BCX Documentation Version 8.1.9, November 16, 2024

[Robert]

BCX Documentation Version 8.1.9, November 16, 2024

Quin and Armando Rivera
... updated, on the CREATEOBJECT page, the COM Example 4: demonstrating how to call the Windows updater.

Kevin Diggins
... added an explanation to the 'Optional Parentheses' section regarding the BCX procedures that allow optional parentheses

... added an example to the PUTC function section.

... added an example to the BCX_TRIANGLE function section.

... added explanation and example to the $NO_XXX directives section.

... added, to the REDIM statement section, an example that redimensions GLOBAL DYNAMIC arrays within SUB procedures.

... added an example to the BCX_BUTTON control section.

Robert Wishlaw
... added an 'Optional Parentheses' section with a table containing the BCX procedures that allow optional parentheses. Also, a note was added to the Parameters: section of each procedure that allows optional parentheses.

... added a PUTC function section.

... added a BCX_TRIANGLE function section.

... added CBNMCODE, CBNMHWND, CBNMID, to the PowerBASIC compatible BCX macros section.

... added

$NO_BORLAND
$NO_GCC_CLANG
$NO_LCCWIN
$NO_LIBS
$NO_MSVC
$NO_PELLES
$NO_VKKEYS

directives.

... added Syntax 3: to the INPUT statement section.

... prepended a $IPRINT_OFF directive to several instances of

  $RESOURCE
  $COMPILER
  $LINKER

directives.

... added an example, based on code by Armando Rivera and Vortex, to the BCX_LOADIMAGE function section.

... added Result: to example in FTELL function section.

... added Example 3: to the SEEK statement section.

... added, to the SAVEBMP statement section, Example 1:, code saving a bitmap from an HBITMAP .

... added, to the SAVEBMP statement section, a warning that SAVEBMP does not handle alpha layer / transparency attributes; therefore, the .bmp produced may not render as expected.

[jbk]

thank you Robert 😁👍

[dragon57]

Robert, you are as steady as the rising sun. I appreciate your dedication very much.

[Coda]

Thankyou!