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Reply to SSL - Anyone know how to send and receive from inside a PB program?

David Clarke

Thanks Kunth - I need to POST to a web API to send SMS messages on port 443. I do stuff like that all the time on port 80. I will give MSXML a try!...
- Channel: Programming
Yesterday, 09:55 PM
Reply to Dialog Set Text Fail

Francisco Castanedo

FWIW, I've encountered some function that simply cannot be used that way. They must be calculated first and the result can be used as needed, just like...
- Channel: PowerBASIC for Windows
Yesterday, 07:18 PM
Reply to Dialog Set Text Fail

Dave Biggs
It must be a bug in the Dialog Set Text statement..
Code:
```
 
DECLARE FUNCTION Dialog_Set_Text LIB "USER32.DLL" ALIAS "SetWindowTextA"
```
...
- Channel: PowerBASIC for Windows
Yesterday, 06:52 PM
Reply to Dialog Set Text Fail

Rodney Hicks
And if works if the function is 'AS LONG'
Code:
```
#COMPILE EXE
#DIM ALL
FUNCTION PBMAIN() AS LONG
   LOCAL hDlg AS DWORD
   DIALOG
```
...
- Channel: PowerBASIC for Windows
Yesterday, 06:35 PM
Reply to Dialog Set Text Fail

Borje Hagsten

Walks like a bug and talks like a..
To make the plot thicker - comment out creation of the graphic control and it works.. sort of (it returns and...
- Channel: PowerBASIC for Windows
Yesterday, 05:26 PM
Reply to Dialog Set Text Fail

Frank Rogers
It is interesting that the other GRAPHIC SIZE functions work. Just not the TEXT.SIZE
Code:
```
Function PBMain() As Long
   Local hDlg As Dword
```
...
- Channel: PowerBASIC for Windows
Yesterday, 03:49 PM
Reply to Dialog Set Text Fail

Gary Beene

Hi Frank!

Yep, I saw that too, but it's not clear why it won't work with the calculation in the Dialog statement. A mystery afoot.
...
- Channel: PowerBASIC for Windows
Yesterday, 03:23 PM
Reply to Dialog Set Text Fail

Frank Rogers
It will work if you do the calculation/conversion outside the DIALOG SET TEXT line. strange.
Code:
```
Function PBMain() As Long
   Local hDlg As Dword
```
...
- Channel: PowerBASIC for Windows
Yesterday, 03:16 PM
Dialog Set Text Fail

Gary Beene
In this example the Dialog text is NOT changed.
Code:
```
Function PBMain() As Long
   Local hDlg As Dword
   Dialog New Pixels, 0, "PowerBASIC",300,300,300,200,
```
...
- Channel: PowerBASIC for Windows
Yesterday, 02:00 PM

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