thinBasic Help Manual

Date

Module

What

ID

Description

Thanks to:

2025/01/06

--- thinBasic version 1.14.0  ---

TBGL

Updated

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

Petr Schreiber

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 6.2.2

Core

Compiler

thinBasic Core engine is now compiled using PB10.04

UPX

All thinBasic executables and DLLs modules are compressed using UPX 4.2.4 64bit

Scintilla

thinAir

Scintilla editor control updated to Scintilla 4.4.6.0: https://www.scintilla.org/

thinBasic version 1.14.0

2025/01/02

Core

NEW

Added ARRAY TRANSPOSE Array

Core

NEW

Added ARRAY COPY Array1, Array2

Can copy single or mufti dimensioned string or numeric arrays.

Can copy string to number or number to string arrays making necessary conversions.

Tested with up to 10 millions LONG array takes less than 0.5 second

2024/12/28

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid GET property:: <MLGridName>.Sheet(n).ID

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid method: <MLGridName>.Sheet(n).GetRight

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid method: <MLGridName>.Sheet(n).GetLeft

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid method: <MLGridName>.Sheet(n1).Swap(n2)

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid GET/SET property: <MLGridName>.Col(n).Width

2024/12/27

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid GET/SET property: <MLGridName>.Sheet(n).Name

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid GET property: <MLGridName>.Sheets.Count

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid method: <MLGridName>.Sheet(n).Select

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid method: <MLGridName>.Sheets.Add(sName [, nRows [, nCols]])

2024/12/26

thinDebug

NEW

thinDebug: added menu option to enable/disable automatic calculation of dynamic string arrays total data size.

By default it is disabled in order to speed debug execution.

It can be enabled but it can slow down debug execution when big dynamic string arrays are present.

thinDebug

FIX

thinDebug: dynamic string array/matrix total memory size non correctly calculated

Core

Improved

PARSE can now handle more than one array or matrix when dealing with rows and columns delimiters. Single or multiple data columns can be extracted in single array or matrix. Some columns can be ignored. More columns can be grouped into a matrix using array span.

2024/12/23

Core

Improved

PARSE can now handle numeric matrix output when using rows and columns delimiters

Before only string matrix were allowed.

2024/12/18

UI

NEW

Added <ControlNme>.Class read only property

2024/12/13

thinAir

NEW

Added Control Spy versions 5 and 6 in thinAir\Tools\User Tools menu

 
Control Spy is a tool to help developers understand common controls, the application of styles to them, and their response to messages and notifications. With Control Spy, you can see instantly how different styles affect the behavior and appearance of each control, and also how you can change the state of each control by sending messages.

Two versions of Control Spy are available, one for Comctl32.dll version 5.x and one for Comctl32.dll version 6.0 and later. ControlSpyV6.exe has an application manifest built in so that it uses the newer, themed controls, whereas ControlSpyV5.exe does not and therefore defaults to the older version.

2024/12/10

thinAir

Improved

Improved thinAir speed during application opening when more than 4 script file was opened

thinAir

Improved

Improved thinAir speed during application closing when more than 4 script file was opened

2024/12/02

Core

NEW

System.Monitor.Primary added

UI

Improved

Alternate syntax for MENU NEW POPUP

UI

Improved

Alternate syntax for MENU NEW BAR

UI

NEW

Added <dialogName>.Add.Menu ... method

2024/11/30

UI

NEW

Added <dialogName>.Add.WebBrowser ... method

UI

NEW

Added <dialogName>.Add.Treeview ... method

UI

NEW

Added <dialogName>.Add.Trackbar ... method

UI

NEW

Added <dialogName>.Add.Statusbar ... method

UI

NEW

Added <dialogName>.Add.Richedit ... method

UI

NEW

Added <dialogName>.Add.Progressbar ... method

UI

NEW

Added <dialogName>.Add.Option ... method

UI

NEW

Added <dialogName>.Add.Listview ... method

UI

NEW

Added <dialogName>.Add.Listbox ... method

UI

NEW

Added <dialogName>.Add.Frame ... method

UI

NEW

Added <dialogName>.Add.Combobox ... method

UI

NEW

Added <dialogName>.Add.Checkbox ... method

UI

NEW

Added <dialogName>.Add.MlGrid ... method

UI

NEW

Added <dialogName>.Add.Textbox ... method

UI

NEW

Added <dialogName>.Add.Button ... method

UI

NEW

Added <dialogName>.Add.Label ... method

UI

NEW

Added <dialogName>.Add. ... method to allow adding form controls directly from a form object. This syntax is equivalent to CONTROL ADD ... syntax but without the need to indicate control parent window handle because form object already knows its handle.

2024/11/28

UI

NEW

Added <controlname>.Font(FontName [, Points, Style, Charset, Pitch])

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid property method: <MLGridName>.Cols.Width

2024/11/21

OS

Improved

OS module recompiled under a new compiler version

OS

NEW

Shell_OpenFolderAndSelect function added

2024/10/21

HTTP

NEW

cHTTP_Client class object added

HTTP

NEW

New HTTP module provides methods and properties that establish an HTTP/HTTPS connection between files or objects on different Web servers. Ideal for calling REST API

2024/10/16

Console

Improved

WaitKey parsing improved.

Some source code writing could bring to script a runtime error. Valid syntax:

  WaitKey
  WaitKey 0
  WaitKey 0, "Test" In %CCOLOR_BCYAN
  WaitKey (0)
  WaitKey(0, "Press a key to continue")
  WaitKey 0, "Press a key to continue"
  WaitKey "Press a key to continue" In %CCOLOR_FGREEN
  WaitKey 3, "Wait 3 secs or press a key to continue"

2024/10/07

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid method: <MLGridName>.Get

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid method: <MLGridName>.Put

2024/09/24

LibXL

NEW

LibXL_Book_Load_FromBuffer function added

LibXL

NEW

LibXL_Book_Save_ToBuffer function added

File

Improved

Added %FILE_SAVE_BINARY encoding to File_Save function

File

FIX

Fixed File_Save when no encoding. It was using ansi encoding event when no encoding was passed

File

NEW

File_Save_Binary function added

2024/09/11

LibXL

NEW

Libxl_Book_ErrorMessage function added

UI

NEW

MLGrid_FormatColEdit function added

2024/09/03

thinAir

FIX

Fixed thinAir If/End If false code block error when If was immediately followed by an open parentheses

paravantis

Improved

Improved Manifest files for all thinBasic executable and Bundled Exe produced with thinBundle.

2024/09/02

thinAir

FIX

thinAir Code Browser treeview selection not changing current source code line when tree node was already selected.

thinAir

Improved

Find dialog now stores searched text as last searched text allowing Find Next command (F3) to work properly.

thinAir

NEW

CTRL + F1 can now be used to show context sensitive menu, usually visible with mouse right + click

2024/09/01

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid property GET/SET: <MLGridName>.Headers.BackColor

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid method: <MLGridName>.Headers.Redraw

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid method GET/SET: <MLGridName>.Redim

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid method: <MLGridName>.Redraw

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid property GET/SET: <MLGridName>.Style

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid property GET/SET: <MLGridName>.ExStyle

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid property GET/SET: <MLGridName>.User

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid property GET/SET: <MLGridName>.TextW

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid property GET/SET: <MLGridName>.Text

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid method: <MLGridName>.Anchor

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid property GET/SET: <MLGridName>.H

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid property GET/SET: <MLGridName>.W

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid property GET/SET: <MLGridName>.Y

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid property GET/SET: <MLGridName>.X

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid property GET/SET: <MLGridName>.CW

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid property GET/SET: <MLGridName>.CH

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid property GET/SET: <MLGridName>.Colors

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid property GET/SET: <MLGridName>.ForeColor

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid property GET/SET: <MLGridName>.BackColor

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid property GET/SET: <MLGridName>.Handle

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid property GET/SET: <MLGridName>.Parent

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid property GET/SET: <MLGridName>.Id

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid property GET/SET: <MLGridName>.Name

UI

NEW

Added MLGrid named control

2024/08/28

Core

Improved

Run-time Error Window has now a Time-Stamp info

UI

NEW

<DialogName>.ShowModeless method added

UI

NEW

<DialogName>.ShowModal method added

Console

FIX

Console_ReadLine was adding an additional line on screen. Removed this behavior.

paravantis

2024/08/27

Core

Improved

Static elements inside an UDT can have a default value.

Example, SX is assigned value 10:

Type tTest
  Static SX as Long = 10
          X as Long
          Y as long  
End Type

Trying to assign a value to NON static elements will generate a run time error.

To assign a default value to UDT elements can be achieve adding UDT constructor using _Create() function in the following way:

Type tTest
  X as Long
  Y as long
 
  function _Create()
     me.x = 10
     me.y = 20
  End Function
  
End Type

Dim a as tTest

When a  new variable of type tType will be created, constructor function will be automatically executed:

Petr Schreiber

2024/08/26

Core

Improved

String arrays with no declared number of elements will automatically dimensioned when initialized with default data.

For example, the following array will have 3 elements:

dim S() as String = "A","B","C"

paravantis

Core

Improved

Numeric arrays with no declared dimension will automatically dimensioned when initialized with default data.

For example, the following array will have 8 elements:

dim N() as double =
                     0.508210507 ,2.271638259 ,0.76078255 ,0.957525991,
                     -2.387695394,0.795957904,0.693785993,-1.188321733

paravantis

2024/08/19

UI

NEW

MLGrid_Set_Focus function added

2024/08/18

UI

NEW

LibXL_Sheet_ReadNum function added

2024/08/16

UI

NEW

MLGrid_Sum_Range function added

UI

NEW

MLGrid_Get_Col_Count function added

UI

NEW

MLGrid_Get_Row_Count function added

UI

NEW

MLGrid_Sheet_Tab_Color function added

UI

Improved

MLGrid_SetGridColors added highlight color option

2024/08/13

UI

NEW

MLGrid_Sheet_Delete function added

UI

NEW

MLGrid_RedrawHeaders function added

UI

NEW

MLGrid_FreezeCol function added

UI

NEW

MLGrid_FormatColText function added

UI

NEW

MLGrid_FormatColNumber function added

2024/08/09

thinAir

FIX

Added standard File Open Dialog in "File\Open" Menu and Toolbar under CTRL+O accelerator in order to help blind disabled people to use standard dialogs they are used.

Moved under "File\Open Recent" menu with CTRL+1 accelerator and Toolbar new Open Recent html/css/js File Dialog

CodingBlind

2024/07/29

Core

Improved

Now new format 31: YYYYMM

Core

Improved

Date$ new format 31: YYYYMM

2024/06/26

UI

FIX

Combobox Add ...  adding data from string array sometimes had problems

KF4GHG

UI

FIX

Control Add Combobox ... adding data from string array sometimes had problems

KF4GHG

UI

FIX

Listbox Add ...  adding data from string array sometimes had problems

KF4GHG

UI

FIX

Control Add Listbox ... adding data from string array sometimes had problems

KF4GHG

2024/06/24

File

Improved

Dir_ListArray can now have multiple source paths where to search for files