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Xolatron old
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Posted: 20th Jul 2005 05:07 Edited at: 10th Aug 2005 23:06
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Here is the first public release of my Ion Extension functions.

This is ABSOLUTELY FREE - NO CREDIT NEEDED!!
Use these commands however you want.

I'm just trying to add in some very useful/common commands that DBp doesn't have.

They include:
- openBox/saveBox dialogs
- messageboxes
- reading and writing of INI files
- memblocks
- file commands
- extra string functions
- bezier curves
- BlueGUI extra commands

This is version 1.0.0.6
Number of Functions: 72

Documentation is included at the top of the code.
These functions should be put into a .dba file and attatched in your project.
If you want to just use these functions at the end of your code rather than attaching the whole source file, note that many functions call each other.

NOTE: Documentation is lacking for some commands. Will be updated soon.

The code is now attached to this post due to a size of 24.4 KBs.

Hope you like it! Comments and requests are welcome

-Xol

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Posted: 20th Jul 2005 05:20
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Wow this couldnt be more perfect timing !
how do you get the string that is returned by the openwindow gadget ?
Thanks a million man

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Posted: 20th Jul 2005 05:23 Edited at: 20th Jul 2005 06:42
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You're welcome, Baggers!

For the openBox command: I found it on the forums/codebase (Firefly) a while back and made a few changes. comdlg32.dll writes the filepath in memory at the pointer it is given. I fthat pointer is the beginning of a DBp memblock, DBp can read it as if it were a memblock.

Thanks!

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So now for the retards ... how can I get the path ? (just a little example would be fine !)

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Oh, sorry . The function returns it. Example:


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Posted: 20th Jul 2005 06:02 Edited at: 20th Jul 2005 06:05
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Edited first post to add bezier curves. Now 30 functions

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Sweet thanks man, didnt anticipate it being that simple !

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You're welcome again
Glad you like it!

-Xol

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Looks useful. You have a small bug in enable_ion_system function though by hard coding dll numbers as 254 and 255


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Posted: 20th Jul 2005 07:43 Edited at: 20th Jul 2005 07:46
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Spooky,
Oops, that was from testing it. Thanks. My get_free_dll() function used to be having problems, but I fixed those long before I posted this.
Updated post 1 to fix that.

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What a very nice piece of coding work! There's certainly somethings in there that I was going to need to hack out! You've saved me a batch of work!

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Sorry if this sounds dum but Where do I get the dlls to use with your library.

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Thanks G Man
Fubarpk, the DLLs used by this code are all windows DLLs. They already exist in the right place on every windows computer, or else nothing on thier computer would work. Therefore, you don't need to download anything except for this code (it's nice to see someone actually spent the time to look through this code!)

I've updated the first post with the attached .dba file. It is now version 1.0.0.3 and has 16 new functions along with bug fixes for 'inString(' and 'inChar('.

Comments and function requests are appreciated

-Xol

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Use can add the string search functions to it, if you want Xolo. But the orginal credit for them goes to IanM. I only did small modification and comments.

P.S. Their in the CodeBase

Breaking Stuff=Fun!,Bug Testing<>Fun!, Bug Testing=Breaking Stuff, so...
Bug Testing=Fun! Hmmmm....
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What does this do:

That this doesn't:

Will it work around the string length problems?

Or only the unending string one?

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Posted: 27th Jul 2005 03:34 Edited at: 27th Jul 2005 03:42
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Keaz, I just put that in thier for a reverse of 'make_string_from_file('. I'll see about working around string length problems and then update it (right now it is the same as 'write string')

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Ok thx anyway but I think I've worked out the issue.

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Updated 1.0.0.4 - Keaz, changed 'make_file_from_string(' to work without causing the length error. 'write_unending_string(' is still faster, but takes up more EXE size.

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Where'd the code go?

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Weird - I didn't delete it, really! I might have edited the post without uploading a new one, but that shouldn't have caused this because the page was still there. Anyways, I'm going to fix a few bugs, add some commands, and upload a new version . Should be up in under an hour.

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OK, Update 1.0.0.5
Some commands are bugged - mostly because of DBpro issues. Bugged commands are marked with '| CURRENTLY BUGGED' after thier documentation line.

I've added some commands that are useful for BlueGUI richEdit gadgets, but compiling without BlueGUI shouldn't give an error, even if those functions are included.

Any feature requests are accepted.

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Keaz, I just realized why the source code disappeared - the server change. I've noticed attachments dissappearing all over the place!

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I regret to inform you but my source won't be compatible with your functions so.... is it ok if I convert them to my style?

P.S. I'm still working on the API wrapper part of my code, but I posted a working rebar project and my API are in code snippets. If you want to try and use them. The you might be able to get what you need from it.

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That's fine Keaz, I'll change mine to fit your style when I get a chance.

Good work on the rebar!

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What's this about?

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HELLO!

This looks great but when I tried to compile it it said that
this function at line 142.....
start_ion_system

#100011: Can not understand command at line ...

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AND when I deleted the function above...

array insert at bottom ion_list()

also gave me an error...
What am I doing wrong?

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Ace of Spades, sorry about this, but because of issuse declaring globals and arrays in functions, you have to call 'gosub start_ion_system'

Hope that helps,

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Update 1.0.0.6

Fixed all known bugs. everything should work well now.

See the top post.

[EDIT: updated the top post because I forgot to add one command - it's in now.]

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Hmmm... 587 views but only 7 repliers other than me! Are these all DBC users coming from the newsletter... I thought that putting this in 'DarkBASIC Pro discussion' would be enough to show it is for DBpro and not DBC. Oh well.

If you are interested, please reply

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Hi Xolatron, very nice when I get to finding the bits I am looking for.

I am using XPpro and it does not like this line in your code.
say something about cannot find setrichhandle??

oldbkg = call dll(user32num,"SendMessageA",windowHandle(richEditHandle),0x443,0,convertToSystemColor(colorval))

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Hmmm... Two possible causes (that I can think of):
1. You don't have BlueGUI, so windowHandle( will cause an error
2. your program hasn't called 'gosub start_ion_system' before calling the function setRichEditBkg(

If you don't have BlueGUI you should probably delete the whole BlueGUI section from the code (from setRichEditBkg to setPassword), or you could just take out the 'windowHandle(' and ')' from all of the BlueGUI functions if you want to use them with the windows API.

If the problem is number 2, then you need to call 'gosub start_ion_system' as the start of your code so the necessary Windows dlls (you don't need to download these) are loaded.

Hope this fixes the problem.

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Cheers Xolatron its to do with the BlueGUI bit, however mines I hope is in the post, so that part should then start to work .

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