[Gambas-user] Parallel Port Programming in Gambas
Hi all, I am new to Gambas 2.16 and also Ubuntu 9.04. I trying to write a Gambas program to control parallel port's input/output in Ubuntu. For example, Switch parallel port pin 2 to on or off. From How To Use Parallel Port http://gambasdoc.org/help/howto/parport Solution 1: opening /dev/port with OPEN and read/write at a specific location. Solution 2: Based on a C library named 'parapin' For solution 2, how Gambas can access the parapin library? Thank you in advance. New Email names for you! Get the Email name you#39;ve always wanted on the new @ymail and @rocketmail. Hurry before someone else does! http://mail.promotions.yahoo.com/newdomains/aa/ -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
Re: [Gambas-user] About financial program in Gambas
Ricardo Díaz Martín a écrit : Hi to all, I'm use gambas to write ERP applications. At the first, I got the same problem but I decided to use long integer to save currency values. First rigth two digits are always showed to users as decimal values. I'm rewrited all my apps from windows to gambas and they are working now with no problems in customers servers. I allways use a function to show values in controls in app's forms that convert database fields values showed in textboxes whose name started int dbcur (p.e. dbcurVAT) to value div 100 and works with no problems. I use allways the same function to write forms data to database and make the reverse proccess. Hooo, thanks for the ad. Its simple and works Sounds exactly like the commercial about women thin down cream we've got on tv for months (it works!) (sorry, I couldn't resist:) So you're truncating everything to 2 decimals, but as I said VAT (and as a matter of fact almost all french taxes) is *legally* up to 4 decimals; actually only 2 of them are used, but nothing's saying that tomorrow is won't be 3 or 4 really used (especially on those times where our gov morons (pleonasm) are desesperatly looking for money.) BTW, how do you truncate 19.99657? Down to 19.99 or up to 20.00? In my family's company a cent error is worth €100,000 fine... Other PB: most of results could be predictable (as of Nb of decimals), but some can't (ie: 92.95x1.196=111.1682 OR 145x1.196=173.42), maths says decimals should be dN1+dN2=5 but in these cases we only have 4 and 2 because of non-significant right zeroes, so you can't obviously truncate by adding the comma counting 5 from the right. One of the most used manner to get a selling price is to use a coefficient which has many decimals (usually a real), how do you determine where to put the comma in the resultant number?? I see the possibilities, but AFAIK this is a full processor to write based on a complex numbers model, not to mention error possibilities have a tremendous cataclysmic potential in a matter where tax administration will be more than happy to chop your head and piss on your brain (yeah, they're like that here: when they come it is not to search, it is to find; no matter if has real justification or not.) But may be I'm totally mistaking: I always have had PBs with simple things. JY -- God is real, unless declared integer. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
Re: [Gambas-user] Showing ps files
use an external application like ghostscript and include it with embedder control 2009/12/16 Rolf-Werner Eilert eilert-sprac...@t-online.de: Good morning everyone, just a small question: Is there a control which could show the contents of postscript files? Maybe even scaled, so I could implement a preview and a bigger reading screen? If not, I guess this would mean calling an external application for it which would make this whole thing less handy. Thanks for your ideas. Rolf -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
Re: [Gambas-user] About financial program in Gambas
Jean, You can use numbers of decimal as you want. I you want 4 you only need to divide by 1000. The only you need to decide on before insert data. If you need to add more decimals in future you only have to modify a parameter in your app from 2 to 4 (functions that show from database/write to database currency values must read this values before show/write info) and update your database multiplying cur fields by 100 (to add two digit more of precision) You never need truncate any value if you always use this especial currency type. For example if you set decimals to 4, number 19.99657 is no possible. If you need to get selling prices using four decimal coefficient, define coefficient as a currency type and set your app to use 4 decimal for all currency values I hope this helps you 2009/12/16 Jean-Yves F. Barbier 12u...@gmail.com Ricardo Díaz Martín a écrit : Hi to all, I'm use gambas to write ERP applications. At the first, I got the same problem but I decided to use long integer to save currency values. First rigth two digits are always showed to users as decimal values. I'm rewrited all my apps from windows to gambas and they are working now with no problems in customers servers. I allways use a function to show values in controls in app's forms that convert database fields values showed in textboxes whose name started int dbcur (p.e. dbcurVAT) to value div 100 and works with no problems. I use allways the same function to write forms data to database and make the reverse proccess. Hooo, thanks for the ad. Its simple and works Sounds exactly like the commercial about women thin down cream we've got on tv for months (it works!) (sorry, I couldn't resist:) So you're truncating everything to 2 decimals, but as I said VAT (and as a matter of fact almost all french taxes) is *legally* up to 4 decimals; actually only 2 of them are used, but nothing's saying that tomorrow is won't be 3 or 4 really used (especially on those times where our gov morons (pleonasm) are desesperatly looking for money.) BTW, how do you truncate 19.99657? Down to 19.99 or up to 20.00? In my family's company a cent error is worth €100,000 fine... Other PB: most of results could be predictable (as of Nb of decimals), but some can't (ie: 92.95x1.196=111.1682 OR 145x1.196=173.42), maths says decimals should be dN1+dN2=5 but in these cases we only have 4 and 2 because of non-significant right zeroes, so you can't obviously truncate by adding the comma counting 5 from the right. One of the most used manner to get a selling price is to use a coefficient which has many decimals (usually a real), how do you determine where to put the comma in the resultant number?? I see the possibilities, but AFAIK this is a full processor to write based on a complex numbers model, not to mention error possibilities have a tremendous cataclysmic potential in a matter where tax administration will be more than happy to chop your head and piss on your brain (yeah, they're like that here: when they come it is not to search, it is to find; no matter if has real justification or not.) But may be I'm totally mistaking: I always have had PBs with simple things. JY -- God is real, unless declared integer. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
Re: [Gambas-user] SDL component documentation
2009/12/16 kevinfishburne kevinfishbu...@eightvirtues.com: Fabien Bodard-4 wrote: gb.sdl is incomplete ... in fact Laurent have begin to redraw all the gb.sdl lib by using OpenGl... but ... still incomplete ... i think the lack of users on this lib mess his enthusiasm Hi Fabien, I agree with your comments. I'm guessing that GAMBAS 3 is still in alpha/beta since I haven't seen any releases on the download page. I am looking forward to it and hope it's fairly downward-compatible so GAMBAS 2 apps will run in it. That's good to hear that the new SDL component will be rewritten using OpenGL. I think the only thing GAMBAS is currently missing is a robust high-level 2D and 3D graphics library. While an OpenGL wrapper is cool, having to write 10 or more lines of code to create a single polygon probably doesn't help most people. I think it's also important to consider that GAMBAS need not necessarily implement literal wrappers for SDL or OpenGL, but rather its own unique flavor of 2D and 3D routines aimed squarely at delivering practical and efficient results. i think too , so a good look at blitz will be interesring, Blitz 2D, Blitz Max The spirit of GAMBAS surely is to write effective apps quickly and with respect to modern object-oriented programming conventions, all using a language that is easy and familiar to BASIC-loving developers. In that spirit a higher-level graphics component fits right in. Here's my two cents for what a 2D graphics library might include: * Graphics Buffers ** Allow creation of buffers in video memory (hardware accelerated) to store images ** Allow multiple buffers with different properties *** Define width and height *** Define RGB bit-depth (8, 16, 24, 32, etc.) *** Define alpha-channel bit-depth (0, 2, 4, 8, etc.) * Image Loading ** Allow loading of different file types into a graphics buffer (PNG, GIF, JPG, etc.) ** Allow loading file into specific location (x1,y1) of the buffer * Bit Blitting ** Allow copying one region of a graphics buffer (x1,y1,x2,y2) to another graphics buffer (x1,y1) ** Allow arbitrary rotation when copying a region from one buffer to another ** Allow arbitrary scaling when copying a region from one buffer to another ** Allow downsampling and upsampling when copying a region to a buffer with a different bit-depth ** Allow global alpha modifier multiplied by the existing region's alpha channel (will allow a region to be faded in or faded out, preserving its existing alpha channel) * Effects Processing ** Allow various effects (brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, gaussian blur, etc.) ** Allow the results of the effects, when necessary, to extend beyond the region in the buffer they were applied to I think a 2D graphics component is far more useful than a 3D component, as it will appeal to a wider developer base. 3D graphics require more work and more skill, therefore most programmers would be more adept at 2D graphics than 3D. While 3D is important, it should be relegated to being more seriously-developed only after a robust 2D library has been implemented. I wish I could contribute more but will have to settle for posting in the forums and developing GAMBAS apps that hopefully people will find useful or fun. I'm very good at graphics and documentation, so if anyone has any tasks that need to be done that they think I could do (or help me do by acting as an intermediary with the source code) please let me know. - Kevin Fishburne, Eight Virtues www: http://sales.eightvirtues.com http://sales.eightvirtues.com e-mail: mailto:sa...@eightvirtues.com sa...@eightvirtues.com phone: (770) 853-6271 -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/SDL-component-documentation-tp26603936p26806675.html Sent from the gambas-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
Re: [Gambas-user] signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault when using database example with ODDBC to a MSSQL Database
Problem #11 when using ODBC to connect to a remote database running on MS SQL Server 2000. I can connect to the database and run queries using tsql from a terminal and isql from a root terminal and I can connect using odbc in Gambas2 if the ide is started from a root terminal but not if started from the programme shortcut. I have a small utility to run queries on a SQL server, display the results and optionally export them as a csv file. As soon as the programme gets to the line where the query is assigned to a Result the programme crashes with a #11. This behaviour is identical if running the Database Sample. The connection is opened. connection.opened is True when tested in debug mode. The line where the error occurs in the sample is:- rData = $hConn.Exec(txtRequest.Text) which is the same as the one in my application where the programme crashes PUBLIC SUB FillGrid(ctl AS Control, cnn AS Connection, sqlstr AS String) DIM datout AS Result, i AS Integer, j AS Integer datout = cnn.Exec(sqlstr) The line the crash occurs The version of gambas2 is 2.18.0 The kernel is Linux 2.6.31.5-127/fc12.x86_64 System is Memory 3.8 GiB Proc 0 AMD Athlon(tm) X2 Dual Core processor 5200+ Proc 1 AMD Athlon(tm) X2 Dual Core processor 5200+ The query is executed as can be seen from the output from Wireshark included after the debug output. Thanks Tony Debug data and Wireshark output from running the Database Sample Programme. [r...@fslserver Database]# cd /usr/share/gambas2/examples/Database/Database [r...@fslserver Database]# gbc2 -agt OK [r...@fslserver Database]# gdb gbx2 GNU gdb (GDB) Fedora (7.0-8.fc12) Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type show copying and show warranty for details. This GDB was configured as x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu. For bug reporting instructions, please see: http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/... Reading symbols from /usr/bin/gbx2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install gambas2-runtime-2.18.0-1.fc12.x86_64 (gdb) set args -p (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/bin/gbx2 -p [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x003b3a27978c in free () from /lib64/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x003b3a27978c in free () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #1 0x004050f1 in sinh () #2 0x7fffefe013aa in SQLDisconnect () from /usr/lib64/gambas2/gb.db.odbc.so #3 0x7fffefe03a28 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/gambas2/gb.db.odbc.so #4 0x77408da2 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/gambas2/gb.db.so #5 0x7740975f in ?? () from /usr/lib64/gambas2/gb.db.so #6 0x774063c7 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/gambas2/gb.db.so #7 0x00408b32 in sinh () #8 0x0040952f in sinh () #9 0x0042eea5 in sinh () #10 0x00409cf5 in sinh () #11 0x00409fac in sinh () #12 0x0041c4c9 in sinh () #13 0x0041ce79 in sinh () #14 0x7797edca in g_io_channel_unref () from /usr/lib64/gambas2/gb.gtk.so #15 0x00324020ba8e in g_closure_invoke () from /lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #16 0x003240220ec3 in ?? () from /lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #17 0x00324059 in g_signal_emit_valist () from /lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #18 0x0032402227a3 in g_signal_emit () from /lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #19 0x00324468d615 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 ---Type return to continue, or q return to quit--- #20 0x00324020ba8e in g_closure_invoke () from /lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #21 0x0032402207dc in ?? () from /lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #22 0x00324059 in g_signal_emit_valist () from /lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #23 0x0032402227a3 in g_signal_emit () from /lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #24 0x00324468be77 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #25 0x003244753903 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #26 0x00324020ba8e in g_closure_invoke () from /lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #27 0x003240220b8d in ?? () from /lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #28 0x0032402220ec in g_signal_emit_valist () from /lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #29 0x0032402227a3 in g_signal_emit () from /lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #30 0x003244875a9f in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #31 0x00324474a664 in gtk_propagate_event () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #32 0x00324474b7a3 in gtk_main_do_event () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #33 0x7798c627 in ?? () from
[Gambas-user] Cannot save a gif image
Can anyone tell me how to save a gif image. I can save other images, but not gifs gambas 2.18 on ubuntu 9.04 Regards Les Hardy -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
[Gambas-user] problems with core functions
hi
I am struggling with some nasty little things..
when I select a text or a part of a text in a textbox, and I want to
copy this or paste from clipboard, the usual way is to use ctrl-c,
ctrl-v. well, every software I know has a button too, making this
possible. I tried to use the Desktop.Sendkeys, which works with \t
f.ex., but I can not figure out how to send ctrl-c - tried ({[CTRL]C})
and ({[CTRL_L]C}). In the manual I get the information, all keys are
defined in /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h - but this file does not exist
on my system in this folder. Will be thankful for any help.
Then I tried with .SelStart and .SelLenght to get the string - that was
not accepted at all, get unknown symbol.
It would be nice, if I could get this two different functions to work.
thanks and regards
norarg
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Re: [Gambas-user] Cannot save a gif image
have you libgif installed ? 2009/12/16 Jussi Lahtinen jussi.lahti...@gmail.com: Save gif from where? Please show your code you are using to save other image formats. Jussi On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 23:57, Les Hardy l...@webmayo.com wrote: Can anyone tell me how to save a gif image. I can save other images, but not gifs gambas 2.18 on ubuntu 9.04 Regards Les Hardy -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
[Gambas-user] Custom error class
Hi all
Perhaps this is an stupid question, but I'm confused at this point:
I'm trying to implement a custom error message window with information
about an error raised within a CATCH clause, using the Error class from
Gambas. Here is the code I'm not able to get it working:
_The error form 'FError'_
PRIVATE $error AS String
PUBLIC SUB Form_Open()
ME.Center
txtError.Clear
txtError.Text = $error
END
PUBLIC SUB showError(myError AS Error)
$error = [Error]\n myError.Text
$error = \n[Where]\n myError.Where
$error = \n[Backtrace]\n myError.Backtrace
ME.ShowModal
END
PUBLIC SUB btnOk_Click()
IF chkReport THEN
' TODO report error to a remote db
ENDIF
ME.Close
END
_Calling in a sub after CATCH_
CATCH
FEerror.showError(Error)
-
First of all, it is not possible to write Error keyword between the
two parenthesis, being formatted into ERROR, syntactically wrong.
If I enclose the 'Error' keyword between curly brackets, as in
FErrors.showError({Error}) , no syntax error is raised, but a Gambas
error saying Type mismatch: wanted Error, got Class instead.
What am I doing wrong, or is it possible to use this class the way I'm
doing?
Help appreciated!
Regards,
Jesús
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Re: [Gambas-user] Cannot save a gif image
Yes, I have libgif-4.1.6-6. I tried reinstalling all image libraries that I could find. Still no good. Regards Les Hardy Fabien Bodard wrote: have you libgif installed ? 2009/12/16 Jussi Lahtinen jussi.lahti...@gmail.com: Save gif from where? Please show your code you are using to save other image formats. Jussi On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 23:57, Les Hardy l...@webmayo.com wrote: Can anyone tell me how to save a gif image. I can save other images, but not gifs gambas 2.18 on ubuntu 9.04 Regards Les Hardy -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
Re: [Gambas-user] problems with core functions
hi,
thanks, but how do I get this Text I want to copy, it is selected, but
somehow I have to make a string of it, before sending it to the
clipboard. Somewhere I have seen SelStart, SelLength with Gambas, but
just can not find that part any more - it seemed so clear, I did not
give it any further notice - and that so clear part just does not work.
:) btw. using ubuntu 09.10/gambas 2.13.
regards
norarg
Ricardo Díaz Martín schrieb:
use Clipboard.Copy(Text you want copy) and Clipboard.Paste()
http://gambasdoc.org/help/comp/gb.qt/clipboard
2009/12/16 Norarg nor...@hotmail.de
hi
I am struggling with some nasty little things..
when I select a text or a part of a text in a textbox, and I want to
copy this or paste from clipboard, the usual way is to use ctrl-c,
ctrl-v. well, every software I know has a button too, making this
possible. I tried to use the Desktop.Sendkeys, which works with \t
f.ex., but I can not figure out how to send ctrl-c - tried ({[CTRL]C})
and ({[CTRL_L]C}). In the manual I get the information, all keys are
defined in /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h - but this file does not exist
on my system in this folder. Will be thankful for any help.
Then I tried with .SelStart and .SelLenght to get the string - that was
not accepted at all, get unknown symbol.
It would be nice, if I could get this two different functions to work.
thanks and regards
norarg
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[Gambas-user] Weird Overflow error (GB_DIR)
Hi all I am experimenting with the GB_DIR environment variable, and I've made a deb package with my program to install it in /opt. The current dir structure is as follows: je...@jesus:~$ tree /opt /opt `-- dfhlog |-- dfhlog.gambas `-- gambas2 |-- bin | |-- gbr2 - gbx2 | `-- gbx2 `-- lib `-- gambas2 |-- gb.component |-- gb.corba.component |-- ... etc ...etc... I am calling my executable from a bash script located in /usr/local/bin je...@jesus:~$ cat /usr/local/bin/dfhlog #!/bin/sh export PATH=/opt/dfhlog/gambas2/bin export GB_DIR=/opt/dfhlog/gambas2 exec /opt/dfhlog/dfhlog.gambas (In this case, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not used, because they already are in my system). When I execute 'dfhlog' from the console the main form is shown, but I got the error: je...@jesus:~$ dfhlog global.?.0: #7: Overflow (Also a message box is displayed with the error) However my application runs fine when using the standard paths as always. Am I missing something? Which is Overflow error related to? Regards, Jesús -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
Re: [Gambas-user] Cannot save a gif image
Thanks for responding Jussi, The image is a result of an image.load previously in the code. It may have been loaded as a gif, jpg, png or bmp. 'this works ok imgfile = user.home / tmpfile.jpg imageout.Save(imgfile) '-- 'this works ok imgfile = user.home / tmpfile.png imageout.Save(imgfile) '-- ' this does not work. error message say 'cannot save file' imgfile = user.home / tmpfile.gif imageout.Save(imgfile) I have written a few apps in gambas, with plenty of file handling, but I don't generally use gifs. I tried it with images, pictures, pictureboxes. and in every case I can save anything but a gif. Its driving me nuts. I cannot see any other postings about this problem. So I guess it must be something with my setup. Have you any ideas of what to try next? Regards Les Hardy Jussi Lahtinen wrote: Save gif from where? Please show your code you are using to save other image formats. Jussi On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 23:57, Les Hardy l...@webmayo.com wrote: Can anyone tell me how to save a gif image. I can save other images, but not gifs gambas 2.18 on ubuntu 9.04 Regards Les Hardy -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
Re: [Gambas-user] Cannot save a gif image
Thanks for responding Jussi, The image is a result of an image.load previously in the code. It may have been loaded as a gif, jpg, png or bmp. 'this works ok imgfile = user.home / tmpfile.jpg imageout.Save(imgfile) '-- 'this works ok imgfile = user.home / tmpfile.png imageout.Save(imgfile) '-- ' this does not work. error message say 'cannot save file' imgfile = user.home / tmpfile.gif imageout.Save(imgfile) I have written a few apps in gambas, with plenty of file handling, but I don't generally use gifs. I tried it with images, pictures, pictureboxes. and in every case I can save anything but a gif. Its driving me nuts. I cannot see any other postings about this problem. So I guess it must be something with my setup. Have you any ideas of what to try next? Regards Les Hardy In Gambas 2, the image save function is managed by the GUI component: which one do you use? gb.qt or gb.gtk? I know, for example, that Qt can be compiled without GIF support. So on a system with Qt compiled that way, Gambas projects using gb.qt won't be able to deal with gif files. Regards, -- Benoît Minisini -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
Re: [Gambas-user] Weird Overflow error (GB_DIR)
Hi all I am experimenting with the GB_DIR environment variable, and I've made a deb package with my program to install it in /opt. The current dir structure is as follows: je...@jesus:~$ tree /opt /opt `-- dfhlog |-- dfhlog.gambas `-- gambas2 |-- bin | | |-- gbr2 - gbx2 | | `-- gbx2 `-- lib `-- gambas2 |-- gb.component |-- gb.corba.component |-- ... etc ...etc... I am calling my executable from a bash script located in /usr/local/bin je...@jesus:~$ cat /usr/local/bin/dfhlog #!/bin/sh export PATH=/opt/dfhlog/gambas2/bin export GB_DIR=/opt/dfhlog/gambas2 exec /opt/dfhlog/dfhlog.gambas (In this case, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not used, because they already are in my system). When I execute 'dfhlog' from the console the main form is shown, but I got the error: je...@jesus:~$ dfhlog global.?.0: #7: Overflow (Also a message box is displayed with the error) However my application runs fine when using the standard paths as always. Am I missing something? Which is Overflow error related to? Regards, Jesús Can you compile the gambas project (dfhlog.gambas) with debugging information included? Then maybe you will have the line number where the overflow error occurs. -- Benoît Minisini -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
Re: [Gambas-user] Custom error class
Hi all
Perhaps this is an stupid question, but I'm confused at this point:
I'm trying to implement a custom error message window with information
about an error raised within a CATCH clause, using the Error class from
Gambas. Here is the code I'm not able to get it working:
_The error form 'FError'_
PRIVATE $error AS String
PUBLIC SUB Form_Open()
ME.Center
txtError.Clear
txtError.Text = $error
END
PUBLIC SUB showError(myError AS Error)
$error = [Error]\n myError.Text
$error = \n[Where]\n myError.Where
$error = \n[Backtrace]\n myError.Backtrace
ME.ShowModal
END
PUBLIC SUB btnOk_Click()
IF chkReport THEN
' TODO report error to a remote db
ENDIF
ME.Close
END
_Calling in a sub after CATCH_
CATCH
FEerror.showError(Error)
-
First of all, it is not possible to write Error keyword between the
two parenthesis, being formatted into ERROR, syntactically wrong.
If I enclose the 'Error' keyword between curly brackets, as in
FErrors.showError({Error}) , no syntax error is raised, but a Gambas
error saying Type mismatch: wanted Error, got Class instead.
What am I doing wrong, or is it possible to use this class the way I'm
doing?
Help appreciated!
Regards,
Jesús
At the moment Error is a static class, you cannot instanciate it, and using it
as a datatype is uselss. So don't use an argument, use the Error class
everywhere.
The caveats of this design is that should save or use the Error class contents
as soon as possible, otherwise another error or a function call may reset it.
Regards,
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Re: [Gambas-user] Weird Overflow error (GB_DIR)
Benoît Minisini escribió: Hi all I am experimenting with the GB_DIR environment variable, and I've made a deb package with my program to install it in /opt. The current dir structure is as follows: je...@jesus:~$ tree /opt /opt `-- dfhlog |-- dfhlog.gambas `-- gambas2 |-- bin | | |-- gbr2 - gbx2 | | `-- gbx2 `-- lib `-- gambas2 |-- gb.component |-- gb.corba.component |-- ... etc ...etc... I am calling my executable from a bash script located in /usr/local/bin je...@jesus:~$ cat /usr/local/bin/dfhlog #!/bin/sh export PATH=/opt/dfhlog/gambas2/bin export GB_DIR=/opt/dfhlog/gambas2 exec /opt/dfhlog/dfhlog.gambas (In this case, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not used, because they already are in my system). When I execute 'dfhlog' from the console the main form is shown, but I got the error: je...@jesus:~$ dfhlog global.?.0: #7: Overflow (Also a message box is displayed with the error) However my application runs fine when using the standard paths as always. Am I missing something? Which is Overflow error related to? Regards, Jesús Can you compile the gambas project (dfhlog.gambas) with debugging information included? Then maybe you will have the line number where the overflow error occurs. Thanks Benoît Surprisingly, after a recompile, it works as expected! May be I was using an old executable file (dfhlog.gambas). Sorry for my mistake 8-( Regards Jesús -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
Re: [Gambas-user] Custom error class
Benoît Minisini escribió:
Hi all
Perhaps this is an stupid question, but I'm confused at this point:
I'm trying to implement a custom error message window with information
about an error raised within a CATCH clause, using the Error class from
Gambas. Here is the code I'm not able to get it working:
_The error form 'FError'_
PRIVATE $error AS String
PUBLIC SUB Form_Open()
ME.Center
txtError.Clear
txtError.Text = $error
END
PUBLIC SUB showError(myError AS Error)
$error = [Error]\n myError.Text
$error = \n[Where]\n myError.Where
$error = \n[Backtrace]\n myError.Backtrace
ME.ShowModal
END
PUBLIC SUB btnOk_Click()
IF chkReport THEN
' TODO report error to a remote db
ENDIF
ME.Close
END
_Calling in a sub after CATCH_
CATCH
FEerror.showError(Error)
-
First of all, it is not possible to write Error keyword between the
two parenthesis, being formatted into ERROR, syntactically wrong.
If I enclose the 'Error' keyword between curly brackets, as in
FErrors.showError({Error}) , no syntax error is raised, but a Gambas
error saying Type mismatch: wanted Error, got Class instead.
What am I doing wrong, or is it possible to use this class the way I'm
doing?
Help appreciated!
Regards,
Jesús
At the moment Error is a static class, you cannot instanciate it, and using
it
as a datatype is uselss. So don't use an argument, use the Error class
everywhere.
The caveats of this design is that should save or use the Error class
contents
as soon as possible, otherwise another error or a function call may reset it.
Regards,
M, I though so... I was trying to encapsulate it in a single
function, but I must reconsider this in other way.
Thanks anyway!
Regards,
Jesús
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Re: [Gambas-user] About financial program in Gambas
For your info only... I always use INT or LONG for accounting and money. So, (here in Canada), $42.87 is 4287 I keep the tax (8%) as a float, therefore 8.25% is 8.25 This is ok for tax because rounding is needed. For example: 4287 * 8.25 = 35367.75 / 100 = 353.6775 add .5 for 5/4 round up down = 354.1775 Plase result into INT var which becomes 354 4287 + 354 = 4641 Using Float for taxes allows for many decimal places. Using 100 for /100 process allows for any currencies where you want more than 2 decimal places. For correct printing without rounding errors, do not do 4287/100. but rather take the STR$(4287), then split the right two off, and place a decimal in that place. Perfect math and exact calculations every single time!!! -Fernando -- Original Message --- From: Ricardo Díaz Martín oceanosoftlapa...@gmail.com To: mailing list for gambas users gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:46:40 + Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] About financial program in Gambas Jean, You can use numbers of decimal as you want. I you want 4 you only need to divide by 1000. The only you need to decide on before insert data. If you need to add more decimals in future you only have to modify a parameter in your app from 2 to 4 (functions that show from database/write to database currency values must read this values before show/write info) and update your database multiplying cur fields by 100 (to add two digit more of precision) You never need truncate any value if you always use this especial currency type. For example if you set decimals to 4, number 19.99657 is no possible. If you need to get selling prices using four decimal coefficient, define coefficient as a currency type and set your app to use 4 decimal for all currency values I hope this helps you 2009/12/16 Jean-Yves F. Barbier 12u...@gmail.com Ricardo Díaz Martín a écrit : Hi to all, I'm use gambas to write ERP applications. At the first, I got the same problem but I decided to use long integer to save currency values. First rigth two digits are always showed to users as decimal values. I'm rewrited all my apps from windows to gambas and they are working now with no problems in customers servers. I allways use a function to show values in controls in app's forms that convert database fields values showed in textboxes whose name started int dbcur (p.e. dbcurVAT) to value div 100 and works with no problems. I use allways the same function to write forms data to database and make the reverse proccess. Hooo, thanks for the ad. Its simple and works Sounds exactly like the commercial about women thin down cream we've got on tv for months (it works!) (sorry, I couldn't resist:) So you're truncating everything to 2 decimals, but as I said VAT (and as a matter of fact almost all french taxes) is *legally* up to 4 decimals; actually only 2 of them are used, but nothing's saying that tomorrow is won't be 3 or 4 really used (especially on those times where our gov morons (pleonasm) are desesperatly looking for money.) BTW, how do you truncate 19.99657? Down to 19.99 or up to 20.00? [WINDOWS-1252?] In my family's company a cent error is worth 100,000 fine... Other PB: most of results could be predictable (as of Nb of decimals), but some can't (ie: 92.95x1.196=111.1682 OR 145x1.196=173.42), maths says decimals should be dN1+dN2=5 but in these cases we only have 4 and 2 because of non-significant right zeroes, so you can't obviously truncate by adding the comma counting 5 from the right. One of the most used manner to get a selling price is to use a coefficient which has many decimals (usually a real), how do you determine where to put the comma in the resultant number?? I see the possibilities, but AFAIK this is a full processor to write based on a complex numbers model, not to mention error possibilities have a tremendous cataclysmic potential in a matter where tax administration will be more than happy to chop your head and piss on your brain (yeah, they're like that here: when they come it is not to search, it is to find; no matter if has real justification or not.) But may be I'm totally mistaking: I always have had PBs with simple things. JY -- God is real, unless declared integer. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
Re: [Gambas-user] Cannot save a gif image
Yes, You have it. Just checked. Looks like QImageIO was compiled without gif support on ubuntu 9.04 , and I am using gb.qt. My Thanks to all that responded. Regards Les Hardy Benoît Minisini wrote: In Gambas 2, the image save function is managed by the GUI component: which one do you use? gb.qt or gb.gtk? I know, for example, that Qt can be compiled without GIF support. So on a system with Qt compiled that way, Gambas projects using gb.qt won't be able to deal with gif files. Regards, -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
[Gambas-user] How to force a normal number output?
I need to have a normal decimal output without E+degree notation. How to force Gambas to use 153879 instead of 1.53879E+5? -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
Re: [Gambas-user] About financial program in Gambas
Sorry - AS for mySQL it also has round() and you use the same as the gambas function. Steven On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 16:13 -0500, nando wrote: For your info only... I always use INT or LONG for accounting and money. So, (here in Canada), $42.87 is 4287 I keep the tax (8%) as a float, therefore 8.25% is 8.25 This is ok for tax because rounding is needed. For example: 4287 * 8.25 = 35367.75 / 100 = 353.6775 add .5 for 5/4 round up down = 354.1775 Plase result into INT var which becomes 354 4287 + 354 = 4641 Using Float for taxes allows for many decimal places. Using 100 for /100 process allows for any currencies where you want more than 2 decimal places. For correct printing without rounding errors, do not do 4287/100. but rather take the STR$(4287), then split the right two off, and place a decimal in that place. Perfect math and exact calculations every single time!!! -Fernando -- Original Message --- From: Ricardo Díaz Martín oceanosoftlapa...@gmail.com To: mailing list for gambas users gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:46:40 + Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] About financial program in Gambas Jean, You can use numbers of decimal as you want. I you want 4 you only need to divide by 1000. The only you need to decide on before insert data. If you need to add more decimals in future you only have to modify a parameter in your app from 2 to 4 (functions that show from database/write to database currency values must read this values before show/write info) and update your database multiplying cur fields by 100 (to add two digit more of precision) You never need truncate any value if you always use this especial currency type. For example if you set decimals to 4, number 19.99657 is no possible. If you need to get selling prices using four decimal coefficient, define coefficient as a currency type and set your app to use 4 decimal for all currency values I hope this helps you 2009/12/16 Jean-Yves F. Barbier 12u...@gmail.com Ricardo Díaz Martín a écrit : Hi to all, I'm use gambas to write ERP applications. At the first, I got the same problem but I decided to use long integer to save currency values. First rigth two digits are always showed to users as decimal values. I'm rewrited all my apps from windows to gambas and they are working now with no problems in customers servers. I allways use a function to show values in controls in app's forms that convert database fields values showed in textboxes whose name started int dbcur (p.e. dbcurVAT) to value div 100 and works with no problems. I use allways the same function to write forms data to database and make the reverse proccess. Hooo, thanks for the ad. Its simple and works Sounds exactly like the commercial about women thin down cream we've got on tv for months (it works!) (sorry, I couldn't resist:) So you're truncating everything to 2 decimals, but as I said VAT (and as a matter of fact almost all french taxes) is *legally* up to 4 decimals; actually only 2 of them are used, but nothing's saying that tomorrow is won't be 3 or 4 really used (especially on those times where our gov morons (pleonasm) are desesperatly looking for money.) BTW, how do you truncate 19.99657? Down to 19.99 or up to 20.00? [WINDOWS-1252?] In my family's company a cent error is worth 100,000 fine... Other PB: most of results could be predictable (as of Nb of decimals), but some can't (ie: 92.95x1.196=111.1682 OR 145x1.196=173.42), maths says decimals should be dN1+dN2=5 but in these cases we only have 4 and 2 because of non-significant right zeroes, so you can't obviously truncate by adding the comma counting 5 from the right. One of the most used manner to get a selling price is to use a coefficient which has many decimals (usually a real), how do you determine where to put the comma in the resultant number?? I see the possibilities, but AFAIK this is a full processor to write based on a complex numbers model, not to mention error possibilities have a tremendous cataclysmic potential in a matter where tax administration will be more than happy to chop your head and piss on your brain (yeah, they're like that here: when they come it is not to search, it is to find; no matter if has real justification or not.) But may be I'm totally mistaking: I always have had PBs with simple things. JY -- God is real, unless declared integer. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to
Re: [Gambas-user] About financial program in Gambas
Just to add my two cents worth, This problem has been around for eons and it does not only apply to Gambas. When I was programming in Access and VB I had the same problem even using the currency type. I just use the Round function Value = Round ( Number [ , Digits ] ) And I use this return variable in my database. This is the only way to make sure that rounding is done right. I found that even with a currency data type it tended to truncate rather than round. By the way you should be able to insert into a stored procedure. I did so in Access. In MySql I found that it has the TRUNCATE() command so you can do this SELECT Truncate( ((YourNumber * 10^dp) + 0.5) / (10^dp) , dp ) *this will round correctly where dp is the number of dp that you need. You will have to check the sql manual to see what command is supported for your database. On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 16:13 -0500, nando wrote: For your info only... I always use INT or LONG for accounting and money. So, (here in Canada), $42.87 is 4287 I keep the tax (8%) as a float, therefore 8.25% is 8.25 This is ok for tax because rounding is needed. For example: 4287 * 8.25 = 35367.75 / 100 = 353.6775 add .5 for 5/4 round up down = 354.1775 Plase result into INT var which becomes 354 4287 + 354 = 4641 Using Float for taxes allows for many decimal places. Using 100 for /100 process allows for any currencies where you want more than 2 decimal places. For correct printing without rounding errors, do not do 4287/100. but rather take the STR$(4287), then split the right two off, and place a decimal in that place. Perfect math and exact calculations every single time!!! -Fernando -- Original Message --- From: Ricardo Díaz Martín oceanosoftlapa...@gmail.com To: mailing list for gambas users gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:46:40 + Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] About financial program in Gambas Jean, You can use numbers of decimal as you want. I you want 4 you only need to divide by 1000. The only you need to decide on before insert data. If you need to add more decimals in future you only have to modify a parameter in your app from 2 to 4 (functions that show from database/write to database currency values must read this values before show/write info) and update your database multiplying cur fields by 100 (to add two digit more of precision) You never need truncate any value if you always use this especial currency type. For example if you set decimals to 4, number 19.99657 is no possible. If you need to get selling prices using four decimal coefficient, define coefficient as a currency type and set your app to use 4 decimal for all currency values I hope this helps you 2009/12/16 Jean-Yves F. Barbier 12u...@gmail.com Ricardo Díaz Martín a écrit : Hi to all, I'm use gambas to write ERP applications. At the first, I got the same problem but I decided to use long integer to save currency values. First rigth two digits are always showed to users as decimal values. I'm rewrited all my apps from windows to gambas and they are working now with no problems in customers servers. I allways use a function to show values in controls in app's forms that convert database fields values showed in textboxes whose name started int dbcur (p.e. dbcurVAT) to value div 100 and works with no problems. I use allways the same function to write forms data to database and make the reverse proccess. Hooo, thanks for the ad. Its simple and works Sounds exactly like the commercial about women thin down cream we've got on tv for months (it works!) (sorry, I couldn't resist:) So you're truncating everything to 2 decimals, but as I said VAT (and as a matter of fact almost all french taxes) is *legally* up to 4 decimals; actually only 2 of them are used, but nothing's saying that tomorrow is won't be 3 or 4 really used (especially on those times where our gov morons (pleonasm) are desesperatly looking for money.) BTW, how do you truncate 19.99657? Down to 19.99 or up to 20.00? [WINDOWS-1252?] In my family's company a cent error is worth 100,000 fine... Other PB: most of results could be predictable (as of Nb of decimals), but some can't (ie: 92.95x1.196=111.1682 OR 145x1.196=173.42), maths says decimals should be dN1+dN2=5 but in these cases we only have 4 and 2 because of non-significant right zeroes, so you can't obviously truncate by adding the comma counting 5 from the right. One of the most used manner to get a selling price is to use a coefficient which has many decimals (usually a real), how do you determine where to put the comma in the resultant number?? I see the possibilities, but AFAIK this is a full processor to write based on a complex numbers model, not to mention error
