(10-13-2023, 01:45 AM)SMcNeill Wrote: If you're like me, over time you've written and accumulated a zillion different little routines full of subs and functions to help do things for you.  If you're also like me, when you need to be able to find those routines to make use of them again, they end up hiding from you.

I've decided it's about time that I did something about that and get my junk a little better organized -- and while I'm at it, I thought I'd share and see if anyone else wanted to jump in on the bandwagon and share their own tools in the same place so we could have a "one stop shop" for all things related to expanding QB64PE functionality.

To that end, I present: https://github.com/SteveMcNeill/QB64-Phoenix-Edition-Toolbox

At this point in time, it's very much a work-in-progress, with just ONE whole commit in its entire Github history!  WOOT!!  But, I hope from this one commit, you can see the general concept of what I'm shooting to accomplish here:

1) Create a simple library which can be included into any QB64 program with only one set of *.BI and *.BM include files.
2) This library has to have the functionality to allow us to ONLY load and use the subs/functions that we want with our programs.  (Precompiler $IF commands allow us to do this.)
3) This library has to be Option _Explicit compatible.
4) Over time, this library will need to have documentation added for each of the routines inside it, explaining how to use those routines and what is expected from each parameter.  
5) Examples and Samples of each routine will need to be created and added to the library in time, so users can simply load those files and see the routines in action.

At the moment, I've only got a handful of commands pushed into this initial commit, and I can already see that I'm going to have to do some learning in the future to make things more as I envision.  (One thing I've got to work on is learning and expanding my knowledge of markup so the *.md files I'll be creating look a little nicer and more useful.)

As it is, it's the very barest of bones for a toolbox, but it's a start.  Feel free to follow, or speak up to be added as a contributor.  Over time, I'm hoping that this can expand and become a single go to source for all things to expand QB64PE for us.  

$Let INCLUDE_ALL = TRUE

$Let EMBED_COURIER_NEW = TRUE

$Let EMBED_CONSOLA = TRUE

$Let EMBED_SOURCE_CODE_PRO = TRUE



'Note that we ALSO have to specify which fonts we want to embed in our program,

'as we do above with the EMBED_COURIER_NEW = TRUE statement.

'This is because fonts can become quite large in size, and no single program

'needs to become bloated by several hundred MB as it attempts to embed fonts in itself

'that it doesn't even make use of!





'$INCLUDE:'..\Library Files\Toolbox.BI'



Screen _NewImage(800, 600, 32)



f = ReturnFont("Courier New", 20, "") '             A simple little _LOADFONT replacement

_Font f: _PrintString (0, 0), "Hello World" '       except here, we specify the font's name (not FILE NAME)

_Font 16: _FreeFont f



f = ReturnFont("Courier New", 20, "Bold") '         and we can set the style which we want for the font.

_Font f: _PrintString (0, _FontHeight), "Hello World"

_Font 16: _FreeFont f



f = ReturnFont("Courier New", 20, "Italic")

_Font f: _PrintString (0, _FontHeight * 2), "Hello World"

_Font 16: _FreeFont f



f = ReturnFont("Courier New", 20, "Bold,Italic")

_Font f: _PrintString (0, _FontHeight * 3), "Hello World"

_Font 16: _FreeFont f



f = ReturnFont("Consola", 20, "")

_Font f: _PrintString (0, _FontHeight * 5), "Hello World"

_Font 16: _FreeFont f



f = ReturnFont("Consola", 20, "Bold")

_Font f: _PrintString (0, _FontHeight * 6), "Hello World"

_Font 16: _FreeFont f



f = ReturnFont("Consola", 20, "Italic")

_Font f: _PrintString (0, _FontHeight * 7), "Hello World"

_Font 16: _FreeFont f



f = ReturnFont("Consola", 20, "Bold,Italic")

_Font f: _PrintString (0, _FontHeight * 8), "Hello World"

_Font 16: _FreeFont f



f = ReturnFont("Source Code Pro", 20, "Medium")

_Font f: _PrintString (0, _FontHeight * 10), "Hello World"

_Font 16: _FreeFont f







'$INCLUDE:'..\Library Files\Toolbox.BM'