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by joske
Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:08 pm
Forum: Tricks 'n' Tips
Topic: Calculating the cube root of a number
Replies: 6
Views: 3573

Thanks for sharing. This routine with Newton-Rapson iteration is much faster and more precise than the general pow(), that can be useful. You can rewrite this function very easy to calculate the square root.

I just doubt if giving an answer for a negative value makes sense - shouldn't it be better ...
by joske
Fri Aug 17, 2007 8:35 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Best Flamming Factors 2007
Replies: 21
Views: 3576

:D
by joske
Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:24 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: What is this life good for?
Replies: 30
Views: 5698

Living for God gives life sense. That makes life great! And after this a new, eternal life...
I just hope that I can take my USB-stick with favorite programming projects to heaven ;).
Nik wrote:Sex :roll:
:D I agree with that... what would life be without sex? Would there be life if there was no sex?
by joske
Fri Dec 01, 2006 9:33 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: MS Access alternative
Replies: 20
Views: 6846

MS Access is a little bit difficult to get started with. But once you have insight in the general structure with tables, queries, forms/reports, and once you know how to use vba programming in Access you can do everything with it. And it saves you lots of work and troubles.

I know a lot about MS ...
by joske
Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:38 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: MS Access alternative
Replies: 20
Views: 6846

DTecMeister,
maybe you can jump in the development of Open Office Base.
by joske
Tue Nov 28, 2006 4:35 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Emergence Basic (Brother of IBasic?)
Replies: 78
Views: 21374

:D I've had a big laugh reading this heated discussion.

Trond, can you cool down please? Nobody is calling you an asshole, only Utopiomania abused White Eagle for asshole in this discussion...
by joske
Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:53 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Spam and how to legalize it and make it actually wanted...
Replies: 2
Views: 868

interesting.
There is a possibility: a lot of TV and radio commercials are actually funny to see/hear.
by joske
Thu Nov 09, 2006 8:28 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: How to run PB4.0 in Ubuntu Linux 6.10?
Replies: 18
Views: 8595

PB, have you installed Wine? makes a lot of windows applications work in linux. I have even installed Microsoft Office 2000 once on Ubunu linux and it did run rather nice...
by joske
Tue Nov 07, 2006 7:32 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: How to run PB4.0 in Ubuntu Linux 6.10?
Replies: 18
Views: 8595

thanks for your replies. I have added the code to xorg.conf (located in /etc/X11/xorg.conf) but no change...

When I double click on purebasic in purebasic/compilers, and choose "Run in terminal", the same happens but in the terminial I see a lot of error messages coming along in the fraction of a ...
by joske
Sat Nov 04, 2006 9:43 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: How to run PB4.0 in Ubuntu Linux 6.10?
Replies: 18
Views: 8595

thanks, I have already seen that post but it seems not to adress my problem (I dont get errors, pb just starts and stops again)

I'm an absolute greenhorn with linux :oops:

should I search for xorg.conf and add these lines?
Section “Extensions”
Option “Composite” “Disable”
EndSection

(that was ...
by joske
Sat Nov 04, 2006 11:30 am
Forum: Linux
Topic: How to run PB4.0 in Ubuntu Linux 6.10?
Replies: 18
Views: 8595

How to run PB4.0 in Ubuntu Linux 6.10?

Hello,

I have just installed Ubuntu Linux 6.10, previous version i had installed was version 6.06. This is really a great improvement! Ubuntu 6.06 was somewhat slow with refreshing the contents of windows , but now everything works with the same speed as winXP! And Purebasic 4.0 for Linux is also a ...
by joske
Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:56 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Change window style from bordered to borderless and back?
Replies: 4
Views: 1851

Yes! Thats it! :D

thanks Hroudtwolf!
by joske
Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:04 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Change window style from bordered to borderless and back?
Replies: 4
Views: 1851

Change window style from bordered to borderless and back?

Is it possible to change the style of a window from bordered to borderless and back while the program is running?
by joske
Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:04 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Pyxia sells.. but who's buying??
Replies: 60
Views: 21017

Re: Paul Off of Development

webbmeister wrote:Have tried to registed on the forums, but got no response
:?:
Ibasic Forums wrote:The newest registered user is thewebbmeister
isn't that you?
by joske
Thu Mar 02, 2006 8:18 pm
Forum: Coding Questions
Topic: Problem with FillArea in animation
Replies: 4
Views: 2119

Aha! WindowOutput() instead of ScreenOutput(). That explains a lot. Thanks va!n!

Here is the final, smooth working code:
(With some other adaptions)
; Exercise 7
; Animation of a two link planar arm with rotary joints
; Copyright © 2006 Serge Visser en Jos de Jong
; Written with the programming ...