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Well you could wait or buy now at a cheap price and get free upgrades. Since the price for PB should go up sometime next year if not a year later (supply vs demand?). This way, you get all upgrades for free :)

I work as a mainframe programmer for the state of AK, we have no need of purebasic, so I ...

This is still going on? hehe,

Had PB for a bit over 2 months now (I believe). I havent used it much due to much left to be desired.... but, it's moving along nicely with features and bug fixes (big plus!). Hopefully it'll be mature enough by the end of next year for some serious cross-platform ...

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Hi,
Thanks for your reply. Actually, my question regarding DDE was more for poking a frontend software application in order to get information provided by an API. I had initially done this using MS Excel and the old macro capabilities. I was just trying to avoid the expense of purchasing the API ...

Thinstall is very expensive and is a professional solution and not for the hobbyist. You asked what some people are using and now I've told you. You can check them out at http://thinstall.com/

Terrific! Thank you. I had not heard of Thinstall, so I will certainly check it out. It may be out of my ...

One quick question regarding PureBasic.

If I was to write a program that either displayed a graphic (GIF, JPEG, etc) or played an audio file (wave, midi, mp3, etc) will those files be compressed into the final executable (exe)?
Or, will they be external and just called by the exe during the run ...

Hi everyone,

Thank you for answering my questions.

I wanted to explain DDE. This is an old Microsoft technology for linking to a supported program and pushing data. It was called Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) This could be used to send key strokes to an application or to read data from an ...

Hi all,

I just found PureBasic, and have some questions.

1.) Is PB compatible with other languages? Is it like VB or Qbasic ?
My concern is the language. Can I use the knowledge I learn from using PB to work in other programming languages or is it proprietary?

2.) Why is PB the best programming ...