visual basic, qbasic or quickbasic?

qbasic or quickbasic?

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Pete Davie #1 / 3	qbasic or quickbasic? Hi there, As someone who's been programming qbasic for 7 years now but is still not far beyond subroutines, I think I can be safely classified as a beginner. What I'm trying to do is get some mouse routines I've downloaded to run in either QuickBASIC 4.5 or QBASIC 1.0. The problem is all the routines I've got use either CALL interrupt(stuff) or CALL absolute(stuff). QBASIC always moans about advanced features not being installed, and QuickBASIC tries to call subroutines called absolute or interrupt. I may be missing some libraries or something for QuickBASIC, if so where can I get them, or is the problem more complex than that? Thanks in advance Pete
Fri, 06 Aug 2004 07:24:31 GMT

Stephen J. Ru #2 / 3	qbasic or quickbasic? On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 23:24:31 +0000 (UTC), "Pete Davies" Quote: >Hi there, >As someone who's been programming qbasic for 7 years now but is still not >far beyond subroutines, I think I can be safely classified as a beginner. >What I'm trying to do is get some mouse routines I've downloaded to run in >either QuickBASIC 4.5 or QBASIC 1.0. The problem is all the routines I've >got use either CALL interrupt(stuff) or CALL absolute(stuff). QBASIC >always moans about advanced features not being installed, and QuickBASIC >tries to call subroutines called absolute or interrupt. I may be missing >some libraries or something for QuickBASIC, if so where can I get them, or >is the problem more complex than that? QBasic has ABSOLUTE built in, but not INTERRUPT. QuickBasic can do both, but you have to start the IDE with the /L switch: QB /L on the command line to load the standard library that includes these routines. In the QuickBasic "Options" menu, the "Paths" submenu lets you tell QuickBasic where to look for this library. While you're in there, make sure you have "Full menus" checked.
Fri, 06 Aug 2004 08:13:14 GMT

Robert Fortun #3 / 3	qbasic or quickbasic? To use external library files in QB 4.5 (QBASIC doesn't support external library files), you need the LibName.QLB and the LibName.LIB files. LibName would be the name of the library file. With the .QLB file you would start QB with a QB /L LibName.QLB command. That would load the QB.QLB file for use in the QB IDE. If you start QB with the /L command line option, QB assumes you want to load the QB.QLB quick library and loads the QB.QLB quick library which is used to support the Call interrupt, interrupt routines. When you compile your program the QB linker pulls in the routines from the LibName.LIB file that your QB program uses. Basiclly the .QLB lib file is for use in the QB IDE and the .LIB lib file is used by the LINK.EXE program when you compile your program into an exe file. HTH -Robert Quote: > Hi there, > As someone who's been programming qbasic for 7 years now but is still not > far beyond subroutines, I think I can be safely classified as a beginner. > What I'm trying to do is get some mouse routines I've downloaded to run in > either QuickBASIC 4.5 or QBASIC 1.0. The problem is all the routines I've > got use either CALL interrupt(stuff) or CALL absolute(stuff). QBASIC > always moans about advanced features not being installed, and QuickBASIC > tries to call subroutines called absolute or interrupt. I may be missing > some libraries or something for QuickBASIC, if so where can I get them, or > is the problem more complex than that? > Thanks in advance > Pete
Sat, 07 Aug 2004 01:55:15 GMT

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