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Programming >> Liberty BASIC language >> Liberty BASIC v4.5 http://lbb.conforums.com/index.cgi?board=lblang&action=display&num=1395597113 Liberty BASIC v4.5
Post by Richard Russell on Mar 23rd, 2014, 5:51pm
Carl has also released announced Liberty BASIC v4.5 - . Does that affect the current version of LB Booster in any way?
Further to my earlier comments I've just noticed that Carl has done something superficially strange. In the 'Liberty BASIC v4.5 beta 1 release notes' he says: "Fixed the value of StartupDir$ string in the runtime engine so that it ends with a \ just as it does when running a program from the IDE". But that 'fix' makes StartupDir$ inconsistent with DefaultDir$ (which never has had a trailing \)!
In LBB I 'fixed' the LB 4.04 bug in the obvious way: neither DefaultDir$ nor StartupDir$ has a trailing backslash (whether run in the IDE or as a compiled EXE). I am not inclined to modify LBB to make it the same as LB 4.5, I'd rather keep it internally consistent. If you always add an extra \ in your program, for luck, it will work on all platforms because Windows accepts \\ as a valid directory delimiter.
Richard.
Re: Liberty BASIC v4.5
Post by Richard Russell on Dec 6th, 2014, 10:46am
But that 'fix' makes StartupDir$ inconsistent with DefaultDir$ (which never has had a trailing \)!
I see that there's a current discussion about this at the Liberty BASIC forum. It would be nice if Carl can be persuaded to change StartupDir$ to work the same way as LBB (i.e. for both DefaultDir$ and StartupDir$ not to have a trailing backslash, both in the IDE and when run from the run-time engine). Either way, adding an extra \ in your BASIC program is always safe.
. Does that affect the current version of LB Booster in any way?