Pete's QBASIC Site

So i was looking at Pharos Qbrowse.... Its a very cool program.
It inspired me to make my own browser and language.

I already made a homepage (with a bunch of links to my other pages) in it and my friend is making one to.

I call it 'Win Browse SML Viewer' (sml means small markup language)

Win Browse consists of 2 programs that work together.
One is the browser and the other handles the network stuff.
The only big difference really is that I wrote the program that
downloads the webpage.

the browser is written in: QBasic
and the page downloader: Blitz Basic

the features of sml are:
- color text (16 colors or -1 to flash random ones)
- links (press space and type the link number, max of 99 links per page)
- horizontal lines
- no popups or network code or other scripts gets mixed with the page
- very simple/fairly fast

example .sml page: ill post the link for a download asap.[/code]

Nice work! SML reminds me of wiki style markup langauges. It's definitely a different approach from the one I've taken.

You should try writing a QML reader, though. You'd have more pages to test it on, for one thing, although like I said the count is only 20 something right now (including a QB split function tutorial I wrote).

I have written a couple of downloader programs myself, one in FB and one in Python, but I find that wget tends to have a lot nicer features and it works on a bunch of platforms. I wrote a similar program called Qget that pre-renders QML pages and after fetching them using the ChiSock network routines for FreeBasic.

here is the link to download Win Browse.
extract the zip file and run wb.exe.
post here for help.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=2051 ... f6e8ebb871

Interesting... I'm trying to write a SML=>QML converter thing in PHP to link the SML and QML nets. I can't figure out what COLOR=-1 does, though.

EDIT:

Converter half done. You can see it in a QML reader at
http://pharoah.xetaspace.net/sml

You can also view it through the online QML viewer (which is very primitive) at
http://pharoah.xetaspace.net/webview/in ... ce.net/sml

PS: You know you can use ' instead of REM, right? Also, you can omit LET altogether .

Wow, dude thats nice!
Ill try to make a qml browser if i can as well as a qml page of my own
btw the -1 color causes it to flash random colors on the line as you scroll.

Hmm, well I couldn't replicate the random color flashing with my PHP script but I did make it select a random color. I like the effect, though .

Just wondering how your QML reader is coming along... It's kind of a fun project to work on. Right now I'm writing another version of Qbrowse

ive actually put my networking projects on the side for a few days because of school and my learning ASM. I will definitly work on it more soon. =]

This might sound like a dumb thing to ask, but does anybody still have this program? My computer it COMPLETELY destroyed and I lost most of my stuff. If you still have it, could you please email it to me at bongo_meno@yahoo.com or post it somewhere where I can download it. I would like to work on it again.

thanks.

You should always backup your stuff!

Go to a place like 4shared.com and put your files there for free. All you have to remember is to log in once a month.

I know that this thread is old, but I think I should say this.

My friend still had the program and gave it to me, so I posted it on my website. www.geekbasic.webs.com

I thought I should say this just in case someone passing by wanted to check it out.