I posted this on the new community run PB Users Forum: https://pbusers.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=239
Sharing here as well as I think it is useful for those that might not have joined there yet.

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It always bothered me that PowerBASIC never implemented a #RESOURCE AVI metastatement. If you want to include an AVI for the animation control via #RESOURCE metastatements it's impossible as you cannot animate directly from RCDATA (or other resource sections available via the #RESOURCE metastatement). It can only be done from an AVI resource section (or from a supplied file path). Yes, you can compile the AVI into an AVI resource section using an RC file compiler and add it as a PBR (which still works but was technically deprecated) or RES, but "you cannot add any other #RESOURCE metastatements in your program" as per the PowerBASIC documentation.

What this code does is allow you to embed AVIs into your code using #RESOURCE RCDATA. After you compile your code to DLL or EXE you run this patcher by supplying the DLL/EXE file path on the command line (or via drag-and-drop). It proceeds to enumerate the AVIs and moves them to an AVI resource section using UpdateResource.

Be aware that you will need to repatch the DLL/EXE each time you re-compile your code.
As such, this could be included in a tool chain to always run after a compile.

Processing is written to a log (AVIRscPtch_Log.csv) in the directory the targeted module is located. To facilitate running in a toolchain it runs silently if no errors occur, but uses MESSAGEBOX to report any errors (in addition to the log).

Not quite sure where I got this chunk of code from but it includes CAfxMp3.inc which I don't have.
Have searched everywhere - Google mentions it but leads nowhere.
Anyone heard of or got a copy of this one please?

I would like to wish Albert Richheimer,  who created this meeting place and who hosts us with his generosity, a Merry Christmas, as well as everyone here in various capacities. I trust that the new year will bring health accompanied by serenity. Warm regards and best wishes from the bottom of my heart.
Mimmo

“My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030,” Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Galen Hunt writes in a post on LinkedIn. “Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases. Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.’ To accomplish this previously unimaginable task, we’ve built a powerful code processing infrastructure. Our algorithmic infrastructure creates a scalable graph over source code at scale. Our AI processing infrastructure then enables us to apply AI agents, guided by algorithms, to make code modifications at scale. The core of this infrastructure is already operating at scale on problems such as code understanding.”

https://www.thurrott.com/dev/330980/micr...st-by-2030

Hi @all

Dale Yarker has pointed out that from time to time the "unread posts sign", a black disc, re-appears, although there are no new postings in the affected subforums.

Has anyone else noticed this strange phenomenon?

Cheers,
Albert

Greetings and Belated Thanksgiving Greetings ...

Do we have any users of MalwareBytes Anti-Virus/Malware here?

If yes, and if you are currently using a premium subscription, then I ask if you may have tried to access your online account within the last two or three days.

Here's my situation ....

I already have MalwareBytes Premium on my desktop, and I now desire to add the current subscription to a 2nd device, in this case a laptop.

This morning (Thursday AM in the USA) I properly entered my e-mail and account password, then immediately got the message to check my e-mail for a 6-digit verifier message. However, the verifier message did not immediately arrive in my inbox, and would not arrive for three to five minutes. When the verifier message finally appeared, I entered the 6-digit verifier and got the "INVALID" response. This same thing happened again about three more times. BTW, each time the verifier message always went to the inbox, never to Spam or any other folder.

I will most likely not attempt the process again until sometime tomorrow. Meantime, I would interested to know if anyone else might be experiencing this same problem.

Thanx-A-Lotte, Frank

seemed to have stopped completely.
I still check a couple times a day. I suspect some others do too.
If you haven't switched to new PB forum, you can discuss or question here, and someone will see it.

Cheers,

Is it only me? it sometimes displays the forums list and then times out when opening some threads.

I heard so many terrible stories about upgrading to Windows 11 I'm now interested to use Linux instead and I want to be able to run my PB 
progs in Linux.  how to do this ?

I have some data that I want to keep embedded in the code instead of an external file.  This takes about 4 seconds to execute (the routines formatStarRA, formatStarDec and J2000Topo only account for about 0.3 seconds).  I could make each line (element) one string padding with spaces and then using mid$ to parse it out. That would be 2400 READ$ instead of 2400*11.   Any other suggestions to speed this up? 




FUNCTION DoubleStarLoad AS LONG
    LOCAL t AS LONG
    LOCAL tempRA, TempDec AS DOUBLE, dummy AS STRING

    FOR t= 0 TO 2399
        DoubleStarData(t).CST=READ$((t)*11+1)
        DoubleStarData(t).ObjName=READ$((t)*11+2)
        DoubleStarData(t).SAO=READ$((t)*11+3)
        tempRA=formatStarRA(READ$((t)*11+4))
        tempDec=formatStarDec(READ$((t)*11+5))
        J2000Topo(tempRA,tempDec)
        DoubleStarData(t).RA=tempRA
        DoubleStarData(t).Dec=tempDec
        DoubleStarData(t).Magnitude1=READ$(t*11+6)
        DoubleStarData(t).Magnitude2=READ$(t*11+7)
        DoubleStarData(t).Spectral=READ$(t*11+9)
        DoubleStarData(t).Distance=VAL(READ$(t*11+10))
        DoubleStarData(t).Separation=READ$(t*11+11)
    NEXT t

    DATA "Aqr","1 Aqr","126062","20:39:25","+00:29:11","5.27","12.3","7.03","K0III","71.48","65"
    DATA "Ari","1 Ari","74966","01:49:50","+22:15:45","16","17","1","M3.7+M4.2","","17.5"
    DATA "Ari","1 Ari","74966","01:50:09","+22:16:30","6.33","7.21","0.88","G3III","179.53","2.9"
    DATA "Boo","1 Boo","82942","13:40:40","+19:57:20","5.76","9.6","3.84","A1V","100.6","4.4"
    DATA "Cam","1 Cam","24672","04:32:02","+53:54:39","5.78","6.82","1.04","B0III","217.39","10.4"
    DATA "Del","1 Del","106172","20:30:18","+10:53:45","6.2","8.02","1.82","Be+B","227.79","0.9"
    DATA "Dra","1 Dra","15532","11:31:07","+69:24:00","14.3","14.8","0.5","","","1.2"
    ....

END FUNCTION