This is, in my opinion, one of those essential keywords that everyone should know and make use of.

What is it?  Keyclear is the simple command which clears the keyboard buffers for us.

How does one use it?  Just call _KEYCLEAR where your program would need to clear the buffers at.

Example of the command:

Screen Filler Zakraska

Zakraska.bas program fills screen with dots
by dividing field into a 4x4 section or arbitrarily
and better sides of field of multiples of small sections

Row under label 3:
rotating row checks condition and repeats itself

Dot is placed strictly in an empty place and field is filled in 100%
and there are also counters of points not set and a time counter

Results:
2x2 = 2 seconds & 27ooo repetitions for 25ooo points
4x4 = 5 seconds & 65ooo repetitions for 25ooo points
8x8 = 15 seconds & 95ooo repetitions for 25ooo points
16x16 = 55 seconds & 135ooo repetitions for 25ooo points
32x32 many seconds & many repetitions for 25ooo points

Field is filled in by 100%



Conclusion: random control is real

This is a simple demo for SCREEN 0, but someone could work up a graphics counterpart easily enough...

I cannot create an account with Github because it goes against my pride, and some web browsers cannot handle well content of that site. Therefore this very bored user will bore you further with creating a thread just to offer even more opinions that might not be wanted...

If you want to "visit" the issue just drop into the address blank of your web browser:

s://github.com/QB64-Phoenix-Edition/QB64pe/issues/NUMBER

Purposely beheaded so it's not "clickable," and "NUMBER" should be the number shown after pound-sign below.

#233
I support this; just make release (middle) number padded with zero but not make it obvious to the programmer because some code exists that would test for "0.5.0", for "3.2.0" and it's only the beginning. For "3.2.0" case "internally" test for "3.02.0". In fact do it for "03.02.00" in case this programming system could reach version 10!

#219
One fault is that some users like "small" terminal windows, while a typical dialog could require at least 100 characters across. It would be impossible to predict when an user maliciously resizes that window to smaller size to see if the user program crashes. Would have to stick to low-bit characters to draw the dialog. I've discovered "ANSI" codes for coloring not reliable on some "terminal emulators" of Linux distros. This was from using a library called "Lua-term" which allowed simple output to the terminal with coloring and positioning, by using Lua code.

#212
Have "_RESULT" keyword, a lot like Pascal/Delphi, as alternative to "_RETVAL". I resist "EXIT FUNCTION" more than "EXIT SUB", I think it's a retarded way to break out of a function early, and there is too much code already which keeps using function name on LHS which is bad form. This new keyword should put an end to it at least for new programs.

#211
I support this. However, instead of lame-ass keywords from Visual Basic, as alternative how about a compiler option for it? I would like the short-circuit evaluation to be absolute if I choose.

#206
(To the one who opened this issue: ) You would have to change your way of thinking about this. If the concept of MAK file is insisted on you must rearrange your "project" so there is only one main program, and the other BAS files then become BI to be included into the main program. Each "main program" in "slave" BAS files should be put into their own "SUB's" to be called in a desired order by the only true main program. Otherwise each BAS file is destined to be compiled into a separate executable file, without relation to one another. This could be a pain because "CHAIN" and "COMMON SHARED" weren't meant to be used in 32-bit and 64-bit environment where security has some emphasis.

#187
On the Linux side you guys might want to talk to "angros47" that Italian guy who did an audio/MIDI playback library for Freebasic.

#30
This is one of my longest requests.

"A Karnaugh map reduces the need for extensive calculations by taking advantage of humans' pattern-recognition capability. It also permits the rapid identification and elimination of potential race conditions."

I was not familiar with this, I only happened to see a news article about its inventor, who died just this week. 

But it looks like just the kind of thing the folks here might find interesting!

Maybe silly to mention, but just in case:

Yeah, very cool to get your QB64PE program on the web.

But also cool for sharing to keep locally a program that needs only a web browser to run and you aren't connected to the web.

Bookmark the local program in your browser favourites, and it makes for quick access to the thing.

Create your program in BASIC Anywhere Machine.

Once you're happy with your development version, promote it to production (if you want).

Go to the Project menu, and click on Export.

In the Export Options window, click on either Program Deployment (DEV) or Program Deployment (PROD) (to create either a deployment file for the development version of your application or the production version of your application.

Take the HTML file and upload it to your web server/site.  If you just want to share that program as is, share the URL link to that HTML file.

To embed your in-the-one-HTML-file program in any website, do like I'm showing below for this program I have hosted on the web:

Hi Royal Subjects,

Ever get tired of looking up virtual key codes for things like using SENDKEYS in Win32 API? I sure do, and no matter how many Midol I pop, it doesn't seem to help. Did you know they now come in chewables? Umm, cherry, but I digress...

So while we went off topic to talk bloat, here's some bloat that's back on topic!

I remembered playing Apple Panic many years ago. It was based on the arcade Space Panic game. I think it was the very first platformer game to be made. I again "borrowed" a lot of sprites and ideas from the tutorial and created the first level of Mario Apple Panic. It plays a lot like the original game , dig a hole and the apples fall in. The space bar digs. Esc key quits. If you get hit about 3 times , game over. If you clear all 4 apples, you win and game over. It could use some more levels if I get time later , or someone here got really interested. I will include the game and all its parts in a zip, and a screen shot of the game. Again . play it , improve it. It is all open.

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Hey Pete, here's a little proof of concept for your golf score card project.  I didn't have your background image file so I just focused on the mechanics of what I think you are trying to achieve.

As you enter the scores the total field is updated automatically.  Clicking the Save Scores button will add the current set of scores to the saved score list.  This list will be saved to the browser's local storage as well as to a "scores.csv" file in the QBJS virtual file system.  You can access this in the Files tab of the Console.