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If someone guesses correctly, will you share source code?

Hello, With the forum possibly closing down soon, I was wondering if people here would be interested in joining a BBC BASIC Discord server? If you're not aware of it, Discord is a free chat service which allows you to create chatrooms. It's marketed towards gamers but a lot of online communities unr...

The response is unanimous. Richard is welcome to return to the forum and may return whenever he chooses to.

I hope Richard will return to the forum. He's a great guy and his contribution to the bbc basic community is highly valuable. He's the reason we're all here after all, he's the inventor of BBC BASIC.

Hello, Richard says: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- So far as I can see, when you click on the close box of a dialog the @lparam% that is returned by ON SYS is "0", so that suggestion does not appear to work. It definitely does work in Windows 10. Have ...

You should put your code in code tags when you post it on the forums.

Hello, Richard says: ----- If some control is clicked on the open dialog box I know what to do because all controls have unique id's upon creation Windows is designed in such a way that controls need not have unique IDs, for example the 'built in' dialogue boxes commonly reuse the same ID. So althou...

I know this behavior is documented in the help but I can't understand why Richard decided to put this in the WINLIB2B library You could always have asked him! The reason for the change in the behaviour of the Close button and the Escape key in WINLIB2B is simply because the way they behave in WINLI...

You should look into DOSBox if you want to use DOS software on modern computers.

Hello,

Just for fun, last night I made a silly program with a photo of my friend Deven. You can adjust the length of his neck with a slider.
The program is here: You can see the program in action in this youtube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK10giYxksY