Introducing PowerBASIC 8.03 for Windows

Welcome to PB/Win™, our most advanced PowerBASIC compiler designed specifically for Windows™ GUI programming.

Our favorite slogan is "We put the Power in BASIC", and we sincerely believe you will find this to be true. With compilation speeds of 1 million lines per minute, unrivaled performance, and the smallest executables in the industry, PowerBASIC has become the new standard of comparison in Windows programming. Thank you for joining us in the War on Bloatware!

Features

• Fast and Small 32-bit EXEs for Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP

• 32-bit protected mode code generation for maximum performance

• COM automation: Create COM controller applications to control COM server applications and DLLs

• A complete graphics package for easy development of graphic presentations, splash screens and more.

• Support for Windows only printers with the XPRINT statement and functions

• Supports existing Line Printers, with PowerBASIC LPRINT statements and functions

• A complete set of advanced string manipulation functions: VERIFY, REMOVE, REPLACE, EXTRACT, TALLY, REPEAT, PARSE, and many more

• REGEXPR and REGREPL functions for regular expression search and replace

• Array Sort and Scan, element Insert and Delete

• MIN and MAX value Functions that work with both numeric and string data types

• PEEK, POKE, PEEK$, POKE$ for direct memory access

• Pointers  and Indexed Pointers for direct memory access

• Matrix operations: Init, Identity, Transposition, Inversion, scalar, and matrix math

• 80-bit Extended-precision math

• Register Variables for increased performance: up to six unique register variables: integer-class (2) or floating-point (4)

• Unsigned Integer types: BYTE (8-bit), WORD (16-bit) and DWORD (32-bit)

• Signed Integer types: INTEGER (16-bit), LONG (32-bit) and QUAD (64-bit)

• Two Currency variable types

• Native ASCIIZ (Nul-terminated) strings

• User-Defined TYPEs and UNIONs

• FIELD variables for file I/O.

• Variant, GUID, and Object variables

• Use of all available memory (up to 2 Gb) for arrays and dynamic strings

• Optional parameters in BASIC Subs and Functions

• Optional parameter passing to CDECL and SDECL procedures

• Optional requirement that variables be declared before use

• Built-in 32-bit Inline Assembler with 80486 and Pentium opcodes

• Inline Assembler includes Floating-Point and MMX instructions

• Direct export of Subs and Functions

• Import Subs and Functions from the entire Win32 or any 32-bit DLL

• Multi-thread application support: Create, Suspend, Resume, Status, and Close

• Client/Server Network Communications - TCP/UDP for E-mail, FTP, etc.

• High-speed Serial Communications support

• True 32-bit code pointers, great for callbacks

• Easy to use syntax highlighting Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and debugger

See Also

What is PowerBASIC For Windows?

What can PowerBASIC For Windows do?

The Integrated Development Environment