive language barrior. I'm not judging, but yeah this is very confusing.
by Quin
Thu Nov 06, 2025 5:10 am
Forum: Tricks 'n' Tips
Topic: PureLibrary Helper Functions
Replies: 5
Views: 649

Re: PureLibrary Helper Functions

Ah yes, I see that, very nice! Although here's a fun bug, try to run it with -h as an argument it crashes and shows a this program has stopped working dialog for me :twisted:
by Quin
Wed Nov 05, 2025 6:28 pm
Forum: Tricks 'n' Tips
Topic: PureLibrary Helper Functions
Replies: 5
Views: 649

Re: PureLibrary Helper Functions

Very nice, thanks! I've been playing with purelibraries a lot recently
by Quin
Wed Nov 05, 2025 5:03 am
Forum: Announcement
Topic: PureBasic 6.30 beta 5 is ready !
Replies: 136
Views: 28398

Re: PureBasic 6.30 beta 4 is ready !

Any chance of seeing this in 6.30? viewtopic.php?p=635679
by Quin
Tue Nov 04, 2025 4:02 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Recommend Linux Distribution?
Replies: 9
Views: 1082

Re: Recommend Linux Distribution?

I personally absolutely swear by Debian, it runs on every configuration I throw it at, from my tiny raspberry pi to my beafy little mini PC.
by Quin
Sun Nov 02, 2025 4:06 pm
Forum: Bugs - Documentation
Topic: PDF help
Replies: 6
Views: 1239

Re: PDF help

PDF is a garbage format. I hate it.
The reason the text is all split like that is becausew unlike every other sane file format on the planet, PDF just tells you where characters should be rendered! Which is incredibly fun if you're a blind person trying to write a PDF reader, let me tell you ...
by Quin
Sat Nov 01, 2025 3:38 pm
Forum: Announcement
Topic: PureBasic 6.30 beta 5 is ready !
Replies: 136
Views: 28398

Re: PureBasic 6.30 beta 4 is ready !

Just wanted to drop by and state my appreciation for this upcoming release! I got a software development job and haven't been touching pb as much these days, but it's a great hobby tool and I love the new InputRequester flag :)
by Quin
Sat Nov 01, 2025 1:18 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Website incredibly slow?
Replies: 83
Views: 23964

Re: Website incredibly slow?

I really don't understand what these scrapers are doing to make the website this slow. I'm a very experienced web scraper and it's really not hard to be a good citizen of the web :mrgreen:
by Quin
Thu Oct 30, 2025 9:17 pm
Forum: Coding Questions
Topic: minimize+Restore Loses all my gadgets
Replies: 31
Views: 1831

Re: minimize+Restore Loses all my gadgets


It is the highest version that my code will work on. All releases after that break virtually every feature built into my app. What good is that? 6.21 is the worst. I don't have 5 lifetimes to fix everything that gets broken using v 6.21


What did versions after 5.40 break? I mean ascii-only apps ...
by Quin
Thu Oct 30, 2025 2:12 am
Forum: Coding Questions
Topic: Avoid literal string 8192 limit
Replies: 9
Views: 781

Re: Avoid literal string 8192 limit

Neat trick! Thanks for sharing 8)
Reminds me why I love this place
by Quin
Wed Oct 29, 2025 11:37 pm
Forum: Mac OSX
Topic: Native Open URL
Replies: 2
Views: 1803

Re: Native Open URL

Just replaced RunProgram in my Mac app with this, and it works beautifully. Thanks!
by Quin
Wed Oct 29, 2025 11:34 pm
Forum: Feature Requests and Wishlists
Topic: Dialog-Library - Wishlist
Replies: 23
Views: 16957

Re: Dialog-Library - Wishlist

jacdelad wrote: Sun Sep 21, 2025 5:03 pm I've been here for some time now to know that there's a good chance one day Fred will release a sudden beta which addresses the dialog library without warning. He's full of surprises.
I sure hope this is the case :mrgreen: