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Talking of ambitious projects, I started to write an S*BASIC editor with syntax colouring and various other bells and whistles using my decoder as the starting point. Viewing code in glorious colour wasnt too hard, but editing was a lot more difficult (re-parsing each line, etc), so I abandoned the ...

New topic to avpoid flooding a different one, with mainly irrelevant stuff (Irrelevant to that other topic I mean!)

I havent tested extensively but DECODE_SAV seems not to work with integer
tokens produced by Qloadref V1.9 and possibly other, not ancient, versions
of QSAVE. V1.9 is the current ...

I havent tested extensively but DECODE_SAV seems not to work with integer
tokens produced by Qloadref V1.9 and possibly other, not ancient, versions
of QSAVE. V1.9 is the current version of QLOAD/QSAVE that came with
Q_Liberator V3.36 and beyond. The SMSQ/E version works fine.

It so happens that I ...

The Exteded Environment has been implemented when GUIs where invented.


I didn't realize this was over 40 years old. I thought it was created in the 90s, not early 80s. Did Tony create it at the same time as TK2?


Digging a bit in memory and old paperwork:
Its first incarnation came with ...

Dave wrote: Thu Sep 18, 2025 7:48 pm <>I don't use the pointer system. It's pretty much the worst WIMP system ever devised to torture man. <>

Youre utterly WRONG! *

* What can be claimed without evidence can be repudiated without evidence.

The most annoying thing IMHO is that uEmacs warps the pointer to some unexpected place if you select a menu item. I keep searching my mouse pointer in that program. Isn't it similar in QD? When you click on an item with the mouse from the editing window, you first have to look back at where you ...

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I write all my numberless Basic in QD and use F10-"sbas/qd" to parse and test run it from there.
BasicLinker will produce from that a numbered SBasic file and error reports.
The numbers are only needed & helpful to get BasicLinker to point my QD to the error line.
When no more errors are ...

It works a treat, Martin, at least on the program I tried it on. Thank you :)
The removal program appears to remove 114 bytes more than the size of the Qlib_run I just compiled into it. Is that normal?
Adding it again using your program restores the object to the "correct" size, ie 114 bytes less ...

I normally load up Qlib_run, Turbo_TK, ptrmen, Qmenu, PHGTK, Dbas, and a bunch of other "standard" toolkits and system extensions in my boot file so I dont have to faff around every time I want to fire up some well-worn - or rarely used - program, or to test anything new. I run the same boot file ...

Thanks Martin!
Id be more interested in a utility to entirely remove any built in runtimes..