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10 June 2025

Pointer (1)

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With the Pointer command, Pointer () function, and Pointer type, GFABASIC-32 features a powerful tool. With the Pointer command you can a...
04 February 2025

The 'Owned' property

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You will have noticed the Owned property in the Properties sidebar for a Form. You might also have noticed that there isn't the same pro...
07 December 2024

CreateObject peculiarities (2)

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Lately I received some COM-automation related questions which I answered by referring to this blog post: CreateObject Peculiarities (part 1...
01 October 2024

DEP and GB32

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From MS : "Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a system-level memory protection feature that is built into the operating system starti...
03 July 2024

Function returning UDT

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Last time we discussed why you better not use a Variant in a user-defined type . This time we look at functions that return a user-defined t...
03 April 2024

Variant in an UDT?

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Can you put a Variant in an user-defined type? It depends. User defined type A user-defined type is a data structure that can store...
09 February 2024

What is the purpose of New?

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The New keyword is used to create a COM object instance that cannot be created otherwise. In GB32 the most objects are created using the Oc...
20 October 2023

File Creation Date and Time

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To read the file-time of a file GB32 offers the following functions: Dim ft As Date ft = FileDateTime( file$ ) // last write time f...
03 August 2023

File I/O using Get and Put

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This time I want to put the focus on the Get and Put commands that were first introduced in GFA-BASIC 32. These are high-performance comma...
29 May 2023

Sleep doesn't wait?

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Once in a while you might have created a quick and dirty program that repeatedly prints some value from inside the Sleep message loop. Howe...
04 January 2023

The danger of And and Or

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The previous blogpost discussed the difference between And vs && , and Or vs || in conditional statements. It showed why &...
16 October 2022

And / Or versus && / ||

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Are you aware between the difference between And and && and Or and || ? And and Or are mathematical operators , while &...
19 July 2022

Numeric/string conversions

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Ever wondered how numbers are printed? Check out the following snippet: Dim i As Int = 2345 Print i Before the number is printed to th...
25 April 2022

Variables and parameters

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Let’s discuss some basic issues of variables and parameters and explain auto-complete information about variables and parameters. This blo...
13 March 2022

Update 2.62 March 2022

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A picture says more than 1000 words, therefor a screenshot with notes of improvements and fixes of the IDE (running on Windows 11): Runt...