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Subject: Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format
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On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:22:10 +0100, Gordon Rahman <grahman@planet.nl>  
wrote:
> If only you had written your program in LB and not sending a BCC listing
> agains the TOS and maybe deliberately frustrating the on going challenge.

Your facts are wrong.  My 'Liberty Basic CHM creator' program was *not*  
written to be an entry in the Help Search Challenge, since the rules had  
already been changed to say that only programs written in LB were  
admissible.  Also, it is *not* a "BCC listing" (do you mean a "BBC  
listing"?), it is a compiled executable program.  The language in which it  
was written is irrelevant and not stated.

For those who don't yet know about it here is the page on the LB Wiki:

  http://basic.wikispaces.com/Creating+a+CHM+version+of+the+Help+files

> A Liberty BASIC version of your program is now also available.

Where?

> I know that you could have write your listing easily in Liberty BASIC,

No, I could *not* have written it in Liberty Basic.  The program makes use  
of COM object methods to discover where Liberty Basic is installed and  
also to create the shortcuts in the Start Menu and on the Desktop.   
Liberty Basic cannot access COM methods.

> Every now and then, Richard is pointing out the fact that LB can't
> acces COM in the way he feels it should.
> Maybe it will in the future....

Liberty Basic 5 (which *may* support COM, but we don't know) was announced  
in 2005. Actually the first reference to it I can find is in this post  
 from June 2004:

  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/libertybasic/message/21552

During the last *six years* complaints about the shortcomings of Liberty  
Basic have been met with the response 'these problems will be fixed in  
Liberty Basic 5'.  We are still waiting!

Richard.
http://www.rtrussell.co.uk/