I'd like to start by thanking Albert for hosting our community's new home. This platform has been crucial in bringing our group together and facilitating knowledge-sharing, which would be difficult to achieve without it.

That being said, I think we're still vulnerable to disruptions if something happens to Albert or the current setup. To address this, I propose that we establish a committee to oversee the creation of a more permanent and stable home for our community. This would involve securing reliable hosting, maintenance, and data management, including the ability to export our databases if needed.

To ensure the committee represents our diverse international community, I suggest we aim for broad representation of at least 3-5 members. I know we could nominate some individuals who have demonstrated long-term commitment, but it's essential that potential committee members volunteer and are voted in to confirm their willingness and community acceptance to take on this responsibility.

I'm personally willing to contribute financially to partially support a hosted platform managed by an elected committee, even if I'm not part of the committee myself. I could (and should) not do it alone though, so I expect other donations to help meet the appropriate level of support we would look to achieve.

Establishing bylaws, rules, and other governing documents would be an important next step, which I believe the committee should handle once it's formed.

Thoughts on this proposal?

Howdy!

I've continued working on gbLocator, which provides a user interface to Everything for blind and low vision users.  I'm up to v4.2.

Web Site: https://newvisionconcepts.com/gblocator/gblocator.htm
Installation File:   https://garybeene.com/files/gblocator_setup.exe
Source Code File:   https://garybeene.com/files/gblocator.zip

You'll recall that I spoke with David (Everything author) and he encouraged me to post something on his forum. I've just done that and hope to get some feedback from folks on his forum.

Here are gbLocator images - one with the toolbar showing (low vision users) and one with the toolbar hidden (blind users).

   

... does this forum allow inline images or just thumbnails that are links to the full size image?

With the guidance from the other thread on accessing the forum, I was able to update my gbThreads files through today.

These links contain just the file bigthread.htm. Use it to replace the one you already have.

https://garybeene.com/files/bigthread.zip   140MB

https://garybeene.com/files/bigthread.7z   90MB

I had to manually walk through the forums to get a list of threads that have changed since the last update so please let me know if I missed anything!

SleepX()

SleepX() is a high resolution replacement for Sleep.

The principle used has an analogy with HiFi were a class B amplifier is used to get us within a neighbourhood of a desired voltage and then uses a class A amplifier to fine tune. The cost of this approach is much less than using only a class A amplifier, which are expensive.

The class B amplifier analogy uses Sleep and the class A amplifier analogy uses the Performance Counter, which has a resolution of 100ns with Windows 10 and later.

The following code has the SleepX() code and a usage example.

This is a typical output.

I have moved Carlo's thread into the members area, in Issues About The PowerBASIC Forum

Should be a better solution, so that the new PB owners won't be aware that we still have access to forum.powerbasic.com.

Anyone who cares to post the final iteration of the "clockwise sort of coordinates" source code, which was recently discussed in the PB forums? I waited too long to store a local copy.

Thanks.

I'm starting to work on a pac-man maze.  I have a long road ahead of me with this challenge.   I'm going with a technique I read up on using tiles that are setup as a grid that allows you to draw the maze dynamically.  Each tile is stored in a 2D array.  The maze is setup 28 across and 31 tiles down.  The array elements are structures that allow you to include properties or attributes about the tile and can be used for game flow logic and drawing updates.   I'm curious to know if anyone else in PB land has done any work in this area?  TIA. 

A picture of what I have so far... (obviously more work to be done )
   

How could I detect and handle for example a webcam with Power Basic?
I have no experience with this topic.

When I write:

CHDR "D:\Test_with_Files"

A = "Original.exe"
B = "Original_Copy.exe"
Filecopy A, B

A is existing on the harddrive but File B is not created. Why is that?

Have waded back thru the previous forum posts but at a loss to get an answer.
Sorry if it's been asked before but all I need is the numerical string for the Current UTC timestamp.
How?
Thanks.