SpiderBasic

Not very realistic that there will be something new available very soon - actually a new release of PureBasic is awaited (but won't be ready too fast) before the developer team will have time to start polishing SpiderBasic...

I would like to make a simple (semi transparent) clock or a weather widget for android, could that be done by using SpiderBasic?

Not sure, if this can be done by standard SpiderBasic commands, but maybe there are some tricks to do so...

1) I'd like to scan android's download directory for the four latest files (download date) of a special type (e.g. *.xlsm) to show them in a list. There's a FileRequester in SpiderBasic, but ...

I started to check how to transfer a small purebasic program for windows to android, but some things are more difficult than expected (alphablending is a hard puzzle for me)...

So I try simplier things now :)
How to transfer the following snippet to work in SpiderBasic?

Procedure DrawClock(time ...

I'm still unsure, if SpiderBasic is the coolest thing on earth or... not ;)

I did my first steps now, made the standard 'Hello World' and started to do some buttons on the screen which automatically be moved and resized on the display when the mobile device will be rotated. Works fine so far ...

Tried your example and it worked fine here. As there is no filesize command available which would allow to check the presence of the file, what about the other way around?

Make a CreateFile statement and have a look where the file will be created then...

Fred wrote:I will add this in for all mobile app, as it makes no sens to zoom/pan an app

Great, thank you.

Maybe you will be able to give us a hint some time, which enhancements of SpiderBasic are planned for the next year or so - this would be perfect.

Not sure, just a try - have you checked upper and lower case, maybe this has to match as well? And just for a double check, have you checked the return value of LoadImage?

I'd like to create a full screen app for an android tablet but don't want to allow zooming/panning the content, is it possible to disable that?

How to do overlay text (or images with an alpha channel) over a colorful background? I don't find a drawing mode for alpha channel or DrawAlphaImage in the help file. Is there a possibility to do so?