Conversion from PowerBasic to OxygenBasic

[jcfuller]

FireFly produces plain, though voluminous Basic source code.

A window with 1 checkbox, weighs in at around 110k of source and produces a 59k binary. 

Charles,
  My understanding(?) is the next version will be based on José's CWindow/Afx Framework. This should reduce the size considerably.
It may never happen as Paul has lost most of his fire for the project and is concentrating on his WinFB editor.

James

[Aurel]

Sounds like FireFly is a bloat generator.

hehe..i know that
Firefly is ok but is little bit complex to work with him
and really exiting code is huge,by the way last version for FB dont have preview
so you cannot see your code  ..or i cannot found this 
there are few others...i will look
yeah resEd is really good

[JRS]

If the interest is truly there for a PowerBASIC alternative using OxygenBasic then a syntax translation and missing item list needs to be generated. I think this needs to come from the community as Charles's plate is full just maintaining the compiler.

[Aurel]

If the interest is truly there

yes John ...that is the real question
because it looks to me that some pb programmers (from Jose forum) tend to use purebasic or c++

[chrisc]

I truly appreciate your feedback folks.

Hopefully someone can come up with a converter from PowerBasic to OxygenBasic. We PB programmers will buy it
as the situation now is trending towards 64 bits.  Probably Windows 10 would be the last windows OS to allow 32bits.
It took less than 12 years for Microsoft to kill off the 16bits. when Windows 11 arrives, the 32 bits would be killed.

[chrisc]

James,

I downloaded the chm file from your link below but when I open it -- all the pages are blank?

https://svn.code.sf.net/p/fbedit/code/ResEd22/Help/ResEd.chm

See the image in the attachment below


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[jcfuller]

chris,

From File Explorer right click on the file.
Select properties and  unblock it.

James

[chrisc]

ThanXX James

[chrisc]

Hope that someone from here can build a form generation software for Oxygen basic similar to Firefly or Phoenix
We are willing to buy.  Thanxx

The demise of PB is looming with the Windows Redstone 4 blocking the 32bits apps and that Apple has already dropped
32 bits.