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Dear Robert BlackBox knows two directories: First the installation directory and second the working directory. At the normal start of Blackbox the working directory is equal to the installation directory. You can start BlackBox with the run parameter /use=any-other-directory then Blackbox started in...

There will be several Host folders for target OSes like HostWin32GUI HostWin32Console, HostLinuxGUI, HostLinuxConsole, HostFreeBSDGUI etc. Does somewhere exist an interface definition about HostWin32GUI and HostWin32Console? Is the interface definition of HostLinuxGUI the same as the interface defi...

Of course you can improve this solution. Module Strings depends on module Unicode and module Unicode depends on module Kernel. You can create your own module e.g. called UnicodeLibrary, where you implement the Unicode translation staff and call them from module Unicode. The first solution is to move...

After I study the discussion about removing the Unicode part from module Strings I create the following solution

OK, I understand there are several problems: (1) You would like to rollback the interface of the subsystem Strings to the version of BlackBox 1.6 and add the rest of the interface to the new subsystem called Unicode and Utf. I agree with this separation. What about the procedure PROCEDURE Lower (ch:...

Is BlackBox version 1.8-a1.062 the basic of the linux version of BlackBox? Do you need subsystem Cons for integration? Who is using it? Why moved some modules from subsystem Strings to subsystem Unicode and subsystem Utf8? What is the reason to cut the link to Kernel.Hook in several modules? I know ...

Hello Adimetrius, here there are a procedure which gets the working directory of BlackBox: PROCEDURE GetWorkingPath* (VAR workingDir: ARRAY OF CHAR); VAR loc: Files.Locator; BEGIN (* BlackBox Working Directory *) loc := Files.dir.This(""); workingDir := loc(HostFiles.Locator).path + '/'; E...

Dear Ivan,
thank you, thank you very much. It helps me a lot.
- Helmut

In Windows the command (!)"Dialog.OpenExternal('Z:/home/helmut/')" opens the Windows Explorer and show the file of the directory "Z:/home/helmut/". In Linux under Wine the command (!)"Dialog.OpenExternal('Z:/home/helmut/')" opens the Explorer emulation in Wine and not t...

Sorry Ivan, that is not a mistake. In the Language Report capitel 10.3 Predeclared Procedures there define MAX(T) T = basic type T maximum value of type T T = SET INTEGER maximum element of a set MAX(x, y) <= INTEGER INTEGER the larger value of x and y integer type LONGINT <= SHORTREAL SHORTREAL num...