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I am trying to submit a post that includes LBB Code, but all I get when I try to Review or Submit all I get is "Forbidden". This will certainly have been caused by the recent DDoS attack on phpBB forums: https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2662519 . I hadn't realised that this...

If I’m understanding the docs correctly. I can write a program in LB port it to LBB, convert it to BBC Basic then make (whatever the equivalent to an EXE file is on Linux) standalone for Linux in BBCSDL? It very much depends on what kind of program. It says this in the description of how LBB works:...

I noticed in bbc basic manual, that you can use once defined structure as a prototype for new structures, and hoped that something similar might work in LBB Although you can use a previously-defined structure as a 'prototype' for a new structure, that still doesn't help with creating a structure wi...

Is it possible, without a conversion table of some sort in an array, to pass a name of structure to be created what I mean is it possible to accomplish something of the sort a$ = "something" : struct a$, x as etc, etc by 'simple' means I don't know of any 'simple' way. Creating a variable...

How do I find my mistake in my code when the error message "Missing , at line 0" appears at program launch? The error is occurring in an 'unnumbered' line (line 0) and I would not expect there to be many of those in your program: LBB normally allocates line numbers, even if your original ...

If you happen to have an X account you can use Grok for free but it is limited to 18 questions per every 2 hours. Try it out, you’ll be amazed! I mainly use DeepSeek for writing - and reviewing - code; it's free and unlimited (at the moment). It's pretty competent at BBC BASIC but obviously not as ...

Adamkonrad wrote: ↑Mon Apr 07, 2025 8:32 pm Is it possible to direct bbc graphics commands to graphic window created in LBB?

No, a graphics window isn't a BBC BASIC window.

Especially to read the POINT color value?

You could presumably use the GetPixel Windows API function for that.

Edit, no, of course not, it stays as a UTF string until we change it. But in LBB it will display normally. "UTF string" is ambiguous. You need to specify whether it's UTF-8, UTF-16LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-32LE or UTF-32BE. BBC BASIC (which is what LBB is using under the hood) uses UTF-8 internal...

Is my assumption about the -A parameter incorrect? LB Booster (LBB.exe) and your 'compiled' BASIC program run in entirely separate Windows processes. This is valuable, because it means that however badly your BASIC program might crash, it cannot bring down the LBB process with it (with the loss of ...