Small Basic 0.7 BUGs

Question

The small basic version 0.7 still does not write '*' on Hungarian keyboard. Insted of changing the size of letters!
(AltGr -)

Answer 1

What other characters are on the key for '*'?

Answer 2

No other button for '*'.
keyboard layout
On Hungarian keyboard how can change the letter size bigger? AltGr Shift Ó (+) does not change!

Answer 3

Hmm... the characters are all so differently placed on this keyboard.  I'll take a note to use a different mechanism than ScanCodes for the text zoom feature. 

Have you tried AltGr Shift 7 (=) for zoom up?

Answer 4

Sorry, the right combination for growing is: AltGr Shift Ó on HUNGARIAN keyboard. It is working now.

Answer 5

Some times I want to be told I'm stupid and wrong - this is one of them:

    TextWindow.ForegroundColor = "red

    TextWindow.WriteLine("This program should not run.")

Is the fact that this code actually works correctly intentional, or just an happy side effect of the way your parsing engine works?

Maybe this is a one of those rare bugs that could legitimately be called a 'feature'!

Best,

Jason.

Answer 6

It also seems you don't need commas between parameter arguments either.

Image = ImageList.LoadImage(Program.Directory + "\AnyImage.png")
GraphicsWindow.DrawResizedImage(Image 0 0 GraphicsWindow.Width * 0.2 GraphicsWindow.Height)

Answer 7

GraphicsWindow.GetPixel - still does not work

Answer 8

More specifically, GetPixel does work with the shapes added via GraphicsWindow.AddShape (Ellipse, Rectangle, etc). It does not seem to work in three ways:

• The background returns black (#000000) when nothing has been drawn on it, even though it look white.
• When used in conjunction with Shapes.Move, the pixel colour is not returned at all
• Some shapes seem to be shaded around the edges or something... the GetPixel method returns slightly different values from their stated colours around their edges

Here is a sample programme that shows some of the working and broken parts (take out the background to see how #000000 is returned even with a "white" background):

GraphicsWindow.Show()
'background:
GraphicsWindow.BrushColor="White"
GraphicsWindow.FillRectangle(0,0,640,450)
'shapes:
GraphicsWindow.BrushColor="Blue"
GraphicsWindow.PenColor="Blue"
ball=Shapes.AddEllipse(20,20)
Shapes.Move(ball,300,100)
GraphicsWindow.BrushColor="Black"
GraphicsWindow.FillEllipse(100,100,20,20)
GraphicsWindow.BrushColor="Red"
GraphicsWindow.FillEllipse(200,100,20,20)

While ("True")
  x= GraphicsWindow.MouseX
  y= GraphicsWindow.MouseY
  c= GraphicsWindow.GetPixel(x,y)
  GraphicsWindow.Title = c
EndWhile

GetPixel is a really handy command for teaching programming and I hope it gets fixed. When teaching kids without a good background in geometry, commands like GetPixel make it much easier to make simple games that require collisions - you can just check the colour of the pixel around the player to see if s/he's collided with anything.

Answer 9

Some bugs I noticed :
* New window still opened too far when we open many documents. The winPos param should be reset when we close a document and at least more quickly, because we then need to move our codes windows, because they dispear after the sidebar.
* Extensions are not added as reference when exported to VB (causing 'Unknown reference' problems)

Exporting to VB is cool ! I think it's a good way to help beginners to switch to VB smootly.

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Fremy - Developer in VB.NET, C# and JScript ... - Feel free to try my extension

Answer 10

Is this a bug in the shapes object or am I misunderstanding something? 

GraphicsWindow.Width=800
GraphicsWindow.Height=600

' get an 800x600 image and display it
map1 = ImageList.LoadImage(Program.Directory + "\800x600.jpg")
GraphicsWindow.DrawImage (map1, 0,0)

' put the above image into a shape object and display it
map2 = Shapes.AddImage(map1)
Shapes.Move(map2,0,0)

In the above, map1 gets drawn at the expected 800x600, but map2 only takes up a quarter of the window at 400x300. What's going on here?

BTW, the same happens if I just directly do a map2=shapes.addimage(program.directory + "800x600.jpg")