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I heard many times about getting a Random "random SEED"… (e.g., to then extract lottery numbers…)
Stupid example I just invented now: you can use the luminosity of a flame being gently blown by a fan…
…or the movements of your mouse…
…or………

…Isn't that WEIRD ?

………I find "randomness" to be very ...

Here's another way using keyboard shortcuts that generate menu events:
#w_main = 0 ;window
#event_selectedShortcut = 100 ;event
#My_Shortcut_Colon = 186 + #PB_Shortcut_Shift ;constant obtained from Shortcut gadget test

OpenWindow(#w_main,0,0,200,200,"colon pushed")
AddKeyboardShortcut(#w_main, #My ...

I don't understand why it doesn't work.


It is probably due to the structured string element and the quirk in the functioning of PureBasic's @ operator returning the address of the string's content instead of the address of the pointer to the string's content.

Try this untested code ...

I use it.

My financial portfolio says 'Yes'.

There must be a reason why this question raises up from time to time by new users (including me some years ago). And also, why after explaining the way it is done now is questioned.


It is a common situation that arises not only with custom events but also with enumeration of any type of ...

I'll preface my remarks by saying I understand there is more than one way to view the issue that motivated your feature request.




Why not just modify each library to use a named enumeration in a common module?

Everything else that had been suggested tries to avoid modifying the libraries to ...

Why not just modify each library to use a named enumeration in a common module?

Everything else that had been suggested tries to avoid modifying the libraries to be consistent. I think that is a recipe for disaster. Why not just fix the inconsistencies where they occur?

Events from window number 0, but there is no such window in the application!

Welcome to the non-null world of PureBasic.

EventWindow() does not have a return value indicating Null or that its value is not applicable to an event. What do you think happens when you Debug EventMenu() for a gadget ...

Does redim clear the array?

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It did not clear the array. But an online search result claimed that it does and that you need to use the "Preserve" keyword to keep the data. Yet the purebasic help makes no mention of this.
If you had instead searched the help file you would have ...

marc_256 wrote: Sat Sep 27, 2025 3:57 pm Hi Demivec,

I did this already, but then I lose all my graphic characters (Page437).
only when I use the OEM-US character set I can use the Page437 character set.

Marc

Here's a link to unicode code points for the same thing:
https://www.unicode.org/charts/nameslist/n_2500.html

User UTF-8 encoding in both programs.

Macro ma_result : l : EndMacro
PrototypeC.ma_result p_onContextInit(*pContext.ma_context, *pConfig.ma_context_config, *pCallback.sma_backend_callbacks) For prototype does not need to know what implementation of the structure is (the structure is declared below the prototype), because it is a ...

Congratulations on your possible promotion. I was one of the people that voted for you.

loulou2522 wrote: Mon Sep 08, 2025 9:18 am Is it possible to have a select file dialog ?

Do you mean like OpenFileRequester() and SaveFileRequester()?