I was changing some kind of a BASIC program into QuickBASIC (QB). To do so, I had two instances of qb.exe open. At some point, everything froze. I did a Ctrl+Alt+Del to get the Windows Task Manager up. There, I went to the Performance tab, and noticed that the CPU Usage History graph was clear to the top and flat! I closed down one qb.exe, then the other, and got the graph down near the bottom. Great! I opened one qb.exe, and noticed that the graph is in action, somewhere near the middle of the graph, even though there is no program loaded nor running in the QB environment.
I would welcome any helpful explanation.
QB4.5 IDE is not very Windows-friendly. I have found PDS7 and QBasic1.1 IDEs less CPU time consuming.
Here
http://www.antonis.de/qbdown/qbtools.htm#qb you can find a patch called Auslast.zip (in german) that reduces the CPU usage of the QB IDE
You could too switch to notepad and use a batch file to call the compiler and linker but this way you loose the debugger.
Thank you, Antoni, for your suggestions. Actually, I don't have a problem with having two QuickBASIC IDEs open at the same time, as long as I stick to that, only. But, if I try to go to the Internet Explorer, or Wordpad, or other program, I get bad results, and the CPU usage graph is topped out. I was just curious as this.
From your answer, I will just accept that QuickBASIC 4.5 just occupies the CPU around 50%, and let it go at that.
I know that you write English very well, and that Spanish is probably your native tongue. I've seen you answer a Portuguese post. And, now, I see that you also write German! I only know Spanish and English, and, anyway, I am not into exploring other IDEs or other BASICs, but, thank you for your trouble.
In fact I don't read german, someone pointed at that file in an english forum. A little guesswork did the rest.
I can read english, french, spanish, catalan, italian and portuguese, but I dare only to write the first four
