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- Sun Nov 16, 2025 5:55 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Free, Opensource…
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1759
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.
- Tue Nov 11, 2025 4:15 pm
- Forum: Feature Requests and Wishlists
- Topic: PackEntryType() needs #PB_Packer_Link for tar
- Replies: 1
- Views: 355
- Thu Nov 06, 2025 5:10 am
- Forum: Tricks 'n' Tips
- Topic: PureLibrary Helper Functions
- Replies: 5
- Views: 648
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 
- Wed Nov 05, 2025 6:28 pm
- Forum: Tricks 'n' Tips
- Topic: PureLibrary Helper Functions
- Replies: 5
- Views: 648
Re: PureLibrary Helper Functions
Very nice, thanks! I've been playing with purelibraries a lot recently
- Wed Nov 05, 2025 5:03 am
- Forum: Announcement
- Topic: PureBasic 6.30 beta 5 is ready !
- Replies: 136
- Views: 28378
Re: PureBasic 6.30 beta 4 is ready !
Any chance of seeing this in 6.30? viewtopic.php?p=635679
- Tue Nov 04, 2025 4:02 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Recommend Linux Distribution?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1073
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.
- Sun Nov 02, 2025 4:06 pm
- Forum: Bugs - Documentation
- Topic: PDF help
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1232
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 ...
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 ...
- Sat Nov 01, 2025 3:38 pm
- Forum: Announcement
- Topic: PureBasic 6.30 beta 5 is ready !
- Replies: 136
- Views: 28378
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 
- Sat Nov 01, 2025 1:18 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Website incredibly slow?
- Replies: 83
- Views: 23948
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 
- Fri Oct 31, 2025 2:22 pm
- Forum: Bugs - Mac OSX
- Topic: [DONE] Installed PB6.21 on MacOS Tahoe 26.0.1. I can't close IDE?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1213
Re: Installed PB6.21 on MacOS Tahoe 26.0.1. I can't close IDE?
Already reported and fixed, viewtopic.php?p=645549
- Thu Oct 30, 2025 9:17 pm
- Forum: Coding Questions
- Topic: minimize+Restore Loses all my gadgets
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1828
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 ...
- Thu Oct 30, 2025 2:25 am
- Forum: Feature Requests and Wishlists
- Topic: Get access to C-backend compiler switches?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1926
- 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 
Reminds me why I love this place
Reminds me why I love this place
- Wed Oct 29, 2025 11:37 pm
- Forum: Mac OSX
- Topic: Native Open URL
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1801
Re: Native Open URL
Just replaced RunProgram in my Mac app with this, and it works beautifully. Thanks!
- Wed Oct 29, 2025 11:34 pm
- Forum: Feature Requests and Wishlists
- Topic: Dialog-Library - Wishlist
- Replies: 23
- Views: 16953
Re: Dialog-Library - Wishlist
I sure hope this is the casejacdelad 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.