How long have you been using PureBasic?

LuCiFeR[SD] · Post by **LuCiFeR[SD]** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:13 pm

Since it was called NCS

... haha then I took a long break from programming and returned in 2003-4'ish

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:12 pm

Since April 2004, although I haven't posted for half a year.

I have been looking in on the forum and still code using PB, in fact I'm currently trying to get over 30 shops spread out over the SW of England to network together and automate the ordering system using PB.

netmaestro · Post by **netmaestro** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:34 pm

Summer 2005 for me. I'd just gotten my money back on BlitzMax and wanted to find a better highlevel language with libs for GUIs and sprites/screens. I thought PowerBasic was a good language (and still do) but it had nothing for games and the GUI side was weak imho. To do anything significant you had to stay in the API all the time. I figured if I had to do that, I might just as well stick with C for everything.

Once I tried PureBasic, I knew that this was exactly what I was looking for. I use it all the time now in my work, replacing C in more and more situations, Delphi and VB totally, and for virtually all of my GUIs.

My first fun project was Transpetris, from which I learned a lot about PB, then a couple of screensavers and then TransparentClock, which was a great learning experience in the world of gdiplus. I've also written and collaborated on quite a few libraries and functions. The one thing I'm most proud of is that for all of my achievements in PB of any significance, (not commercial stuff though) full source code is shared on these forums.

traumatic · Post by **traumatic** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 1:40 am

If BackupUser is right, I must have started using PureBasic
somewhere around mid 2002. Ahhh.. those were the days...

Rook Zimbabwe · Post by **Rook Zimbabwe** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 4:37 pm

I came in in JAN of 07 I think but I had been playing with it since MAY of 06!

Wow 2+ years now! Time has flown since I didn't even know how to make a window or play with any of the gadgets!!!

Tipperton · Post by **Tipperton** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 7:49 pm

Rook Zimbabwe wrote:Time has flown since I didn't even know how to make a window or play with any of the gadgets!!!

And that is one of the things like really like about PureBasic.

Other than Visual Basic, doing windows and and controls is a royal pain in the ass with resources, API calls, call back funcitons, etc. But in PureBasic it's just a simple set of easy ot understand and use commands and functions.

Rook Zimbabwe · Post by **Rook Zimbabwe** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 12:37 am

I am 100% with you on that Tipperton!

sec · Post by **sec** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 2:08 pm

i am using PB from some years

for writting small useful tool for my work

DarkDragon · Post by **DarkDragon** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 2:18 pm

2001 or 2002 (When the old Saint-forums were there).

Franky · Post by **Franky** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 4:03 pm