Date

Module

What

ID

Description

Thanks to:

2019/12/31

--- thinBasic version 1.11.0.0 to 1.11.2.0  ---

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TBGL

Updated

Module updated to the latest version available on GitHub: https://github.com/ThinBASIC/thinBasic_TBGL

Petr Schreiber

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Oxygen

Updated

Oxygen module updated to the latest version available on GitHub: https://github.com/Charles-Pegge/OxygenBasic

Charles Pegge

Inno SetUp

Setup

thinBasic Setup application:

•compiled with Inno Setup Compiler version 6.0.2

Core

Compiler

thinBasic Core engine is now compiled using PB10.04

UPX

All thinBasic executables and modules are compressed with UPX 3.95

2019/12/29

thinAir

NEW

Right clicking inside editor after a sub/function/type definition jump, will allow to return to previous cursor position just before the jump

thinAir

NEW

Right clicking inside editor over a sub/function/type name will allow to jump directly to its definition

2019/12/28

MMF

NEW

<cMMF>.FileSeek property added

MMF

NEW

<cMMF>.MemoryPtr property added

MMF

NEW

<cMMF>.FileHandle property added

MMF

NEW

<cMMF>.FileSize property added

MMF

NEW

<cMMF>.FileName property added

MMF

NEW

<cMMF>.Status method added

MMF

NEW

<cMMF>.Close method added

MMF

NEW

<cMMF>.Open method added

MMF

NEW

<cMMF>.Create method added

MMF

NEW

Added cMMF class used to instantiate new MMF objcts

MMF

NEW

Added new module named MMF working on Memory Mapped Files

2019/12/27

File

NEW

FSO_DeleteByAge function added

File

NEW

FILE_GetAgeInDays function added

2019/11/19

Core

NEW

NewCom CLSID ...

2019/11/10

Core

NEW

Added Shell_CaptureOutput function

2019/09/26

AppConfig

NEW

<cAppConfig>.SetKey method added

AppConfig

NEW

<cAppConfig>.KeyExists method added

2019/09/13

UI

NEW

Loading dialog from resource file is now able to create the following visual controls: Listbox, Treeview, RichEdit

2019/09/10

UI

NEW

Added Listbox property GET/SET: <ListboxName>.Style

UI

NEW

Added Listbox property GET/SET: <ListboxName>.ExStyle

UI

NEW

Added Listbox property GET/SET: <ListboxName>.User

UI

NEW

Added Listbox property GET/SET: <ListboxName>.TextW

UI

NEW

Added Listbox property GET/SET: <ListboxName>.Text

UI

NEW

Added Listbox property GET/SET: <ListboxName>.H

UI

NEW

Added Listbox property GET/SET: <ListboxName>.W

UI

NEW

Added Listbox property GET/SET: <ListboxName>.Y

UI

NEW

Added Listbox property GET/SET: <ListboxName>.X

UI

NEW

Added Listbox property GET/SET: <ListboxName>.CW

UI

NEW

Added Listbox property GET/SET: <ListboxName>.CH

UI

NEW

Added Listbox property GET/SET: <ListboxName>.Colors

UI

NEW

Added Listbox property GET/SET: <ListboxName>.ForeColor

UI

NEW

Added Listbox property GET/SET: <ListboxName>.BackColor

UI

NEW

Added Listbox property GET/SET: <ListboxName>.Handle

UI

NEW

Added Listbox property GET/SET: <ListboxName>.Parent

UI

NEW

Added Listbox property GET/SET: <ListboxName>.Id

UI

NEW

Added Listbox property GET/SET: <ListboxName>.Name

2019/09/03

thinAir

NEW

Added a classical resource editor ResEdit under \Tools\ menu able to edit and save .RC files

UI

Improved

Dialog New ... improved to be able to load a full dialog window from a resource file with all its controls inside already created both as visual elements and programming objects

UI

NEW

Loading dialog from resource file is now able to create the following visual controls: Button, Textbox, Label, Listbox, Checkbox, Radiobutton, Frame

UI

NEW

Added Dialog loading from resource file (see #Resource) able loading forms

Core

NEW

Added #Resource directive

2019/08/26

File

Improved

FILE_Append  will now work with UTF-8 strings

Core

NEW

ChrToUTF8$ function added

Core

Improved

Save_File  will now work with UTF-8 strings

Core

Improved

Load_File  will now work with UTF-8 strings

File

Improved

FILE_Save  will now work with UTF-8 strings

File

Improved

FILE_Load  will now work with UTF-8 strings

File

Improved

FILE_Exists  will now work with UTF-8 strings

ADODB

Improved

<ADODB_Recordset>.CollectD(FieldName [, ShowTime]) improved. Added an optional value that will allow to return also Time part of a DateTime database field

ADODB

Improved

<ADODB_Recordset>.Fields(Name | lIndex).Value improved. In case of DateTime field, also the Time value will be returned and not only the date

UI

Improved

MENU SET TEXT ... statement will now work with UTF-8 strings

UI

Improved

MENU GET TEXT ... statement will now work with UTF-8 strings

UI

Improved

MENU ADD STRING ... statement will now work with UTF-8 strings

UI

Improved

MENU ADD POPUP ... statement will now work with UTF-8 strings

2019/08/25

UI

Improved

DIALOG NEW ... statement will now work with UTF-8 strings

UI

Improved

CONTROL_GetText function will now work with UTF-8 strings

UI

Improved

CONTROL GET TEXT ... statement will now work with UTF-8 strings

UI

Improved

CONTROL_SetText function will now work with UTF-8 strings

UI

Improved

CONTROL SET TEXT ... statement will now work with UTF-8 strings

UI

Improved

DIALOG GET TEXT ... statement will now work with UTF-8 strings

UI

Improved

DIALOG SET TEXT ... statement will now work with UTF-8 strings

2019/08/24

Core

Improved

ASC function will now work with ASCII and UTF-8 strings.

Core

NEW

CHRW$ function added.
While CHR$ function is used to return ASCII characters, CHRW$ is used to return UTF-8 characters
Useful for multi language UTF-8 strings where each character can be 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 bytes length.

2019/08/20

Core

NEW

Utf8ToChr$ function added

Console

NEW

Console_ReadCharsFromScreen function added

iNET

NEW

INET_DeleteUrlCacheEntry function added

2019/08/19

iNET

Improved

INET_URLGetString will now remove the file associated with the source name from the cache, if the file exists.

iNET

Improved

INET_UrlDownload will now remove the file associated with the source name from the cache, if the file exists.

Core

NEW

MIDW$ function added.
While Mid$ function is used to return a portion of a string in bytes, MIDW$ is used to return a portion of a string in characters.
Useful for multi language UTF-8 strings where each character can be 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 bytes length.

Core

NEW

RIGHTW$ function added.
While RIGHT$ function is used to return right most bytes from a string, RIGHTW$ is used to return right most characters from a string.
Useful for multi language UTF-8 strings where each character can be 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 bytes length.

Core

NEW

LEFTW$ function added.
While LEFT$ function is used to return left most bytes from a string, LEFTW$ is used to return left most characters from a string.
Useful for multi language UTF-8 strings where each character can be 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 bytes length.

Core

NEW

LENW function added.
While LEN function is used to calculate string length in bytes, LENW is used to return string length in characters.
Useful for multi language UTF-8 strings where each character can be 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 bytes length.

iNET

NEW

INET_Internet_SetOption function added

iNET

NEW

INET_Internet_QueryOption function added

2019/08/18

UI

NEW

<Textbox>.Text property now able to set/get UTF-8 strings

UI

NEW

<ButtonName>.Text property now able to set/get UTF-8 strings

thinAir

NEW

thinAir Notes (special comments starting with '[ in script source code) are now UTF-8 compatible

2019/08/16

UI

NEW

XPRINT_SetFont function added

UI

NEW

Canvas_SetFont function added

UI

NEW

Control Set Font ... function added

UI

NEW

Font_End function added

UI

NEW

Font_New function added

2019/08/14

thinAir

NEW

Added sub menu "Open explorer in Tool path ..." under menu /Tools/User Tools/.

2019/08/12

thinAir

NEW

thinDownload: a new thinAir tool under menu /Tools/User Tools/.

thinDownload will connect to thinBasic web site in order to determine the list  of thinBasic versions available for download. User can then choose what to do: just list to be informed or download a specific thinBasic version.

thinDownload is developed using thinBasic and is also available as thinBasic source code.

thinAir

NEW

thinClippy: a new thinAir tool under menu /Tools/User Tools/.

thinClippy will help users to find thinBasic syntax errors and avoid as much as possible syntax errors at runtime.

thinClippy is under development at: https://github.com/petrSchreiber/thinclippy

Petr Schreiber

2019/08/08

Core

NEW

Added a FreeBasic class called thinString that mimic thinBasic OLE32 BSTR strings. This class is in \thinBasic\Compilers\FreeBASIC\FreeBASIC-1.06.0\inc\thinBasic\thinStrings.bi

To use it just add the following line inside a FreeBasic piece of code:

#include Once "thinBasic/thinString.bi"

Class is still under development.

thinAir

NEW

Added Tools/User tools menu in order to load external tools interacting with thinAir script.

Configuration file is \thinBasic\thinAir\Tools\thinAir_Tools.ini

Every tool can have a menu name and a command line.

Command line can have some place holders like thinBasic path, thinAir path, current script full path name.

This will allow to add more and more interesting tools to thinAir

2019/07/30

thinAir

NEW

Added editor.style.margin.folding.highlightblock option in XML theme file allowing to enable/disable the highlight folding block when it is selected: block that contains the caret will be highlighted.

2019/07/28

UI

Improved

Canvas_BitmapSave now support the following image type: .png .jpg .jpeg .gif .bmp .tif

See example: \thinBasic\SampleScripts\UI\Canvas\Canvas_LoadImageToBitmap.tbasic

UI

Improved

Canvas_BitmapLoad now support the following image type: .png .jpg .jpeg .gif .bmp .tif

See example: \thinBasic\SampleScripts\UI\Canvas\Canvas_LoadImageToBitmap.tbasic

thinAir

NEW

thinAir now uses Scintilla code editor control version 4.2

Core

NEW

Switch function added

See example in \thinBasic\SampleScripts\General\Switch\

Core

NEW

Switch$ function added

See example in \thinBasic\SampleScripts\General\Switch\

2019/07/24

UI

NEW

Canvas_BitmapSaveImageFile function added

Petr Schreiber

UI

NEW

Canvas_BitmapLoadImageFile function added

Petr Schreiber

2019/07/16

OS

FIX

OS_GetCommand fixed when script or bundled executable contains spaces

xLeaves

2019/07/05

Core

NEW

Crt_CAlloc function added

Core

NEW

Crt_MAlloc function added

Core

NEW

Crt_ReAlloc function added

Core

NEW

Crt_Free function added

2019/07/02

Core

NEW

Global_ReAlloc function added

Core

NEW

Global_Free function added

Core

NEW

Global_Alloc function added

2019/06/24

Core

NEW

thinBasic Core engine will generate a thinBasic classical runtime error in case of errors during FreeBASIC compilation

2019/06/15

Core

FIX

Runtime error didn't show any error description when script is executed from Bundled exe.

2019/06/12

Core

NEW

FreeBasic errors during compile step will now report absolute line number inside ThinBASIC script allowing thinAir to position cursor at exact script line where error occurs

Core

NEW

Compiled_LastCompile_Output function added.
Will return a string containing output from FreeBASIC compilation

Core

NEW

Compiled_LastCompile_Result function added.
Will return a LONG number:

0 means no errors

any other value means error.

2019/06/01

thinAir

NEW

F1 help key while cursor inside #Compiled ... #EndCompiled block will try to open  FreeBASIChelp manual

Core

NEW

Compiled_DLL_FileName function added. This function will return the name of the DLL that will contain compiled FreeBASIC code.

Core

NEW

#Compiled ... #EndCompiled block will be used to define what code is FreeBASIC and will be automatically compiled upon script execution into a DLL

2019/05/30

Core

NEW

FROM THIS VERSION ThinBASIC will install a complete FreeBASIC distribution, in order to allow ThinBASIC to use this separate application to create DLLs, which can be directly used from ThinBASIC interpreted code.

FreeBASIC - A multi-platform BASIC Compiler

Copyright (C) 2004-2019 The FreeBASIC development team.

FreeBASIC is distributed under GNU GPLv2+ license.

thinBasic distribute FreeBASIC under the following circumstance:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLInProprietarySystem

FreeBASIC in installed into the following directory:

\thinBasic\FBCompiler\FreeBASIC-1.06.0\

2019/05/28

UI

NEW

Canvas_BitmapSet_ByPtr function added

UI

NEW

Canvas_BitmapSet_ByRef function added

Core

FIX

VarPtr was not working for dynamic numeric arrays inside UDTs.

It was returning memory position inside the UDT Instead of returning array data pointer

2019/05/27

thinAir

NEW

Pressing SHIFT + ENTER keys on a line starting with the following starting structure:

Function ...

Sub ...

Type ...

For ...

If ...

#Region

While ...

will insert the corresponding closing structure:

End Function

End Sub

End Type

Next

End If

#EndRegion

Wend

To be able to know starting/ending structures, thinAir uses 2 Configuration files. They are is located in \thinBasic\thinAir\Syntax\thinBasic\ path.

Files are:
 

•thinBasic_StartEnd_AutoClose.ini
distributed with thinBasic and alays replaced at every thinBasic install
 

•thinBasic_StartEnd_AutoClose_Usr.ini
User defined file. Never replaced by thinBasic installation. Can be used to personalize blocks