Glad you've had some successes. What you may not realize is that there are dozens of versions of BASIC targeting many different processing platforms, and many different versions even for the same platform. I can name a half dozen versions for PIC alone, not to mention a few for Android, and several for Windows. Saying you use BASIC is a little like saying you speak human.

You are currently posting on a forum dedicated to only one of those flavors - apparently not the one you are using. A major advantage of this particular version of BASIC is a large group of users that help each other, as you are discovering. Many of the other versions also have helpful communities if you can find them. Unfortunately, other than very general things, you are not likely to get much specific help for your environment from the folks here. But welcome - there are lots of great ideas here, even if there won't be specific help. And who knows... you might even find a reason to "convert" :-)