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You may also take a look into these code examples from netmaestro and srod from 2009.

Here you find a nice overview table for C data types in the German Wikipedia (at the end of the article).

pjay,

you should change to so that your nice simulation also runs on MacOS

Under Linux, underlining letters with & does not work at all. It also works under Linux - kind of. Instead of the ampersand character "&" you have to use the underline character "_" in Linux. 13 years ago debashisde asked in this thread how to display underlined shortcut...

Thread MessageRequester centered with your main window from Juli 2009 with examples from flaith and netmaestro.

OpenWindow(0, 270, 100, 250, 120, "Word Wrap Test", #PB_Window_SystemMenu) EditorGadget(0, 10, 10, 230, 75) ButtonGadget(1, 60, 90, 140, 25, "Toggle Word Wrap") For i = 1 To 5 Text$ = Text$ + "This is a word wrap test - " Next i SetGadgetText(0, Text$) Repeat Select Wa...

On Windows 10 22H2 x64 and Windows 11 22H2 x64: OpenWindow(0, 100, 100, 200, 170, "Icon test") Repeat Until WaitWindowEvent() = #PB_Event_CloseWindow Compiler Options > Use icon If the icon filename contains Umlaut characters (for example: "VM-Überprüfung.Ico"), the file won't be...

yuki describes the above bug much better in his posting in "Bugs -IDE" and in his GitHub issue (even with two videos demonstrating the problem).

On my Windows 10 22H2 my PureBasic IDE has the horizontal size to just display 80 columns and I have the following preference settings: ToolsPanel > Options - Panel on the right side - Automatically hide the Panel: Activated - Milliseconds before hiding the Panel: 0 I have found these bugs: When the...

This also runs on linux, the only line I had to change was in the bibletext example: XIncludeFile "..\squint3.pbi" should be XIncludeFile "../squint3.pbi" (forward slash) For cross-platform compatibility you should never use "/" or "\" in your file paths but ...

This page is no more available, but I added it to the download page. https://www.purebasic.com/download.php Thank you for adding the minimum MacOS version to the download page. But unfortunately the minimum MacOS version for Mac hardware with M1/M2/ARM64 processors is incorrect. The first MacOS ver...

Certainly! M2 Macbook Air w/24 GB RAM -- got the error on both PB 6.02 and the latest beta. I'm running macOS Ventura 13.5.2 The error occurs on line 27: If CGDisplayModeIsUsableForDesktopGUI(DisplayMode) Thank you for your detailed answer! Would you please try to change the declaration of a long i...

mrbungle, thank you for your findings. Mindphazer has tested my API example from my 1st posting successfully with his M1 processor on his MacBook Pro 14 and MacOS 13.5.2 'Ventura'. It would possibly help if you tell us on which Apple hardware with M1 and M2 processor and on which MacOS versions my A...

This code throws an error on an M1 but works on Intel Got an invalid memory access error when using the ARM compiler (M2 CPU and > 16 GB). Does this terminal command work on your computers with M1 and M2 processor? system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType | grep Resolution: I posted the API example in my...

On my iMac 2019 with Intel processor and 27'' 5K screen PureBasic uses a wrong resolution on the desktop: ExamineDesktops() MessageRequester("Desktop size", Str(DesktopWidth(0)) + " x " + DesktopHeight(0)) On MacOS 13.5.2 'Ventura' the above program displays 2560 x 1440 . On the ...