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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / thinBasic 1.6.0.10 just released

« on: July 05, 2008, 04:36 PM »

Hi all.

New thinBasic version 1.6.0.10 just released both stable and preview:

• some fixes (as usual)
• new functionalities (UNIONs, Type inherit, ...)
• a better thinAir (thinBasic IDE)
• new TBGL (OpenGL and much more module for thinBasic. It handle 2D, 3D, bone system, entity system, effects. A mast have.) from Petr
• new Oxygen (machine code and macro assembler module developed using FreeBasic - full source code included) from Charles

Plus: ThinBasic Journal. thinBasic community has now a PDF magazine dedicated to thinBasic programming.
http://community.thi...65.msg13758#msg13758

Regards
Eros

List of changes can be found in thinBasic help on-line at:
http://www.thinbasic...underdevelopment.htm

Download from official web site:
http://www.thinbasic...gid=18&Itemid=66
or from mirror site
http://www.thinbasic...inBasic_1.6.0.10.zip

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / thinBasic 1.4.0.0 released as stable version

« on: June 18, 2007, 11:34 AM »

List of changes for this version: http://www.thinbasic.../version_1_4_0_0.htm

Some videos showing what thinBasic can do: http://www.youtube.c...arch_query=thinbasic

Give it a try and test the many script examples you will find under thinBasic\SampleScripts directory.
You will found even more advanced scripts in thinBasic forum at http://community.thinbasic.com/index.php

Have fun.
Eros

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General Software Discussion / Searching for a project manager with specific features

« on: May 10, 2007, 07:39 AM »

Hi all,

I'm seaching for a projects manager with this important feature:
many projects sharing the same activities taken from a list of available possible activities. Every activity can have specific features (data to collect)

To give more details I need to take under control the production of goods from invention to production.
Every good have some activities in common with many other goods, not all. In some cases 2 or more products have exactly the same activities in the same exact order.

I would like to have some kind of activity repository where to define all possible activities and their options. An activity option can be the type of information to collect. Sometimes is a date, sometimes a number, sometimes free text or images. Every activity must have asome activity info that describe that activity and tells to which activity group it belongs.

After the list of possible activities is ready, a product leader can start a new product project taking the activities he/she needs for that specific product adding to the new project. A sort of list of activities to do but taken from the activity repository.

Than of course software should be able to make reporting both on specific project and to projects in a group. Also multi-user is a must.

Question: do you know a software doing something similar?

Thanks a lot
Eros

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Realtime 3D tree generator

« on: May 02, 2007, 05:51 AM »

This is a realtime random 3D tree generator.
After generation, trees can be rotated and zoomed in 3D. Sunrise will also change light. Spacebar to generate a new tree.
Windows application only. Requires OpenGL and 3D HW accellerated GPU for better performance.

Have fun.
Eros

thinBasic souce code can be found here: http://community.thi...=778.msg4836#msg4836

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / thinBasic produced its first executable bundled script

« on: February 25, 2007, 07:00 PM »

Hi all,

we have recently produced our first thinBasic executable script using thinBundle.
It is a sort of classical game. Executable contains all needed files inside:
thinBasic script, images, 3D models and relative textures, sounds files, needed dlls

You can download game from here: http://community.thinbasic.com/index.php?topic=580.msg3187#msg3187
Post contains some creenshots and a YouTube video.

What is thinBundle? http://community.thinbasic.com/index.php?topic=567.0
It is avaibale in latest thinBasic preview version 1.2.0.1
Mainly an executable created with thinBundle is a box containing all needed files. When executed, all files are exploded on disk in the same directory of the executable. thinBasic script contained in the exe is interpreted on the fly. So, even if you see an executable, in reality a script is interpreted and executed.
Still a lot of work to do but road seems open.

We have tested executable under Win98, WinXP and Windows Vista.
If you have some spare time to try it, please let us know if any problem and your impressions.

Regards
Eros

All YouTube thinBasic videos

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / thinBasic on YouTube

« on: February 05, 2007, 04:57 AM »

Hi all,

for those interested in scripting languages, we have released a new version of thinBasic: 1.2.0.1
thinBasic is a script interpreter with BASIC like syntax.

We have just put online some YouTube video showing thinBasic + TBGL (OpenGl module for thinBasic) capabilities.
Video can be seen at http://community.thi...index.php?board=68.0
We are preparing some more videos on aspects other than just graphics.

More information can be found into our site: www.thinbasic.com
Online documentation on thinBasic language can be found at: http://www.thinbasic...help/html/index.html
Download at: http://www.thinbasic...p;name=CmodsDownload

If you have any question, impression, suggestion, ...

Thanks a lot.
Eros

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / thinBasic version 1.0.11.0 released

« on: September 15, 2006, 08:57 AM »

Hi all.

We have just released thinBasic preview version 1.0.11.0
thinBasic is a Basic interpreter full of functionalities.

More than 700 predefined functions and lot more are coming.
All progrma flow functionalities.
Any kind of data from all numeric types to fixed or dynamic strings to arrays to types to variants.
Function/Subs with any kind of parameters passed by value or by reference
Access to all windows API
Modular structure with SDK to develop personalized modules with your own new keywords.
Many modules already developed.
OpenGL integration via wrapper module TBGL

Some links:
help online: http://www.thinbasic...help/html/index.html
list of changes: http://www.thinbasic...lp/html/whatsnew.htm
download site: http://www.thinbasic...34&orderby=dateD
forum support: http://community.thinbasic.com/

Some OpenGL script games developed using thinBasic
random tree generator: http://community.thi...ndex.php?topic=353.0
an arena robot duel: http://community.thi...ndex.php?topic=305.0
3D labyrinth: http://community.thi...ndex.php?topic=366.0

You can download and modify any of our scripts in order to test or even create your own one.

Any comment will be of great interest for us.

Thanks a lot
Eros

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Developer's Corner / thinBasic needs you for some tests

« on: May 03, 2006, 08:41 PM »

Do you like old 3D games like Wolfenstein 3D or Doom?
We are making test to recreate something similar using text scripts files written in thinBasic.

Have a look at http://www.thinbasic...opic&p=1239#1239
for some pic preview. We want create a little engine able to use simple text maps file very easy to use, modify, implement.

At the moment we need some test on different machines reporting if any bug or other issue.
If you have some spare time we would like to know the hardware on which you made the tests and the average FPS.

In order to execute the script you need to install thinBasic.
thinBasic is a script engine now at version 1.0.9.6. More info about thinBasic can be found online at http://www.thinbasic...help/html/index.html
or visit Download section for .chm or .html help format download.

Thanks a lot in advance

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General Software Discussion / Application inspector

« on: September 24, 2005, 10:13 AM »

For those who needs or likes to inspect how applications work here my preferred tools:
http://www.smidgeons...ng.com/software.html

Complete, professional and ... free.

Cheers
Eros

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General Software Discussion / Help authoring

« on: September 24, 2005, 09:05 AM »

For those who have to write help files, my suggestion is to have a look at Help & Manual.
Web site: http://www.helpandmanual.com/

Very complete. Very active web support.
At the same time you can produce many output format (.chm, .html, .hlp, .doc, .pdf, ...) starting from the same help file.

Not cheap but worth all the money. I use it everyday.

Cheers
Eros

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General Software Discussion / Personal suggestion: CodeCharge

« on: September 24, 2005, 07:23 AM »

I would like to suggest a product I consider really fantastic for web site development: CodeCharge from YesSoftware.
Web link: http://www.yessoftwa...ail.php?product_id=1

Not easy at first but if you work on dynamic web sites both for intranet or extranet you will have big advantages for its ability to work on databases.
Many, many features. Some:

• ability to keep separated user interface development from data integration and handling.
• automatic generation of code in many different web languages: asp, php, .net, jsp, ... other
• RAD visual development
• many different DBMS support

To be clear, I'm not in any case affiliated. More, I criticize them in the past but so far I didn't find any other good product compared with CodeCharge.

Regards
Eros

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General Software Discussion / Released thinBasic 1.0.5.0

« on: September 22, 2005, 07:14 PM »

For those interested in scripting or automation, we have just released a new version of thinBasic.
thinBasic is a script interpreter with BASIC like syntax.

More information can be found into our site: www.thinbasic.com
Online documentation (without the need to download thinBasic) can be found here: http://www.thinbasic...p;ceid=6&meid=25

If you have any question, impression, suggestion, please use our forum.
There is a section open also for unregistered people.

Regards.