Made some experiments with On Timer() and with the help of Terry Ritchie´s awesome tutorials it turned out quite graphical, so here are the results. Since there is no measured "update" based on passed time, you might want to adjust timer rates for your system. So far, program seems to function as expected but few questions remain. How much workload timers can actually carry? Is there technical limitations to expand use of timers, similarly that I´ve already used them?

Hope you have as much fun to play around with it, as I had writing it. More like a learning journey 
   

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about naming variable I find a little issue

the duplicating a name has a different behaviour of Parser depending from the way you do this.
Please select, copy, paste the code below into IDE

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Is there a way in QB64 to simulate the sendkey function (send characters to the keyboard)  ???

This sendkey$ command exists for instance in Visual Basic Excel/Word...

I'm working on a (purely academic) math exercise that involves a 12 digit integer...I was planning to use 'long' integers but that seems to be limited to smaller numbers.

I assumed long integers could handle such a number, but that apparently isn't the case.   Is scientific notation the only format for integers at these values?

After playing the 4 Letter Hangman for awhile, I figured out that it was getting pretty easy. So tonight I decided to make a 5 letter version. I found a list online of 5 letter words, like I did with the 4 letter one at one time. Then I made an app that automatically makes the DATA statements for the list. This one chooses from 711 5-letter words. I also added some sky color. Everything else is the same, just one more letter than the other one. Also, as I did with the 4 letter one, I added the LCASE$ command so you don't have to worry about upper or lower case letters, it converts it all to lower case. 

This attachment is the full screen editor for QB64:

Is a small editor in basic.

Some places from QB45 were edited for:

  Dir$ - _fileexists
  Redim preserve.

Adds _controlchr

Erik.

Attached Files

  SCRNEDIT.BAS (Size: 55.13 KB / Downloads: 92)

Today I decided to make this version of Hangman that chooses between 500 4-letter words. It's very basic, not like Johnno's version a couple years ago. It has no extra files. 
It can be a bit addicting.  Tell me what you think. It took me around 2 1/2 hours to make it, not including the word list I've had on DATA statements for awhile. Feel free to use any of this in your own code as always. After 9 mistakes in any order on the letters you lose. Also, there are no upper-case letters so only use lower case, in fact it will only make those as mistakes. There is no start page, it jumps right into game-play, but there are no time limits.  



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Hey all,

Excuse my messy code.   I've been playing around with this some more...I wanted to simulate using a string and two pins to draw an ellipse on paper.   I also wanted to rotate around in increments based on angle, which was tricky for me.   Got it working though, and then added more stuff after that.    Cheers.

I posted the following on Facebook because I forgot about this forum...  
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Under Options-Display there is a setting for font size. It defaults to 21 pixels. If I make the number larger it doesn't increase the font size, and if I go back to the setting window it has reverted to 21. How to fix this? 21 pixels was okay for 640x480 screens but it's a bit small for today's screens, IMO.
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Maybe something about the path to the font file? Would it accept a Linux style path?

I did get a reply from Marcos Guillen saying there were some things in QB64 that didn't yet work in the Linux version. Maybe this is one?

I remember from way back when, there was something like If Exist(filename) to load a file if it existed, so you could provide an option if it didn't, but I can't find it or remember its syntax. Any clues?