Versions

The QB2C BASIC for UNIX comes in two versions:


COMMERCIAL version
(with many aditional features).


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The price of the newest version of QB2C is US$ 45
or equivalent in EUR.
Cijena za gradjane Hrvatske je samo 150 kn.

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TRIAL version
(for evaluation only)


Trial version is made available for evaluation
purposes only, not for personal or commercial use.

 

Thanks to Brian (brian@aljex.com) a QB2C port compiled for SCO Open Server 5.0.6 is location at http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/index.html#qb2c.

The latest commercial version is 4.81 (released Feb 2003) includes many improvements and additional features over the TRIAL version. To see the list of commands and what's new, you are invited to have a look at the latest manual or read about some additions later in this page.

NOTE: QB2C is backwards compatible with its code so programs written in older version of QB2C as well as with the TRIAL version can still be used.

Before listing the newest and latest QB2C features, I would like the thank US Internet Technologies, Inc. for hosting and designing the bastoc.com website and their support of QB2C. See them at www.us-it.net for your website and internet dialup needs, they even do custom programming and CGI using QB2C.
The latest new features:

o Arrays can now be declared dynamically, allowing arrays to be dimensioned during the program execution, as well as resized and erased; NEW commands for this feature are: DIM [DYNAMIC], REDIM and ERASE;

o Newly added X-11 graphic commands: XTRAN, XROT, XSCAL, MRESET, XCLOSEDS, XLEN, makes manipulation of graphics output easy without changing a single line of existing code.

o window buffering and animation commands available only in QB2C: XBUF, XRMBUF, GET, PUT, XANIM

o Newly added other commands: LCASE$, UCASE$, ENVIRON$, DATA, READ, RESTORE, HEX$, OCT$, LOF, DEFSTR, DEFDBL, DEFINT.

o SAVEPS, SAVEPSL, SAVEEPS, SAVEGIF - save directly your graphics into Postscript, Encapsulated PostScript or GIF file format.

o GET #, PUT #, and LSEEK binary file I/O commands.

o X-11 commands for easy creation, management and deletion of ( simple buttons and input fields ), from within graphics, that are available only in QB2C : XDefineButton, XButtonFocus, XDrawButton, XDrawInputButton, XInputButton, XCheckButtons, XClickButton, XToggleButton, XGetButtonState%, XDestroyButton

o INP and OUT port I/O commands on parallel port (under Linux only);

o More flexible syntax of inline IF commands and support for ELSEIF;

o Executable programs written in QB2C have access to individual (tokenized) input parameters not only to the whole input line (via the COMMAND$ command): when a program is started there is a special string array which contains tokenized input parameters; and the parameter count.

o More detailed documentation in both ASCII (TXT) and HTML formats: (manual.txt), (manual.html ).

o Most important X-fonts used with XTEXT command now have predefined names, so programmers no longer need to know the full parameters of a particular font. Only a generic font name and size are required.

o More programming examples, especially for new graphics capabilities; (examples);

o A new support website, www.bastoc.com with a forum coming soon.

o Removed all known bugs from previous versions.

AND last but not least: I thank to numerous people around the world who have kindly sent me their bug reports and suggestions.

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