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XusinboyBekchanov / VisualFBEditor

IDE for FreeBasic
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Newbie #162

Closed DFergFLA closed 3 years ago

DFergFLA commented 3 years ago

Hello, Newbie here. I mean new.. I have not played around with Quick Basic in almost 30 years and not any kind of programming at all in over 20. The last thing I used was VB6. I was never a professional programmer, just a hobbist. I stared with my Comodore 64, then over to my Amiga and Amiga Basic. Anyway. I have spent the last few hours downloading FreeBasic, VisualBFEditor and MyFbFramework. Much to my amazement, I was actually able to get it compiled and running. I have even done the traditionally "Hello World" Interestingly I wasn't able to find a "Message Box" so I just changed the text of the button. But, I did get it to work.

I need help to just get started here. Like I said, it's been decades and I am just playing around. Is there any newbie guide to using the IDE?

XusinboyBekchanov commented 3 years ago

Unfortunately, not yet.

There is information here too: https://github.com/XusinboyBekchanov/VisualFBEditor/discussions/98

XusinboyBekchanov commented 3 years ago

You can print to the console. To do this, you must enable the console: Print "Hello World" image

You can also display the message: MsgBox "Hello World"

demosthenesk commented 3 years ago

Hello, my opinion is that first you must learn the syntax of the FreeBASIC. Here is a starting point https://www.freebasic.net/wiki/DocToc This wiki is always exist as chm for offline use see here https://sourceforge.net/projects/fbc/files/FreeBASIC-1.08.1/Documentation/ Start with simple programs which print to the screen values and messages, learn the internals. FreeBASIC has a dialect for qb but it has more to offer when you use the default dialect which is freebasic. If you have experience with VB6 then this project is a piece of cake for you. Always you can get help in forum https://www.freebasic.net/forum/index.php

demosthenesk commented 3 years ago

For questions and discussions use better https://github.com/XusinboyBekchanov/VisualFBEditor/discussions and not isuues which is for reporting bugs. Welcome and good luck my friend!