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Hello everyone,

I have a fairly show PC, and before i start a heavy game i have to kill all background programs (like MSN, Internet Explorer, Windows Explorer, etc)

Currently i am doing that manually every time via the task manager, but i wonder, is it with purebasic possible to kill those ...

that worked

thanks artic fox

after some more expirementing, i found more is wrong, the numbers dont match at all

this is my code:

OpenFile(2,"settings.ini");
oldid = Val(ReadString(2))
newid = oldid +1
Debug newid
newid$ = Bin(newid)
Debug newid$
TruncateFile(2)
WriteString(2,newid$)

it should read the old id from ...

that works, thanks!

now, i want to write the new id to the file, erasing the old one.

how can i erase the old one? (currently it writes the new id behindd it, so its 0123456 etc

Thanks in advance

Hello,

I have a txt file, and in the first line it holds the last used ID for an item in a list view.

Now, when adding a new item, i want to read that old id, add 1, and use the new id for the list item, then update the old id in the txt file (so the next item gets a new id, etc.)

However, i cant ...

Demenivec, thanks, works wonders!

This was my mistake, i put a call to the procedure in the main loop, so it was called over and over again

works fine now

debug also shows a endless row of the same (single) line in the file

Hello,

I am trying to populate a listicongadget from a file.

This is the code i am using:

Procedure populate_list()

If ReadFile(0, "Landers.dat") ; if the file could be read, we continue...
While Eof(0) = 0 ; loop as long the 'end of file' isn't reached
landers$ = ReadString(0)
; explode ...

Hello,

Next question (im making seperate threads to increase searchability for others, please let me know if this is frowned upon)

I have a string wich consists of several values, split by a delimiter, eg: ABC*DEFG*JKL

I want to split this in 3 different values, ABC, DEFG, and JKL.

In PHP ( wich ...

thanks alot, does the trick

My Visual editor uses this function, but the compiler says its depreciated?

What should i use instead?

Thanks, indeed i was!

Works

Hello,

I have a stringgadget in my window, and i want to take the input from it and write it to a file.

I am not sure how to go about this.

I have tried this:

Procedure Open_Window_1()
If OpenWindow(#Window_1, 308, 114, 391, 76, "New window ( 1 )", #PB_Window_SystemMenu | #PB_Window ...

thanks for the help guys, works now