GFA-BASIC 32 for Windows

How to detect when a window moves to a smaller screen and automatically adjust its size and position to fit.

You're probably familiar with the Set command for working with objects.

When working with Min and Max functions in GB32, you might be tempted to use the generic Min() and Max() functions for all your comparison needs.

With the Pointer command, Pointer() function, and Pointer type, GFABASIC-32 features a powerful tool.

You will have noticed the Owned property in the Properties sidebar for a Form.

Lately I received some COM-automation related questions which I answered by referring to this blog post: CreateObject Peculiarities (part 1).

From MS: "Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a system-level memory protection feature that is built into the operating system starting with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

Last time we discussed why you better not use a Variant in a user-defined type.

Can you put a Variant in an user-defined type?

The New keyword is used to create a COM object instance that cannot be created otherwise.

To read the file-time of a file GB32 offers the following functions: Dim ft As Date ft = FileDateTime(file$) // last write time ft = FileDateTimeAccess(file$) // last access time ft = FileDateTimeCreate(file$) // creation time They return a Date…

This time I want to put the focus on the Get and Put commands that were first introduced in GFA-BASIC 32.

Once in a while you might have created a quick and dirty program that repeatedly prints some value from inside the Sleep message loop.

The previous blogpost discussed the difference between And vs &&, and Or vs || in conditional statements.

Are you aware between the difference between And and && and Or and ||?

Ever wondered how numbers are printed?

Let’s discuss some basic issues of variables and parameters and explain auto-complete information about variables and parameters.

A picture says more than 1000 words, therefor a screenshot with notes of improvements and fixes of the IDE (running on Windows 11): Runtime Updates Since last year virus-scanners report the patched runtime (GfaWin23.Ocx) as malicious - a false positive!

This post discusses performance timing of a piece of code.

The September 2021 update version 2.6 causes problems with some virus scanners like F-Secure, Secure Point, and some others.

Besides the obvious bug fixes, the update version 2.6 comes with some new features.

The IDE features a custom Color Dialog box to select the foreground and background colors for Ocx controls and Forms.

This is part 3 of my blogs on GFA-BASIC 32 Forms.

This is the second post in a series about forms.

A Windows program usually has one or more windows to interact with the user.