There are Hackintosh versions out there. I've never had a successful result. Probably best to find someone who has a MAC and is willing to let you compile on it.

JohnK Thank you for your response. As I said in my post, I appreciate that there are several libraries available. I want to become proficient in the use of the Windows API and hence using this is intended as being a means to do so. If I was going to use a library FLTK, which I have already on my com...

To partly answer my own post, I have played around with the code from bojan.dosen and have come up with code to set up a grid of editboxes. Is there a better way? '===================================================== ' GRID OF TEXTBOXES from original code by bojan.dosen ' 1 Mar 2009 Freebasic Forum...

I found some very useful code from bojan.dosen on 1 March 2009 in respect of simple controls using calls to the Windows API. What I would like to do is to set up a grid using editboxes (say 3 x 3 for starters) and be able to place text in the editboxes and retrieve text from the editboxes. I know th...

If users want to move away from Freebasic because it is too much like C++ and they want to work only on the Windows platform, I found the easiest Basic to write GUI programs is Liberty Basic, or to be more exact LB Booster. The latter is almost completely compatible with LB (it provides additional f...

I'm using Windows 8.1 64bit. I did a search both digitally and manually and no sign of windows.bi.

I've downloaded the up-to-date inc folder and there it is, windows.bi.

I'll have to get round to updating to the new edition though.

Thanks very much for your help.

From the FB website.

I have searched high and low but can't find windows.bi, which is essential for many programs. It's not in the inc folder, where I'd expect it to be.

How can I get it, or have I just to reinstall and see if it arrives this time.