Code PBLibs in PB

Post by **Polo** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 5:42 pm

For the updater, it is totally useless, since the website is not working for everyone... You should get another website somewhere (there's some fine free hosting), it would be better.

Justin · Post by **Justin** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 7:25 pm

seems that the case problem has returned

, this crashes: proceduredll/endprocedure

El_Choni · Post by **El_Choni** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 8:44 pm

The case problem was never gone. I just modified the code so it accepted ProcedureDLL with any case, and I just forgot about it, sorry. But itÂ´s not TailBiteÂ´s fault. Save this code from the IDE and lowercase as in the code from a text editor:

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proceduredll Micajita(ba, be, bi)
  bo = ba*be*bi
  ProcedureReturn bo
endprocedure

Now type, from PureBasic\Compilers:

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pbcompiler thefile.pb

See? It also crashes. I guess youÂ´re using an external editor? This hadnÂ´t happened to you before?

Justin · Post by **Justin** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 11:16 pm

Yes i'm using an external editor, not a big problem. maybe Fred could try to fix it. don't forget to say it somewhere in the docs, thanks.

scurrier · Post by **scurrier** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 3:46 am

is there a way to make this go in the purebasic tolls section i have downloaded the newversion several times and installed several time's and it still is not showing up in the PB tools pulldown menu. is there some file i am not running or can i do it manualy? by the way great tool i did get it to work 1 time manualy and then i reinstalled it and hasn't worked since
if someone could list a step by step install procedure maybe i'm a little slow and can't get it to install the correct way or could someon give a step by step on manuly configuring this through pb tools menu what the arg. are and so forth.

thanks
Sean

and thanks for this great tool!!!!!!

scurrier · Post by **scurrier** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 4:03 am

i don't seem to have the help file maybe i am missing other files also
anyone not have the CHM help file?

Sean

El_Choni · Post by **El_Choni** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 4:14 am

There wasnÂ´t any help file until the very last release, which you can download and test. To make sure youÂ´re using the latest version, in this case I recommend you to remove your previous TailBite installation (delete the TailBite folder, except for any library sources you keep there).

http://www.terra.es/personal5/temporald ... taller.exe

If you donÂ´t have HTML Help Workshop installed (downloadable freely from microsoft), the help files will be installed in HTML format. But, to be honest, the current help files donÂ´t include too much info (I started today with the help files).

If you donÂ´t like the HTML help format, you can download the chm file from:

http://www.terra.es/personal5/temporald ... ilBite.chm

Please, tell me if you have any further problems with the installation or find any bugs.

Have a nice night (I still have to work for more 3 hours in the job that feeds me

Post by **Dare2** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 4:42 am

heya, El Choni.

Sounds like you've done something wonderous.

For the slower PBers ( okay, for me

) would you be kind enough to post a very brief overview here? What it does and how to use it?

Much appreciated.

El_Choni · Post by **El_Choni** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 5:00 am

I canÂ´t do it right now, but IÂ´ll do it tomorrow, promised. However, there are already some words in the Introduction of the help file which may give you a hint.

Cya,

Post by **Dare2** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 5:05 am

Thanks.

El_Choni · Post by **El_Choni** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 3:49 pm

Well, thereÂ´s not too much to tell, in fact. Most PureBasic commands are stored in PureLibraries (have a look at the PureLibraries folder). PureBasic includes a Library SDK, which allows the user to create custom commands in its own libraries, which should be stored in PureLibraries\UserLibraries. These libraries can be coded either in ASM or C.

With TailBite, you can create these libraries in PureBasic, using ProcedureDLL as library functions. PureBasic creates an ASM file of any pb source when called with the /COMMENTED option. TailBite processes this ASM file so it has a suitable format to build an UserLibrary, and then performs in a single step (from the userÂ´s point of view) all the compilations necessary to create a PureLibrary using FAsm.exe, lcclib.exe and Library Maker.exe, all of which are included in PureBasic.

I might use these words in the help file...

Post by **Dare2** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 11:07 pm

Those are good words ..

Read the help as well. This is a great idea!

Ajm · Post by **Ajm** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 11:00 am

Hi

I am having trouble installing Tailbite on NT4 SP6.
When the tailbite installer is run the first window shows the correct purebasic directory and then the tailbite directory under that.

When I select install I get the dialog saying TailBite has been sucessfully installed.

If I place a tick in the readme check box and press finish I get the following error.
Can't open the README file, the system cannot find the file specified. when I then select OK or if I don't tick either of the boxes, I get the error.

Installation failed: TailBite Manager.exe and TailBite.exe not available, the system cannot find the file specified.

El_Choni · Post by **El_Choni** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 4:35 pm

Hi, Ajm

It probably has to do with NT, because IÂ´m not able to test it there by now. But, to make sure, download the latest version and try again, please. If it happens again, IÂ´ll see what I can do (maybe I remove that "compile at install time" and just include all the compiled exes, libs and help files).

To be honest, installing fails also sometimes here, mostly when IÂ´m running several programs at the same time. So maybe trying again with no other programs opened solves the problem.

Regards,

dontmailme · Post by **dontmailme** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 6:46 pm

I get invalid operand from the installer ?! Unable to install TB_Imageplugin helper library ...

I get this twice once for the image encoder and again for the decoder ?!

I removed the tailbite directory before installing ?

What else should I look for ?