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Nice one Kevin,  yours looks better.   I didn't know I had a friendly stalker! 

Patrice, I gave it a try,  while I've run out of socks from trying all your other demo's out, I did feel the whoosh and then  goosebumps!  Impressive!  Seems much much faster!   Did you use the native LZNT1 in the last release?

Since I know diddly about obj files I downloaded a free one of the curiosity Rover...
https://free3d.com/3d-model/curiosity-rover-46907.html
...but it's missing the MTL file, so I made one up, unfortunately the conversion still failed.   

I needed a very simple round gauge for one of our in-house measuring dashboards.  I didn't use any double buffer or GDI+ as it is only intended to be a static needle most of the time.  

This one demo's percentage, but you can modify it to whatever; volts, amps, watts, temp, cats, dogs.  
   

not posted in FreeBASIC forum because a PB user will know what I'm talking about.

I'm having bad success compiling and running (from tiko).

(before someone bitches - isn't helping coders only used to PB a good subject for PUMP?

One problem is the FreeBASIC "appears" not to run because console never shows. They do run from Command Prompt because console does not close at end of code. I can not find an equivalent to WAITKEY$ in FreeBASIC. The problem presents with samples from FreeBASIC and tiko too. FreeBASIC INKEY in a loop should work. Is that the answer?

GUI sample problems later.

(repeat from elsewhere- I'm not really transitioning from PB to FreeBASIC. It is a 64 bit alternative even though what I do does not need that much horsepower)

Cheers,

gbScroller is the companion app to gbClientCapture.  Both are intended to support viewing of sheet music in a horizontal format.

gbClientCapture captures multiple images from a music sheet and merges them into a single horizontal image.

gbScroller displays the merged image, scrolling it to the left.

Both are discussed in the same thread. http://pump.richheimer.de/showthread.php...562#pid562

Features:
1. Zoom the merged image
2. Scroll the merged image, with speed control 
3. Display a vertical line between individual images



Files for both gbClientCapture and gbScroller are in the zip https://garybeene.com/files/gbclientcapture.zip

I decided to break the gbScroller app into two parts. The first is posted in the forum as gbClientCapture.

It captures the area under the transparent dialog client, merging each new capture into a horizontal image for subsequent scrolling. I've not yet written the scrolling app.

The area between the Toolbar and Statusbar is captured and merged into a horizontal image.

This app displays a transparent dialog, with a Toolbar and a Statusbar. Images under the open dialog client area are captured and merged into a horizontal image.  This will be used by my next app to scroll the horizontal image - corresponding to my post about breaking vertical sheet music into scrollable horizontal music.

Discussion is here.

Toolbar buttons:

1. Exit - close gbClientCapture

2. Copy - captures the desktop below the transparent dialog client and saves it as a BMP. each capture is merged with previous captures to form a horizontal image (first captured image on the left, last captured image on the right)

3. New - deletes all images, including the merged image

4. View - opens the current merged image in the default image viewer

The Statusbar keeps track of how many images there are in the image folder.

Here's a picture of the app, with some desktop showing through the client area.



Code and images are here:  https://www.garybeene.com/files/gbclientcapture.zip

I want to move all DOCX files from an old PC to my new PC, preferably by first putting them all on a flash drive which I use for the transfer.

I've posted code before that would capture a list of files anywhere on the PC that match a filespec such as "*.docx". I can use that to copy files to the flash.

But because some files have the same name, I can't just fill the root folder of the flash with all the files by their original name.  To do that I would have to rename files - such as with a simple prefix of "00001", "0002", etc.  Or, I could prefix the original folder name onto each file name, substituting the \ characters with an underscore.  That won't recreate the old folder structure on the new PC, but will at least capture all of the files.

Better yet, I could use something like Beyond Compare to find only DOCX files and replicate the original folder structure onto the new PC.  That's the most "exact" approach, but I'd have to be careful not to inappropriately overwrite any files on the new PC.

As best I know, the command line xcopy can do a similar thing but doesn't as easily et you pick and chose which files to copy.

Anyone use a better solution?

I'd like to display DOCX and XLSX files with their full visual content.

But, I need for the solution to NOT require Word/Excel be installed on a user's PC.

Is that possible?

From talking with a friend, I got the idea of writing a tool to convert music sheets from a portrait format to a scrollable, horizontal format.  I went looking on the web, thinking there must be one already, but did not find anything.  I have the basics working, but before I spent more time on it, I thought I'd see if anyone here knows of such a thing.

Here's an image showing the idea.  A vertical page of music, with multiple rows of content, would be converted to a horizontal image that can be scrolled at a specified rate.  There might be several pages to convert.



My approach is to have a transparent, resizable dialog that the user places over a row of music and takes a snapshot of that row, then moves the dialog over the next row of music and takes another snapshot - repeating until all rows over multiple pages have been captured. All images would be the same size. gbScroller would merge the images into a single image, which could then be displayed and scrolled within the same app.

I had a bit of a 'carrry on' creating post #2. I couldn't figure out the difference between 'Quick Edit' and 'Full Edit'. On one occasion, I got post #1 merging with post #2. On another occasion, I got post #2 being duplicated within itself.

Would someone explain the difference?

Anyway, the question is whether to use SleepX or SleepXX. I cannot answer that - only you can by trying the two source codes. On my Windows 10 machine with a Performance Counter Frequency of 10MHz and a CPU Base Frequency of 3.5GHz SleepXX is the more accurate.

If you have the time, would you let me know what your Performance Counter Frequency is, your CPU Base Frequency, and a console output of the more accurate.

Ta much.