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There's no difference between using a constant and using the literal value.
PB literally replaces all constants with their values wherever they occur.

However, using constants for Gadgets instead of #PB_Any will waste space if you leave gaps
between the IDs. For example, if you create a gadget with ...

This ought to be the 15th topic giving a chance to say happy birthday to Fred since I started using PB. Time flies...

Happy birthday!

From a business perspective, I'd recommend to move on to another language that enjoys a wider community and more support. While PB has it's advantages (hence I still frequently use it for prototyping), it's a niche language with little support and a very small ecosystem (comparatively).

However, if ...

Alright, weird...

Really looks to me as if there is something asynchronous going on.
A Delay(200) just before the main loop seems to prevent the issue from occurring...

@mk-soft

Your code from your first answer seems to work, however, when I remove the timer bit and change it to the following it starts crashing occasionally as well.
Could there some asynchronous initialization be going on behind the scenes where ScreenOutput sometimes gets called before everything ...

The lines beginning with Debug will only compiled if the debugger is turned on.
Yes, I know. :) I did that to check whether any of the Init/Open commands fail, they don't and they never do.

What I'm saying is: the code above works sometimes and sometimes doesn't, completely randomly,
and I have ...

Hey :)

I have to use OSX for work and wanted to see how well PB works on it.
Was off to a great start, but I soon encountered a problem I have no solution for:

StartDrawing(): The specified output is NULL (0 value).




Debug InitSprite()
Debug OpenWindow(0, 0, 0, 800, 600, "")
Debug ...

Might be a unicode / ASCII problem, but it's hard to say. You really have to provide some source code example that reproduces the problem.

a IsMemoryID() function to check if a memory ID is still valid
A memory ID is just a pointer to a given address in RAM. It's always going to be valid, even if that memory is freed.

While this is true that the pointer is still valid (since it is just a regular integer variable), dereferencing (i ...

AFAIK, the reason why the new Firefox feels faster hasn't much to do with JavaScript performance but more
with its CSS rendering engine that's now multi-threaded (thanks to the Servo project and the Rust programming language).
Browser vendors tried to parallelize this before but failed (Mozilla ...

Limiting lines to 80 characters (not 60) is actually really common and has little to do with screen size
but with readability. Reading code that has excessively long lines is a nightmare.

@Mistrel
Alright, I get now what you mean. It's still a terrible idea in my opinion.

@Josh
Yes, what we have ...

It wouldn't work, because the compiler would have to treat anything after a semicolon (i.e. comment) as a continuation, so it would inevitably break all code.
Would have to be treated as

You can mask it.

Procedure.l test()
ProcedureReturn $FFFFFFFF ; = 4294967295
EndProcedure
a.q = test() & $FFFFFFFF
Debug a


Edit:
Not sure I get what you mean. If the command returns a signed 4 byte integer, which it seems it does,
then 4294967295 is equal to -1 because of how they wrap, so you ...

If you are defining a structure that is to be used as part of an array,
always use the smallest possible type that can fit your data.

Lunasole is correct in that it doesn't matter too much for RAM, however,
it does for cache locality. Having a tightly packed structure allows the CPU
to fit more ...

I thought you quit? So why do our thoughts matter? What is the point of your post? Why are you bashing PureBasic as you walk out the door and stirring us up? :evil:
It is important to address issues users have with the product in order to improve it; blatant fanboyism doesn't help anyone.
The ...