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In certain DOS commands, you need Quotation marks in the command. CHR$(34) is simply a ". However, QB would think that was a string marker if you just used that. The character is preserved in the string command for use by DOS only. Look up the ASCII character codes somewhere. They are an important p...

There are two ways this can happen. 1) The QB.EXE file cannot find a file outside of it's folder. Thus it asks for the path to it's folder files. You need to put the paths to all of QuickBasics EXE, Help, Include, and Library files into the Options menu of the IDE if they are not in the same folder ...

Loops are pretty fast, so you can make it appear to be doing two things at once. The only problem is if a procedure in the loop creates a delay of some kind. To print both the player and badguy you can print them both in a loop, but you will also have to find the new column and row too. This could b...

Ya better get used to them Mac, I hear that VB6 and VISTA don't like each other much.

So hi ho hi ho it's off to .NET we go.

Sounds like one of those errors M$ never fixed...........

Ted

The process is a little hard to grasp at first. The Header.Pal string actually holds ASCII characters of the color values. If an asterisk (CHR$(42)) is in the string the color value = ASC("*") or 42. So you start reading the string with Blue = ASC(MID$(Header.pal, p, 1)) where p is a FOR loop variab...

I don't think that BMP.BAS has any padder for the bitmap width and will skew some images. The following is the Bitmap Header Information from WOTSIT.org : TYPE BmpHeaderType Id AS STRING * 2 'Should be "BM" Size AS LONG 'Size of the data rr1 AS INTEGER rr2 AS INTEGER Offset AS LONG 'Position of star...

Well, that program looked like it should have worked, and after a lot of tries, I posted it at Network 54 Qbasic Forum and a guy got it working using PEEK instead of string manipulation of the color palette string. And it still cannot do large bitmaps in SCREEN 13! And now my old bitmap loaders will...

What do you mean by somewhat? Can you see the IDE header? How small does it get?

Not everybody uses graphics in QB and needs Bitmaps either. I got a bitmap loader from here and the code did not even run! It took me a while to get it working, but it is still posted here wrong. It uses Interrupts to load SCREEN 13 bitmaps, but it still cannot load a full screen. If anybody wants t...

Any time you change SCREEN modes, the screen is cleared like CLS!

You can't have your cake and minimize too!

Try making your graph using ASCII characters in SCREEN 0 (default).

SNARK!!!!!!!!!!

Might as well call him a SNARK!

He is absolutely rude about giving thanks!

You can go to a window mode if you change to SCREEN 0: SCREEN 12 CIRCLE (200, 200), 50, 12 SLEEP 'will not allow you to hit Enter without changing mode SCREEN 0 PRINT "Hit Alt- Enter to window" DO: LOOP UNTIL INKEY$ = CHR$(27) 'escape exit But not in the middle of a graphics screen. Ted

You will need a decent picture editing program like Paint Shop or Photoshop. You might be able to use a decent scanner photo editor. Look around for one. The reason you need a decent editor is that QB can only use bitmaps of 4 or 8 Bits Per Pixel for images to be displayed in color. SCREEN 13 is bes...

Wherever you produce output, also print it to the screen.
Example
PRINT #1, "Total: "; TotalSales
would be changed to
PRINT #1, "Total: "; TotalSales
PRINT "Total: "; TotalSales

The obvious answer:
Wherever you produce output, also print it to the screen.
Example
PRINT #1, "Total: "; TotalSales
would be changed to
PRINT #1, "Total: "; TotalSales
PRINT "Total: "; TotalSales

You can OUT a key value using &H60 on 98 and older machines. XP will not allow changes to settings in the BIOS keyboard including lites. Try the following to get the key press and release codes. Do: press$ = INKEY$ code = INP(&H60) locate 20, 20: PRINT press$; code LOOP UNTIL press$ = CHR$(27) The r...

Bullfeathers! I found this post all over the QB sites. Don't play games with people you jerk! Your the one not playing right by QB.

Windows 98 already can use a port. If you need to add one use a cheap PCI card port. USB is tough in 98. Near impossible in XP because it protects the ports from access. Try PortTalk in XP

I made some programs to monitor the serial and parallel ports. The problem is that I want to try to get some input from people that have devices on them. Whether they be something they made or a normal device to see how the programs perform. Eventually I want to be able to get QB to be able to work ...