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C# is the most popular, has the most community support, and is actually marketable. And I think you'll come to get used to and eventually prefer C style syntax

idk why I assumed it was global by default. Thanks

I was just trying to see if I could resize a textgadget using a variable width, but I must be missing something here, because it's not working.
What am I not doing right?


Global Window_1

Global Text_0

Enumeration
#Font_0
EndEnumeration

LoadFont(#Font_0,"Arial", 40)

str$ = "TESTING"
strLength ...

Is this Windows only?

Thanks for the reply, that seems to be working.. couple of questions though :P

I don't understand the use of the the bitwise & for the ALTDOWN flag, when I saw LLKHF_ALTDOWN in the MSDN doc I would have never guessed that's how you use it ;\
Also, does this mean I would have to check *p\flags for ...

Sorry I don't see how that helps me in my case with the APIs I'm using

I'm messing around with keyboard hooks, and normal keys catch fine. But I can't figure out how to catch any keys pressed while holding Alt.

Here's what my code looks like:


Structure PKBDLLHOOKSTRUCT
vkCode.l
scanCode.l
flags.l
time.l
dwExtraInfo.l
EndStructure


message.MSG

#VK_ALT = 164 ...

Ok I think I have it figure out now.. thanks

I guess I don't really understand what that line is doing lol

I don't think that's the same thing

I'm messing around with converting some C to PB for the learning experience. But having trouble with something.

p = (PKBDLLHOOKSTRUCT) (lParam)

p is a structure of type PKBDLLHOOKSTRUCT already. From what I understand it is typecasting lParam to type PKBDLLHOOKSTRUCT and assigning the values to ...

Ugh this sucks... screw this

I'm going to just load up XP on VirtualBox and run PB in there ;\

It would be great to have a list of exercises to complete that would gradually increase in skill level, like I would have in school. Because I can't even think of anything simple to make that would even be remotely useful.
That's why I love programming books that have exercises at the end of each ...

> Microsoft says there won't be a Help viewer until Win7 is RTM.

RTM? o_O ..ready to move? ..read the manual? ..ride tombstick mine?

well, I don't think it's a reason for complaint when there are no installers for every little backward compatibility in a beta ....

Windows 7 isn't in beta ...

Mistrel wrote:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

ignign0kt wrote:And no, that installer for Vista does not work for Win7. Microsoft says there won't be a Help viewer until Win7 is RTM.