09-04-2022, 10:54 PM
(09-04-2022, 08:31 PM)madscijr Wrote: I think we all have different strengths and interests. If you are into stuff like ReactOS and Linux and C, that's great. That ain't my wheelhouse, not even close! QB64 is closer to VB6 than the stuff you're into, at least for me. I loved VB6, and love VBA, and find C, C++ and .NET painful. You are way more advanced than I will ever be, hats off to you!Sometimes you read my posts too closely. I was jiving a bit. But I don't understand why you want to run VB6, when it was put down for a reason. Not necessarily for something better for many of us. But if you want to use it again only to run a couple of programs, and very desperate to run that sine-wave/square-wave oscillator demo, which does only one thing, cannot play MIDI, cannot record what it produces, cannot do anything else with the sound etc...
I'm not into C as deeply as you might think. I used to be, in the 1990's because I decided to waste time that way. Did nothing very useful except replicate somebody else's windows for application programming in text mode, ie. looking like M$QB editor. I wanted to go much further than I did with Turbo Pascal v5.5. By the time I discovered QB64 I rarely did anything in C or C++. However I was put off so much by the bugginess of the SDL versions of QB64 that I kept using M$QB45 because I was allowed to do so on a laptop running Windows7. At the time, I did a lot of stuff just processing text files. Nothing with music and images. If it had to do with music it was fabricating a REAPER project file, creating an XML file (combined with ZIP-creation utility) toward some other music application so it could load instruments, samples and sound effect definitions and that sort of thing. Eventually that computer's HDD crashed and I was forced to use Ubuntu Studio 32-bit which left me only with Lua. No problem, I was still able to do that XML thing for a while longer. Didn't care about speed of doing things until I got fancy and got to loading, fabricating and saving one-channel wave files, discovering how fantastic Lua's tables are. Never needed C or C++ for any of that stuff. I programmed in Purebasic for about a year and the only thing it was able to do better than QB64 in my opinion was looking like other Windows applications with the GUI's, menus, dialog boxes, mouse handling etc. Doing stuff with images and music, well, it was a matter of time before QB64 grew functions that satisfied me enough instead of complicating my life further.
As usual TL;DR. Pass me the orange juice, I don't drink alcoholic beverages. :tu: