Full version price : US $ 25 All upgrades, minor as well as major ones, are free, you only buy this software once!
User Manual in French: izibasic_manuel_fr.zip (972 Kb) THANK YOU very much Apdi2003 for this very welcome translation
Abstracts of the User Manual in various formats that can be used directly onboard of the Palm device: izibasic_doc.zip (587 Kb) THANK YOU very much to Garfield and Patrick for sharing their documentation
Various "PP applets" to add to iziBasic's features: ppapplets.zip (437 Kb) THANK YOU very much to bh77a, JoeV and Khertan for sharing their "PP applets"
iziBasic stands for easy Basic for Palm. It targets all kinds of developers and should be a very good tool for newbee programmers. Skilled programmers will also find in iziBasic a tool to develop very quickly and easily various types of software.
iziBasic is a high level development compiler which builds Stand-alone applications. The great thing is that it does all of that directly on-board of your Palm OS based device. Source codes are easily written using: - either the Memo Pad application which is shipped with all Palm OS devices, - or an on-board third party DOC editor of your choice.
As its name also states it, iziBasic uses the BASIC high level and very easy to learn development language, a customized subset of it to be precise. You will discover how easy and quick it is to develop software with iziBasic when the more common development tools available on the Palm OS platform usually require pretty good development skills.
A wonderful review, very positive and precise, was written for iziBasic on the famous English Palm247 website. You may access to this review by clicking on the image here after: I especially appreciated this review because I believe that it explains extremely well all aspects of iziBasic.
iziBasic is also very officially referenced on the PalmSource web site. It is qualified as "an easy-to-use BASIC compiler" The full description of PalmSource can be found here: http://www.palmos.com/dev/tools/vb_rad.html
To give you an idea of the power of iziBasic, here are snapshots for 6 of the 16 sample applications which are gently offered to you in the iziBasic distribution file:
Detailed description of iziBasic (one more time)
The same thing as above presented in a more "marketing" way
Limitations of the trial version of iziBasic
The limitations of the trial version are very light, so as not to stop you from using iziBasic if you like it and cannot afford to buy it. For instance, there is no time limit and you can very well use iziBasic without any time restriction. But you are encouraged to support this shareware and buy it. The limitations are: - A nag screen to remind you to buy the full version - Some functionalities are not activated (a few instructions and statements) - The About box in your programs tells that your software was made with iziBasic
How to buy the full version of iziBasic?
You can buy the full version of iziBasic for the very little cost of US $ 25 on the following online stores :
All upgrades, minor as well as major ones, are free, you only buy this software once!
Users testimonials
24-Jul-04 by Guilherme Miguιis This is a killer tool for standard GUI Palm OS applications development! It uses standard Palm OS API controls and it's faster than many popular interpreted C's and BASIC's for Palm OS! It also builds standard stand-alone Palm OS executables "onboard" - no runtime distribution! Impressive!
05-Aug-04 by jdebay This is a must have for anyone doing RAD for palm os. This is a system that is five stars plus. documentation is very good for initial release. Sample programs are great. We just need to support this system.
27-Oct-04 by YAM Guy I'm a newbee programmer who wanted to do more with my Palm, and make my own programs for "fun", and I found iziBasic so easy to learn and use!!! Easy but powerfull! It's so fun to code / debug / test and I fell very happy when I see my own programs running! Very good job!!!
30-Nov-04 by Chuck Norman Very powerful program, especially for the low cost. Creates stand alone applications easily. I was able to build and debug a 400+ line program in a few hours. Execution speeds are very fast. Questions were answered promptly on the developer's forum. Support has been first class; better than most commercial programs. This package has made it fun to program on the Palm with the simplicity of the BASIC language.
12-Dec-04 by Boris Belfer I have used NSBasic for a long time, then HandHeld Basic, Small Basic, and now - exclusively your software, because I can make changes right in front of my clients, adapting calculation to their specific needs. The software is not restricting my brain anymore. My engineering design got freedom!
13-Dec-04 by Nelson Menιndez I just purchased iziBasic and it is amazing. I forgot how much fun was to program en Basic. After reading your manual, I was able to create the program with not much hesitation.
20-Dec-04 by Benoit HERVIER The best PalmOS onboard basic. PRC generated is fast, and make design palm apps is very easy. And support are excellent !
27-Mar-05 by lawson liu it is very good. I like it. and develope some good application programes
13-Jul-05 by K. Obe Finally there is an Basic compiler for Palm and it is really EASY to use. Great!
A reviewer from Miami, Florida, 2005-10-21 Could it Get Better? No It Can't. iziBasic is a Must Have tool for any developer, not only can it create ''quick and dirty'' applications, it can also create professional applications. Customer support is great
What you ask for can of course be coded with iziBasic.
But, you will not find a high level form/database statement or function in iziBasic to do it. iziBasic works with basic flat files, records are stored in the Basic language fashion. It is up to your code to link the file records with the displaying rendering in a form, including filters, etc...
Overall, the coding principles are the same in iziBasic as in OnBoardC, PP Pascal, and most other development tools, but usually easier to code because the low level coding required in the other tools for file manipulation or form rendering are managed by iziBasic's runtime engine.
You should, at this stage, give a look to the source code of iBAddress to understand what I mean.
Cheers, aldweb
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by trial 01/04/2008 @ 09:58
What I mean with 'table' is: e.g. Your sample application 'iBAddress' has its main-database. Can we do the following with izibasic: We make another form that displays a table whose columns are only for LastName, FirstName, and Phone Fields (with filtering if possible). This form has its own database so we can set the 'SaveState' for the table displayed. It is the code for that table which I want to see. I can't find it in the manual. Thank you for the quick reply.
I am not sure to understand your request... So, my answer might be wrong somehow...
If the objective is to convert a PC database ("main-database"?) to a Palm database that could then be read and used by an iziBasic made application, this is of course possible with some 3rd party tools, but it is somehow out of iziBasic's current scope. I remember of a similar need expressed on the iziBasic forum, some time ago. Start by doing a search on this forum.
If the objective is to split a Palm "main-database" to some smaller tables/files, this is as well possible. But iziBasic is not natively a database oriented development tool, it rather works with "Basic minded" files. But you could use the CPDB.net database library, using some PP applet to monitor the CPDB.net calls from the iziBasic requests. There is a sample source code and application in the iziBasic package that shows an example of such a doing.
I hope that this answer will help you.
Cheers, aldweb
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by trial 31/03/2008 @ 09:32
Is there any code-sample for creating some "tables" from a certain main-database? Thanks.
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