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peralta_mike
05-05-2011, 16:58
Hello,

I am currently copy and pasting some of the help content from the thinBasic help system to a Word File. But this is getting time consuming. And I am only at the #include help pages. :(

However, I was wondering if there is a way to unravel the thinBasic help files into an ASCII text form (without the "hieroglyphic" characters) so that I could then convert the whole file to a MS-Word and then a PDF file?

ErosOlmi
05-05-2011, 17:14
Check here:
http://www.thinbasic.com/index.php?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=95&task=viewcategory&catid=4

I already produced a PDF version (1492 pages) but sorry it is up till version 1.7.7

If I will have time during the week-end or max next week I will update it to version 1.8.6

Ciao
Eros

peralta_mike
05-05-2011, 19:01
Eros,

Thank You So Much !
That will save me tons of work !

ErosOlmi
05-05-2011, 19:26
Happy I can help.
I've checked and next PDF will have more than 150 additional pages

ErosOlmi
08-05-2011, 21:47
As promised, PDF version is now available up to thinBasic version 1.8.7
See previous post for download link.

Eros

peralta_mike
09-05-2011, 18:06
Thanks again.:)

I finally got finished with the libraries to control measurement equipment with HPIB and with Thinbasic as the front end.

I used file based messaging (FBM) to communicate b/w the thinbasic script and the compiled Visual C++ executable that has the HPIB bus software drivers. The thing works great and the basic language is very similar to the old Rocky Mountain Basic examples that are in many old HP/Agilent equipment manuals and also newer internal instrument basic languages that Agilent equipment uses.

Once I finish writing up this FBM scheme to control HPIB bus equipment, I will share with the thinbasic community.

Thanks again!

- Mike Peralta

ErosOlmi
09-05-2011, 18:18
Thanks to you for using thinBasic.
For us having programmers using thinBasic in real life situations is an invaluable present.

Ciao
Eros