There are userlibs which allow you to grab the window handle in Blitz3D and do all sorts of things with it. Check the Code Archives.
Mark sweated over breaking Blitz into two products back when he introduced BlitzPlus. He finally decided to place Blitz3D squarely as a game development language and BlitzPlus as a language for creating Windows applications. I don't think he meant it to be an evil money-grabbing scheme; he just wanted to test a new way of doing things without make a HUGE change to his flagship product. He's careful that way, which prevents Blitz from having ten thousand bugs.
The IDE has long been a complaint, which is why there are several people who have switched to a new one or even written their own. There are Blitz config files floating around for several freeware/shareware IDEs.
Mark sweated over breaking Blitz into two products back when he introduced BlitzPlus. He finally decided to place Blitz3D squarely as a game development language and BlitzPlus as a language for creating Windows applications. I don't think he meant it to be an evil money-grabbing scheme; he just wanted to test a new way of doing things without make a HUGE change to his flagship product. He's careful that way, which prevents Blitz from having ten thousand bugs.
The IDE has long been a complaint, which is why there are several people who have switched to a new one or even written their own. There are Blitz config files floating around for several freeware/shareware IDEs.