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Monkfish
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Re: Font smoothing?
« Reply #15 on: Jul 18th, 2015, 07:17am » |
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That's okay, I don't use LB anymore 
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Richard Russell
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LBB error reporting - an apology.
« Reply #16 on: Jul 18th, 2015, 10:09am » |
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on Jul 18th, 2015, 07:17am, Monkfish wrote:| That's okay, I don't use LB anymore |
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In that case I need to apologise to you, and to other LBB users, for the shockingly poor error reporting of LBB compared with LB. Even I find myself occasionally running a program under LB 4.04 if LBB throws an incomprehensible error (typically with the line number given as zero!); usually LB will identify the cause.
In my, feeble, defence I would explain that in the early days LB Booster was envisaged only as something you ran to 'boost' an existing, tested and debugged, program. The assumption was that, as the program was known to run in LB, LBB didn't need to do comprehensive error checking.
Sadly, when LBB was developed into more of a standalone product the error reporting wasn't improved, as it should have been. My efforts went into checking for bugs and in maximising compatibility, all of which involved running only error-free programs, not programs with faults. 
I have a longish wish-list of possible enhancements to LBB's error reporting, if and when I release an upgrade. That's only likely to happen if the LB community change their attitude to LBB, and my ban from the forums is rescinded. As things stand that seems very unlikely.
Richard.
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Re: Font smoothing?
« Reply #17 on: Jul 18th, 2015, 1:22pm » |
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I'm surprised the entire LB community hasn't jumped ship!
I wish you had a link to allow those of us who appreciate your efforts to reward you in some small way. If there was some issue with that it could always be presented as a contribution for your support, rather than for the program itself.
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Re: Font smoothing?
« Reply #18 on: Jul 18th, 2015, 2:38pm » |
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on Jul 18th, 2015, 1:22pm, Monkfish wrote:| I wish you had a link to allow those of us who appreciate your efforts to reward you in some small way. |
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The greatest reward you can possibly offer is to spread the word about LBB. The efforts of the wider LB community to prevent users finding out about it, and if they do to knock it as being "not Liberty BASIC"*, are sadly all too successful.
But if you particularly want to make a monetary contribution - even though it doesn't go to me - you can click on the Donate button at the bottom of the page. Each donation gives us another ad-free month (the forum was ad-free for a long time owing to the generosity of one member, but his contributions have now run out).
Richard.
*I went to great trouble to make sure the OOP and SEH extensions to LBB did not affect compatibility with LB4, but that didn't stop Carl claiming that they do, and that, somehow, they make LBB less attractive to LB users.
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