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Fred wrote:as we are polishing the docs

Speaking of which, is there any help on the visual designer? In the manual it says -

The Visual Designer is delivered with its own help-file. You will find it in your PureBasic directory as "Visual Designer.chm" file.

but I see no such file...

Many thanks! I've just downloaded this beta having been using 4.61 up until now. Great to see the visual designer incorporated into the IDE. Also, it may be a minor thing, but all the code examples in the help file are now using a larger font (they were very small in 4.61 and hard to read).

In the manual it says:

On Linux and OS X, this command has no effect, as there is no special 'Console' format.


But after setting compiler options to "console", the console example program "console.pb" ran just fine. The console was launched from the IDE, although it was a smaller window than ...

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but doesn't each file need to have a unique number in order to open it? I suppose my program works a bit like a database, only instead of Tables I'm using files. I want to be able to select any file (from a list) to be loaded at any time during the program, but ...

I'm writing a program which creates multiple files on the fly which may be deleted, but I need to load all the filenames into a list when the program starts, and also one or more of them will be selected when the program is running. So the question is, how do I identify the files so I can load them ...

My 2 cents:

I use Linux but not for idealogical reasons, I just got fed up with the poor performance and reliability of Windows. Not sure if the newer versions are any better because I've been using Linux for a few years now, but I used to have to reinstall Windows every year because the system ...

Just playing around, here's another way of doing it using procedures. The child window doesn't have a border so you can't use the X button to close it.

Enumeration
#parent
#child
#parentButton1
#parentButton2
#childButton1
#childButton2
EndEnumeration

Procedure OpenChild()
If OpenWindow ...

Ah, simple! thanks again.

Thanks spikey. The application I have in mind should not allow any controls on window 1 to be used when window 2 is open, I think this is called a "modal" window?
In that case I think I need to use "parent" and "child" windows for this purpose. Not quite sure how to do this yet but if I get stuck I ...

I'm just getting started with PB and want to create a window which opens another window when you click a button. I've got it working but when you close the 2nd window using the default "x" in the top right corner, both the windows are closed and not just the 2nd one. Can anyone tell me what I'm ...