New thinBasic_Oxygen Module

[Charles Pegge]

This new version is itself written in OxygenBasic and interfaces the latest generic Oxygen.dll.

It can be downloaded from here:

https://github.com/Charles-Pegge/OxygenBasic

thinBasic_Oxygen.zip contains:

Oxygen.dll
thinBasic_Oxygen.dll
thinBasicOxygen module source code
Examples (a few)
OxygenBasic Manual
Oxylog.txt


Copy both DLLs into \thinbasic\lib\

[ReneMiner]

great. Just played around with VarArrayPointers-sample and to make sure it's really "Bananas" I asked back like this:

If p Then MsgBox 0, Memory_Get(p, Peek(DWord, p - SizeOf(DWord)))

now- just to make sure SizeOf in oxygen only works on variables or also on types?

[Charles Pegge]

Yes, both types and variables.

Some attribute cases:

string s[3]={"apple","banana","melon"}


print len s[2]      '6
print len s[1]      '5
print sizeof s      '4
print spanof s      '3
print typeof s      '"string"
print sizeof string '4


type udt
double d
string s
byte   b[2]
end type


udt u
print sizeof udt '14
print sizeof u   '14

[peter]

And that is how OxygenBasic works!

[ReneMiner]

fun example. only thing - and that's probably the same in tB - client-content vanishes when moving the window. but I'm used to place my windows in advance where I want them anyway.

I did not find out yet how to start some plain oxygen-script - seems to be impossible from scintilla - so I'll probably stay one of those who uses oxygen through thinBasic. Assembler I don't get anyway - when I was a teenager (8-bit-times) there were only those things as CMP, LDA, STA, LDX, JMP, JSR etc. but that's a long time ago - so I'm probably no machine-coder but some basic head only. I'm still waiting for Petr to test the above mentioned Example-script from new oxygen - since it uses the same thinCore-functions. Maybe there's an advantage in system-independence through oxygen so I will develop most of these functions using oxgen then

What would be an equate to Poke/Memory_Set in oxygen ?

[Charles Pegge]

Assembler can be freely mixed with OxygenBasic statements, global/static memory, technically speaking occupies the uninitialised data section, and locals/parameters occupy the stack. All basic variables and equates can be accessed by Assembler, within the standard scoping rules.


byte b[4096]
addr ecx,b 'pseudo instruction to load variable address
mov byte [ecx+7],42
indexbase 0
print b[7]

Assembly code is not usually needed , and limits portability, so I would advise staying with Basic, unless you want to do some.

[peter]

and that's probably the same in tB - client-content vanishes when moving the window.

Isn't the same!

[ReneMiner]

no- isn't. the last examples run fine even when moving the window - so my windows are not broken- just dirty - since they are maintained by ms daily.

[ErosOlmi]

Charles,

thanks for keeping thinBasic_Oxygen always up to date.
I will publish very soon (hope next week) a new thinBasic update.

Ciao
Eros

[Charles Pegge]

Thanks Eros,

The old Oxygen examples need to be dumped, since many of them are out of date.