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#31

José Roca Software / Re: Proof of Concept Tiko and ...

Last post by Richard Kelly - April 29, 2026, 04:15:52 PM

Thank you for the heads up on cmdline. I didn't know about that and it works nicely. I uploaded my work with the goal in mind to learn more about best practices I can use going forward.

#32

José Roca Software / Re: Proof of Concept Tiko and ...

Last post by José Roca - April 29, 2026, 03:29:21 PM

Congratulations. I can't test it right now because I'm too busy and your code deserves the right attention.

Ome small observation: With the latest versions of FreeBasic, it is no longer necessary to use '#CONSOLE ON / '#CONSOLE OFF pr '#RESOURCE resource.rc.

Now I'm using cmdline, i.e.

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#cmdline "-s console"   ' console application
#cmdline "-s gui"       ' gui application
#cmdline "resource.rc"  ' resource file


#33

José Roca Software / Proof of Concept Tiko and AFXN...

Last post by Richard Kelly - April 29, 2026, 02:50:46 PM

Find attached a ported version of my calendrical calculations class.

Rename resource.txt to resource.rc
Rename calendar.ico.txt to calendar.ico

Put cCalendar.bi somewhere and update cCalendar.bas INCLUDE.

I updated Tiko and put resource.rc as a command line argument.

cCalendar.bas has default locations for all the timezones. You can change those locations to customize to your locale.

#34

José Roca Software / Re: CXpButton

Last post by Richard Kelly - April 29, 2026, 02:31:39 AM

Thank you Jose. Using your example for a colored button, I was able to keep theming for everything else and get the button and text background color set to my main window color. Works perfectly.

#35

José Roca Software / Re: CXpButton

Last post by José Roca - April 29, 2026, 12:21:43 AM

Yes. See: https://github.com/JoseRoca/AfxNova/blob/main/Templates/SDK%20Templates/CW_XPButton_01.bas

#36

José Roca Software / CXpButton

Last post by Richard Kelly - April 28, 2026, 10:17:34 PM

Are there any examples available for using CXpButton?

#37

PlanetSquires Software / Re: Tiko Editor v1.3.0 release

Last post by Richard Kelly - April 27, 2026, 11:16:18 PM

I did spent most of the last 6 months in 2025 learning Python for giggles and I ported my calendrical calculations. On GitHub at:

https://github.com/Crooit/Calendrical_Calculations-Python

#38

PlanetSquires Software / Re: Tiko Editor v1.3.0 release

Last post by Paul Squires - April 27, 2026, 09:45:37 AM

After 50 years as a software engineer it took me around 3-4 years to get motivated after retirement. Perhaps you will take less time.

Yup, I tend to go in waves since I retired. Lots going on in real life these days so programming has taken a little back seat. I expect within the next few weeks that everything will return to regular daily life and I'll return to my programming passions.

FYI, I ported a winfbe project to tiko and AFX Nova. I was a bit rusty and it took me 3 days to get it done. The resultant EXE was 40% smaller.

That's awesome! AfxNova is amazing. I built Tiko using a fair amount from the AfxNova library. DWSTRING dynamic unicode string by itself is worth its weight in gold. Just about anything you need for Windows application programming can be found within the library. José has done an amazing job designing and implementing the library.

#39

PlanetSquires Software / Re: Tiko Editor v1.3.0 release

Last post by Richard Kelly - April 26, 2026, 10:56:19 PM

After 50 years as a software engineer it took me around 3-4 years to get motivated after retirement. Perhaps you will take less time.

 

FYI, I ported a winfbe project to tiko and AFX Nova. I was a bit rusty and it took me 3 days to get it done. The resultant EXE was 40% smaller.

#40

PlanetSquires Software / Re: Tiko Editor v1.3.0 release

Last post by Paul Squires - April 26, 2026, 10:32:25 PM

Thanks Richard, appreciate it! I need to start working on the next update. Trying to motivate myself