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TassyJim

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Posted: 09:00pm 28 Jan 2022

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TIMER looks good.
PAUSE is usually used for >100mS pauses so is usable as is.
SETTICK fires very quickly at irregular intervals so is not very useful.

DIM FLOAT starttime, laptime, midtime
starttime = TIMER
midtime = starttime
k = 0
DO
PAUSE 1000
ping
LOOP UNTIL k > 12
PRINT

starttime = TIMER
midtime = starttime
k = 0
SETTICK 1000, ping
DO
'
LOOP UNTIL k > 12

SUB ping
INC k
laptime = TIMER - midtime
midtime = TIMER
PRINT k, TIMER - starttime, laptime
END SUB

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TassyJim

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Posted: 09:26pm 28 Jan 2022

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andreas said I get the same error as Plasmamac when using pa2 version. Nikolaus runs using pa1.

-andreas

Peter is working on transparency.

sub turtle_forward (f)
phi = pi*(heading-90)/180
farbe = farbe and &hFFFFFFFFFFFEFEFE 'add this line to limit the colours to FE
if pen=1 then
line gx,gy,gx+f*cos(phi),gy+f*sin(phi),1,farbe
end if
gx=gx+f*cos(phi)
gy=gy+f*sin(phi)
end sub

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Posted: 11:12pm 28 Jan 2022

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Found the same Jim. But have someone the Editor Problem as me?

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Posted: 06:25am 29 Jan 2022

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CIRCLE artifacts all gone!
Colours have to be ANDed with &hFFFFFFFFFFFEFEFE to prevent out of bounds error.

Editor scrolls the status line as well as code lines.

I am having intermittent startup problems. The console window opens but not the graphics window.
Task manager shows both windows running and no load on the system.
It can take 5 or more attempts to get a clean start.

Doesn't appear to be AV kicking in.
It might be my graphics card.

Jim
Edited 2022-01-29 16:27 by TassyJim

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matherp
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Posted: 08:18am 29 Jan 2022

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I've had to rewind the work on ARGB as I got into a real mess. The attached is a tidy version of the previous with the new timer and various bug fixes. I don't see an edit issue but if you do you need to let me know how to create it

MMBasic.zip

andreas

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Posted: 08:40am 29 Jan 2022

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TassyJim said CIRCLE artifacts all gone!
Colours have to be ANDed with &hFFFFFFFFFFFEFEFE to prevent out of bounds error.

Editor scrolls the status line as well as code lines.

I am having intermittent startup problems. The console window opens but not the graphics window.
Task manager shows both windows running and no load on the system.
It can take 5 or more attempts to get a clean start.

Doesn't appear to be AV kicking in.
It might be my graphics card.

Jim

Many thanks for that colour correction - that works with pa2
I integrated the AND into turtle_reset and Turtle_pen_colour.

Here is the latest version of nikolaus.bas
nikolaus.bas.zip

It runs more slowly to better watch the changing houses.
btw. it never stops, so you have to press ctrl-c to stop it your self.

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Posted: 02:27pm 29 Jan 2022

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TassyJim said I am having intermittent startup problems. The console window opens but not the graphics window.

Me too!
I can't even start MMbasic. Only the 1st window.

The keyboard trial generated a trojan alert.

... I will use a sandbox for that.
Edited 2022-01-30 01:44 by twofingers

causality ≠ correlation ≠ coincidence

mclout999
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Posted: 04:54pm 29 Jan 2022

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I hade that same malware notification from Avast Free antivirus but it, as it almost always does, runs an actual isolated instance of the posable offender and if you let it finish it usually marks it as OK and will not bother you anymore after that. This is one of the primary reasons I use Avast. You have to sit back and wait for the first run of an unsigned app but then never again.

andreas

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Posted: 05:43pm 29 Jan 2022

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Just an update for nikolaus.bas (now Version 1.2)
- use of SELECT CASE in sub zeichneverbindung

nikolaus.bas.zip
-andreas

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Posted: 06:33pm 29 Jan 2022

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@matherp -editor error is gone after virus is killed

dunno where it come from

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Posted: 07:51pm 29 Jan 2022

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Caps lock should now work and I've fixed a colour error in the GUI commands plus all the prep work for the Page command and transparency is now done. This was a big job because in the old code -1 = &HFFFFFFFF which was a coded value for the text command whereas in ARGB &HFFFFFFFF is non-transparent white. This meant all colour values in the entire code needed changing to 64 bit integers from 32 and there are hundreds of them. The CMM2 didn't have this issue as there are only 15 transparency levels so &HFFFFFFF (7 F's) isn't the same as &HFFFFFFFF (8 F's)

MMBasic.zip
Edited 2022-01-30 05:52 by matherp

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Posted: 07:56pm 29 Jan 2022

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I had a similar problem. Windows refused to download the MMBasic file.

I run a "Microsoft Defender Offline" scan. After that there were no more complaints when downloading.
Would ofcourse be nice/good to know the reason for the virus alert.

andreas

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Posted: 08:07pm 29 Jan 2022

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Seems to be that the editor problems I had in pa2 are gone with pa4. In pa2 i did a page down page up and got a mix of two pages on the screen. in pa4 page up page down is working well. But I'm missing autorepeat when holding a down arrow or right arrow key.

Setting the font to font 4 is better for larger programs to edit - but after exiting the editor the default font is active again.

-andreas

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Posted: 08:42pm 29 Jan 2022

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PA4 works for me so far.

causality ≠ correlation ≠ coincidence

darthvader
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Posted: 11:58pm 29 Jan 2022

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As i see some of you detect Trojan , viruses ans so far ...
Here i analyzed the executable with Eset internet security who never have let pass any of them on my system when my whole company was infected

.... here the result ...

As you see , nothing to be afraid comes out

Cheers.

Theory is when we know everything but nothing work ...
Practice is when everything work but no one know why ;)

Goksteroo
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Posted: 03:03am 30 Jan 2022

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CAPS LOCK works, but arrows, BackSpace and function keys don't work while it's engaged (US keyboard). Found this out when the cat walked on my keyboard while editing!

matherp
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Posted: 11:41am 30 Jan 2022

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Quote CAPS LOCK works, but arrows, BackSpace and function keys don't work while it's engaged (US keyboard). Found this out when the cat walked on my keyboard while editing!

Yes just realised I implemented SHIFTLOCK rather then CAPSLOCK duh.....

Thanks everyone for the input - going to need some work in particular the <>^ issues which don't generate standard return codes

Pluto
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Posted: 01:00pm 30 Jan 2022

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Made a more precise check for Swedish keyboard:

/Fred

matherp
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Posted: 04:23pm 30 Jan 2022

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New version pa5

MMBasic.zip

Still no keyboard language support but most of the infrastructure is now there.
This version will automatically re-initialise the options on first run as the structure has changed.

Now working:
keyboard repeat
on key (both variants - see PicoMite manual)
option list
Caps lock (properly I hope)
F1 now set to FILES, F5-F9 are user settable as per PicoMite
KEYDOWN function as per CMM2

To set the keyboard repeat use OPTION KEYBOARD lang, repeatstart, repeatrate
The rates are in milliseconds. The language is ignored but is currently one of
"US", "FR", "GR", "IT", "BE", "UK", "ES"

Remember:
Use OPTION DEFAULT MODE to select the screen format on running. This automatically chooses a sensible font for the screen size. You can't select the small screen sizes which make editing silly

Use OPTION DEFAULT FONT number, scale to select the font on running. This overrides the automatic selection caused by DEFAULT MODE

Valid Default modes are:

Default mode 8", "800x600"
Default mode 8", "640x480"
Default mode 9", "1024x768"
Default mode 10", "848x480"
Default mode 11", "1280x720"
Default mode 12", "960x540"
Default mode 15", "1280x1024"
Default mode 16", "1920x1080"
Default mode 18", "1024x600"

Next steps finalise keyboard language support.
Edited 2022-01-31 02:29 by matherp

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Posted: 05:59pm 30 Jan 2022

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I set MMBasic for Windows as my default app for opening .BAS.
That apparently does not work yet, as it launches empty.

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