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[vovchik]

Dear e_mattis,

If you typed in Barry's example, I have a suspicion you included the line numbers. They should not be there. That is just a screenshot of Barry's editor, which is showing line numbers as a convenience to the programmer. BaCon does not use them!

With kind regards,
vovchik

[e_mattis]

Hey guys, thanks for responding.

@ sunburnt

First line is a REM statement. Also removed it and tried to compile again, same error. The program is the demo from the 'getting started' tutorial. it follows:

Rem first test
Global c TYPE chat

a=125.6
e=345
b$="the big black dog"
print b$;
print a
print"a=",a," b=",b$ (as written in example instead of "a= ";a;" b= ";b$)

c='z'
print c,b$,a,e,Format :%c :s :%f %d\n"



@vovchik

It is Barry's example, didn't use the line numbers.

I have some basic programming skills - from before Q-B and with Libeerty Basic for Windoze. Some of the syntax shown in the demo is a little different than what I'm used to, but it still should parse past the 'REM' and GLOBAL decoration i would think. Any ideas?

Thanks!

E

[BarryK]

[e_mattis]

Het Barry!

yea -That was a typo on the post. The actual code does have 'GLOBAL c TYPE char' (my big fingers again ). As far as the line numbers, even I figured that one out, but a simple"*without line number*" statemnt should suffice I would think.

Thanks!

E

[BarryK]

[e_mattis]

Hey,

I went back in and made sure it was written exactly like the one on the website. It compiled and ran through to line 12 (FORMAT line). It gives a problem that '%d' is expected to be int, but is long int.

I have attached the gzip of demo (including screens) and the two screens showing the problem message.

BaCon is a little different than what i'm used to so i will have to pay closer attention to how I type things in - GLOBAL vs Global. Anyway, as far as I can tell, I have the file written correctly. Thanks again for the assist!

E

[L18L]

change line 12 to
PRINT c,b$,a,e FORMAT "%c %s %.2f %ld\n"

ld instead of just l

# ./demo
the big black dog125.6
a=125.6 b=the big black dog
z the big black dog 125.60 345
#


file:///usr/share/doc/BaCon/documentation.html has an example under PRINT

[e_mattis]

Thanks L18L,

That seems to have done the trick. I am assuming the 'l' in front of the d indicates a long integer for d (which corrects the problem). The example I saw in both the webste and the documentation.html shows it as "...%d\n".

Anyway, with that worked out I can now proceed to the next section...wo0h0o!

I'm sure I'll be needing assistance again, so keep a close eye on the post.

Thanks !

E

[e_mattis]

Well, that didn't take long....

So I'm at the proxy_setup1.bac example (link to HostGator did not find the file). I type in the code as per the web page. Everything seems to go normally... Converted Hug, Compiled PS1.bac, and Program 'PS1' ready.

I type in@ # ./PS1 - nothing. no window, no error message, no nothing.
Did a recompile like "# bacon -b PS!.bac". Same as before, so again I type in "# ./PS1"-nothing. I go to the file and permission it executable. Again enterd "# ./PS1" - nothng. Clicked the file itself, still nothing.

I know I'm missing something here again. I am thinking a window should appear. Anyway, here is a screen of the code as I typed it.


What did I miss? Help appreciated!

E


{UPDATE}

I read on and copied the PS2.bac from the website, compiled it, and ran it. Noticed for a split second there was a window that appeared then disappeared. Thought on it some more then added a FOR/NEXT statement after the DISPLAY on the PS1 file. It worked - window appeared and stayed active. Even closed when the "close window" x was pressed.

I take it that some other 'action' needs to be implemented after the DISPLAY statement in order for the window to remain. Like say the proverbial 'wait' LOL

Sorry for jumping the gun on this post...took a min for the old brain to fire up

Thanks!

E

[L18L]

[e_mattis]

@L18L

Here is the PS1.bac file as I have it written at present. It works with the invokation of a 'wait' after DISPLAY.

Thanks!

E

[L18L]

[e_mattis]

Moving along quit nicely now,thanks Barry, L18L, and everyone else!

Ran into a little snag, however. I need to put a menu in the window (Like 'file > open', etc.) I have been looking throughout the pages of the tutorials, documentations, etc and have not found out if it can be done or how to do it.

Also, how to display the window full-screen (just starting to search for that info but...)

Any help is appreciated!

E

[sunburnt]

Hi e_mattis;
The window title bar control buttons are the only way I know to go full screen.
There might be a "properties request" for it, but they aren`t well documented.

There is no menu bar if you look at the HUG docs, however there`s a post at the BaCon site about importing the GTK+ menu bar.
I played with it a bit, what`s nice about importing is that it compiles fast.

Other than that, you can use a combo box for a single pull-down menu.
I hate the way the GTK made the combo box work, you must use a timer.

[e_mattis]

Thanks sunburnt,

i'll look a little more and see about the GTK import. I think i'm going to like the idea about the combo boxes better though.

Maybe the best way to say what i am looking for is that I want it to open the full display width and height. fullscreen is the ideal, but full display would work. where would i find the dimension- which file?

thanks!

E