New Constants...

[Kale]

Inspired by Freedimension, could these constants be added please?

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#LF = Chr(10)
#CR = Chr(13)
#CRLF = Chr(13) + Chr(10)

As these would save me and others loads of unnecessary code.

Anybody got any more?

[freak]

#TAB = Chr(9) maybe?

[Karbon]

It would be handy to have the double quote char (34) in a constant too.

[Justin]

it would be handy, everytime i need them i have to search the ascii code and make globals for them

[Psychophanta]

Better should be:

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#LF$ = Chr(10) 
#CR$ = Chr(13) 
#CRLF$ = Chr(13) + Chr(10) 
#LFCR$ =Chr(10) + Chr(13)
#TAB$ = Chr(9)
#ESC$ = Chr(27)
....
...

This would allow to define #CR=10, for example, if work with Ascii values...

[DominiqueB]

Why don't you simply build your own .res file with all constants, structures you aften need ?

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D:\PureBasic\Compilers\PBCompiler PureBasic.pb   /RESIDENT PureBasic_x86.res

For example:

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D:\PureBasic\Compilers\PBCompiler MyResident.pb   /RESIDENT MyResident.res

Hust modify the path above to your's, and change the .pb name to your's too, and put this line in a .bat file
Then write a .pb file that contains your constants and structures, and put all files in a folder appart and then run the .bat

You then get your own .res file, just put it in the Residents folder in your purebasic folder.

That's all . . .

You should avoid modiffying the original PureBasic_x86.res, and Windows.res because your modifications will be erased during the next update of purebasic !

Hope it helped some of you !

Dominique.

[Psychophanta]

SOME times SOME women are right

[Karbon]

Damn... Good idea!

*gets to it*

[freedimension]

Yep, that would be a way, but not my favorite one.
Why?
Easy to tell.
Every Coder would implement his own resident file. Every nth one would have different constant names.
Standardized Constants for this would help diminish compatibility problems when showing code in the forum.

D.mn, I thought I wrote this some hours ago. I hate my browser, I hate my browser, I ... .

free

[DominiqueB]

who is a woman ?

I'm a man, in French Dominique is for both !



Dominique

[Karbon]

Ok people, stop making good points and confusing me.

Right again, so lets pester Fred until he adds a resident file for stuff like this

@DominiqueB: Suuuuuuuuuuure!

[Danilo]

added for next version:

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#LF$   = Chr(10) 
#CR$   = Chr(13) 
#CRLF$ = Chr(13) + Chr(10) 
#LFCR$ = Chr(10) + Chr(13) 
#TAB$  = Chr(9) 
#ESC$  = Chr(27)

works fine:

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MessageRequester("Title","ABC"+#TAB$+"DEF"+#CRLF$+"GHI"+#TAB$+"JKL")

Syntax Highlighting corrected.

[Psychophanta]

Beautiful DominiqueB said:

who is a woman ?

I'm a man, in French Dominique is for both !

Judging for your posts i think you are a man, but just in case ...

Even i give that idea; in fact i am in accordance with what you say in this thread.

Why don't you simply build your own .res file with all constants, structures you aften need ?

Why? because i don´t like to fill my human memory of constants; i mean: #LF$ is Line Feed char; #CR$ is Carriage Return char; and so on...

These things, in certain way, limits the programmer freedom, because even you don't want to use it, you are invited to force your human memory unnecessaryly.

[Kale]

added for next version:

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#LF$   = Chr(10) 
#CR$   = Chr(13) 
#CRLF$ = Chr(13) + Chr(10) 
#LFCR$ = Chr(10) + Chr(13) 
#TAB$  = Chr(9) 
#ESC$  = Chr(27)

works fine:

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MessageRequester("Title","ABC"+#TAB$+"DEF"+#CRLF$+"GHI"+#TAB$+"JKL")

Syntax Highlighting corrected.

Nice! what about:

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#DOUBLEQUOTE$ = Chr(34)

i needed this loads the other day...

[Froggerprogger]

What about:

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#IDONTKNOWTHENAMEFORITSOICALLITJUSTTHE_Y_WITHTWODOTSABOVEIT$ = Chr(255)