03-23-2023, 07:51 PM
aurel are you using 32-bit QB64(PE)? If so then you're waging a losing battle. At least QB64PE is steadily becoming 64-bit only which many people don't like, myself included, but when someone else offers code that works only on 64-bit then, well...
Might have to do this project instead in Purebasic v4.x which has the "real star" pointer type and in some cases allows an "ordinary" integer type used as fake pointer. Like from the Purebasic Code Archive I saw a lot of examples of "dot-i" variables taking in addresses, and it had to be coded that way (ie. "addres.i" instead of "*addres") or that moody compiler flagged an error. The trap about this is that it was assumed a pointer is like an integer in which the compiler has to know what is the size, such as in QB64(PE) "LONG" is always 32-bit. Maybe that's why the authors of Purebasic were forced to create the "real star". Certainly they did a lot of things in Win32 API and wanted to get as close as they could without actually using C and C++.
I don't know if the "dot-i" notation could still be used in later versions of Purebasic because the latest version which was stable that I used was v4.6 some years back. Also had v5.21 LTS but the editor was very buggy and the whole thing was becoming unusable. It was good only for that XML hacking for fancy dialogs. Otherwise v4.6 was super and I even downloaded somebody else's work for ZIP file support which worked well. Of course this was before QB64 had anything like that.
Might have to do this project instead in Purebasic v4.x which has the "real star" pointer type and in some cases allows an "ordinary" integer type used as fake pointer. Like from the Purebasic Code Archive I saw a lot of examples of "dot-i" variables taking in addresses, and it had to be coded that way (ie. "addres.i" instead of "*addres") or that moody compiler flagged an error. The trap about this is that it was assumed a pointer is like an integer in which the compiler has to know what is the size, such as in QB64(PE) "LONG" is always 32-bit. Maybe that's why the authors of Purebasic were forced to create the "real star". Certainly they did a lot of things in Win32 API and wanted to get as close as they could without actually using C and C++.
I don't know if the "dot-i" notation could still be used in later versions of Purebasic because the latest version which was stable that I used was v4.6 some years back. Also had v5.21 LTS but the editor was very buggy and the whole thing was becoming unusable. It was good only for that XML hacking for fancy dialogs. Otherwise v4.6 was super and I even downloaded somebody else's work for ZIP file support which worked well. Of course this was before QB64 had anything like that.