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3 KBYTE APP! When you click the button it shows a messagebox.

try it yourself: http://purebasic.myftp.org/?filename=fi ... gagaga.exe

its compressed using upx, uncompressed it is 4.0 kbyte. you might even be able to squeze it down a little more using mew11 or such tool

It is programmed in purebasic! and uses a resource file as dialog. Event handling is done in purebasic of course


anyway, 3.0 killobyte, its damn small for a windows app with a window!


edit: The reason the button looks that way is because it have a static edge, wich of course can be changed
i used pelle's C resource editor to design the file, wich was easy and comfortable.

Think about it when you want to make small single window apps

Don't use mew.. It's been used to compress various viruses, trojans, worms, etc.. So most antivirus softwares will indeed detect any mew compressed exe as something "bad".. Worst thing is that they don't let you choose that option, it's just been "black listed", all because a bunch of wannabe nerdies used mew for their lame viruses... But it also has lots of incompatibility issues, thats why you shouldnt use mew as well.

Anyway, add many gadgets, bigger event loop and your exe will grow..
Your tests are not valid at all :/ Why would you have a program like that one? what for? it is not functional, so its like having nothing at all.

dagcrack wrote:Don't use mew.. It's been used to compress various viruses, trojans, worms, etc.. So most antivirus softwares will indeed detect any mew compressed exe as something "bad".. Worst thing is that they don't let you choose that option, it's just been "black listed", all because a bunch of wannabe nerdies used mew for their lame viruses... But it also has lots of incompatibility issues, thats why you shouldnt use mew as well.

Anyway, add many gadgets, bigger event loop and your exe will grow..
Your tests are not valid at all :/ Why would you have a program like that one? what for? it is not functional, so its like having nothing at all.

sad about mew, yeh..

however stfu! what do you mean. its a small exe no matter whatever you say. ok ill add lots of gadgets and a bigger event loop of course it will grow. But please do me the favor to go to another basic language or even a c++ compiler and make such exe?
it was for fun. JEez you are negative..! the World is a bad place for happy people..

No, the fact is that this is pointless. And I don't have time to show you a smaller exe.

dagcrack wrote:No, the fact is that this is pointless. And I don't have time to show you a smaller exe.

I have time to see it (I think I'm young for now )

> the fact is that this is pointless

Creating a challenge to make the smallest exe is far more interesting than
a poll about what keyboards we use.

People doesnt have anything better to do than comparing other's threads. How sad, Every single day the same exact thing (And I can hear it coming "and every single day you become more negative" - Get something clever to say at least ).


I did post a challenge if you open your eyes though.
ThisFool has always been talking about small exes. However whats a small exe good for if its not useful?. You sure can make the smallest game in the world as well and it will probably suck at every single point of it. Shoudlnt the challenge be "make the best application at the smallest size possible" instead? this is pointless.

If its a challenge, give rules, deadline, etc.

Don't you think this should be my car?

(because of the flames ) - Although the guy with the flamey shirt is NO WAY CLOSE TO ME!

Pb! now my post has no validity! you erased yours

> Pb! now my post has no validity! you erased yours

I deleted it almost immediately after posting it, I didn't want to keep arguing.

We should have a 5 second delay after a post would appear listed, like the delay on TV you know.. so they can censor, etc.

thanks to pb and zitritake

@dagcrack: i hate you!

No, the fact is that this is pointless.

blablabla my a$$..!
really.
you also post pointless things! Wich is far more pointless than this!

@thefool:
nice one... i think i managed it to create the smallest Win32 app with a small GUI-element in PB, taking just only 918 bytes

How?? TELL


edit: An exe with nothing is 2 kbyte wich is the smallest at all. Compression wont work with many compressors, notice only UPX is allowed

thefool wrote:How?? TELL


edit: An exe with nothing is 2 kbyte wich is the smallest at all. Compression wont work with many compressors, notice only UPX is allowed

ok, its an older example, you can download and read on this forum here

ohh! Thats not a graphical element i would call it that. that is simply an api call

This exe was with a WINDOW thats the special thing. And gadgets!
And a messagebox too by the way.

anyway i havent found a solution to send messages BACK to gadgets. receiving is easy. But im looking at it