FireFly Freebasic extensions

[Marc Pons]

Thanks a lot to Paul Squires for his fantastic Firefly RAD Tool .
And also for his permission to share my personal contributions ...

Here is what I have done  to expand the possibilities to the Firefly FreeBasic +

Compile to Exe or Dll ;
Compile with or without console;
more Options and menus

Several modifications directly on the firefly.exe file using reshacker and hex editor
    to modify  and add menus items
    to make 1correction ($crlf from PowerBasic syntax) in the messagebox tool
    to modify the included template code  to allow dll creation and ztrace possibility ...
    I renamed the file :    FireFlyMP.exe  (MP > More Possibilities)

I've also created  5 extra files :
    to hook the firefly exe menu             : FB_FF3MP.Dll
    to realize all the extended compilation options    : FF3_CompFBMP.EXE
    to give a "trace window" to help debugging      : zTraceFB.dll   modified original from Patrice Terrier toll
    a Chm+ file for the extra features         : FireFly+.chm   
   and Finally  a launcher to organize everything       : FireFly3_FB.exe

Everything is available here :
http://www.freebasic-portal.de/downloads/ides-fuer-freebasic/fireflyfbmp-260.html

All works fine, and I now use it for my own tools, plus the Editor  companion I use with : CSED_FB
modification of the Jose Roca editor.

All the dll and exe have been done with PowerBasic 10.

Thank's all the people I have nomined here, I've learned a lot from them.

[Paul Squires]

Thanks Marc, I hope that your additions to the FireFly Freebasic version is of great use to other FreeBasic users.

FreeBasic is a very good product. Too bad that development of it slowed. There remains a small core group of programmers that are driving the product forward and they are doing a great job. The language itself has a distinct "C" flavor to it in terms of what influences its direction (that's a good thing). They are working very hard on expanding the OOP capabilities and the recent addition of a "C" code generation backend certainly compliments the existing "Asm" one. There is certainly a lot of cross operating system usage for the compiler. Many of the posters in that forum regularly use FB on Linux.

[Brice Manuel]

Thank you for the additions Marc.  Your hard work is greatly appreciated.

[Josnan Petrel]

as is can compile a dll with firefly
always me strip an exe
not meeting the solution

[Marc Pons]

to Josnan

explain more ... it sould works if you use the extended functionnalities

[Josnan Petrel]

can be compiled as a dll
from your version of firefly

can you give an example

thanks