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infratec wrote: Sun Aug 21, 2022 10:01 am Simply use libcurl directly and set a timeout of 1 or 2 seconds.

Please excuse my noobness but the only way to do this would be through a call to RunProgram() right?

After looking at it I guess the only problem would be if I knew the name of a website but didn't know the name of the homepage and it's extension?
No need to know in advance the name of the root filename (homepage)
ReceiveHTTPFile() will load the default root file (who was set by server)
Set ...

I am struggling to figure out how to abort an unsuccessful HTTPRequest, more specifically one that should time out.
; HTTP_Abort
; Marc56us - 2022/08/20
; Based on sample in PB help (HTTPProgress())
; https://www.purebasic.com/documentation/http/httpprogress.html

; URL$ = "http://www.purebasic ...

Hi,

I am struggling to figure out how to abort an unsuccessful HTTPRequest, more specifically one that should time out. To be clear, it's just a simple GET request to grab the HTML from a website.

For example if I try and run an HTTP GET request on the website test.com, it freezes my program.

I ...

If yes, is there a way to retrieve a longer string from DLL procedure ?
Just split it up:
ProcedureDLL.s GetDialogXML()
Global xml.s="<dialog>"+
"......"
xml.s+"......"+
"......"+
"</dialog>"

ProcedureReturn xml
EndProcedure


Thank you for this : )

Thanks everyone for the replies, these are great!

I was trying to figure out a way to initialize a variable number of nested Lists/Arrays that are supplied by argument to a Procedure, and could be referenced after creation (by the generated variable names). I could not figure out how to do this ...

What I mean is where the variable names are generated based on something like a counter. Something like this:
Which would create 10 variables:
Is this possible? Thanks!

Yep, got it. (It's been a while since I needed to go through the code)

As a quick fix - I've added.
Global *ASCII_string
Procedure SetASCII_string(unicode.s)
If *ASCII_string
FreeMemory(*ASCII_string)
EndIf
*ASCII_string = AllocateMemory(Len(unicode) + 1)
If *ASCII_string
PokeS(*ASCII ...

ScintillaSendMessage(#Gadget,#SCI_STYLESETBACK,#STYLE_DEFAULT,RGB(255,0,0))


This is great! :D Thank you!

Do you know if it's possible to make the margin disappear in the gadget?

EDIT:

I think I found an answer here: http://forums.purebasic.com/english/viewtopic.php?t=75000

It looks like ...

Hi everyone,

I'm working on a text editor and would like to use the Scintilla Gadget but am unsure of how to change the background color of the editor. I am able to change the color of the font with #SCI_STYLESETFORE and the font background color with #SCI_STYLESETBACK but that's all I can find ...

Danilo wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2014 7:37 pm

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    CocoaMessage(0,GadgetID(0),"setAllowsUndo:",#YES) ; allow UNDO

This worked for me however every time I undo I hear the system Alert sound. Is there any way to disable this?

I am using Catalina 10.15.7

Thank you!