iziBasic
Copyright (C) 2004 Laurent Duveau

iziBasic
Version : 2.0 (September 2004)
For : PalmOS versions 3.x / 4.x / 5.x
Language :
Screen :
Trial Version download : izibasic_trial.zip (612 Kb)

Link to trial: www.aldweb.com and forum... SORRY ABOUT THAT... J

Full version price : US $­­­­­­­­­­­­ 15

iziBasic stands for easy Basic for Palm. It targets all kinds of developers and should be a very good tool for newbee programmers. Skilled programmers will also find in iziBasic a tool to develop very quickly and easily various types of software.

iziBasic is a high level development compiler which builds Stand-alone applications. The great thing is that it does all of that directly on-board of your Palm OS based device.
Source codes are easily written using:
- either the Memo Pad application which is shipped with all Palm OS devices,
- or an on-board third party DOC editor of your choice.

As its name also states it, iziBasic uses the BASIC high level and very easy to learn development language, a customized subset of it to be
precise. You will discover how easy and quick it is to develop software with iziBasic when the more common development tools available on the Palm OS platform usually require pretty good development skills.

To give you an idea of the power of iziBasic, here are snapshots for 5 of the 11 sample
applications which are gently offered to you in the iziBasic distribution file:






Limitations of the trial version of iziBasic
The limitations of the trial version are very light, so as not to stop you from using iziBasic if you like it and cannot afford to buy it.
For instance, there is no time limit and you can very well use iziBasic without any time restriction.
But you are encouraged to support this shareware and buy it.
The limitations are:
- A nag screen to remind you to buy the full version
- Some functionalities are not activated (a few instructions and statements)
- The About box in your programs tells that your software was made with iziBasic



How to buy the full version of iziBasic?
You can buy the full version of iziBasic for the very little cost of US $­­­­­­­­­­­­ 15 on the following online stores :


Thanks for purchasing iziBasic.


Updates Description
2.0 (09/04/04)
- Bug fix: ABOUTBOX now accepts correctly from 1 to 3 string parameters, when it was only working with 3 parameters
- Bug fix: in some weird cases, iziBasic was crashing when being launched
- Enhancement: the database backup flag is now set by files creation statements, so that the databases created by an iziBasic program will be backed up to the desktop computer
- Enhancement: the backup flag was also set for the programs compiled by iziBasic so that your wonderful creations will be sent during the next hotsync to your computer
- Enhancement: the PENX and PENY values are also updated when the pen first touches the digitiser and when it is moved on the screen (previously only when the pen was lifted from the digitizer), also added a PENDOWN function to track the pen status
- Optimization of iziBasic’s compiling engine which builds smaller executable codes the generated p-code is ~30% smaller in average
- Optimization of iziBasic’s virtual machine which runs faster
the Bench1 benchmark returns a 4.7% speed improvement
the Bench2 benchmark returns a 3.4% speed improvement
Note: more optimizations can be expected in a future release as I found other areas of improvement
- Added a few new math functions: ACOS, ASIN, DEGREE, LOG, POWER, RADIAN
Note: other mathematical functions could be made available (like CosH, ArcSinH, DMS2Deg, Rad2DMS, etc…). Please feel free to ask for them!
- Added CALLPP$­­­­ function, this is a PP Code Segment call feature which opens all possibilities of the Palm development by direct access to the Palm OS APIs (in other words, you can now include “PP applets” in an iziBasic program)
- Added COLOR(v|n) function to capture forecolor and backcolor
- Added WAITEVENT function
- Added GRAFFITISHIFT, PUSHBUTTON and TEXTSELECTOR objects
- Added UPDATEFIELD, UPDATELABEL, UPDATEPOS and UPDATETEXT statements
- Interface improvement: iziBasic now remembers the last compiled source code name, so as to ease the build and try procedure
- Interface improvement: if compilation succeeded, iziBasic now offers to run the just built program
- Interface improvement: added a button to launch your favourite editor (Memo Pad or one of these DOC editors: PIAF, QED, SiEd, SrcEdit)
- Updated and upgraded the documentation file in many areas
- Made various upgrades in the sample programs and added a new iBHelloPP demo source code

1.0 (07/22/04)
- initial release



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Try it you might like it. J