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Posted: **Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:23 pm**

Little John wrote:Hi all,

now there is a new version, which can handle include files!
Please look at the first post in this thread.

Thanks for your attention, Little John

Nice to see that you're still sweating at the drawing board, Little John.
I'll give your most recent version a spin, as soon as I have some time to breathe.

Posted: **Sat Feb 28, 2009 2:54 pm**

Hi Blue,

thanks for your message. Now there is version 0.60 hot off the press.

Best regards, Little John

Posted: **Mon May 18, 2009 10:10 am**

Great code!!!
Now I see some more light...

Thanks a lot to all of you.

I feel the difference between:

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fSuccess = WriteFile_( 
         hPipe,               ; handle To pipe 
         pchReply,            ; buffer To write from 
         cbReplyBytes,        ; number of bytes To write 
         &cbWritten,          ; number of bytes written 
         #NULL);              ; not overlapped I/O

and

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fSuccess = WriteFile_(hPipe, pchReply, cbReplyBytes, &cbWritten, #NULL)

Regards,
Somic

Posted: **Sun Jun 14, 2009 6:46 pm**

Little John,

thank you for the great work.

In my system your preprocessor don't remove the $LPP directive from the ouput (~Lpp_) Include files.

This creates problems to the compiler when the include file has the $LPP directive. Compiled alone is OK but as Include gives error at the first line.

I've added some code at line 672, to work around it but I'd like to have your advise on it.

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                    WriteStringN(outFileID, line$, format)   ; Write line;

to

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                If UCase(Left(line$, 4)) = "$LPP"                  ; remember $LPP must be first line
                    WriteStringN(outFileID, ";"+line$, format)     ; comment $LPP directive
                Else
                    WriteStringN(outFileID, line$, format)   ; Write line; 
               EndIf

I'm I correct?

Regards,
Somic

Posted: **Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:18 am**

Hi somic,

thanks for your interest in this tool, and for your kind words.
I'm very sorry that I obviously didn't see your message when you posted it. Today, I stumbled across it by chance.

In my system your preprocessor don't remove the $LPP directive from the ouput (~Lpp_) Include files.

This creates problems to the compiler when the include file has the $LPP directive.

The $LPP directive is supposed to be used only in the main source code file, not in any include file.

Regards, Little John

Posted: **Thu Aug 27, 2009 12:37 am**

I see.

But I've problems with my several and various include files and then, if you don't mind, I will keep the my copy of the code modified.

Thanks again,
Regards,
Somic

Posted: **Mon Aug 31, 2009 12:57 pm**

Hi somic,

no problem. You are welcome!

Regards, Little John

Posted: **Wed Mar 03, 2010 8:03 pm**

Duh, Little John, I never gave you credit for the multiline idea, as I used it in CodeCaddy

Posted: **Wed Mar 03, 2010 10:33 pm**

blueznl wrote:Duh, Little John, I never gave you credit for the multiline idea, as I used it in PureBasic

Hi blueznl,

no problem at all. However, I'm afraid I don't understand ( well, that's quite normal

).
Or do you mean "... used it in Code Caddy"?

Anyway, I stole the idea from QBasic, which I had used temporarily about 20 years ago.

Regards, Little John

Posted: **Wed Mar 03, 2010 10:49 pm**

Yeah, I meant CodeCaddy... it's late and I'm tired, so starting to make mistakes...

Posted: **Sat May 22, 2010 5:51 pm**

It's a shame that such feature is not already build-into PB! The thing is that it does not have to be line separator at all. JavaScript allows multi-line commands without jumping through any hoops. The processor simply realizes that there is more to come and checks the next line... returning an error, if there isn't.

Thanks for the tool. The PB folks should send you a present and put something like it into their interface by default (and without the need for "$LPP" at the beginning of the code

). Adding comments to procedure parameter is one place where it is hard to live without a multi-line command option, add also the fact that if you inherit structures from one object to another, PB still requires to provide the whole chain to be able to access the final element.

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Structure BLAH
 field1.i
 field2.f
EndStructure

Structure BLUB
 ID
 Blahs.BLAH
EndStructure


Structure BLUBBER
  ID.i
  Blubs.BLUB
  Name.s
EndStructure

Global Dim Blubbers.BLUBBER(10)
Global Dim MoreBlubbers.BLUBBER(10)

;required
MoreBlubbers(a)\ID = Blubbers(a)\ID
;...
MoreBlubbers(a)\Blubs\ID = Blubbers(a)\Blubs\ID
;...
MoreBlubbers(a)\Blubs\Blahs\field1   =  Blubbers(a)\Blubs\Blahs\field1
;...

;not possible
MoreBlubbers(a) = Blubbers(a)

;... not to mention

MyProc(Blubbers)
Procedure MyProc(WorkBlubbers) ;= like "ByRef" in VB to pass along whole object for processing
...
EndProcedure

All those things keep code shorter, but that's also unavailable, so touting that a multi-line feature is not needed for "clean" PB code is hypocritical.
The commenting on individual Procedure paramters still remains though, regardless how "clean" your code is. Nothing beats "THIS ; <== IS FOR THAT" when it comes to readability!

Thanks again for the Editor add-on!

Posted: **Sat May 22, 2010 9:56 pm**

@RoySAC: PB includes some of the features you desire.

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;this is allowed since v4.40
MoreBlubbers(a) = Blubbers(a)

;Structured parameters can be handled in at least two ways:
;  the first is for arrays
MyProc(Blubbers())
Procedure MyProc(Array WorkBlubbers.BLUBBER(1)) ;= like "ByRef" in VB to pass along whole object for processing
  ; ...
EndProcedure
  
;  the second is for a single structured element
MyProc(a.BLUBBER) ; or also MyProc(Blubbers(1))
Procedure MyProc(*WorkBlubbers.BLUBBER) ;= like "ByRef" in VB to pass along whole object for processing
  ; ...
EndProcedure

I agree with the comments regarding multiline commands and using comments with them. I'm keeping hope alive.

Posted: **Sat Jan 01, 2011 5:17 pm**

Hi,

a happy new year for everybody!

I just posted the new version 0.61 (please see first post of this thread).
The main improvement is support for #PB_Compiler_FilePath in Include statements.

Rgads, Lttle John

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