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Thank you for your help, but the PDF contains customer data, I cannot Post it here. When I get another broken PDF, I will post it here for reference.

- Mike

Hello all,

I wrote this little code snippet to load a PDF file. It reads the Title, the Author, the Creator and the Text of a PDF.
Some PDF open just fine and all the text is perfectly displayed, some documents read the Title, the Author and the Creator just fine, but the text is some soft of ...

Dear acreis,

Thank you very much, this change did the trick. Now i can open "äpfel.pdf" without problems.

Is there something mentioned in the pdfium library, where can I learn about this syntax?

EDIT: found this https://www.purebasic.com/documentation/reference/pseudotypes.html will dig more into ...

Hello there,

Thank you very much, this code works for me with one exception if the file name has some characters like the german umlaute "öäü". If I load "apfel.pdf" everything is fine. When is load "äpfel.pdf" nothing gets loaded. The documents are the same except from the file name. Does somebody ...

Hello developers and maintainers,

it would be nice to have a Hash function to generate bcrypt hashes.

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

Kind regards Verleihnix

Thank you skywalk for your fast answer!

it does not throw any error when compiling anymore.

Altho it seems to be a problem to download the libssh2.dll or the mentioned curl package anywhere. The newer version seems to be incompatible with the include. I will keep trying and post a solution if i ...

Hey there,

Thank you for your wrapper! I am currently worhking to get libssh2 wo work with PB, when i stumbeled upon this article in the forum. While trying to implement this on PB 5.24 LTS i get an error when compiling the sample:

"Line 366: Native types can't be used with pointers ...

Mistery located, but not solved yet!

I dug deeper into this issue and I found out the following:

When i run this code on a NATIVE MAC (as in the physical Macbook Pro), then everything works very well.

I was playing around with a virtual MAC running in a Oracle Virtualbox, it seems, that the ...

Yes, sure, i am happy to provide the code :)

=== SERVER ===

If InitNetwork() = 0
MessageRequester("Error", "Can't initialize the network !", 0)
End
EndIf

Port = 6832

If CreateNetworkServer(0, Port)
Debug "PureBasic - Server created"
Repeat
SEvent = NetworkServerEvent()
If SEvent
ClientID ...

Hello Community,

i came across some bug while using OpenNetworkConnection() on a MAC.

in the Documentation it states:

Connection = OpenNetworkConnection(ServerName$, Port [, Mode [, TimeOut [, LocalIP$ [, LocalPort]]]])

LocalPort (optional) The local port to bind the connection to. By default ...

Hello all

thanks to all of you this thread can be archived for future reference!

the mistery is solved!

the following lines did the trick:

Define cds.COPYDATASTRUCT
Global filename.s = "C:\Users\Mike\Downloads\winamp\song.mp3"
cds.COPYDATASTRUCT
cds\dwData = #IPC_PLAYFILE
cds\lpData ...

Thanks for your support!

i tried to adjust the code like so (according the information given from kenmo):

Define cds.COPYDATASTRUCT
Global filename.s = "C:\Users\Mike\Downloads\winamp\song.mp3"
cds.COPYDATASTRUCT
cds\dwData = #IPC_PLAYFILE
cds\lpData = @filename
cds\cbData = SizeOf ...

Hello all,

i am trying to load and play a file in Winamp. according to the example its:

#IPC_PLAYFILE= 100
;
;
COPYDATASTRUCT cds;
cds.dwData = IPC_PLAYFILE;
cds.lpData = (void *) "file.mp3";
cds.cbData = strlen((char *) cds.lpData)+1; // include space for null char
SendMessage(hwnd_winamp,WM ...