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Regardless of what Microsoft wants, my employer now only provides laptops to programmers and applications support people (like myself) that have a single 256Gb SSD. No desktops allowed. (They do allow docs.) Special application is needed for anything else, and from personal experience, they ...

Who doesn't have at least a 1TB drive these days?
It's a mistake to assume everybody has oodles of space free, even in 2025

Why? MS assumes you do, and they assume it all belongs to them to do with as they wish, copy it all to their cloud, sell it, whatever they want. Mutant SOBs that they ...

I can't remember / locate where I obtained the 7-zip dll files. The thread here called "Using 7Zip.dll in UNICODE [Resolved]" helped. A date of 2006 appears in a txt file along with the name Akita Minoru. I have both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. A Google search turned up many download sources. A ...

I thought this was not possible so had been removed. If it can be done, please add my +100 vote. I found reference to the old PackerCallback in version 4.61. It was discontinued in PB 5. The lack of this feature is the main reason I use 7-zip and LHA dll's instead. They show a progressbar. Lets the ...

I just noticed the icons displayed with MenuItemImage are no longer a set size. Menubar dropdowns are showing varying size icons. Documentation still says the icons should be 16 x 16. I gather this is a new change.
The icon images in my programs are loaded with
Manualsicon:
IncludeBinary "Stock ...

Yes, SS_NOTIFY has been added to support tooltip [...]
I hadn't realized that.
Good idea, Fred. Excellent improvement.

@ DeanH : Why would you ever want gadgets to overlap ?
If, in your sample code, they don't overlap, then everything works normally... except for the unwanted firing of an ...

I found the UCRT option on 6.21 Beta 6 in the Compiler Options. It reduced the little MessageRequester program from 150k to 24.6k. That's still a fair bit more than the 6k the PB5.3 and 5.7 and even 6.04 generated. I tried it on my own programs. One module went from 8053k to 7729k, another from ...

I am not sure this is a bug, but the behaviour is different between PB 6.21 Beta 6 and 6.11. Maybe I missed a change.


OpenWindow(1,0,0,320,200,"Test",#PB_Window_ScreenCentered | #PB_Window_SystemMenu)
TextGadget(10,10,60,320,200,"Close this window",#PB_Text_Center)
ButtonGadget(20,238,170,75,23 ...

I have both Win 10 and 11 systems. Win 11 is 23H2.

Both behave the same for me, the way BarryG describes.

With #PB_MessageRequesterYesNo the cross is grey and inactive.

With #PB_MessageRequesterYesNoCancel the cross is active and returns a Cancel.

Could it be something to do with 24H2? Or maybe ...

I make my software available in both 32 and 64 bit flavours. It is a database system and does not use gobs of memory. (Well, maybe several hundred Mb at times.) There is no difference operationally and any difference in speed is so slight a person with a stopwatch might not even pick it up. Some ...

For what its worth, here is my take. I have combined code from above. There are two versions of the WinVer procedure. WinVerS() returns a string and WinVer() returns the same number as PureBasic's OSVersion() function. It should work on quite a few versions of PureBasic. Tested on Windows 11 23H2 ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_versions

From that I worked out:
OSVersionDetails("9600") = "Windows 8.1"
OSVersionDetails("9200") = "Windows 8"
OSVersionDetails("7601") = "Windows 7"
OSVersionDetails("6002") = "Windows Vista"
OSVersionDetails("3790") = "Windows XP (NT 5.2 ...

I got build 19045 on my Win 10 system, so have added the line

I worked it out. Wasn't a firewall issue. Turned out to be an old version of libmariadb.dll. This morning, I noticed a 2019 date on that file. I copied the latest from PB6.21 Beta4 into the folder and the test exe then returned a value. As I suspected, not a bug. It must have been there since PB5.70.

I made sure libmariadb.dll is in the same folder as the exe as indicated in the documentation. I even tried including it in UseMySQLDatabase(). Made no difference. Is there something else?