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Open Forum / Re: Bluesky

« Last post by John on October 26, 2024, 06:41:59 PM »

I'm planning on setting up a Bluesky PDS for AllBASIC. You will need to have the Bluesky app installed or use the browser version of the app. Enter the URL of the AllBASIC PDS and become a user.

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Open Forum / Re: Bluesky

« Last post by John on October 23, 2024, 06:45:35 PM »

A better idea may be to use Bluesky's Feed Generator to post BASIC related topics from AllBASIC.

App Community Showcase

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Open Forum / Bluesky

« Last post by John on October 22, 2024, 10:57:01 AM »

I'm thinking of replacing the AllBASIC form with a Bluesky PDS. This is like having a dedicated Twitter site for AllBASIC that connects to the Bluesky distributed social network.

Bluesky Introduction

Federation Architecture

If you are tired of Elon Musk's X, join bsky.social for a better experience. (ad free / open source)

You can find me on Bluesky @johnspikowsiki.com.

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Open Forum / No Code

« Last post by John on October 22, 2024, 12:14:54 AM »

No Code repository hits 60K stars.

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ScriptBasic Blog / Re: ScriptBasic 3.0

« Last post by John on October 02, 2024, 11:20:28 PM »

If someone would like to take on the project of converting the current ScriptBasic Developer's Guide to markdown and make it more meaningful, I could setup a Gitlab OneBASIC wiki project for its development.

The Developer Guide is generated from source as is the User Guide. The end goal is the build process would update the Gitlab wiki repo. It currently generates HTML from its documentation tags.

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ScriptBasic Blog / Re: ScriptBasic 3.0

« Last post by John on September 26, 2024, 06:25:11 PM »

I have two goals with the fork of ScriptBasic to OneBASIC.

1. Expand on the developer guide to give a true picture how OneBASIC is built.

2. Improve and enhance the error reporting including extension modules.

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Interpreters / Ouroboros

« Last post by John on September 16, 2024, 04:47:39 PM »

Peter Verhas (ScriptBasic author) has created a new interpreter.

  Programming Language with no Syntax?

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ScriptBasic Blog / Re: ScriptBasic 3.0

« Last post by John on September 13, 2024, 09:50:32 PM »

There is an Excel COM example that could be helpful.

The COM extension has a Display Type function that will pop a dialog showing functions, subs and properties for an object reference you pass.

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ScriptBasic Blog / Re: ScriptBasic 3.0

« Last post by James King on September 13, 2024, 07:58:31 PM »

Thanks for the description of the builds and the tooling. That helps out a lot. It looks like I will have to check out both of them! I have some COM automation to try out on Windows, for sure.

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ScriptBasic Blog / Re: ScriptBasic 3.0

« Last post by John on September 13, 2024, 10:36:08 AM »

Thanks James for the feedback and trying ScriptBasic.

The sb-dev-msvc repo uses the ScriptBasic build system that creates .h include files and documentation from the C source. AIR (co-maintainer that has moved on) created a standalone Microsoft Visual C and Strawberry Perl compiler tailored for the ScriptBasic build system. The build system generates both Windows 64 bit and Linux 64 bit versions.

The sb-dev-win32 repo contains a pre-built Windows 32 bit version of ScriptBasic as an installer. It was compiled with TDM-GCC-32 and uses static .h files. The 32 bit version of ScriptBasic offers extensions that the 64 bit version doesn't support. COM / VB6 OCX support and the OxygenBasic DLLC (FFI, structures and string type conversions) extensions make the 32 bit version a good place to start.