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Updated: Toolchain on Windows now use VisualStudio 2022 and new MSVCRT for faster PureBasic programs and easier external libs integration.

What are the consequences of this? Will applications compiled with the new version of PureBasic be able to run on each supported Windows version (Vista, 7 ...

Thanks guys for your answers.

@firace: looks nice. Actually, I do not need a lot widgets. Just the following:
* Button
* Inout box (StringGadget)
* Checkbox
* Radio button
* Progressbar

Is your UI library DPI-aware and fully unicode-compliant? I would be glad to play around with your lib.

I see your point. But on the other hand, it really decreases maintainability. Because as a consumer of the API, I expect really an integer when I see .i, not a pointer...

Hello luis,

thanks for your post. But it seems like an odd language design that we use .i for a pointer....I do not know any compiled language supporting pointers which is designed like that. Why can't we explicitly define a pointer as the return value?

Hello folks,

I am currently writing an include file for a DLL developed C and there are several functions which return a Pointer. How can I define a Prototype for those?

I see what you mean. But I would like to enforce the flat design in my application.

What do you mean by that?

Hello folks,

I would like to have my Windows UI application appear in a "flat design", something like this: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eyb7Gla-ePo/maxresdefault.jpg

Are there any existing libraries for PureBasic allowing to create these kind of UI applications for Windows?