Hello, It would be great if Richard came back to the group. Don't you agree? I would personally like him to return (if he wants to, of course) Regards, 8mbgmgs

Hello, Richard Russell has posted something interesting on the raspberry pi forum. I thought it might be of interest to people here. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=238187&p=14

Hello, how are you? I want to use VDU 23,16 to let the text cursor move beyond the edge of the viewport/page (in VDU 5 mode). VDU 5 causes text to be written at the graphics cursor position. The struc

Is there a way to find out the coordinates of a property sheet, so that I can put it back in the same place? This line will place it at, say 600,300, but I want to have my program put it back where it

A web page of mine containg a link to a blog with Open Source code for a database in BBC Basic- Blog with BBC code Have a nice day.

I've updated the Android edition of BBC BASIC once again, this time to version 0.16d. Changes in this release are: Fixed another issue affecting displays with a resolution in excess of 2048 pixels.

Hi, can anyone tell me if it is possible to change the colour of text displayed in the contents of a Windows dialog box editbox? Perhaps an extra parameter in the SetDlgItemText call? I have an applic

Hello, Yesterday, Richard Russell released BBCSDL v1.01a. He has posted an announcement about it on the stardot forum: https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=16573 Just to let everyone kno

Good day all Should * FONT suitablefontname, number work on programs running on Android devices, and if so, what might be a suitablefontname, please? I get no such font whichever fonts I try, includin

Hi Richard I have been experimenting with RECTANGLE SWAP Is it implemented? SWAP on it's own works and so does RECTANGLE FILL Dave N

I am very conscious that messages that I have posted here in the last few days are not receiving any replies. I announced the release of BBCSDL v1.00c with a request for feedback: NOTHING. I specifica

I have just installed the latest BBCSDL 1.00a on my Samsung S7 phone and tried to run the new ellipses.bbc example program. Rather than get the filled ellipses as per running it on Windows or Linux, t

Richard, and all .. I recently installed bbcsdl on my Linux Mint 19 desktop and it seems to be ok apart from a minor point ... Having opened the IDE, it initially is in a smallish window, if I click t

Richard & others, I have just been attempting to install bbcsdl on another machine running Linux Mint 19 (64 bit) using the 64 bit libraries and got this error message, as has been reported by others

I have today released version 1.00a of BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0, the cross-platform programming language for Windows, Linux, MacOS, Raspberry Pi, Android and iOS (I recently canvassed opinion on whether

Hi Richard, I've hit a problem using bbc2apk.exe. I saw your recent post about compiling BBC files for Android, and thought I'd have a go. I downloaded bbc2apk.exe, but remembered that I didn't have J

I'm sure I knew how to do this, but it's one of those things that I was sure I had notes on, and looking through everything and searching everything I could think of oneline, I can't find anything. Ho

It's a little over three years since BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0 first appeared, and since then new releases have been allocated pre-1.0 version numbers as befits a product still under development. However

Hello, and a belated Happy New Year to all. I've recently returned to fiddling with BB4W programs for manipulating my amateur radio logbook files and am unsure about how to go about implementing one p

Hi, All, I'm trying to use some published programs written in B.B.C. that create curve-stitch images like this one: A book entitled "Curve Stitching" by Jon Millington, written in 1989, contains sever