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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:
-
- -----COMPILRS: Basic compilers, interpreters, program generators
- -----TUTORS: tutorials and general info. for Basic
- -----TOOLS: Basic programming tools
- -----ARCHIV: archiving and compression routines for Basic.
- -----DATA_INP: data entry routines for Basic
- -----WIN_MENU: windowing, menu and GUI routines for Basic
- (The following sections are in BASIC2.TXT)
- -----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
-
- =======================================================
-
- -----COMPILRS: Basic compilers, interpreters, program generators
-
- [TRY_QB]
- Try QuickBASIC (Microsoft Corporation; $0) contains a trial version of
- Microsoft QuickBASIC 4.5. Only those features that allow you to load and save
- your programs, or compile executable files have been disabled. MS has put
- virtually the entire QB manual into context-sensitive help screens.
-
- [ANGELLIB]
- AngelLib 1.9 (Babudro, Angel; $17) is a library of MS Basic PDS 7.1 routines
- for developing business applications. Routines are provided to manage/select
- printers and fonts, laser font downloading, scrollable information window,
- file selection window and more. Sample linker library (LIB) and a quick
- library (QLB) are included.
-
- [APG@_1, APG@_2]
- Automatic Program Generator 1.2 (S & M Software; $30) allows for easy creation
- of programs that create, maintain and print data files. Several files are
- included as examples.
-
- [APBASIC]
- APBasic Compiler (CompTech Software and Consulting Inc.; $43) is a structured
- BASIC programming environment and compiler with full-screen debugger and
- extensive on-line help. ASIC (disk #2363), a similar program, is a very good
- BASIC compiler but without denigrating it in any way, APBasic seems to be even
- slicker, more powerful, and more compatible with BASICA/QB. We fed a small QB
- program into APBasic which handled it easily. The same program in ASIC
- generated over 50 compatibility type errors when compiled. We also like
- APBasic's debugging and error searching better. A program is included that
- will create a doc file from the help file.
-
- [ASIC]
- ASIC 4.0 (Visti, David A.; $25) is a BASIC programming environment. It
- includes a full-screen text editor from which you can edit, compile, and
- execute your programs - all without leaving the editor. ASIC is a subset of
- BASICA and GWBASIC and supports over 40 BASIC statements, integer and string
- variables, and integer arrays. It will compile programs at high speed, and the
- code it generates is fast and compact. It includes support for Bload, Bsave,
- Command$, Date$, Time$, and many other commands. Other features include
- on-line keyword and menu help, fast debugger trace speed, support for 32 bit
- integer values, block IF statements, support for hexidecimal and binary
- constants, EGA/VGA graphics support, and more.
-
- [TINYBAS]
- Tiny Basic Interpreter is the assembler source code and executable for a small
- (<3k) Basic interpreter.
-
-
- -----TUTORS: tutorials and general info. for Basic
-
- [BASCTUT@]
- BASIC Tutorial #1 (Harper, Richard ASP; $0) is a tutorial on BASIC. It deals
- with with variables, INPUT and PRINT statements and simple program
- flowcharting.
-
- [Quirks]
- Quirks (Novisoff, Mark; $0) contains information about bugs, quirks, and
- general points of interest about PDS7 and QB.
-
- [TutorQB@]
- TutorQB (Ford, Nelson, ASP; $0) is a set of tutorials for QB. While most of
- the information is still valid, the screen layouts were done for QB.
-
- [ISAMTOO]
- IsamToot (Woodward, Kirk; $0) is a tutorial on Microsoft's ISAM database
- engine in PDS 7. The course moves from flat file demos to multi-file,
- relational database application. Source is included.
-
- [Un_New]
- Un_New tells how to get back a program in BASICA after typing NEW.
-
- [5BASIC]
- 5BASIC (DeJesus, Edmund; $0) teaches you how to write programs by learning
- just 5 Basic statements.
-
- [Sublist]
- Sublist 1.0 (Feldhamer, Leon; $0) creates a cross reference listing of all
- SUBs and FUNCTIONS in a Quick Basic or Basic PDS program.
-
- [TruErr]
- TruErr (Kiehl, Thomas; $35) gives you the true error line in your compiled PDS
- or VBDOS programs instead of addresses pointing to the error handler.
-
- [BTRAIN]
- Basic Training 1.2 (Cascoly Software ASP; $?) is an introductory tutorial on
- Basic programming. It can be used with almost any Basic compiler or
- environment such as QBASIC that comes with DOS 5 or GWBASIC that comes with
- most DOS's prior to 5.
-
- Basic Training introduces the elements of Basic including looping, color and
- sound, arrays and data, IF-THENs, GOSUBs and functions, files, and simple
- graphics. Examples that you can run and modify are included.
-
-
- -----TOOLS: Basic programming tools
-
- [SIMP_HLP]
- Simply Help 1.06 (Simpleware ASP; $35) lets you add hypertext type help
- systems to your QB programs, as well as create stand-alone hypertext manuals,
- etc. A hypertext editor, compiler, and library for QuickBASIC 4.xx are
- included.
-
- [RTX]
- Rtx Professional Toolbox (Cyberphilia, Inc.; $30) lets your apps quickly and
- easily generate professional looking reports from your raw data. Rtx handles
- page breaks, headers and footers, formatting, subtotalling columnar data and
- much more.
-
- [BasicXR]
- BasicXR (Goodale, JN; $15) will print a program listing, a cross-reference of
- line labels or line numbers, and a cross reference of reserved words.
-
- [Compare]
- Compare (Fort's Software; $10) compares two Basic program files which are
- saved on the disk in ASCII format.
-
- [QB_LIST]
- QB_LIST (Don West; $0) lists QuickBASIC or QBASIC programs better than their
- respective editors list them.
-
- [SmallE]
- SmallE (Muench, T.G. ASP; $0) is a text file describing how to create smaller
- QuickBASIC programs. Two sample programs are included.
-
- [StripHlp]
- StripHlp (Comptech Software and Consulting, Inc.; $?) will strip the QB help
- file down to pages that can be printed.
-
- [FLWCHRT]
- Flowchart (Lively, Lynn; $?) charts the flow of a Basic program to make it
- easier to understand and modify that program.
-
- [Linebug]
- Linebug (ComFax; $10) lets you know whether or not you have accidentally
- fouled-up any line numbers in a BASIC program when you are not using the BASIC
- Editor. Linebug will display the line number of any line that is a duplicate,
- out of sequence, contains an illegal character, or does not have the proper
- number of characters.
-
- [BL_UTIL]
- MakeBload/StripBload (Nelson, Chuck; $0) converts data files to/from BASIC's
- BLOAD format.
-
- [MAKEQLB]
- MakeQLBV is a .QLB maker utility for BASIC programs. Also included is FASTQLB.
-
- [MON_RB]
- Monitor (Bemis, Richard C.; $?) is a series of routines that provide a
- consistant user interface for application development. It helps minimize the
- drudgery of screen development, menus, titles, prompts, and editing input as
- the user interacts with your application. Monitor's routines are designed to
- be incorporated as a "front end" into application programs and were created to
- make custom application development easier.
-
- [OPTIMIZ]
- Optimize (Glowacki, Dave; $?) removes all unreferenced line numbers, allowing
- the compiler to optimize over entire blocks of code rather than single lines.
-
- [Profile]
- Profile resides in memory and logs how much time is spent executing each part
- of a program.
-
- [Scrn_Map]
- Scrn_Map will cause the Epson printer (with script capability) to make a form
- that can be used to lay-out screen formats for the IBM color-graphics adapter
- card in the alpha-numeric mode in either the 40 or 80 column width. You may
- choose either a blank form or one with each character position filled with the
- address of the memory location corresponding to that position.
-
- [Squish33]
- Squish33 (Buerg, Vernon D.; $0) will very quickly remove blanks and,
- optionally, remarks and line numbers and combine lines from a BASIC program
- stored in ASCII.
-
- [BPREP]
- BPrep 1.10 Applied Design Group; $29) is a preprocessor for the BASIC
- language. It provides conditional compilation, include files, and defined
- constants. It can be used with just about any BASIC product including Turbo
- Basic, QuickBasic, GW Basic, and MEQ Basic.
-
- [LOVR]
- Lovr 1.12 (Devore, Michael E.; $45) is an overlay manager for QuickBASIC 4+.
- An overlay manager allows you to not have to load all of your program at once,
- calling up additional parts only as needed. This allows programs to load
- faster and to run in less memory. LOVR will add about 11k to the size of your
- EXE program and will support up to eight overlays, calls between overlays and
- the /EXEPACK option of LINK.
-
- [PRNTPRG]
- PrntProg (Freeman, Daniel; $0) prints out QB code with subroutines on separate
- pages, long lines wrapped around instead of truncated (on HPLJs), and a table
- listing all the subroutines and their page numbers.
-
- [QBauto]
- QBauto is QB4 source code for a program to get QB to automatically compile all
- the programs in the current directory.
-
- [QBFE]
- QuickBasic Front End (Gagliano, Jim; $0) is a front end for QB(X). It lets you
- select from up to 16 command line options, as well as specify a QLB and
- program module to load. The program is not as efficiently designed as it could
- have been, but it is a good concept overall. (We have discussed the design
- problems with the author who may make changes accordingly.)
-
- [QBFlow]
- QBFlow (van Kuilenburg, Martin; $0) shows the relationships between the main
- module and the SUB and FUNCTION procedures in a QuickBasic source file.
-
- [QBCREF]
- QBcref (Tesch, Greg; $?) produces a program listing and cross-reference of QB
- programs.
-
- [QBPrt]
- QBPrt 1.0 (Weinman, L.; $0) will make QuickBASIC source code more readable by
- indenting the logical structures to make them more obvious.
-
- [QBX]
- QBX 2.06 (Buerg, Vernon D.; $0) is a cross-reference utility for QB programs,
- particularly those written without line numbers. It will print out a listing
- of the specified program, adding a line number to each line. It will then
- print a list of variables cross-referenced to those line number.
-
- [Libkey]
- Libkey 1.0 (Coon, John M.; $20) is a Quicklibrary and LIB utility for
- QuickBasic programmers. It will handle libraries with as many as 1000 object
- modules and will link your libraries to the QuickLibrary utility of your
- choice.
-
- [MIE]
- MIE (Roepenack, Scott; $25) is a QLB that lets you insert over 50 lines of
- code for IF ELSEIF END IF statements in under 10 seconds.
-
- [MSC]
- MSC (Roepenack, Scott; $25) is a QLB that inserts a Select Case into your
- programs with a couple of keystrokes.
-
- [QBLink]
- QBLink 3.1 (Jordan, Gerald; $10) is a compiler and linker manager for BC. You
- get access to command-line options not available from within the environment,
- while still having the ease of use of a menu driven interface for compiling --
- a must for anyone with QB or PDS who doesn't enjoy reading manuals.
-
- [SORTS]
- Sorts runs and compares 10 programs for sorting numbers and strings in BASIC.
- An informative explanation is also included.
-
- [Xref]
- Xref 1.6 (Tools; Dean Hodges; $10) cross-references QB code: subroutines,
- functions, constants, labels and variables.
-
- [IDECLAR]
- IDeclare 1.01 (KittyTigerSoftware; $5) creates include files without duplicate
- or unused declarations, customized for selected modules. Up to 32 include
- files and up to 32 modules can be selected.
-
- [PreQLB]
- PreQLB 2.0 (MicroHelp Inc.; $0) will automatically build a Quick Library
- containing all the external routines needed by a specific program.
-
- [QBTiny]
- QBTiny 1.2 (Hanlin, Thomas G. III; $35) lets you create smaller QB 4.5 EXE
- files.
-
- [COMMENTS]
- Comments (LAMCO Software; $20-$30) does a very thorough job of helping you
- annotate your QB source code. It examines your code, prompts you for
- information where needed, saves your original code to a backup file, and
- creates a new file with your commented code.
-
- [LibMgr]
- LibMgr (Evers, Dave; $?) is a library manager to make Microsoft's QuickBASIC
- BUILDLIB easier to use.
-
- [PPM110]
- Programmer's Project Manager 1.1 (Stevenson Technical Services, Inc.; $50)
- allows BASIC programmers to have complete control over a program's
- development. You can compile, link using multiple libraries, compress the EXE,
- scan for viruses, date/time stamp, and compress the entire project. Source
- files can be edited using your own editor or the PPM editor provided.
-
- [QuikLINK]
- QuickLINK (BaySys; $33) is a menu-driven compilation and link manager.
-
- [QKCOMPIL]
- QuickCompile v1.0 (Thomas Software; $15) greatly simplifies compiling with QB.
- It makes it easy to select the compilation switches you need. In fact, it
- looks at your source and selects most of the ones you need automatically.
- On-line help is available for all BC and Link options.
-
- [SA_KNIFE]
- Swiss Army Knife is a set of utilities primarily for use with BASICA: file
- compaction, line optimization, alias substitution, formatted program listing
- and cross-referencing of variables and line numbers.
-
-
- -----ARCHIV: archiving and compression routines for Basic.
-
- [DOUBLHSH]
- DoubleHash (James, Colin III, CQA; $?) is a useful method for data compression
- when it is necessary to search for strings previously encountered in the
- uncompressed data. Double hashing performs better than linear probing when the
- hash table gets full, and is usually faster than linked lists.
-
- [QBArcv]
- QBArcv is an assembler routine to call from BASIC that will read the contents
- of ARC files.
-
-
- -----DATA_INP: data entry routines for Basic
-
- [Barmenu]
- Barmenu is an example of how to create a bar menu.
-
- [DataBas]
- DataBas is a set of QuickBASIC routines for text entry, record selection with
- a "bounce bar" and data indexing.
-
- [Inkey_NF]
- Inkey_NF
- (Ford, Nelson, ASP; $0) is a data entry control routine. Inkey2 is a more
- complex version.
-
- [INPEDIT]
- Input/Editor (Sharpe, Randy; $0) is a QB data entry routine. It allows you to
- layout the screen as you wish, providing for movable field names and input
- fields, a validation message line for each field displayed where you wish, and
- the ability to use the TAB, Arrows, or ENTER key.
-
- [LTSMenu]
- LTSMenu is an example of how to create a Lotus-type menu.
-
- [MENURTN]
- MenuRtns (Smith, Robert R.; $0-$25) is a library of QB routines: GetTime,
- GetDate, Shadow, Waitkey, MenuBar, MenuWindow, and DrawBox.
-
- [MenuSub]
- MenuSub is a routine to create moving bar menus in QB.
-
- [QBEDITR]
- QBeditor (Rouse, Christopher P.; $0) is a linkable edit routine for QuickBASIC.
- It is designed to be used with single line entry fields in a data base
- environment, it does not support the vertical cursor movement functions such as
- the up and down arrows, page up or down, etc.
-
- [SELECT]
- Screen Selector (Sharpe, Randy; $0) is a QB routine that allows user selection
- of a number of choices displayed on the screen. It allows for various
- combinations of rows, columns, column widths, and column spacing, as long as
- they will fit on the screen.
-
- [BBMENU]
- Bounce Bar Menu (Woodward, Kirk; $25) is BASIC source code for a moving bar
- menuing system.
-
- [TwoTap]
- TwoTap (Woodward, Kirk; $0) is source for a menuing system for QuickBASIC
- and/or PDS 7.1.
-
- [YNQfra]
- YNQfra (Woodward, Kirk; $10) is module that displays a Yes/No/Quit grid. The
- user makes a choice with the cursor keys. Extensive error trapping is
- included.
-
- [Edit_Q]
- Edit_Q (Kelly, Sidney J.; $0) is a QuickBasic text input/edit routine written
- in assembler. It supports full cursor control, insert, delete, etc., and will
- filter out invalid keystrokes. All source code is included.
-
- [MYED_SRC]
- MyEd Source (Ford, Nelson ASP; $0) this disk contains the complete QuickBASIC
- source code for a text editor. The source is modularized, heavily annotated,
- and uses long, descriptive names for variables and subroutines. All or part of
- the code could be added to any program needing editing capabilities or you
- could simply customize it for your own use.
-
-
- -----WIN_MENU: windowing, menu and GUI routines for Basic
-
- [PulDown]
- PulDown 3.0 (Duro, Albert; $15) generates customizable menus, both in the
- QuickBASIC environment and in compiled files. It is designed for creating
- menus with four to seven first-level selections and 20-50 second level
- options. Mouse support is provided.
-
- [CODE_IT1, CODE_IT2]
- Code-It for PDS and QB (Clear Software; $59) is a set of menu and windowing
- libraries for BASIC PDS and QuickBASIC. You can build pull down menus, pop-up
- menus, and ring or vertical menus. Windows can have text, boxes, lines, edit
- fields with controlled keyboard input and output, and several types of
- buttons. Other routines include mouse support, specialty windows, screen
- saving and restoring, box drawing, video hardware detection and more.
-
- [BWINDOWS]
- B-Windows (Image Computer Systems; $?) is a windowing routine BASICA and QB4.
-
- [BASWIND]
- Baswind & Bwtool (Evers, Dave & Morgan, J. P.; $0) is an extensive set of
- windowing and mouse routines for QB 4.5. Also included with BASWIND is the QB
- and assembler source as well as a compiled QB4.5 version of the demo programs.
- The documentation on how to interface to the various window/mouse routines is
- also included.
-
- [EZWINDOW]
- EZ-Windows (Strong, John C.; $30) is a collection of 15 CALLable routines for
- doing pop-up, pull-down and other window functions. Compatible with Microsoft
- development system, and PDS 7.
-
- [VidBASIC]
- VidBASIC (Kelly, Sidney J.; $0) contains QBASIC/MASM video text mode routines.
- You can save, restore, move, change, switch, identify, and write fast to the
- screen. Source is included.
-
- [MenuMan]
- MenuMan 1.6 (Salt and Light Software; $10) generates menu code for your
- programs with selection by letters or numbers and with eight different box
- styles.
-
- [BW]
- BASIC Windows (Wanex, Scott; $0) is an assembly language subroutine that is
- called from BASIC that will permit the use of pop up windows. Source, code and
- demo are included.
-
- [POPUPS]
- PopUps (Allan, Geoff; $25) is a library of text windows for QuickBASIC 4 and
- includes shadows, changeable colors, and mouse support. It supports MDA, CGA,
- Hercules, EGA, and VGA display adapters.
-
- [QBWIND]
- QBWindow2 (Messner, Jay; $?) is a set of utilities for use in QuickBasic 4.x
- to perform windowing and menuing functions.
-
- [QWEZ61]
- Windows R-E-Z 6.1 (Magnanti, Richard A.; $33) is a window management system
- for QB4+. With this collection users can make, save, restore, and delete up to
- 20 windows. The 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 up to 10 linked data-entry screens, each with up to 100 fields;
- single mark scroll windows, page up/page down for scroll windows, segmented
- pull-down or scroll windows, key characters (different colors or hi-intensity)
- for items in pulldown or scroll windows, and dynamic memory allocation for
- window memory. It also provides keyboard and Mouse input routines and
- de-allocates window memory when a window is deleted.
-
- Other features include info-line routines to display messages, directions or
- prompts at any screen location, a simplified set-up for pulldown windows,
- virtual scroll windows, and more. Over 500K of disk space is required.
-
- [PWEZ61]
- Windows R-E-Z (PDS) 6.1 (Magnanti, Richard A.; $33) is a window management
- system for BASIC 7.+ (PDS). See the description above.
-
- [KELLY_IF]
- Kelly's Interface (Kelly, Sidney J.; $0) is a nice set of routines and demo
- code for creating a mouse-controlled user interface with pull-down menus,
- buttons, and context-sensitive help.
-
- [LANGWN1, LANGWN2]
- LangWin 2.3 (Lang, Allen; $0) is a library of functions and subroutines that
- can be used to add Graphical User Interface (GUI) features to your text-mode
- programs. Features include shadowed windows, push buttons, click boxes, dialog
- boxes, input fields, mouse support and more.
-
- [PRO_PDS@]
- ProWindows Lite for BASIC PDS 7 5.2 (DSE Software Publishing; $25-$60) is a
- pop-up windows library for PDS7. The window manager can manage up to 128
- concurrent windows. The program supports multiple, full-color, overlapping
- windows. You can move, re-size, hide, and scroll windows with either commands
- or a mouse.
-
- [PRO_QB_@]
- Pro_QB is a version of ProWindows Lite for QuickBASIC.
-
- [VUDU]
- VUDU (Binary Systems; $35) is a library of tools for QB or PDS 7. Routines
- include windowed menus, pull down menus, dialog boxes, scrolling menus, and
- more. Also included is an executable demo and it's BASIC source code.
-