HotBasic™ is a new basic compiler with CONSOLE, CGI, GUI, DLL and OBJ application types.

Compiler Getting Started
Documentation
Switches
Error Levels and Run-Time Errors
Directives $APPTYPE $DEFINE $DUPARGERR $ELSE $ENDIF $EQUALPREC $ESCAPECHARS $GUIOBJ $IFDEF $IFNDEF $INCLUDE $MACRO OFF ON $OPTIMIZE $OPTION $RESOURCE $SYMBOLTABLE $TYPECHECK $UNDEF $UPPERCASE $XPSTYLE

Statements Variables and Types BITMAP BUTTON BYTE CANVAS CHECKBOX COLORDIALOG COMBOBOX COMPORT DATE DATETIME DOUBLE DWORD EDIT FILE FILELISTBOX FINDDIALOG FONT FONTDIALOG FORM FUNCTION GAUGE GRID GROUPBOX HEADER IMAGE INT64 INTEGER LABEL LIST LISTBOX LISTVIEW LONG MAINMENU MEMORY MENUITEM OPENDIALOG PAGEDIALOG PANEL POPUPMENU PRINTDIALOG RADIOBUTTON REAL10 RECT REGISTRY REPLACEDIALOG RICHEDIT RICHEDIT2 SAVEDIALOG SCROLLBAR SHORT SINGLE SOCKET SPLASH SQLDATA SQLITE STATUSBAR STRING SUB SYSTRAY TABCONTROL TIMER TOOLBAR TRACKBAR TREEVIEW UPDOWN VARIANT WORD
Dimension AS CONST CREATE DEFBYTE DEFDBL DEFDWORD DEFINT DEFINT64 DEFLNG DEFREAL10 DEFSHORT DEFSNG DEFSTR DEFWORD DIM EXTENDS OBJECT REDIM STATIC TO TYPE
Arrays
Console CLS COLOR FREECONSOLE INPUT LOCATE PAUSE PRINT SETCONSOLEMODE SETCONSOLETITLE SHOWCONSOLE
Loops and Code Blocks CASE DO ELSE ELSEIF END EXIT FOR IF IS LOOP NEXT SELECT STEP THEN TO UNTIL WEND WHILE
Procedures BYREF BYVAL CALL CALLFUNC DECLARE END EXIT FUNCTION GOSUB LIB RESULT RETURN RETVAL STD SUB
Directories and Files CHDIR COPY DELETE EXTRACTRESOURCE KILL LIBRARYINST MKDIR MOVE RENAME RMDIR UNLOADLIBRARY
Data DATA READ RESTORE
Sound BEEP PLAYWAV SOUND
Miscellaneous DEC DOEVENTS END ENVIRON FREECONSOLE GOTO INC INITARRAY LPRINT OUT OUTW POPUP RANDOMIZE REDIM RUN SHELL SHELL1 SHOWCONSOLE SHOWMESSAGE SLEEP SWAP WITH
Advanced Techniques ARRAYREF ARRAYREF$ ASM BEGIN BYREF BYREF$ CALLFUNC END EXIT EXTERNAL FUNCCALL MEMCPY MEMSET POP PUSH REDIMEX RETVAL RUNONCE THREAD WINDOW
String Functions [] ANSI$ ARRAYREF$ BIN$ BYREF$ CHR$ COMMA COMMAND$ COMMANDLINE$ CRLF CURDIR$ DATE$ DELETE$ DIR$ ENVIRON$ FIELD$ GET$ HEX$ IIF$ INKEY$ INPUT$ INSERT$ LCASE$ LEFT$ LTRIM$ MID$ NULL PATH$ QUOTE REPLACE$ REPLACESUBSTR$ REVERSE$ RIGHT$ RTRIM$ SPACE SPACE$ STR$ STRING$ TAB TIME$ TRIM$ UCASE$ VARIANTREF$ VARPTR$ WIDE$ WINDIR$ WINDOW

Numeric Functions @ - ABS ACOS ARRAYREF ASC ASIN ATAN ATN BOOL BOOLEAN BYREF CALLBACK CEIL CINT CLNG CODEPTR COMMANDCOUNT COS CSRLIN DIREXISTS EAX EXP FALSE FILEEXISTS FIX FLOOR FRAC GETLASTERROR HCOS HEX2DW HIWORD HSIN HTAN IIF INP INPW INSTR INT ISCONSOLE LBOUND LEN LN LNTWO LOG LOG2E LOG2TEN LOGTWO LOWORD MEMCMP MESSAGEBOX NEG OBJPTR ONE PI POS POSTMESSAGE RESOURCE RESOURCECOUNT RETFUNC RGB RND ROUND SCREEN SGN SENDMESSAGE SHELL SHELL1 SIN SIZEOF SQR TALLY TAN TIME TIMER TRUE UBOUND VAL VARIANTREF VARPTR VARTYPE WINDOW ZERO

Objects APPLICATION with Debugger DebugMessage ErrorLevel (get/set) OnExit and OnFPUerror
BITMAP
CLIPBOARD
COMPORT
CONSOLE with keyboard and mouse events, cursor control
CUSTOM Objects With custom properties, methods and functions
DATE Year Month DayOfWeek Day Hour Minute Second Milliseconds Flags Locale Error (numeric) DateFormat TimeFormat (string) METHODS: LoadInt64 SaveInt64 Update UpdateUTC (see hotdate.bas in HotTrial)
DIALOGS ColorDialog FindDialog ReplaceDialog PageDialog PrintDialog FontDialog OpenDialog SaveDialog
FILE
FILEREC Attr Date DateLastRead DateLastWrite FileTime Size Time TimeLastRead TimeLastWrite (numeric) Date DateLastRead DateLastWrite FileName ShortName Time TimeLastRead TimeLastWrite (string) (R only). Access these values after use of DIREXISTS, FILEEXISTS or DIR$
FONT
FORM Objects BUTTON CANVAS CHECKBOX COMBOBOX DATETIME EDIT FILELISTBOX GAUGE GRID GROUPBOX HEADER IMAGE LABEL LISTBOX LISTVIEW PANEL RADIOBUTTON RICHEDIT RICHEDIT2 SCROLLBAR SPLASH STATUSBAR TABCONTROL TOOLBAR TRACKBAR TREEVIEW UPDOWN Properties Methods Events By Keyword
FPU HotBasic exclusive
LIST
MEMORY Streams with Encrypt and Decrypt methods
MENU MainMenu MenuItem PopUpMenu
MOUSE X Y (R only) cursor position
PRINTER
PROPERTIES
RECT Left Top Right Bottom (RW)
REGISTRY
SCREEN ClientHeight ClientWidth MouseButtons MouseSwap Height Width (R only)
SOCKET
SQLDATA access data sources (ODBC)
SQLITE requires SQLite.dll
STRING All MEMORY and LIST properties and methods apply to STRING objects
SYSTRAY
TIMER
VARIANT Type
VERSION Major Minor Build Platform (numeric) and Info (string) (R only) VERSION.Platform = 0 (3.1); 1 (9x); 2 (NT,2K,XP). Operators and Precedence Order: higher to lower (& for VB strings)

^ * / \ SHL SHR MOD INV + - [relational] NOT AND OR XOR Appendix

ASSEMBLER Inserts
VARIANT Qualified Type
RECURSIVE Procedure Calls
Credits
Thanks to Microsoft Corporation for the wonderful public service to the computing world by providing several utilities free, used to "put the pieces together" in HotBasic compilation.

Thanks to Raymond Filiatreault for permission to use two of his FPU routines: conversion of string to FPU value and FPU value to string.

Thanks to Don for permission to use his "Hot! Basic" artwork.

Thanks to D. Richard Hipp for writing sqlite.dll used by the HotBasic SQLITE object.

Copyright © 2003-2006 James J Keene PhD
HotBasic™ is a trademark of James J Keene
Original Publication: May 29, 2003