11-30-92
THIS FILE DESCRIBES THE LATEST REGISTERED RELEASE OF LIBERTY BASIC
FOR MICROSOFT WINDOWS!!!                                      

Liberty BASIC can be registered on Compuserve's Shareware Registration
service!  This makes it easy to pay the registration fee of $35.  Just
type GO SWREG to register, and use Liberty BASIC's ID code 120.  The
$35 will be added to your Compuserve billing, and Shoptalk Systems will
send you your registered copy.

The unregistered version is available as LB09A.ZIP.

Liberty BASIC is the first Shareware Windows BASIC that lets you write
real Windows programs, not just character mode programs in a Windows
window!

With Liberty BASIC, you don't need to know anything about how Microsoft
Windows works, so writing programs in this popular environment is now
within the reach of absolutely anyone who has only a rudimentary
knowledge of BASIC.

Liberty BASIC has easy to use, built in window objects.  There is a window
object for graphics, one for text, and one is a spreadsheet for performing
data entry.  

Text labeled and now BITMAPPED buttons can be added to these windows as
desired, and pull down menus can also be added.  Many sample button
bitmaps included, and you can create your own with Windows Paint!
NEW!! Listboxes and comboboxes can be added to your windows!

The color graphics window does turtle graphics and will draw lines,
boxes, circles, ellipses, and pie slices.  Any of these figures can be
filled or unfilled.  Mouse events can be trapped.  A simple drawing
application is included!  Graphics are drawn in segments, which can
be individually manipulated.

The text window is great for freeform data entry.  A Rolodex application
is included as an illustration of its use.

The spreadsheet is great for forms and tabular entry.  A graphing program
illustrates how useful it is.

User defined dialog boxes are supported.  

Several kinds of default pop-up dialog boxes are provided for input, 
notification, confirmation, and file selection.

A powerful visual debugger is included.  This powerful tool makes learning
to program easy and fun by letting you watch each line execute and see
each variable change value as your program runs.  Experienced programmers
will especially appreciate this facility.

Here is a list of the supported commands for the registered version.

  ABS()   ACS()   ASN()   ATN()   ASC()   BEEP   BUTTON   BMPBUTTON
  CHR$()   CLOSE   CLS   COLOR   COMBOBOX   CONFIRM   COS()   DATE$()   
  DIM   END   EOF()   EXP()   FIELD   FILEDIALOG   FOR...NEXT   GET   
  GETTRIM   GOSUB...RETURN   GOTO   GROUPBOX   IF...THEN...ELSE
  INPUT$()   INPUT   INPUT #   INSTR()   INT()   LEFT$()   LEN()   LET
  LISTBOX   LOG()   LPRINT   MENU   MID$()   NOTICE   OPEN   PRINT
  PRINT #   PROMPT   PUT   REM   RETURN   RIGHT$()   RND()   STOP
  SIN()   STATICTEXT   STR$()   TAN()   TEXTBOX   TIME$()   TRACE
  TRIM$()   USING()   VAL()   WHILE...WEND   WORD$()

Here is a list of the supported graphics commands:

  COLOR   GOTO   PLACE   UP   DOWN   GO   LINE   FILL   FLUSH   SIZE
  CLS   FONT   NORTH   TURN   POSXY   PRINT   CIRCLE   HOME   TRAPCLOSE
  CIRCLEFILLED   ELLIPSE   ELLIPSEFILLED   BOX   BOXFILLED   PIE
  PIEFILLED   BACKCOLOR   SEGMENT   DELSEGMENT   REDRAW   LEFTBUTTONDOWN
  LEFTBUTTONUP   LEFTBUTTONMOVE   MOUSEMOVE   RIGHTBUTTONDOWN
  RIGHTBUTTONUP   RIGHTBUTTONMOVE   LEFTDOUBLECLICK   RIGHTDOUBLECLICK
  WHEN   DISCARD

Here is a list of the spreadsheet commands:

  INDIRECT  MANUAL   CELL   FORMAT   RESULT?   FORMULA?   SELECT   USER
  FLUSH   SAVE   LOAD   MODIFIED?   TRAPCLOSE

Here is a list of the text window commands:

  CLS   FONT   LINES   LINE   ORIGIN?    ORIGIN   SELECTION?   SELECTALL
  COPY   CUT   PASTE   MODIFIED?   TRAPCLOSE

Sample programs illustrate how to use the above commands.  Included are
a drawing program, a calculator program, a rolodex application, 
a graphing application, an analog clock program, and more.


Language features:

  Lines numbers are supported but not required and can be replaced by
    meaningful alphanumeric labels ;
  Variable names can be as long as needed and all characters are
    significant ;
  Strings do not have the usual 256 character size limitation and are
    limited only by available memory ;
  Arrays may be single or double dimensioned and may be as large as
    available memory ;
  Liberty BASIC is very similar to traditional Microsoft BASIC in syntax.
    Anyone familiar with BASIC will feel right at home



Is there feature you need that isn't mentioned here?  Don't let it stop
you from becoming a Liberty BASIC programmer.  Call us and we'll do our
best to add it in!

Shoptalk Systems
P.O. Box 1062
Framingham, MA  01701

cis 71231, 1532

508-872-5315