twinBASIC Programming Features documentation

[VB6 Programming]

Documentation of new features that twinBASIC brings, including Attributes, Language Syntax, Project Configuration, Standard Library Enhancements, GUI Components, and Design Experience and Compiler Features.


github.com/twinbasic/documentation/wiki/twinBASIC-Features

[yereverluvinuncleber]

Very good, very useful.

[fafalone]

I really need to get on finishing that... everything is listed (that I know of, I just found another new feature left off the list last week after starting that like 6mo ago-- binary literals, &B010101)... but down by the bottom it's still just the list without lengthier explanation.

If anyone wants to write the sections on generics and Implements Via, those are incomplete because I don't really understand the syntax and usage enough to write a good explanation and I've been hoping someone else would at least pick those two up. If you do you can send it to me to post; I have write access.

[VB6 Programming]

Fafalone has updated the twinBASIC Features wiki, including a section on Modern IDE features.

github.com/twinbasic/documentation/wiki/twinBASIC-Features

[VB6 Programming]

Fafalone has updated the twinBASIC Features wiki, to include an example of simple inheritance using Implements Via

https://github.com/twinbasic/documen...-to-implements

[yereverluvinuncleber]

I've read the documentation several times now and each time I become increasingly excited about the prospects of TwinB as a replacement for VB6. Looking forward to using it in anger.

[VB6 Programming]

Fafalone has added sections to the new features list on array destructuring, enumid for guids, and an example of generics.

github.com/twinbasic/documentation/wiki/twinBASIC-Features

[VB6 Programming]

Fafalone has updated the twinBASIC Features wiki. There are now 424 new features!

github.com/twinbasic/documentation/wiki/twinBASIC-Features

[wqweto]

Fafalone has updated the twinBASIC Features wiki. There are now 424 new featues!

github.com/twinbasic/documentation/wiki/twinBASIC-Features

This reads fantastic, all these are not just like features of VB7 but something out of VB8 and beyond! :-))

Btw, this topic could be split up into several sub-pages. Currently it starts with hot advanced topics du jour and laters returns to more basic ones which is anti-climatic and counterintuitive somehow IMO.

cheers,
</wqw>

[fafalone]

It absolutely feels like that to be sure, but the '424' is referring to the new features introduced by Beta 424, the first release after the dark days of the 2 month refactor

[fafalone]

This is reads fantastic, all these are not just like features of VB7 but something out of VB8 and beyond! :-))

Btw, this topic could be split up into several sub-pages. Currently it starts with hot advanced topics du jour and laters returns to more basic ones which is anti-climatic and counterintuitive somehow IMO.

cheers,
</wqw>

The sort order I was going for was to list the big-ticket items first in each section, the things that are a huge deal. Binary literals and /* */ comments are nice, but they're not the headliners that make people think "omg I've got to get tB NOW!" like 64bit, multithreading, etc.

[dday9]

Keep in mind that I do not do any twinBasic development, but I think the reasoning behind Microsoft's XML documentation and Java's JavaDoc documentation is two-fold:

1. Using attributes (aka decorators) could lead to a potential code conflict
2. Using comments means that the documentation would not be compiled

I would suggest considering these points if that's in fact what you're trying to build here, of course I could be completely misunderstanding what you're trying to do.

[VB6 Programming]

Fafalone has updated the twinBASIC Features wiki.

github.com/twinbasic/documentation/wiki/twinBASIC-Features

[AAraya]

Does tB's IDE provide a menu editor where I can assign keyboard shortcuts for menu items? For example, I want to assign CTRL-S to a Save menu item. I'm not seeing it.

[yereverluvinuncleber]

AAraya, this thread is about documentation for TB, open your own thread for a new and distinct issue.