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HeX0R wrote: Fri Aug 01, 2025 12:33 pm -1
Please don't change fundamental things others are used to since decades.

Very much agree with that. Although I enjoy working in PureBasic, I have a fear of future changes based on other users' preferences.

It does not sound like a good feature.
Sorry Simon

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Thanks to TI-994A for posting this. I had not seen the book in years but it was popular in computer studies courses in UK during the 1980s — not forming part of the curriculum but used informally to supplement it. The edition had the beige cover sent by marc_256.

The writing style was enjoyable ...

I looked for a way to to have this "jump style", but I can live with that.
Thanks for your efford to help me out. Lord

The other solution I would suggest, which might also help you, is Rashad's grid tool. I can't recall what it's called, but I do remember it contains a procedure called ...

I think this could be a feature request. The context debugger popup in the IDE supports dereferencing this sort of pointer

I tend to take the view that the variable viewer is fine as it is — pointers with structures are an advanced feature and to some extent not an unreasonable limitation and ...

I would think that the variable viewer is not intended to provide for the opening of structure elements when the structure is assigned to a pointer, at least that's the way it looks to me. As the icon appears as a block, rather than the usual arrow, I'd say it was deliberate.

It can be seen with a ...

Can you reach those sub-menu options if you have a superfast mouse? Probably my mouse is too slow.

Regardless of what Microsoft wants, my employer now only provides laptops to programmers and applications support people (like myself) that have a single 256Gb SSD. No desktops allowed. (They do allow docs.) Special application is needed for anything else, and from personal experience, they often ...

if you compile in console mode, you can enable the debugger and ship it with it, but it shouldn't be put in production IMHO as it contains info about the source file name, etc.

I have some sympathy for the requirement — the PB debugger serves a very good role for highlighting certain errors that ...

I wondered if anyone else on the forum has looked at Internet Printing Protocol, or written a routine with PB to send a file to an IPP printer.

https://www.pwg.org/ipp/ippguide.html
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/candidates/cs-ippig20-20150821-5100.19.pdf

The PWG implementor's guide is written very ...

I found it difficult to debug your code and follow it, but there's just a logic problem. The below working code shows how it can be done and is runable. You might like to take this working code and then add what you need to it. Also TrySemaphore() that you've used is okay but you don't really need ...

swhite wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 2:49 pm Hi
I forgot to mention I am using Linux PB 6.20. This behavior does not happen in the Windows version. Simon

Ahh, sorry I can't help you there. I did wonder if you were a Linux man, but couldn't recall

Maybe I misunderstood your description, but so far I cannot confirm.

I also tried to reproduce Simon's tab key behaviour at the weekend but I wasn't able to. I suppose like many of us, I make fairly heavy use of Find-Replace daily. I felt that it was probably one of those anomalies where the ...

We use a similar principle to what you describe, though for network traffic and it has always worked very well. I notice that you do not set the last element before you add a new element to the list. Perhaps you've accounted for that in your logic, but it's the first thing I noticed, on seeing your ...

What should work? The code or the useful error message?

It confused me also :D

I think possibly the problem here is that the PB compiler doesn't always validate a structure used in a pointer element, so therefore when it doesn't validate, it gets passed to the C compiler, or assembler.

For ...

A related online app that I find useful. https://ehubsoft.herokuapp.com/chmviewer/

Nice one — I agree the ability to download as HTML is useful. It doesn't include images though, or at least not without a bit of work.

For instance, trying C:\Program Files\PureBasic\PureBasic.chm and then ...