Changelog

• Updated base classes for HBasic object model
• New sheet editor dialog

• Existing C methods and C++ class definitions can now be integrated into HBasic much simpler than before. Therefore the libdesc program has been extended to handle classes in shared libraries.
• Added example of package to edit users and groups
  

• In previous versions it was possible to integrate new C++ functions only by creating new components. New in this release is an alpha version of functions I would like to call shared library integration. With this functions it is possible to call methods in existing shared libraries (/usr/lib/*.so) without creating any new C++ components. This should make it much easier to extend HBasic with functions implemented in this shared libraries.
  

• This version allows the developer to set up one or more New methods within a class body which will be called for class initialization when creating a new class object. The package_manager has been extended with a new detailed view of all packages.
  

• Dynamic binding used in combination with overloaded methods, variables of type Object and inheritance was a missing feature because the parser could only handle static binding before. Have a look at the examples about dynamic binding to get an idea what's possible now.
  

• It is now possible to define and call subroutines with the net compiler. Additionally the .NET compiler can handle class definitions and simple members of classes. See examples in code_examples/netcomp.
  

• Have a look at the example programs in folder code_examples/netcomp to see how loops can be used in the .NET compiler to create code for the DotGNU runtime engine.
  

• See the qtc_date.bas example program for a call to static method QDate.setCurrent() to read the current date. Previous versions could only call methods with a class instance like classvar.method( par ).
  

• Create instances of all types of Qt-classes and call all public Qt-methods (Widgets like buttons, labels... and unvisible like QString, QDate ...)
• Use Enum values from the Qt-Header files in your programs
• Have a look at the example programs in the code_examples/qtc folder
  

• Added new compiler which creates .NET code from HBasic sources. NET compiler is in early state but will be extended continously in the future.

• Load and edit C# sources in the HBasic IDE
• Compiling C# sources with a mouseclick on the Run button is as easy as executing HBasic programs. HBsic will start the cscc compiler from the DotGNU project and execute the compiled code with the ilrun interpreter.
• Create instances of .NET classes and call methods of this classes.
• Display information about .NET classes in package editor.

• This kind of error messages should give the user more information about the error than a simple popup message box and may include links to documentation pages that may help to solve the problem.
  

• Old definition of clicked event for button1 component: Sub button1_clicked()
• New optional version: Sub buttclick Handles button1.clicked()
  

• Growing number of images in documentation makes it useful to put docu pages into a separate package.
  

• New code completion feature for source code editor. See screenshots page for examples.
  

• Without this package you could only use simple types like integer, double or string as parameter when calling component methods in HBasic source code.
  

• New code folding feature for source code editor. Functions, classes and other structures may be reduced to a single line with a mouseclick. See screenshots page for examples.
  

• New features will normally be implemented for the HBasic interpreter first. This version of HBasic updates the compiler that creates standalone executables so that most of the program examples can also be compiled and executed as a standalone linux program.

• New automatic generation of database forms for one table.
• Extended report designer (+ some error corrections).

• New SQL statement designer to edit and start SQL statements
• New database forms to simply edit contents of database tables in GUI forms.

• Improved version of database query designer
• New alpha version of database report designer
• New alpha version of report design window

• Restructure project window for reports and images

• Database access through QT 3.0
• Inheritance in HBasic source classes
• Overloading in component methods and HBasic sub declarations
• Debugging allows setting breakpoints, executing single steps and viewing variable values in the debugger window or by moving the mouse over the variable name in the source window.
• New variable type variant for undeclared variables or Dim .. As variant
• New menu and toolbar editor with action model similar to QT
• Runtime exceptions and the try statement to catch them