Hello, everyone! Have just updated the source for 0.90.1, recompiled, and tested under Windows 8; working well now, as version 1.35. Love that smooth FB flow! The URL is still here:

http://www.ibiblio.org/joshuacorps/prt2win/

Do you think it possible to add something like FONTSIZE=NN ? This would help plaintext printers, including users of this:

http://www.ibiblio.org/joshuacorps/prt2win/

J.E.B.

I have been testing this code: ' Includes. #include "vbcompat.bi" #include "crt/ctype.bi" ' Definitions. ' A variable of type TF is either True or False. Enum TF F = 0 T = Not(F) End Enum ' Declarations. Declare Function LoadFile(Filename As WString Ptr, LoadBuffer As WString Ptr...

Has the bom=opt been included in the latest? I was trying to make it work: Dim fhandle As Integer Dim fname As WString * 1024 fname = "t.txt" fhandle = Freefile Open fname For Input Encoding "utf8,bom=opt" As fhandle Print Err End with a plain ASCII t.txt of nineteen characters, ...

Thanks much, v1c; did just as you suggested.

The docs say that Kill and Shell and FileDateTime take String or ZString; will they actually handle WSTRING on Unicode platforms?

No problemo, Jeff - printing is obviously rather tricky, and I'm glad you're so good on it. I'll be recompiling prt2win from the CVS FB in a few days, I think :)

Bonjour! And I made a mistake. Let me start again. The first question I should ask is, Are you using OPEN LPT for printing? If you are not, you should, because you will be able to control results much better under Windows: under Windows, LPRINT uses driver text imaging, and OPEN LPT does not, unless...

Denewton, are you opening the printer in RAW mode? You will have to do that, if you want your printer codes to work.

V1ctor, thanks for writing. Yes, I blew a chunk of time myself a while back trying to compile ncurses under MSYS; I do believe that it's not going to happen, or at least, anytime soon. But ncurses and CDK do compile and run very well under Cygwin. I'll tell you what: if you convert the CDK headers a...

Well, I worked at my big project a while, and my conclusion is, I'll have to have a real text-mode widget set, I'll just be adding ridiculously unnecessary work building another one. The only truly cross-platform text widget set I know of, is CDK, which works with ncurses. Anyone tried CDK/ncurses i...

In other words, set up the variable using DIM SHARED outside all scope blocks, outside all subs, functions, loops, and if/then's, but use a simple REDIM (without SHARED) within the scope blocks as need be. It's a limitation I appreciate and don't mind at all, because it keeps memory handling very cl...

I am actually an old-schooler (was once quite good with IBM PC BASICA), and I find FB just plain delightful. QB and its precursors were designed for monotasking, 100%-CPU, interpreted environments, and several compilers were strange hacks (anyone remember something called BASRUN????); FB is a whole ...

That comes awful close to nearly-malware :) Definitely, if I installed any code off the Net that did that to my machine without very explicit permission, it would be deinstalled very quickly!

BUFFERS=80 has nothing to do with the keyboard buffer!!! If you're on anything after Windows 98, definitely take it out again! Although if you did put in the typo BUFFER= instead of BUFFERS=, it probably didn't do anything at all, and if I remember right it is functional only in CONFIG.SYS anyhow. B...