Questions tagged [basic]
BASIC is a family of programming languages designed for ease-of-use and notable for preferring English words over symbols as language constructs. While most dialects have fallen from mainstream usage, modern variants like Microsoft's Visual Basic and its successor, VB.NET, remain popular.
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Macro to keep 3 rows visible under the selected row in LibreOffice Calc
In Calc or MS Excel when one is finished editing a cell in a row, pressing Enter leads to the next row below. Keep doing that and eventually you arrive at the last row visible on the screen. Here when ...
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LibreOffice Impress macro is only half functional when used in presentation as opposed to outside
I made an .odp file that contains two slides.
In Slide 1, there is a single circle that when clicked on moves to Slide 2. This circle uses a simple interaction and no macro.
In Slide 2, there is a ...
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run an old program under Win10 64 bits with parameters
I need to run in compatibility mode 2 programs for MsDos:
quick basic (QBX.exe);
some program called HEOB which was created in quick basic (HEOB.BAS).
Normally I would create a *.bat program ...
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How to prevent the CMD pause to stop the script after opening a program
So, I am very bad at using the CMD program and I'm just trying to do something for fun. In my mind, it is very basic. I want to open a .bat file, that prompt an "echo" question so when I press any key ...
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Folders displaying in orange color in python 3, pycharm
Can somebody point me in the right direction on this? I just can't find any ressources on why a folder will display in orange as if it was not active. I can't import modules from there since its not ...
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cmd error keeps popping up
i keep getting this error msg every like 30 seconds
its either related to a visual basic compiler which i have no i dea what that is (cuz i dont remember downloading a visual basic programming app )
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How to do a regex substitution on a string in an LO Basic "macro"?
This seems like something that should be extremely easy to do but it's not - it's certainly not obvious how to do it, anyway.
I want to write a function in LibreOffice Basic that takes a string, a ...
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BASIC HDD TO BOOTABLE HDD
My computer has 2 drives (attached image).
One drive is a SSD with 3 partitions:
At diskmanagement appears as a "basic disk".
In the first partition (A:), I have the "System Reserved". At ...
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setValue method or property not found while implementing LibreOffice Calc Macro
I am using LibreOffice Calc over 3 years now, but recently started implementing Macros using Basic. I have referred to online resources relevant to Libreoffice Calc Macro and I am trying to get a ...
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When debugging LibreOffice macro's, how do I get the error messages?
I am currently working on a LibreOffice macro that I want to run from the commandline in the background (i.e. without GUI). I call the macro like this:
swriter --invisible --nofirststartwizard --...
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Libreoffice macro basic: skip to next paragraph test for upper case
I'm trying to write a macro, and I need to skip to the next paragraph, where I will test the first letter for capitalization. I've spent hours and have only found inaccurate or hard to follow ...
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How to run a legacy GWBasic script inside linux command line with forced full host cpu speed
I have a really obscure old colection of Basic scripts (too many scripts, all of them too long and with too many goto to be worthy to translate them and I personally know nothing at all about qwbasic) ...
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How to run BASIC script in Windows PE?
I work for a computer hardware business. They've got automated installations over a file server in their network, where they clone a Windows installation to a hard drive and then run Windows PE to ...
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Run Mallard Basic .com program on Windows 8?
Is there a way to run an app written in Mallard Basic on modern Windows?
I've tried to make a shortcut to the COM, which already caused some error messages, and then to run it in compatibility mode ...
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BASIC program on Samba share gets 'Access denied' when launching other process
This is the situation. We have a Synology NAS (running DSM 5.0) hosting a Windows file share called general. This folder's permissions are set as in the screenshot:
This folder is used as a mapped ...
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