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by RacingDog
Tue Mar 02, 2021 7:10 pm
Forum: General category
Topic: Thinking laterally about form design
Replies: 1
Views: 41134

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: 1
Views: 41134

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: 26046

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: 27020

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 I discovered some bugs which were not logic errors, more a case of the language had moved on so the code was out of date in places.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 ...