Ionic Wind Software is pleased to announce the Official release of IWBasic Ver 3.0.
Licensed owners of IWBasic 2.x can download this free upgrade by logging into their Customer account.
New in IWBasic Ver 3.0:
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- Configurable Installation:
- REGISTRY is no longer used. Allows memory stick installation
- Option to automatically install Sapero's WindowsSDK include package
- Option to set pc location of example files
- Option to set pc location of template files
-New IDE Options:
- Open last project on startup
- Open last open files on startup
- Open all project files when project is opened
- Open project when a project file is opened
- Use full path names in recent project/files menu
- Show last 10/30 recent projects/files in menu
- Delete exe on compile/link failure
-New
Code Editor Options:
- AutoTip
When an IWBasic command keyword is entered followed by a '(' a window
appears displaying the syntax for the command and highlighting the next
parameter to be entered and identifying its data type. - Set AutoTip ForeGround color
- Set AutoTip BackGround color
- Set AutoTip HighLite color
- Display Keywords as typed
- Display Keywords as upper case
- Display Keywords as small case
-Updated
Find Dialog
- Replaced Up/Down/Find Next controls with
Find First/Find Prev/Find Next/Find Last controls - Added Help button and popup window with explanation of Regular
Expression search features.
-Added the ability to directly add the following additional resource types to a project:
- StringTable
- Menuex
- Dialogex
- Manifest
-Added ability to compile resources without compiling source files
-Global 'ToDo List' main menu option
-
Project List Window Added with 3 tabs
- Files - replaces old File View
- Subroutines - list all subs in a project regardless of what source file
they are located in - Includes- Include files used in the project (to the 2nd level of nesting only)
-Each Project automatically assigned its own "ToDo List"
-Added 'Close All' option to Windows menu to close all open
Code Editor windows.
-Improved
Form Editor
- Select Window, Dialog, MDI Frame form
- Allow for menu bar spacing
- Allow for status bar spacing
- Allow for toolbar spacing
- Drag and drop 22 different control types
- Allocate space for custom controls
- Preview includes minimum menu and status bar
- Code skeleton includes minimum menu and status bar
- Form layout can be saved to a file (.iwf)
-
Menu Editor
- Parent variable can be preset
-Added
Tools Menu Editor to
Tools menu
- Allows User to add/delete 3rd party tools of their choice to the Tools menu
-Added
Help Menu Editor to
Tools menu
- Allows User to add/delete links to 3rd party Help files of their choice to the Help menu
-Added
Clean Folder Utility to
Tools menu
- Allows User to delete files created during the compilation process, if desired
-Added
Color Picker Utility to
Tools menu
- Allows User to select and preview fg/bg colors and the copy and paste proper code for those colors
-Added
Toolbar Paint Utility to
Tools menu
- Allows User to create toolbar bitmaps for use in their applications
-Added
Messagebox Builder Utility to Tools menu
- Allows User to easily create a messagebox and then paste the code in their applications
-Improved
Find-In-File searches
- When new search is performed, previous search results are not automatically deleted.
- User can delete all previous results with one click; or
- Select one line or a block of result lines and delete with one click.
- Each set of search results displays a header line showing what is being searched for and where.
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Bookmarks have been enhanced
- Bookmarks are now saved between editing session for each file
- Bookmarks are displayed in a dropdown menu
- After selecting one the User can jump to that line or delete the bookmark
-Enhanced
Print Preview
- Set Margins
- Optional Header
- Optional Footer
- Optional Wordwrap
- Optional Color/B&W
-User's Guide
- A significant amount of time has been spent improving the help file.
- The separate ControPak help file has been abandoned and its contents merged with the
User's guide so that all control information is in one location.
Also see the History page in the Help file for recent bug fixes in the pre-release version.