Pete's QBASIC Site

A very good IDE in dos already exists

I checked the site. RHIDE seems to have a limited scope (i.e. only for DJGPP and some Linux systems. I'd be better off in Win32 rather than DOS, though.

Give me your honest opinion: * Is there a calling for a DOS-based IDE? I want to do one for one or more cross-platform C compilers. * If so, I'm working under VBDOS Pro 1.0. I can use and exit to batch files to run the compilers and emulators, but how do I create the edit control? I'd also like to g...

JohnWatson : you're right. I noticed the bugs and other flaws with VBDOS. I honestly don't know why I'm using it. :( I guess because it's fun. I've been using UPX for the compression, but I wanted a pre-compression method. angros47 : you're right, too. I'm still working on floppy. To not totally be...

Other than by using the opimization switches at compile time and resorting to an executable compressor, how can I significantly reduce the size of a VBDOS Pro 1.0 program? The sorce code is small and has one start-up BASIC module and a form. Unfortunately, the executable is ~170k long and I want to ...

I guess I didn't make myself clear: I'm using Visual Basic for DOS Professional 1.0.

In VB you would look in the Dialog Box properties list and set InitDir. ".\" sets it to always be the current directory.

Okay, now how do I do that? I want to preserve the directory without changing the current system directory if possible even when the user hits Cancel.

I have a Visual Basic program that uses the File|Open and File|SaveAs dialg boxes and want to peserve the last directoy usd by such dialog boxes--even if the use clicks Cancel. How do I do that? Or do I need to create my own?

Thank you.

I want to experiment with AI in BASIC and might want to create self-editing code. I want to provide code to handle each neuron. The problem is that I need to be able to "attach" a function to each neuron such that the code runs when the neuron is "fired." In an OOPS, I can simply...

I tried to upload two programs to this site but got an error message. It wasn't even a clear message: it was the source code of a HTML page. Can anybody help me?

I need to create a custom control with a top text limit of at least 256k, tab-processing, color-coded text, a cursor, scroll bars and a status bar. Where can I find the necessary information?

In ANSI/ISO C, I can use a pointer to access a variable that is external to the program. I am working on an IDE in VBDOS with a stub written in C. I could simply store environment data in a file on the hard drive and load it after each IDE command, but doing it would be slow. I could use POKE/PEEK t...

Thank you.

Where can I find and upload useful Visual Basic for DOS 1.0 software?

I can't run this program because I don't have my own internet acess, and where I have it I don't have access to a programming language. What does it do?

what's it do?

It reads and writes .INI files in Microsoft Windows' settings file format.

The .INI reader is almost ready. The adding of a comment to the .INI file is untested, but everything else is working.

Can you use USB ports? Almost all computers buit after 1998 have one (or you have an older computer? Those computers don't. However, I am going to another program which has WinXP computers and is guaranteed to have USB ports. Also, I can bring disks there. It starts this Friday. :) And I should be ...

I don't live with my mother, but she gives me plenty of computer time whenever I go there

I forgot to mention: I haven't seen my mother in several months.

I am working on TempC , and am working for it a .Ini reader. The .Ini reader will be published as a stand-alone module to be included in other people's programs. It is written for VBDOS but should work on QB4.5 and PDS. I am debugging a routine to write a key to a module in the file. I am making pro...