Programs

  Projects, individual procedures and useful lines of code in PowerBASIC version 10. And some ancillary notes. If you don't have PowerBASIC it should not be too hard to translate the functionality (command-by-command is often non‑optimal). In some cases I have included a compiled DLL, making it out-of-box usable in older PowerBASICs and other lanuages. Items below are considered complete if preceded by a date (ISO basic format) in brown.

Completed Projects (till updated ☺)

• SI/ISO Tools International System of Units/International Organization for Standards.
  • 20221209 SI Prefix Format function.
  • 20221206 SI Quantity and Unit Names, and Symbols data.
• Unicode Tools
  • 20210826 Grabber Select, copy then paste to "grab" a character and get its decimal or hexadecimal for CHR$$() in PB HTML composing.
  • 20250622 Alphabets of many languages, and special characters. Get characters, symbols and other glyths not on your keyboard. Or, copy the decimal, or hexadecimal, value for web page composing or progamming source code.

Works In Progress Some works in progress, not completed code. An incomplete project may contain useful completed procedures. They will be here in sub-lists. This is also a form of off-site backup for both complete and uncompleted code. A seggestion may help me "loosen up" a stalled project.

• (just extremely slow) VLU Arithmetic. "VLU" ia an acronym for "Very Large Unsigned" number. The numbers are arrays of 16 bit base 65536 digits. Larger base reduces the number of operations to do a calculation. The limit is accessable memory.
  • Addition.
  • (Subtraction, code but no page)
  • (Multiplication, code but no page)
  • (Division, "filler page" no code in page)(( A "bear" to figure out. HELP!!))
  • Square Root , page with notes and a bit pseudo code( A double "bear" to figure out.))
  • 20211224 Compare. Is the second VLU greater than, less than or equal to the first VLU.
  • 20211221 Trim. Remove any leading zero VLU digits from array.
• Random - Computing uses include pseudo random number generation (PRNG), hashes, encyption.
  • Personal Computer (PC) internal intrinsic atributes derived entropy (real time and disk usage).
    • yyyymmdd Current time. As a seed is unique when date is included. Also a bit entropic due when it is captured by user being indeterminate.
    • Free Disk Space useful as seed?
  • Human using PC derived entropy.
  • Noncryptographic Pseudo Random Number Ggenerators (PRNG)
    • 20260107 ACORN Additive COngruential Random Number PRNG.
    • 20260112 Middle-Square PRNG with Weyl sequence to improve period and prevent a zero result.
    • yyyymmdd MersenneTwister
  • Secure PRNGs
    • Fibonacci sequences used to be used for encryption directly as key stream. No longer due to patterns. Fibonacci patterns. They are still usefull as sequences in counter mode encryption.

Miscellaneous Complete procedures (SUBs or FUNCTIONs), code lines or fragments to use in a project.

• 20240907 Faster leap year algorithm, and discussion about why others are slower.
• 20240609 W3 Foreground/background contrast ratio calculation.
• 20230908 Listbox with "sunken" appearance.
• 20230313 High resolution interval counter. Use like PB TIX with one programmer provided Quad, with better stability.
• 20230314 High resolution timestamp. Maintains sequence of close spaced time stamps.
• 20230612 Fixed (mono-spaced) Font Messagebox Intended for compiling and use with PowerBASIC Console compiler. Will work with PowerBASIC For Windows. A compiled DLL is available for users of older PB versions and other languages.
• 20250412 Endian Swap Convert numeric types to/from most significant byte left (big endian) and most significant byte right (little endian).
• 20250512 Show HTML in default browser from app. Uses the ShellExecuteW API function. The SHELL in PBWin/PBCC does not have a needed input parameter. My original reason for this was to use HTML for program Help.
• 20250518 Error Codes include of error code constants based on PowerBASIC 8 bit and/or Windows' 32 bit codes (Windows' "user assigned code" bit as needed).
  Never really finished. If I need to trap an error that I didn't before, a code will be added (existing codes not changed). Additional error code suggestions/requests will be considered.

Ancillary Info

• 20260524 Command Prompt/Console Colors Compiled and source code that displays foreground text colors on black, gray, white and bright white backgrouns. Compiled and source code code to test combiations of colors yourself.
• 20231017 Text in ASMDATA Reduces time and memory use by not copying to variable, and has advantages over equates. Demonstration of technique, no "ready-to-use" function.
• 20231019 Font List Just a list of UTF-16 proportional and mono-spaced fonts in MS Windows having characters used in many lanuages, symbols and box drawing glyphs. The proportional ones may, or may not, have box drawing; only mono-spaced fonts recommended when using box drawing (presence of right-to-left and asian characters was not considered).
• 20230319 Notes About Time In Windows And comments on PowerBASIC time procedures.
• 20211101 How To Install A Program
• 20240505 BBROYGBVGW Color code equates.
• 20240517 TextColorByBackgound auto calculate.
• 20241020 About Filetime.
• 20241223 OR versus + Declaring Window Styles.
• 20240215 IN_Addr_IN6_Addr_ChangeSuggest

Created on 25 August 2021, last edit 27 May 2026

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