Liberty BASIC 4 Companion

• Introduction
• Legal Notice

Part One - Tutorials

• Getting Started

The Fundamentals

• Your First Program!
• User Input and Variables
• Math and Numeric Variables
• Arrays are Lists
• Looping and Arrays
• Labels and Goto
• If -- Evaluating Expressions
• Programming in Windows
• Fun Stuff

Files on Disk

• Types of Disk Files
• Sequential Files
• Random Access Files
• Binary Files
• FILES Information

GUI Programming

• What is a GUI?
• Opening Windows
• Adding Controls
• Responding to User Events
• Communicating with Controls
• A First GUI Program

  Graphics

• Turtle Graphics
• Use of Color
• The Colordialog
• Bitmap Graphics
• Bitmap Color Formats
• Bitmap Dimensions
• Drawing Rules
• Drawn Objects
• Graphics and Text
• Trapping Mouse and Keyboard Events
• Segments and Flushing
• Loading Images

Sprite BASICs

• Sprite Animation
• Sprite Commands
• What is a Sprite?
• How Do Sprites Work?
• Start with the Background
• Designate Sprites
• Sprite Properites
• Sprite Methods
• Drawing and Collision Detection
• Flushing Sprite Graphics
• Pauses and Timing
• Add a Mask
• Step by Step
• Simple Demo Program

Game Creation

• Game Logic
• Game Outline
• Keyboard Input
• Mouse Input
• Using Arrays
• Shooting
• Scoring and Collision Detection

Part Two - Liberty BASIC Reference

Program Management

• Commands
• Command List
• Comments
• Liberty BASIC Variables
• The Liberty BASIC Editor
• Running Programs
• Lesson Browswer
• Debugging Programs
• The Debugger
• Error Trapping
• CommandLine$
• Distribute Programs
• Icon Editor

Window Reference

• Windows - The Mainwin
• Window Types and Commands
• Window Size and Placement
• Window Colors
• Dialogs
• Notice
• Prompt
• Confirm
• Common Dialogs
• Sounds
• Cursors
• Timer
• Joystick

Control Reference

• Controls
• Control Commands
• Menus
• Buttons
• Radiobuttons and Groupboxes
• Checkboxes
• Listboxes
• Comboboxes
• Statictext
• Textboxes
• Texteditors
• Text and Clipboard Functions
• Graphicboxes

Structure and Logic Reference

• Variables and Constants
• Arrays
• Structure and Branch Labels
• Gosubs, Subprograms and Functions
• Gosubs
• Subprograms
• Functions
• Looping
• If/Then and Boolean Operators
• Select Case
• Bitwise Operations

Graphics Functions

• Graphics Functions
• Bitmaps
• Graphic Text
• Mouse and Keyboard Events
• Graphics Commands
• Sprite Command List

Math Functions

• Math Functions
• Arithmetic
• Trig Functions

Managing Data

• String Functions
• Printing Hard Copies
• Data Management
• Files, Drives and Directories
• File Input
• File Output and Append
• Random Files
• Date and Time
• Communications Functions

Part Three - Using Dynamic Link Libraries

API Fundamentals

• Making API Calls
• Translating Calls to LB Syntax
• The Windows API in Action
• Shell and Kernel API
• INI Files and Registry
• Clipboard API Functions
• Callbacks and the Timer

Menus, Files and Icons

• Menu Manipulations
• Files and Dialogs
• File API Font Installation
• Icons
• Icon Demo 1
• Icon Demo 2

Modifying LB Windows and Controls

• Window Size and Location
• Change Window Caption
• Shaped Window
• Button States
• Color Matched Bmpbuttons
• Remove Border
• Textbox with Input Limit
• Listbox with Horizontal Scroll

GDI

• Graphics Device Interface
• Pens and Brushes
• Moving the Origin
• Drawing Points and Lines
• Drawing Objects
• Working with Regions
• Image Manipulations
• CreateFont
• Painting with Text
• Text Paths
• Memory Device Contexts
• Printing Functions
• Printing Demo

Multimedia

• Multimedia
• MCI Send String
• Open
• Play
• Close
• Pause/Resume
• Window Command
• Set
• Status
• Time Format
• AVI Demos
• CD and Joystick Demos
• Midi Demos
• MP3 and MPG Demos
• WAV Demos

Internet Programming

• Email
• Browsing the Internet
• Downloading Files

Windows Controls

• Creating and Using Custom Controls
• Statictext by API
• Buttons by API
• Edit Controls by API
• Text Editor by API

Common Controls

• Windows Common Controls
• Animation Control
• Animation Control Demo
• Date-Time Picker
• Calendar Demo
• Calendar Demo 2
• Time-Picker Demo
• Listview
• Listview Demo
• Progress Bar
• Progress Demo
• Slider (Trackbar)
• Slider Demo 1
• Slider Demo 2
• Spinner (UpDown Control)
• Spinner Demo
• Status Bar
• Status Demo 1
• Status Demo 2
• Tab Control
• Container Controls for Tabs
• Tab Control Demo
• Tab Control Demo 2
• Image Tab Control Demo
• Toolbar
• Toolbar Demo 1
• Toolbar Demo 2
• Tooltips
• Tooltip Demo 1
• Tooltip Demo 2
• Tree-views and ImageLists
• Tree-view Demo