Beginners' Question: What's the Best BASIC?

[Mohawk70]

From what I can see, he's using these forums as his own personal blog space.

Now that's an idea !

@oldefoxx - I can provide you with cheap hosting to start a blog of your own if you wish. See the last link in my signature or PM me ...

[c4s]

@oldefoxx - I can provide you with cheap hosting

What the ...?! Now you are spamming or rather advertising as well! And to be fair you should have said that you are actually just a reseller.

By the way, there are tons of free & reliable blogging platforms out there: WordPress, Blogger/Blogspot, Tumblr, Blog.com just to name a few.

[Mohawk70]

@oldefoxx - I can provide you with cheap hosting

What the ...?! Now you are spamming or rather advertising as well!

There are tons of free & reliable blogging platforms out there: WordPress, Blogger/Blogspot, Tumblr, Blog.com just to name a few.

Not meant to be spam/advertising - the idea was to provide him space away from the forums for a blog to avoid the back and forth here. I've provided free hosting for other projects at times and that was my intention - didn't want to be flooded with requests for freebies from every Tom, Dick & Harry on the forums !

[c4s]

I edited my post and added a note about this reselling stuff before reading your answer.

Yes, I understand your intention and you might even just wanted to help him out - and so did I.
However to me your offer sounds like you were only advertising your hosting to get some additional attention and probably make some extra cash. In my opinion this isn't fair and doesn't belong to the PureBasic forums either.

Edit:
@oldfoxx Sorry, for starting an offtopic discussion.

[Mohawk70]

Understandable reaction. It just gets tiresome seeing things turning into long drawn out arguments on forums such as this one - which is otherwise great - and trying to provide an out for everyone here. I admit I could have worded it better It is 3AM here - time to log off and get some sleep I guess ...

[MachineCode]

there are no HotBasic forums, they all expired.

Sigh. Okay, I meant to say groups then. Pretty much the same thing.

10k is an overestimate. I might concede 2k, sometimes 3k.

I'm exaggerating, of course. It feels and looks like 10K when you post endless off-topic babble.

[oldefoxx]

No arguments with the advice given above, or the fact that getting specific info
on how to do something in the shortest time can best be done by either asking
or searching.

As to searching, I think it is perhaps an neglected art. I put out lots of queries that
involve PureBasic and something I want to know about related to PureBasic. And
many of those queries bring me right back to these forums, but to a specific thread
and post. Now you have to ask yourself, how did that information in up on the forums
in the first place? Well, apparently someone began it by asking, so that is good. But
waiting for a suitable answer can take time, and searching can be much faster if the
question has come up before. And more people can get help that way.

[oldefoxx]

For an unrelated reason, I am compelled to perform a Web Search several times a
day, the purpose of the search is in my hands. I wasted a fair amount of opportunities
to conduct a meaningful search, but now I search for things related to PureBasic. I
am coming up with some remarkable results, all to the good.

This is a jim-dandy one, involving PureBasic, some Windows API's and using a scripting
language to farm out DLL functions for use in PureBasic: http://implib.sourceforge.net/EN.HTM
This is pretty much the ImpLib SDK Guide, you use any editor to write the script code, and it
even shows you how to get different preprocessors to make use of the scripting instructions.

Rather than risk losing it for later, I did a Select All, Copy, then pasted it in Notepad. From
there I split and wrapped long lines, then saved it as ImpLib.txt under my \PureBasic folder.