TailBite 1.0 Preview, soon in PureProject and PureArea

Post by **Rings** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 7:36 am

Edwin Knoppert wrote:Can we expect limitations though?

yes, remember that if you are using PB-Commands in your libs, these are also needed while linking a finaly exe. that means the size of a file can explode (not a real problem) . Also remember that if a Commands' syntax changes (That should normaly not happen, but only fred knows) your lib can become incompatibel with newer version (see AllocateMemory problem).
Another Topic are Strings and Threads , so better use your own Memory .
But if you remember these details, Lib-writing can be very funny.
I often write first Commands in plain Purebasic and replace later most of the Commands with API one's to avoid bloating linking.
My NTPowerPack should be available soon

Also remember what happens with the lib-commands if you are no longer part of the community (sooner or later there become problems with new Purebasic-versions) , so sometimes releasing also the sourcecode (or sending to a friend) is better

.........remember Mr.Skunk?

El_Choni · Post by **El_Choni** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 8:29 am

Good point(s), Rings

NoahPhense · Post by **NoahPhense** » Thu May 13, 2004 10:09 pm

El_Choni,

Is it possible to have TailBite look for .htm as well as .html ?

I like .html better myself, but I'm trying out this new help file creator -- its
a freebie and it's damn good.

Check it..
http://sourceforge.net/projects/helpmaker/

Maybe there is a way to change the .htm inside of this app, but I've yet
to find it. It's just that by default, this helpmaker, utilizes .htm ..

If it's not easy.. don't worry about it.. because I'm quite fond of
the regular HTML Workshop...

- np

El_Choni · Post by **El_Choni** » Fri May 14, 2004 12:24 pm

es, I can do that (I'll do it). What I can't do is adapt it to every help compiler out there. We'll see.

Regards,

NoahPhense · Post by **NoahPhense** » Fri May 14, 2004 2:32 pm

El_Choni wrote:es, I can do that (I'll do it). What I can't do is adapt it to every help compiler out there. We'll see.

Regards,

If you can, great. If not, that's ok too.. like I said, I do love the simplicity
of FrontPage and the HTML CHM Workshop..

- np

NoahPhense · Post by **NoahPhense** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 3:11 pm

El_Choni wrote:es, I can do that (I'll do it). What I can't do is adapt it to every help compiler out there. We'll see.

Regards,

Just curious, tried the updater a few minutes ago, says it failed..

site down?

- np

El_Choni · Post by **El_Choni** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 4:38 pm

Could be, the download sites are free and fail from time to time, but the updater tries them all, so it should succeed almost always.

Regards,

NoahPhense · Post by **NoahPhense** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 4:45 pm

El_Choni wrote:Could be, the download sites are free and fail from time to time, but the updater tries them all, so it should succeed almost always.

Regards,

It seems to only be trying one site?

then fails :: Status code query failed.

mcalderon.jazztel.es ..

- np

El_Choni · Post by **El_Choni** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 4:58 pm

Ah, that one is definetely down. Download the installer from here, please:

http://www.inicia.es/de/elchoni/TailBite/

NoahPhense · Post by **NoahPhense** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 5:14 pm

El_Choni wrote:Ah, that one is definetely down. Download the installer from here, please:

http://www.inicia.es/de/elchoni/TailBite/

thx!

- np

DoubleDutch · Post by **DoubleDutch** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 3:36 pm

I have been using tailbite (great program btw), but after upgrading to purebasic 3.91b2 I have encountered an error...

I think that the upgrade may erase lcclib.exe from the "library sdk" folder. ???

Tailbite reported that it cannot find that program, I looked and it was definately not there...

Anyone else have this problem?

-Anthony

El_Choni · Post by **El_Choni** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 3:48 pm

It happened to me too. Looks like PB deletes lcclib.exe when installing 3.91 b2. Makes sense, since lcclib.exe is supposed to be installed with prior versions of PB, and with the linker change it's no longer needed in theory.

TailBite will use polib.exe (in the Compilers folder) when 3.91 is released. In the meantime, you just can download lcclib.exe from somewhere and put it in the Library SDK folder again.

Regards,

NoahPhense · Post by **NoahPhense** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 3:53 pm

El_Choni wrote:It happened to me too. Looks like PB deletes lcclib.exe when installing 3.91 b2. Makes sense, since lcclib.exe is supposed to be installed with prior versions of PB, and with the linker change it's no longer needed in theory.

TailBite will use polib.exe (in the Compilers folder) when 3.91 is released. In the meantime, you just can download lcclib.exe from somewhere and put it in the Library SDK folder again.

Regards,

Guess I didn't have that problem. I installed 3.90 Full, then ran 3.91b2
on top of it. Installed TB, then ran smart update.

- np

DoubleDutch · Post by **DoubleDutch** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 3:57 pm

El_Choni: Thanks, just did that... Probabily while you were writing the reply!

btw whats the way of making a help file that works with purebasic using tailbite?

El_Choni · Post by **El_Choni** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 4:25 pm

btw whats the way of making a help file that works with purebasic using tailbite?

This is so undocumented I don't even remember myself very well how it works...

But you can try this:

a) If you have HTMLHelpWorkshop installed, put your hhp project in a subfolder of your original pb source. TailBite will just compile the chm file and put it in the PureBasic/Help/ dir.

b) If you don't have it (it's freely downloadable from Microsoft), put your html help files in a subfolder of your original pb source, "Help", for example. In this case, TailBite only copies the Html files to the PureBasic/Help/Libname/ folder.

Regards,