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Oh, I see that LBB displays the UTF as a single character stream. I wonder then if once fetched it is a normal asc stream?

Edit, no, of course not, it stays as a UTF string until we change it. But in LBB it will display normally.

While I have not got LBB loaded on my current PC I have coded this. Not sure I understand why there would be a difference running under LBB. The issue for me is that while the file may be UTF encoded the data bytes are still bytes. So the tags and size bytes are just normal. The issue is in reading ...

No, it’s my fault because I was also told that I had reused a handle but did not realise the significance. It is where I open a window to gauge the size of the client area and then reuse that handle later in the code. Both issues are probably bad practice on my part. But the handle reuse obviously s...

I have been advised that my LB Chess program does not run correctly in LBB. Not sure I fully understand what the issue is but it is an easy fix. It seems I need to save and restore a Global value when exiting a recursive loop. Here is the section of code that needs fixed. This is a link to the origi...

I believe the LBW download is still available on Alyce's site. The problem seems to be browser based, a casual click gets ignored. On my iMac I need to Command Click to get the download started and I also need to Allow downloads from her site. Nanny state again. I know it is different for Windows, t...

I have just noticed, the picture gives the game play away! But, who cares its still just fun, brings a smile to my face as soon as the music starts.

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I am not sure I am solving the actual problem but I made a small change to your function to handle -.123 it now returns -0.123 txt$=".123" print txt$,len(txt$),num$(txt$),len(num$(txt$)) txt$="0.123" print txt$,len(txt$),num$(txt$),len(num$(txt$)) txt$="-.123" print txt...

Since I am being painted as the villain I will correct a thing or two if I may. may not be promoted There is a keyword in there, "promoted". Before anyone argues there is a difference between the words mentioned, recommended and promoted. Rods attitude towards forum members That should rea...

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