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by RacingDog
Tue May 13, 2025 10:07 pm
Forum: General category
Topic: Thinking laterally about form design
Replies: 2
Views: 51245

Re: Thinking laterally about form design

Well, the number of downloads of this are now in the hundreds, but as seems to be the way on the web, I've had zero feedback. Sigh! Maybe it's because my web site moved? racingdog.lazenby.me is current.
by RacingDog
Tue Mar 02, 2021 7:10 pm
Forum: General category
Topic: Thinking laterally about form design
Replies: 2
Views: 51245

Re: Thinking laterally about form design

Will the brave soul that has downloaded this please note that I have made one very very minor correction. So if you want to get it permanently can you please download the setup file again and re-install. If you want to do it by hand, run an instance of Notepad as an Administrator. Look in the folder...
by RacingDog
Tue Feb 02, 2021 1:11 pm
Forum: General category
Topic: Thinking laterally about form design
Replies: 2
Views: 51245

Thinking laterally about form design

I was thinking about how we go about designing forms. One thing seemed clear, the benchmark for form designers are the IDEs for C++ Builder, Delphi and Lazarus (I'll call them CDL!). Such a shame we can't use them, especially as there are free versions of all of those. That's when I went off at a ta...
by RacingDog
Wed Jan 27, 2021 1:48 pm
Forum: discbugs
Topic: Is there a StringList object in fnxbasic?
Replies: 3
Views: 37685

Re: Is there a StringList object in fnxbasic?

A StringList is not simply a list of strings. The term derives from the VCL library of Delphi/C++ Builder (hence also the LCL library of Lazarus). There it is a class TStringList which provides a wealth of additional support facilities in the form of Properties, Methods and Events. A large part of t...
by RacingDog
Thu Jan 10, 2019 11:38 pm
Forum: examples
Topic: Updated examples
Replies: 0
Views: 134067

Updated examples

I recently worked my way through all the examples in the distribution. I discovered some bugs which were not logic errors, more a case of the language had moved on so the code was out of date in places. I updated it. I'm not responsible for these, so if I missed something, please change it yourself ...