Ah, got it. I can't pass @msg% and @lparam% as parameters because there's a chance they get interrogated at different times, it has to be in a single statement. All's well now, thanks. A

--- In bb4w@..., <roberts.mugswell@...> wrote: > But that doesn't trap all the window size changes. Oh yes it does! > Have I got something wrong, or is this the right way to do it? You

--- In bb4w@..., <bb4w@...> wrote: > make sure when you open the comport that it is opened! I would second that. It is almost certain that the 'Invalid channel' error arises because you

I need to know the window size so that I can force a program to redraw when the window size changes. So I use ON MOVE and flag the event if @msg%=5. But that doesn't trap all the window size changes.

make sure when you open the comport that it is opened! I wrote a program a few years ago and had these problems. the error occurs when the opened com was not infact opened, you try to listen or send

I have written a simple BBC Basic program that makes a tcp connection to a remote host, then reads from/writes to that host. The program also opens a COM port. When running the program here,

Well, I have now asked him directly whether he would transfer the domain to me, which he replied positively to, so i will not expect the www.bb4wgames.com domain to die any time soon. If left to my

--- In bb4w@..., <jgrathbone@...> wrote: > I have just downloaded the entire site into an adobe pdf file it is 8.71Mbytes > and if you or anyone else would like a copy please email me You will

Hi Richard I have just downloaded the entire site into an adobe pdf file it is 8.71Mbytes and if you or anyone else would like a copy please email me regards John jgrathbone@...

--- In bb4w@..., <simon@...> wrote: > Is that something you declare as fact, or something you are just assuming? I'm assuming it because David's announcement - which I saw purely by chance - says

Is that something you declare as fact, or something you are just assuming? I will immediately contact David to hear if he would like to sell the domain to me, stay posted. Regards, Simon

--- In bb4w@..., <simon@...> wrote: > Both JGH and myself has been given explicit permission to mirror the > site, pending a few changes that David expects to have done before the > end of the

David has this to say on the subject (quoted with permission): "Yes, my 'public' BB4W 'career' is over. I don't want to concern myself with this stuff anymore. I still occasionally use BB4W, but only

I would say that's questionable, in these circumstances, but you certainly wouldn't be able to make it available online without David's permission. Richard.

Richard wrote: Making an offline copy is non-infringement in UK copyright law as "making an archive for preservation" [S42, S75] and "backup of computer data for personal use" [S50]. -- J.G.Harston

The difficulty with that is, of course, copyright. Without David's permission it would be illegal to make it available online (it was almost certainly illegal to make the copy!). The legal status of

Offlist Richard wrote: I've made an off-line copy of the site, and have emailed David about hosting a static archive so the resources remain available. 20-odd Meg would just be a nibble in my spare

--- In bb4w@..., Yee Leong wrote: > Oh Owl ! this is such a terribly news Indeed so. I have heard nothing directly from David by way of an explanation; if it is a financial thing I would be more

Oh Owl ! this is such a terribly news Thanks , David., .. for the memory

I posted earlier about the closure of David Williams' site: http://www.bb4wgames.com/ but Yahoo seems to have swallowed my message, at least temporarily. Richard.