This job can be done with just a few lines of code. No need for a new FB feature. Function SplitString(StringToSplit As String = "", array() As String) As UInteger Dim As String text = StringToSplit 'remind StringToSplit as working copy Dim As UInteger b = 1, e = 1 'pointer to text, begin ...

Thank you for the hints. I'm looking for something like that since a long time. I've installed that app and it works.
I wonder if I could get my old WIN95 working with aFreeBox.

Not sure what you intend to do nor what exactly your problem is, but have a look at this modified sample from https://www.freebasic.net/wiki/KeyPgEncoding '' This example will: '' 1) Write a string to a text file with utf-16 encoding '' 2) Display the byte contents of the file '' 3) Read the text ba...

Have a look at https://users.freebasic-portal.de/grind ... /bipipe.bi, function bipOpen. Use SW_MINIMIZE as showmode value.

Pipes are communication channels between programs. To see how they they work have a look at one of my "babies", the Colochessum chess engine testing and evaluating program. The pipe stuff is coded in the bipipe.bi library. To see how the procedures are used search them in the colochessum.b...

Some time ago I tried something similar, exchanging the text of a string variable by writing the pointer to another text into the string descriptor. It worked quite well, but when I tried to write a new text to the string variable without changing everything back, the program crashed. It seems that ...

@PhiltheBear: That's the great of freeBasic, and the main reason why I like it: It is both simple and sophisticated, just as you want. For an absolute beginner it takes less than 10 minutes to get a "Hello world" printout, on the other hand you could write an operating system with it. Codi...

newby12 wrote: ↑Mar 13, 2022 1:26 I was playing with numeric strings and found a bug in FB

As you see, it's not a bug, it's a feature!

The # is a relic of old QBasic times, in FB it's not needed but still accepted for downward compatibility. It's up to you to use it or not.

But what use could it have to create a second account if you don't post anything there?

Just a suggestion: What about the reverse way? A noise source at the input of the audio device. This way a true RNG could be implemented that could never be hacked.

dodicat wrote: ↑Feb 24, 2022 11:33...unless world war three starts of course.

Speak of the devil and the devil shows up!

My 2 cents to jj2007: To ban him permanently was an overreaction and should be corrected, IMHO

St_W wrote: ↑Feb 21, 2022 21:18some quick button to say thanks / like / vote up a post or similar.

I'd endorse that.

Try searching the forum for "hinstance" and you get over a thousand results! Do you really consider this hint helpful? @ operator+ In FB it's quite simple: #Include "windows.bi" MessageBoxW(NULL, "First Program", "First", MB_OK) The rest of the work does the ...

Another approach: Function rolb4(value As UByte) As UByte Dim As UByte temp = value Shl 1 temp = IIf(Bit(value, 3), BitSet(temp, 0), BitReset(temp, 0)) Return (value And &b11110000) Or (temp And &b00001111) End Function Function rorb4(value As UByte) As UByte Dim As UByte temp = value Shr 1 ...