BASIC for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows
KBasic is a powerful programming language, which is simply intuitive and easy to learn. It is a new programming language, a further BASIC dialect and is related to VB.NET, Visual Basic 6, Visual Basic for Application and Java. It combines the best features of those tools and comes with built-in backward support for those tools and QBasic as it is 100% syntax compatible to VB6, VBA and QBasic.Additionally, it comes with support for VB.NET syntax, functions and similar objects and classes.
Create modern applications in zero time
But this is NOT a VB.NET or VB6 clone! It is a full featured object-orientated language, which supports the best modern programming techniches known with well designed objects, events and plenty of documentation.KBasic is an open source, easy-usable, object-oriented, interpreted, stable, platform-independent, fast and modern programming language. More exactly said KBasic is an object-oriented and event-controlled programming language. KBasic is a multiplatform programming language, so almost the entire API is the same on all platforms and window systems. Thanks to Qt on which KBasic is based.
Together with KBasic you are able to create modern object oriented applications, e. g. for tasks such as GUI, SQL and more.
KBasic is available in English and German. Other languages such as French, Chinese and Spanish are in preparation.
Cross-Platform
KBasic uses Qt as its toolkit to provide cross-platform abilities. Qt is the best C++ cross-platform toolkit available and KBasic is the easiest way to get cross-platform development without the needs to learn C++ as it combines the expressive power of C++ with the familiarity and ease of use of VB6. The Qt API and tools are consistent across all supported platforms, enabling platform independent application development and deployment. Windows, Linux and MacOS X are supported platforms.Read more at Nokia’s website
http://www.trolltech.com/
Since its commercial introduction in early 1996, Qt has formed the basis of many thousands of successful applications worldwide. Qt is also the basis of the popular KDE Linux desktop environment, a standard component of all major Linux distributions. Read more at KDE’s website
http://www.kde.org/.
That means that the internal functions of KBasic use the high-quality
Qt library functions, which are the top of the art: fast, stable,
bug-free and tested and used worldwide!
What does the name KBasic mean?
KBasic means QtBASIC, but QBasic is used as most people know and QtBasic isn’t allowed at all, so KBasic is the best choice. Other possibilities could be KoolBasic or even KDEBasic. It’s your choice!Support this project
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An easy-to-learn and easy-to-use tool for professional, novice, hobbyist, and student developer.
News.
Added new Snapshot/PreviewKBasic is planned to be released in near future. The new version of the compiler and IDE is complete. The runtime is currently completed. So please be patient. It comes with a VB upgrade wizard. Improvements were also made to the performance and reliability of the IDE and runtime.
KBasic’s future with Qt
Qt is continuing to become the default multi-platform C++ library in the world. KBasic will switch to the newest Qt 4.4 as it is reaches FINAL status.
There are some exciting news about this new Qt 4.4
- Qt (and so KBasic) becomes Cocoa based on Mac platforms (leaving Carbon). Cocoa is Apple’s modern framework on Mac enabling you to use any features on Mac (Aqua Controls, CoreAnimation…), which means feeling more native on Mac. You will need at least Mac OS X 10.5 on target systems.
- New fully featured web browser control WebKit (based on Safari, Apple’s “Internet Explorer”)
- New multi-media support for sounds, videos and more (based on Phonon), which means you can use mpg, mp3, quicktime app
- fully Windows Vista look and feel and new controls
KBasic is continuing to develop as the default BASIC programming language to develop Qt applications for Windows, Mac and Linux. So be sure to check out the newest versions in future.
Press Release.
New release shippedFRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany (Octobre 6, 2008) - KBasic Software, providers of KBasic, announced today that KBasic Release 1.X BETA is available now for Windows, Linux and Macintosh. All feature updates and improvements to this latest version are the result of customer requests.
“KBasic Software is committed to ensuring the best customer experience that it can provide. As such, its capabilities, usability and functionality is constantly improved to address ongoing customer feedback."