Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Fangbeast.
Fred is doing an amazing job with PB and from what he has said here the future is looking great.
I've owned a lot of Basic's over the years too and they all had great features (That I could see). PowerBasic's biggest 2 problems that might conceivably kill it are 1.) It takes nearly two years to geta bug fix from the company (that's a commercial killer right there. 2.) The forum members always tell you to "go look here, go look there" instead of actually helping each other.
With PureBasic, I've ALWAYS gotten help, either from Fred (when he wasn't too busy (grin)) or the forum members with code (Gasp!) examples!! How's that for service???
Just as an aside, it took me 3 pages of code to do a recursive directory routine in PowerBasic. With Fred's PB, it took around 15 lines!!! (And it was a lot faster)
Ricardo, please keep going with your IDE. Between you and PB's offerings, I have done some great things lately with gui's. Can't get things like yours for other Basic's without big buckaroonies!!
Regards
Fangles