Hi from a newby!

[Mikro]

Hi all.

just bought PB night before last. Have already ported one of my 'small' Realbasic apps to PB. realbasic app = 3.17mb, equivalent PB app 25k!

A haha!

I can't remember the last time I had a program measured in k!

So thanks to the PB team. I was about to extend my RB subscription for 2 years and noticed that I could buy PB for the same price with an eternal update scheme. That coupled with the fact that I had to alter my app for RB because of a bug (which RB don't fix in realtime, you just hope it gets fixed before your subscription runs out!) made the decision an easy one.

Granted, PB interface hit me hard as I was so used to RAD IDEs and dragging buttons and things but then, the sweetness set in! My memory drifted back to my Amiga and Amos (sort of the same idea and I apologise if it was a competitor of Blitz or something , although I think Blitz could *see* the Amiga gui etc, whereas Amos lived out on it's own somewhere) and I was in full swing. Why draw a button when you can code exactly where you want it.

OK, I'll stop drooling. PB is great, compact and fun.

And if I've put this 'intro' post in the wrong place, sorry!

Kind regards,

Mikro.

[mskuma]

Welcome Mikro! Indeed PB is great, compact and fun. Enjoy.

[Derek]

I remember the old days of using AMOS. Sigh...

[thefool]

welcome!

[PB]

> I remember the old days of using AMOS. Sigh...

Yeah. Then I changed to BlitzBasic and thought AMOS was crap.

[SoulReaper]

Hello Mikro

Glad to hear you are impressed with Pure Basic v4

I agree Pure Basic is very powerful, I am enjoying every moment

Have Fun
Regards
Kevin

[White Eagle]

Howdy Mikro and welcome to PureBasic.

[Derek]

Ironically, I bought blitzbasic for the pc and then later bought PB and now I think blitz is crap!!

And hi to Mikro by the way.

[Steve Elliott]

Welcome to PureBASIC!

About designing GUI based programs, have you tried the Visual Designer?

btw I used to have an Atari ST (yeah I know) so used the equivalent of AMOS - STOS.

[EDIT]
Oh do you intend to write any games with Pure as well as applications?

[Psychophanta]

Weeeeellcome, Mikro.
You will see PB is really useful.

[Mikro]

Thanks people for your warm welcomes.

[for Steve]
Hi Steve. Yes, I have had a quick look at the Visual Designer but nothing too in-depth yet. Still playing with all of the (very many) settings that PB has to offer - for instance, was having difficulty remembering the pre-defined constants for opening windows, and thought it would be useful if auto-complete would work on these, and then in the preferences I find that very option. Excellent! Having the colour-picker and ASCII table is also handy, although I can still pretty much visualise the colour of RGB values in my head since my AMOS days (sad I know!),

As for writing games, not yet. I am the only person in work that codes in anything outside of PLSQL and Pure is going to allow me to write utilities that are 'utility-sized' and let me fill that niche. So, my plan for the minute is to use my free-time to learn Pure and my work-time to create the utilities. After that, I hope to turn my free-time to trying a game (if I can think of one!).

I will undoubtedly have other questions as I go along, and I will ask them as soon as I figure out how to word what I'm looking for, and double-check that they haven't already been asked countless times before!

So again, thanks for all your welcomes.

Kind regards,
Mikro.

[dna]

<<Ironically, I bought blitzbasic for the pc and then later bought PB and now I think blitz is crap!! >>

You may be right about Blitz derek. Idigicon seems to be trailing PB.

Still, both of the languages could suffer a worse fate by becoming too wordy like COBOL was.

Welcome to the forum Mikro!