Is there a reason you spam your competing product in every thread about this language? And why have the moderators allowed you to do it nearly 3000 times? No doubt this is why there's a dearth of people using Freebasic, everybody who expects to read about it on this forum ends up with an advert abou...

PaulSquires wrote:Maybe you can see where I might be going wrong.

It won't fix any problems you may have but you're leaking the handle to the read end of the pipe. The write end is closed, but not the read. The MSDN example the code is based off has the same error so you translated it too perfectly :-)

Does anyone seen fbc's gfxlib2 DirectX driver working on Win7+ 64-bit with fbc 64-bit program? This is broken because somebody hardcoded the size of the DIDATAFORMAT rather than using sizeof, and since it contains pointers, isn't the same for 32 and 64. Changing this line https://github.com/freebas...

I got its plaintext life down to 0.72ms on encryption and 0.0038ms on decryption. Paranoid? Guilty, but I don't think that Bruce Schneier would call me paranoid. If you're paranoid better get off of PB too. It doesn't support stack smash canaries, Control Flow Guard or SafeSEH*, you know the relati...

It's fun how on literally every forum, the people who post introductory "Hi this is my first post, I hope I'll be productive here" type things generally don't ever make any posts other than that one, while the people who post "I'm not ever posting here again because I hate things abou...

I make good use of the dwRefData parameter. Right. How would you do this, using dwRefData? Probably the same way. Except it'd be more protected against random changes. You know, since anybody with the HWND can SetWindowLong to change the user data at any time (in any app!). Sure that's not gonna ha...

This has been in Windows for a while, the powershell thing is (probably) just a wrapper around it.

certutil -hashfile fileName HashType

Hashtype is MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512

What I personally find somewhat distressing, in this whole discussion is: the neglection of ERROR checking, for "speed's sake" ... I'm not willing to do that since, it masks errors from calling code like: 1) a target string without allocated memory 2) the same, with un-allocated zstring p...