I made a little Targa library to load and save graphics files natively, that is, in pure FreeBasic. I frequently use it when I don't want to incorporate 3rd party libraries into my programs, especially small programs for which so much code doesn't make much sense to add. I've posted this library som...

Hi, folks In GNU/Linux and Windows, when I make a graphics-based program and at some point, my program calls a shell, a new window pops up somewhere on the screen with the output from my commands. I'm wondering if it's possible to either keep this window minimised or hidden during execution or if it...

I didn't expect the solution to be so simple! And thanks for the details about the name. I had a big confusion with that. I see that, if my function calls graphics functions, I get a lot of undefined references when I try to call it from C. Is FBGFX not compiled into the library by default? Is there...

Neat! I remember having used this interrupt many times for the opposite purpose. Since real DOS normally defaulted to blinking, I would call the interrupt function to enable bright backgrounds. This was in real mode, though. Nice to see it can be called via DPMI in FreeBasic

I don't remember the exact details, but I vaguely remember there was a way to check whether a program was running under DOSBox by calling a function of int 2Fh (multiplex)...

I've been able to run functions in a C library from an FB program just fine (static), but when I try the other way around, there's something I'm doing wrong. My FB libary has the following code: Function Duplicate(v As Short) As Short Return 2 * v End Function So I do this: fbc -lib dupli.bas and I ...

Uhm... nope. That seems to be about the icon changing for some configurations. What I'm saying here is that, when you run a program compiled with FreeBasic, the icon that shows in the program bar is empty. If you run programs that have not been compiled with FreeBasic, you do see their icon. If you ...

Hi, guys. I've been compiling my programs with fbc and adding an icon for a long time and never had a problem with my previous distros, but now, since I've been using Linux Mint on Cinnamon, I've noticed that, when I run my compiled programs, the program icon doesn't show. Instead, in the panel, I'm...

Oh, I see it now... uhmm... nothing I can do then. I have to write my own assembly base line routine. Good thing is I only need to draw horizontal lines

Hi, guys. I'm trying this: ScreenRes 800, 600 Line (0, 100)-(500, 100), 15, , &H5555 GetKey What I'm getting is a horizontal line where the first 16 pixels display the style &H5555. The rest of the line is solid white. I'm using the newest version of FB, installed a few days ago, under GNU/L...

Great! Thank you so much!!
Where can a find a least of these definitions? I didn't find them when I was looking at the wiki. Surely not looking at the right place

I confirm it crashes on my end too. I am getting:
I'm running Linux Mint 20.3 64bit

Thanks, guys. Well... I really want to build my own. I would like to have total control of how it looks, so I wouldn't want to use a widget and I wouldn't want to make a mod for an existing one because I like programming. There are several e-mail clients that I like enough and are acceptable for me....

Not sure if something like this already exists, so I am either asking if there's something to do this or otherwise, I'm making a feature suggestion. The thing is, it would be very useful if there were a metacommand or pre-processor macro that would return a string containing the date (and maybe the ...

Hi! Thank you! This looks good. But this is C++ based, right. Is there more or less the same thing in C (non-OOP)? Anyway, this gives me a good place to start reading. Just for couriosity, which features do you miss in existing solutions? I want to do this mainly to acquire the knowledge and become ...