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Using a WebGadget/WebViewGadget or the installed browser outside your application? If you want to control a browser which is already installed WebDriver is probably the most feasible option. https://chromedriver.chromium.org/home https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/chromedri...

There's a dead link on the main page of the documentation

From
https://www.purebasic.com/documentation/
(Number bases / Table)

To
https://www.purebasic.com/documentation/number_tab.html

Maybe you can find something here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/uxtheme/ GetThemePartSize or GetThemeMetric or GetThemeBitmap with WP_FRAME or something like that? That's how firefox does control rendering. https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/master/widget/windows/nsNati...

You need to compile it as dll and then as exe. The exe will call the procedure from the dll. See compiler options. https://www.purebasic.com/documentation/reference/images/ide_compiler_options.png Executable format: Shared DLL. And it's not a PB only concept, DLLs/Shared Objects can be created with ...

Enumerations or #PB_Any for everything.

You can also specify start values for enumerations and you can use #PB_Compiler_EnumerationValue.
https://www.purebasic.com/documentation ... tions.html

no i start batch via command line (CMD) my point is to pass a variable back to a script Pb progran is just (console mode selected in compiler) SetEnvironmentVariable("filename","abc123.txt") batch is @purebasicprog.exe @echo %filename% You cannot pass it back to the parent proce...

HI wondering how does SetEnvironmentVariable works i try SetEnvironmentVariable("filename","abc123.txt") then in a batch used echo %filename% but i get no results out !? thanx Did you start the batch script via RunProgram? Processes inherit environment variables throughout their...

Did you use EnableExplicit at the very beginning? A global counter not counting sounds to me like a second instance or the conditions around the increments are never met.

PureBasic's linked lists are doubly linked with a pointer to the last and first element. See the SDK folder: typedef struct PB_ListHeader { struct PB_ListHeader *Next; struct PB_ListHeader *Previous; } PB_ListHeader; typedef struct PB_ListPosition { struct PB_ListPosition *Next; PB_ListHeader *Eleme...

Sprites are pixel based textures, what use case would that be? What would the advantage be over SpriteOutput?

Probably security limitations of the browser. Http is basically forbidden nowadays. Letsencrypt can get you a free certificate for https.

CORS or CSP might be involved.

Z for Zorro!!

Starwolf20 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 3:42 pm i allways have seen a F (inversed) and a L.
I don't know why ..........

I've always seen an italic PB with some strokes missing for whatever reason.

The Global is outside of any conditional statements. The folding lines drawn are a bug that I've never reported. :) Anyway, marking this as Solved because I think there must be a thread calling the variable before the Global line for it was reached. Debug Len(extdot$) Check the length please to see...

Memory safety is also being discussed in the C++ community, it's not the case that only the US government says that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8UvQKvOSSw https://herbsutter.com/2024/03/11/safety-in-context/ There has always been the difference between business critical, mission critical and s...

There's already a topic about it here: https://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=83696 Rust compared to C(++) is like formal verification compared to testing. So it is definitely safer than C/C++, due to its object lifetime and ownership management. If we can use it, we should, but it's not t...