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All GUI-capable 'modern' versions of BBC BASIC come with libraries that support dialogue boxes, radiobuttons, listboxes, comboboxes, file selectors etc. The thing about WIMP stuff is that you're unlikely to want to (and there should be no reason to) write that from scratch. Sat 1:03 pmI never used BBC BASIC beyond 8 bit so getting to grips with using it for anything vaguely WIMPy is probably a bit of a dead end learning avenue for myself
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It's a shame that I wasn't able to give my presentation on "BBC BASIC in the 21st Century" (it should have happened at today's Virtual ABug, but it was cancelled) because that would have covered the extensions that have kept BBC BASIC competitive. I wonder if it's the very familiarity of people here with early BBC BASICs that colours their attitude to the modern incarnations of the language. But that's extremely rare in my experience. It's not the fastest of languages, so if a heavy computational task is involved one might need to drop into assembly language and that obviously can impact on cross-platform compatibility. I'm not familiar with it what would be the likely areas of difficulty? From a cursory read of the page you linked to it sounds to involve only manipulation of data in files, with some sort of UI on top to that extent I don't foresee a problem.īBC BASIC is a 'general purpose' programming language, comparable in its capabilities to Python, JavaScript etc., and I can honestly say that I've not yet encountered an application it is not suitable for. Sat 1:07 pmGenuine question: would it be technically possible to use modern BBC BASIC to write an app that would replicate the interface and functionality of Beeb Image?: SSD! Or, strictly speaking, "$.$.LOAD"! (Reported these issues on Github.) SSD), MMBExplorer then fails to realise that the "$." prefix shouldn't be added to the filename - so the file ends up being called "$.LOAD" on the. inf file (which DFS Imager also extracts from the. Even though MMBExplorer seems to correctly parse the accompanying. SSD to the desktop with the directory name ("$." in this case) prepended to the filename (so "$.LOAD", for example). Is there any way to increase that limit? The macOS file-selection dialog box would only let me select one file at a time.ĮDIT: Another slight problem!: If I extract a (BASIC program) file using (Windows) DFS Imager (under WINE) from a. One slight problem is that I couldn't add more than one file at a time. Interesting! Very useful, although the "text-panel" interface for adding files to a. Just tried building and running this on macOS Mojave. It would also be nice to know if it works on Big Sur, so if you try it, please report if there's been any problem. If you don't mind using a single disk MMB intermediate file, you could try my MMBExplorer tool ( viewtopic.php?f=12&t=19802) for managing SSD disk images.