What function/feature haven't you used?

[GeoTrail]

Was just thinking, there are actually a few things in PB I haven't used yet, I think I've tested most of them, but the first thing that pops to mind for me is the MDI feature. Anyone else? And why that or those particular feature?

The reason I haven't used the MDI feature is just because I haven't worked on a program that needed several documen windows. yet

[Dare2]

all of: Cipher, clipboard, console, help, joystick, module, palette, printer, soundPlugin, and CalendarGadget, DateGadget, Frame3DGadget, HyperLinkGadget, IPAddressGadget, MDIGadget, ScrollBarGadget, SpinGadget, SplitterGadget and some commands in many libraries.

Mostly because there has been no need.

[Fangbeast]

2D Drawing,CDAudio,Cipher,Desktop,Help,Library,Math ,Movie ,Network
Sort,Toolbar

Joystick,Keyboard,Module,Mouse ,Palette ,Sprite & Screen,Sprite3D
Sound,SoundPlugin

Engine3D,Billboard,Camera,Entity,Light,Material,Mesh,Particle
Terrain,Texture

Mostly out of my experience or needs

[Num3]

I only haven't used the 3d engine library...

And probably a few commands in each library

[GeoTrail]

Wow, that's abit surprising. I thought I had alot of stuff I haven't used yet, guess I'm not the only one then. I haven't used the joystick or 3d library myself either.

[Joakim Christiansen]

2D Drawing,CDAudio,Cipher,Desktop,Help,Library,Math ,Movie ,Network
Sort,Toolbar

Joystick,Keyboard,Module,Mouse ,Palette ,Sprite & Screen,Sprite3D
Sound,SoundPlugin

Engine3D,Billboard,Camera,Entity,Light,Material,Mesh,Particle
Terrain,Texture

Mostly out of my experience or needs

And you're a PureBasic expert...

[DarkDragon]

3D, Database, Module, Palette, Joystick

[thefool]

2D Drawing,CDAudio,Cipher,Desktop,Help,Library,Math ,Movie ,Network
Sort,Toolbar

Joystick,Keyboard,Module,Mouse ,Palette ,Sprite & Screen,Sprite3D
Sound,SoundPlugin

Engine3D,Billboard,Camera,Entity,Light,Material,Mesh,Particle
Terrain,Texture

Mostly out of my experience or needs

And you're a PureBasic expert...

im not sure how they measure that. But it seems odd

[Fangbeast]

2D Drawing,CDAudio,Cipher,Desktop,Help,Library,Math ,Movie ,Network
Sort,Toolbar

Joystick,Keyboard,Module,Mouse ,Palette ,Sprite & Screen,Sprite3D
Sound,SoundPlugin

Engine3D,Billboard,Camera,Entity,Light,Material,Mesh,Particle
Terrain,Texture

Mostly out of my experience or needs

And you're a PureBasic expert...

Is it a problem what the forum depicts me as? Not to me. I am no more an expert that anyone else in these forums but I am a professional. I use the parts of pb that I know, to good effect and get on with the job.

Anyone who doesn't like what the forum calls me has way too much time on their hands and need to put their hands back on the keyboard.

Now let's see the flames fly (evil grin(c) fang corporation)

[MadMax]

I've used most of them, at least experimentaly, except the printer ones.

[thefool]

Is it a problem what the forum depicts me as? Not to me. I am no more an expert that anyone else in these forums but I am a professional. I use the parts of pb that I know, to good effect and get on with the job.

Anyone who doesn't like what the forum calls me has way too much time on their hands and need to put their hands back on the keyboard.

Now let's see the flames fly (evil grin(c) fang corporation)

no flames :=|

not complaining just wondering. Why are you a profesional? Because you have an app developed in purebasic you earn money on?

[Dare2]

I took the original question to mean the opposite of "what do you use" not as the opposite of "what do you know how to use".

Probably everyone can use everything once they know their way around PureBasic.

But not everything is needed in every app and some things are seldom or never needed along a particular path, or by a particular preference. So unless someone codes 3D games they're unlikely to use the 3D engine. Etc.

Or was the Question "what don't you understand"?


PS: Re the expert thing. Specialist experts don't count? Sparkie is an expert, no denying it. Sparkie leaves almost everyone for dead with Win Api solutions. But I bet Sparkie doesn't use all the libraries.

And Professional can mean earning (writing custom stuff, one-offs, apps) and can also mean approach to a discipline, I guess.

[dagcrack]

Library / Function: Printer library... havent used nor tested it EVER.
Reason: I have no -working- printer! (I have printers, however never got the time to fix them! One is a laser hp 1100 which psu blew up with an electricity over-dose - The other a stylus500 from epson, very old, dry ink filled up calibrators = not good, the others -3- are HP brand which got minor issues on their lifes, like the feeding rolls, must be replaced, and so on!, a couple of epsons as well are laying around at the garage).

You might ask: why this negative f******* has so many printers, does he steal printers in a daily basis?

Answer: Many customers brings me their printers to fix, and later on decide that is not worth to fix and so they leave them in here.. for some strange reason they prefer that than having them laying around their houses

Apart from that, there should be another question: What are the functions you use less (or more?)... since I believe many people tested almost every function of the PB libs, however the important thing is how often you use or dont use them..

Also in my case the math lib is so poor!, I had to develp about 30 functions by myself, because they were not supported. They sure are important functions not just whimy ones, so I think PB should have lots of new functions on the math lib, since its important.. for maths theres also lots of things that PB should support to become reliable and usable though...

[Psychophanta]

Database, Network, Movie, Cipher, and some few other commands.
However, not needed to use all of them.

[srod]

Amongst the many things I haven't gotten around to using, the network commands is the one area in which I would like to focus. It's a question of time and the directions my projects take me though.