FreeBasic Version 1.00

Paul Squires · September 19, 2014, 08:12:22 PM

Ahhhh, I see what you mean now

Petrus Vorster · September 20, 2014, 03:28:51 AM

I love this vibe that is suddenly back in the forum.
Any posts on new things happening makes me very happy and positive.
Eventually all the bits and bytes will fall in place.
Down here in the South, its SPRING and what nicer way to see a positive future can one want?
Thanks for that!

Brice Manuel · September 20, 2014, 05:26:28 PM

I have been very happy with the recent progress of FB. It seems like there is a new fire burning on the development side of things and the forums are more alive than they have been in a long time.

QuoteReading that post from Jim regarding his belief that 64 bit is unneeded leaves me shaking my head.

I debunked his nonsense about 64-bit quite some time ago on Jose's forum. Many developers have outgrown the 32-bit memory limitations. Server-based applications come to mind, along with video games (which is why many new games that have come out are 64-bit only) and multi-media applications.

QuoteI assume that Tom Hanlin is still working on the compiler. Haven't heard anything there in a long time and after IBasic, I do not have a warm fuzzy feeling.

If Tom is working on the compiler, then there is no hope for a new version. His wonderful legacy with IBasic aside, what Tom has done to PB is even more disastrous. His greatest contribution to PB has been the buggy and crash prone IDE that does not properly handle large source files and looks like something out of the 16-bit era. His "includes" are equally as buggy and are often improperly calling an API in a way it shouldn't be called. Luckily, decent virus software will flag a lot of software written with PB to protect the end user from these shoddy programs. Using Jose's includes usually alleviates these issues. I still can't figure out Tom's late-nigh drunken rant against Jose and Jose's includes.

QuoteIn my opinion, if it wasn't for the tireless work of Gary Beene, PB would be pretty much a ghost town.

Indeed. But, he is a Texan and they are definitely a special breed.

Quote(I hate sounding so pessimistic!!!! Sorry about that. The decline of PB makes me very upset.)

It does me too. Like last year, Jim disappeared when school started. If this is a repeat of last year, we won't see him until the spring of 2015.

Even though the owner/developer of HotBasic makes Chris Boss look sane, I have considered purchasing HotBasic. But, I have been unable to afford it at this time. I am not sure it has seen any development in recent years, anyway.

Luckily, FB seems to have caught it's second wind.

José Roca · September 20, 2014, 10:10:43 PM

Please, alert me if they ever add native support for Ole strings. For Windows programming this is paramount.

James Fuller · September 22, 2014, 05:28:16 PM

Paul,
I just did an investigation on what it would take to convert the win 32 headers to 64.
I doubt I will see it in my lifetime (I am an old fart)

dkl made the wrong decision in my opinion.
Enough FreeBasic; back to my UbxWx project.

James

Paul Squires · September 22, 2014, 06:11:13 PM

I have been using the new FB for the past week and I'm loving it

I am working through creating a gui framework that I can use as the base for future projects. It is looking pretty good at the moment. Once I flush it out a bit more then I'll post it for comments.

I am not too concerned about the 64 bit version yet because I am not currently interested in any cross-platform library work. The WinAPI header files will be converted eventually and that will be sufficient for me. For now, I am content getting back into the FB swing of things using the 32 bit version.

Jim Dunn · September 23, 2014, 09:50:27 AM

Meanwhile...

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32/README

...already including 128-bit floats.

Brice Manuel · September 29, 2014, 10:30:42 PM

Quote from: TechSupport on September 22, 2014, 06:11:13 PM
I have been using the new FB for the past week and I'm loving it

I am working through creating a gui framework that I can use as the base for future projects. It is looking pretty good at the moment. Once I flush it out a bit more then I'll post it for comments.

I am not too concerned about the 64 bit version yet because I am not currently interested in any cross-platform library work. The WinAPI header files will be converted eventually and that will be sufficient for me. For now, I am content getting back into the FB swing of things using the 32 bit version.

Glad to see you getting your mojo back