What is Objective-Basic?

Objective-Basic is a powerful programming language, which is simply intuitive and fast easy to learn. Objective-Basic a new programming language, a further Basic dialect, is related to Visual Basic, Objective-C and Java. More exactly said Objective-Basic is an object-oriented and event-controlled programming language.

It is an easy-usable, object-oriented, compiled, stable, fast and modern programming language.

Objective-Basic is supported on the following platforms: Mac OS X (>= 10.4)

Objective-Basic has received international recognition from users, industry experts and media for being better than other BASIC languages.

Release Notes

Objective-Basic
Release Notes Version 1.2

Among other improvements. The following improvements have been made.

IDE
- added support for reading Interface Builder (created header files with outlets and actions)
- added support for Interface Builder importing Objective-Basic files

LANGUAGE
- added FOR EACH
- added SET keyword for using with Objective-Basic classes
- added LIKE keyword for easy String handling with new Objective-Basic String class
- added new data types: Byte, String, Variant
- added new array syntax: multi-array access with BASIC-styled [index, index, index, ...] or C-styled [index][index][index]

- added Objective-Basic framework with new Objective-Basic classes:

Foundation/Array

Foundation/Data

Foundation/Dictionary

Foundation/FileHandle

Foundation/FileManager

Foundation/Object

Foundation/ProcessInfo

Foundation/String

Foundation/Task

Foundation/Timer

Foundation/Variant

THE OBJECTIVE-BASIC MANUAL
- added some new documentation
- added Objective-Basic framework help support

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Objective-Basic
Release Notes Version 1.1

IDE
- double click on the application icon in the file list run the application
- non-source-code files cannot be accidentely opened anymore
- file list is now ordered
- added file list filter for .o .h and .m files
- added integrated Cocoa help support
- added snippets with syntax descriptions

THE OBJECTIVE-BASIC MANUAL
- added some new documentation
- added examples to the documentation

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Objective-Basic
Release Notes Version 1.0

FEATURES

Objective-Basic is full featured:
- Object oriented modern BASIC language
- Full featured IDE
- Complete documentation

The following features are now implemented:

LANGUAGE
- Class, Type, Enum
- Function, Sub, Method
- Object creation
- Events
- Statements, Assignment, Conditional, Loop statements
- Expressions, Conversions

INTERFACE BUILDER

IDE
- auto completion (builtin functions and datatypes)

THE OBJECTIVE-BASIC MANUAL

Have a nice day!

-- Bernd