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BBC BASIC for Windows version 5.91b released
Post by admin on Jul 1st, 2010, 2:54pm

I'm pleased to announce the release of BBC BASIC for Windows version 5.91b. This is a maintenance release to fix a few minor anomalies reported or discovered since the release of version 5.91a:

  1. The IDE is now compatible with having the taskbar at the top of the screen. Previously, in this configuration the editor window would 'creep' up the screen each time it was run.

  2. The cruncher will now accept RESTORE LOCAL without needing the 'concatenate lines' option to be disabled.

  3. MOUSE is again compatible with Wine. Note that this is not a workaround to a bug in Wine, but addresses a latent bug in BB4W.

  4. The assembler now accepts the PAVGW instruction. For some odd reason this was previously omitted from the MMX instructions (despite PAVGB being included)

As well as these changes the documentation has been revised, and in particular references to WINRING0.dll (which has been withdrawn by its author) have been replaced by references to InpOut32.dll. The Context-Sensitive Help has been brought up-to-date.

A number of the supplied example programs and libraries have been updated. In particular the SUBCLASS library now has a new function for subclassing child windows; the MDILIB and MULTIWIN libraries now forward WM_HSCROLL, WM_VSCROLL and WM_COMMAND messages so they can be intercepted with ON MOVE and ON SYS; the CALLBACK library supports 'deferred' callbacks, occuring after the API has returned.

To upgrade your copy of BBC BASIC for Windows to version 5.91b, and at the same time update your libraries, example programs and manual, download and install UPGRADE.EXE from here:

http://www.rtrussell.co.uk/bbcwin/download.html

Richard.