Hi Billy!

15-Sep-94 13:33, Billy O'connor wrote to Larry Snider
          Subject: Ca Realizer


 >>I know that CA-Realizer is BASIC for the OS/2 platform.  And being a
 >>GW-, Quick- and Z-BASIC programmer for DOS and most recently Liberty
 >>BASIC for OS/2 (PM-apps only), I'd like to know other's opinion of it
 >>too.

 BO> I don't know if CA-Realizer will do anything that Liberty basic can't do.

Liberty basic is interpretive only.  No compiling capabilities
currently (only at v 0.6 beta). The registered version does comes with a
run-time engine, however, and has the ability to generate OS/2 PM apps
and Windows apps usually with little or no code modification.  Just
depends on which run-time engine you use (or so they say).

It has most of the traditional basic commands but lacks some which I
need for number crunching and such.  MOD and CASE SELECT come to mind.

If you ever want to take a look at Liberty basic it's on OS/2 Shareware
as LB06.zip (or something like that). :-)

 BO> I have it, it seems similar to Visual Basic.  It generates .EXE's, but
 BO> they do need a runtime .DLL.  It has some nice custom controls, built-in
 BO> spread sheets, charts, etc.

Unfortunately, I have never programmed using "Visual" anything.  Liberty
BASIC is my first exposure to programming PM apps and I do not think
that it qualifies as a "Visual..." dev tool.

Pardon my ignorance but why is a .DLL needed and what are the built-in
spread sheets, charts, etc. used for?

Goodbye,
             Larry Snider

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