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mk-soft wrote:I think he wants to initialize the edit mode from a cell via the program, but this is not a standard.

Yes, exactly, I'm sorry if I wasn't clear but that is what I want to do.

I want to use the grid for data entry and I don't want the user to have to click every time they want to make an entry.

Thank you and yes AFTER clicking an editable cell you can then use the Return key.

But I want my program to do this NOT the user.

I would like my program to start and immediately be in an editable cell without any user clicking the mouse or pressing any keys.

Is this possible ?

Thank you

@said

Thank you very much for your Grid gadget, I have used it successfully in one project already in combination with Google SQL Cloud.

I was wondering if it was possible to have something like

EditCell(Gadget.i, Row, Col, SetCellFocus = #True)

where after calling the cell is ready for ...

On new Debian install, downloaded PB 5.70 LTS for Linux and dependencies. All ok with checkinstall.sh

Working fine with all examples except database.pb gives error on complile

Purebasic - Linker Error
/home/pi/Downloads/purebasic/purelibraries/linux/libraries/libpbsqlite3.a(sqlite3.o): In ...

Thanks this is very useful

Just wondering if anyone knew some code that would make a normal textgadget's background color transparent.

This is for Windows, but xplatform would be nice, I want to display some (changeable) text over a picture without a background color to the text.

Could probably turn the text into a graphic ...

The reason that code fails is because of a few, long established changes in PB v5x, most of which in this case are minor.
However, if you do not need cross-platform, there is a very comprehensive lib for windows from ABB Klaus:
PurePDF

I've been testing PurePDF on Windows, Linux & Mac and even ...

Thanks Fred, should have looked harder, thought it was something I was missing in PB

Fred said

You can even build an universal binary with these 2 execs

I am currently compiling separate execs for each processor (using PB for Intel & PB for PPC on the same Mac).

Can you please explain how to build a universal binary ?

This is the solution I found, hope it helps someone ...


Procedure takeImage()
;ImageSnap is a Public Domain command-line tool that lets you capture still images from an iSight or other video source
; http://http://iharder.sourceforge.net/current/macosx/imagesnap/
;isightcapture is a similar ...

Tried this with ComatePLUS, latest Droopy and PB4.51X86 on Win XPSP3 and gettting error :-

POLINK Error : Unresolved external symbol "VerLanguageNameA" and a similar error if compiled with unicode.

Any ideas on how to fix this error ?

When I run this code the Totals don't change as expected, but either do the Avail after declaring the array.

I must be misunderstanding the way memory works or is allocated OR the functions don't work the way I would expect them to. Can someone explain ?

According to my understanding, at the ...

Hi,

I want to monitor the amount of memory available to my program as I setup arrays etc.

I am using functions in Droopys lib and doing a simple test like the following
Procedure mem()
Debug GlobalMemoryStatusTotalPhys()
Debug GlobalMemoryStatusTotalVirtual()

Debug GlobalMemoryStatusAvailPhys ...

Thanks JamiroKwai thats just what I need to get started! and thanks to WilliamL for making the list

I now have a Intel as well as a PowerPC Mac, so will be trying to make all my code work on both Mac & Win platforms.

Thanks for the info, now we just need a few examples posted...

Singo
Nabiac, Australia