(06-14-2023, 08:19 PM)Kernelpanic Wrote: As usual: Excellent work! And all for the fun of it! - Hey, at MS would they you with the greatest pleasure.

My dream is  : VisualBasic 6...(without the Net crap) with QB64. Then Basic would be at the top again, because there are many problems in business practice where Basic is better - simpler, but the result is right. That's the most important!

And now I'm going to watch a good old movie   : Forbidden Planet

(06-15-2023, 01:29 PM)mnrvovrfc Wrote: People would still program in assembly language, COBOL, FORTRAN, LISP, Perl and Python because there is a lot of pride about it and because there are millions of U.S.A. dollars consumed by code that has been maintained for decades. There is much less such code for BASIC than for those other languages. BASIC would have had to be in LISP's place in existence and would have had to become pervasive after 10 years to have a chance of a BASIC utopia.

(06-15-2023, 03:24 PM)bplus Wrote: Could someone explain how the new version ties in with [ qb = export ]  ?

Will we be able to run QB64pe v 3.8 code in a code window like we can with [ qbjs ] ?

(06-15-2023, 05:41 PM)mnrvovrfc Wrote:

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PRINT "Hello I am Minerva."

PRINT "I come from a code window."

PRINT "But I can't help where my nose is LOL."

PRINT "    --"

PRINT "  /    \"

PRINT " |0    0|"

PRINT " |  v  |"

PRINT " |(====)|"

PRINT " \______/"

PRINT "=========="

I just did this after upgrading QB64PE from v3.7 to v3.8 on Manjaro Linux KDE, which has "native" installed Firefox v114. While I was whining a few posts ago I was on Spiral KDE which cannot have that late a version of Firefox if not with AppImage. Need to upgrade the base from Debian "Bullseye" to "Bookworm" which is the stable which changed 10-June!

The "Export As" was greyed out in v3.7, that's why I had to do it like that. Otherwise load in the code then choose File -> Export As -> Forum Codebox (to Clipboard). Then the QB64 IDE reports that some text was copied to the clipboard and then it's up to you to go to the forum and paste it into the reply window.

I guess the "qb=export" thing is to pretty-print and to also allow keywords and other things allowed clicked with the mouse to navigate to the QB64 Wiki. Although that could get annoying sometimes.

PRINT "Hello I am Minerva."

PRINT "I come from a code window."

PRINT "But I can't help where my nose is LOL."

PRINT "     --   "

PRINT "  /      \"

PRINT " |0      0|"

PRINT " |    v   |"

PRINT " | (====) |"

PRINT " \________/"

PRINT "========="

(06-16-2023, 01:43 AM)TerryRitchie Wrote: As a test try this:

Download the latest version of QB64 as a zip file and extract the folder to your desktop.

Unzip all the files in summer.zip into the folder on your desktop. Go into the folder, start QB64PE, and then load summer.bas. Press F5 to run the code.

If the programs now runs one of three things may be happening:

- Your installation of QB64PE is corrupt.

- You may be attempting to run the code from within the zip file instead of extracting the files to the folder.

- You are attempting run the program from a folder within your QB64PE folder. All files in summer.zip must be in the root QB64PE folder.

(06-16-2023, 03:54 PM)Kernelpanic Wrote:

Quote:@mnrvovrfc - The moment I saw the word "cracks" in one of your posts, if I were mod of this forum I would have had to give you a warning.

In German computer forums, people who can do something was/are called cracks: He is real great (programmer)! It has nothing to do with the drug crack.

(06-16-2023, 08:55 PM)TerryRitchie Wrote:

(06-16-2023, 05:12 PM)bplus Wrote: In USA there was a magazine:

I think I purchased every issue of Cracked and Mad Magazine when I was 10 to 14 years old. Al Jaffe's work in Mad Magazine was amazing. I wish I would have kept them. I believe the first Mad Magazine issue I bought was the Star wars parody. My mom did not approve of Mad Magazine ... all the more reason to get them!

(06-17-2023, 05:07 AM)Stuart Wrote: @Pete :  Your presence has be sorely missed for a few months now...  hope to see you back soon.

(06-17-2023, 02:09 PM)grymmjack Wrote:

(06-14-2023, 12:36 PM)mnrvovrfc Wrote: The additional functionality to SOUND is great, but it's destined to do only one-channel sound. One still has to work for multichannel playback with _SNDRAW and the like. ON PLAY() was never supported by QB64. This is just a reminder for the ambitious ones.

You raise a solid point. I was playing around with it yesterday to learn too (obviously it requires QB64PE3.8+).

I spoke with @a740g on Discord and he mentioned he wants to add some multi-channel stuff. Then he showed me how it uses miniaudio and when I saw it could do filters and had the ability to do delay and reverb, my little brain and heart nearly exploded with joy.

I'm super excited about this stuff!