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**Per Fimmeland** · 25 Mar 2001, 10:40 AM

wow, this really looks cool,
seems to work fine, at least so far, on my NT5, obs, I mean Win2000 (SP1)
what about some kind of favorites-list ?, loved it when MS implemented
favorites in regedit, made life much easier.......

-p

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**Borje Hagsten** · 25 Mar 2001, 02:11 PM

Thanks. Glad to hear it works. Hm, interesting idea. Maybe won't have
time to do it right away, but a "favorites list" definitely would be
useful to have, I agree. Maybe even several, user-configurable lists..

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**Per Fimmeland** · 25 Mar 2001, 02:59 PM

Multiple fav-lists would have been great!

done some more testing, seems to work OK on my NT4/SP4 also,
but on my NT4/SP6 Your btn's didn't look quite so good.
The explanation was # of colors, the NT4/SP6 has an old video card and to
being able to drive it in 1024*768 I had to set the # of colors to only 256.
dont't know if this is anything to bother about (it doesn't bother me...)

-p

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**Charles Dietz** · 25 Mar 2001, 03:41 PM

Borje,

Wow, what an improvement... I love it. It works great so far on my Windows 98 SE.
Fonts and colors are fine on my system with 16 bit color and 800x600 resolution.
One small complaint... maybe you could allow for the Topic-Name-Date-Forum field widths
to be increased by displaying a double arrow when the mouse points to a boundary.

Now, I can't wait to get the latest update to the database.

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[This message has been edited by Charles Dietz (edited March 25, 2001).]

**Paul Squires** · 25 Mar 2001, 04:04 PM

Borje,

You have outdone yourself!! Totally fantastic!

There is no other tool for PB that I use more than POFFS. It
certainly helped me get up to speed with the language rather
than having to rely 100% on the docs.

The GUI is really, really awesome. I have not encountered any
problems on my Win 98 machine. I'll try my Win 95 and NT
machines tomorrow.

I really like Per's suggestion for a favorites list. There are
many times I'll see some code by one of the Gurus and usually
I end up just printing it out. It would be nice to be able to
save it to a favorites list.

Thanks,

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**Timm Motl** · 25 Mar 2001, 06:11 PM

Borje:

Tried out your new version of Poffs... superb!

Your interface looks great! The "home-rolled" buttons look and work excellent... fonts sizes all seem just
right to me... syntax highlighting worked fine... another excellent piece of work!

Tested on Win ME, 32 bit color, 1024x768.

Timm

**Borje Hagsten** · 25 Mar 2001, 06:12 PM

Thank you for the input, fellows. Much apprechiated. I have uploaded
a new file to http://www.tolken99.com/pb/poffs2b.zip

Fixed a Paste-bug in the editor, where a line-length memory block
didn't get enough memory allocated when pasting huge blocks of text.
I also added shortcuts for Ctrl+Insert for copy, Shift+Insert for paste
and Shift+Delete for Cut. Had forgot to cover those old ones..

Also had forgot to exclude %SIZE_MINIMIZED in program's WM_SIZE
event, so some controls ended up not being properly repainted after
minimized state.

Added code to check for number of colors, so it adjusts to, and looks
a bit better in, 256 color mode. I agree, it looked terrible with those
patterned colors in low res.

Resizable columns will come some day. I have used my Virtual Listbox,
with some twist, so it will take a bit of work to create that. Why
not a standard ListView? Too slow for my taste..

A favorites list will also be added later on. Right now, I'll concentrate
on making everything work alright and finally get the new databases up, to
make it a bit more useful..

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**Wayne Diamond** · 25 Mar 2001, 06:24 PM

IT'S HERE AT LAST!
Borje,
POFFS2 is the most beautiful thing I've seen since the 5kb Hello World I saw when I first got PB - you've outdone yourself!

Thanks again for all the time that POFFS has saved me,
Wayne

PS. (Im using NT4) - when I search for "Borje" in all forums searching Author field only, it GPFs after it finds the results - everytime ... POFFS1 doesnt, but POFFS1 also had a few GPF issues after searching
Sometimes it seems the "Find" button needs to be clicked more than once too
They're the only too bugs ive come across!

[This message has been edited by Wayne Diamond (edited March 25, 2001).]

**Borje Hagsten** · 25 Mar 2001, 06:43 PM

Nothing can beat the feeling most of us got when we realized PB
could produce such tiny 32-bit code, like in "Hello world". To me,
that really was worth every penny..

Just uploaded yet another update. Found a terrible bug - when pressing
F1 on API keywords in the editor, the program didn't remove eventual
"%" character, so Win32.hlp couldn't find correct page for words like
%LB_ADDITEM, etc. Now fixed.

Have all databases ready now - will upload them later on today/tonight.
Now - SLEEP(10000000).. zzzzz

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**Wayne Diamond** · 25 Mar 2001, 07:14 PM

Borje, just before you go to sleep! I noticed that selecting text and then Ctrl+C doesn't work! M

PS. I just re-downloaded - I can now search for "Borje" in author field and it works perfectly, no GPF - sweeeet...

[This message has been edited by Wayne Diamond (edited March 25, 2001).]

**Lance Edmonds** · 25 Mar 2001, 08:29 PM

The controls are not located correctly on my PC (1024x768/large fonts), so the combo and button encroach onto the listview.

ALso, during a search the CPU is really hammered! It causes my MP3 player to skip/jump. Any chance of a few time slices being released? Thanks!

Otherwise, it looks great and works well. I did manage to get a GPF but I'll have to see if I can duplicate the problem (it occurred during a search).

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PowerBASIC Support
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**Lance Edmonds** · 25 Mar 2001, 08:32 PM

Ok, here is how to trigger the GPF... while doing a search, click wildly on the listview... when the end of the search is reached, it will blow a GPF valve.

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PowerBASIC Support
mailto:[email protected][email protected]</A>

**Lance Edmonds** · 25 Mar 2001, 08:33 PM

Interestingly (although it is only a small point), the app icon is a conventional Windows app icon, yet Explorer clearly shows a custom icon...

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PowerBASIC Support
mailto:[email protected][email protected]</A>

**Lance Edmonds** · 25 Mar 2001, 08:34 PM

Hmmmm.... since I triggered the GPF, it crashes every time I search now. I'll reboot later tonight and see if I can get this cycle to repeat.

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PowerBASIC Support
mailto:[email protected][email protected]</A>

**Edwin Knoppert** · 26 Mar 2001, 12:23 AM

I have the same on 1280 large fonts.
The 'listview' does not fit.

+ GPF

Looks good!

Simply put, a VERY handy tool for searching!

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**Borje Hagsten** · 26 Mar 2001, 04:16 AM

Okay, new file again at: http://www.tolken99.com/pb/poffs2b.zip

MS sure has made programming for Windows interesting. Added resizing
code, so it looks alright with both big/small fonts in my machine.
Should cover most settings.

Not an easy one to handle, especially when you mix CONTROL ADD and
CreateWindow calls, and extra especially with lists. Have made much
use of CONTROL GET SIZE/LOC/UNITS TO PIXELS, etc, plus GetTextMetrics
to enable somewhat proper resizing/moving there.

The icon problem is strange. I have used standard code, standard 32x32
16-color icon, something like:

Code:

  hInst = GetWindowLong(hDlg, %GWL_HINSTANCE)
  hIco  = LoadIcon(hInst, "APOFFS")
  IF hIco THEN DIALOG SEND hDlg, %WM_SETICON, %ICON_SMALL, hIco

No problems in Win95/98. One change has been made - I used %ICON_BIG
in previous file. Maybe the change to %ICON_SMALL will help in NT?

The GPF's you mention, I have not been able to reproduce. I have
increased time slicing a bit though, so Lance can listen to his
Heavy Metal headbanging MP3's while searching. Hope it's enough.
At least in my system, it now works ok and doesn't grab entire
processor (only most of it..

Using DIALOG DOEVENTS properly is a tricky balance act. Used to much
in a loop, time can increase very much. To little, the loop steals
to much processor time. Hope I have found a good balance. Maybe even
will help cure those strange GPF's..

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**Wayne Diamond** · 26 Mar 2001, 05:03 AM

Borje, searching all forums for the word "test" now takes 31 seconds - it only took 7 seconds on the previous build of POFFS2, so I say to hell with Lance's music! <grins, ducks>
I reckon I search POFFS about 30 times a day, so that'd be 15 minutes I'd be wasting every day just so Lance can listen to music his mother doesn't like him listening to in the first place
nah I think you just need to drop one or two doevents and she should be sweet it was only using 0 to 5% CPU on a dual-350mhz pentII, so there's plenty of breathing space..
I only have one other request - could you make the forum names in POFFS to be the same as the ones on the online forum?
thanks

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**Florent Heyworth** · 26 Mar 2001, 05:16 AM

Hi Borje

great tool - the GPF seems to occur when scrolling down
in a large message with syntax highlighting turned on. Have
not noticed that effect with syntax highlighting turned off.

Cheers

Florent

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[This message has been edited by Florent Heyworth (edited March 26, 2001).]

**Borje Hagsten** · 26 Mar 2001, 05:56 AM

Okay, new file again at: http://www.tolken99.com/pb/poffs2b.zip

Found one source of GPF's in the grid-list. Double-clicking in lower
part when not entirely filled with items could cause this. Now fixed.

Cut down on time slicing a bit, hope it's better now. One thing - in
the checkbox list you can unmark the forums you don't want to include
in a search. Personally, I exclude DOS, etc, since I'm only interested
in Windows stuff. Can save quite a lot of time. Some of the new databases
will be almost twice as big, so the need for excluding unnecessary ones
will be greater, once I get them up..

I'll have a look at the forum names later on tonight. They say I have to
do some real work here too.. (and how fun is that..?

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