Problem with QuickBasic 7.1

ReiKo.cry · Post by **ReiKo.cry** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 4:01 pm

Hi

Anyway, I'm having problem with running QuickBasic 7.1 on my Windows XP SP2 machine. I never had problems with it until i buyed new keyboard and now I get this error and when I try to type in code, letters are all strange (for example : I press letter "U" and it writes down letter : "B" or some nubmer or weird sign).

This is error message :

"One or more CON code pages invalid for given keyboard code".

Can anyone help me?

Thank you.

Post by **burger2227** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 4:30 pm

Does the keyboard work OK in Windows?

Sounds like the keyboard is not a standard keyboard for your language settings.

ReiKo.cry · Post by **ReiKo.cry** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 4:54 pm

Keyboard works OK in Windows.
It's Logitech keyboard.

I did try QBASIC and it works, but I need it to work in QuickBasic (4.5 or 7.1 it dosen't matter).

Mentat · Post by **Mentat** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 8:25 pm

Can you type in Notepad or any other text editor?
There's another in command prompt, if you like the feel of the QB IDE.

ReiKo.cry · Post by **ReiKo.cry** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 4:26 am

In Notepad I can type without problem, everything works.
When I run QuickBasic 7.1 from command prompt I still have the same errors.

Mentat · Post by **Mentat** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 6:35 am

You can type your code in notepad, save it with a .bas extension, then open it up in QB.

It might give you the same problems, but in command prompt, type edit and you'll get an editor similar to QB's. Blue and ascii and all. But it isn't a compiler, so you'll still have to save with .bas .

ReiKo.cry · Post by **ReiKo.cry** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 6:58 am

Can't I just fix problem with QuickBasic IDE, don't tell me that noone had this problem before?

Thanks.

Mentat · Post by **Mentat** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 7:04 am

ReiKo.cry wrote:Can't I just fix problem with QuickBasic IDE, don't tell me that noone had this problem before?

Thanks.

If you want to rewrite it...

It sounds much harder than it looks. I think QB will open up a file if you put it's name next to run QB as a parameter, then run it.

ReiKo.cry · Post by **ReiKo.cry** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 7:29 am

This dosen't work for me... any alternative for QuickBasic language, but another IDE(with compiling).

Thanks.

Seb McClouth · Post by **Seb McClouth** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:19 am

Run edit from the command line and see if the problem still exist there. if it does it means your DOS-keyboard setting aren't okay and you'll need to set them manually or you could just install dosbox.

grtz

ReiKo.cry · Post by **ReiKo.cry** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:47 am

Hi!

Yes! When I try using edit from command line, the problem is still there.
Any ideas how to fix it?

Mentat · Post by **Mentat** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:50 am

Hm. Maybe the computer interprets some of the keyboard stuff (or all) in unicode, but the 16-bit stuff doesn't?

ReiKo.cry · Post by **ReiKo.cry** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:14 pm

It works in DOSBOX but signs like : ",$()/&

are not on numeric, but they are all mixed up.

Post by **burger2227** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:03 pm

Let me guess. You already threw the old keyboard away! If not, try it and see what happens. Otherwise FORGET ABOUT IT! You are apparently too stubborn to try another one!

Seb McClouth · Post by **Seb McClouth** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:04 pm

There could be another problem. I sometimes have the same. Make sure you a US keyboard and not UK keyboard. And also check which kind of driver is installed, a US or UK. Because my laptop is UK-based, as it came from there, but when I use DOSBOX, I have to change the keyboard layout to UK because it standard uses US-layout.

Btw what country are you in? Because there's lot of countries which use QWERTY-keyboards but where the numeric stuff and other signs are diffrent.

Grtz

ReiKo.cry · Post by **ReiKo.cry** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:23 pm

Well, I'm from Croatia, and now I did change my Regional settings > Languages > Details into " English (US) ".

Now it works but I dont think this is solution cause I'm not from USA

.

Anyways, the shift + 2 is not " in QuickBasic IDE , or I'm just missing something??

Thanks.

Seb McClouth · Post by **Seb McClouth** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:04 pm

Try to find out if your keyboard is Croatian or Brithish because SHIFT + 2 making " is the same on my keyboard.

I'm checking some stuff out. There is a possiblity that you need to set your keyboard in DOS to Croatian... the commandline I mean by that... not DosBOX... Lemme see... apparently there's no way to do that in the command line...

For DOSBOX you could try KEYB yu.

Grtz

Mentat · Post by **Mentat** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:46 pm

Oooohhhh. I gotta ask.

Does your keyboard come with an 'any' key?

ReiKo.cry · Post by **ReiKo.cry** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:57 pm

Seb McClouth wrote:Try to find out if your keyboard is Croatian or Brithish because SHIFT + 2 making " is the same on my keyboard.

I'm checking some stuff out. There is a possiblity that you need to set your keyboard in DOS to Croatian... the commandline I mean by that... not DosBOX... Lemme see... apparently there's no way to do that in the command line...

For DOSBOX you could try KEYB yu.

Grtz

Well shift + 2 works for " sign everywhere except in QBASIC IDE.

ReiKo.cry · Post by **ReiKo.cry** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 3:06 pm

It dosent work with old keyboard.

Thx for calling me stubborn.