Liberty BASIC Workshop Help

FILES

NEW: Ctrl-N

New files may be created. A new, empty code editor window opens, ready for editing.

OPEN FILES: Ctrl-O

Files in plain text *.BAS format may be loaded into the code editor. Any number of files may be open at once. File information is shown on the status bar as files are opened.

CODE EXPLORER:

The code explorer allows the programmer to navigate through drives and folders. The source code files in the selected folder are displayed in a listbox. As the listbox is scrolled, or as a filename is selected with the mouse, the first 2000 characters of the file are displayed in a texteditor preview pane. Once the desired source code file has been located, it can be opened in a Liberty BASIC Workshop edit window by selecting the OPEN button.

INSERT FILE:

Choosing to insert a file will cause the contents of the chosen file to be copied and inserted into the active code window at the current cursor position.

CLOSE:

This closes the code window that currently has focus.

CLOSE ALL:

This closes all code windows. It also closes the GUI Designer window if it is open.

SAVE FILES: Ctrl-S

SAVE will save the currently active file. SAVE AS will save the currently active file, first prompting for a file name.

SAVE ALL CODE WINDOWS:

This will save all open code windows in their current state. Any "untitled.bas" windows open a filedialog to get a disk name with which to save the file.

SAVE PROJECT:

If source code contains one or more "'include filename" directives at the top of the listing, then choosing to SAVE PROJECT will create a file on disk that uses the current file as the beginning, and appends all included files to that original file.

NEW GUI FORM:

This will open a new gui form.

LOAD GUI FORM:

A file dialog allows you to select a GUI form that was saved on disk. Selecting one will open a GUI form, with the extension "lbf" and load it into the Gui Builder window.

SAVE GUI FORM:

This will save the currently displayed form in the Gui Builder to disk.

RUNNING FILES:

Programs are saved to disk in the same directory as the source code with the same name, but with a BAK extension when they are to be run, debugged, or tokenized by Liberty BASIC. A file called "c:\libasic\myprog.bas" will be saved as "c:\libasic\myprog.bak", for instance.

PRINTING: Ctrl-P

Hard copies of code may be printed. If part of the code is selected, then the selection will be printed, otherwise, the entire file will be printed. Code is printed with syntax coloring intact.

RECENT FILES:

A list of the eight most recently opened files is included in the Files menu. Clicking one of these filenames in the menu causes it to open in a code editing window.