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by johnstock
Sun May 19, 2024 3:24 pm
Forum: Coding Questions
Topic: [Done] Problem with lenght size and PeekS
Replies: 13
Views: 3003

Re: Problem with lenght size and PeekS


I don't know why it tries to load such large files in a single string variable.
That makes no sense to me. It is always better if it is a text file to put it in a LinkedList. This makes it much easier to search through the individual lines and save them again after changing the line data.

Hi. i ...
by johnstock
Sat May 18, 2024 7:39 pm
Forum: Coding Questions
Topic: [Done] Problem with lenght size and PeekS
Replies: 13
Views: 3003

Re: Problem with lenght size and PeekS

Can you split the respective line in two lines:

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Define TempString.s = PeekS(*MemoryID, Length, #PB_UTF8|#PB_ByteLength)  <-- here
Debug TempString
At which line the error now occurs?
by johnstock
Sat May 18, 2024 7:24 pm
Forum: Coding Questions
Topic: [Done] Problem with lenght size and PeekS
Replies: 13
Views: 3003

Re: Problem with lenght size and PeekS


PeekS() expects a length in characters (and a character can be one byte (ASCII), two bytes (UNICODE) or multiple bytes (UTF8)).
If you want to pass the length in bytes, you have to use the flag #PB_ByteLength:

PeekS(*Buffer, LengthInBytes, #PB_UTF8|#PB_ByteLength)



I'm doing something wrong ...
by johnstock
Sat May 18, 2024 5:50 pm
Forum: Coding Questions
Topic: [Done] Problem with lenght size and PeekS
Replies: 13
Views: 3003

[Done] Problem with lenght size and PeekS

Hi, i'm encountering a strange problem with a specific lenght and PeekS command.
I'm tring to chunked read a file (a Mozilla Thunderbird container file of ~330Mbytes) but when the variable "Length" value is exactly 13488096 i get this error:

[18:30:39] [ERROR] testmemory.pb (Line: 54)
[18:30:39 ...
by johnstock
Fri Jun 02, 2023 3:37 pm
Forum: Coding Questions
Topic: Graphical problem with mdichild
Replies: 2
Views: 452

Re: Graphical problem with mdichild

Thank you!
Works perfectly now
by johnstock
Fri Jun 02, 2023 2:37 pm
Forum: Coding Questions
Topic: Graphical problem with mdichild
Replies: 2
Views: 452

Graphical problem with mdichild

Hi, i've noticed with Purebasic 5.73 x86, 6.01 x86-x64 and 6.02 x86-x64 on Win10 and Win2012R2 that when a StringGadget with password is placed on a Mdi windows and you press the CAPSLOCK the tooltip remain marked on the window, hiding what is under it, like the first image.

On a mdi child of a ...
by johnstock
Thu May 09, 2013 1:10 pm
Forum: Coding Questions
Topic: Actual desktop
Replies: 4
Views: 701

Re: Actual desktop

Thanks charvista.
Thanks!! ts-soft, you make it sound easy with your procedure..
I was ending up with this, but your is absolutely better:

Procedure Update()
ClearGadgetItems(#ListIcon_0)

Dim MultiArray.i(ExamineDesktops(),7)

For i=0 To ExamineDesktops()-1

MultiArray(i,1) = i
MultiArray ...
by johnstock
Sun May 05, 2013 10:31 pm
Forum: Coding Questions
Topic: Actual desktop
Replies: 4
Views: 701

Actual desktop

Hi there, i'm new and i was evaluating PB using demo version, so no API.

I'm testing with this situation on a VM:
display1 (main): 1024x768 (DesktopX=0)
display2 (@left): 800x600 (DesktopX=-800)
display3 (@right): 1280x1024 (DesktopX=1024)
maybe in future i can add more display @left or @right

I ...