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Piero wrote: Mon Dec 15, 2025 12:08 am Talented Girl:

Here's another.

I cannot run a cron job throughout the day collecting the data because if for instance someone decides to send some required data to the equipment it will immediately disconnect me from the equipment and connect to the new request. This means you have to do this task during particular hours when ...

Procedure json_get_member(js, key$)
Protected nMember = GetJSONMember(js, key$)
If Not nMember
nMember = AddJSONMember(js, key$)
EndIf
ProcedureReturn nMember
EndProcedure

LoadJSON(0, "D:\settings.json")
SetJSONString(json_get_member(JSONValue(0), "FastMode"), "OK")
SaveJSON(0, "D:\settings ...

idle wrote: Sun Sep 28, 2025 12:14 pm The Priestoner
dyslexia is funny some times

And the answer was always there, it was just missing a comma...

Who is number 1?
You are, number 6.

Kurzer wrote: Fri Sep 26, 2025 6:10 pm You yourself are always your worst enemy.

Who is number 1?
You are number 6.

Don't forget SQLite date functions are available to you:

A related tip:

Tabulator wants the record data in this format:

[
{id:1, name:"Oli Bob", age:"12", col:"red", dob:""},
{id:2, name:"Mary May", age:"1", col:"blue", dob:"14/05/1982"},
{id:3, name:"Christine Lobowski", age:"42", col:"green", dob:"22/05/1982"},
{id:4, name:"Brendon Philips", age ...

Mesa wrote: Fri Apr 25, 2025 10:33 am It doesn't make any difference if the JS and CSS are loaded locally.

It can do, you can't load ES6 modules via the file:// protocol so you have to be careful which version of the Tabulator files you use.

May be it works for a console hello world, but is there more complex apps (with GUI) for this ?

It seems much more capable than just hello world, there's a list of binaries compiled with it here which includes Python, PHP, SQLite3, ...

As for GUIs I think somebody got SDL working but I think ...

This seems interesting:

" Cosmopolitan Libc makes C a build-anywhere run-anywhere language, like Java, except it doesn't need an interpreter or virtual machine. Instead, it reconfigures stock GCC and Clang to output a POSIX-approved polyglot format that runs natively on Linux + Mac + Windows ...

AZJIO wrote: Sun Feb 23, 2025 6:56 pm Then you need FileSize()

The path / file may not exist (yet), it's a string coming in from a script and I'm trying to perform a sanity check to make sure it could reasonably be interpreted as a path for the current OS.

Ah, so it only checks the file name bit
I was using it to check a whole path string

PB 6.20 on MX Linux (Debian)

This returns zero: I can't currently check other platforms...

// Moved from "Bugs - Linux" to "Coding Questions" (Kiffi)

Mike Shah wrote:Fred, thanks for building a wonderful tool! Any interest in coming on the channel to chat about PureBasic or SpiderBasic?

@Fred
Are you taking up the invite?

Quin: Is there any chance of SpiderBasic/PureBasic ever compiling to WebAssembly?

No, I don’t think so.

@Fred
May I ask why? Emscripten is designed to be a drop in replacement for gcc that compiles C to WebAssembly...


A high level view of the Emscripten toolchain is given below [see link ...