Re: [Gambas-user] A little article on Gambas on Phoronix

2013-11-27 Thread Randall Morgan
Well as does happen though-time, language changes. The terms used over time tend to take on different meanings giving the society in which they are used. One of the reasons communications can be so difficult On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Rob Kudla wrote: > On 11/27/2013 03:18 PM, Randall

Re: [Gambas-user] A little article on Gambas on Phoronix

2013-11-27 Thread Rob Kudla
On 11/27/2013 03:18 PM, Randall Morgan wrote: > When I think of mission critical, I think of things that could cost > someone's life if failure occurred. Things like, aircraft guidance systems, > embedded medical devices, automotive steering and breaking systems, rail > switching systems, etc. Th

Re: [Gambas-user] A little article on Gambas on Phoronix

2013-11-27 Thread ISS Boss
@Randall: Nope. NELIAC was a language conceived at the Naval Research Labs exclusively for the use of our Burroughs D820 computers. The whole operating system, called AOSP (Automatic Operating and Scheduling Program), was maintained right at our computing facility and neve

Re: [Gambas-user] A little article on Gambas on Phoronix

2013-11-27 Thread Randall Morgan
When I think of mission critical, I think of things that could cost someone's life if failure occurred. Things like, aircraft guidance systems, embedded medical devices, automotive steering and breaking systems, rail switching systems, etc. You can argue that almost any software is mission critical

Re: [Gambas-user] A little article on Gambas on Phoronix

2013-11-27 Thread Kende Krisztián
2013-11-27 15:55 keltezéssel, PICCORO McKAY Lenz írta: > == > From: Kende Kriszti?n >> https://launchpad.net/myunity > over version of this app appears in default winbuntu repositories: > http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/myunity > but mayority of end users dont really know about it!

Re: [Gambas-user] A little article on Gambas on Phoronix (ISS Boss)

2013-11-27 Thread Fabien Bodard
You miss french Charlie 2013/11/27 Charlie Reinl : > about good, bad 'BASIC' > > "There's an old saying:" no, not Tobis Mr. Monk > > only a poor craftsman blames his tools > qu'un pauvre artisan blâme ses outils > más que un pobre artesano culpa a sus herramientas > nur ein schlechter Handwerker

Re: [Gambas-user] A little article on Gambas on Phoronix

2013-11-27 Thread PICCORO McKAY Lenz
== From: Kende Kriszti?n > https://launchpad.net/myunity over version of this app appears in default winbuntu repositories: http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/myunity but mayority of end users dont really know about it! Kende, whats the progress of the oficial packagin to oficial dist

Re: [Gambas-user] A little article on Gambas on Phoronix

2013-11-27 Thread PICCORO McKAY Lenz
Tha's was i taking about: From: Nigel Verity > Gambas is a tool which every serious developer should examine closely. > Its biggest challenge is the mistaken notion which equates professionalism > and functionality with complexity. > > Nige 100% agree! From: Rolf-Werner Eilert > Maybe leaving a

Re: [Gambas-user] X coordinate in Paint.DrawText works in reverse.

2013-11-27 Thread Ru Vuott
Yes, Tobias, it was .Mirror metod. bye vuott Mer 27/11/13, Tobias Boege ha scritto: Oggetto: Re: [Gambas-user] X coordinate in Paint.DrawText works in reverse. A: "mailing list for gambas users" Data: Mercoledì 27 novembre 2013, 12:30 On Wed,

Re: [Gambas-user] A little article on Gambas on Phoronix (ISS Boss)

2013-11-27 Thread Charlie Reinl
about good, bad 'BASIC' "There's an old saying:" no, not Tobis Mr. Monk only a poor craftsman blames his tools qu'un pauvre artisan blâme ses outils más que un pobre artesano culpa a sus herramientas nur ein schlechter Handwerker tadelt seine Werkzeuge (Thanks google translater) Charlie

[Gambas-user] Making menu shortcuts visible

2013-11-27 Thread ukimiku
I am preparing a menu using the in-built menu editor. Unfortunately, while the menu text entries show up properly, the keyboard shortcuts that I assigned to them do not. And they do not work: when I press, for instance, "Crtl-Q", the program does not quit altough I assigned "Crtl-Q" to my quit men

Re: [Gambas-user] A little article on Gambas on Phoronix (ISS Boss)

2013-11-27 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
100 % agreed, Nigel. Maybe leaving away all mentioning of VB in the headlines would already help a bit in the way the public perceives the project. What I mean is, the website and the texts describing it for newcomers. Mentioning VB could wake evil memories for some folks not so aquainted with

Re: [Gambas-user] A little article on Gambas on Phoronix (ISS Boss)

2013-11-27 Thread Nigel Verity
Dear All It's been interesting to read about perceptions that BASIC is a "toy" programming language, not to be used for serious projects. I have to reject this notion. There are some very low level system programming tasks for which BASIC may not be the best choice but, in principle, like an

Re: [Gambas-user] X coordinate in Paint.DrawText works in reverse.

2013-11-27 Thread Tobias Boege
On Wed, 27 Nov 2013, Ru Vuott wrote: > Hello, > > I have this code: > > * > > Public Sub Button1_Click() > > Dim a As New Image > Dim b As Picture > > ' I load a file image: >a = a.Load("/path/of/file/image") > > With Paint >.Begin(a) >.

[Gambas-user] R: X coordinate in Paint.DrawText works in reverse.

2013-11-27 Thread Ru Vuott
uhmmm... I found that " a.Mirror(True, False) " function generates that effect. So, without that function X coordinate works normally. Ok. Regards vuott Mer 27/11/13, Ru Vuott ha scritto: Oggetto: [Gambas-user] X coordinate in Paint.DrawText w

[Gambas-user] X coordinate in Paint.DrawText works in reverse.

2013-11-27 Thread Ru Vuott
Hello, I have this code: * Public Sub Button1_Click() Dim a As New Image Dim b As Picture ' I load a file image: a = a.Load("/path/of/file/image") With Paint .Begin(a) .Font.Size = 16 .DrawText("d", 100, 20, 10, 10) .End End W