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@Stigern Stigern released this 23 Oct 14:49
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v0.9.0
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A Visual Basic 6 clone for macOS with the Windows 98 look and a local-AI coding assistant. 0.9.0 is the biggest release yet: menus, graphics, class modules, the debugger windows, printing, VB6 project import, MDI forms, drag and drop and much more.

Download

VibeBasic-0.9.0-macos-arm64.zip: for Apple Silicon Macs (M1 and later). The app is not notarized by Apple: the first time, right-click VibeBasic.app and choose Open, or run xattr -cr VibeBasic.app.

Added

  • Menus: the Menu Editor (Tools > Menu Editor, Ctrl+E), a Win98 menu bar in every form (designer and run time) with submenus, checkmarks, separators, shortcuts and Alt/F10 keyboard, menu control arrays (Load/Unload), and PopupMenu.
  • Graphics on forms and PictureBoxes: Print, Cls, PSet, Line (B/BF, Step), Circle (arcs, pies, ellipses), Point, PaintPicture, TextWidth/TextHeight, CurrentX/Y, DrawWidth/DrawStyle/DrawMode, FillStyle/FillColor, FontTransparent, AutoRedraw with Image, the Paint event, ScaleMode/ScaleLeft/ScaleTop/ScaleWidth/ScaleHeight, Scale, ScaleX/ScaleY and SavePicture.
  • Class modules: Property Get/Let/Set, New, Class_Initialize/Terminate, Event/RaiseEvent/WithEvents, Implements, Friend, default members and For Each (NewEnum).
  • The Locals, Watch and Call Stack windows, Add/Edit/Quick Watch with break conditions, data tips in break mode, and Set/Show Next Statement.
  • The Printer object and Printers collection (NewPage, EndDoc, KillDoc, Orientation, A4/Letter), a print preview with the macOS print dialog, Form.PrintForm and CommonDialog.ShowPrinter.
  • Opening VB6 projects (.vbp, .frm, .frx, .bas, .cls) with an import report, and Project > Add File (Ctrl+D).
  • Language: TypeOf…Is, named arguments (x:=1), Option Base and Option Compare, GoSub/Return, On…GoTo/GoSub, Global, #If/#Const, the financial functions (Pmt, FV, NPV, IRR, Rate, …), byte functions (LenB, LeftB, …), Partition and Debug.Assert.
  • MousePointer and MouseIcon on forms and controls, Screen.MousePointer, the Validate event with CausesValidation, and Alt+letter accelerators.
  • Sub Main as startup, Command$ and Environ, version information, file types and command-line arguments in Project Properties; made apps get their version, copyright and file associations; App.PrevInstance and App.LogEvent.
  • MDI forms with child windows, Arrange, the WindowList menu, merged menus, and several instances of a form with New.
  • Drag and drop: DragMode/DragDrop/DragOver, OLE drag and drop with DataObject, and files dropped from Finder.
  • ADO in code (New ADODB.Connection/Recordset/Command, transactions, Filter, Sort), CreateObject, Scripting.Dictionary and Scripting.FileSystemObject.
  • RichTextBox TextRTF/SelRTF, LoadFile/SaveFile, Find and paragraph formats; CommonDialog Flags (multiselect, DefaultExt, colour init).

Fixed

  • A thorough review of all of the above fixed 48 more issues, among them: objects in Collections and arrays are released, each ADO Connection has its own transaction, data tips never run code, crafted pictures in .frx files cannot hang an import, controls follow their container's ScaleMode, docked PictureBoxes know their size, Font* properties work everywhere, menu shortcuts follow the typed letter, and New form instances are freed after Unload.

Full history: CHANGELOG.md

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