Recent posts

#81

The Campus / Re: Cleaner Macro Expanded Lab...

Last post by maxirdax - May 25, 2025, 08:12:10 PM

cool, I'm not necessarily talking about var names, mainly labels, they do get translated to ??0166 in the disassembly.
I don't know if making a custom preprocessor that emits clean asm files with already expanded macros is the way to go this way I'll be able to step thru the code cleanly in the debugger

#82

The Campus / Re: Cleaner Macro Expanded Lab...

Last post by sinsi - May 25, 2025, 08:05:02 PM

If you mean that local vars in a macro show as e.g. ??0001 then the only way to see the actual var name is not declaring them local. This, of course, can cause more problems if the type changes.

#83

The Campus / Re: Cleaner Macro Expanded Lab...

Last post by maxirdax - May 25, 2025, 07:47:36 PM

I like working with macros but its nice to still be able to debug them. What is the clean workflow?

#84

The Campus / Cleaner Macro Expanded Labels

Last post by maxirdax - May 25, 2025, 07:46:30 PM

Hello, I have been programming with masm64 and I ran into a problem with some code where I successfully made a macro to process some data and reused it successfully but when I view the disassembly to step through the expanded macro the labels are mangeled and hard to read (using local labels in macro).
Is there a way I can force masm to keep my label names as designated in the original macro in the disassembly? even the /EP preprocessing result is mangled.

#85

The Workshop / Re: FputoString format

Last post by sinsi - May 25, 2025, 03:19:43 PM

If you write to a file or capture some output it might need to be a specific format when it gets parsed?
That's probably why printf etc differentiate between decimal and scientific output.

99.9% it won't matter.

Then again, the FPU can have -0 and +0 

#86

The Workshop / Re: FputoString format

Last post by daydreamer - May 25, 2025, 01:50:28 PM

I agree with David because afterwards print or SendMessage to a gui control takes Milliseconds

#87

The Orphanage / Re: Faster phone /tablet memor...

Last post by daydreamer - May 24, 2025, 10:57:02 PM

When I searched for 4g caps,because telecommunications companies have decided to make 3g obsolete this year and you need to get a 4g or 5g caps device, smartphone, tablet,USB stick modem,router ,I found out you can get refurbished old tablets ,same as mine for 100 euro
Good to know if one tablet stops working ,I can get a cheaper replacement instead of brand new 2025 tablet which is much more expensive

Good to know the newest has 4g caps

#88

Showcase / Re: mcLB2, a new Windows contr...

Last post by sinsi - May 24, 2025, 04:30:11 PM

Trying to pretend that I, a lowly hobby programmer, could somehow outperform the mighty development teams at Redmond devoted to developing controls, would be a massive conceit, one which I do not claim.

Easy enough for them to "outperform" when they have hundreds of programmers building on thousands of programmers prior work from the last 40 years (and they still get it wrong).

I do like to create my own homegrown, idiosyncratic Windows controls, as much an exercise in "I can do it!" as anything else.

Exactly the right attitude to have.

#89

Showcase / Re: mcLB2, a new Windows contr...

Last post by NoCforMe - May 24, 2025, 02:17:41 PM

So, to use that famous meaningless tautology, my mcLB2 is what it is.
Which is to say that it is my vanity project. Something I thought was fairly kewl and worth developing. And which did finally did succeed in seeing the light of day in terms of functionality; it worked. Always a good moment for me.

I appreciate the help I got here from members who pointed out the flaws and made suggestions for improvements. I now have a stable, usable Windows control that I can use. (And others as well.)

Trying to pretend that I, a lowly hobby programmer, could somehow outperform the mighty development teams at Redmond devoted to developing controls, would be a massive conceit, one which I do not claim. I do like to create my own homegrown, idiosyncratic Windows controls, as much an exercise in "I can do it!" as anything else.

Still working on The Ultimate Edit Control. We'll see how far that goes ...

#90

Showcase / Re: mcLB2, a new Windows contr...

Last post by NoCforMe - May 24, 2025, 01:36:09 PM

Unfortunately no pictures there, but I was able to find some elsewhere.
So it looks a lot like a ListView, though a whole lot more complex and with much more functionality.