Beta Testers/SpeedBasic

Looking for beta testers for new basic language. No runtimes. Converts basic style lang to c++. Works with msvc6 and mingw compilers. Others coming soon.
Also looking for developers to continue work on VisualIde.

www.martinm.net/speedbasic.html

Any feedback, positive or negative would be great. Please email comments.
Thanks

A typo on the Setup.exe dialog: "Wite SpeedBasic.ini" (Write?)

After collapsing the "Designer_generated_code" section, if you add a control, the code added is not collapsed within the section.
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That's all for now.

R.a.B.B.i.T,

Thanks for the feedback.
I havent added the code for the Designer_generated_code to expand then collapse when needed. Ill eventually get to it, that is unless someone goes through the source and beats me to it.

Is that the only problems you had?
Also could you tell me what version of windows you are using. I have only XP and 2k and want to find out if it works on below 2k.

Thanks again.

Packetvb

Hi, can anyone tell me where i can get a copy of GCC ? i seem to be taken to FTP sites that have them bundled as .tar,gz files which i cannot open, aren't these linux tarballs ?

I would really like to try out your programming language as it looks good :)

try http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml
You can get release candidate 3.2. I think all my testing was done on 3.1.

thegreatone,
Did you get it working? Did you find mingw ok?
The lastest release on my web site is for Mingw4.1.0.

R.a.B.B.i.T,
Did you try it out anymore? What about the language structure itself?

Anyone else tried it?


Thanks

For those that couldnt get SpeedBasic to work with Win98,
The problems have been fixed.
support for compiling with Borland has also been added, partially.

packetvb

This is amazing....

Last time I tell people I want to create a IDE where the language is BASIC and it converts it to C++ or ASM. :\

I wish you good luck on this. :)

k1ll3rdr4g0n,

Thanks for the encouragement.
Just to let you know there is a problem with the Dir function not returning the correct information. Im working on it and will have it fixed in next release, hopefully.

Also looking for some coders to create some examples, especially using classes. Any takers?

Mr.SpeedBasic

I discovered SpeedBasic quite accidentally, downloaded it, executed all example programs, created and executed a test app using the Visual tool, and I must say, I'm very impressed. However, I'd like to have a little info so I can test it further. Is there any documentation available. Something simple would be acceptable. For example, a list of all supported BASIC commands and their syntax. Nothing fancy mind you. Just enough to allow proper testing. A list of the GUI controls and a very simple list of the properties that you support, etc.

Thanks... Gary.

gedumer,

Glad you like it. Havent had much time to continue the development of it. Thinking of OpenSourcing it.
As for the functions that are supported.
Since the code is converted to c++ then any c++ function should work provided you include the approriate headers.

For functions ive included in the project that are similiar to vb.

MsgBox(Prompt As String) As Integer
MsgBox(Prompt As String ,ButtonStyle AS UNIT) As Integer
MsgBox(Prompt As String ,ButtonStyle AS UNIT,Title As String) As Integer
CurDir() As String
ChDir(nDir As String)

Dir(DirectoryString As String,fileAttrib As DWORD) As String 'needs work.
Dir() As String

'Calling Dir() continues on to search for the next file with fileAttrib.


FileExist(somefile As String) As Boolean
Eof(fileNumber As Integer) As Boolean

Left(tempstr As String,pos As Integer) As String
Right(tempstr As String,pos As Integer) As String
Mid(tempstr As String,pos As Integer,pos As Integer) As String
Instr(startpos As Integer,tempstr As String,findstr As String) As Integer

InstrRev(startpos As Integer,tempstr As String,findstr As String) As Integer
Space(numspaces As Integer) As String
Len(tempstr As String) As Integer
LTrim(tempstr As String) As String
RTrim(tempstr As String) As String
Trim(tempstr As String) As String
UCase(tempstr As String) As String
LCase(tempstr As String) As String

'Split is a bit complicated. Look at the VisualIDE for use.
Split(&iline As String,*&stringPointer As String,seperatorStr As String) As Integer

Str(somenum As Long) As String
FloatToStr(somenum As Double) As String
Val(SomeStr As String) As Long
FloatToString(somenum As Double) As String
IntegerToString(somenum As Integer) As String
Replace(tempstr As String,targetchar As String,replacechar As String) As String
'inquotes ingnores anything inbetween a set of quotes.
ReplaceExceptInQuotes(tempstr As String,targetchar As String,replacechar As String) As String
FillString(numspaces As Integer,fillchar As String) As String

For Forms and Controls
They all have the following methods
Hide() - Forms only
Show() - Forms only
Top() As Integer
Left() As Integer
Height() As Integer
Width() As Integer

Top (pos As Integer)
Left (pos As Integer)
Height (len As Integer)
Width (len As Integer)

SelfHwnd() As HWND
ParentHwnd() As HWND

All Controls also have

FontBold(showBold As Boolean)
FontItalic(showItalic As Boolean)
FontUnderLine(showItalic As Boolean)
FontSize(fontSize As Integer)
FontName(fontNameString As String)

BorderStyle(bStyle As Integer) '0 or 1 i think hhe
BorderStyle() As Integer
Text() As String
Text(atext As String)
SetFocus()
Enable(Status As Boolean)
Enable() As Boolean
Visible() As Boolean
Visible(Status As Boolean)

The rest of the controls have different methods. It will take some time to go through each one and generate a list. There is the inc directory which if you know a bit of c++ you can determine what the methods are.
Ill get to generating a full list and adding it to the web page.
Hopefully Ill get the auto completion combobox in the ide working again.

Also Ive added support for declare statements for calling windows api or in dlls. Check the samples directory will give ya more info on other methods and the use of the declare statement until I get to the list.

Thanks

Oh yea,
If you using c++ function that take a char pointer like *char
or APIs that take String as Argument
youll want to inclose the String in the function CStr()
Dim ss As String
SomeFunction(CStr(ss))
If the function is filling a String then you want to make sure the String can hold the data by using the Space function.

Due to B++ becoming open source, this project will be stopped for the time until I can determine whether the B++ lang can be extended. B++ is alot more mature than my own project.
I will be working on converting the VisualIDE over to B++.


http://www.softpae.com/b%2B%2Bbuilder.html

But the B++ you have to pay for correct?
I just messed around with it, and it said I was using a demo version of B++.
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k1ll3rdr4g0n,
Looks like the bpp.exe in the bin directory is what inserts the nag screen into the exe's. I just downloaded the source and recompiled the bpp.exe and it removed the nag screen.

packetvb

I am interested in how you interpret the simple BASIC functions like INPUT and PRINT then convert them to C++
Are you going to Open Source it?