Benjamin
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Post by Benjamin on Dec 14, 2023 14:31:03 GMT -5
I went ahead and downloaded thinBasic so that I can do a more thorough study of it, since I haven't done much Basic programming, and this Basic seems to have some unique features (most of my programming has been in Scheme). Which version should I focus on in order to write macros? The console version or the Windows version?
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Post by Robert on Dec 14, 2023 14:52:18 GMT -5
For use in macros, you don't need to (and probably shouldn't) download anything. A complete thinBasic support library is already included when you install SPFLite. All you need to do is write macros and use them.
For most people, a macro called mymacro is stored like this:
C:\Users\your_user_name\Documents\SPFLite\MACROS\mymacro.MACRO
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Benjamin
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Post by Benjamin on Dec 15, 2023 0:00:53 GMT -5
I'm sorry Robert, I didn't make clear in my last post that I'm intending to make use of thinBasic beyond making macros for SPFLite. I was interested to know which version of the interpreter is incorporated in SPFLite. That's all.
By the way, today I learned about the "Run" command, which will be really useful to me.
Cheers,
Benjamin
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Post by Robert on Dec 15, 2023 9:33:28 GMT -5
The version is periodically updated when the thinBasic developers make a new version that seems important. George would have that information.
As for which version to use for non-SPFLite work, if you would have written a command-line program in some language, then you'd use the command line thinBasic, etc. It depends on your work load and project. They are both good.
If you install the command-line version, you can set up windows to use it as a script language. Then you can just type mymacro.macro on the command line to run it.
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