iziBasic - stands for easy Basic for Palm. It targets all kinds of developers and should be a very good tool for newbee programmers. Skilled programmers will also find in iziBasic a tool to develop very quickly and easily various types of software.
iziBasic is a high level development compiler which builds Stand-alone applications. The great thing is that it does all of that directly on-board of your Palm OS based device.
Source codes are easily written using:
- either the Memo Pad application which is shipped with all Palm OS devices,
- or an on-board third party DOC editor of your choice.
As its name also states it, iziBasic uses the BASIC high level and very easy to learn development language, a customized subset of it to be
precise. You will discover how easy and quick it is to develop software with iziBasic when the more common development tools available on the Palm OS platform usually require pretty good development skills.
What's New in This Release:
· Bug fix: exponentiation (^) and the POWER() function would return wrong results with negative numbers. For instance, (-5)^3 and POWER(-5,3) returned 4 instead of -125.
· Bug fix: starting a variable assignment by the negation of a variable results in a compilation error, for example in the following syntax: A=-C
· Bug fix: a Number Stack Overflow occurred when reaching the last value in this stack.
· Bug fix: if there was only one choice in a LISTCHOICE statement, the iziBasic runtime would show a [YES]/[NO] selection window instead of no selection window at all.
· Bug fix: initial selected numerical index value in the LISTCHOICE and POPUPCHOICE statements when the selection list was pointing on the A$() array.
· The compiler now detects when a THEN is forgotten in a IF statement.
· GPRINT now manages Black & White screen (for those of you who are still targeting "antic" devices!)
· SAVEPREF now deletes the unused preference when the passed argument is an empty string. Since LOADSTRING will return the same empty string upon loading an existing empty preference or a non existing preference, this way of doing saves room in the Saved Preferences database.
· iziBasic now memorizes the parameters passed in the FINDFIRST$() function, so they are not needed anymore in the FINDNEXT$() function which was revised to the simple FINDNEXT$ format.
· Added InfraRed and Serial communications management with new statements: OPEN IR and OPEN COM. Files statements (CLOSE #, PRINT # and INPUT #) were upgraded to work with InfraRed and Serial communications.
· Added statements to manage Network communications with a new statement: OPEN NET. Related MegaString files statements (CLOSE #, PRINT$$ # and INPUT$$ #) were upgraded to work with Network communication.
· Added a new HTTPGET$$ statement, to deal with reading HTTP web pages.
· Added the ADDSTRING$$ statement to easily concatenate strings in the MegaString.
· Added a new RUN$$ statement to pass structured data to the called program, when the RUN statement would only allow passing a standard ended CHR$(0) string.
· Added Palm's 5 Way Navigation detection, new events values are returned by the DOEVENTS and WAITEVENT statements.
· Added management of scroll / caret position in fields thanks to 2 new statements: FIELDSCROLL and FIELDPOS.
· Added a new LABEL$() function to retrieve an object's label.
· Added Palm's 320x480 screen mode detection and management. The DOEVENTS and WAITEVENT statements return a new event value upon screen mode change, and the SETRES statement and HIGHRES() function were extended to manage this new screen mode.
· Corrected a bad s|t parameter explanation to the right one being c|t in the user manual for PUTCHAR$$ and PUTSTRING$$.
· Updated the NekoCat sample application so as to be able to move the cat's food using Palm's 5 Way Nav and to benefit from the 320x480 screen mode.
· Updated the iBPlot sample application to benefit from the 320x480 screen mode.
· Added 2 new sample applications: iBIrHello (showing how to exchange data between two devices by InfraRed) and iBHttpGet (showing how to retrieve a web page).
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Supported operating systems:
Palm OS 3.x, Palm OS 4.x, Palm OS 5.x
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