| Message Title | Author and Date |
| Generating an ASCII pie chart | Pharoah on Apr 24 |
| Pies | Ben on Apr 24 |
| Thanks, I think this has enough info | Pharoah on Apr 24 |
| Use SEARCH |
on Apr 24 |
| I see | Ben on Apr 24 |
| *This is an ASCII pie chart, I can't use CIRCLE or LINE... | Pharoah on Apr 24 |
| *Think we wrote our replies at the same time :) | Pharoah on Apr 24 |
| * WHAT the heck is an ASCII half height character? -- ? |
on Apr 24 |
| Characters 220 and 223. | Pharoah on Apr 25 |
| WARNING: Spoilers |
on Apr 25 |
| Wow! | Ben on Apr 25 |
| The Rock likes pie... but I think you meant WIDTH 80, 50 | The Rock on Apr 25 |
| * I think he wants an 8 X 8 text block so each character is equal. |
on Apr 25 |
| *It doesn't matter what you think! :) It looks more like a 3-D presentation with 50 rows.. | The Rock on Apr 25 |
| * How is that 3D? :) A lot of wasted black space! |
on Apr 25 |
| Try it with "WIDTH 80, 50" full screen | Dean Menezes on Apr 26 |
| I thought "off topic" was your middle name. |
on Apr 26 |
| *I'm using this to generate charts for QML pages... No graphics | Pharoah on Apr 26 |
| *Nice, nice, nice! (QB64 doesn't like Art's pie yet so I'm going to teach it better taste) |
on Apr 26 |
| *Fixed QB64 to run pie program for next release |
on Apr 26 |
| * I somehow KNEW that Artelius' programs would test QB64's limits:-P |
on Apr 26 |
| I don't see anything in there that would cause QB64 not to run it | qbguy on Apr 26 |
| This was the problem... |
on Apr 26 |
| Pie charts considered harmful (not as harmful as GO TO statements though) | E. W. Dijkstra on Apr 26 |
| *But pies are delicious! | Pharoah on Apr 26 |
| How about a beer chart, then? |
on Apr 27 |
| * Pies are delicious and beer chart - LOL. I needed a good laugh today, thanks :) |
on Apr 27 |
| * I thought he was hooked on Sprite......... |
on Apr 27 |
| This Sprite? (*URL) |
on Apr 29 |
| *That's great! Never saw that one (much more elegant code than my thrashing machine). |
on Apr 29 |
| Wow | Pharoah on Apr 30 |
| * Now that's what I was talking about! |
on Apr 30 |
| I might be on something.. I mean onto something, Concerning hyperlinks.... |
on Apr 24 |
| * What text formatting box? I have not seen that in a year! |
on Apr 24 |
| *Neither have I |
on Apr 24 |
| No, not that one, it's gone, the Enable formatted text check box... |
on Apr 24 |
| Oh, I got rid of that on my own |
on Apr 24 |
| Can QBasic be used to write a twitter program? |
on Apr 23 |
| *Wow, so did I..........but I met twatters |
on Apr 23 |
| *Is that what they call us retired Twitters who used to Twit but quit? |
on Apr 23 |
| * Yeah, sorta like Simple Roy. He's a retired twit........ |
on Apr 23 |
| *I love you too, you still practising twat. | Simple roy on Apr 24 |
| * Yes, you can but you have to use netcat to do the TCP stuff | Dean Menezes on Apr 24 |
| Using wget | qbguy on Apr 24 |
| No, I have not tested it. | qbguy on Apr 24 |
| * Twitter is for TWITS! I thought Unix was an animal with no sex. |
on Apr 26 |
| * No, that's eununchs LOL | qbguy on Apr 26 |
| SHELL Replacement |
on Apr 23 |
| Well call me dense, Don, I have no idea what you mean by it retrieves DOS exit code. |
on Apr 23 |
| Well Dense,,, ;)... |
on Apr 23 |
| Well at least you spelled it right and didn't call me Denise... |
on Apr 23 |
| LOL....Of course I know why.....;) |
on Apr 23 |
| Gotcha. But easier to just trap it and send it to a database... |
on Apr 23 |
| Addendum,,,,If I called you Denise.... |
on Apr 24 |
| Well then you can call me Betty... |
on Apr 24 |
| * Yeah, Chaney can return his own error codes through torture! |
on Apr 23 |
| Do you realize Ethan is still alive? I emailed him last year........ |
on Apr 23 |
| Some news I thought might be interesting | Pharoah on Apr 22 |
| Forgot to add, there's an HTML paint app that produces QML *(URL) | Pharoah on Apr 22 |
| Bingo Balls |
on Apr 22 |
| Didn't you like my last answer? |
on Apr 22 |
| Could not find this program |
on Apr 23 |
| I sent you the SUB code after I figured out who you were. |
on Apr 23 |
| Problems running QBX.EXE under XP |
on Apr 21 |
| Edit CONFIG.NT, not config.sys | qbguy on Apr 21 |
| * Never heard anything about editing Config.NT for PDS. Since when? |
on Apr 21 |
| He says he needed something in CONFIG.SYS earlier | qbguy on Apr 21 |
| All is well |
on Apr 21 |
| Good to know |
on Apr 21 |
| Qbasic problem |
on Apr 21 |
| First, the balls only need the numbers. The cards use the letters. |
on Apr 21 |
| Controlling RS232 lines |
on Apr 21 |
| &H378 is a Parallel port base address |
on Apr 21 |
| USB ports and RS 232 interfacing | Ancient Brit on Apr 21 |
| Think about it.............. |
on Apr 21 |
| Further Thoughts | Ancient Brit on Apr 21 |
| * Yeah, QB cannot access the USB yet, but somebody might find a way. |
on Apr 21 |
| Thanks Clippy | Ancient Brit on Apr 21 |
| OPEN COM cannot open 3 or 4, but OUT can |
on Apr 21 |
| Printing Graphics from QuickBasic Running in XP |
on Apr 20 |
| Windows 98 without an LPT port? |
on Apr 20 |
| The easiest way is to write your own sub which saves to a .bmp file |
on Apr 20 |
| *I forgot the obvious solution... run the program in DOSBOX and get a screenshot |
on Apr 20 |
| TheBob has already done that for Screens 12 and 13. ^^0^^ |
on Apr 20 |
| Can you send me the code? |
on Apr 21 |
| Easy to capture an MS-DOS full screen graphics... If you own a digital camera. (Or QB64) |
on Apr 20 |
| Ha ha that thread is hillarious | qbguy on Apr 20 |
| * Except you used the FLASH! How silly is that? |
on Apr 20 |
| Here are some sub programs for doing just that... |
on Apr 20 |
| I'll be away for about 10-days... |
on Apr 19 |
| *what part is the joke? coming here at all, or just the part about bush? |
on Apr 20 |
| The part about Texas becoming it's own country? |
on Apr 20 |
| I saw something on the news about Rick Perry running his mouth about something. |
on Apr 20 |
| PA is trying to make all of our Interstates into toll roads. |
on Apr 20 |
| Memo to those who may care..lol.. |
on Apr 19 |
| *Sorry for posting here, I thought was in the community cafe section | Blondie on Apr 19 |
| See you in 10 days :).... |
on Apr 20 |
| *Have a good time in Crawford, Blondie (and say hello to Pete for me). |
on Apr 20 |
| * He moved to Houston I believe. |
on Apr 20 |
| Are you going through the San Antonio area? |
on Apr 20 |
| /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\//\/\/\/ | Help! on Apr 18 |
| Answers to #1 | Anonymous on Apr 18 |
| All wrong except for Pascal | qbguy on Apr 18 |
| * PS for the programing questions, go write it yourself | qbguy on Apr 18 |
| * According to your capitalizations it would be BASPIC, :P lol |
on Apr 18 |
| While we're on the topic of Fortran... (*URL) |
on Apr 18 |
| I deleted qbguy's answers, although it may already be too late. | Solitaire on Apr 19 |
| * Yep, cheaters don't say thanks either! |
on Apr 19 |
| * Please post your dumbascii questions at QBStation. This forum is for smartascii's, only. | Pete on Apr 19 |
| *here you go...(url) |
on Apr 20 |
| Network54 has a new version of its awad winning forum software in the works... |
on Apr 17 |
| The N54 Help Forum is useless! |
on Apr 17 |
| I disagree... |
on Apr 17 |
| Well who'd a thunk... The beta has been delayed... |
on Apr 17 |
| * They can't fix the old stuff. So why EVEN try to use new stuff? |
on Apr 17 |
| Compiling large files | Joseph on Apr 15 |
| * This may sound queer, but how BIG is it thar Joe? |
on Apr 15 |
| about 400kb | Joseph on Apr 15 |
| I'd break it into about 5 or 6 modules |
on Apr 15 |
| data files | Joseph on Apr 15 |
| Easier than COMMON |
on Apr 15 |
| trying | Joseph on Apr 15 |
| *CHAIN isn't implemented in QB64 yet |
on Apr 15 |
| Perhaps it will NEVER have to be? |
on Apr 15 |
| Email me the 400kb .BAS file Joseph... |
on Apr 15 |
| Yes Galleon, that would surely help to relieve large module problems! |
on Apr 15 |
| i had same problem |
on Apr 16 |
| You should always structure your programs regardless. |
on Apr 18 |
| I should make this a sticky post... |
on Apr 16 |
| * Why not a LINK.EXE How to in the FAQ? |
on Apr 16 |
| I'll probably get around to doing so... |
on Apr 17 |
