survival guide

[blueznl]

i put most of my stupid mistakes together on a page, a sort of survival guide...

if anyone knows his stuff and has nothing better to do... did i make any mistakes? other than the ones that caused me to set up that page

http://www.xs4all.nl/~bluez/datatalk/pure1.htm

[TerryHough]

...if anyone knows his stuff and has nothing better to do...

Certainly doesn't apply to me

In your discussion of Code Order, you way want to look at and add the
Declare approach.

I, too, like to sometimes have Procedures called before they appear in
the code. Took me a few days to realize how to make that happen.

Your example:

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test1()  ; can't compile as test1() is not yet defined 

  Procedure test1() 
    test2()  ; can't compile as test2() is not yet defined 
  EndProcedure 

  Procedure test2() 
    ; do nothing 
  EndProcedure 

with a slight change now compiles

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Declare test1()
Declare test2()

test1()  ; now compiles without a problem 
test2()  ; 
  Procedure test1() 
    test2()  ; can't compile as test2() is not yet defined 
  EndProcedure 

  Procedure test2() 
    ; do nothing 
  EndProcedure 

Keep going, I am sure you will find (and report) lots of interesting new
things as you learn more about PureBasic.

Terry

[blueznl]

i will add this, didn't know it, more of this is welcome!

[GPI]

i will add this, didn't know it, more of this is welcome!

Activate in japbe "automatic save declare" and you can do this:

(Save as test.pb)

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xincludefile "test.pb.declare"
debug test(1)

procedure test(a)
  procedurereturn test2(a)
endprocedure
procedure test2(a)
  procedurereturn a*a
endprocedure

but NOTE!
You should definied your structure before includeing "test.pb.declare", when you use your structure in the parameter-list

this will not work:

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xincludefile "test.pb.declare"

structure Dummy
  l.l
endstructure

debug test(1)

procedure test(a)
  procedurereturn test2(@a)
endprocedure
procedure test2(*a.dummy)
  procedurereturn a\l*a\l
endprocedure

This will:

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structure Dummy
  l.l
endstructure

xincludefile "test.pb.declare"

debug test(1)

procedure test(a)
  procedurereturn test2(@a)
endprocedure
procedure test2(*a.dummy)
  procedurereturn a\l*a\l
endprocedure

or don't use Structre in the parameterlist:

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xincludefile "test.pb.declare"

structure Dummy
  l.l
endstructure

debug test(1)

procedure test(a)
  procedurereturn test2(@a)
endprocedure
procedure test2(*b)
  *a.dummy=*b
  procedurereturn *a\l * *a\l
endprocedure

Edit: Last note:
When you start to compile, jaPBe look in the directory of your mainfile and create a "all.declare", which includes all files, which are found in this directory.