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We're porting a major product over to linux. My job on it is to do the documentation. For windows I'm using Help n doc, which works very well. How do you linux experts read chm files in Debian?

Thanks for the suggestions,
Russ

This is fantastic! Thanks for doing all that work!

Linux does allow spaces in path name (or so I found out), but you have to enclose the full path in quotes or it will hate you

MK, your trick worked like a charm.

Thanks to both of you for your replies. Always appreciated
Russ

I'm not sure if this is a Purebasic bug, Linux bug or Russ bug but here's the problem:

I have a program that I wrote in windows. When I made the desktop shortcut the "Start In" is "C:\PureBasic Projects\InfoPad" and the
"Target" is "C:\PureBasic Projects\InfoPad\InfoPad64.exe". In the code I have a ...

Just for grins, I asked chatgpt to make a script to install Purebasic on AnitX. This is what it spit out. I'm not going to run it, as things are working correctly, but it would be interesting if any of the experts could comment on this and tell us Linux newbies if it's usable:

#!/bin/bash

set -e ...

Moulder,

Your suggestion did the trick! My problem is not knowing enough about Linux to solve things like this. And Purebasic came up and I compiled a little program that I would like on this and it runs like a champ. It's really an example of why Purebasic is a good choice.

Thanks,
Russ

Moulder,

Thanks, I'll give that a try and report back.

Just to give the context, I have an old netbook (n150) and an old Acer laptop (celeron) that I was prepping to donate. Neither was up to running windows anymore, as we have all experienced. So I was experimenting with a couple of Linux ...

I'm trying to install Purebasic on a antix laptop. I've made some progress, but when I run ./purebasic from the /purebasic/compilers folder it says it needs glib 2.38. The internet advises against change the glib version. So my question is, which is the correct Purebasic version to use? I got a 6.12 ...

Just a thought, since the backend is now gcc, would it be possible to support c header (.h) files? Or is there a conversion utility that will convert them to pb syntax?

If you want to be more generic, you should get and save the gadgetx, gadgety,gadgetWidth and gadgetHeight before freeing it, then use those values. That way you can move things around in the designer and don't have to worry about changing the example code. My guess is that Fred will find the bug and ...

fyi, for a short or longer term solution,

FreeGadget(SourceList)
SourceList = ExplorerListGadget(#PB_Any, 10, 30, 220, 220, "", #PB_Explorer_AlwaysShowSelection | #PB_Explorer_MultiSelect | #PB_Explorer_GridLines | #PB_Explorer_FullRowSelect | #PB_Explorer_AutoSort)
SetGadgetFont(SourceList ...

Every once in awhile the ExplorerListGadget will change it's flags so the borderless and nofiles are set, even though I never click on those checkboxes in the ide. I haven't found a pattern or some order of operations that causes this, but if I do, I'll post it here.

https://www.i-programmer.info/programming/148-hardware/16887-raspberry-pi-iot-in-c-pi-5-memory-mapped-gpio.html#:~:text=The%20Pi%205%20has%20a,be%20running%20with%20root%20privileges.

Has a good explanation for getting to the gpio pins using low level techniques. One thing he uses is a C function ...

I had some time in the last few days to mess with this and it seems that the RPi people changed chips that control the gpio from pi4 to pi5. I bought the Pi5. Most of the libraries recommended don't work on the new hardware. Since Pi5 is it's own beast, it would seem that the RPi people should have ...

Has anyone translated LibGpioD headers to purebasic? Or is there a way to use c header files directly?