JustBasic 2.1

[Rod]

Good feedback. Carl will read it. The save dialog certainly vetoes the automation you are trying to achieve. The reason we don’t see much user modding is that the source code is Smalltalk based, and of course proprietary.

[xxgeek]

Apr 3, 2021 7:22:38 GMT Rod said:

Good feedback. Carl will read it. The save dialog certainly vetoes the automation you are trying to achieve. The reason we don’t see much user modding is that the source code is Smalltalk based, and of course proprietary.

I vaguely recall Smalltalk from way back when. Never used it or even saw any code until you posted this message.
I visited a site last night with a list of the commands, and a good write up on the history and syntax.

Very interesting and unique language. it appears to have a steep learning curve to become efficient, but many statements by the users say otherwise. I downloaded squeak to play around with it. 
In your opinion is squeak the best? Know of a better coding environment for Smalltalk?

I noticed the name Smalltalk in some example files, or maybe it was in the error messages I frequently need to read, but until you posted this I assumed Smalltalk was a company name under which Just Basic was created. Learning something every day here at the forums.

Yeah, I didn't want to ask for too much since JB is free and I couldn't think of anything more it really needs for my own use.
Just that it would be nice if the bugs were fixed, and I could open, run any bas file without the editor, or at least have the choice of editor/debug/run. 
The main reasons are the (1) editor opening, and (2) doing an instant debug crashing any program that has unresolved errors in it.
I've been testing writing bas files from a running bas file, and then opening the new bas file. I am almost positive I can rewrite a running bas file by closing it as the new bas file opens to rewrite it and so on and so on. Still learning, not quite there yet. Time has been scarce lately.
But I plug away.

[q2z54yok]

Reading the specs I hope you could allow JB to use DLLs. Accessing Windows API is not needed but the ability to use DLLs is absolutely needed. I will make DLLs in Pelles C then import them in JB. JB is used as a glue language. The performance critical code is written in C and compiled into DLLs.

[carlgundel]

Jul 14, 2021 9:15:45 GMT q2z54yok said:

Reading the specs I hope you could allow JB to use DLLs. Accessing Windows API is not needed but the ability to use DLLs is absolutely needed. I will make DLLs in Pelles C then import them in JB. JB is used as a glue language. The performance critical code is written in C and compiled into DLLs.

You need to use DLLs?  That's what Liberty BASIC is for.  There will be no JB v2.1.  Once Liberty BASIC v5.0 is finally released there may or may not be a Just BASIC v3.0, but I will not speculate what features will be included.

[xxgeek]

As per this post at the Liberty Basic Forums

libertybasiccom.proboards.com/thread/1772/texteditor-undo-working-expected

That's one change I believe everyone would appreciate (a lot) for JB 2.1 or even JB 2.01 if you have time to get to it right away. 
Maybe we'll even pay for it, especially if we get multiple undo's.

Thanks for listening Carl.