Newbie questions - Torch and Comma Delimited

[mpranger]

1.) Is the torch always going to be on the bar at the top left of LB programs?

2.) How can I create horizonal comma delimited files ie;

"Name",34,56,"place"

Thanks

[Rod]

I cant really say it much better than the help file says it. It can take a little time to get to know where everything is in the help file but if you start at the top overviews there are links that will take you to the correct place.

Just keep printing lines to the file to store more information line by line. If you read it back in to an array you can sort it into any order you wish. with the SORT command

1)
The icon used by the runtime engine is the Liberty BASIC torch. If you want to change this, use the Icon Editor.

Icon Editor
The Icon Editor can be found in the "Setup" menu. Use it to create or modify icons and embed them into the runtime engine for your programs.
The icon editor can make new icons or open existing icon files. It can save icons as icon files, or it can replace the icon in the runtime engine with the icon viewed in the icon editor.

Making Icons
Liberty BASIC requires 16-color icons. Use the Icon Editor to create new icons or to modify existing icons. To start from an existing icon, choose "Open Icon" from the "File" menu. To start a new icon, either start drawing with the mouse by holding down the left mouse button and dragging, or choose "New Icon" from the "File" menu to clear the Icon Editor and begin a new icon. If the <Paint> radiobutton is checked, drawing will be opaque. If the <Mask> radiobutton is checked, drawing will will mark transparent areas of the icon. These appear in the color cyan on the grid in the editor. To change the color of the drawing, choose the desired color from the "Color" menu.
Icons may be saved to disk by choosing "Save Icon" from the "File" menu.
Changing Your Application's Icon
Once you've created an icon in the icon editor, you can insert it into your application by choosing "Save to Runtime EXE" from the "File" menu. When an icon has been saved into your application's EXE file, it will display in file lists in Windows Explorer, it will appear if a desktop shortcut is created, and it will appear in the titlebar of the running program.
Here is an example that shows how to change the icon for an application named freeform.exe.
- Start Liberty BASIC if needed.
- Click on the "Setup" menu and choose "Icon Editor".
- Paint your icon now, or click on the "File" menu in the Icon Editor to open a pre-made icon file.
- Click on the "File" menu and then choose "Save to Runtime EXE".
- Find the freeform.exe file in the file dialog that appears, select it, and click on Open.

That's all there is to it!
See also: Using the Runtime Engine, Creating an Application


2)
Sequential File Access
INPUT
Files opened for INPUT can be read from. They cannot be written to. A file opened for INPUT must exist on disk, or the program will halt with an error. See Testing For File Existence.
The INPUT statement reads a piece of data up to the next comma or carriage return. The LINE INPUT statement reads a piece of data that contains commas that are not delimiters, and stops reading data at the next carriage return. The INPUT$ statement reads data of a specified length from a file. the INPUTTO$ statement reads data up to a specified delimiter. Here is an illustration of the differences between the various forms of INPUT statements.
Example Program:
'create a sample file
open "test.txt" for output as #1
print #1, "123 Sesame Street, New York, NY"
close #1

'INPUT
open "test.txt" for input as #1
INPUT #1, txt$
print "INPUT item is: ";txt$
close #1

'LINE INPUT
open "test.txt" for input as #1
LINE INPUT #1, txt$
print "LINE INPUT item is: ";txt$
close #1

'INPUT$
open "test.txt" for input as #1
txt$ = INPUT$(#1, 10) 'read 10 characters
print "INPUT$ item is: ";txt$
close #1

'INPUTTO$
open "test.txt" for input as #1
txt$ = INPUTTO$(#1, " ") 'use a blank space as delimiter
print "INPUTTO$ item is: ";txt$
close #1
Produces:
INPUT item is: 123 Sesame Street
LINE INPUT item is: 123 Sesame Street, New York, NY
INPUT$ item is: 123 Sesame
INPUTTO$ item is: 123

[tsh73]

About comma delimited.
You just have to add commas by yourself
(actually, quotes too).
(Not really hard - but time to ask - do you actually need it? For writing/reading with LB, single item on a line probably will do better)

EDIT:

especially quotes. You get them in variable with input, so variable would contain not (Name) but ("Name")

'"Name",34,56,"place"
a$="Name"
b=34
c=56
d$="place"

print a$;",";b;",";c;",";d$
print Quote$(a$);",";b;",";c;",";Quote$(d$)

open "test.txt" for output as #1
   print #1, a$;",";b;",";c;",";d$
   print #1, Quote$(a$);",";b;",";c;",";Quote$(d$)
close #1

'make some pause so file got written
timer 300, [ok]
wait

[ok] timer 0

'to see what 's going on
print "notepad.exe "+DefaultDir$+"\test.txt"
run "notepad.exe "+DefaultDir$+"\test.txt"
end

function Quote$(a$)
'adds (") if not done yet
   qq$=chr$(34)    '(")
   Quote$ = a$
   if left$(a$, 1)<>qq$ then Quote$=qq$+a$+qq$
end function


[mpranger]

OK, thanks guys. This seems like a convoluted way to do things but being able to make a gui makes it worth it. Not to mention it will run on Windows 10.