thinBasic Beta 1.9.7.0

**ErosOlmi** · 09-06-2013, 23:26

thinBasic Beta 1.9.7.0

Download from: http://www.thinbasic.biz/projects/th...ic_1.9.7.0.zip

This is a real Beta in the sense there is a lot of new features all (more or less) to be finished and fully documented.
So, please use this version only for testing and not for real production scripts.

Have a look and please report any impression/problem/likes always remembering it is a beta!!!!!

This is an emergency update over previous thinBasic Beta 1.9.6.0

Fixed some bugs
Added latest TBGL module from Petr Schreiber
...
List of changes can be found in Help file distributed with the product.

Known bugs:

among others (I hope not so many) I know there is a bug in this version when creating bundled exe. Some process can sometimes fail due to incorrect TOC inside Exe. I'm working on solving this problem asap.

Ciao.
Eros

**ReneMiner** · 10-06-2013, 08:13

Thanks a lot Eros, always happy to be up-to-date and to be able to use the latest improved version of our worlds best basic language - as happy as I am about you having this passion to create a way for us to tell our computers in readable words what we expect them to do.

about TBGL-Help: TBGL_PrintFont2D-method is not documented (but it bolds when I type it in) - so I'm not sure about the current (changed?) syntax since Petr intended to change it.

**ErosOlmi** · 10-06-2013, 08:38

Thanks Rene.

Regarding TBGL help, wait for Petr reply.

Ciao
Eros

**ReneMiner** · 10-06-2013, 17:30

OK, while browsing the help for new stuff I stumbled across a few things:
ParseSet$ - is that new? And what string does it return? Complete or just the inserted one?

thinBasic Modules > Core (thinBasic Core Engine) > String functions > ProgID$ ? What does it do?

Edit:
" thinBasic language > Operators > Arithmetic > Exponentiation (^)

Syntax

result = number^exponent

The * operator syntax has these parts:"

guess it has to be ^ instead of *

**ErosOlmi** · 10-06-2013, 22:19

Thanks a lot Rene.

^ operator help fixed
ParseSet$ is not new. It is used to change a string element into a delimited string. See help.
ProgId$ is the contrary of ClsId$. Sorry they are still not documented because they were developed in order to start native COM handling inside thinCore.
ClsId$ returns a 16-byte GUID string (128-bit GUID format string) containing a CLSID associated with a unique ProgramID string of a COM object or component.
ProgId$ gets a GUID string giving back the ProgramId
Example: s = ClsId$("")
```
Uses "Console"

Dim sClassName  As String = "MSScriptControl.ScriptControl"
Dim sClassId    As String = CLSID$(sClassName)


PrintL "Class name              ", sClassName
PrintL "Class ID                ", sClassId
PrintL "Class ID in human format", GuidTxt$(sClassId)
PrintL "Prod ID from Class ID   ", PROGID$(sClassId)


WaitKey
```

**Petr Schreiber** · 11-06-2013, 11:43

Hi Rene,

the TBGL_PrintFont2D is still in developement. I am working on the more complex syntax, but there are some obstacles in the way. This is why it is not documented yet.

Additions in TBGL since 1.9.6.0:

tbgl_GetTextureData
tbgl_EntityGetTexture

Fixes in TBGL since 1.9.6.0:

%TBGL_TEX_ANISO, %TBGL_TEX_CRISPANISO presume level 2 of anisotropy in case programmer does not specify it.
improvements in help file

Petr

**Petr Schreiber** · 11-06-2013, 11:59

Hi Eros,

thanks a lot for the new release! Everything seems to work okay.

What is the purpose of Nop?

Petr

**ErosOlmi** · 11-06-2013, 12:57

Originally Posted by Petr Schreiber

What is the purpose of Nop?

Nop has been developed to do ... (drum rolls) ... just nothing

http://www.thinbasic.com/community/p...hp?issueid=406

**peter** · 11-06-2013, 19:56

means: No Operation.
In machine code is it a Byte place holder.

**Petr Schreiber** · 11-06-2013, 22:16

Hehe,

okay then, thanks for the explanations.

In the meantime I (hopefully) finished the TBGL_PrintFont2D, it will be available in next thinBasic version. Everybody interested can download updated TBGL here as usually. I need to test it a bit more, but it is documented.

Petr