AUDACIA Software - OWBasic 5.2

Changes in OWBasic 5.20 Beta 1:

New features in version 5.2 are:
The graphical user interface (GUI) was changed a little and reacts faster.
MODEICON supports a new parameter that makes possible to select between Menu and List Menu icon.
MODEVER$ is able to return the Add-In comment.
MODEINFO returns information about the given Add-In.
EXEC is able to return to the calling program after the called program has ended.
The position of the internal filebuffer pointer can be queried and set by FBBPOS.
SBDRAW draws and SBTOUCH queries a scroll bar
OWBasic recognizes and supports Add-Ins packed by AddInPacker (the new mode for Add-Ins is 32).
STRINGSIZE also counts trailing spaces.
BOX supports two new style parameter values (6 and 13).
Function pointers are able to point to built-in functions.
Characters can be subtracted, the resulting difference is an integer value.
OWBasic considers Alarm events.
OWBasic uses 3 independent timers for different purposes:
Timer 0 for the AutoPowerOff feature
Timer 1 for SYNC
Timer 2 for STARTTIMER/STOPTIMER
Because of that a call for SYNC does not affect the timer started by STARTTIMER any more.
If you need more than one timer in your program, use the Timer component in the OSL.
New operators are supported: ++ and -- in prefix and suffix versions as well as a conditional operator (?:).
The FORM functions have been improved and now cooperate with the OSL.

WAIT uses an independent timer
Visual FORM bug fixed
CIRCLE works correctly now
MODEFIND sorts out deleted Add-Ins (MODENAME does not do that due to efficiency)
SYSDLG 9 can be used to connect to PVM

The Remote Mode is no longer available
New procedure and function for serial communication: SRLSBLOCK and SRLRBLOCK()
UPCASE&() and LOWCASE&() also available for characters
TIME(8) is now equivalent to TIMER()
SYSDLG 9 (Add-In dialog) leaves OWBasic correctly after the PVM connection is finished
the LEVERPUSH() function does not reset the AutoPowerOff mechanism anymore
if a compile time evaluation raises an error, OWBasic terminates correctly
the character literal '(' does not raise a syntax error anymore

OWBbaseE522.zip - program binaries for old PV models

OWBbaseE522a.zip - program binaries PV-S1600

OWBsrc522.zip - source code

OWBhsrc521.zip - HTML-/Pocket Referencer-documentation source

OWBhtmlE521.zip - HTML documentation

buildarchives.zip - batch files for archive creation and necessary files (extract to OWBasic\release_archives)

Note: To view or to change the OWBasic options, use the OWBasic program OWBasic Settings and the OWBasic Standard Library.