string length question

[DrV]

wasn't it QB 1.2? I used that for a while... it sux.

But why doesn't the IDE use its own segment? That seems like a "duh" kind of a thing that the authors should have thought about during planning... :roll:

[Glenn]

I think it went from "Microsoft Compiled Basic" to QuickBasic 2 (at which point the first version cleverly got the de facto name QuickBasic 1).

[Agamemnus]

But why doesn't the IDE use its own segment?

I think the counter-quote I remember posted here was

64K should be enough for everyone!

[DrV]

Didn't Bill Gates or somebody once say something to that effect?

And why do people buy RAM the size of hard disks a few years ago?

[Glenn]

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[DrV]

I think it went from "Microsoft Compiled Basic" to QuickBasic 2 (at which point the first version cleverly got the de facto name QuickBasic 1).

MS-DOS QBasic Version 1.1 is the one I used... it's from the Win95 CD.

[na_th_an]

Glenn insists in the difference between QB aka QuickBasic and QBasic. And he's right.

[DrV]

Gaa! Acronym reuse! That should be illegal or something.

[Dav]

I don't know if I understand string usage very well, but this is what I've been led to believe.

Ex: A$ = A$ + "j"

I think when QB adds strings together like that, there has to be enough memory available for the original strings *plus* the new string to be made. All of this has to fit in the memory space or the 'Out of String Space' error will happen. Only after the new string is succesfully made will the older string be deallocated.

- Dav

[relsoft]

But why doesn't the IDE use its own segment?

I think the counter-quote I remember posted here was

64K should be enough for everyone!

I hate you Agamemski!!!! I was ready to put that qoute on my sig!!!!