Modern QBX IDE environment?

Annorax · Post by **Annorax** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:27 am

I've been programming in Qbasic/QBX for almost 10 years (but am a little rusty now). I have QBX 7.1 with the little patch that makes it not access the disk drive constantly for file opening, but I was wondering if there's a more modern port to the IDE (perhaps even a Windows one, but that is doubtful).

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

MystikShadows · Post by **MystikShadows** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:53 am

Welcome to Pete's Forum

take a look at www.freebasic.net you might be pleased to know that this is a QB compatible (as much as possible) version of a BASIC dialect that can be compiled on Windows Console, DOS 32 bit and Linux. this is just a compiler not an IDE. You can use your favorite Windows Editor (I like the Context Editor myself) to create your source modules and compile them using FreeBasic. As of now, there is the FBIDE project by VonGodric that you can find here http://www.hot.ee/fbide/ that's well on it's way to being a absolutely awesome tool.

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If you really just want a windows IDE for the PDS 7.1 I am working on an IDE project (to be released soon) for FreeBasic, VB-DOS Professional/Standard, the PDS and even QuickBasic 4.5. The reason I created this project originally was to circumvent the PDS and VB-DOS Professional IDE limitations in regards to creating the 16Mb capacity of the PDS and VB-DOS compilers (with overlays). The DOS IDEs couldn't allow to have a whole 16 Mb project opened and worked on. Once I release it, you can use it for that purpose. you can email or PM me if you want more information.

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I strongly recommend you looking into FreeBasic however for all the limitations it eliminates and the speed gains.

Levi · Post by **Levi** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:53 am

Ummm....you'll probably get some replies like FreeBasic. A good Free Basic compiler that is 90% or over 90% compatible with QB. With lots of great functions, very fast, can make windows or console applications rather than DOS applications. So that's a good one to check out.

RB is a little more like VB. SharpDevelop is a good one for VB.NET for free. It's capable of regular console applications as well but the language differences don't make it a good port.

LB, no, Rapid Q, not really, the syntax is close but it's closer to a VB clone than anything.

So FB is the best bet I think.

EDIT: Well it seems someone posted before I did. I knew they'd promote FB. It truly is that good. And I didn't know about that project. Please let us all know when it's done, sounds great.

MystikShadows · Post by **MystikShadows** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 12:08 pm

Hi Levi and Annorax,

If you want some screenshots to give you an idea where I'm at, have a look at the thread I started on QBasicNews right here:

http://forum.qbasicnews.com/viewtopic.p ... 01&start=0

I have links to 7 or 8 screenshots or so...see where I'm going with this

...I'm debugging and finetuning it right now....so it's stable enough for beta release (least I can do lol).....so I suspect quite soon i'll be releasing it

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I'll be adding a few more screen shots of other option screens I did in there too.....

Let me know what you think

Annorax · Post by **Annorax** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:54 pm

Thanks for the posts everyone.

Levi, I am now using FB, thanks.

MystikShadows, your IDE looks really sweet, please keep us informed as to its release!