Make money programming in Freebasic

[greenllll]

Is it possible to make money programming in Freebasic?
What areas can a freebasic programmer make money in?
automated web tasks that can earn money... maybe... OK, so, if one wanted to have a webpage automatically click an OK button whenever a commercial was finished playing, how would one go about doing that? Is it possible to have FB monitor whatever graphics are being displayed on Window's Vista's display card to read what's in a firefox browser's display & have the mouse click a button in the firefox browser based on what graphics popup at a given time?

That would be a very useful & cool functionality, but would it be difficult for such functionallity to be added to freebasic? Seriously, this would add immense power to this language.

On the other hand, how difficult is it for an intermediate/advanced freebasic programmer, who hasn't much of a handle on pointers, to apply his knowledge to C, or some free version of visual C? or even an object oriented languge like C++?

Is the functionallity basicaly the same, just different keywords & syntax? Freebasic is a totally awsome language. Still, it would be cool if it was a simple thing to apply this knowledge easily to learn C. PHP seems quite an easy thing to learn, if proficient in Freebasic. It has lots of source-code examples & explainations, which really makes a programming lanuage most learnable.

[TeeEmCee]

On the other hand, how difficult is it for an intermediate/advanced freebasic programmer, who hasn't much of a handle on pointers, to apply his knowledge to C, or some free version of visual C? or even an object oriented languge like C++?

Is the functionallity basicaly the same, just different keywords & syntax?

FB is almost a superset of C with different syntax. It borrows quite a lot of features from C++ as well. IMO the main divergence between C and FB, functionality wise, is that the FB preprocessor is much better, although it appears to be the same as the CPP, it works differently.

If you want to write C, understanding pointers is a requirement, however you can learn that while writing FB code, and just learn the difference in syntax later.

[ScriptBasic]

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[angros47]

Excuse me for my question... are you  John Spikowski?

[ScriptBasic]

Don't tell anyone. ;-)

Glad to be back.

[angros47]

Welcome back!

[greenllll]

C BASIC sound interesting.
The most useful & powerful additional BASIC function would allow the programmer to read the screen-buffer data from any program in Windows, and allow the programmer to send mouseclicks or "keyboard entered data" to that program's various textboxes.

[ScriptBasic]

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[angros47]

Actually, someone had thought of it earlier: QB64 has commands _SCREENIMAGE to read screen buffer, _SCREENCLICK to send mouse click events and _SCREENPRINT to simulate keyboard typing since 2010.

[ScriptBasic]

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[petan]

..ehm, pardon, what about we talkin' ?

Maybe I don't understand post title exactly, maybe I have different angle of view;
but YES. It is possible make money - earn money by programming in FB.
Of course surely not as stuffy drilled dron workin' for somebody for fixed month salary and makin' juice for him.

The web offers plenty of opportunities and unsolved questions.
Just surf it, search for an open questions - maybe after a few months of surfing you find interesting problem for breakin' under your leadership.
Use own head, existing STABLE FB features and solve the question.Then earn money everyday yourself.
How elementary - be free artist on your own.
And everything completely legally.Wonderfull.

[anonymous1337]

Yes, but why would you want to?

[anonymous1337]

That's right, greenlllllllllllllll.
http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/Freebasic ... on-1121682

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I'm watching you. Don't you dare make money programming in FreeBASIC.

See also this thread.