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You are running into problems because 2**64 is larger than the largest integer value that BR can represent. This then goes into scientific notation and the least signifigant digits get lost which is why the -1 essentially does nothing to the number.

We are using 4.2 in development of the new version of our software.

Keep in mind that clauses are not quite that simple though. For instance an 'if...then' statement is comprised of 2 clauses even though it is one line. To see where the clauses are in your code you can use the "list clause" command which will proceed each clause with a single quote. I beli...

Never mind, I figured it out. I was doing an rinput with a nowait to get the details of the changes to the grid, which switched the tab back.

Is anyone else having problems switching off a tab that just has a grid on it? The curtab(mytab) function does not seem to update to the next tab like it does off a regular input, so while BR might automatically switch to the next tab, my program looks at the curtab and does an input back to the gri...

I am not sure if this works for NWP, but normal picture caching can be turned off with the config command:
picture cache_off

The only times I have a redraw problem is when the console window is open. We use a background image with transparency at our main menu and haven't had a problem in 4.17, 4.18 or 4.20

Try a .png instead of a gif. I know that the transparency works for sure on the main window with a png; I haven't tried it on a child window.

Using a blank string appears to return the first day of the current month; I set my date ahead 1 month and it returned November 1 as the result.
This is new and interesting behavior.

Kevin Klappstein
Western Canadian Software

The problem is almost always duplicate line numbers or line numbers out of order. If you are using line numbers in your editing, MyEditBR will give warnings (not errors) about both of these. If you aren't using Line Numbers and are automatically generating line numbers, then there is probably an err...