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Purebasic waitprogram example3/2/2023 ![]() Nearly all those alternative VD Tools, or Module Authors are not available,ĭid this happen after Fred stopped making so many updates?ĭid they think he would give up PureBasic? My impression when i was there last time was, that many people "run away" from Purebasic. How large is the PureBasic Community really at this time? Here is a more complete Listing of the Libraries that are included with PureBasic 5.41 LTS It does have XPRINT but this is not as good, as i see it. This way i could Print on a PDF Printer as well as on a Laser Printer getting the same results. Having said this, the reason why i chose PureBasic for my current Project is that it has an Vector-Print Library that Prints on any device with a constant size. Its so much faster then to handcode all the stuff. So far i coded today with PureBasic and the biggest problem i have is that i simply miss FireFly from Paul :-). I did not yet check if there are actually changes. Means in scientific cases you had to "Hand code" your Loops. How about Loops, can it make an "For i.f=0.001 TO 10.09 STEP 0.5" actually?ĭid not try. There is NO good VD for PureBasic anywhere.ĭid not Edwin have something in the Past?īesides that, Purebasic has some limitations from the Compiler for Example, it has no "GOSUB", but ok. It can not compete against FireFly (for Freebasic -and thats even Freeware). It does need a Updated Visual Designer - the built in is free, but even the commercial PureForm does not look better. " thats Dinosaur-Technology we had this until PowerBasic 8. Besides that PureBasic would need a second Pass, i do not like to always write "DECLARE. About the price, features and libraries, nearly all that you write is also my opinion.Ģ. Ok, about the Compiler, i see it like this:ġ. Possibly you do not even know the difference to FireFly, Phoenix 2 or even QTAB. Of course if you are used to PureBasic, thats just like you are used to a car XY and you get also used to deal with these shortcomings. Ok, in my Opinion, Powerbasic still has a lot of advantages in the Compiler and about the Visual Designers.īut Fred and the people there are aware of the shortcomings as i see it. ![]() The other Topic was about SpiderBasic mostly. I have splitted and remixed this Topic, because you are making an Comparison with PowerBasic.Īlso this way its easie to read for people. your wife says you have to keep using it.) but you paid good money for that hand-mower. You know, you could go out and buy a new riding lawn-mower. it gets the job done, but you're left dripping wet with sweat. Using PowerBASIC is like using a hand-mower to cut your lawn. Here's some critical things about PowerBASIC maximum number of source lines: 800 lines (approximate. no development kit for external libraries you can't use the whole external Win32 API support The demo-version of PureBasic is limited as shown below: The 'DEMO' version of PureBasic is available at: PureBasic 5.41 (latest is always available). Used how it was intended, it's perfectly adequate.īesides PureBasic is 'MILES' ahead of PowerBASIC in many areas.Īll FREE for you to use 'if you wish' (yes, if used, they will add some size to your EXE)Īnd, besides the above, there's at least 2 gigs of samples located on the PB forums (just checkout the Tips and Tricks sub-forum) With that in mind, the book by Wyken Seagrave "B4A Rapid Android App Development Using Basic" is highly recommended.In PureBasic the Visual Designer is a free add-on to help a few 'NEW' people to get started with simple Windows forms. It takes a village to raise a competent programmer. To be honest, most developers are not educators and it takes a monumental effort to write or make video tutorials with the mindset of a beginner, especially smaller companies that are one-man shows or only a few developers. Of course, one can totally bypass the need for a console app by using the internal IDE debugger for interactive feedback. See here what it would look like to produce a similar console application in B4X. A simple input/output console-only program in QB64 would require only a few lines of code and will work in other variations of BASIC such as Liberty Basic, BBC with slight tweaks. So an interactive console-only application is not quite as interactive as say running a similar program in other languages. Knowledge of using the command line to run a JAR file is necessary as well to run console-only programs. The syntax can get quite complex compared to some other languages when creating console-only programs. ![]() Also since B4X is a wrapper for Java, it may take some knowledge of Java to learn B4X - for example when creating a console-only application. Some Programming Experience may be needed The getting started and basic language guides appear to assume some prior programming knowledge which may confuse the beginner programmer. ![]()
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