Summer Banner? YES! (Submit entries until the 20th!)

[GareBear]

mnrvovrfc, I am assuming you are talking about my problem running TerryRitchie's summer.bas?

[Kernelpanic]

@Terry - your banner is great . . . but two QB64 logos? No! That's my opinion.

[TerryRitchie]

To: TerryRitchie I am sorry about not using your full username yesterday. Your banner program is not faulty. I think it is my old laptop. It is a 2012 model with Linux on it. Some of the commands my cpu did not know what to do with from the compiler. So what I got was several Unhandled Error #258 and one Unhandled Error #5. This to me confirms it more I also got a 2008 desktop with Windows 10 it had more errors than the laptop. Common theme older. Thank you for what you do here.

No worries

I'm happy to see others take an interest in the code I share.

And sometimes my code is faulty.

[TerryRitchie]

@Terry - your banner is great . . . but two QB64 logos? No! That's my opinion.

Remove one of the logos from the code and resubmit the banner as you would like to see it. I encourage everyone to make mods to the code and resubmit a new banner. If your code modification looks better and it's selected then great, a win for both of us.

[GareBear]

TerryRitchie, The problems I encountered was totally unexpected for me. RhoSigma told me he did not think it was hardware. Because he has a 2012 HP laptop with Windows 7 and he has no problems running QB64pe. I run Lubuntu 20.04 LTS as an OS. Thank you for the help and hopefully I might hit upon the answer sometime.

[bplus]

@GareBear you might try another download of the zip. You seem to be doing everything you are supposed to maybe you just got a funky download? BTW do you extract the zip into same Downloads Folder? which is what I do then I move the ones I want to save for later.

[JRace]

Are we back?  Is this thing on?
The forum was glitchy for a minute or three, at least on my end.


@GareBear & @bplus :

OK, I just tested Summer.bas on QB64PE-3.8.0 running on a fresh install of Lubuntu-22.04.2.  Had the same problems you've been having: files not found & invalid handles up & down the board.

It looks like Summer.bas was written on Windows.

The program uses lower-case only to read its resouce files, but four of those files have mixed-case names  Windows has a carefree, happy-go-lucky attitude about letter case in filenames, but Unix & Linux are fussy about such things.  Linux is case-sensitive and sees Stem1.png and stem1.png as two completely different file names, while Windows says, "eh, it's all the same."

Rename peLogo.png, Stem1.png, SaveImage.BI, and SaveImage.BM, changing the upper-case letters to lower-case.  Once I did that, the program worked as expected.

[RhoSigma]

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The forum was glitchy for a minute or three, at least on my end.


@GareBear & @bplus :

OK, I just tested Summer.bas on QB64PE-3.8.0 running on a fresh install of Lubuntu-22.04.2.  Had the same problems you've been having: files not found & invalid handles up & down the board.

It looks like Summer.bas was written on Windows.

The program uses lower-case only to read its resouce files, but four of those files have mixed-case names  Windows has a carefree, happy-go-lucky attitude about letter case in filenames, but Unix & Linux are fussy about such things.  Linux is case-sensitive and sees Stem1.png and stem1.png as two completely different file names, while Windows says, "eh, it's all the same."

Rename peLogo.png, Stem1.png, SaveImage.BI, and SaveImage.BM, changing the upper-case letters to lower-case.  Once I did that, the program worked as expected.

Oh sure, I always forget the case sensitivity of Linux. I knew something must be wrong finding/loading the image files, but never thought it could be because of the case of the filenames.

[bplus]

Good point @JRace explains mnr... point too!
But I thought GareBear said he was using Windows 11, newest Windows and he tested with newest QB64pe version.
Forum is glitchy!

[JRace]

Good point @JRace explains mnr... point too!
But I thought GareBear said he was using Windows 11, newest Windows and he tested with newest QB64pe version.
Forum is glitchy!

Yeah, we'd have to see a list of errors to diagnose those.  It's unlikely to be the letter case issue.  Although Windows folders can be set as case-sensitive, it's rarely done.  Summer.bas compiles & runs fine under v3.6.0 on my Win7 machine.

I think maybe 3.8.0's included MinGW compiler links against UCRT instead of the older MSVCRT.DLL?  Win10 should have UCRT, but I wonder if @GareBear's Win10 has a complete UCRT installation?  I take that back.  MSVCRT & UCRT builds are available, but Nixman seems to have dropped sjlj exception handling on recent MinGW64 builds.  I knew something had changed.