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Hi,

thanks for the 'flowers', I'm glad it's useful

The first time I did this last year was quite manually via comparing the help-files, but later ts-soft posted a little code to extract all functions from the compiler directly which is very helpful.

And today he even wrote a second version (I haven't tested yet):
first version: http://www.purebasic.fr/german/viewtopi ... 19#p261819
new version: http://www.purebasic.fr/german/viewtopi ... 39#p269839

Besides NicTheQuick has been so nice to paste the list at nopaste.info: New Compiler-Functions to have an online view.

thanks to you both

... and some more is yet to come in a couple of days

cheers ~ Vera

PB Team,
thank you very much for the hard work and nice gift.

I can confirm that v 4.50 B2 is compiling my programs (then, it is not an April 1st fools' joke).

I've seen the interesting new functions.
I only wish to bring to you attention the post I've made in the "Wishlists" section (i.e http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... =3&t=41720) that is simply recalling previous requests done by various PB fans. Hope you will have the opportunity to check it for future releases

Best regards and Happy Easter.

Somic

thanks PB team!
I really need these new list-features (although I already programmed them... but now it's officially available!!!)
great tools you have in the new compilter/debugger
happy belated birthday fred and perkin!
lg
walker

The executable of a small program compiled with PB 4.50 is 1K bigger compared to PB 4.41. I found no reason for that in the change log of PB 4.50.

The executables of PB are still very small and efficient, so there is really no need to complain about. I tried several Basic languages and PB is the best of all. Never tried Visual Basic but I don't like bloated software anyway.

As long as there is no new functionality which is interesting for me, I stay with PB 4.41. Hopefully the speed and compactness of the executables are not sacrificed for new functionality in any future release.

@Thomas
If you're using any images, then size difference could be due to changes in image lib.

Size increment could come from many factors, including bug fixes. Yes, sometimes it takes more code to workaround a buggy feature (custom listicon grid anyone ?). And indeed, new version of the third party libraries sometimes get bigger because there is more functionality. That said, it's not in our way to work to add deliberately bloat to the commandset, it's quite the opposite. We always try to reduce the size impact if possible, trough intelligent linking scheme.

Thomas wrote:As long as there is no new functionality which is interesting for me, I stay with PB 4.41

You should check out data breakpoints. Makes debugging a hell of a lot easier.

I'm most impressed by the speed at which this update was released since 4.41. You guys are great and I love PB.. Keep up the great work.

I just recently found your site(haven't downloaded anything yet) and was pleased to read in this thread about the addition of the List and related types(which I have used frequently in C# and VB.Net). One minor disappointment for me in the announcement was the dropping of support for images below 24-bit. This is because I am working on a project which could benefit from support for palette based images(which is very difficult to find). Does this drop of support also mean that it will be impossible to play with the image palette to do fast color changes?

One of my main interests in this product is being able to drop my dependency on the .Net framework.

Palettized images wasn't really supported before anyway. You can handle palettized image through API without any problem.

I've moved CodeCaddy, WallX, and two other projects over to 4.50b2 without any problems. I'm now checking the survival guide samples but no issues thus far.

is there any estimation of release of RC1?

Looks great, thank you guys!

Fred is really blowing through any of these bugs with some super-human speed!

Beta 3 is online, a bug fix only release.