jgharston wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 12:22 pm
So, tokenise into Russell format, and then convert to Acorn format
Yes, that is trivial enough.
Does anyone else use BBC Basic for Windows or for SDL and convert for the BBC?
geraldholdsworth wrote: ↑Sun Jul 09, 2023 3:49 pm
Have you tried Embacardero's Visual C++? I used to use Delphi, when on Windows. Although I've never used their C++ offering, I can only assume it works (apart from the language) similar to Delphi. You can get a community licence for free too.
Thanks for the Embacardero suggestion. I had encountered Embacardero before, but had to remind myself about it. The C++ IDE is just for Windows and iOS and the community edition has some pretty annoying restrictions, including the proviso that the licence expires every year and you have to *re-install* to renew it!
Been spoiled by WinForms, I suppose -- something even Microsoft is leaving to wither on the vine now. When I first started out (VB 6!) it was
so much better than the clunky messing around with templates and messages in RiscOS. Microsoft then seemed to regress. I wrote a program using WPF but I was very slow. I'm not afraid of XML, but I literally had to Google every single thing I wanted to do.
I dabbled in Java on Linux once. Forget which framework, but I recall Mono. It was weird the way components moved around the place as you resized the window, and you had to make alterations to create a Windows version of your program, so I didn't get far, but that was a number of years ago. Ideally there would be something on Linux that is C-like or Java-like with a graphical form designer, and which exports to other platforms fairly seamlessly. Admittedly, I haven't put much effort into researching this, but I hunt on...