That's weird. I go away for a little while and come back to find there's nothing to come back to. After a quick Google I find this site. I must remember not to go away again 

I suppose with Phillipe out then there'll be no more 'InForm'? 

Hey everyone.

A while ago I asked about setting up Notepad++ to compile/debug QB64 code, and TempodiBasic graciously provided some instructions which I finally got around to trying out, only it's not (fully) working.

I'm running Windows 10 Pro with QB64 2.0.2, and Notepad++ which self-updated to v8.3.3 today and works fine. 
Per the instructions, I installed the NppExec plugin, and added the QB64 folder to the system path, and rebooted.

I have a "hello world" program in my qb64 folder, e.g.

• C:\Users\{username}\Documents\Code\qb64\programs\hello1.bas
  

Some years ago I wrote a tutorial on this topic for the scripting community of Neverwinter Nights. I have now gone through this and edited it to make it relevant for QB64. As I am new to QB64, I would appreciate it if someone will download it, read it and let me know of any errors that they come across no matter how small. The package contains 2 pdf documents (the readme and the 20 page tutorial), an HTML cheat sheet and a plain text document of pre-calculated constants.

Dropbox Link removed - Download link to newer, more accurate version on page 2 of this thread.

All comments welcome.

Thanks.

TR

I posted earlier about an issue involving font sizes on a screen. I've figured out how I can perform manual calculations, but I need to know the screen scaling factor to make my calculations.

Is there some way that I can ascertain the scaling factor from within QB64?

A simple little image unroller that does an image reveal like a scroll being unrolled. Someone posted an example in a facebook group in their dialect of basic asking if other forms of basic could handle it. So I whipped this up. 

Assume that I am initializing my display like this:

        _FullScreen _Off , _Smooth
        _FreeImage oldimage&
        Font& = _LoadFont(FontPath$, FontSize, "MONOSPACE")
        _Font Font&

Now I write a bunch of text to the screen.

Later, I want to read the character at the upper left of the screen. I tried to do this like this:

print screen(1,1)

or

MyVar$ = CHR$(screen(1,1))

However, I'm getting an illegal function call when the line with screen(1,1) is executed.

Is this only valid with screen mode 0 or am I missing something here?

If this cannot be made to work, is there any other way to read characters from the screen?

Attached is a QB64 program just to say thanks to Steve for quickly putting up this QB64 forum for us all.



- Dav


  thanks.bas (Size: 44.81 KB / Downloads: 138)

Is there a list of QB64 constants, like _PI=3.14..?
Also, 1/0 gives INF and -1/0 gives -INF.  Are there INF and -INF constants?
This code is just some experimenting (some garbage in the 2nd line of output - no problem).

QB64 Surabikku is a clone of an online sliding block puzzle I was playing called Surabikku.  Click the arrows to slide the blocks until the puzzle board looks the same as the smaller image shown.  Simple to play but not so simple to solve.  May update this to use images instead of blocks, one day.

- Dav

EDIT: bplus made an update to this puzzle, you can find it HERE.  Thanks, bplus!

I just ran into the problem again last night, checking out an old program that worked fine before version 1.5

This WAS a set of CONST's (without suffix because at one time you didn't need suffix for a CONST)