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(copied from the old forum) In LB 4.04 and 4.51 it is not possible to create a grid of child controls using a loop; every control must be created individually, and with a large grid that can mean a lot of code! In LBB it is straightforward using MAPHANDLE: for row = 1 to 13 statictext #win.st, str$(...

(copied from the old forum) In LB4 DATE$ provides only three formats for returning the date as a string: print date$("mm/dd/yyyy") ' 01/30/2012 print date$("mm/dd/yy") ' 01/30/12 print date$("yyyy/mm/dd") ' 2012/01/30 LBB is more flexible, it will return the date in any...

(copied from the old forum) LB4's USING() function doesn't support the full range of formatting options usually available from PRINT USING in other dialects of BASIC. LBB provides a much more complete set, as follows: # The hash character is used to represent a digit position. + A plus sign at the b...

(copied from the old forum) All the sprite examples in the LB docs show the upper half of the BMP (the 'mask' section) as a 'one bit per pixel' bitmap; that is every pixel is either white (fully transparent) or black (fully opaque); the implication is that this is all that LB supports. However in pr...

(copied from the old forum) In LB 4.04 and 4.5.1 the RESIZEHANDLER command doesn't work in a graphics window. This seems a strange limitation; in LBB you can use RESIZEHANDLER with a graphics window just as you can with every other (non-dialog) kind of window: open "Resize test" for graphi...

(copied from the old forum) LB 4 (including 4.5.1) performs floating-point arithmetic internally with a precision of approximately 15 to 16 significant figures, which should be good enough for most applications. But, strangely, if the calculation returns a value that must be represented in scientifi...

(copied from the old forum) Cabinet Planner, by Robert McAllister, is probably the largest Liberty BASIC program ever written, and without doubt the largest program ever to have been compiled using 'LB Booster'! It consists of three modules totalling more than 100,000 lines of LB code, with the larg...

Thank you Richard. I was looking for "Recent posts" button for a while. The '10 most recent posts' feature at Conforums was never reliable. Sometimes posts would not appear there at all, and if activity was high posts could get pushed off that list before you ever saw them. I prefer the '...

JackKelly wrote: ↑Sun Apr 08, 2018 6:29 pm Richard, would you please delete this thread. I'm sorry I started it.

I think that would be a bad precedent to set, especially so early in the life of the forum. It would probably halve the total number of posts!

Richard.

The new forum has lots of nice features, but they aren't always obvious. One that you might have missed is the 'Quick links' button in the top-left corner under the LBB logo. One of those links is to 'Unread posts' so you can quickly find topics that have been updated since your last visit, without ...