Thanks especially to Stefan Pendl & Richard Russell for their recent help. As you have noticed (I hope), I also try to help answering questions whenever I can....
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Richard Thomas
sandworker
Apr 19, 2007 7:50 pm
Hi Guys: I have a window with several controls including a couple of ListBoxes. I want to be able to up and down arrow within the ListBoxes, move the mouse to...
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Richard Russell
rtrussellcouk
Apr 20, 2007 10:16 pm
... Details of how to bring up a context popup menu are here: http://lbpe.wikispaces.com/A+True+API+Popup+Menu+-+By+Duncan+B I don't think right-clicking in a...
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paulbcram
Apr 21, 2007 1:49 pm
Have medium knowledge about old DOS Basics and Visual Basic Yesterday purchased rights to Liberty Basic Want to start writing a program with opening pages of...
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fervor_mn
Apr 21, 2007 1:52 pm
Hi Carl, Thanks so much for responding. Unfortunately, for some strange reason, I couldn't see that my post actually made it to the list or that you responded...
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Gordon Sweet
gordonsweet2000
Apr 21, 2007 3:24 pm
I always advise complete beginnners with knowledge of other Basics such as Qbasic to first start creating a simple program in the mainwindow you would...
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torpidai
Apr 21, 2007 8:20 pm
... with ... the ... Personalaly I'd use HTML/Javascript for that kind of work, richtext or hyperlinks are much quicker to type in than working out button ...
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W. D. Allen
ballensrball...
Apr 21, 2007 8:20 pm
Best way to learn Liberty Basic quickly is to do the tutorial! WDA end -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 2094...
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paulbcram
Apr 21, 2007 8:21 pm
... with ... the...
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Chergarj@...
gjosefc
Apr 21, 2007 11:07 pm
In a message dated 04/21/2007 1:20:32 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ... Maybe you're right; but some people have benefited very much from the tutorials. If you...
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Torpidai Lawson
torpidai
Apr 22, 2007 1:33 am
The best way i've found is to get in there and "Get hands dirty" so to speak, then again it shows in my abysmally poorly laid out programs, but i'm getting...
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Stefan Pendl
pendl2megabit
Apr 23, 2007 10:48 am
... So the real question is: Is there some method for assignments that is analogous to calling eval() on an expression? Thanks again, Jemiah << See the...
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ben_flashman
Apr 23, 2007 2:26 pm
Hi, how can my program notice, that there's another instance of itself running? I can run my dialog more than a single time, but i don't want that to be...
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Richard Russell
rtrussellcouk
Apr 23, 2007 3:28 pm
... Investigate the CreateMutex API. Using that you can detect whether another copy of your program is running and if so take some action (such as quitting...
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JanetTerra
Apr 24, 2007 2:26 am
You might find Ken Lewis' Liberty BASIC Newsletter (Issue #102) Article: Preventing More Than One Instance of Your Program, to be of interest. ...
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Richard Russell
rtrussellcouk
Apr 24, 2007 10:39 am
... That article uses the same method as mine (CreateMutex API) but it appears to be over-complicated. I think the author hasn't appreciated that you can pass...
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jkrasomil
Apr 26, 2007 9:07 pm
How do I interrupt and gain control of a program that gets into a hard loop? The "Break" key doesn't work as it does in other flavors of BASIC I've used....
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Stefan Pendl
pendl2megabit
Apr 26, 2007 9:11 pm
... Ctrl+Break will work, then you can use "Run => Kill BASIC Programs" to end the program and return to the IDE. ... Stefan Pendl...
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fqvarfort2
Apr 27, 2007 11:00 am
Incase you don't want to mess around with Mute'x, here's a little different approach... You can use the fact that no two programs can access the same file at...
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Stefan Pendl
pendl2megabit
Apr 27, 2007 5:08 pm
... Note: When your 1st program closes the file is automatically closed for you by LB. If you'd like you can call CLOSE #dummyfile, but I don't think it's...
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Harry Bee
harrybee99
Apr 27, 2007 7:53 pm
... Clever and simple solution, but the above is not exactly true, I think. Any number of programs, or instances of a program, can open the same file any...
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carlottagp
Apr 29, 2007 11:48 am
I have a number of programs written in QBASIC a few years ago, and I wish to do whatever is necessary to run them in LibertyBasic. But I can't read them in...
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Dick Wilkinson
dewilk
Apr 29, 2007 1:27 pm
carlottagp Hopefully you still have QBASIC. If so, open one of the programs in QBASIC. Then do a 'Save As' (under the 'File' menu.) In the 'Format' box choose ...
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carlottagp
Apr 29, 2007 3:21 pm
Thank you, Wilkster. I do indeed have QBASIC.EXE on a backup computer. I tried your suggestion, but I cannot open any of these files; I get a "Bad file...
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laurie camion
lauriecam2006
Apr 29, 2007 7:33 pm
That's a difference between Qbasic and QuickBasic, Qbasic only saves/reads ascii.bas files. You need Quick Basic 4.5. I'm not sure if it's really freeware now...
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Zachary Antilley
zantilley
Apr 29, 2007 8:11 pm
Believe it or not, I still have QBasic on my machine. I can open the files and save them as text for you if you like, if were not talking about a lot of files...
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Sarah Louise Davis
sarah_d_1974
Apr 30, 2007 11:35 am
I just bought a copy of windows 3.11 Will a program I write in LB work on 3.11? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Carl Gundel
carlgundel
Apr 30, 2007 11:40 am
Hi, You can use old versions of Liberty BASIC on Win v3.11, but not the newer versions. Here is a download link: http://libertybasic.com/lb202win.exe -Carl ......
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Chergarj@...
gjosefc
Apr 30, 2007 7:14 pm
Important is to specify which versions of Liberty BASIC will work in which versions of Windows. G C...
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Sarah Louise Davis
sarah_d_1974
Apr 30, 2007 10:12 pm
think the latest one, I only bought the full version recently. ... From: Chergarj@... To: libertybasic@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 8:10 PM ...
