Post by Dennis on Aug 14, 2021 15:03:58 GMT -5
Hi Brandon
I want to stay as true to standard BASIC statements as possible as I might consider porting the code to other operating systems to the future. For that reason I want to stay as far as possible from using the Windows API.
I agree that with a bit of work I can get around all the "quirks". The one that I miss the most however is the use of the mid$ (my number 1 "quirk").
It is pretty standard in all the BASICs I have used over the past odd 40 years or so and I was quite surprised that LB does not allow it. Nevertheless, I have worked around it although it meant a lot of changes to existing programs.
I have solved "quirk" 5 using a DLL as most modern printers no longer use control codes as such i.e., the "old-fashioned" Esc codes.
I want to stay as true to standard BASIC statements as possible as I might consider porting the code to other operating systems to the future. For that reason I want to stay as far as possible from using the Windows API.
I agree that with a bit of work I can get around all the "quirks". The one that I miss the most however is the use of the mid$ (my number 1 "quirk").
It is pretty standard in all the BASICs I have used over the past odd 40 years or so and I was quite surprised that LB does not allow it. Nevertheless, I have worked around it although it meant a lot of changes to existing programs.
I have solved "quirk" 5 using a DLL as most modern printers no longer use control codes as such i.e., the "old-fashioned" Esc codes.
