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#21

Add-ins / Re: Export C source as HTML, P...

Last post by John Z - January 15, 2026, 12:26:58 PM

Looking for some information on creating PDF files I found an old add-in project created by multiple authors Pelle, Timo, and Robert, way back in 2005 for Pelles C version 3 (I think), then updated and added RTF by Timo in 2013.  https://forum.pellesc.de/index.php?topic=471.15

Of course it no longer worked with the newer version of Pelle C version 13.00.9 - Soooo I've minimally hacked it to get it functional for the current version.  While it will now work with plain text, UTF-8, and UTF-16 source pages it will only accurately produce output if the text code point is within the ANSI space.  This is OK for source code but some comments won't be displayed correctly when non-ANSI characters are used.  Could be fixed too but not sure it would be worth the effort.

Project ZIP include everything for a 64 bit version.

John Z

#22

Beginner questions / Small C Programs to Learn From

Last post by jos - January 15, 2026, 08:58:58 AM

Not sure if this is the right place to put this? But here are some nice simple C programs to learn from?

https://codegnan.com/c-programming-projects/

#23

Announcements / Re: New Year, new URL

Last post by TimoVJL - January 14, 2026, 09:33:45 PM

Multitarget project file would be nice feature 

#24

Announcements / Re: New Year, new URL

Last post by bitcoin - January 14, 2026, 05:28:04 PM

Hello, Pelle
How about creating some kind of library to simplify GUI application development? It's no secret that things are pretty bad in this area on Windows right now. C++ Builder was ideal, but it either died or became too complex. Qt is a heavy monster, and it's for C++ anyway. There's really nothing else. What if we made something like that for C?

#25

Announcements / Re: New Year, new URL

Last post by Robert - January 13, 2026, 09:11:31 PM

I don't think they're the ones you should lean on, but rather those who still program the basic language C.

Sure. The question is what this means in practice.

C on Windows in 2026+ will mainly be hobbyists (certainly for this project), where the latest and greatest isn't that important.
At my first real programming job in ~1985 I could have gone the Unix route (probably), but it wasn't much of an option back then... and 40+ years later it's still not an option...
After Windows and Unix there are roughly zero desktop operating-systems to choose from...

Microsoft have managed to mess up Windows quite a bit in recent years, focusing on irrelevant things (for enough people to matter), so it's not an obvious choice - except there are few other options. Now that I'm almost finished with ARM64 (still a potential flop), it's not clear what I should do. Write more examples? Not that exiting to be honest...

I'm not an innovator, and right now I can't find much inspiration anywhere...

Hi Pelle:

Thank you for your continuing amazing work !

Bored ? Nothing to do ? SWAR and AVX512 may offer some entertainment.

Check out Wojciech Muła's work. A good place to start is

http://0x80.pl/notesen/2016-09-17-avx512-foundation-base64.html

Lots of code at GitHub at

https://github.com/WojciechMula

Collection of Toys at

https://github.com/WojciechMula/toys

Thanks again for providing all of us tinkers with your tool for toys.

#26

Tips & tricks / Modeless Dialog Box test

Last post by TimoVJL - January 13, 2026, 12:45:08 PM

Minimal DialogBox with statusbar and special keyboad handling.

#27

Announcements / Re: New Year, new URL

Last post by John Z - January 12, 2026, 11:21:08 PM

How about instead of creating something totally new, which probably would need a huge effort to promote, add RUST.  I know absolutely nothing about it other than I read M$S will transition a lot of the baseline C to RUST starting this year.  Google is doing similarly,  even Linux is getting some RUST code now, although Linus is moving carefully and slowly.  Seems like RUST has wheels for the future.

I agree C will be here a long time, heck look at COBOL still kicking the bits and projected to still be doing so in the visible future.  But changes to 'pure' C itself will diminish.

Just 2¢ and the USA has stopped making pennies. 

John Z

#28

Assembly discussions / Re: Syslink demo

Last post by Vortex - January 12, 2026, 07:54:57 PM

Fixed the inconsistent background color of Syslink.

#29

Announcements / Re: New Year, new URL

Last post by alderman2 - January 12, 2026, 06:05:10 PM

I don't think they're the ones you should lean on, but rather those who still program the basic language C.

Sure. The question is what this means in practice.

C on Windows in 2026+ will mainly be hobbyists (certainly for this project), where the latest and greatest isn't that important.
At my first real programming job in ~1985 I could have gone the Unix route (probably), but it wasn't much of an option back then... and 40+ years later it's still not an option...
After Windows and Unix there are roughly zero desktop operating-systems to choose from...

Microsoft have managed to mess up Windows quite a bit in recent years, focusing on irrelevant things (for enough people to matter), so it's not an obvious choice - except there are few other options. Now that I'm almost finished with ARM64 (still a potential flop), it's not clear what I should do. Write more examples? Not that exiting to be honest...

I'm not an innovator, and right now I can't find much inspiration anywhere...

Why not create a new programming language?
I've started it but it only got to a lib. My knowledge isn't enough to get any further. But I've had great use out of my lib for years. I almost only use it when I program.

#30

Announcements / Re: New Year, new URL

Last post by Cbeginner - January 12, 2026, 03:35:14 PM

 

Glad Pelles C is alive and well