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- Public (software) Library
- Programming Library
-
- Descriptions and Compilation Copyright 1993 Nelson Ford
- Duplication, reprinting and distribution of these descriptions is restricted.
- See LICENSE.DOC in the PSL_NEWS directory for complete information
-
-
- =====BASIC
-
- CONTENTS:
-
- -----VIDEO: screen & video routines for Basic (also see WIN_MENU & GRAPHICS)
- -----GRAPHICS: drawing and plotting routines for Basic
- -----MULTIBAS: multi-function libraries and routines
- -----DOS_ACCS: DOS access routines for Basic
- -----KYB_MOUS: keyboard, mouse and joystick routines for Basic
- -----SORTSRCH: sorting and searching routines for Basic
- -----DAT_TIME: date & time routines for Basic
- -----SOUNDS: music and sound generating in Basic.
- -----NUMERIC: math and numeric routines for Basic
- -----ENCRYPT: file encryption & CRC routines for Basic
- -----MULTLANG: routines for translating/interfacing BASIC & other languages.
- -----APPS: source code for actual application programs
- -----COMMUNI: communications routines for Basic
- -----OTHER: various Basic routines
- -----VBDOS: stuff for VB-DOS
-
- =======================================================
-
- -----VIDEO: screen & video routines for Basic (also see WIN_MENU & GRAPHICS)
-
- [HERCDMP]
- HercDump contains QuickBASIC 4 routines for printing of Hercules graphics
- screens to Epson or HP Laserjet compatible printers.
-
- [PSLJII]
- PSLJII2.BAS (Cochran, Steve; $0) is a callable routine to print a graphics
- screen (VGA, etc.) from a QB program to a HP LJII printer.
-
- [SCRNCODE]
- ScreenCode is a screen designer with BASIC source code generator.
-
- [SCRNDUMP]
- ScrnDump shows how to dump a graphics screen to printer.
-
- [BOXMAKR]
- BoxMaker lets you choose a screen border style, for which it will then
- generate the source code to add to your program.
-
- [BIGPRT]
- BigPrint 3.0 (Himowitz, Michael J.; $0) demonstrates techniques for displaying
- and printing messages containing large, bold characters. It is for QuickBasic
- 4.0+, and also includes some other screen routines.
-
- [HIRESCOL]
- HireScol (Johnsen, James L.; $?) shows how to have color in the 640x200
- graphics mode in CGA.
-
- [PLOT3D]
- Plot3D is BASIC code to plot a circular wave in three dimensions.
-
- [QBFONT]
- QBFont is an article that describes how to display a user-defined character
- set of up to 256 characters in Hercules graphics mode using QuickBASIC or
- BASCOM 6.
-
- [QBICONS]
- QBIcons is a set of 13 icons for use in your QB/PDS graphics applications.
- Sample code includes a SUB for loading the icon files from disk.
-
- [QBQuick]
- QBQuick 3.0 (Roepenack, Scott; $0-$5) creates graphic displays for programs.
- Screens contain full borders, filler colors, text and palette backgrounds. A
- separate file is generated with all the source code for that screen mode.
-
- [SCROLL]
- Scroll is code for scrolling the screen up, down, left, right.
-
- [SetColor]
- SetColor.BAS (Zuck, Jonathan; $0) are routines that let you write to the
- screen in whatever colors are already at the cursor location.
-
- [VIDSTAT]
- VideoStatus (Kelly, Sidney J.; $0) is a set of QBASIC/MASM video detection
- routines. MASM source and OBJ files included, along with sample BAS source and
- an EXE file to show how it works.
-
- [SPLTSCRN]
- SpltScrn splits the screen into two windows.
-
- [BKSCREN]
- BKScreen (Hewitt, Bill; $10) produces QuickBASIC code to produce a screen
- display from a text file. The screen display file can then be merged or
- included in your QuickBASIC program.
-
- [DRFont]
- DRFont 1.0 (Roepenack, Dawn; $10) contains 10 fonts, a QLB and source that
- shows you how to use them.
-
- [Grad]
- Grad 1.1 (Long, Nick; $8) is a library for using gradient screen colors on
- VGA.
-
- [BOXDRAW]
- BoxDraw (De Palma, John; $0) is QB Sub for drawing boxes of a specified size,
- location, line type, and color.
-
- [ASC4QB]
- ASC4QB (Gaylord, Charles S.; $0) allows printing ASCII text anywhere on a
- graphics screen, rather than on just the default text lines. The program has a
- menu driven, ASCII Graphic Image file generator. It supports CGA, EGA, VGA,
- and Hercules hardware. It also supplies code for making use of multicolor .AGI
- files.
-
- [PCInput]
- PCInput lets you design input screens for Basic.
-
- [SD_AID]
- Screen Design Aid lets you design screens for Basic.
-
- [Helper]
- Helper helps create screens for BASIC programs.
-
-
- -----GRAPHICS: drawing and plotting routines for Basic
-
- [IMGBLD]
- Image Builder 1.1 (Eggers, Paul; $10) is a graphic utility for creating
- different graphic images, icons, fonts, or just shapes for use in your
- QuickBASIC programs. All images created and saved may be reloaded and
- modified. Requires EGA or better. Mouse is Optional.
-
- [BSPRITE]
- BSprite (Lee, David; $0) makes it easy to create "sprites" (graphics images)
- from which BASIC code is generated for merging with your own to use the
- graphics.
-
- [BENTTEXT]
- BentText lets you have different size text in the graphics mode.
-
- [SHOOTER]
- Shape Shooter 1.0 (Way Out West-ware; $10) lets you easily design and animate
- high quality VGA graphics for games and other applications. It permits editing
- of up to 64 shapes at a time. Drawing functions include line, circle, fill,
- shift, and flip. QuickBasic source code is included.
-
- [ANIMAT]
- Animat shows how to do animation in QuickBasic.
-
- [GRAFXMAS]
- Graphics Master 256 (Sexton, Fred Jr.; $30) is a library of graphic routines.
- It features mirror images, exploding, imploding, partial puts, virtual
- screens, and more. A demonstration is included.
-
- [BIZ_GRAF]
- Business Graphics (Ford, Nelson, ASP; $30) is the source code for the programs
- from the book Business Graphics for the IBM PC (Sybex, 1983) Although there
- are a few simple examples, such as pictorial graphs, window zooming, a drawing
- program and code for your own character set, two of the programs are complete,
- major programs: one for plotting on screen and the other for a plotter.
-
- [Designer]
- Designer (Young, Jan B.; $20) is a programming tool for BASIC users working
- with animated graphics. The BASICA source code is included for those who wish
- to study and/or modify it. Included with The Designer is a demonstration
- program which illustrates one way to program animation.
-
-
- -----MULTIBAS: multi-function libraries and routines
-
- [AABAS]
- AABAS 1.0 (Hanlin, Thomas G. III; $8) is a library of BIOS and DOS calls.
- Routines included are for display and keyboard, mouse, joystick, disk,
- printer, equipment info, XMS memory, and more.
-
- [ASMS4QB]
- Asms4QB (Kilday, Jack; $10) is a collection of assembler source listings for
- various subroutines for QuickBASIC.
-
- [BASDLX]
- Basic Deluxe (Verdun, Gustavo; $?) is a set of assembly language routines to
- be called by compiled BASIC programs.
-
- [MASTER]
- Master (Wesson, David A.; $0) is a set of subroutines for QuickBASIC.
-
- [MAXBASC]
- MaxBASIC (Marquis Computing; $5-$15) is a set of routines, sub-programs and
- files for QuickBASIC/PDS. The routines will read, write, create, and manage
- dBASE III, III+ & IV database files. Commented source code and a demo program
- are included.
-
- [SHORTSUB]
- Shortsub (Patterson, D. G.; $?) offers the following short subroutines: Yes or
- no at X1,Y1 location, Functions, Continue routine, Upperfy a string (in X$),
- Printer error routines (80 COLS), Printer error routines (40 COLS), Load disk
- A and disk B, Sets output for screen, or printer, and Reset function keys.
-
- [Q4T16B]
- Q4Tool Library 1.6 (Crouch, R. J. ASP; $24) is a small collection of
- programming tools for QB4+. Includes routines on Mouse Services, Windowing,
- Screen save/restore, Screen print, Screen string centering, and Program
- delays.
-
- [PBCLONE]
- PBClone Library 2.1 (Hanlin, Thomas G. III; $39) is a powerful set of routines
- written in assembly language for QB programmers. No QB programmer should be
- without a library of routines like this one.
-
- [QBWare]
- QBWare (AJM Software; $39) is a comprehensive set of callable routines for
- QuickBasic. DOS routines provide access to the DOS spooler and memory
- management routines. The BIOS subroutines let you interface to BIOS fro
- greater control of the computer system and increased speed. Windowing routines
- are also included.
-
- [QLib]
- QLib (Herr, Douglas; $25) is a library of assembly language subroutines for
- QuickBASIC's 2, 3 and 4. 4.5 and BC7. Routines include fast video, screen
- save/restore, windowing, horizontal and vertical scrolling, keyboard input,
- data entry and manipulation and more. Most video routines support the EGA
- 43-line mode, the Paradise EGA 132-column mode, support for Everex Micro
- Enhancer EGA card text modes, as well as Hercules graphics. Additional support
- is provided for LineEdit cursor and CursorON subroutines for monochrome EGA
- systems in 43-row modes, Super13a higher-resolution graphics for standard VGA,
- and BitBlock screen manipulation for 256-color graphics modes. The math
- coprocessor is also supported.
-
- [BP_TOOL]
- Basic Programmer's Toolbox 1.0 (Bill Smith; $25) is a collection of over 70
- routines and functions for QB and PDS. Major categories of routines include
- date/time, video, disk drive (eg: file copy, tree), keyboard, mouse, user
- interface (eg: password, pulldown menus), and system (eg: reboot, videopage).
- LIB, QLB and INC files are included.
-
- [BASWIZ]
- BASIC Wizard's Library 2.0 (Hanlin, Thomas G. III; $39) is a set of routines
- written in BASIC and assembly language for use with the QuickBASIC and BASCOM
- compilers. It provides a powerful virtual windowing system, an expression
- evaluator, display detection, far strings, COM3 and COM4, pointers, memory
- management, math support and more. Requires a hard disk or high density floppy
- and [LibWiz] (included).
-
- [BOYETT]
- Boyett Utils for Basic 1.0 (Boyett, Will; $27) is a collection of utilities
- for use with QuickBasic, QBasic, PDS, and GW-Basic. It allows you to use
- patterns for coloring, convert PCX files to BSAVE format, list all modules,
- SUBs and FUNCTIONs of a QB program, compile and link only those OBJ's that
- have been modified since the last compilation and more.
-
-
- -----DOS_ACCS: DOS access routines for Basic
-
- [BasToDOS]
- BasToDOS (Morga n, James; $0) will allow you to get type of disk drive,
- look for first/next matching file name, get system time (to 100th seconds),
- get DOS version #, get free disk space, get/set current default drive, get
- current directory and change file attributes.
-
- [CSSTEST]
- CSSTEST is a linkable assembler routine for getting the amount of free
- space on a disk. An example of how to call the routine from BASIC is
- included.
-
- [DIR6]
- DIR6 (Link, Thomas; $0) will read a directory and return the directory
- information. It is in LINKable format.
-
- [DIRINFO]
- DirInfo (Editing Services Co.; $0) is an assembler routine to quickly
- capture directory information in QB programs. It will fetch file names,
- attributes, dates, and times into an array of user-defined type, with full
- control over file selection by attribute, etc.
-
- [DIRSUB]
- DirSub (Darter, Jeff; $0) is a QB INCLUDE file and sample code to access
- file names, dates, times, sizes, and attributes.
-
- [DMOSHEL]
- DmoShell demonstrates how to shell to DOS, including the SVSCR routines for
- saving the screen first and restoring it upon return.
-
- [ERRLVL]
- ErrLevel (Janke, Mike; $0) contains a QB routine and linkable C object
- module that allow you to set errorlevel on exit from a QB program.
-
- [EXISTS]
- Exists (Rouse, Christopher P.; $0) is an assembler routine for QB which
- determines if a specified file exists.
-
- [FILEXST]
- FilExst (Sharpe, Randy; $0) shows how to use CALL INTERRUPT in your
- programs to take advantage of DOS Interrupt services. This example searches
- for a specified file name. Written for QB 4.5. Source included with good
- internal comments.
-
- [GCOPY]
- GCopy will copy a file while in BASIC.
-
- [Mr_OBJ]
- Mr_OBJ 0.05 (Russell, Scott M.; $20) is a set of routines written in
- assembler that allows the QuickBASIC programmer to access DOS functions.
-
- [QBForm]
- QBFormat (Huth, Cornel; $0) is a QuickBASIC routine for formatting
- floppies.
-
- [READDIR]
- ReadDir (Editing Services Co.; $0) is an assembler routine for BASIC to
- read a DOS directory into a string array.
-
- [STree]
- STree 2.0 (Smith, G.; $0) is source code for graphically displaying
- directory structures, files, file sizes, etc.
-
- [QB4_SUBS]
- QB4-Subs (Sparks, Kyle; $0) contains several subprograms for QB4: DISKTYPE,
- QDIR, QB4DIR, WINDOW and SETFTD, the latter being a file date and time
- editor. SYSCHECK is code to check on system equipment.
-
- [QBSAMP]
- QBSamp contains QB4 routines for doing an equipment check, a monographics
- screen dump for Epson and HPLJ printers, and a pop-up directory program.
- BAS and ASM code is included.
-
- DIR_BAS
- Fairchild Computing
- $5
- is a set of routines for reading directories which return a lot more
- information than the Files command. It also shows how to use QB's Interrupt
- and Interruptx routines. An extensive sample program is included which is
- very useful in its own right.
-
- [QBWiz]
- QBWiz 1.3 (Hanlin, Thomas G. III; $0) provides access to QB 4.5 internals
- and lets you set the DOS errorlevel on exiting a program. Source code is
- included.
-
- [EXENAM]
- ExeNam returns the path of the currently running program.
-
- [VOL_INF]
- Vol_Inf (Kelly, Sidney J.; $0) is a routine for reading and setting disk
- volume labels.
-
- [AHNuts]
- AHNuts 1.0 (Balentine, Lewis E.; $0) is an ASM library for reading
- directories, including subdirectories, date, time, attributes.
-
- [BasUpd]
- BasUpd 1.0 (Hanlin, Thomas G. III; $0) is a library of routines that adds
- PDS and Visual Basic commands to QuickBASIC. It includes disk routines,
- time/date functions and full source code.
-
- [AABAS]
- AAL for BASIC 1.1 (Hanlin, Tom; $8) Affordable Alternative Library for
- QuickBasic 4.x is a collection has over 75 BIOS and DOS-related routines
- and functions written entirely in assembler.
-
- [QCOPY]
- Quick Copy 1.0 (Roepenack, S.; $0) allows you to copy files from within
- your QB programs.
-
- [DOSBASIC]
- DOSBASIC (Kelly, Sidney J.; $0) is a set of QBASIC/MASM routines that
- provide information concerning the hardware and software environment.
- Source and examples are included.
-
-
- -----KYB_MOUS: keyboard, mouse and joystick routines for Basic
-
- [CAPLOCK]
- Caplock how to check and set CapsLock and NumLock.
-
- [KB_FLAG]
- KB_Flag shows keyboard scan codes.
-
- [STUFBUF]
- StuffBuf is an assembler subroutine that is callable from QuickBASIC that
- will insert keystrokes into the type ahead keyboard buffer.
-
- [QBMouse]
- QBMouse (Sparks, Kyle; $0) is a routine demonstrating control of the mouse
- with QB4.
-
- [EZMouse]
- EZMouse is a set of assembler mouse routines.
-
- [MOUSED]
- Mouse Designer (Whales Tale Software; $10) is a graphical mouse design
- utility. It outputs QB code and hex codes for producing the pointer you
- designed.
-
- [KeyBASIC]
- KeyBASIC (Kelly, Sidney J.; $0) is a set of QBASIC/MASM Mouse and keyboard
- routines that offer a fast mouse interface and easy access to the keyboard.
- The MASM source and OBJ files are included, along with sample BAS and EXE
- files.
-
-
- -----SORTSRCH: sorting and searching routines for Basic
-
- [BINSEEK]
- Binseek (Hanlin, Thomas III; $?) is a discussion of and a routine for doing
- binary searches of sorted data.
-
- [HEAPSORT]
- Heapsort is a sort routine based on the Heapsort alogrithm.
-
- [MATCHVB]
- Match (McMahon, Brian J.; $?) contains two functions which aid in the
- validation of text and in searching files for text matching a specific
- pattern. Wild cards are supported .
-
- [QSORT]
- QSort (Ford, Nelson, ASP; $0) demonstrates the QuickSort algorithm with
- graphic illustration.
-
- [SHELSORT]
- Shelsort is a "Shell" sort routine.
-
- [SHSORT]
- SHSort (Bathurst, Steve; $0) is a generic shell sort routine written in QB
- and to be used with a single key array.
-
- [SORT_BL]
- Sort (Buck, Lee; $0) shows a "Shell-Metzner" sort. The demonstration
- program SORTEST.BAS shows how to use the subroutine and also includes an
- interpreter BASIC version of a Shell-Metzner sort. This routine will only
- sort strings but it can be used to sort numbers if they are properly
- converted to a string.
-
- [SORTDEM]
- SortDemo is a demonstration program in QuickBASIC of six common sorting
- methods: bubble, exchange, heap, shell, insertion, and quick.
-
- [SOUNDEX]
- Soundex (Zuck, Jonathan; $0) is a set of three QuickBASIC functions for
- determining the Soundex code for a string: the original method, the
- "Hanlin" method, and a combination of each. Each of them have their
- advantages and disadvantages. ("Soundex" is a method of text searching that
- lets you search for "sounds like" matches.)
-
-
- -----DAT_TIME: date & time routines for Basic
-
- [Days]
- Days (Long, Lynn; $?) calculate number of days between dates.
-
- [Julian]
- converts dates to/from Julian, Georgian, etc.
-
- [CLOCKS]
- Clocks (Satterfield, Dave; $0) is QB source code for a set of time-keeping
- programs: a hex clock, binary clock, color clock, bar clock, and a regular
- analog clock.
-
-
- -----SOUNDS: music and sound generating in Basic.
-
- [Synth]
- is Basic source code for a simple app which draws a piano keyboard on the
- screen and lets the user play notes through the PC's speaker.
-
- [QBMIDI]
- is Basic source for accessing and controlling MIDI devices.
-
- [RPLAY]
- RPlay (Dersheimer, Rich; $0) is code for playing CMF files on Sound Blaster
- cards.
-
-
- -----NUMERIC: math and numeric routines for Basic
-
- [HPCL_JD]
- Hpcalc (HPCL-JD) (Dorsey, Jim; $0) is source code for an RPN type of
- calculator.
-
- [BCD_BAS]
- BCD_BAS 1.1 (Rouse, Christopher P.; $20) is a linkable subroutine for doing
- Binary Coded Decimal math. It is now compatible with Crescent Software's
- P.D.Q replacement library for QB.
-
- [CFIXQB]
- CFixQB (Mack, Jim; $0) is an assembler routine to round Currency variables
- at a given number of decimal places. ASM and OBJ files and sample code
- included.
-
- [HIMATH]
- HiMath (Jorgensen, Kevin T.; $10-$50) is a collection of higher math
- functions for QB that may be helpful in electrical circuit and vector
- analysis. Included are routines to solve double precision matrices, double
- precision complex number matrices, complex number arithmetic, inverse trig
- functions, and triangle solutions.
-
- [NUM2WORD]
- Num2Word converts a number to the written form. eg: "120" to "One Hundred
- Twenty". Useful for a checkbook program.
-
- [NUVAL]
- NuVal (Mack, Jim; $0) is an assembly language subroutine (source, OBJ and
- QLB) that gives an integer-only version of QB's VAL function. Unlike QB's
- VAL, NuVal works only with long integers, does not crash in case of an
- overflow, stops evaluating at embedded spaces, and 20 times faster.
-
- [ROMAN]
- Roman is a BASICA code to convert from Arabic to Roman numerals.
-
- [QBMATH]
- QBMath (Katelansky, David; $10) is a math library for QuickBASIC.
-
- [VeriCard]
- VeriCard.BAS (Ford, Nelson, ASP; $0) is a QB routine to verify credit card
- numbers via a checksum. This would be a good routine to add to order-entry
- or point-of-sale programs to catch typos when credit card numbers are
- entered.
-
-
- -----NETWORK: networking routines for Basic
-
- [NETWARE]
- NetWare 2 (San Miguel, Carlos and ProSoft; $0) is a library of subroutines
- for Netware that are intended to be linked with PDS 7.1.
-
-
-
- -----DATABASE: dBase, Btrieve and other database routines for Basic
-
- [SAYGET]
- @SAYGET is a set of routines for most BASICs to emulate the dBASE
- @..SAY..GET..READ statement.
-
- [BOPS]
- BOPS 1.1 (InfoNapse Systems; $0) calculates the most efficient page size to
- use for Btrieve files.
-
- [MHBTRV]
- MHBTRV 1.03 (MicroHelp, Inc.; $0) is a Btrieve interface module for use
- with MS BASIC PDS 7.0. It can be used with near or far strings and supports
- data records using variable-length and fixed-length strings.
-
- [AscDump]
- AscDump (Davies, Christopher; $25) can import/export ASCII files to/from
- Btrieve files, browse Btrieve files and generate XQL table definitions for
- Btrieve files. Other features include support for CURRENCY data type, and
- files using MBF floating point numbers.
-
-
- -----ENCRYPT: file encryption & CRC routines for Basic
-
- [BASCRYPT]
- BasCrypt (Ford, Nelson, ASP; $0) is a simple encryption routine that uses
- look-up/substitution.
-
- [CIPHER]
- Cipher is an encryption program.
-
- [Kryptic]
- Kryptic 1.0 (Customware Inc.; $5) is a data encryption/decryption library
- for QB 4.5.
-
- [CRCTEST]
- CRCtest (Jensen, Lyle; $0) is the source code for a CRC algorithm written
- in QuickBASIC.
-
-
- -----MULTLANG: routines for translating/interfacing BASIC & other languages.
-
- [DD_DEP]
- Directory Directory (DD-DEP) (Potter, David E.; $) is a routine that passes
- a string value by near reference from a QuickBASIC program to a Quick C
- routine. The purpose is to demonstrate the process of linking
- multi-language programs.
-
- [INTLAN]
- IntLan contains routines demonstrating procedures for use in QB4 and BASCOM
- 6 to call routines written in MASM, Fortran, Pascal and C.
-
- [BASCONV]
- BASCONV (Glass, Jim; $?) is for converting IBM Basic programs into
- Microsoft or IBM Fortran. It will not perform every detail of the
- conversion for you, but will perform the bulk of the drudgery. Careful
- inspection and editing of the resulting output file are vital if you wish
- to obtain a working Fortran program.
-
- [BASUPRT]
- BASUport allows you to unprotect an interpretive BASIC program saved with
- the P Parameter.
-
- [BDEX]
- BDEX (Beck, Randolph; $0) will facilitate conversion from BasicA to C,
- Pascal, or structured Basic. Commands are separated and unreferenced line
- numbers are removed. Any remaining line numbers are converted into labels
- and variables are listed separately.
-
- [BAS2QB]
- Basic2QB 1.1 (Slivkoff, Michael; $10) helps convert interpretive BASIC code
- into QB code. It removes unreferenced line numbers and produces a
- referenced line number list.
-
- [RB58]
- RB58 (Buerg, Vernon D. & Ford, Nelson; $0) will convert old interpretive
- Basic tokenized source files to ASCII.
-
- [123_WRIT]
- 123-Write (Vought, Thomas J.; $25) is a collection of assembly language
- routines to write Lotus 1-2-3 compatible spreadsheets directly from QB and
- PDS. Files written can be read from any Lotus 1-2-3 1a (or later)
- compatible program.
-
- [RS2IBM]
- Convert will translate programs from Radio Shack BASIC to IBM BASIC.
-
-
- -----APPS: source code for actual application programs
-
- [CLOCKDM]
- Clock (DM Research Co; $0) is source code for an analog clock using VGA
- graphics, including a second hand.
-
- [PLUS5]
- Plus5 (Jindra, Reverend Frank; $0) is another appointment reminder program,
- of which there are many, but the QuickBASIC 4.0 source code that comes with
- it is a very fine example of structured programming in QB4 and could be
- easily customized by the QB4 programmer.
-
-
- -----COMMUNI: communications routines for Basic
-
- [QUIKCOM]
- QuickComm 1.0 (Cleary, David; $0-$50) is an interrupt driven communications
- library for QB4. Quickcom supports Com1 and Com2 at baud rates up to 112k.
-
-
- -----PWR_BAS: stuff for PowerBasic compiler
-
- [PBTool_@]
- PBTool (Kellett, Andy; $20) is a collection of subroutines and example
- programs for the PowerBasic compiler. Over 65 files consisting of BASIC
- source code, many small utilities, and many executable files are provided.
-
- [PBWIZ]
- PowerBASIC Wizard's Library 1.8 [PBWIZ] (Hanlin, Thomas G. III; $29) is a
- library of nearly 325+ routines for PowerBASIC 3.0. It features archive
- viewing, disk directory viewing, 256-color VGA/SVGA/VESA graphic modes, BMP
- file support, keyboard control, EMS and XMS memory access, equipment
- detection, extended math and string routines, an equation solver, ANSI
- emulation, joystick support, SoundBlaster support, telecomm handling, and
- much more.
-
-
- -----OTHER: various Basic routines
-
- [BITSTUF]
- Bitstuff (Mack, Jim; $0) contains the MASM source and .OBJ for a set of
- bit-level manipulation routines to use with QB/BC. These routines will let
- you maintain 16 separate flags in a single integer, with quick access to
- any flag.
-
- [X10CMD]
- X10CMD (Drury, Matt; $0) contains code that turns on, off, or dims an X10
- module.
-
-
-
- -----VBDOS: stuff for VB-DOS
-
- [BAS_BUG]
- Bas_Bug is a list of 2000 bugs reports and technical tips for VB-DOS, PDS,
- QB and MSBasic. The Knowledgebase document number is given for those with
- access to CompuServe.
-
- [FUELGA]
- Fuelga (Coyne, Aidan; $0) contains source code for fuel gauge-type form for
- use in VBDOS programs. A demo test file is also included.
-
- [INI_IO]
- INI_IO (Six, Raymond W.; $0) is a set functions that emulate the Windows
- Get/WritePrivateProfile.
-
- [KPHONE]
- Kphone (KAMware; $0) let's you create input boxes for entering formatted
- data, such as dates or telephone numbers.
-
- [PASSWORD]
- PassWord (Six, Raymond W.; $0) shows how to set up a password style text
- box.
-
- [CTRLPNL]
- PMCtrlPanl (Blaney, Robert A.; $0) allows updates to ControlPanel
- properties. Source included.
-
- [VBHELP]
- VBHelp (Microsoft Corporation; $0) makes it easy to create and edit help
- files and add help to your applications.
-
- [VBMAKE]
- VBMake (Dennigan, Billy; $0) uses an existing MAK file to create a makefile
- containing a list of dependencies including $include files.
-
- [VWEZ]
- Windows R-E-Z VBDOS 6.1 (CONNECT Software; $38) is a window management system
- for VBDOS. Users can make, save, restore, and delete up to 20 windows. Memory
- used to save windowed areas is outside of BASIC's normal data storage area
- leaving more room for the BASIC programs data.
- Features include input windows, multi-field input screens, choice
- windows, choice bars, get answer windows, pulldown windows, scroll
- windows, directory routines, keyboard and mouse routines, and
- information line routines for printing messages, directions, or
- prompts.
-