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by Mr_Navigator
Thu Apr 16, 2015 8:50 am
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: Site Search
Replies: 4
Views: 2770

Re: Site Search

Just tried this on your site Mr QL, works a treat and especially for difficult searches such as Tk2 and Fdk. Maybe the forum should look at their search options.
by Mr_Navigator
Tue Apr 14, 2015 3:42 pm
Forum: The Off-Topic Section
Topic: Humour
Replies: 18
Views: 10094

Re: Humour

I didnt know about any "rules" I have always used f in a for next loop as a ZX Spectrum user (and possible a ZX 81), you quickly learned that in Sinclair BASIC pressing the F key twice in succession creates 10 FOR f Such was Sinclair's keyboard tokens, and stuck with me all my life A loop ...
by Mr_Navigator
Tue Apr 14, 2015 3:33 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Giga-Basic and E.A.S.E.
Replies: 13
Views: 6545

Re: Giga-Basic and E.A.S.E.

With the following code, you get the screen shot, pretty straight forward I think 100 SPRDIM :REMark Reserves space for the arrow 110 MENUDIM :REMark Allocates space for the pull-down-menu 120 : 130 MENU 0,0,1, "Addresses" 140 MENU 1,0,1, "Clear" 150 MENU 2,0,1, "Input"...
by Mr_Navigator
Tue Apr 14, 2015 3:22 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Giga-Basic and E.A.S.E.
Replies: 13
Views: 6545

Re: Giga-Basic and E.A.S.E.

Screen (GIGABASIC's editor) is very similar to ED and looks identical when in editing mode, but it can be passed parameters as described thus: • SCREEN #dev, linenr, tab Default: SCREEN 11, 1, 3 This command enters the screen editor. It allows the user to edit BASIC programs in a way similar to QUIL...
by Mr_Navigator
Tue Apr 14, 2015 8:50 am
Forum: The Off-Topic Section
Topic: Humour
Replies: 18
Views: 10094

Re: Humour

Ralf R. wrote:Pound sign is allowed? I am astonished....
Your right is does look like a pound sign at normal magnification, CTRL + mouse wheel to zoom and see it for the F it is :)
by Mr_Navigator
Mon Apr 13, 2015 5:13 pm
Forum: The Off-Topic Section
Topic: Humour
Replies: 18
Views: 10094

Re: Humour

Bubu wrote:
Of course when my teacher read this, forced me to write 500 times the sentence USING A PENCIL :-(
Well that's easy

Code: Select all

100 FOR f = 1 to 500
110   PRINT "USING A PENCIL",
120 END FOR f
by Mr_Navigator
Mon Apr 13, 2015 5:08 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: PNG convertor
Replies: 10
Views: 4839

Re: PNG convertor

Are you looking to convert a few PNGs to BBQL 8 or a program to do it for you or just a program out of interest? There was just the one PNG image, but looking forward it would be nice to be able to do this - maybe by updating the conversion routines in Open World... I've been doing some of this lat...
by Mr_Navigator
Mon Apr 13, 2015 5:01 pm
Forum: The Off-Topic Section
Topic: Time for a new Star Trek TV show?
Replies: 9
Views: 5734

Re: Time for a new Star Trek TV show?

Doesn't the Star Trek Continues series count? It's up to scratch and the son of the original creator has said his father would have considered it canon. (For foreign readers for whom English is a second language, that means he would have considered it part of the original writings continuous from t...
by Mr_Navigator
Mon Apr 13, 2015 4:42 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: PNG convertor
Replies: 10
Views: 4839

Re: PNG convertor

Unfortunately, the results with Open World are not good - not helped by the fact that Open World does not appear to recognise the gif89a format (so I can only edit it directly to change the format type to 87a) Ungif succeeded once I realised the reason it was doing nothing was because it needs the ...
by Mr_Navigator
Fri Apr 10, 2015 10:24 pm
Forum: The Off-Topic Section
Topic: Time for a new Star Trek TV show?
Replies: 9
Views: 5734

Re: Time for a new Star Trek TV show?

It's about time someone badly went