PowerBASIC FORMS

PowerBASIC FORMS by PowerBASIC

An optional Visual Designer for PowerBASIC V8 for Windows that allows you to build Graphical User Interfaces (GUI). PowerBASIC FORMS visual designer for PB/Win V8 will allow you to drag and drop controls, quickly build complex menus, automatically create resources from your images and version info. Create and name your own favorite styles. It's virtually everything you could ask for in a RAD tool.

PowerBASIC FORMS is an optional Visual Designer for PowerBASIC V8 for Windows that allows you to build Graphical User Interfaces (GUI). With PowerBASIC Forms, you'll visually create your GUI in just minutes. PowerBasic Forms will allow you to drag and drop dialogs and controls, quickly create menus, even import form design from a multitude of prior sources and then get clean, structured, DDT source code, ready to compile for your application.

With PowerBASIC FORMS you can open a dialog, size it to your needs, add a few controls, choose fonts and colors, add menus, accelerators, shortcuts, etc.. Instant test mode views the design, even before it's compiled. Save the form and it creates a complete .BAS application shell, add an extra control later, change a size or style as often as need

You can choose from the standard controls below, plus custom controls:

Image/Picture

Stretchable Image

Label/Static Text

Text/Edit Box

Frame/Group Box

Button

Image Button

Stretchable Image Button

Check Box

Check 3 State Box

Option/Radio Button

Combo Box

List Box

Horizontal Scroll Bar

Status Bar

List View Control

Tree View Control

Tab Control

Animate Control

Rich Edit Control

Date Time Picker Control

Month Calendar Control

IP Address Control

Line Control

Spin/Up-down Control

Progress Bar

Slider/Track Bar Control

Hot Key Control

Vertical Scroll Bar

PowerBASIC Forms offers a complete design environment, including a menu editor, tab order editor, and version resource editor.

So what about all your previous work? Have you spent months or years creating Visual Basic forms, Visual Studio resources, even hand-written DDT with PB/DLL? Is all that work wasted? Of course not. With just a few clicks, you'll import it, ready to compile and run.

An interesting option is the concept of "Favorite Styles". Dialogs and Controls may have thousands of possible size and style combinations. How do you choose the correct combination, and even more important, how do you remember that particular combination of size and bits next time? Finally, it's elementary. Choose some style bits, view the result in Test Mode. If it's pleasing, just give it a name, any name, and it's automatically saved for the future, ready for instant retrieval. Even better, one particular favorite can be chosen as the default size and style for each type of control and dialog.

Creating menus with the built-in menu editor couldn't be easier. Just type the text for each menu caption, ID names are created for you. Add separator bars and popup sub-menus as easily as choosing a radio button. You'll design menus in just a fraction of the time it took using Visual Basic. You can choose accelerators (short-cut keys) like (Ctrl+N), (F4), and (Ctrl+Shift+T) by just pressing the desired keys. Link a menu to a dialog with a simple drag'n'drop. Tab order is important. It must be intuitive, yet it often changes during development. Maintenance used to be drudgery. But no more. The Tab Order Editor displays a small yellow numbered box in the upper-left corner of each control. Click controls in sequence, and the numbered boxes update. Re-order the entire dialog or a few controls... it doesn't get easier. Need to populate a ListView or TreeView control? Don't struggle with foundation code... it's now automatic. PB/Forms generates simple "helper functions" to handle these menial tasks. In fact, it even creates sample code to help manage ListBoxes, ComboBoxes, TreeViews, ListViews, and others. Need a Resource? Know little about resources? Fine... that's automatic, too! All of your images, bitmaps, icons, and version resources are automatically embedded right here in PowerBASIC Forms. This simplifies your code while guaranteeing a single compact EXE. Need strings for a status bar or tooltips for a toolbar? They're auto-saved for you and embedded in the same final resource. Of course, in the "PowerBASIC Tradition", PowerBASIC Forms needs No Run-Times, No DLLs.

An optional Visual Designer for PowerBASIC V8 for Windows that allows you to build Graphical User Interfaces (GUI).

PartNumbers: PC-516152-64637 516152-64637

PurchaseOptions: PowerBASIC FORMS V1.51 1 Developer License

Resources: Read the PowerBASIC FORMS help file, Browse the PowerBASIC FORMS License Agreement Web pages, Download the PowerBASIC FORMS Demos on to your computer - Includes compiled executables

Operating System for Deployment: Windows XP, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95, Windows NT 3.51

Architecture of Product: 32Bit

Product Type: Add-In

Keywords: User Interface UI PowerBASIC Author power basic forms visual designer pb

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