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[MU]

2 major changes from my side:

xwin_system() explained here:
http://wxbasic.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=992

So now like in the bash you can run

[MU]

Updated the files, there was a small error with the returncodes (they were not divided by 256).

With the new version, you can use them for example to check, if a folder exists:

[GuestToo]

that's useful ... an interface to the system shell

i think this is how i would do it:

cmd = "test -d '" & testfolder & "'"
a,b = xwin_system(cmd)

[MU]

yes, that's a good way.

You could use the resulting exitcode to choose the resulting text from a list:

[MU]

I updated the files.
The interpreter is unchanged, but I added "natsort" and "reducelist" to the basefunctions.inc

natsort:
newlist = natsort (oldlist)
if oldlist is
r t g T
then newlist is
g r T t

reducelist:
deletes double-entries that follow each other..
a a a f t
will become
a f t

You usually will run natsort or bubblesort first, then reducelist.

Here is a prototype of a quite fast dependency-checker using these functions:
http://dotpups.de/tests/PSI-dev/checkdep-standalone

run it like this:
checkdep-standalone Gimp-2.3.10-CVS-Gtk-2.8.files

Look in /root/.packages/ for existing ones.

It displays a gauge of the process

It is very fast, as it excludes files like ".png" ".txt" from the checks.
It works in PSI, bit is not finished yet (must add a check for existing libraries in gimp.files, too).
Mark

[klhrevolutionist]

Seeing as I cannot comprehend any of these languages out there.
I came across this http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/kidbasic/kidbasic-0.3.tar.gz

http://kidbasic.sourceforge.net/ - line-oriented language

I also saw something about gtkhtml. But it looks like it requires a bunch of gnome...


MU give me or us your thoughts on this please.

[MU]

Kidbasic needs Qt4 (that will be the base for KDE4).

We don't have a dotpup yet.

But you can run the windows-version in Wine.

Gtkhtml: the current version heavily depends on Gnome, but I think there is an older library that works without gnome.

Liferea uses Gtkhtml:
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=10127

But Gtkhtml is not easy to program, it requires C-code.

Mark

[MU]

Updated to PuppyBasic 2.6.

Changes:

- the file-fuctions had limitations.
Line input would read only 1024 characters, I extended this to 10240.
Also now 254 instead of 32 filehandles are supported.

- added 2 new functions to basefunctions.inc and asefunctions2.inc:

thelist = quicknatsort (thelist , startitem , lastitem)
thevalue = getargs("test")
This would return "fine", if you ran your program like this:
program --test fine

- I also cleaned up the dialog-functions, they no longer use temporary files.
And I added gtkdialog3() to run templates with gtkdialog 3.

- added the latest xwin_ functions from GtkBasic, that do not depend on Gtk.

I compiled it in Muppy007 (Puppy 2.12), because like this I could avoid unneeded dependencies (libxcb from Puppy3 or libpixmap from Puppy4).
Tested in Puppy 2, 3,4.

Download:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Programming/PuppyBasic-2.6.pet
mirror:
http://puppyfiles.ca/dotpupsde/dotpups/Programming/
source:
http://noforum.de/files/wxbasic/PuppyBasic-2.6/


Mark

[MU]

updated the 2.6 pet and source.
There was a bug in using Xdialog, fixed it.
Mark

[MU]

there was another bug with the new Xdialog code.
It did not work correct with erratic Gtk-Themes.

Updated Puppybasic 2.6 again.

Mark