I would like to announce the release of the new ReadLine library for BBC
BASIC for Windows. ReadLine adds a fully featured line editor with
clipboard support and a customisable line history buffer to your
programs. ReadLine is configurable to suit the needs of your programs.
Usage is simplicity itself and almost all programs that read input from
the user can be upgraded to feature a full line editor with clipboard
support and line input history in a few minutes by replacing all
occuraces of INPUT in you program with a call to FN_ReadLine.
Key features:
o Standard line editor keys are supported
o Insert/Overwrite modes and clipboard support
o Support for cloaked and silent data entry (for passwords)
o Validation strings can be used to limit input
o Set the maximum allowable length of any input string
o 27 hot-keys to ease the user experience of entering text
o Configurable line history (by default remembers the last 256 lines
of text entered, supports a maximum of 16.7 million histories)
o Save/Load line history plus eight more history manipulation
functions
ReadLine is free (as in beer) and may be included in commercial,
shareware and free programs without royalty.
Download it now from:
http://jonripley.com/bb4w/libraries/ReadLine.html
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BBC BASIC for Windows is available from:
http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/products/bbcwin/bbcwin.html
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Regards,
Jon Ripley
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