Hi, I'm now here, too

[Thomas Gohel]

Hi PowerBASIC folks,

I think it's now the perfect time to change my english speaking forum. :-)

I found here a lot of interesting posts, great users, nice ideas and a lot of "uncensored" stuff,
congratulation to Theo and Joca!

Best wishes,

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[Theo Gottwald]

Welcome, Thomas!

[Paul Squires]

Welcome Thomas, very nice to have you here!

[Darrell Price]

Hi Everyone. I'm a beginner to PowerBasic and programming. Dabbled with QBasic a little in the early 90s but that's about it. Just purchased the PBWin 8 compiler and I was hoping someone could direct me to some good tutorials, something to help me get my feet wet. Thanks in advance for any and all help and advice.

Darrell

[José Roca]

 
Welcome aboard!

Some time ago, Ed Turner started a programming book. There are several chapters available to download. Go to his site and click the Programming Book link in the top menu: http://www.m4ware.com/

If you can get a copy of Charles Petzold's book "Programming Windows", 5th Edition, still one of the best, you will find in this forum the book's examples translated to PowerBASIC: http://www.jose.it-berater.org/smfforum/index.php?board=5.0

[Darrell Price]

Thank you Jose. I'll check them out. I appreciate the help.

[Theo Gottwald]

@Darell, we have a lot of good tutorials here, don't miss to take a look on Fred's SDK-Tutorials.

Then what you do not find here, you get here:

http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pbforums/index.php

and here:

http://www.powerbasic.com/support/

Also take a look under "third party" in this forum, to get the links for good enhancements like SED.

[Darrell Price]

Thank you for the links, Theo. After checking out some of this, I can see that it won't be a piece of cake! 
Time to dig out "diligence" in my old age! 

[Frederick J. Harris]

Hello Thomas and Darrell!  Programming is indeed challenging but also rewarding.  I learned Windows Api coding mostly from Charles Petzolds books, and also translations of his programs to PowerBASIC by Keith Waters.  And of course Jose has translated I believe a large part (if not all of it) of Petzold's Windows 98 book to PowerBASIC. 

Charles Petzold wrote his books mainly for accomplished professional C programmers who were turning to the Windows OS from DOS.  And even in the context of this somewhat 'elete' group he estimated it would take 6 months of hard work to come to terms with the coding.  So just keep this in mind if at times the struggle seems daunting.

[Marco Pontello]

I think it's now the perfect time to change my english speaking forum. :-)

I found here a lot of interesting posts, great users, nice ideas and a lot of "uncensored" stuff,
congratulation to Theo and Joca!

Nice to see you here.
May be this could be the occasion to re-promote a bit that IRC channel of yours?

Bye!

[Thomas Gohel]

May be this could be the occasion to re-promote a bit that IRC channel of yours?

Yes, of course. The IRC-Server and the #pbhq.cafe channel is open for all PowerBASIC users.
All PowerBASIC users are welcome with pleasure.