Pete's QBASIC Site

A QB/FB Markup Language and Browser

2009-12-03T07:54:30-05:00

QBROWSE is great, but it counld use some improvement. Where could I find the source code??

Statistics: Posted by wolfgang — Thu Dec 03, 2009 7:54 am

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2009-04-21T18:08:53-05:00

Thought I'd update. Two new QML readers are being written. One is by Trolly, a Belgian programmer, and is part of his new QuickBasic GUI Orion (which is worth checking out just for the GUI). A beta version is available for download. The other is by Sonicbrit and was just started, but it's worth mentioning. Also, Kyle (alias KSR) is writing one for his GUI, although I'm not sure how that's going.

Soon we will have >5 QML readers, but we still need more pages and interesting stuff to read. If anyone has ideas, leave them here.

Statistics: Posted by Pharoah — Tue Apr 21, 2009 6:08 pm

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2009-04-17T15:49:42-05:00

In case you're curious, the way things like WGET can be used to send data to the server (IE for a chat script), is to embed encoded data in the URL. For example, to send a chat from name "john" with message "hello world", you might do this:

wget http://example.com/chat.php?name=john&m ... ello+world

Statistics: Posted by Pharoah — Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:49 pm

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2009-04-17T10:52:40-05:00

aaahi see, thank you.

Statistics: Posted by bongomeno — Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:52 am

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2009-04-17T06:36:08-05:00

Different QML readers handle the network stuff in different ways. Both Qbrowse and CQML use an external program which can be invoked at the command line to download a file from URL. Qbrowse's is called GetNet, it's a very little and simple executable. CQML uses GNU WGET, which is cross-platform and has more features (google wget to read more about it).

Unfortunately I can't release the code to Qbrowse because after releasing the executable I changed things that messed it up, and I don't know how to fix it . Anyway I'm writing another open source reader & rendering engine now.

Qbrowse was the first QML reader, before the specification included forms and the like. For this reason, it's not interactive. The only place you can enter data is CURSOR, which has a formless entry method.

Statistics: Posted by Pharoah — Fri Apr 17, 2009 6:36 am

cool!!!

2009-04-17T02:41:25-05:00

VERY NICE PROGRAM!!!!!!!!!!!

how did you pull off the networking??? external librarie?

i would be delighted and so would many other people here to see some of the code. especially the networking stuff.

an example of how to network in qb would be appreciated. i would like to make my own chatroom or something.

also i had a problem with qbrowse. when i wanted to enter data on the chatroom page or forum, it would only allow me to edit the address bar.

Statistics: Posted by bongomeno — Fri Apr 17, 2009 2:41 am

A QB/FB Markup Language and Browser

2009-04-16T14:35:59-05:00

looks good.
I'll check it out!

Statistics: Posted by qbasicfreak — Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:35 pm

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2009-04-16T09:01:05-05:00

Thought I'd log in to say that QML has made slow but steady progress. There are many more QML utilities, some written in QB and FB, some in PHP, and a QML reader in Python, which will run on almost any machine known to man. Most of the news and things can still be found at:
http://pharoah.xetaspace.net/qbrowse/logo.qml

CURSOR right now has 23 pages in its index (there are more, but they are orphaned and not linked anywhere). I'm hoping to get more people interested in this project than just the folks at the GUI blog, so we can have more content available. Things we have now include:
- A chat script
- A forum
- A simple blog engine I wrote that you can update in CQML or PQML
- A blog about QB/FB GUIs that I just started using the above software
- Various other things in the works
- A program to pre-render QML pages to a file (called QGET)

I'm writing more than 2 new QML readers right now for various platforms.

EDIT:

Almost forgot, for the ASCII art folks I wrote an HTML/JavaScript paint program that outputs QML.
http://pharoah.xetaspace.net/paint

Statistics: Posted by Pharoah — Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:01 am

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2008-06-03T11:02:00-05:00

Well, if you do shoot me an email at AtlasSoft at the Gmail so I can link it, and it'll be crawled by CURSOR.

Statistics: Posted by Pharoah — Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:02 am

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2008-05-30T15:06:11-05:00

I really like this idea. I was going to make my own QML page and put it on my webhost... then my webhost died. Literaly. They are gone. I need to go find a new host... Again...

Statistics: Posted by Imortis — Fri May 30, 2008 3:06 pm

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2008-05-30T14:01:57-05:00

Sometimes you have to try loading multiple times with Qbrowse, but I wouldn't recommend using it. The latest Qbrowse release is also the first, and doesn't support forms or auto-refresh, which means no chat. You'd be better off using CQML, which works for windows and linux.

Statistics: Posted by Pharoah — Fri May 30, 2008 2:01 pm

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2008-05-29T17:27:50-05:00

Code:

Qbrowse Loaded.Reading server status...Status string read from server:    '$             _   _              _____        __ _    'STATUS STRING INVALID -- SERVER OR CONNECTION DOWN.PRESS ANY KEY TO CLOSE...

This is all I get...

Using Win98SE with SP 2.1

Statistics: Posted by TmEE — Thu May 29, 2008 5:27 pm

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2008-05-29T15:59:32-05:00

QML 2.1 is out now, with almost all the bugs fixed and a very reliably working forms system. There's a somewhat popular chat room I've implemented in QML where you can leave a message for people to answer later or chat in live with whoever happens to be there. Uses auto-refresh, but you can't really tell. Link is on the main page of my site or cursor search chat.

Statistics: Posted by Pharoah — Thu May 29, 2008 3:59 pm

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2008-05-13T13:37:26-05:00

Yep I released CQML 2 and 2.01 being the best browser out. But I'm working on 2.1 which will render better and have a lot of bugt fixes. I plan to keep the User Interface simple as I feel it adds to the overall retro-ness of it. There is a new site that will be the HTML center of the QML universe at: http://brandoncornell.com/qml

Go CQML!!

Statistics: Posted by Brandon — Tue May 13, 2008 1:37 pm

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2008-05-12T15:40:41-05:00

CQML is Brandon's QML client... It's been progressing quite a bit faster than mine. There are a couple bug fixes though that need to be out (CQML doesn't URL encode), but they should be done by Friday at the latest he tells me. I'm working on one called ViolaQML in FreeBASIC that will have a nice GUI to go with it, although the QB based browser hasn't been abandoned, only put on hold.

Statistics: Posted by Pharoah — Mon May 12, 2008 3:40 pm