New asm package release

[Steve Hutchesson]

I have just posted the next version of MASM32 on my 2 sites,
www.pbq.com.au/home/hutch/ www.hutch.ukshells.co.uk/

Almost all of the tools and toys are written in PowerBASIC PBDLL and PBCC.
Some are written directly in MASM but the general drift is that a project
of this size and for a very demanding audience has to be written with size
and performance in mind and this is where PowerBASIC compilers show their
real power.

For anyone who is interested in writing assembler, there is a wide range
of example code in version 6 of MASM32 and an increasing amount of it has
been prototyped in PowerBASIC as the inline assembler in PowerBASIC is so
good that the code can be ported across to MASM with only minor notation
changes.

Regards,

[email protected]

[Florent Heyworth]

Hi Hutch

very impressive - this is a great package.

Thanks

Florent

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[E B Knoppert]

would like to know how the editor was build.

cEdit class?


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[Bob Houle]

Steve,
Thank you very much for the 'very' complete download, everything works like a charm. I also downloaded Iczelion's Win32 Assembly Tutorial. Between the two, I've grasped more about ASM and the Windows API than I thought possible in such a short time! This will really come in handy for PowerBASIC!

Thanks again,
--Bob

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[Steve Hutchesson]

Guys,

Thanks for your comments, I hope MASM32 version 6 is useful to programmers
who like to write low level code and enjoy the inline assembler capacity
of PowerBASIC.

Edwin,

The editor uses a standard CreateWindowEx() function call for a rich edit
control and "RICHEDIT" as the window class. It uses the following,

LoadLibrary "RICHED32.DLL"

With a text editor where I was after speed, a richedit 1 control is faster
that the later versions and it is a true ascii editor which better suits
the requirement for writing code. The rest of the editor is just straight
API code with a lot of PowerBASIC inline assembler functions to get the
speed up and the size down.

Quick Editor uses an unusual approach to getting the text out of the control
as Microsoft in their wisdom did not provide a function to do it directly,
it immobilises the screen, selects all of the text in the control and writes
it to a buffer, writes it directly to disk in one write and then re-enables
the screen again.

The tiny editor TheGun.Exe uses the normal EM_STREAMIN/OUT messages with
the OS defined callback functions to both load and save the contents of the
edit control. It is written in MASM and it is well suited to use this
technique as it was designed for minimum disk and memory footprint.

Regards,

[email protected]

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