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1.5 year later... I have a patch on GitHub that adds this feature to the IDE, but it's Windows only (uses API to get/set listview position) https://github.com/fantaisie-software/purebasic/compare/devel...kenmo-pb:purebasic:preserve-proc-browser If you know how to build the IDE, you can try it yourse...

Hi, if you're willing to include a whole file, try ParseShortcut(Text.s) and ComposeShortcut(Shortcut.i) in my MenuManager-Shortcuts.pbi https://github.com/kenmo-pb/MenuManager/blob/master/MenuManager-Shortcuts.pbi Direct link to the .pbi file https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kenmo-pb/MenuManager/m...

Hi Olli, I just want to recommend: "Floating Point Visually Explained" https://fabiensanglard.net/floating_point_visually_explained/ I never understood the floating point format so well until I read that article a few years ago. If you think of the "exponent" as selecting a "...

I've submitted PR #205 for review
(or anybody can pull in my show-in-folder git branch)
https://github.com/fantaisie-software/p ... c/pull/205

@freak OK, I looked back at how I added it. (This was apparently Oct 2020! Time flies!) The main difference is I wanted the specific file to be auto-selected in the explorer. So I added ShowExplorerFile() like ShowExplorerFolder(). For Windows and Mac, I have simple working functions from the forums...

+1 agree

I have this feature in my custom IDE build on Windows:


But I have not submitted it, because I know the team wants submissions implemented and tested on all the OS.

I also have a procedure with many extra options: https://github.com/kenmo-pb/includes/blob/master/common.pbi It's meant for convenience, not heavy duty megabytes of string processing. (See other people's optimized versions above) See: Procedure.s Proper(Text.s, Multiword.i = #False, IgnoreMinorWords...

I know this is an old topic, but I must ask... Why all the effort to use inlined ASM/C to manipulate the PB internals? :?: Once you're beyond the basic usage of Restore and Read, why not just use pointers and Peek? It just seems strange to use ASM/C manipulation when you can accomplish it with regul...

Hello @BarryG There are two things going on here: 1. You are correct! My code had a bug in reading Little Endian encoded EXIF orientation. (Most of my test JPEGs are apparently Big Endian.) I have pushed an update to GetExifData.pbi which should work. Don't forget UseJpegImageDecoder() https://githu...

Yes you're right, the PureBasic ColorRequester() is internally calling the Windows ChooseColor_() function. And if you want to access Windows' extra options, like the pre-loaded colors, you have to do a little extra work using ChooseColor_() directly (which is what the linked code takes care of)

I also learned from that thread above, and wrote this IncludeFile:
https://github.com/kenmo-pb/includes/bl ... sterEx.pbi

which simplifies it to

Consecutive backslashes are fine, they don't make a path invalid. It's just not the shortest possible, canonical path. See some discussion here: https://superuser.com/questions/1412182/why-can-any-number-of-slashes-work-in-a-path-or-url https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33027024/documented-behavio...

Yes, it's an annoying Windows "feature" for many years, not a PureBasic bug. I looked into this a lot last year: https://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=73909 And here is the simplest procedure/macro workaround I came up with: https://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?p=54966...

Whenever this topic comes up, some people suggest "Pure", despite there being a language named Pure since 2008
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_(pro ... _language)

I prefer :) b = Bool(Not b) To answer your original question, there is basically no difference between the two versions you wrote. They achieve the same thing. Perhaps one version saves you some microseconds, but I think that's unimportant here. Understandable code is important. I do think it's stra...