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by SlowCoder
Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:36 am
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: Program Help!
Replies: 6
Views: 9504

Aviatrix, I think you are doing very well! I also think Sid is the one to continue to help you, he's doing a fine job of it. Me, I just want to add one thing here, regarding DIMming a number of arrays with of the same size. In case you have to change the size more than once, it saves time and effor...
by SlowCoder
Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:28 am
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: How much is QBasic still used?
Replies: 8
Views: 17961

How much is QBasic still used?

In what environments is QBasic still used as a development tool?

My primary reasons are nostalgia and DOS compatibility.
by SlowCoder
Mon Oct 06, 2008 3:33 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: Error Handling Inside Function
Replies: 15
Views: 16889

I am glad that this subject has raised the interest of some ... Thank you. However, I see that the peeks only return the current values, and not the maximum available. I'm still working on it (as time permits), but would still appreciate your assistance. Also, thanks for the reference to peekpoke.zi...
by SlowCoder
Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:57 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: Error Handling Inside Function
Replies: 15
Views: 16889

I know the text/graphic screen modes. Back in my school days I wrote a number of graphical applications, when EGA was the babe of babes. :) That is not the issue here. What I am try to accomplish (which may be accomplished by your example) is how to determine, on the fly, the number of text lines a ...
by SlowCoder
Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:01 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: Error Handling Inside Function
Replies: 15
Views: 16889

Hmmm ... I understand what you're saying, and that explains a lot actually. That leaves me with an unclean feeling. I try to keep the cleanest code possible. I would like to keep as much of the code within the function. Having to place error catching routines outside just feels dirty. So, I'll reite...
by SlowCoder
Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:36 am
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: Error Handling Inside Function
Replies: 15
Views: 16889

Error Handling Inside Function

Hi all! I'm new here, but did lots of QB programming back in the early 90's. I previously posted this on another board (VBForums), but have not had any responses in 2 weeks. So now I've come to you! I want to determine the maximum number of lines my display can have, so I wrote the following functio...