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Programming Articles
These articles were written for the BBC BASIC for Windows Programmer's Reference:
- Accessing files with no extension
- Accessing the fast SYS interface
- Adding 'Create new BBC BASIC program file' to the Shell new menu
- Changing the case of a string
- Clearing the contents of a structure
- Commenting library code
- Creating a menu from a resource
- Checking if a library is INSTALLed
- Deconstructing arrays
- Discovering how a program was run
- Displaying inverse video
- Displaying program errors in a message box
- Effect of GET and INPUT on event handling
- Finding the BBC BASIC installation directory
- Finding the MIME type of a file
- Fixing a 'Bad library' error
- Generating pseudo-random numbers (assembler)
- Installing BBC BASIC for Windows on Linux under wine
- Notes for RISC OS users
- Preventing a library from being run
- Printing strings (assembler)
- Reading the exit code of a DOS utility (alternative method)
- Reversing a string
- Setting the Desktop wallpaper
- Stacks using structures
- Storing structures containing strings
- Swapping the contents of two areas of memory
- Using 32-bit floating point values
- Using the built-in program cruncher
- Writing console mode programs that will also run in the IDE