Using QuickBASIC 4.5

Contents ......Page 6
Preface ......Page 10
1. A Review of BASIC ......Page 16
QuickBASIC: The Best of Two Worlds ......Page 20
A Common BASIC Starting Point ......Page 22
Personal Applications ......Page 23
Conventions and Style ......Page 31
QuickBASIC Preview ......Page 42
Review ......Page 47
2. Overview of QuickBASIC 4.5 ......Page 48
Making Backup Copies of QuickBASIC ......Page 49
QuickBASIC Introduction ......Page 51
A New QuickBASIC Program ......Page 52
A Previously Saved QuickBASIC Program ......Page 66
A Previously Saved GW-BASIC Program ......Page 69
Other Menus ......Page 74
Review ......Page 76
3. Building a Toolkit ......Page 78
Making a Toolkit ......Page 79
Variables and Data Types ......Page 80
Program Lines ......Page 83
Built-in Functions ......Page 84
User-defined Functions ......Page 86
Your Toolkit Disk ......Page 88
A Flock of Function Definitions ......Page 90
Multiline Functions ......Page 97
Control Structures ......Page 102
Review ......Page 116
4. Editing ......Page 118
The Full Menu System ......Page 119
Moving Around in a File ......Page 121
Inserting and Deleting Text ......Page 128
Edit Menu Commands ......Page 137
Review ......Page 148
5. Power Tools: FUNCTION and SUB Procedures ......Page 150
FUNCTION Procedures ......Page 151
SUB Procedures ......Page 157
Using Arrays ......Page 161
Using More Than One Procedure ......Page 171
Viewing Subprograms ......Page 180
Review ......Page 183
6. Sequential Unstructured Files ......Page 184
Types of Data Files ......Page 185
Naming a File ......Page 190
Creating a Sequential File ......Page 191
Reading the NotePad File ......Page 201
Printing the NotePad File ......Page 206
Appending the NotePad File ......Page 208
Making an Integrated NotePad File Program ......Page 211
Review ......Page 217
7. Sequential Structured Files ......Page 224
States and Abbreviations ......Page 225
Finding Information in the StateAbr.Dat File ......Page 236
Learning by Doodling ......Page 241
Review ......Page 250
8. Random-Access Files ......Page 252
Creating a Random-Access File ......Page 253
Reading a Random-Access File ......Page 260
Food and Nutrition ......Page 265
Review ......Page 289
9. Massaging Files ......Page 290
Copying a Sequential File ......Page 291
Copying and Editing a Sequential File ......Page 305
Shuffling and Sorting a Random-Access File ......Page 319
Review ......Page 331
10. Dynamic Debugging ......Page 332
The Debug Menu ......Page 334
Tracing a Program ......Page 335
Watching a Program ......Page 343
Other Debugging Tools ......Page 355
Review ......Page 356
11. Executable Files ......Page 358
Making Executable Files ......Page 359
Making an .EXE File that Requires BRUN45.EXE ......Page 367
Making a Stand-Alone .EXE File ......Page 376
Review ......Page 394
12. Quick Libraries ......Page 396
Advantages of Quick Libraries ......Page 397
Creating a Quick Library ......Page 398
Using Quick Library UTIL1 ......Page 407
Adding to a Quick Library ......Page 408
Review ......Page 421
A. ASCII Codes for the PC ......Page 422
B. QuickBASIC Reserved Words ......Page 430
Index ......Page 436