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GUI / Re: GetTextSize
Last post by Egil - October 05, 2023, 01:24:35 PMYou are quite right Brian, didn't remember that one.
But when seing the source, I see that you have converted it from Creative Basic. At that time I was a hard core CB addict.
Egil
But when seing the source, I see that you have converted it from Creative Basic. At that time I was a hard core CB addict.
Egil
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GUI / GetTextSize
Last post by Brian - October 05, 2023, 09:45:41 AMHi, here's a simple program from Egil that he did 13 years ago. I bet he's forgotten all about it!
Shows how to use GETTEXTSIZE in a program
Brian
Shows how to use GETTEXTSIZE in a program
Brian
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User Offerings / Remove Chrome's message about ...
Last post by Andy - October 01, 2023, 04:12:15 AMFor those of you that are using an older version of windows such as Win 7 or 8.x and use the Chrome browser, you will have noticed that every time you open Chrome it reminds you that Win 7 / 8 is now unsupported.
Here's an easy way to remove that nagging message...
1. Press the windows key and type in Regedit
2. Right click on Regedit / Registry Editor and select "run as administrator"
3. Now navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies
Now, step 4, Right click on Policies and select "new key" call it Google (if there isn't already a key called that) - Important - make sure you spell Google with a capital G!
5. Now Right click on the new "Google" key
6. Select "New key" call it Chrome (if there isn't already a key called that) - Make sure Chrome is with a capital C!
7. Right click on the Chrome key and select "New DWORD (32 bit)
8. Name this new DWORD SuppressUnsupportedOSWarning
9. Set the value to 1
10. Exit the registry editor and restart windows.
See attachment, if you've done it correctly it should look like that.
Now, when you go to open Chrome that message should be gone!
Andy.
Here's an easy way to remove that nagging message...
1. Press the windows key and type in Regedit
2. Right click on Regedit / Registry Editor and select "run as administrator"
3. Now navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies
Now, step 4, Right click on Policies and select "new key" call it Google (if there isn't already a key called that) - Important - make sure you spell Google with a capital G!
5. Now Right click on the new "Google" key
6. Select "New key" call it Chrome (if there isn't already a key called that) - Make sure Chrome is with a capital C!
7. Right click on the Chrome key and select "New DWORD (32 bit)
8. Name this new DWORD SuppressUnsupportedOSWarning
9. Set the value to 1
10. Exit the registry editor and restart windows.
See attachment, if you've done it correctly it should look like that.
Now, when you go to open Chrome that message should be gone!
Andy.
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IWB3.x Bug Reports / Re: IDE crashes
Last post by Egil - September 30, 2023, 08:52:37 AMI'm just back home for the weekend, and go back to the hospital monday morning.
Today I suddenly remembered the old EB installer that is free for paid members to download.
Since I got rid of the EB IDE long time ago, I downloaded and tried it on the same computer that now refuse to run IWB properly.
There are no issues at all with running EB on this computer. And since the difference between IWB and EB is minimal, I think I'll use it instead of IWB until the problems the "Larries" are working on is fixed.
I realize that any source code made with EB must be adjusted slightly to be accepted by IWB at compile time, but this might just be helpful for those struggling right now.
If you doesn't already have a copy of EB, it can be downloaded from this locoation:
https://www.ionicwind.com/forums/index.php?topic=4728.0
This might possibly buy some extra time for the "Larries" to fix the problems as well.
Good luck!
Egil
Today I suddenly remembered the old EB installer that is free for paid members to download.
Since I got rid of the EB IDE long time ago, I downloaded and tried it on the same computer that now refuse to run IWB properly.
There are no issues at all with running EB on this computer. And since the difference between IWB and EB is minimal, I think I'll use it instead of IWB until the problems the "Larries" are working on is fixed.
I realize that any source code made with EB must be adjusted slightly to be accepted by IWB at compile time, but this might just be helpful for those struggling right now.
If you doesn't already have a copy of EB, it can be downloaded from this locoation:
https://www.ionicwind.com/forums/index.php?topic=4728.0
This might possibly buy some extra time for the "Larries" to fix the problems as well.
Good luck!
Egil
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GUI Central / Copying a Window
Last post by Brian - September 25, 2023, 08:37:01 AMNoticed someone looking at Sapero's code for copying a window, and thought it looked interesting. Put this together - not perfect, but there again, I'm not Sapero!
Don't know how to copy the buttons, so don't ask...
Run the program, click the top button to copy the left window to the right, and then you can click the bottom button to save the right window as a jpeg, in the same folder as your program
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Don't know how to copy the buttons, so don't ask...
Run the program, click the top button to copy the left window to the right, and then you can click the bottom button to save the right window as a jpeg, in the same folder as your program
BrianNo message is associated with this attachment.
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Games and Graphics / Load PNG image
Last post by Brian - September 22, 2023, 07:54:40 AMThought I would share this snippet for anyone who is interested. Shows how to load a PNG image into an IWB window. The graphic is one I did a while ago for a program of Andy's
Brian
Brian
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IWB3.x Bug Reports / Re: IDE crashes
Last post by Rock Ridge Farm (Larry) - September 21, 2023, 02:18:12 PMI have the new src and comparing it to see what changed.
Larry
Larry
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IWB3.x Bug Reports / Re: IDE crashes
Last post by jayelbee - September 21, 2023, 10:14:29 AMFor what its worth, wikipedia says that a new version
of Scintilla was released on 7/23/23.
of Scintilla was released on 7/23/23.
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IWB3.x Bug Reports / Re: IDE crashes
Last post by LarryMc - September 20, 2023, 01:36:54 PMWhen I built the IWB IDE I looked at the possibility of using what I had learned, codewise, and making an IDE for Creative Basic and Aurora. In both cases it was the compiler code portions of the code that I couldn't make mesh up for me to make it work. So, I agree totally with the idea with having an IDE that looked the same for all 3 but I couldn't make it happen back then.
My brainstorm now is to let you write a iwb file in any txt editor and then compile it in my program that I'm going to call IWB-.
I'm calling it that since we have IWB and IWB+
My brainstorm now is to let you write a iwb file in any txt editor and then compile it in my program that I'm going to call IWB-.
I'm calling it that since we have IWB and IWB+
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IWB3.x Bug Reports / Re: IDE crashes
Last post by Egil - September 20, 2023, 01:09:19 PMQuote from: LarryMc on September 20, 2023, 11:50:14 AMI am currently working on something along that line and LarryS is looking into the Scintilla library.
That's great Larry. And if it really is a Scintilla problem, do we really need it? I'm convinced that someone here on the forum will be able to write a suitable IDE, maybe one suitable for all three IW "dialects". By the way, has someone tried working with Aurora lately? If it still works, it might be a good idea to inspect the source code for the Aurora IDE.
Good luck!
Egil