BCX Documentation Revision History

created and maintained by Robert Wishlaw

Version 8.1.6, September 3, 2024
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 revised the LOOKAHEAD$ example.
Version 8.1.5, August 26, 2024
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added remarks and examples to the IINSTR and the INSTR functions section.
  - 🔗 added remarks and examples to the INSTRANY and IINSTRANY functions section.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 corrected omissions from the Index and Runtime Table of Contents. Corrected instances of "Run-time" to "Runtime". The "Runtime" procedures are part of the language implementation. The "Run-time" is the time that it takes to run a procedure or program.
  - 🔗 added IINSTR to the INSTR functions section.
Version 8.1.3, August 22, 2024
- Kevin Diggins
 - 🔗 added, to the INFOBOX control section, missing width and height parameters and descriptions. An Information argument maximum size, 32500 bytes, warning was attached to the parameter description and Example 2: was added to the section.
 - 🔗 added Example 3: to the CALLBACK FUNCTION ... END FUNCTION procedure section.
 - 🔗 added to the MID$ statement section, Example 2:, a Decimal Number <-> Roman Numerals Converter originally coded by SierraKen at the QB64PE forum, with enhancements by BPLUS at QB64PE forum. Converted to BCX BASIC by MrBcx (August 2024) (Public Domain).
 - 🔗 added remarks and examples to the DRAW statement section.
 - 🔗 added remarks to SWAP statement section.
- Robert Wishlaw
 - 🔗 revised the INFOBOX control section.
 - corrected primary reference document from midfunction.htm to midstatement.htm in MID$ statement hyperlinks.
 - 🔗 revised the FOR_EACH ... NEXT_EACH section.
 - 🔗 added the LIKE_INSTR section.
 - 🔗 revised the REMOVEANY$ section adding IREMOVEANY$.
 - 🔗 revised the REPLACEANY$ section, adding IREPLACEANY$.
 - 🔗 added INSTRANY and IINSTRANY functions section.
 - 🔗 added DRAW statement section.
 - 🔗 revised and added an example to SWAP statement section.
 - 🔗 added ANY operator page.
Version 8.1.2, August 8, 2024
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added two easy to understand examples to the beginning of the 'Recursive FUNCTION and SUB procedures section.
  - 🔗 added to the $INCLUDE directive section, a remark stating that each $INCLUDE must be on its own line in the source code file.
  - 🔗 added to the FOR ... NEXT parameters description, a remark regarding the start, stop, and step arguments.
  - 🔗 added to the 'User Defined TYPE' section, Example 2:, demonstrating the declaration, passing, and redimensioning of a local array of User-Defined-Type inside a foreign SUB.
  - 🔗 revised the CHR$ Purpose: description.
  - 🔗 added remarks and an example for conditional compilation of FUNCTION and SUB procedures within preprocessor $IFDEF ... $ENDIF blocks.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 added a 'Recursive FUNCTION and SUB procedures' section.
  - 🔗 revised the 'BCX Command Line Usage' section.
  - 🔗 updated and revised the $ZAP directive section.
  - 🔗 added an example to the BCX_SLIDER control based on original code by Dietrich Schweiss written on June 15 2004.
  - 🔗 added the LOOKAHEAD$ function section to the REWIND statement page.
  - 🔗 revised the example in the REWIND statement section.
  - 🔗 corrected a typo in the Remarks: of the HANDLE_MSG ... INLINE macro section.
  - 🔗 added Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2022 detection capability to the OSVERSION function example.
Version 8.1.1, July 4, 2024
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added remarks and example to UBOUND function section.
  - 🔗 added remarks and example to UBOUND_D function section.
  - 🔗 added remarks and example to UBOUND_S function section.
  - 🔗 added remarks and example to REMOVEANY$ function section.
  - 🔗 added remarks and example to REPLACEANY$ function section.
- Ad Rienks
  - 🔗 added to the KEYPRESS function Return Value: section a list of typical values for Extended Key presses.
  - 🔗 added to the INKEY function Return Value: section a list of typical values for Extended Key presses.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 corrected and revised the KEYPRESS function section.
  - 🔗 corrected and revised the INKEY function section.
  - 🔗 revised Example 2: in the UBOUND function section.
  - 🔗 added UBOUND_D function section.
  - 🔗 added UBOUND_S function section.
  - 🔗 added REMOVEANY$ function section.
  - 🔗 added REPLACEANY$ function section.
Version 8.1.0, June 30 1, 2024
- Ad Rienks
  - 🔗 added to the KEYPRESS function Return Value: section a list of typical values for Function Key presses.
  - 🔗 added to the INKEY function Return Value: section a list of typical values for Function Key presses.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - replaced instances of the obsolete BCX keyword "BCX_TmpStr" with its replacement "BCX_TempStr".
  - 🔗 added MACRO and CONST to the list prohibiting encasement by control flow conditional directives.
Version 8.1.0, June 12, 2024
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 removed the "SET processing allows BCX keywords to be recognized" example from the SET ... END SET section. The reason was that, "The only three BCX keywords that work with the example are in the example. Everything else results in an error."
- Robert Wishlaw
  - lowercased the names of all files that make up the BCXHelp.chm. The reference links to those files, also, have been lowercased.
Version 8.1.0, June 6, 2024
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added warnings to ISFILE section.
  - 🔗 added warnings to ISFOLDER section.
  - 🔗 added warnings to ISREADONLY section.
  - 🔗 added warnings to ISHIDDEN section.
  - 🔗 added warnings to ISSYSTEM section.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 added an example to, and revised the $DEFINE preprocessor directive section
  - 🔗 revised the TEMPDIR$ function 'Return Value:' description, adding, "The returned string has a terminating backslash."
  - 🔗 added 'Example 2:' to ISFOLDER section.
Version 8.0.9, June 1, 2024
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 corrected missing $ sigils on STR$ functions in example 2 in the FOR_EACH ... NEXT_EACH section.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected many instances of missing $ sigils on STR$ functions.
  - 🔗 replaced most instances of the BCX COM keyword SET with COMSET.
Version 8.0.9, May 29, 2024
- Kevin Diggins
  - revised the example in the RBFOR, RBEXIT, and RBNEXT section.
Version 8.0.9, May 28, 2024
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 revised the example in the RBFOR, RBEXIT, and RBNEXT section.
Version 8.0.8, May 28, 2024
- Robert Wishlaw
  - repaired many broken links to external resources.
  - 🔗 repaired broken index links to RBFOR, RBEXIT, and RBNEXT section.
Version 8.0.8, May 22, 2024
- Kevin Diggins
  - added warnings to the FLOAT, DOUBLE, and LDOUBLE data type sections stating
    ☞ When dealing with floating point operations, expressions should include, at least, one operation that explicitly informs the compiler that a floating point operation is occurring.
    As well, example code demonstrating the problem and solution has been added.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 corrected, revised and restructured the '= Assignment Operator' section.
  - 🔗 corrected, revised and restructured the 'Relational Operators' section.
  - 🔗 added an example to the LEFT$ function section.
  - 🔗 added, to the LEFT$ function section, links to BCX Console Sample Programs using the LEFT$ function.
  - hyperlinked instances of
    - STRING
    - DOUBLE
    - LDOUBLE
    - FLOAT
    - SINGLE
    - ULONGLONG
    - LONGLONG
    - ULONG
    - LONG
    - UINT
    - INTEGER
    - USHORT
    - SHORT
    - UCHAR
    - CHAR
    - BOOL
    to their primary reference.
Version 8.0.8, May 16, 2024
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 revised the example in the CAST function section.
Version 8.0.8, May 15, 2024
- mr_unreliable
  - 🔗 suggested expanding the explanation of the scope of LOCAL variables.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 expanded the explanation of the scope of LOCAL variables.
  - 🔗 added to the index
    - BCX_WNDCLASS structure
    - BCX_GUI_INIT system variable
  - 🔗 added to the index
    - RBFOR
    - RBEXIT RBFOR
    - RBNEXT
Version 8.0.8, April 27, 2024
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 corrected typographic error in the "Cardioid and Beyond" example of the BCX_PRINTEX function.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 added to the index
    - FDRV
    - FPATH
    - FNAME
    - FEXT
  - 🔗 added the COMSET alias for SET to the BCX Documentation of the SET ... SET NOTHING procedure section.
Version 8.0.8, April 25, 2024
- Armando Rivera
  - 🔗 added an example in the OSVERSION section, showing an alternative method for determining the operating system version.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 revised the content in the HANDLE_CMD macro section.
  - 🔗 revised the content in the HANDLE_CMD ... INLINE macro procedure section.
  - 🔗 revised the content in the CMDHANDLER macro procedure section.
  - 🔗 revised the content in the HANDLE_MSG macro section.
  - 🔗 revised the content in the HANDLE_MSG ... INLINE macro procedure section.
  - 🔗 revised the content in the MSGHANDLER macro procedure section.
  - 🔗 added BCX COM GETOBJECT section including a Ljubisa Knezevic BCX COM interface GETOBJECT function example.
  - 🔗 added LReturn to the BCX System variables page.
Version 8.0.8, April 4, 2024
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 revised and restructured the content and example in the $REMS directive section.
  - 🔗 corrected error regarding $ sigil data type in the 'Variable data type declaration suffix' section of the COM Type-Cast Conversions page.
Version 8.0.8, March 28, 2024
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 revised and restructured the REPLACE$ function section.
  - 🔗 revised and restructured the REPLACE statement section.
  - 🔗 revised and restructured the Using Random Access Files section.
  - 🔗 revised the example in the RECLEN statement section.
  - 🔗 added a revised example of Mike Henning's Pointer Sort Demo, SortDemo3.bas, to the FINDINTYPE function section.
  - 🔗 corrected and revised the TEMPFILENAME$ function section.
  - 🔗 corrected and revised the BCX Scripting Procedures page.
Version 8.0.8, March 19, 2024
- Robert Wishlaw
  - replaced all instances, case insensitive, of "do not" with do not .
  - 🔗 revised the HANDLE_CMD and CMDHANDLER sections.
  - 🔗 repaired many instances of missing "$" sigil in CHR$ function calls.
  - 🔗 revised and restructured the ENUM section.
  - 🔗 revised and restructured the CONTAINEDIN section.
  - 🔗 revised and restructured the FINDINTYPE section.
  - 🔗 revised the SEEK statement section.
  - 🔗 revised the FTELL section.
  - 🔗 revised and restructured the GETFILENAME$ section.
  - Cleanup continues.
Version 8.0.8, March 14, 2024
- Robert Wishlaw
  - replaced all instances of "can not" and "cannot" with cannot.
  - 🔗 repaired broken SPLIT and DSPLIT function examples.
  - 🔗 renamed "REGSTRING$function.htm" page to RegistryProcedures.htm.
  - 🔗 added "Registry Procedures" header section to the Registry Procedures page and, as well, revised the
    sections.
  - Cleanup continues.
Version 8.0.8, March 8, 2024
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 consolidated the COM OBJECT page into the 'BCX Data Types' section.
  - 🔗 added example to ISFILE section.
  - 🔗 added example to ISFOLDER section.
  - 🔗 added example to ISREADONLY section.
  - 🔗 added example to ISHIDDEN section.
  - 🔗 added example to ISSYSTEM section.
  - 🔗 changed the Microsoft predefined cursors list to a table in the BCX_CURSOR section.
  - 🔗 added a $CPP directive to each example in the "The C++ Tutorial for BCX Users" .
  - hyperlinked instances of STRING and OBJECT to their primary reference.
  - replaced all instances of "folder" and "folders" with "directory" and "directories".
Version 8.0.8, March 3, 2024
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 changed the Microsoft predefined cursors list to a table in the BCX_CURSOR section.
  - 🔗 added Example 2: to ADDRESSOF section.
  - 🔗 revised BCX_BITMAP section.
  - 🔗 revised BCX_BITMAP section.
  - 🔗 revised BCX_BMPBUTTON section.
  - 🔗 added "WNDCLASSEX replacements" to the index linking to the 'BCX Procedures to Replace Members of the WNDCLASSEX Structure' section.
  - 🔗 added BCX_SETSPLITPOS to the index.
  - replacing syntax parameter members' sigils with AS DATA TYPE.
  - replacing Parameter list members sigils with Data Type: heading.
  - Cleanup continues.
Version 8.0.8, February 9, 2024
- Robert Wishlaw
  - reverted, from Version 8.0.8, January 30, 2024, several variable name instances back to "hWnd" from "hwnd", where the system keyword "hWnd" is integral to functioning code as, for instance,in the example on the HANDLE_MSG macro page. Most other "hwnd" have been changed to "HndlWnd" and syntax coloring has been applied to hWnd.
  - 🔗 updated the Microsoft predefined cursors list and added cursor images to the BCX_CURSOR section.
  - 🔗 repaired the incomplete Example 1 in the WITH ... END WITH section.
  - 🔗 corrected BCX_PRINTEX status to statement from function.
  - 🔗 corrected and revised the BCX_COLORDLG section.
  - 🔗 corrected and revised the RGB section.
  - 🔗 corrected and revised the GETRVALUE section.
  - 🔗 corrected and revised the GETGVALUE section.
  - 🔗 corrected and revised the GETBVALUE section.
  - replaced instances of non-keyword use of case variants of the COLORREF case-insensitive BCX keyword, for instance, "ColorRef" with other names, usually "Colour".
  - cleanup continues.
Version 8.0.8, February 1, 2024
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 corrected syntax highlighting in BCX_POLAR_LINE example.
  - 🔗 corrected syntax highlighting in BCX_POLAR_PSET example.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 consolidated the SET_BCX_BITMAP and SET_BCX_BITMAP2 statement pages with the BCX_BITMAP function page.
  - 🔗 corrected broken syntax in FOR_EACH section.
Version 8.0.8, January 30, 2024
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added example to BCX_POLAR_PSET section.
  - 🔗 added comments to the BCX_POLAR_PSET procedure.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 moved BCX_POLAR_PSET example to BCX_POLAR_LINE section.
  - 🔗 revised Example 6 and Example 7 in the TYPE section.
  - replaced most instances of "UDT" with "user defined TYPE".
  - 🔗 hyperlinked instances of TYPE to their primary reference.
  - 🔗 hyperlinked instances of UNION to their primary reference.
  - 🔗 repaired instances of BYREF qualifier broken links.
  - 🔗 revised documentation in BYREF qualifier section. As well, Example 2 has been expanded to clarify BCX translator syntax expectations when coding dereferencing of a pointer to a struct, with remarks added stating,
    ☞ Note carefully the use of the parentheses in SUB rectProc1. The BCX translator requires that only parentheses, in this case, (rct), are syntaxed instead of the typical (*rct) used, when dereferencing a pointer to a struct. The BCX translator adds the asterisk in the 'C' code.
  - 🔗 corrected and revised ISTRUE, NOTZERO, ISFALSE, ISZERO sections.
  - 🔗 revised the 'BCX and Other BASIC Dialects - Similarities and Differences' page
  - replaced most parameter name and variable name instances of "hWnd" with "hwnd"
  - adding syntax coloring and consistent style to BCX keyword section headings.
  - cleanup continues.
Version 8.0.8, December 27 2023
- Kevin Diggins
 - 🔗 added comments to the BCX_SPLITTER example stating
 1. This Demo requires that its source file be named "ColorSplitterDemo.bas"
 2. "ColorSplitterDemo.bas" must be in the same directory as "ColorSplitterDemo.exe"
 - 🔗 on the 'BCX and Other BASIC Dialects - Similarities and Differences' page, removed an incorrect = in the final RETURN statement.
- Robert Wishlaw
 - 🔗 revised the BCX_TREEVIEW function section and added a note stating
 An example demonstrating the use of the BCX_TREEVIEW function is available in the Trview1 directory of the GUI_Demo.zip downloadable from the BCX BASIC Forum GUI Demos 2020 post https://bcxbasiccoders.com/smf/index.php?topic=390.0
 - 🔗 revised MOD and IMOD functions sections.
 - 🔗 on the 'BCX Object Oriented Programming' page, added a warning to Garvan O'Keeffe's example stating that
 ☞ Pelles C, Version 12 and up, will not compile this example. In FUNCTION Angle2, changing properties is now flagged as an error.
 - 🔗 on the MSGBOX page, removed a incorrect < at the beginning of the HTML code of Example 1, which caused a faulty display on the BCXBASICCoders webpage at https://bcxbasiccoders.com/webhelp/html/messageboxes.htm#function
 - 🔗 on the MSGBOX page, added a warning to the flags list of the Buttons_and_Icons parameter stating that
 ☞ MB_HELP flag cannot be used in a console.
 and added Example 2, which shows how the MB_HELP flag can be used in a GUI application.
 - 🔗 hyperlinked instances of CBCTL, CBCTLMSG, CBHNDL, CBHWND, CBWPARAM, CBLPARAM, CBMSG to their primary reference.
Version 8.0.7, December 9, 2023
- David Garner
  - 🔗 added an example to the BCX_COMBOBOX section.
- JoeC4281
  - 🔗 added a note and link regarding the availability of a 64 bit VBScript engine.
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 corrected a missing argument in the "Persistent Graphics Using Dynamic Bitmaps" example in the STARTDRAW ... ENDDRAW procedure section.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected several instances of incorrectly capitalized code; most were "C" code data types contained within $CCODE encapsulations.
  - 🔗 repaired broken link to Subclassing Windows Controls in the GUI Procedures section on the Run-Time Procedures page.
  - 🔗 restored Kevin Diggins' comments regarding subclassing Windows controls in the preamble added to the CALLBACK FUNCTION section.
  - hyperlinked instances of CALLBACK to their primary reference.
  - 🔗 added the SCHAR data type section.
  - 🔗 added the SSHORT data type section.
  - replaced, in all BCX graphics functions with a DrawHDC parameter,
    the caveat to the hWnd parameter stating that
    "If printing to a hWnd, the DrawHDC parameter, below, is not used."
    with
    "The hWnd parameter must be set to 0 if printing to an HDC."
    and replaced the caveat to the DrawHDC parameter stating that
    "If printing to an HDC, the hWnd parameter, above, is not used."
    with
    "If printing to an HDC, the hWnd parameter, above, must be set to 0."
  - 🔗 revised the BCX_FLOODFILL function example replacing the Form1 arguments of the 1st parameter with 0.
  - 🔗 removed superfluous DLGPROC casts from Example 1 and 2 in the BCX_MDIALOG function section.
  - 🔗 corrected malformed $BCXVERSION directive in Example 2 in the BCX_MDIALOG function section.
Version 8.0.6, September 28, 2023
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added instruction, comments and example to the MAKEBMP function section.
  - 🔗 added instruction, comments and example to the MAKEHDC function section.
  - 🔗 added instruction, comments and example to the NEWBMP function section.
  - 🔗 added instruction and comments to the TIX_START ... TIX_NOW function section.
  - 🔗 added comments to the Bitwise and Logical operators sections.
  - 🔗 revised the Purpose of the PEEK$ function.
  - 🔗 revised the Purpose of the POKE statement.
  - 🔗 added SETEOF statement to the BCX File Management Procedures section of the Runtime Procedures page.
  - 🔗 added instruction, comments and example to the FTELL function section.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 removed deprecated data type sigils from instances of VBS_ERROR, VBS_EVAL_NUM and VBS_EVAL_STR functions.
  - 🔗 added the MAKEBMP function section.
  - 🔗 added the MAKEHDC function section.
  - 🔗 added the NEWBMP function section.
  - 🔗 revised the TIMER function section.
  - 🔗 added the TIX_START ... TIX_NOW function section.
  - 🔗 added the LAND function section.
  - 🔗 added the LOR function section.
  - 🔗 restructured the Bitwise and Logical operators section.
  - 🔗 revised the parameter order of the BCX_FLOODFILL function section.
  - 🔗 added listing to the index for COLORREF value keyword.
  - 🔗 in the QBCOLOR statement section, consolidated tables and made revisions.
  - 🔗 added
    - DIM variable declarator
    - GLOBAL variable declarator
    - LOCAL variable declarator
    - RAW variable declarator
    - SHARED variable declarator
    - AUTO storage class specifier
    - REGISTER storage class specifier
    - STATIC storage class specifier
    - EXTERN storage class specifier
    to the maniculed caveat regarding encasement by conditional directives.
  - 🔗 hyperlinked instances of
    - $IFDEF
    - $IF
    - $IFDEF
    - $IFNDEF
    - $ELSE
    - $ELSEIF
    - $ENDIF
    to their primary reference.
  - 🔗 added FTELL function section.
Version 8.0.5, September 6, 2023
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added comments to the BCX_BLIT procedure section.
  - 🔗 added comments to the BCX_BLIT_SPRITE procedure section.
  - 🔗 added comments to the BCX_BLIT_STRETCH procedure section.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 added the BCX_BLIT procedure section.
  - 🔗 added the BCX_BLIT_SPRITE procedure section.
  - 🔗 added the BCX_BLIT_STRETCH procedure section.
Version 8.0.4, August 31, 2023
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added comments to the PI mathematical constant section.
  - 🔗 added comments to the BCX_PSET function section.
  - 🔗 added comments to the BCX_POLAR_LINE procedure.
  - 🔗 added comments to the BCX_POLAR_PSET procedure.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 added the PI mathematical constant section.
  - 🔗 added the DEGTORAD mathematical procedures section.
  - 🔗 added the RADTODEG mathematical procedures section.
  - hyperlinked instances of the COLORREF color structure identifier to the RGB function section where there is a brief explanation of COLORREF.
  - 🔗 added the BCX_POLAR_LINE procedure.
  - 🔗 added the BCX_POLAR_PSET procedure.
  - 🔗 added the BCX_GET_WINDOW_HEIGHT procedure.
  - 🔗 added the BCX_GET_WINDOW_WIDTH procedure.
Version 8.0.3, August 24, 2023
- CranOg
  - 🔗 corrected a typograhic error in the BCX_BUFFER procedures section.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 corrected the case functions referencing data type in the first example in the SET ... END SET section.
Version 8.0.3, August 19, 2023
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added explanation and example to the BCX_BUFFER procedures.
  - 🔗 revised the example in the BCX_PRINTEX function section.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 added the BCX_BUFFER procedures.
  - 🔗 added the BCX_PENSIZE procedures.
  - added comment,
    "The Pen width, in pixels, can be set with the case insensitive BCX_PENSIZE GLOBAL variable."
    to the Pen parameter description of the following BCX graphics functions:
    - BCX_ARC
    - BCX_CIRCLE
    - BCX_ELLIPSE
    - BCX_LINE
    - BCX_LINETO
    - BCX_PIE
    - BCX_POLYBEZIER
    - BCX_POLYGON
    - BCX_POLYLINE
    - BCX_PSET
    - BCX_RECTANGLE
    - BCX_ROUNDRECT
Version 8.0.1, August 6, 2023
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added Example 4, to the COMMAND$ function section.
  - 🔗 revised Example 1 in the BCX_TOOLBAR function section to better demonstrate the link between the toolbar button pressed and the information displayed in the resulting message box.
  - 🔗 added example to the BCX_PRINTEX function section.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 revised ARGC and ARGV$[] identifiers section, adding a warning that those identifiers are accessible only in Console mode and are scope limited to 'C' main.
  - 🔗 revised and expanded the ROUND function section.
  - 🔗 revised and expanded the CLNG function section.
  - 🔗 revised and expanded the CINT function section.
  - 🔗 revised and expanded the CSNG function section.
  - 🔗 revised and expanded the CDBL function section.
  - 🔗 added BCX_PIE function section.
  - 🔗 revised the Purpose and removed the incorrect parentheses from the syntax description of the $BCXSTRSIZE directive.
  - 🔗 added Example 2 in the BCX_TOOLBAR function section demonstrating user-defined button images for the toolbar controls.
  - 🔗 added BCX_PRINTEX function section.
  - added to all BCX graphics functions with a DrawHDC parameter,
    a caveat to the hWnd parameter stating that
    "If printing to a hWnd, the DrawHDC parameter, below, is not used."
    and a caveat to the DrawHDC parameter stating that
    "If printing to an HDC, the hWnd parameter, above, is not used."
Version 8.0.0, July 1, 2023
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 revised Console Demo example S91.bas.
  - 🔗 In Example 2, in the COMMAND$ function section, corrected
```
 EXIT LOOP
```
    to
```
 EXIT DO
```
  - 🔗 revised $NOMAIN directive page.
  - 🔗 added ARGC and ARGV$[] identifiers section.
Version 8.0.0, June 27, 2023
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 corrected instances of the obsolete directive name "$MULTITHREADED" to the currently proper name $MULTI.
Version 8.0.0, June 14, 2023
- Robert Wishlaw
  - When the display window height was greater than the height of the block of last topic on a page, the top of the display window, confusingly, would be in the previous topic. An algorithm was added to the BCX Documentation 'BCX.css' file to pad the bottom of each .html page so that, when called, the beginning of a topic, always, is aligned with the top of the display window.
  - adjusted display and spacing of tables, table headers and table data cells.
  - 🔗 revised the ! and $CCODE XXXXXX ... $CCODE embedded "C" Code operator statement sections, adding and correcting remarks regarding placement of BCX embedded "C" statements in the translated "C" code.
  - replaced all instances of "module level" with, the technically correct "C" term, "file scope level".
Version 7.9.9, April 24, 2023
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 revised the BCX_RESOURCE statement section and example.
  - 🔗 revised the QSORT statement section Purpose and Parameters clarifying the need for sigils appending the name of the array being sorted.
  - 🔗 added a "BCX Identifiers" section to the "The Usage of Variables in BCX" page.
Version 7.9.8, March 25, 2023
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 consolidated the REMAIN$ and EXTRACT$ function pages.
  - 🔗 revised the REMAIN$ function section.
  - 🔗 revised the EXTRACT$ function section.
Version 7.9.8, March 23, 2023
- Ian Casey
  - 🔗 updated his TabReOrderAnchor GUI demo.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 corrected Remarks: in the 'String Relational Operator ??' section changing from
```
 IF LCASE$(SomeString$) = "I like Cocoa Puffs" THEN ...  
```
    to
```
 IF LCASE$(SomeString$) = LCASE$("I like Cocoa Puffs") THEN ...  
```
  - 🔗 replaced the non-functional example in the Remarks: of the 'Declaring Local Variables' section.
  - 🔗 revised and restructured the 'Boolean Logical operators' section.
  - 🔗 revised and restructured the 'Bitwise operators' section.
  - 🔗 revised BAND section with example.
  - 🔗 revised BOR section with example.
  - 🔗 revised XOR section with example.
  - 🔗 revised FUNCTION section Remarks: and example regarding modifying arguments.
  - 🔗 revised SUB section Remarks: and example regarding modifying arguments.
Version 7.9.8, March 9, 2023
- Ian Casey
  - 🔗 added a Tab, Slider, MoveAnchorControl, reorder tabs using drag/drop GUI demo.
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added, to the 'Operators' page, example code demonstrating how the QuickBASIC integer division \ (backslash) operator can be implemented in BCX.
  - 🔗 added, to the 'BCX Run-time Mathematical Functions' page, example code demonstrating how the QuickBASIC MOD function, which uses integer division and rounding, can be implemented in BCX.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 revised the MOD and IMOD function sections.
  - 🔗 added, to the 'Operators' page, remarks regarding the QuickBASIC integer division \ (backslash) operator.
  - 🔗 added the ! (Bang) and NOT Logical complement ("Negation") operators to the 'Order of Operations' section.
  - 🔗 revised and restructured the 'Boolean Logical operators' section.
  - 🔗 revised and restructured the 'Bitwise operators' section.
  - 🔗 added example with warning, " do not conflate C language Boolean Logical with Bitwise operators."
  - 🔗 consolidated AND with BAND
  - 🔗 consolidated OR with BOR
  - 🔗 created ANDALSO section with example.
  - 🔗 created ORELSE section with example.
Version 7.9.8, February 4, 2023
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 revised Example 2 in the HEX2DEC section.
  - 🔗 added a warning in the Hexadecimal page preamble regarding naming ambiguities when using the BASIC hexadecimal signifier &h or &H.
  - 🔗 Added to the User Defined TYPE (UDT) section, an example showing how to return multiple values from a function.
  - 🔗 added a SubclassWindow example to the CALLBACK FUNCTION ... END FUNCTION section.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 revised the BCX_SET_FONT function page adding Rotation argument and parameter information.
  - 🔗 revised and restructured the USING$ function section adding examples for prepending a U.S. dollar symbol and appending percent symbol to the formatted string.
  - 🔗 revised and restructured the Hexadecimal page.
  - 🔗 added remarks to the FUNCTION ... END FUNCTION section regarding the use of RETURN to return a value from a user function.
  - 🔗 added a remark and example that underflow possibilities exist when using any unsigned number for the count in a FOR ... NEXT loop coded to terminate at zero (0).
  - 🔗 revised the documentation for $PRAGMA directive.
  - 🔗 revised the example for the NOT operator.
  - 🔗 revised the example for the AND operator.
  - 🔗 revised the example for the OR operator.
Version 7.9.7, December 17, 2022
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added a second, more BASIC-like, example to the 'Chapter 9. Namespaces can be declared' section.
  - 🔗 revised the 'Intel Assembly Language Syntax Example' in the $ASM directive section.
  - 🔗 revised the first 'Remark' in the OVERLOADED functions and subroutines section.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 in the navigation tab 'Contents', moved the 'BCX and other BASIC dialects' as well as the 'BCXHelp Revision History' to the Introduction chapter.
  - 🔗 in the navigation tab 'Contents', changed all the chapter sub-list topic icons from the default 'question mark' icon to a 'text page icon'.
  - 🔗 Added to the index, the BYTE_AT macro which is used for referencing, by pointer, a location in a string element of an array of strings.
  - 🔗 Added a BCX_BMPBUTTON to the BCX_RESOURCE statement example. .
Version 7.9.5, November 20, 2022
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added casts and corrected a line of embedded 'C' containing mis-cased "return" and "sizeof", in the UDT section example 7.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 revised the example in the BCX_RADIO function section.
  - 🔗 corrected a line of embedded 'C' containing mis-cased "return", in the example on the END Program page.
  - 🔗 replaced a 'C' style (! bang) 'not' with a BCX NOT operator, in the example on the BCX_GROUP control page.
  - 🔗 removed a 'C' style (! bang) 'not' operator from Example 2 in the 'Passing Arguments to FUNCTION and SUB Procedures' section.
Version 7.9.5, November 9, 2022
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 added, "Arithmetic operators" to the index.
  - 🔗 added, "Bitshift operators" to the index.
  - 🔗 added, "Bitwise operators" to the index.
  - 🔗 added, "Logical operators" to the index.
  - hyperlinked instances of BCX_MDIALOG to their primary reference.
  - 🔗 added a remark that BCX_BMPBUTTON will autosize to the size of the bitmap if the Width% and Height% parameters are both set to zero.
  - 🔗 consolidated SET_BCX_BMPBUTTON with BCX_BMPBUTTON.
  - 🔗 revised and restructured the MSGBOX page.
  - added, to the WinStyle parameter description of most BCX_XXX GUI controls, a link to that specific control's Microsoft Control Style constants documentation.
    - For the
      BCX_COMBOBOX
      function, the link was made to the Microsoft ComboBox Control Styles webpage.
    - For the
      BCX_DATEPICK
      function, the link was made to the Microsoft Date and Time Picker Control Styles webpage.
    - For the
      BCX_SLIDER
      function, the link was made to the Microsoft Trackbar Control Styles webpage.
    - For the
      BCX_TAB
      function, the link was made to the Microsoft Tab Control Styles webpage.
    - For the
      BCX_TREEVIEW
      function, the link was made to the Microsoft Tree View Control Styles webpage.
    - For the
      BCX_DIALOG,
      BCX_MDIALOG,
      functions, the link was made to the Microsoft Dialog Box Styles webpage.
    - For the
      BCX_EDIT,
      BCX_INPUT,
      BCX_RICHEDIT,
      functions, the link was made to the Microsoft Edit Control Styles webpage
    - For the
      BCX_BITMAP,
      BCX_BLACKRECT,
      BCX_GRAYRECT,
      BCX_ICON,
      BCX_LABEL,
      BCX_OLEPICTURE,
      BCX_WHITERECT,
      functions, the link was made to the Microsoft Static Control Styles webpage
    - For the
      BCX_BUTTON,
      BCX_BMPBUTTON,
      BCX_CHECKBOX,
      BCX_GROUP,
      BCX_RADIO,
      functions, the link was made to the Microsoft Button Control Styles webpage.
Version 7.9.5, October 3, 2022
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 added, to the BFF$ dialog box section, a link to the Microsoft BROWSEINFOA structure webpage for details specifying the BFF$ BIF_Flags% parameter argument options.
  - 🔗 Added to the RUN ShowWindowState parameter description, a link to the Microsoft ShowWindow function webpage.
  - 🔗 removed the non-functioning "RUN start" example.
Version 7.9.5, September 14, 2022
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 added warnings to the ANSITOWIDE$ and WIDETOANSI$ function sections.
Version 7.9.2, August 7, 2022
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 tweaked corrected console demo example s48.bas.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 corrected console demo example s48.bas.
  - 🔗 corrected and replaced broken $CPROTO Syntax 1: example.
  - 🔗 adjusted syntax highlighting on Bang (!) "C" code sigils.
Version 7.9.1, July 11, 2022
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 On the 'BCX and Other BASIC Dialects - Similarities and Differences' page, revised remarks regarding concatenation of strings and, as well, removed statements about QBASIC style file handles and using expressions with FPRINT and PRINT statements.
  - 🔗 Revised the OPTION BASE Example 1, "Translated to" comments.
  - 🔗 Added remarks and examples for the FOR_EACH ... NEXT_EACH statements section.
  - 🔗 Added an example to the INPUT statement (from file) section.
  - 🔗 added a note that "VBA's FILECOPY reserved word can be used as an alias to BCX's COPYFILE statement."
  - 🔗 added a note that "VBA's GET reserved word can be used as an alias to BCX's GET$ statement."
  - 🔗 added a note that "VBA's PUT reserved word can be used as an alias to BCX's PUT$ statement."
  - 🔗 Added an example showing the use of PRINT # syntax for printing to a file.
  - 🔗 added, to the CLOSE statement, an example and a remark stating, "The CLOSE statement allows multiple file handles on one line."
- Robert Wishlaw
  - replaced the references to "your PSDK or SDK help" with online links to current Microsoft documentation.
  - 🔗 Added documentation for $PRAGMA directive.
  - 🔗 Added documentation for the FOR_EACH ... NEXT_EACH statements section.
  - 🔗 Revised the OPEN statement FileHandleName parameter description.
  - 🔗 Revised the INPUT statement (from keyboard) section.
  - 🔗 Added the INPUT statement (from file) section.
  - 🔗 Revised the FINPUT statement section.
  - 🔗 added $WARNINGS_ON directive to the $WARNINGS_OFF section, along with a comment stating that the $WARNINGS directive, is deprecated.
  - 🔗 Added BYTE_AT macro section.
Version 7.9.0, June 18, 2022
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 Added documentation for GETSPECIALFOLDEREX$ function.
  - 🔗 Added a warning that the GETSPECIALFOLDER$ function is deprecated in favour of the newly added GETSPECIALFOLDEREX$ function.
Version 7.8.9, June 10, 2022
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added an example demonstrating the use of the new additional UDT structure pointer and, as well, added remarks describing BCX 7.8.9 improved user defined scalar variable type detection and translation when not using the type-identifying sigils.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 Added, in the UDT section of the Variables page, a note stating that since BCX version 7.8.9, an additional UDT structure pointer is created with "_PTR" appended to the upper-case name of the UDT.
Version 7.8.8, May 30, 2022
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 A maniculed warning that the procedures are 32 bit only was added to each section of the BCX VBS scripting page. The examples which output a message box had images of the result appended to the example.
  - 🔗 corrected typographic errors in the VBS_ERROR function section.
Version 7.8.6, May 8, 2022
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 replaced the 'Filename From File Number' example in the File Handle Names section of the 'BCX File Management Functions' page.
  - 🔗 added an example for the PROPGET and PROPSET keywords.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 revised the Remarks section of the LINE INPUT statement (from file).
  - 🔗 added a section for the PROPGET and PROPSET keywords.
  - 🔗 rearranged the C++ prototype page.
Version 7.8.3, April 9, 2022
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added the BIF_BROWSEFILEJUNCTIONS flag to the arguments list for the BIF_Flags% parameter of the BFF$ function.
  - 🔗 added an example to the LIKE section.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 added an example of brace-enclosed list of comma-separated constant expressions for initilizing a two-dimensional array.
  - 🔗 added an example of brace-enclosed list of comma-separated constant expressions for initilizing a three-dimensional array.
  - 🔗 changed all instances of $WARNINGS to $WARNINGS_OFF
  - 🔗 added the Result to the example in the CONST data type qualifier section.
  - 🔗 on the advice of Kevin Diggins, revised the Purpose description and the example on the BFF$ function page.
  - 🔗 revised and restructured the 'Dimensioning DYNAMIC Arrays' section correcting instances where the word "string" was used instead of "array" and at the recommendation of Mike Henning, added, in the caveat regarding DYNAMIC array declarations in GUI programs, a remark recommending placement in the SUB FORMLOAD or a dedicated initialization procedure.
  - 🔗 revised the LIKE section.
Version 7.8.2, March 21, 2022
- mr_unreliable
  - 🔗 corrected the Width% and Height% parameter descriptions in the BCX_DIALOG section.
  - 🔗 corrected the Width% and Height% parameter descriptions in the BCX_MDIALOG section.
- Vortex
  - 🔗 added an example to the 'Using External Functions' section.
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added an example to the CONST data type qualifier section.
  - 🔗 added an example to the C_DECLARE section showing the implementation in multi module code.
  - removed deprecated BCX hardware procedures dead links from the BCX RunTime Table of Contents.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added, where appropriate, Results section to BCX Console Program Samples.
  - 🔗 added Windows 11 detection capability to the OSVERSION function example.
  - 🔗 moved the PRIVATE CONST section from the 'Preprocessor Directives' page to immediately below the 'Declaring Local Variables' section on the 'The Usage of Variables in BCX" page.
  - 🔗 replaced instances of deprecated CONST with MACRO.
  - 🔗 added a Type Qualifiers section.
  - 🔗 added a CONST data type qualifier section to the Type Qualifiers section.
  - 🔗 moved the VOLATILE data type qualifier section to the Type Qualifiers section.
  - 🔗 added a remark to the RBFOR example stating "This example requires a compiler conforming, at minimum, to the C++17 standard."
  - 🔗 added NAMESPACE C++ Block to the index.
  - 🔗 added TRY THROW CATCH C++ Block to the index.
  - 🔗 added NEW and DELETE C++ keywords to the index.
  - 🔗 added PPTYPE C++ User Defined Type to the index.
  - 🔗 added CONSTRUCTOR and DESTRUCTOR C++ keywords to the index.
  - 🔗 added USING C++ keyword to the index.
  - 🔗 revised CPAD$ example LoopCount variable data type from INT to uint8_t, to avoid warning
    conversion from 'int' to 'unsigned char', possible loss of data.
  - 🔗 replaced the $LIBRARY example.
  - 🔗 in the $DLL directive EXPORT qualifer section, replaced Example 1 with code that will compile with both "C" and "C++" compilers.
  - 🔗 added to the LIB statement section, warnings stating
    "LIB, as described below, is usable only in 32 bit compilations because it is dependent on BCX_DYNACALL code containing assembly language instructions which will not compile, as inline code, with 64 bit compilers."
    Similar warnings were added to the examples in that section.
  - 🔗 corrected results of the ROUND function example.
  - 🔗 added a 64 bit assembly language example to the 'Using External Functions' section.
  - 🔗 revised, in the $LIBRARY directive section, the 'Purpose:', and warning. Several incorrect links to demo code were removed.
  - 🔗 revised, in the $NOLIBRARY directive section, the 'Purpose:', as well as, the list of libraries that BCX loads, by default, into the "C" language translation. A syntax description and a warning were also added stating that "The $NOLIBRARY directive does not work with the MinGW derived compilers because they lack "#pragma lib" type functionality.
  - 🔗 revised the OPTIONAL parameter section.
  - 🔗 moved the FILLARRAY function to the 'Initialization of Arrays' section.
Version 7.8.1, February 7, 2022
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added remarks and an example to the READ statement section.
  - 🔗 added to the USING$ section, remarks and an example demonstrating the caret "^" scientific notation formatting capability of USING$.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 added the READ statement section.
Version 7.8.0, February 2, 2022
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added an example to the 'File Handle Names' section which shows how a "C" runtime file system FILE POINTER can be used with a Windows function that expects a Windows FILE HANDLE.
  - 🔗 added to the LINE INPUT section, the new optional receiving buffer line size parameter descriptions.
  - 🔗 added remarks and an example to the FUNCNAME$ section.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 moved the 'Quoted Quote' section to location immediately following the ENC$ function.
  - 🔗 revised LINE INPUT section, adding the new optional receiving buffer line size parameter and example.
  - 🔗 revised the BCX_COLORS spelling, removing the prepended $.
  - 🔗 added a section for FUNCNAME$.
  - 🔗 added a remark that ACODE$ and W2A$ are aliases for WIDETOANSI$
  - 🔗 added a remark that ANSITOWIDE$ UCODE$ and A2W$ are aliases for ANSITOWIDE
Version 7.7.9, January 12, 2022
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added an ON ... CALL GUI example to the ON ... statements section.
- Wayne Halsdorf
  - 🔗 added an explanation of the difference between SHAREDSET and SET.
- Mike Henning
  - 🔗 added an example demonstrating SET BCX keyword recognition.
- Michael S. Sanders
  - 🔗 added an example demonstrating simple Regex replacement to the WITH ... END WITH section.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 revised and repositioned the SHAREDSET statement section.
  - 🔗 added an example to the SHAREDSET statement section based on Wayne Halsdorf's example on the $PRJ directive page.
  - 🔗 Added a remark to the EXTERN storage class section stating "For an EXTERN usage example, please see the SHAREDSET demonstration program."
  - 🔗 corrected typographic error, replacing ".GLOBAL" with ".Global", in the COM FOR EACH ... NEXT example.
  - 🔗 added a remark to the 'BCX and Other BASIC Dialects - Similarities and Differences' page stating " In BCX the hexadecimal string is preceded with a 0x (zero x) not QBASIC hexadecimal data specifier &H."
Version 7.7.9, January 6, 2022
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 corrected typographic error, "Foo" instead of "foo", in the partial initialization remarks on the SET statement page.
  - 🔗 more corrections revisions and additions to the 'Mixing "C" and BCX Code' page. The order of the $CCODE directives was changed to match the top to bottom order of placement in the translated "C" code. The order is
  - 1. $CCODE HEADER
    2. $CCODE ENUM
    3. $CCODE CONST
    4. $CCODE UDT
    5. $CCODE SET
    6. $CCODE FUNCSUB
  - 🔗 corrections, revisions and additions to the ENUM statement page.
Version 7.7.9, January 5, 2022
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 added Results to Example 2 on the PRINT statement page.
  - 🔗 added a remark that when the PRINT statement is used with a zero or a positive integer, the output is prepended with a single space character.
  - 🔗 revised the 'Mixing "C" and BCX Code' page and cleaned up syntax highlighting of "C" code inlined in BCX code in several places.
  - 🔗 added a remark to the ROUND function section stating that, "The BCX ROUND function rounds the halfway case toward zero. The "C" language round function rounds the halfway case away from zero."
Version 7.7.9, November 25, 2021
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added a function-like macro example to the CONST preprocessor directives section.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 added an example, based on code by Kevin Diggins and Ian Casey, which shows how to hook a MSGBOX to the CENTER of a form.
Version 7.7.8, November 6, 2021
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 in the BEGIN EVENTS section, corrected the variables declaration explanation to read, in part, "... it is best that any variables which must be declared in the BEGIN EVENTS ... END EVENTS block, should be declared as STATIC."
  - 🔗 in the LOF Return Value section, changed -1 to 0 if LOF is unable to determine the size of the file.
Version 7.7.7, October 17, 2021
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 revised the COMMAND$ function page example that detects the launch mode of a command line program; substituting CONWIN for part of the code.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 in the BCX Data Types section, the warnings regarding mixing BCX and "C" type variable declarations were restored.
  - 🔗 in the BCX Data Types LDOUBLE section, added remarks about appending an "L" suffix to LDOUBLE variable literal numbers.
  - 🔗 in the shift operators section, replaced the "C" code symbols with the BCX SHL and SHR operators. Example 2 in that section also was revised.
  - 🔗 in the documentation of the LOF function, added a comment to the Return Value section stating, "If LOF is unable to determine the size of the file, -1 is returned."
  - 🔗 in BCX Console Demonstration Program s41.bas, added code to set the program output to Code Page 437. This was done to ensure the intended display of the console mode boxing glyphs.
  - 🔗 in BCX Console Demonstration Program s71.bas, added code to set the program output to Code Page 437. This was done to ensure the intended display of the console mode boxing glyphs.
  - 🔗 changed Buffer$ to FnBuffer$ in BCX Console Demonstration Program s77.bas Function LoadFile.
Version 7.7.7, September 28, 2021
- James Fuller
  - 🔗 added an example to the C++ Flow Control RBFOR, RBEXIT RBFOR, and RBNEXT section.
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 corrected syntax in the Purpose paragraph of the COM ... UNCOM section.
  - 🔗 added comments to the 'Purpose' section of the DATE$ function.
  - 🔗 added comments to the 'Remarks' section of the $FILL directive.
  - 🔗 added comments to the 'Remarks' section of the USING$ function.
  - 🔗 added an example to the page for the SETEOF statement.
  - 🔗 added remarks to the ISNULL and NOTNULL functions section.
  - 🔗 added description for the CONWIN alias.
  - 🔗 added a description and example for the METHOD and PROPERTY keywords.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 revised the Microsoft remarks in the Other Resources section on the Updating BCX page.
  - 🔗 added to the COMMAND$ function page, an example that detects the launch mode of a command line program.
  - 🔗 removed Garvan O'Keeffe's first BCX_OOP example which is functionally duplicated in his second BCX OOP inheritance and polymorphism example.
  - 🔗 revised the SUB Class_SetDMS in the BCX_OOP example.
  - 🔗 revised the End-Of-Line Continuation Operator _ section.
  - 🔗 revised the warning regarding C++ compilers in the AUTO section.
  - revised all the hyperlinks of external webpages to open in the default browser rather than in a new window of the BCX Documentation .chm file. The .chm file browser infrastructure is not able to handle many HTML browser features introduced since the development of .chm was halted in 2012.
  - 🔗 corrected GetDialogBaseUnits() to MapDialogRect() in the BCX_SCALEX ... BCX_SCALEY variables section.
  - 🔗 revised formatting description of the DATE$ function.
  - 🔗 added a page for the SETEOF statement.
  - 🔗 added a section for the ISNULL and NOTNULL functions.
  - 🔗 added a section for the CONWIN alias.
  - 🔗 added a section for the METHOD and PROPERTY keywords.
  - 🔗 added a section for the RBFOR, RBEXIT RBFOR, and RBNEXT keywords.
Version 7.7.6, August 30, 2021
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added remarks and an example to the Quoted Quote section.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 added BCX_CONSOLE to the BCX Documentation index.
  - 🔗 added a section for the Quoted Quote.
Version 7.7.5.1, August 26, 2021
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 moved $BCX_COLORS documentation from the BCX Command Line Usage section to the Modifying the BCX Translator section. $BCX_COLORS was also added to the BCX Documentation index.
Version 7.7.5, August 24, 2021
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added a notice of deprecation to the $NOMAIN directive section.
  - 🔗 added remarks and an example to the End-Of-Line Continuation Operator _ section describing the use of certain 2-character pairs without a space prepended to the underscore.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 repaired C15.bas in the The C++ Tutorial for BCX Users section.
  - 🔗 repaired C19.bas in the The C++ Tutorial for BCX Users section.
  - replaced instances, which missed the last upgrade, of GWL_WNDPROC with GWLP_WNDPROC and SetWindowLong with SetWindowLongPtr.
  - 🔗 revised, and updated for 32 and 64 bit compilation, the example in the BCX_SET_LABEL_COLOR function section.
Version 7.7.4, August 17, 2021
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added comments and an example to the BCX_CONSOLE section.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 added (HDC)(UINT_PTR) casts to the wParam parameters in the SetTextColor and SetBkColor function calls in the FUNCTION SetColor of the BCX GUI Demonstration Program
  - 🔗 corrected broken link from the BCX_SET_EDIT_COLOR function page to Example 2 on the BCX_FONTDLG function page.
  - 🔗 added the BCX_CONSOLE section.
Version 7.7.3, July 28, 2021
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 corrected argument in BCX Console Demonstration Program s89.bas StrArrayCopy function.
  - 🔗 added a comment to the QBCOLOR section stating, "The COLORREF values shown have been chosen as seeking to represent the colors of the QBASIC era.".
  - 🔗 added comments to the 'Save and Restore Console FG and BG Colors' section for the PUSHCOLORS POPCOLORS functions.
  - 🔗 added to the COLOR statement bg_color parameter description in the syntax section, instructions and an example showing the functioning of -1 being used as the argument for the background color parameter.
  - 🔗 added instructions to the BCX_SETCLIENTSIZE function section.
  - 🔗 added comments to the BCX_RESIZE function section.
  - 🔗 corrected bad formatting in $DLL STDCALL section Example 2.
  - 🔗 added remarks to the $WARNINGS directive section.
  - 🔗 added an example to the BCX_PUSHCONSOLESIZE, BCX_SETCONSOLESIZE, BCX_POPCONSOLESIZE, set of functions.
  - 🔗 added remarks to the MEMSIZE function.
  - 🔗 added remarks to the LONGESTLINE function.
  - 🔗 added remarks to the NEXTLINELEN function.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 revised the BCX_DISPATCHOBJECT COM example Media Player atl.dll access to accomodate 64 bit compiling.
  - 🔗 revised the BCXSPLITPATH$ example to demonstrate parsing a path containing two dots.
  - 🔗 added a 'Save and Restore Console FG and BG Colors' section for the PUSHCOLORS POPCOLORS functions.
  - 🔗 added a code snippet to check the extremity values of the implementation dependent signed and unsigned CHAR data types.
  - added "EXPORT DLL qualifier" and "STDCALL DLL qualifier" to the index.
  - hyperlinked instances of TRUE and FALSE to their primary reference.
  - 🔗 revised the QBCOLOR example.
  - 🔗 revised the COLOR section and added an example showing color values extracted from the cmd.exe console registry values.
  - 🔗 added the $DEFINE directive.
  - 🔗 added ISFILE, ISdirectory, ISHIDDEN, ISREADONLY, and ISSYSTEM function sections.
  - 🔗 added the BCX_SETCLIENTSIZE function.
  - 🔗 added the BCX_RESIZE function.
  - 🔗 revised the BCX_DISPATCHOBJECT function example BCX Media Player to compile as 64 bit.
  - 🔗 added SIZE_T to the loop variable declaration data types.
  - 🔗 added $WARNINGS directive to the Compilation Directives page.
  - 🔗 added the BCX_PUSHCONSOLESIZE, BCX_SETCONSOLESIZE, BCX_POPCONSOLESIZE, set of functions.
  - 🔗 added the MEMSIZE function.
  - 🔗 added the LONGESTLINE function.
  - 🔗 added the NEXTLINELEN function.
Version 7.7.2, June 23, 2021
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added remarks and examples to the 'Declaring Local Variables' section documenting the new quoted string literal initialization capability of BCX.
  - 🔗 added remarks and examples to the 'String Comparison Operators' section documenting the new $CASE_OFF ... $CASE_ON directives.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 added VALL to the VAL function page. Added VALL to the index.
  - 🔗 added STRL$ to the STR$ function page. Added STRL$ to the index.
  - 🔗 revised the OPTIONAL section syntax statements and added a remark stating that "The OPTIONAL keyword is optional since BCX 7.7.2."
  - 🔗 revised the COLOR section syntax statements and replaced references to "screen" with "background text".
  - 🔗 revised the ISTRUE NOTZERO ISFALSE ISZERO section syntax statements.
  - 🔗 relocated FREE.
  - 🔗 added 'BCX Data Type: BOOL' section to the Variables page.
  - 🔗 revised the MACRO directive page and consolidated it with the other preprocessor directives $IF etc. page.
  - 🔗 added note that when using the $CPPHDR directive $CPP must be invoked.
  - 🔗 updated the ENUM page.
  - 🔗 consolidated Line Drawing functions to one page.
  - 🔗 consolidated UBOUND into the Array section of the Variables page.
  - 🔗 added an example and revised the LOGL function section on the Mathematical functions page. Added LOGL to the index.
  - 🔗 corrected, revised and added an example to the LOG10 and LOG10L function section on the Mathematical functions page. Added LOG10L to the index.
  - 🔗 added LDOUBLE capability documentation of FILLARRAY function.
  - 🔗 corrected and revised the FRAC and FRACL function sections. Added FRACL to the index.
  - 🔗 revised the CDBL page adding a CLDBL function section. Added CLDBL to the index.
  - 🔗 corrected, revised and added an example to the HYPOT and HYPOTL function section on the Mathematical functions page. Added HYPOTL to that section and the index.
  - 🔗 corrected, revised and added an example to the MOD and IMOD function section on the Mathematical functions page. Added an example and corrected the % "C" language modulus operator remarks in that section.
  - 🔗 corrected, revised and added an example to the EXP natural exponential function section on the Mathematical functions page.
  - 🔗 corrected, revised and added an example to the "C" language %, modulus operator, section on the Mathematical functions page.
  - 🔗 corrected, revised and added examples to the SINH, COSH, and TANH Hyperbolic Trigonometric functions section on the Mathematical functions page.
  - 🔗 corrected, revised and added examples to the ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH Inverse Hyperbolic Trigonometric functions section on the Mathematical functions page.
  - 🔗 corrected, revised and added examples to the 'Declaring and Dimensioning Arrays' section.
Version 7.7.1, May 27, 2021
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added an important comment to the 'Declaring Local Variables' section, and revised the first example to declare the A$ variable, in the FUNCTION foo, as STATIC.
Version 7.7.1, May 26, 2021
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added a warning regarding the conflation of AS CHAR and AS STRING translations.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 added CPAD$ function section.
  - 🔗 moved, to top of MACRO directive page, the warning, " do not confuse BCX MACRO with "C" language const which is used to signify that a variable's value is not modifiable."
  - replaced instances of incorrectly used word "dimensioning", and grammatical relatives, with the correct terms "declaring", and "sizing".
  - hyperlinked the FREE and FREEGLOBALS keywords, to their primary reference.
  - 🔗 hyperlinked DIM and other variable declarators.
  - changed the declarators syntax coloring from Ocean Green (0x4FB083) to Bone (0xD9C3A9).
  - 🔗 replaced instances "BcxStrSize" with "BCXSTRSIZE" in the "C" translation examples in the RAW section.
  - 🔗 corrected an incorrect HWND data type to a HANDLE on the Recursive example page.
  - 🔗 corrected an incorrect BOOLean data type to a BOOL on the Recursive example page. While BCX correctly translated BOOLean to BOOLEAN, which is an eight bit data type, in the example code, TRUE and FALSE are 32 bit data types, so BOOLean was replaced by the 32 bit data type BOOL as the data type for the "found" variable in the example.
  - 🔗 consolidated the Recursive example page with the FUNCTION and SUB procedures page.
  - 🔗 ongoing revision and restructuring of the Variables page.
Version 7.7.0, May 18, 2021
- Ian Casey
 - 🔗 repaired the broken link at the BCX_FRAMEWND reference on the 'Run-Time Functions' table of contents page.
- Robert Wishlaw
 - 🔗 revised example 1 and 2 on the $IPRINT_XXX page, adding codepage 1252 invocation which is required for proper display of the examples if the user's console is set to some other codepage.
 - 🔗 added a warning to the 'End-Of-Line Continuation Operator _' section that the EOLCop will not work within a quoted literal string.
 - 🔗 replaced forward slashes with hyphens in the ISODATE$ section.
 - 🔗 corrected missing closing tag in $FILETEST ON section.
Version 7.7.0, May 11, 2021
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 updated code and image of Tiny Times Table demo.
  - 🔗 added an example to the SET statement page, demonstrating that data SET within a SUB is accessible from an external procedure.
  - updated copyright notices.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 added an example of a QSORT of a portion of an array.
  - 🔗 corrected index link to the SHAREDSET statement.
Version 7.6.8, May 6, 2021
- Saleh Hajiaghazadeh
  - 🔗 added an example, to the BCX and Other BASIC Dialects - Similarities and Differences page showing how the syntax for returning a value from a BCX FUNCTION differs from some other BASIC dialects.
- Ian Casey
  - 🔗 added the DECLARE [ SUB | FUNCTION ] procedure declaration specification to the maniculed caveat regarding encasement of conditional directives.
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 upgraded the console demo example s48.bas to be compilable as a 64 bit application.
  - 🔗 revised the description on the BCX System Variables page.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 added CLIPBOARD_GETBITMAP function section.
  - 🔗 added CLIPBOARD_SETBITMAP function section.
  - 🔗 Restructured the encoding of the HTML and added section signs on the BCX and Other BASIC Dialects - Similarities and Differences page to define the sections more clearly.
  - replaced all instances of the phrase "single quotation mark" with the word "apostophe".
  - replaced all instances of the phrase "double quotation mark" with "quotation mark".
  - replaced all instances of the phrase "double double quotation mark" with "double quotation mark".
  - 🔗 corrected broken example in IF...THEN...ELSE...ELSEIF...END IF [ENDIF] section.
  - 🔗 added examples and a new optional argument (4) to the Flg parameter of the SPLIT and DSPLIT functions which, when parsing a string, eliminates all delimiters and retains a single quotation mark from double quotation mark delimited quotes. For example,
```
 1997,Ford,E350,"Super, ""luxurious"" truck"
```
    would be parsed to
```
 1997
 Ford
 E350
 Super, "luxurious" truck
```
Version 7.6.6, April 28, 2021
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 expanded the example in the DSPLIT function section to show same functionality as the SPLIT function section.
  - 🔗 corrected console demo example s123.bas. which, during the converion from text to HTML, mistakenly had the "C" "return" keyword UPPER cased.
  - 🔗 corrected console demo example s153.bas. which, during the converion from text to HTML, mistakenly had the "C" "return" keyword UPPER cased.
Version 7.6.6, April 17, 2021
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added an example to the CAST function section.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 added CAST function section.
  - 🔗 added a maniculed caveat to the COMMAND$ function.
  - 🔗 added CLIPBOARD_GETTEXT$ function section.
  - 🔗 added CLIPBOARD_GETTEXTSIZE function section.
  - 🔗 added CLIPBOARD_SETTEXT function section.
  - 🔗 added CLIPBOARD_RESET function section.
  - 🔗 added an example for the above CLIPBOARD_XXX functions.
Version 7.6.5, April 14, 2021
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 repaired broken formatting in String Relational Operator ?? section
  - resized most of the section headings to a larger font. For example,
    FREE statement
    has been replaced with
    FREE statement
    There are still some section heads that are not amenable to batch processing that will have to be changed manually.
  - 🔗 revised the Operators page including reordering the sections into the following structure
    1. 🔗Arithmetic Operators
    2. 🔗Relational Operators
    3. 🔗Logical Operators
    4. 🔗Bitwise Operators
    5. 🔗Assignment Operators
    6. 🔗Order of Operations
  - 🔗 added NOT Logical operator to Logical Operators section.
  - 🔗 added AND Logical operator to Logical Operators section.
  - 🔗 added OR Logical operator to Logical Operators section
Version 7.6.5, April 11, 2021
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 updated Examples 2 and 3 on the 'Pointers in BCX page'.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 replaced the example on the BCX_SETCOLOR page, based on code written by Kevin Diggins.
  - 🔗 corrected linkage to BCX_DIALOG from the Run-Time Functions page.
  - 🔗 revised the Dynamic Strings section.
  - 🔗 revised the FREE section.
  - 🔗 updated information in the Rich Text Format section and reformatted the function declaration and DATA sections of the BCXGUI Demonstration Program.
Version 7.6.5, March 26, 2021
- Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected several missing PAUSE and ITERATE links and syntax coloring.
  - corrected HTML encoding for all instances of the eroteme PRINT shortcut.
  - 🔗 moved ITERATE into the Control Flow page.
  - hyperlinked BCX control flow keywords, that is, those keywords colored 0xB791CF, to their primary reference.
  - 🔗 revised the BCX_REGWND statement section.
  - added syntax hilighting to the WNDPROC data type to help distinguish it from the WndProc procedure. Corrected all instances of mis-cased WNDPROC and WndProc.
Version 7.6.5, March 4, 2021
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 on 'The Usage of Variables in BCX' page, changed several instances of "can hold minimum xxxx maximum xxxx" to "can hold a value in the range xxxx to xxxx".
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 coded a single line IF ... THEN statement resulting from a suggestion by mr_unreliable that such an example should be added to the IF...THEN...ELSE...ELSEIF...END IF [ENDIF] section on the Control Flow statements page.
Version 7.6.5, February 27, 2021
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 in the 'Frequency Note Table' section of the SOUND function page, replaced all instances of the "#" U+0023 number sign, a.k.a. pound sign, hash, crosshatch, octothorpe, symbol with the U+266F z notation infix bag count symbol "♯".
  - 🔗 revised Examples 1 and 2 on the $IPRINT_OFF directive page.
  - 🔗 repaired BCX_FRAMEWND example broken by PRINT "?" shortcut upgrade in BCX 7.5.2. The SaveChild and SaveAsChild procedures also were functionally expanded.
Version 7.6.4, February 10, 2021
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 consolidated RANDOMIZE statement with the RND function page.
Version 7.6.3, January 28, 2021
- Robert Wishlaw
  - removed "-t" $TURBO flag from the 'BCX Command Line Usage' section.
  - removed obsolete "$TURBO 256" from Example 3 on the BCX_TOOLBAR function page.
  - corrected misplaced instances of $HSCROLL with $INCLUDE.
  - 🔗 consolidated BIN2DEC function page with BIN$ function page.
  - 🔗 Added an example to the top of the BIN$ function page with a note stating, "In BCX, a literal binary numeric value can be assigned to a variable ..."
  - 🔗 Added an example to the BIN$ function section.
Version 7.6.3, January 20, 2021
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added a 64 bit example to the HEX2DEC function.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 added a 64 bit example to the HEX2DEC function.
  - 🔗 expanded to the GOTO syntax statement.
  - 🔗 Minor revisions to the Other BASICS page.
  - added ": Colon separated compound statements" to the index.
Version 7.6.3, January 18, 2021
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 corrected an argument type in the "emitted FUNCTION_TYPE declaration as a member of a user defined type" example on the FUNCTION and SUB Procedures page.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected syntax coloring in SET ... END SET examples
  - hyperlinked COM SET and array SET BCX keywords to their primary reference.
  - 🔗 added SENSITIVE option flag, with examples, to the QSORT and QSORT DYNAMIC sections.
  - 🔗 revised the Purpose description of the HEX2DEC function.
Version 7.6.2, December 21, 2020
- Ian Casey
  - 🔗 repaired broken links in the 'BCX String Procedures' section LCASE$, MCASE$, and UCASE$ function entries.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 replaced the example in the ICOMPARE function Remarks section.
Version 7.6.2, December 17, 2020
- James Fuller
  - 🔗 suggested a remark be added to the OPEN statement section that the BCX translated "C" source generates checks for the existence of the file to be opened.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 revised Mike Henning's HEX2DEC Example 3.
  - 🔗 Added a note to "BCX COM Interface" page Example 2: stating "In Windows 10, the output GnotePad.lnk file is placed in C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup"
  - 🔗 revised the 'BCX File Management Functions' table of contents on the OPEN statement page.
  - 🔗 revised the OPEN statement section.
  - 🔗 concatenated the CLOSE statement page with the 'BCX File Management Functions' page.
  - hyperlinked OPEN and CLOSE BCX keywords to their primary reference.
  - 🔗 added to the Remarks section of the REPLACE statement, noting that, "String concatenation using & or + within a REPLACE statement requires that the concatenation is wrapped with parentheses."
Version 7.6.2, November 27, 2020
- Robert Wishlaw
  - replaced splash screen logo.
Version 7.6.2, November 23, 2020
- Robert Wishlaw
  - minor revisions.
Version 7.6.1, November 21, 2020
- Robert Wishlaw
  - removed duplicate $NODLLMAIN section.
  - 🔗 corrected syntax coloring on Directives Table of Contents page.
Version 7.6.1, November 2, 2020
- Kevin Diggins
  - removed obsolete warning and example from FUNCTION ... END FUNCTION section.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 added, on the RunTime Table of Contents page, hyperlinks to the Polo Blue, Light Coral, and Bone syntax colored keywords.
  - ran all the HTML pages through CSS HTML Validator and corrected the errors.
  - 🔗 added note to the $LIBRARY directive section stating that the directive does not work with any of the MinGW derived compilers because they do not have any "#pragma lib" type functionality.
  - added hyperlinks to some of the Citrus syntax colored operators (the keyword operators and some others).
  - 🔗 added example to the Increment and Decrement Operators section.
  - 🔗 changed data type of SIZEOF from function to operator.
  - removed the redundant 'C Language shortcuts' section from the 'BCX Run-time Math Functions' page.
  - 🔗 added example to IF...THEN...ELSE...ELSEIF...END IF [ENDIF] statements section.
  - 🔗 added a note that the $REMS directive works only with remarks, comments, and notes contained within a SUB or FUNCTION
Version 7.6.0 October 16, 2020
- James Fuller
  - 🔗 added BINARY to the FOR INPUT streaming mode qualifier in the example on the GET$ statement page.
  - 🔗 added BINARY to the FOR INPUT streaming mode qualifier in the example on the PUT$ statement page.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 added "Opening Binary Files" to the index.
  - 🔗 added "Opening Random Access Files" to the index.
  - 🔗 added "Opening Text Files" to the index.
  - 🔗 replaced Example 1 in the XOR operator section.
  - 🔗 added the FRACL function.
  - 🔗 revised many functions and examples on Math functions page.
  - 🔗 repaired BEGINBLOCK statements which had been broken into BEGIN BLOCK
  - 🔗 removed bogus warning and example from Creating Global Variables section.
  - hyperlinked the Polo Blue, Light Coral, and Bone syntax colored keywords to their primary reference.
Version 7.5.9, October 11, 2020
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added comments and examples to the $FILL directive section.
- James Fuller
  - 🔗 added BINARY to the FOR INPUT streaming mode qualifier in the example on the GET$ statement page.
  - 🔗 added BINARY to the FOR INPUT streaming mode qualifier in the example on the PUT$ statement page.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 replaced XFOR ... XNEXT Remarks example.
  - 🔗 revised String Comparison Operators section.
  - 🔗 revised String Comparison Relational Operators section.
  - 🔗 added "Latest Revisions Here" link on Splash page linking to the BCX Help Revision History page where links ( 🔗 ) have been placed linking to the latest revisions.
  - 🔗 added example to WHILE ... WEND section.
  - 🔗 added the $FILL directive section to the CONCAT statement page.
Version 7.5.8, October 6, 2020
- Kevin Diggins
  - 🔗 added comments to the $BCXSTRSIZE directive page.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - 🔗 added the $BCXSTRSIZE directive page.
Version 7.5.7, October 4, 2020
- Kevin Diggins
  - corrected a typographic error in the ANDALSO and ORELSE Operators example
  - revised Example 2 on the $IF, $IFDEF, $IFNDEF, $ELSE, $ELSEIF and $ENDIF directives page
  - added "Conway's Game of Life" to the COLOR statement page.
  - added comments and examples to the String Relational Operator ?? section.
  - in BCX Constants section, added DDQ$.
  - added comments and examples to ICOMPARE function page.
  - added a remark to the KILL statement stating that "String expressions need not be wrapped in parentheses."
- James Fuller
  - inspired the examples on the ICOMPARE function page.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - removed STR_CMP function. (removed from BCX in Version 7.4.8)
  - revised the Extended String Literal statement, reordering the examples.
  - added, to the BCX Command Line Usage page, the -v command line option
  - removed line "OVERLOADED or OPTIONAL FUNCTION procedures are NOT allowed in a User Defined TYPE structure." from the beginning of the CALLBACK FUNCTION...END FUNCTION procedure section.
  - corrected errors in the CALLBACK FUNCTION...END FUNCTION procedure section.
  - revised Example 2 in the XOR function section, adding Results data.
  - revised and rearranged the SELECT CASE Remarks section that explains the need for scalar operators when the Boolean comparison AND or OR operator is used.
  - added String Relational Operator ?? section to the Operators page.
  - changed title of BCX Preset Variables page to BCX Constants.
  - added TRUE and FALSE constants section.
  - in BCX Constants section, corrected EOF$ to EF$.
  - added comments and examples to ICOMPARE function page.
  - added a note stating that, "Parentheses are optional." to parameters sections of SHOW, HIDE, CENTER, SLEEP and RANDOMIZE statements.
  - corrected and revised the Order of Operations table including a replacement of the text formatted display with an HTML table.
  - changed BODY and several other HTML tag font-family from
```
 font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif;
```
    to
```
       
 font-family: Segoe UI, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif;
```
Version 7.5.5, September 19, 2020
- Kevin Diggins
  - added remarks to WRAP$ and UNWRAP$ functions.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised the SPLIT Remarks section with an added example.
  - removed $TURBO directive.
  - added WRAP$ and UNWRAP$ functions.
Version 7.5.4, September 13, 2020
- Kevin Diggins
  - replaced the s113.bas console demo and the GET$ statement example.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised the String Concatenation Operators + and & section.
  - added "& String concatenation operator" and "+ String concatenation operator" to index.
  - revised the String Comparison Operators section
  - added "_ End-of-line underscore continuation operator" section to Operators page.
  - On the RUN statement page, corrected missing RUN invocation in the syntax section and removed extra end-of-line continuation operator from the ShellExecute example.
Version 7.5.4, September 4, 2020
- Kevin Diggins
  - in the ISTRUE and ISFALSE sections, amended the caveats regarding instances when a static or dynamic string is used as the expression, with static and dynamic string examples.
  - corrected a poorly constructed sentence on the Directives Table of Contents page.
  - added an example to the READ$ function section showing how to work around the limitation that BCX allows only one DATA array statement in a program.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added statements of limitation to the DATA array and READ$ function sections stating that only one DATA array statement is permitted in a program.
Version 7.5.3, August 18, 2020
- Kevin Diggins
  - corrected "ATAN" to "ATN" in Example 1 on the BCX Scripting Procedures page.
  - added DATACOUNT function example.
  - added remarks to ISTRUE(),ISFALSE(), ISZERO() and NOTZERO() macros
- Robert Wishlaw
  - replaced all instances of ATAN with ATN.
  - in the Modulus Operator section, added a manicule at the beginning of the statement, "When using the modulus operator (%), a space must be to the left and right of of the % symbol."
  - removed the BCX RunTime Library section.
  - added DISKFREE, DISKSIZE and DISKUSED functions to the GETDRIVE function page.
  - added DATACOUNT function to the DATA statement page.
  - consolidated CBOOL function with the BOOL$ function page.
  - added ISTRUE, ISFALSE, ISZERO, and NOTZERO functions to the BOOL$ function page.
Version 7.5.2, August 6 2020
- Kevin Diggins
  - to enable compilation with a "C" compiler, corrected Example 2 on the 'SET COMObject CREATEOBJECT ... SET COMObject NOTHING procedure' page.
  - added ISOBJECT function example to 'BCX COM Errors and Status' page.
  - added COM ... UNCOM function descriptions and example to 'SET COMObject CREATEOBJECT ... SET COMObject NOTHING procedure' page.
  - added comments to the Remarks section on the PRINT statement page regarding the use of the ? operator to print to a MSGBOX in a GUI app.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised CHDIR, MKDIR and RMDIR function pages.
  - consolidated and revised Ljubisa Knezevic's BCX COM interface 'CREATEOBJECT function' and 'SET ... NOTHING' procedure pages into a 'SET COMObject CREATEOBJECT ... SET COMObject NOTHING procedure' page.
  - added ISOBJECT function to 'BCX COM Errors and Status' page.
  - added MKPATH function section to the MKDIR function page.
  - added a note to the LOF function section stating "If LOF is used to return the length of very large files, use a LONGLONG data type for the Return Value variable."
  - added READ$ function to DATA statement page.
Version 7.5.1, August 3 2020
- James Fuller
  - removed "using namespace std;" from the $CPPHDR directive section.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - repaired instances of "$CPPHDR" that had been broken into "$CPP HDR".
  - replaced all instances of "fp1" with "FP1"
Version 7.5.1, July 25 2020
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised the Assignment Operator = section literal binary numeric from
```
 
 Number = 0b1001101000011110010110100
```
    to
```
 
 Number = 0b00000001001101000011110010110100
```
  - corrected typographic error in, and revised, the BNOT operator section to emphasize the One's Complement form of the operation by changing the example to binary number display output.
Version 7.5.1, July 24 2020
- Kevin Diggins
  - added Example 2 to the DATA statement page.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected syntax coloring on the DATA statement page.
  - corrected spelling mistake, "garanteed", in the LIB statement section of the DECLARE C_DECLARE STDCALL statement page.
Version 7.5.0, July 17 2020
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised the $PP directive page.
Version 7.4.9, July 11 2020
- Robert Wishlaw
  - embedded several resources as .zip files in the BCXHelp.chm. This technique was adapted from Dindo Liboon's 'BCX Getting Started Guide'. The multimedia resources are used in some of the examples.
Version 7.4.9, July 10 2020
- Robert Wishlaw
  - resizing the dimension values of the GUI examples to properly display on Windows 10. Advance not, retard? Advance, not retard!
Version 7.4.8, July 9 2020
- Robert Wishlaw
  - BCX Twentieth Anniversary Issue
Version 7.4.7, July 5 2020
- Kevin Diggins
  - repaired Example 2 in the BCX_TABSELECT section of the BCX_TAB page.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised and reformatted the Dimensioning Integers and Dimensioning Strings sections on The Usage of Variables in BCX page.
  - changed the syntax coloring of data types and related keywords to Ocean Green, #4FB083, from Polo Blue, #79A1C3. BCX procedures coloring was changed to Polo Blue from the brighter Maya Blue. The contrast levels of the colors were adjusted to matching values to avoid brightness level distraction.
Version 7.4.7, June 29 2020
- Robert Wishlaw
  - Added, to the top of the Operators page, an Assignment Operator section with examples showing assignment to a variable of decimal, hexadecimal, octal, and binary expressions of a numeric value.
Version 7.4.6, June 27 2020
- Kevin Diggins
  - provided BCX Logo for Splash page.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - by popular request, made the END keyword syntax coloring match the coloring of the keyword of the process being ended.
  - more checking examples and inserting results.
  - cleanup continues.
Version 7.4.6, June 26 2020
- Robert Wishlaw
  - resurrected Kevin Diggins original BCX Logo for Splash page.
  - FREEGLOBALS got split into FREE GLOBALS. Repaired.
  - checking examples and inserting results.
  - added example to INKEY$ section, revised Example 2 in INKEY function section.
  - cleanup continues.
Version 7.4.6, June 23 2020
- Robert Wishlaw
  - replaced "Note Well" comments and the Pepto-Bismol Pink WARNING syntax coloring with manicules. BCX Help has stopped yelling and telling you what to do, and is now just pointing fingers.
  - replaced invalid references and links to Yahoo with bcxbasiccoders.
  - cleanup continues.
Version 7.4.6, June 22 2020
- Kevin Diggins
  - added example to ADDRESSOF function page.
  - added example to CENTER page.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added ADDRESSOF function page.
  - revised CENTER page.
  - cleanup continues.
Version 7.4.6, June 20 2020
- Robert Wishlaw
  - Dark syntax highlighting
  - cleanup continues.
Version 7.4.6, June 19 2020
- Robert Wishlaw
  - Light syntax highlighting
  - cleanup continues.
Version 7.4.6, June 18 2020
- Kevin Diggins
 - clarified BCX Case Sensitivity on the 'BCX and Other BASIC Dialects - Similarities and Differences' page.
- Robert Wishlaw
 - On the $PP directive page, replaced the Preprocessor DLL template with a newer version authored by Vic McClung and Kevin Diggins.
 - to improve readability, increased space between listed items demarcated by <li> within <ol> and <ul> lists .
 - cleanup continues.
Version 7.4.6, June 15 2020
- Kevin Diggins
  - on the ENUM statement page, replaced the example showing how to code a GLOBAL scope ENUM.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - in the XFOR ... XNEXT loop, Example 2 on the Control Flow Statements page, Kevin Diggins, Wayne Halsdorf and Robert Wishlaw were replaced by John G. Kemeny, Thomas E. Kurtz and Mary Kenneth Keller.
  - consolidated the $LEANANDMEAN and $NOWIN directives with the Compilation Directives page.
  - cleanup continues.
Version 7.4.6, June 13 2020
- Robert Wishlaw
  - concatenated $NODLLMAIN directive page with $DLL directive page.
  - repaired broken Matrix Transform example on the FILLARRAY function page.
  - cleanup continues.
Version 7.4.6, June 10 2020
- Kevin Diggins
  - replaced BCX_GET_TEXT$ function example 'Password.bas'
- Robert Wishlaw
  - cleanup continues.
Version 7.4.6, June 8 2020
- Robert Wishlaw
  - repaired instances of BYREF qualifier broken into BY REF. Consolidated BYREF qualifier page with the Arguments and Parameters section of the FUNCTION and SUB Procedures page.
  - cleanup continues.
Version 7.4.6, June 7 2020
- Kevin Diggins
  - on the BCX Object Oriented Programming page corrected the dysfunctional third example.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - adjusting the syntax color foreground to background contrast ratios to comply with the minimal requirements of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1.
  - cleanup continues.
Version 7.4.6, June 5 2020
- Robert Wishlaw
  - $PRJUSE got broken into $PRJ USE. Repaired
  - cleanup continues.
Version 7.4.6, June 2 2020
- Robert Wishlaw
  - replaced Console Demo samples with Kevin Diggins' updated versions.
  - cleanup continues.
Version 7.4.6, May 30 2020
- Robert Wishlaw
  - CONSTRUCTOR got bifurcated into CONST RUCTOR. Repaired.
  - Homologation pending.
Version 7.4.6, May 27 2020
- Robert Wishlaw
  - repaired "CALLBACK". It got broken into "CALL BACK".
  - consolidated BEGIN MDIEVENTS page with BCX_MDIGUI page.
  - consolidated BEGIN EVENTS page with BCX_GUI page.
  - consolidated BCX_FRAMEWND page with BCX_MDIGUI page.
Version 7.4.6, May 25 2020
- Robert Wishlaw
  - cleaning up. I had to fix "NOTHING". It got broken into "NOT HING" in the batch processing. So most of the COM code was inoperable. color scheme still in flux. Swapped BCX functions colors with the Directives.
  - So, we continue in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable ...
Version 7.4.6, May 22 2020
- Robert Wishlaw
  - on STRING$ function page, added example and revised parameter description.
  - Sweating the petty stuff, but wait, there's more!
Version 7.4.6, May 21 2020
- Robert Wishlaw
  - at the suggestion by Kevin Diggins, of a recalibration, replaced the clashing Blue #0000EE of the hyperlinks with Maya Blue #58C4FE.
  - revised Example 2 on the $IF, $IFDEF, $IFNDEF, $ELSE, $ELSEIF and $ENDIF directives page including correcting instances of OR ELSE with ORELSE.
Version 7.4.6, May 20 2020
- Robert Wishlaw
  - tidied up Jeff Nope's example in the XOR section on the operators page including changing the conditional operators to the appropriate bitwise operators.
  - replaced several varied instances of getchar with PAUSE.
  - many corrections and revisions. More to do ...
  - color scheme "Gone Dark" being implemented. Thinking of Marty Gelb, too dark to see ....
Version 7.4.6, March 25 2020
- Robert Wishlaw
  - modified the LINE INPUT from file example and added a note stating ☞ Any line with a length of more than 2048 bytes will be truncated.
  - modified the example on the BOOL$ page adding a test for -1.
  - revised the Error Handling and Messages from the BCX Translator page.
  - added, to the BCX Scripting Procedures page a note stating that the BCX VBS scripting procedures are 32 bit only. The Microsoft msscript component was not ported to 64 bit.
Version 7.4.5, February 21 2020
- Kevin Diggins
  - added an important note to the LINE INPUT page stating that "It is important to note that the receiving string variable must be a statically dimensioned string variable - it cannot be a dynamically dimensioned string because BCX's current translation emits the compile-time "C" operator "sizeof" which does not work for determining the number of bytes that a dynamically dimensioned string can hold.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - modified the LINE INPUT from file example.
Version 7.4.5, February 16 2020
- Kevin Diggins
  - revised the example on the BCX_UPDOWN page.
Version 7.4.4, February 10 2020
- Kevin Diggins
  - corrected errors on the BCX_TOOLTIP page.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added the STR$ optional "no space prepended" optional parameters to the description and modified the STR$ example.
Version 7.4.4, February 9 2020
- Kevin Diggins
  - expanded example 5 on the Pointers in BCX page.
  - added an example to the BCX_DYNACALL section providing a 32/64 bit compilable alternative to BCX_DYNACALL which will compile only as 32 bit.
  - added an example to the BCX_TOOLTIP page.
  - added a note to the Scaling flag of the GUI statement stating
    ☞ Please note that the DPI flag is deprecated.
- James Fuller
  - suggested removing references to Windows 98, 2000 and XP.
  - corrected errors on the BCX_TOOLTIP page.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised the RUN statement page
  - removed most references to Windows 98, 2000 and XP.
  - removed INP, INPW, OUTP and OUTPW statements.
  - revised the example on the STR$ function page.
  - revised and consolidated to one page the MIN and MAX functions.
  - revised the BCX_DYNACALL section providing a warning that BCX_DYNACALL will compile only as 32 bit.
  - added the BCX_TOOLTIP page.
  - added the LEFTSTR and RIGHTSTR functions.
  - added the STR$ optional no space prepended optional parameters to the description and modified the STR$ example.
Version 7.4.1, January 31 2020
- Kevin Diggins
  - repaired and restructured the dysfunctional FUNCTION and SUB Pointers examples on the Pointers in BCX page.
  - added an example of using SET ... END SET in functions.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added the -z command line option flag documentation to the BCX Command Line Usage page. added a page the $ZAP directive.
  - added a section for ISODATE$ to the DATE$ page.
Version 7.4.0, January 19 2020
- Kevin Diggins
  - added an example to the $IF et al. directives page.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised the BCX_INPUT and BCX_EDIT function examples.
  - revised the $IF et al. directives page.
  - revised the MACRO directive page including an added remark, with illustrative example, stating
    ☞ If a CONST defined constant is used in an $IF, $ELIF, or $ELSE directive, it must have a value that evaluates to an integer constant.
Version 7.3.9, January 12 2020
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised the BCX_POLYLINE function example.
  - Added a note to the AUTO storage class specifier section stating
    ☞ do not use AUTO if compiling with C++. Since 2010, the AUTO keyword is no longer a C++ storage-class specifier and has been repurposed.
  - Added a note to the REGISTER storage class specifier section stating
    ☞ do not use REGISTER if compiling with C++. It was deprecated in the C++11 standard and removed from C++17 standard.
  - Major revisions to all the C++ examples in The C++ Tutorial for BCX Users. The biggest change was removing each "using namespace std;" statement which is generally considered bad practice. The change, instead of "using namespace std;", was to specify the "std" namespace using the scope operator(::).
  - added an example to the UBOUND function page.
Version 7.3.7, December 11 2019
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised the BCX_COLORDLG function example.
  - revised the OSVERSION function page adding OS 8.1 and newer.
Version 7.3.6, December 1 2019
- Robert Wishlaw
  - updated the C++ examples in The C++ Tutorial for BCX Users.
Version 7.3.6, November 28 2019
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised console sample s154 changing instances if THIS to ME.
Version 7.3.4, November 23 2019
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised the BCX License page to the MIT License.
  - revised the BCX Documentation title page.
  - revised the Acknowledgments page.
  - began revision of the Installing BCX page.
  - began revision of the Updating BCX page.
  - revised the OSVERSION function page adding OS 10 and newer.
Version 7.3.2, August 5 2018
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised the 5 examples in the Initialization of Arrays
Version 7.3.2, March 31 2018
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised the remark in the LINE INPUT statement (from keyboard) section to read
    LINE INPUT allows you to collect characters typed on the keyboard, including commas, without the special need to use quotation marks. This is mostly compatible with PowerBasic and Qbasic except that, in BCX, when used to collect characters typed on the keyboard, the prompt is not optional.
Version 7.3.1, December 30 2017
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised the example on the BCX_DATEPICK function page.
Version 7.3.0, July 31 2017
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised and added an example to the LOG function in the Miscellaneous Math functions section.
  - added Jeff Nope's BitFun example to the XOR operator section on the Operators page.
  - consolidated LCASE$, MCASE$ and UCASE$ to a single page and added an example by Kevin Diggins.
Version 7.3.0, June 7 2017
- Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected, on the BCX Run-time Math Functions page, a missing trailing quotation mark in the html markup unique identifier for the POW function. The missing trailing quotation mark caused the right hand side of the POW equation not to display.
  - added, on the BCX Run-time Math Functions page, "Miscellaneous Math functions" and "LONG DOUBLE functions" headers.
  - revised the results in the LONG DOUBLE functions section of the BCX Run-time Math Functions page.
  - corrected the html markup unique identifier for the Modulus Operator(%).
Version 7.3.0, June 27 2017
- James Fuller
  - revised, on the LTRIM$ and RTRIM$ functions pages, the description of the optional CharToTrim% parameter.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised the examples on the LTRIM$ and RTRIM$ functions pages.
Version 7.3.0, June 7 2017
- Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected, on the BCX Run-time Math Functions page, a missing trailing quotation mark in the html markup unique identifier for the POW function. The missing trailing quotation mark caused the right hand side of the POW equation not to display.
  - added, on the BCX Run-time Math Functions page, "Miscellaneous Math functions" and "LONG DOUBLE functions" headers.
  - revised the results in the LONG DOUBLE functions section of the BCX Run-time Math Functions page.
  - corrected the html markup unique identifier for the Modulus Operator(%).
Version 7.3.0, April 24 2017
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added DPI qualifying statement to the GUI NOMAIN statement. This is an addition to PIXELS and the default, no qualifier, which outputs windows at a fixed 2 times PIXELS size. For more information on DPI please see the Microsoft webpage "Writing DPI-Aware Desktop and Win32 Applications" at
    https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn469266(v=vs.85).aspx
Version 7.2.9, April 3 2017
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised the $IF, $IFNDEF, $ELSE, $ELSEIF and $ENDIF directives section.
Version 7.2.9, March 17 2017
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised the example on the FINPUT page.
Version 7.2.9, March 4 2017
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added Mike Henning's COM example for Open Office as Example 3 to the CREATEOBJECT page.
Version 7.2.9, December 28 2016
- Robert Wishlaw
  - replaced all instances of "ATN" with "ATAN".
  - on the BCX Run-time Math Functions page, revised the introductory remarks and added a simple example demonstrating trigonometric degree to radians conversion and vice versa.
  - on the BCX Run-time Math Functions page, revised and added examples to all trigonometric functions
Version 7.2.9, December 3 2016
- James Fuller
  - added DPI qualifying statement to the GUI statement. This is an addition to PIXELS and the default, no qualifier, which outputs windows at a fixed 2 times PIXELS size. For more information on DPI please see the Microsoft webpage "Writing DPI-Aware Desktop and Win32 Applications" at
    https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn469266(v=vs.85).aspx
Version 7.2.8, May 12 2016
- James Fuller
  - added a note to the PRIVATE CONST statement section stating "PRIVATE CONST must be compiled with a C++ compiler and can be used only with the -c command line flag or $CPP/$CPPHDR directives."
Version 7.2.8, April 15 2016
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added a note to the RMDIR statement page stating
    ☞ The directory must be empty of files for RMDIR to remove the directory.
Version 7.2.8, April 3 2016
- Ian Casey
  - corrected, in the BCX Run-time Math Functions section, a missing cast in the long double functions example and, as well, replaced the incorrect constants PI and TR with calculated values.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added, in the BCX Run-time Math Functions section, a note stating "Please note the required cast to LDOUBLE as shown in the example below."
Version 7.2.8, March 20 2016
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added a note to the 'Dimensioning Dynamic Strings inside a SUB or FUNCTION' section of the 'The Usage of Variables in BCX' stating that "BCX, in most instances, will automatically free the memory allocated. One exception to this is that DYNAMIC variables/arrays not automatically freed when they are declared within a FUNCTION MAIN() under a $NOMAIN directive."
  - removed, from the Dimensioning DYNAMIC Arrays section, the caveat regarding DYNAMIC arrays in 64 bit code.
  - added, to the Dimensioning DYNAMIC Arrays section, two warnings stating "DYNAMIC arrays not automatically freed when they are declared within a FUNCTION MAIN() under a $NOMAIN directive."
Version 7.2.7, February 24 2016
- James Fuller
  - corrected, in the CALL statement section, the example demonstrating a recursive CALL.
- Ad Rienks
  - added, to the BCX Command Line Usage page, the missing documentation for setting the "-m" flag on the BCX command line to enable embedded BCX Code in the "C" translation.
Version 7.2.7, February 23 2016
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added a note to the $SOURCE directive page stating that "This capability for an entire file can be provided for by setting the "-m" flag on the BCX command line."
Version 7.2.5, February 11 2016
- James Fuller
  - corrected missing "FREE Buffer$" in DSPLIT example.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added, to the Dimensioning DYNAMIC Arrays section, the following note
    ☞ X64 code using DYNAMIC arrays will probably fail. DO NOT USE DYNAMIC ARRAYS IN 64 BIT code!
Version 7.2.4, September 17 2015
- Robert Wishlaw
  - removed, from the $FSSTATIC directive section, the reference to the $FSSTATIC directive having a toggle capability. The $FSSTATIC directive must be placed before each procedure to be made static. The example was modified to match this change.
Version 7.2.4, September 2 2015
- James Fuller
  - corrected memory allocation in console demo S151.bas.

Version 7.2.4, September 1 2015

Robert Wishlaw

corrected console demo S125.bas.


FUNCTION = SQRT(Srs / (Elements - 1))
 
was changed to
 
FUNCTION = SQRT(Srs / Elements)

Version 7.2.4, August 25 2015
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised console demo S89.bas to prevent a potential buffer overrun.
Version 7.2.2, August 2 2015
- Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected typographic errors in the CVLD function section changing instances of "MKD" to "MKLD".
Version 7.2.2, August 1 2015
- Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected the Result in the example of the VCHR$ function section.
Version 7.2.2, July 3 2015
- Robert Wishlaw
  - deleted, from the $SOURCE, the $TEST and the $TRACE directive pages, the reference to the "-m" command line switch which was removed from BCX in version 5.05.153.
Version 7.2.2, May 26 2015
- James Fuller
  - corrected, in the example of the FILLARRAY function section, instances of 0. to 0.0.
Version 7.2.2, May 23 2015
- James Fuller
  - corrected, in Example 2 of the REDIM PRESERVE section, the off by one memory allocation in the DIM, REDIM and REDIM Preserve atatements.
Version 7.2.1, March 31 2015
- Robert Wishlaw
  - removed incorrect parentheses from Syntax description of the $LIBERROR directive.
  - moved the $LIBERROR directive to the DECLARE C_DECLARE STDCALL statement page.
  - added an example to the $LIBERROR directive section.
Version 7.2.1, March 23 2015
- Robert Wishlaw
  - changed, in the BCX_THREAD page last example.
```
DIM hThread[3] AS HWND
to
DIM hThread[3] AS HANDLE
```
Version 7.1.8, March 20 2015
- herr_unzuverlassig
 - added, to the Operators page, <> scalar not equal.
Version 7.1.8, March 17 2015
- James Fuller and Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected, on the Control Flow Statements page, EXIT Statement section, Example 2, demonstrating the use of EXIT SELECT.
- herr_unzuverlassig
  - added, to the COM FOR EACH section, a warning not to use nested FOR EACH ... NEXT loops as they will not work as expected.
Version 7.1.8, March 15 2015
- MrBCX and Robert Wishlaw
  - added, to the Control Flow Statements page, EXIT Statement section, examples demonstrating the use of EXIT SELECT. EXIT SELECT was added to the index.
Version 7.1.8, March 8 2015
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added, to the BCX_MDIALOG function page, Example 2, which shows how the BCX_MDIALOG function can be used with various fonts.
Version 7.1.7, January 7 2015
- Robert Wishlaw
  - removed pathetically incomplete Dangerous Words page.
- herr_unzuverlassig
  - added, to the COM FOR EACH example, missing "DIM Match AS OBJECT" declaration.
  - removed, from the FUNCTION ... END FUNCTION procedure syntax description, the unreachable "[Statements]" after the "FUNCTION = ReturnValue".
Version 7.1.7, January 2 2015
- Ad Rienks
  - suggested providing, in the 'Installing BCX' section, instructions to add, to the PATH environment variable, the path to the BCX executable on operating systems newer than Windows XP.
Version 7.1.7, January 1 2015
- Robert Wishlaw
  - updated copyright dates to 2015.
  - added a note to the Installing BCX section stating that you must be signed in as a member of the BCX discussion group's Yahoo website to access files.
  - added a link to the BCX License page from the Title Page.
Version 7.1.7, November 25 2014
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised Example 1 on the 'Creating a DLL' page, changing the data type from HWND to HINSTANCE for Dll_Hnd. The obsolete MakeProcInstance code and related variables were removed.
  - revised and added the result from running the example on the ROUND function page.
Version 7.1.7, May 17 2014
- James Fuller
  - corrected, in the $REMS directive section, missing apostrophes in the Syntax statement and the Example.
Version 7.1.7, May 4 2014
- Robert Wishlaw
  - Changed, line 4 in Example 1 of the 'WITH ... END WITH statement' section, from
    DIM c$ [80]
    to
    DIM c[80] AS CHAR
  - Changed a line in the REPLACE statement section from
    DIM RAW p AS CHAR PTR, Filter$[40] AS CHAR
    to
    DIM RAW p AS CHAR PTR, Filter[40] AS CHAR
  - Replaced Example 3 in the REDIM PRESERVE section.
Version 7.1.7, March 18 2014
- Robert Wishlaw
  - Corrected and revised, in the BEGIN MDICHILDEVENTS ... END MDICHILDEVENTS statements' section, Examples 1 and 2.
  - Corrected and revised the example in the 'BCX_RESOURCE statement' section.
  - Corrected and revised the example in the 'GETRESOURCE function' section.
  - Corrected and revised the example in the '$COMPILER directive' section.
  - Corrected and revised the example in the 'BCX_BITMAP function' section.
  - Corrected and revised the example in the 'BCX_ICON function' section.
  - Corrected and revised the example in the 'PLAYWAV statement' section.
  - Corrected and revised the example in the 'SET_BCX_BITMAP statement' section.
Version 7.1.6, February 10 2014
- Robert Wishlaw
  - Added, to the $NODLLMAIN directive page, an instruction that
    ☞ The $NODLLMAIN directive must precede the $DLL directive in the source code file.
Version 7.1.4, February 5 2014
- Robert Wishlaw
  - Removed, in the FUNCTION LoadForm2() and FUNCTION LoadForm3() of the HANDLE_MSG macro statement and SHOWMODAL ... ENDMODAL macro statement examples, the nStyle initializer values which were causing the Modal Form not to function as expected. Thanks to James Fuller who coded the corrections in his example on the website for the BC9 translator.
Version 7.1.3, January 19 2014
- Robert Wishlaw
  - Added missing type specifiers to Console sample s152.bas.
  - Replaced instances of "DIM RAW" with "RAW".
  - Added revisions to the RAW section of the 'The Usage of Variables in BCX" page changing the "C" code examples to use the {0} initializer instead of the memset construct.
  - Added, to the 'The C++ Tutorial for BCX Users' page example C32_02.bas, a note stating "Before you use Example C31_02 be sure to create the test.txt file with Example C31_01."
  - Added where needed, to the BCX_TAB function, HANDLE_MSG macro statement, SHOWMODAL ... ENDMODAL macro statement, BCX_DIALOG function and BCX_MDIALOG function examples, (DLGPROC) casts which are shown as required in the Microsoft documentation examples for 'Creating a Modal Dialog Box' and 'Creating a Modeless Dialog Box'.
  - Added, to the BCX_DIALOG function and BCX_MDIALOG function parameters descriptions a note stating, "The (DLGPROC) cast must be applied immediateley preceding the DlgProcName."
  - Removed the non-applicable example from the HANDLE_CMD macro page.
Version 7.0.9, September 14 2013
- Wayne Halsdorf
  - added an example to the OSVERSION function section.
  - added an example to the INPUTBOX$ function section demonstrating the hidden input capabilities.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised, in the the OSVERSION function section, the possible enumerated return values. Please note that some of these values have been changed so that they differ from previous versions of BCX.
  - revised the INPUTBOX$ function section adding the optional hidden input parameter syntax and description.
Version 7.0.7, August 18 2013
- Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected, in the 'QSORTIDX statement' section, that in Syntax 2 and 3 (User defined type records), the fourth parameter properly refers to the data type and not to which field(element) in ArrayToSort to sort.
  - revised the examples in the 'QSORTIDX statement' section.
  - revised, in the 'QSORTIDX statement' section, the warning note to state
    - ☞ The fourth parameter is different from Syntax 1 (Simple array) than in Syntax 2 and 3 (User defined type records).
    - Also, in Syntax 1 (Simple array), the array on which the sort is done must be a string ($) or CHAR data type and cannot be a numerical data type.
    - And please note that, when using Syntax 1 (Simple array), strings containing numbers of differing length will not sort numerically unless padding is added to match the length of the longest number.
Version 7.0.5, August 7 2017
- Robert Wishlaw
 - revised, on 'The C++ Tutorial for BCX Users' page, the example C32_01.bas and the example C32_02.bas by adding #INCLUDE <strstream> which is no longer added automatically by the BCX translator.
Version 7.0.5, August 5 2013
- Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected, in the example on the BCX_PROGRESSBAR function page, the scope of the Form1 and Button handles from LOCAL to GLOBAL.
  - revised and added examples and consolidated BCX_GET_COM_ERROR_CODE, BCX_GET_COM_ERROR_DESC$ and BCX_SHOW_COM_ERRORS pages into one page with BCX_COM_ERROR.
Version 7.0.4, July 22 2013
- James Fuller
  - added, to the 'Dimensioning Dynamic Strings outside of a SUB or FUNCTION' section, a warning stating, " do not dimension dynamic strings outside of a SUB or FUNCTION when using $NOMAIN."
Version 7.0.4, July 20 2013
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added, to the Buffer$ parameter description of the LINE INPUT function, a warning to be sure to dimension Buffer$ large enough to accomodate the longest line in the file that is to be input.
  - added, to the $RESOURCE directive section, the following warning statement. "Please note that the internal processing by the BCX translator requires that the maximum length of any one line in the .rc file must be less than 2048 characters. "
Version 7.0.4, July 17 2013
- Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected the "dont" to "DoNot" and "doit" to "DoIt" in the first example in the 'Creating Global Variables' section'.
Version 7.0.4, July 15 2013
- Kevin Diggins
  - added, to the TEMPDIR$ function page, comments describing the location of the temporary directory on various operating systems.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised the VERIFY function descriptions.
  - corrected the VERIFY function example.
  - added, to the '$CCODE directive' section on the 'Mixing "C" and BCX code' page, decriptions for the
    - $CCODE set directive
    - $CCODE header directive
    - $CCODE const directive
    - $CCODE udt directive
    - $CCODE enum directive
    - $CCODE funcsub directive
Version 7.0.2, June 28 2013
- James Fuller
  - corrected, in the LIB statement section on the 'Calling Conventions in BCX' page, order of the title and message which were reversed.
- Wayne Halsdorf
  - added, to the XFOR ... XNEXT statement section of the Control Flow Statements page, an example that loads and displays data from file.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - changed, in POKE statement example comment, typographic error "A!" to "a!".
  - added, to the TIMER function page, a code snippet that uses the crt clock() function to detemine how many decimal seconds have elapsed during the interval between the entry into and the exit from a FOR ... NEXT loop.
  - added, to the XFOR ... XNEXT statement section of the Control Flow Statements page, an example that calculates and prints the combinations of a subset of items in a set.
  - replaced the example on the TIMER function page while retaining the old code to show an example that will not work as expected with some compilers when optimization is turned on. The optimizer will completely remove the empty loop giving a result of zero elapsed time.
Version 7.0.2, June 15 2013
- James Fuller
  - removed a superfluous EXIT IF statement from the EXIT statement syntax section.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - changed bcxgurus.com links and references to bcxbasic.com.
  - added bcxbasic.com link to start page.
Version 7.0.2, June 14 2013
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised descriptions in the CALLBACK FUNCTION...END FUNCTION procedure section.
  - moved Example 5 from the BCX_FORM function section to be used as an example for Syntax 1 in the CALLBACK FUNCTION...END FUNCTION procedure section.
  - moved the Subclassing Windows Controls example to be used as an example for Syntax 2 in the CALLBACK FUNCTION...END FUNCTION procedure section.
Version 7.0.2, June 13 2013
- Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected, on the Subclassing Windows Controls page, the declaration syntax of the Label_1_WndProc and Label_2_WndProc callback functions.
Version 7.0.1, May 29 2013
- James Fuller
  - added FORMLOAD to the index.
  - added FORMLOAD to the BCX GUI Procedures section on the Run-Time Functions page.
  - changed, in the BCX GUI Procedures section on the Run-Time Functions page, the "GUI directive" to "GUI statement".
- Bruce Axtens
  - corrected a typographic error in the $LEANANDMEAN directive section.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - changed instances of "ClassName" to ClassName$ in the MDIGUI statement, the BCX_FRAMEWND function and BCX_WND function sections.
  - corrected the example in the BCX_WND function section.
  - corrected the example in the SHOWMODAL ... ENDMODAL macro statements section.
  - corrected the example in the BCX_STATUS function section.
  - revised SELECT CASE example 2.
  - expanded the BEGIN EVENTS BCX code examples and updated their "C" translations to BCX 7.0.1.
Version 7.0.1, May 22 2013
- Ad Rienks
  - corrected, on the PRINT statement page, the 'PRINT to printer' example adding the omitted hash tag (#) to the FP1 handle.
Version 7.0.0, May 18 2013
- James Fuller
  - removed the redundant SELECT CASE ... END CASE contained in the BEGIN EVENTS section of the example in the MSGHANDLER macro procedure section on the HANDLE_MSG macro page.
Version 6.9.9, May 11 2013
- Robert Wishlaw
  - removed the "C" translation of the SELECT CASE example 2.
Version 6.9.9, January 27 2013
- James Fuller
  - revised all the examples on 'The C++ Tutorial for BCX Users' page.
  - added, on 'The C++ Tutorial for BCX Users' page, Chapter 23a, an example of a complete class declaration with a destructor included.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added, to 'The C++ Tutorial for BCX Users' page, an acknowledgement stating, "With the permission of the original author Eric Brasseur, the following is an abridged BCX version of Brasseur's 'The C++ tutorial for "C" users'."
  - revised, on 'The C++ Tutorial for BCX Users' page, the Chapter 11 example so that it would compile with the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 compiler.
  - revised, on 'The C++ Tutorial for BCX Users' page, the Chapter 25 example so that it would retain compliance with the C++ standard. For more detail please see Bjarne Stroustrup's faq at
    http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq2.html#in-class
    which states that a const, with an in-class initialization syntax, must be a static const of integral or enumeration type.
  - added, to Chapter 25 on 'The C++ Tutorial for BCX Users' page, a note stating that some compilers, for example g++, have an extension that allows for const static float and doubles within a CLASS and also stating that the C++0x standard has introduced a new data type, constexpr, which allows in-CLASS float and doubles constants.
  - added, to 'The C++ Tutorial for BCX Users' page, the Chapter 30 C30_01.bas example.
  - added alphanumeric identification labels to 'The C++ Tutorial for BCX Users' page examples.
  - corrected, in the $CPPHDR section of 'The C++ Tutorial for BCX Users' page, the code automatically added when $CPPHDR directive is used.
Version 6.9.9, December 31 2012
- Robert Wishlaw
  - replaced instances of "AS HANDLE" with "AS HWND".
  - corrected several broken links on the 'BCX Directives' page
Version 6.9.8, September 3 2012
- Ad Rienks
  - added the missing -Gn compiler flag to the batch file for the first example in the $DLL section.
Version 6.9.6, August 26 2012
- Robert Wishlaw
  - moved, to 'The C++ Tutorial for BCX Users' page, the $NOIO directive section and revised the description of the behavior of the directive.
  - added, to 'The C++ Tutorial for BCX Users' page, the $CPPHDR directive.
  - added, to each of the examples on 'The C++ Tutorial for BCX Users' page, the $CPPHDR directive.
  - added the $CPPHDR directive to the Directives Table of Contents and Main Index.
Version 6.9.4, August 17 2012
- Brother Gabriel
  - revised, on the DEL$ function page, the parameter description for Position% stating that "The first character in MainStr$ is at position 1 not 0."
Version 6.9.4, August 16 2012
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised, in the $CPP directive section, the example code in Chapter 25 and added a note that a CONST within a CLASS must be an integer.
Version 6.9.3, August 12 2012
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised, in the $CPP directive section, the example code in Chapter 19. Complex classes need the COPY CONSTRUCTOR and an overload of the = operator.
Version 6.9.3, August 11 2012
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised, in the $CPP directive section, the code added automatically to the .cpp file translation produced by BCX.
Version 6.9.2, August 3 2012
- James Fuller
  - added, to the Dimensioning Integers CHAR section, a note stating that the Pelles "C" compiler /J option makes the default char type unsigned.
Version 6.9.2, August 3 2012
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added, to the Dimensioning Integers CHAR section, a note stating that for MinGW, the signed char default can be changed to unsigned with the -funsigned-char command line flag. On the Microsoft compiler, the signed char default can be changed to unsigned with the /J command line flag.
  - added CHAR to the index.
Version 6.8.8, July 26 2012
- herr_unzuverlassig
  - suggested that a reference to escape sequences should be made in the $IPRINT_ON and $IPRINT_OFF directives section.
  - corrected, in the Extended String Literal statement section, "escape code" to "escape sequence".
- Ian Casey
  - corrected, in the "Creating a DLL" section, "squared.dll" to "C_DLL.dll" and removed a superfluous prepended underscore in the "SQUARED" function call to the dll.
Version 6.8.7, March 23 2012
- Robert Wishlaw
  - moved and revised a misplaced example from the BCX_SETCURSOR statement section to the BCX_MSGPUMP statement section.
  - revised the example on the HANDLE_CMD macro page.
Version 6.8.7, February 10 2012
- James Fuller
  - removed, on the CONST statement page, the link to the S126.bas sample which does not show an example of CONST usage.
Version 6.8.5, January 17 2012
- James Fuller
  - corrected, on the LTRIM$ and RTRIM$ functions pages, the missing specification of the characters, other than ASCII 32 space, which are removed.
Version 6.8.4, December 7 2011
- Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected, in samples on the 'BCX Object Oriented Programming' page, the signs for minutes and seconds. It is not good to get minutes and seconds mixed up if you are mapping a mine field.
  - added, to the examples on the 'BCX Object Oriented Programming' page, the expected results.
Version 6.8.4, December 6 2011
- Brother Gabriel
  - corrected a typographic error in the Return Value section of the REGINT function.
- James Fuller
  - added the $LEANANDMEAN directive.
- Garvan O'Keeffe and Wayne Halsdorf
  - added, to the 'BCX Object Oriented Programming' page, a sample that implements inheritance and polymorphism for "C" compilers.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added a section describing the REGEXIST function.
  - corrected, in the registry functions sections, several typographic errors which should have read "handle" instead of "key".
- Wayne Halsdorf
  - added a sample to the REGEXIST function section. Attention Ford Fanatics! do not freak out! We know that Chevy didn't build a 289.
Version 6.8.3, October 25 2011
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added missing directives to the last example in the section 'Chapter 8. It is possible to declare a REFERENCE to another variable.' on 'The C++ Tutorial for BCX Users' page.
Version 6.8.2, October 17 2011
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added a section for the IABS function which returns the absolute (positive) integer precision value of a number.
Version 6.8.1, October 10 2011
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised, in the IIF$ function section, the example showing how IIF$ can be used to compare strings.
  - repaired, on the 'Creating a DLL' page, the second section of example 1.
Version 6.8.0, September 11 2011
- James Fuller
  - removed superfluous commas from the XFOR ... XNEXT syntax description.
- jw Mr_Unreliable57
  - added an example to the BCX_CHECKBOX documentation.
Version 6.8.0, September 8 2011
- Robert Wishlaw
  - removed instances of the obsolete BCX -p command line switch.
  - revised the PRJ PRJUSE example adding needed #INCLUDE directives.
Version 6.8.0, September 7 2011
- Wayne Halsdorf
  - added, to the ABS function page, a remark stating that "While the ABS function can be used within calculations, it is better to use temporary holders for the value of an ABS function that uses floating point values since, on very rare occasions, it needs to be normalized on return. The storing of an unnormalized floating point variable forces normalization."
  - added, to the EXIT NEST section of the Control Flow Statements page, an example.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added, to the Control Flow Statements page, a section documenting the EXIT NEST statement.
  - added, to the QSORT statement section, documentation and an example for the optional NATURAL parameter of the QSORT function.
Version 6.7.3, July 26 2011
- Robert Wishlaw
  - removed SCHAR from 'The Usage of Variables in BCX' page.
  - added CHAR to 'The Usage of Variables in BCX' page with a remark stating that in the Borland, Digital Mars, LCCWin32, Microsoft, MinGW, and Pelles "C" compilers, the char data type is a signed char which can hold a value in the range -128 to 127. In the Open Watcom "C" compiler, the default char data type is an unsigned char which can hold a value in the range 0 to 255, however, this default can be changed to a signed char by using the command line flag -j.
Version 6.7.3, July 9 2011
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised the VBS_RUN_SCRIPT section of the 'BCX Scripting Procedures' page and added an example that shows how to read a VBSCRIPT file from disk, run it and retrieve a string from the result.
  - added to the VBS_RUN_SCRIPT section of the 'BCX Scripting Procedures' page a note warning that the current implementation of VBS_RUN_SCRIPT cannot process the Wscript.echo statement.
Version 6.7.3, July 6 2011
- Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected, in the DSPLIT function section, the Purpose and Parameter descriptions to state that a DYNAMIC array was to be used with DSPLIT. The example was removed and replaced with one written by Kevin Diggins.
Version 6.7.3, July 5 2011
- Brother Gabriel
  - corrected, in the 'OPTIONAL Parameters in Functions and Subroutines' section, the statement that, "OPTIONAL parameters are not permitted in DLL functions.", to instead state that "OPTIONAL parameters are not permitted in exported DLL functions."
- Wayne Halsdorf
  - added, in the 'Passing Arguments to FUNCTION and SUB Procedures' section, an example that demonstrates that a FUNCTION call can be used as a parameter in BCX.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - removed, from the 'Passing Arguments to FUNCTION and SUB Procedures' section, an example that demonstrated that a SUB call could be used as a parameter in BCX. The example, in its original context, from Dindo Liboon's Walkdir app, used the SUB call parameter as a callback from a static library.
Version 6.7.3, June 25 2011
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised the COMMAND$ function page example to include a remark that the argc parameter is generated only in console mode programs.
  - added, to the COMMAND$ function page, an example that does not use the argc parameter.
Version 6.7.2, June 19 2011
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised the INT function page to include a remark that the INT function returns the integer portion of a number as a double data type and not as an integer data type.
Version 6.7.2, June 1 2011
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added, to the 'Operators' page, the NotEqualTo and EqualTo operators.
Version 6.7.1, May 21 2011
- Robert Wishlaw
  - removed, in the BCX Console mode demonstration by Kevin Diggins (2000) sample s90.bas, the not needed FREE statements.
Version 6.7.0, May 13 2011
- Robert Wishlaw
  - expanded, in the RGB function documentation, the description in the Return Value section.
Version 6.6.1, May 6 2011
- jw
  - suggested moving the Remarks section on the BCX_SET_LABEL_COLOR function page.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - moved the Remarks section on the BCX_SET_FORM_COLOR statement page.
  - moved the Remarks section on the BCX_SET_EDIT_COLOR function page.
Version 6.6.0, April 26 2011
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added, to the PRINTER OPEN statement, syntax and parameter descriptions for the optional font name, font size and character set arguments.
  - added documentation for the $LIBERROR directive.
  - added documentation for the $NOIO directive.
  - added, to the Directives Table of Contents, several directives.
  - added documentation for the STR_CMP function.
Version 6.5.0 BetaRC2, April 8 2011
- Wayne Halsdorf
  - added an example to the new section for the PREPEND ... END PREPEND statements.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added a new section for the PREPEND ... END PREPEND statements.
  - added, to the ENUM statement page, a new section describing the named type enumeration which can be used to take a named value from the ENUM ... END ENUM list.
Version 6.5.0 BetaRC1, March 25 2011
- Brother Gabriel
  - corrected, on the BCX_BMPBUTTON page, the default Window Style for the WinStyle parameter.
  - corrected, on the BCX_BMPBUTTON page, the Width% and Height% parameter descriptions.
- Wayne Halsdorf and Robert Wishlaw
  - added, with the permission of the original author Eric Brasseur, a BCX version of "The C++ tutorial for "C" users" containing many examples showing the new C++ features added to this version of BCX.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised and expanded the 'BCX Command Line Usage' page.
  - changed, in the 'BCX Object Oriented Programming' section, instances of the "THIS" keyword to "ME" and revised the associated examples and references.
  - added, to the 'The Usage of Variables in BCX' page, a section explaining that the declaration of variables with forward propagation of variable type is allowed.
  - added, to the 'Operators' page, a section for the ANDALSO and ORELSE operators where it is explained that these operators are functionally equivalent to the "C" language && and || operators and that ANDALSO and ORELSE have been added to the BCX lexicon as a convenience to users of other BASIC dialects in which the ANDALSO and ORELSE operators are included.
  - revised, the 'EXIT statement' section of the 'Control Flow Statements' page, and added examples showing some of the new behaviour of the EXIT statement.
  - corrected, in the #INCLUDE directive section, instances of $INCLUDE to #INCLUDE.
  - moved the $TYPEDEF section to 'The Usage of Variables in BCX' page.
Version 6.2.4, February 14 2011
- Robert Wishlaw
  - replaced the example in the Pre Decrement / Post Decrement section of the Operators page
  - New Hammer image.
Version 6.2.2, October 27 2010
- Robert Wishlaw
  - removed, from the Example 6 in the 'User Defined Type (UDT)' section, a superfluous comma after a call to getchar.
  - replaced, in the FREEGLOBALS statement section, the example.
Version 6.2.2, October 26 2010
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised, in the 'OPTIONAL Parameters in Functions and Subroutines' section of the FUNCTION and SUB Procedures page, the example, removing the comments and code which were written to handle the idiosyncratic LCC-Win32 handling of null.
Version 6.2.1, October 10 2010
- Robert Wishlaw
  - changed, on the BCX Scripting Procedures page, VBS_EVAL_STR to VBS_EVAL_STR adding the $ data type indicator to allow proper parsing of the function.
  - changed, on the BCX Scripting Procedures page, VBS_EVAL_NUM to VBS_EVAL_NUM adding the # data type indicator to allow proper parsing of the function.
  - corrected, in the parameter description for the VBS_RUN_SCRIPT function on the BCX Scripting Procedures page, the return value from a string to an HRESULT.
Version 6.2.0, September 30 2010
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised, on the NOW$ Function page, documentation for usage of the optional parameter to return values as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
  - revised, on the DATE$ Function page, documentation for usage of the optional parameter to return values as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
Version 6.2.0, September 22 2010
- Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected, on the NOW$ Function page, documentation for usage of the optional parameter to return values as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
  - corrected, on the DATE$ Function page, documentation for usage of the optional parameter to return values as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
Version 6.2.0, September 14 2010
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added, to the BCX Command Line Usage page, documentation for the -b switch.
  - revised the 'Using C++ Code in BCX' page to document the $INTERFACE ... $ENDINTERFACE directive and added several C++ directives to the index.
  - added, to the NOW$ Function page, documentation for usage of the optional parameter to return values as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
  - added, to the DATE$ Function page, documentation for usage of the optional parameter to return values as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
  - added, to the 'Control Flow Statements' page, documentation for the XFOR ... XNEXT statements.
Version 6.1.8, August 18 2010
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added, to the 'Comments in BCX' page, a section documenting usage of the $REMS directive.
  - added, to the 'TIME$ function' page, documentation for usage of the optional parameter to return values as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
Version 6.1.6, August 12 2010
- Evert van Dijken, Wayne Halsdorf
  - corrected, in the S94.bas console sample, the WHILE ... LOOP to WHILE ... WEND.
- Kevin Diggins
  - removed, from the Limitations section of the BCX COM Interface Procedures page, several statements made obsolete by new features added to COM support in BCX.
- Michael Sanders
  - added, on the $ACCELERATOR directive page, an example showing how to turn on the underlining of the accelerator keys.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added a note to the COM ARRAY and SAFEARRAY functions that the examples require the Excel_Constants.inc file which is in the BCX_6.1.0_DEMOS directory included in the BCX 6.1.0 translator zip file.
Version 6.1.6, August 3 2010
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added, to the OSVERSION function page, return values for Vista and Windows 7. The return value 8 was incorrectly described and so was changed to signify that the operating system is one of the following, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Storage Server 2003, Windows Home Server, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition or Windows Server 2003.
Version 6.1.3, July 1 2010
- Robert Wishlaw
  - Capitalized instances of DESTROYSAFEARRAY.
  - Downsized hammer image on Version page.
Version 6.1.2, July 1 2010
- Wayne Halsdorf
  - Added, to the BEGINBLOCK ... ENDBLOCK statements section, an example demonstrating how the scope limiting statements work.
  - Added, to the COM Arrays page, an example demonstrating BCX facilities for working with arrays in COM projects.
  - Revised and added, in the COM Type-Cast Conversions section, descriptions and an example related to the use of variables and the VARIANT data type.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - Added, to the 'Variable Scope' section of 'The Usage of Variables in BCX' page, a subsection explaining the use of the BEGINBLOCK ... ENDBLOCK statements.
  - Added a COM Arrays page explaining BCX facilities for working with arrays in COM projects.
Version 6.0.8, June 10 2010
- Ian Casey
  - corrected, on the BCX_PSET page, the BCX Star Field example which was missing the GUI statement.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected, on the COM Type-Cast Conversions page, HTML syntax highlighting of the text which was red instead of black.
  - added, to the BCX_COM_ERROR/BCX_GET_COM_SUCCESS page, a BCX_GET_COM_STATUS section.
Version 6.0.7, May 28 2010
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added, to the "SET ... END SET" statement page, a new example demonstrating the use of BCX functions and operators within a "SET ... END SET" statement and, as well, corrected an incorrect example.
Version 6.0.6, May 11 2010
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised several console demo programs.
  - revised the values of the controls sizes in the TinyTimes.bas sample program to accommodate the larger offsets on the forms created on post Windows 98 operating systems. The TinyTimes Windows 98 screen capture image has been replaced with a Vista version.
  - replaced the example on the BCX_SET_TEXT function page.
  - added, following the $BCXVERSION directive section on the Compilation Directives page, an explanation of the BCX_VERSION$ variable introduced in BCX 6.0.6.
Version 6.0.4, March 25 2010
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised, on the BCX_SETCOLOR function page, the description of the BackgroundRGBColor parameter stating that this parameter can be set to -1 for a transparent background. A note was added stating that this function is limited to use only with static and edit controls. It does not work with button controls.
  - added, to the BCX_SETCOLOR function page, a new example based on one posted by Mike Henning.
Version 6.0.3, February 25 2010
- Robert Wishlaw
  - Added an optional FillType parameter to the BCX_FLOODFILL function to allow the flooding of an area which is contained by a multicolored boundary. This is an extension to the existing BCX_FLOODFILL wrapper of the Win32 API ExtFloodFill function. For more detail see the documentation for the FLOODFILLSURFACE value of the fuFillType parameter of the Microsoft Windows GDI ExtFloodFill function.
Version 6.0.2, February 19 2010
- P. Kort
  - modified, on the BCX_TOOLBAR function page, the example created by Mike Henning.
- Jef Rozenski
  - removed the incorrect index entry BCXDispatchObject.
  - corrected a typographic error on the BCX_SLIDER page.
  - corrected typographic errors on the index page COLOR_BG and COLOR_FG entries.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - where it was appropriate, the return value has been removed from the Parameters list and put into a Return Value subsection.
  - replaced, BluePagan's example on the PLAYWAV statement page, with a revised version of code by Tom Speirs. This was done because mciExecute will not accept some filenames containing an embedded space. Tom Speirs version uses mciSendString which will accept a filename with an embedded space. BluePagan's note regarding deployment on Windows 98 was removed.
  - changed the NOTE_LENGTH from 200 to 400 in the SiLlY SyMpHoNy example on the SOUND function page. SiLlY SyMpHoNy was written on August 5th 2003 by Kevin Diggins.
  - revised, on the COM CREATEOBJECT function page, Example 2 so that it would compile on C++ compilers.
  - revised, on the BCX_GET_COM_ERROR_CODE function page, the return value and the example.
  - revised the BCX_DISPATCHOBJECT function page.
  - revised, on the BCX_GET_COM_ERROR_DESC function page, the return value and the example.
Version 6.0, October 1 2009
- Robert Wishlaw
  - moved contributor attributions for donated code from the help file body to this page.
  - corrected the data type of the return variable in the example on the ABS function page.
  - revised the Purpose, Syntax, and Example sections of the $ACCELERATOR directive page.
  - removed the Layout section of the $ACCELERATOR directive page.
  - added an example to the APPEXENAME$ function page.
  - revised the examples on the ASC function page.
  - revised the Intel Assembly Language Syntax Example on the $ASM directive page.
  - revised and added an example to the BCOPY statement page.
  - corrected faulty declaration of ReUsableBrush and removed error generating parentheses from LOCAL variable declaration in SUB FakeData of the Gui_Demo.bas page which is linked to from several GUI function pages.
  - added, to the BCX_EDIT example, a call to the SetFocus function.
  - revised, on the BCX_FONTDLG function page, the Syntax.
  - the BCX_FORM function page was revised and consolidated with the GUI statement page.
  - replaced the example on the BCX_GET_TEXT$ function page with Kevin Diggins' Password.bas.
  - added missing "$" data type specifier to several instances of BCXSPLITPATH$.
Version 6.0, August 25 2009
- Robert Wishlaw
  - checked, and revised where necessary, the Console Samples to ensure that they could be translated with BCX Version 6.0 and compiled with the Pelles "C" Version 6.0 compiler.
Version 6.0, August 2 2009
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised the COMMAND$ function example to accept an empty argument on the command line.
Version 6.0, June 9 2009
- Jeff Shollenberger
  - corrected duplicate index entries for the BCX_GET_COM_ERROR_CODE and BCX_GET_COM_ERROR_DESC$ functions.
Version 6.0, June 1 2009
- Robert Wishlaw
  - removed references to FREE DYNAMIC. DYNAMIC is ignored now relying on FREE to choose the appropriate method.
  - Added a section for the new runtime variant of BCX_DynaCall which provides for runtime execution of functions not known at compile time.
- Mike Henning
  - Added, to the BCX_DYNACALL function section, remarks and an example demonstrating the use of the new runtime variant of the BCX translator internally used BCX_DynaCall.
Version 20090427, April 27 2009
- Ian Casey
  - corrected, on the Compilation Directives page, the purpose descriptions for the $ONENTRY and $ONEXIT directives.
- Mike Henning
  - corrected, on the BCX_BITMAP function page, the example.
Version 20090422, April 22 2009
- Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected, on the Compilation Directives page, the purpose descriptions for the $ONENTRY and $ONEXIT directives.
  - removed, from the Compilation Directives page, the $ONENTRY/$ONEXIT/$BCX$ example.
  - revised, on the BCX_OLEPICTURE function page, the Res% parameter description.
Version 20090314, March 14 2009
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added, to the COM section, documentation of the COM specific FOR EACH ... NEXT statement.
- Kevin Diggins
  - added, to the COM section, an example using the COM specific FOR EACH ... NEXT statement.
Version 20090303, March 3 2009
- Robert Wishlaw
  - removed, from the TinyTimes.bas example, the superfluous FREE statement from the BuildTable subroutine.
Version 10.01.09
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added, to the String Comparison Operators section of the Operators page, an explanation and example showing that, in BCX, string comparison operators must be used with a string data type specifier ($).
  - removed, from the FREE statement section of the 'The Usage of Variables in BCX' page, a misplaced reference to deallocating memory for string arrays.
Version 5.12, July 9, 2008
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added syntax and parameter description for the optional case insensitivity capability of the TALLY function introduced in BCX version 5.12.
Version 5.12 beta 13, June 12, 2008
- Ian Casey
  - corrected, on the OPEN and PRINT statements pages, the file handle name from #FP1 to FP1 in the examples which show how to send data to the default printer.
  - added, to the RECCOUNT section of the 'Using Random Access Files' page, a note stating that "After RECCOUNT has been called, the file pointer is left at the end of the file."
- Robert Wishlaw
  - consolidated the Working With Files page with the BCX File Management Functions page.
  - added, to the "BCX and Other BASIC Dialects - Similarities and Differences" page a statement saying that "QBASIC style file handles using the #number syntax are not supported in BCX."
  - merged the RndAcc.bas page example into the 'Using Random Access Files' page.
  - added, to the RECCOUNT section of the 'Using Random Access Files' page, a note stating that "The REC and LOC functions could be used to determine and save the current position of the file pointer before calling RECCOUNT and then, after RECCOUNT has been called, the saved REC and LOC values could be used as arguments in a RECORD function call to move the file pointer back to the original record and position."
Version 5.12 beta 13, June 5, 2008
- Ian Casey
  - corrected the parameter descriptions for the Comma,Separated,Expressions in the FPRINT and FWRITE statements.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected, in Example 3 of the User Defined Type (UDT) section, the string declaration syntax in the TYPE ... END TYPE declaration.
  - restored the "Building the BCX Runtime Libraries" documentation.
  - revised Example 1 on the $ACCELERATOR directive page and and moved it to the KEYPRESS function page.
  - corrected the parameter descriptions for the Comma,Separated,Expressions in the PRINT statement.
Version 5.12 beta 13, May 29, 2008
- Wayne Halsdorf
  - corrected a typographic error on the run-time procedures table of contents page which erroneously showed the CONTAINEDIN function returning a string instead of an integer.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected a typographic error on the run-time procedures table of contents page which erroneously showed the FINDINTYPE function returning a string instead of an integer.
  - removed the data type suffixes from the index entries for the CONTAINEDIN and FINDINTYPE functions.
  - revised the BCX Help file versioning scheme to mirror that of the BCX translator.
Version 5.11v, April 28, 2008
- Kevin Diggins and Doyle Whisenant
  - added an example and comments, to the 'Limitations' section of the BCX COM Interface Procedures page, showing that in some COM statements, a single or double precision float data type value must be expressed using a variable with an appended data type signifier rather than using a literal expression.
- Doyle Whisenant
  - added an example to the BCX_DATEPICK page.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - moved the 'Limitations' section to the top of the BCX COM Interface Procedures page.
Version 5.11u, April 13, 2008
- Ian Casey
  - removed superfluous parentheses in the DATA statement of the BCXGUI Demonstration Program.
- Mike Henning
  - added, in the $DLL STDCALL directive section of the 'Creating a DLL' page, an example which shows how a dll can call a callback function in an application.
- jay_our
  - reported a syntax error in the BCX_DISPATCHOBJECT example.
  - corrected a typo on the BCX_SET_FORM_COLOR page.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - repaired syntax highlighting on some console samples.
  - replaced the BCX_DISPATCHOBJECT example.
  - removed, from the list of flags on the MSGBOX function page, the MB_USERICON flag.
  - revised, on the PLAYWAV function page, the parameter description regarding RCDATA.
  - added, to the Operators page, the "~" bitwise complement ("ones complement") operator.
  - corrected a typographic error in the RemoveStyle parameter description on the MODSTYLE function page
  - revised the example in the $DLL STDCALL directive section of the 'Creating a DLL' page.
  - added a batch file to compile the example in the $DLL STDCALL directive section of the 'Creating a DLL' page.
  - revised the example in the EXPORT qualifier section of the 'Creating a DLL' page.
Version 5.11t, March 7, 2008
- Robert Wishlaw
  - restructured the Table of Contents.
  - modified several examples to work with compilers that use standard Windows headers.
  - replaced references to external batch files with explicit translation and compilation instructions.
  - revised the instructions in the "Compiling the BCX Translator" section.
  - removed the JFE color syntax file.
  - removed the "Building the BCX Runtime Libraries" documentation because the hoped for "examples of using the -n commandline switch and the $PROJECT directive to build multi-file projects that link the BCX Runtime code from bcxRT.lib" have not been developed.
Version 5.11s, March 4, 2008
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised the QSORTIDX function page and added more examples adapted from work by Mike Henning.
Version 5.11r, March 1, 2008
- jay_our
  - corrected, in the Index, a bad link to the BCX_DISPATCHOBJECT function.
- Kevin Diggins
  - added, to the BCX_FORM page, an example showing how to set up two forms in SUB FORMLOAD.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added, in BCX_TAB function section, the remark "To tab forward out of the BCX_TAB control use the CTRL-TAB key combination." Also, the BCX_TAB example was reformatted.
  - added, in BCX_RICHEDIT function section, the remark "To tab forward out of the BCX_RICHEDIT control use the SHIFT-TAB key combination."
  - added an example to the BCX_ARC function page.
  - added an example to the BCX_CIRCLE function page.
Version 5.11q, February 14, 2008
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added, to 'Other BASIC Dialects - Similarities and Differences' page, a note stating that In BCX, if an array is dimensioned as
```
      DIM Array$[30]
```
    there will be 30 storage locations for data with the index numbered from array$[0] to array$[29]. This differs from QBASIC which will allocate 31 storage locations with the index numbered from array$[0] to array$[30].
  - corrected, in the Result section of the DSPLIT example, a typographic error where SPLIT was corrected to DSPLIT.
  - revised the RND function page.
  - corrected syntax highlighting in the SUB ... END SUB procedure section.
  - repaired the example on the 'OBJECT storage class used by BCX COM functions' page.
  - added, to the BCX COM Pages, a note stating "For more examples of the BCX COM functions see the COM directory in the Files section of the BCX Group on Yahoo."
  - replaced example on RND function page.
Version 5.11p, January 1, 2008
- Wayne Halsdorf
  - added, to the OneDIMArray$ parameter description of the SPLIT function, a note stating that the array must be large enough to hold all the tokens of the parsed string.
- Doyle Whisenant
  - added, to the SPLIT function, remarks explaining that under some circumstances the array may retain tokens from a previous invocation of SPLIT.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected typographic errors in the INSTRREV function section.
Version 5.11o, December 1, 2007
- Wayne Halsdorf
  - added, to the page, an example showing a comparison of strings.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised IIF page.
  - added, to the BCX_REGWND section, the omitted heading.
  - revised, in the SAVEBMP function section, the example.
  - revised the Simple Random Access database example on the Using Random Access Files page.
Version 5.11n, October 21, 2007
- Robert Wishlaw
  - reformatted QSORTIDX statement example.
- Wayne Halsdorf
  - revised the recursive file find example.
Version 5.11m, August 30, 2007
- Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected, in the BuildC_DLL.bat file on the Creating a DLL page, a missing directive to translate the TestC_DLL.bas.
  - reformatted QSORTIDX statement example.
  - corrected, on the Operators page, the 'Divided by equals /= operator' heading.
  - revised, in the Passing Arguments to FUNCTION and SUB Procedures section of the FUNCTION and SUB Procedures page, the description for Example 2.
  - revised and added, in Example 2, 6 and 7 in the Passing Arguments to FUNCTION and SUB Procedures section of the FUNCTION and SUB Procedures page, comments stating that the number of PTR statements must match the number of dimensions in the array.
  - corrected, in the Passing Arguments to FUNCTION and SUB Procedures section of the FUNCTION and SUB Procedures page, the missing data type specifiers in Example 5.
Version 5.11L, June 26, 2007
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised the Operators page.
  - revised the IIF and IIF$ page.
  - reformatted INSTRREV and CONTAINEDIN function examples.
  - revised the BCX_LISTVIEW function page.
  - revised the $INCLUDE directives page.
  - added, to the BCX_ICON function page example, a note stating that the example will work only with Windows XP because Windows 98 will not load an animated icon as a resource.
  - corrected and revised the FINDFIRST$ function section.
Version 5.11k, May 7, 2007
- Mike Henning
  - added, to the 'FUNCTION...END FUNCTION procedure' section, a remark stating "FUNCTION declarations emit a TYPE that may be reused." and as well, he added an example which uses the emitted FUNCTION TYPE declaration as a member of a user defined type.
- Evert van Dijken
  - corrected, on the SEARCHPATH$ function page, the description of the purpose of the function.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added, on the 'Mixing "C" and BCX code' page, a section for the $CPROTO directive.
Version 5.11j, May 6, 2007
- Mike Henning
  - removed, from the STRARRAY section of 'The Usage of Variables in BCX' page, the restriction, and the related example, that "DYNAMIC array cells cannot be used directly by the INPUT statement."
Version 5.11i, May 6, 2007
- Kevin Diggins
  - corrected, on the SET_BCX_BITMAP2 statement page, the second parameter in the Syntax description.
- Mike Henning
  - modified Console Sample S154.
- Evert van Dijken
  - corrected, on the SEARCHPATH$ function page, the omission of the return value in the Syntax description.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - made several revisions to the 'VAL function' page.
  - revised the example on the COMMAND$ function page to use an intermediate variable rather than directly use the COMMAND$ function.
  - in the 'Dimensioning DYNAMIC Arrays' section of 'The Usage of Variables in BCX' page, added an example showing DYNAMIC variable length arrays and revised and moved the warning not to use the '%' data type declaration suffix when declaring a DYNAMIC variable length array.
  - revised the Syntax 1 remarks on the CONST statement page and as well added a note " do not confuse BCX CONST with "C" const which is used to signify that a variable's value is not modifiable."
  - added, on the CONST statement page, examples demonstrating, in a CONST expression the necessity for parentheses around the both the right hand side expression of a macro and also the variable names in that expression.
  - added, to the index, "Labels" pointing to the note in the GOTO statement section.
  - added, to Console Samples S131 and S155, a note stating that they will not compile with Pelles "C" because that compiler lacks the required capability.
  - modified Console Sample S123.
  - reformatted the BCX Console Program Samples.
Version 5.11h, May 1, 2007
- Mike Henning
  - added, in the 'UNION ... END UNION statement' section of 'The Usage of Variables in BCX' page, an explanation of the value held by a member of a UNION.
  - added, in the 'User Defined Type' section of 'The Usage of Variables in BCX' page, an example showing how to REDIM a dynamic array inside a user defined type using the new ability in BCX 5.12 to use DYNAMIC wit a member of a UDT.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected, in the 'dynamic memory allocation of the members of a UDT' example, in the 'User Defined Type' section of 'The Usage of Variables in BCX' page, missing char data type declaration suffixes ($) to the TYPE members in the PRINT (?) statements.
  - revised the 'Setting environment PATH' section of the 'Installing BCX' page.
  - made several revisions to the 'The Usage of Variables in BCX' page.
  - made several revisions to the 'PRINT statement' page.
  - added, to 'The Usage of Variables in BCX' page, a section for the VOLATILE type qualifier.
Version 5.11g, April 20, 2007
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised, on the $IF, $IFNDEF, $ELSE, $ELSEIF and $ENDIF directives page, the Purpose statement.
  - replaced, on the The Usage of Variables in BCX page, examples in the 'Using PTR to create pointer variables' and 'Using PTR PTR to create pointers to pointer variables' sections.
  - repaired, on several pages, faulty syntax highlighting.
  - corrected, on the SOUND function page, the spelling of "QUEUE".
  - added, in the Syntax 3 section on the SOUND function page, Kevin Diggins' opus August 5th 2003 'SiLlY SyMpHoNy' as an example of both the LIVE MODE and the shutdown syntax of the SOUND function.
  - added, on the SOUND function page, the definitive Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, original score by Scott Frick with additional notes and rests by Kevin Diggins.
  - moved, to the Syntax 1 section on the SOUND function page, the Tugboat Whistle Sound example.
Version 5.11f, March 18, 2007
- Kevin Diggins
  - added, to the CREATEOBJECT function section of BCX COM Interface page, Example 2 which shows how to use COM to create a shortcut in the Startup menu.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added, in DECLARE statement section example, a batch file for Pelles C.
Version 5.11e, March 17, 2007
- Kevin Diggins
  - corrected sample DLL code and batch file in DECLARE section.
  - shortened and updated acknowledgments page
Version 5.11d, February 20, 2007
- Kevin Diggins
  - added, to the REDIM PRESERVE section of The Usage of Variables in BCX page, Example 1 which shows that data is preserved after REDIM PRESERVE has been applied to an array.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised, in the REDIM PRESERVE section of The Usage of Variables in BCX page, a statement from reading
    "Note well that although the size of the dimensions can be altered,...."
    to reading
    ☞ Although the number of elements in a dimension can be altered,....
Version 5.11c, February 18, 2007
- Kevin Diggins
  - corrected, in the S150.bas console sample, the FUNCTION pointer declaration.
  - added, to the Dimensioning Arrays section of The Usage of Variables in BCX page, Example 5 which shows how to use variables as elements in an array in which both the array and the element variables have global scope. The example also shows how to access the values efficiently using the CRT function "memmove", which is wrapped into a macro.
Version 5.11b, February 4, 2007
- Robert Wishlaw
  - updated copyright notices to 2007.
  - reformatted examples on Working With Variables page.
  - added, to the ENC$ function page, a section describing the Extended String Literal capability to embed a functional escape sequence in a string literal.
Version 5.11a, December 10, 2006
- Dr. X
  - updated the URL to Kevin Diggins', and the Yahoo Tech Groups, BCX websites.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised the RANDOMIZE page.
  - corrected several typographic errors on RunTime Table of Contents page.
  - added, to CURDIR$ and SYSDIR$ function pages, a note stating that the returned string does not have a trailing backslash.
Version 5.11, October 25, 2006
- Mike Henning
  - added, on the DRAWTRANSBMP statement page, the omitted DrawHDC parameter.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added, on the BCX_POLYBEZIER, BCX_POLYLINE and BCX_POLYGON statement page, the omitted brackets, indicating an optional parameter, in the syntax description.
Version 5.10, October 24, 2006
- Mike Henning and Robert Wishlaw
  - added, to the INSTRREV function parameter list, an optional parameter for a case sensitivity argument and revised the Start% parameter description.
  - added a BCXSPLITPATH function page.
  - added a GETSPECIALFOLDER function page.
  - added a GETDIMENSION and SETDIMENSION procedures page.
Version 5.09.1108c, October 5, 2006
- Dr. X
  - corrected, on the GETATTR function page, the example.
- Mike Sanders
  - revised, on the INKEY functions page, the INKEY note to state that INKEY does wait for a keypress before continuing.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised, on the $INCLUDE directives page, the description of the BCXLIB environmental variable.
Version 5.09.1108b, September 29, 2006
- Mike Henning, Ad Rienks and Andreas Hänsch
  - added, to the $ACCELERATOR directive page, an example showing how to use accelerators with drop down menus.
- Dr. X
  - corrected, on the FREE statement section of the Variables page, an incorrectly formatted example.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected, on the BCX Scripting Procedures page, faulty syntax highlighting.
Version 5.09.1108a, August 10, 2006
- Mike Henning
  - added warnings not to use DIM or LOCAL to dimension variables within BEGIN DIALOG, BEGIN MODAL DIALOG, BEGIN EVENTS, BEGIN MDIEVENTS and BEGIN MDICHILDEVENTS blocks.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised, on the GUI statement page, the Purpose descriptions for the GUI and GUI NOMAIN statements, as well as, the GUI "ClassName" parameter description.
Version 5.09.1108, August 6, 2006
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added, in the 'Initialization of Arrays' section, a note that there is a length limitation of 128 bytes for the total length of the initializers list.
  - added, to the Working with files page, a remark stating that, when explicitly dimensioning a DYNAMIC array of files, the data type must be specified as AS FILE PTR
  - added, on the BCX_SET_FONT procedures page, parameter and description for specifying the character set to be used by BCX_SET_FONT. The font weight parameter description also was revised.
  - added STARTDRAW ... ENDDRAW procedure page.
  - deleted, on the BCX_LISTVIEW page, the Extended Window Style parameter description reference to LVS_EX_FULLROWSELECT.
Version 5.09.1107e, July 23, 2006
- Mike Henning
  - added, to the HEX$ function page, an example demonstrating how to extend the HEX2DEC function to 64 bits.
- Mike Sanders
  - added, to the BCX_GROUP function page, an example which shows how to move multiple controls using the BCX_GROUP function.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - cleaned up the formatting in the SELECT CASE BAND section.
  - added SELECT CASE BAND to the index.
  - corrected IIF and IIF$ parameter description name to "Expression" from "BooleanExpression".
  - added, to the DIM RAW statement section of the Variables page, an 'Initialization of Arrays' subsection.
  - repositioned, on the Working with Variables page, the DIM RAW section.
  - revised the OPTION BASE directive description.
  - replaced all instances, in reference to an array, of "subscript" with "index".
- Kevin Diggins
  - added, to the 'Initialization of Arrays' section, a note that there is a length limitation of 64 bytes for the total length of the initializers list.
Version 5.09.1107d, July 20, 2006
- Kevin Diggins
  - added, in the 'OPTIONAL Parameters in Functions and Subroutines' section, an example demonstrating the usage of OPTIONAL parameters.
Version 5.09.1107c, July 20, 2006
- Ad Rienks
  - removed, from the 'OPTIONAL Parameters in Functions and Subroutines' section, the obsolete explanation and example of how, in LCCWin32, to pass, to a procedure, a NULL POINTER used as an OPTIONAL parameter argument.
Version 5.09.1107b, June 26, 2006
- Rich Ciszek
  - added a remark to the example on the FINDFIRST$ function page.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - replaced instances of "datatype" with "data type".
  - on BCX_PUT page, corrected mismatched raster operation code parameter names.
Version 5.09.1107a, May 25, 2006
- Andreas Hänsch
  - suggested that a note be added to the BCX_LISTVIEW function page stating that grid lines cannot be removed from BCX_LISTVIEW using the MODSTYLE function.
- Kevin Diggins
  - added an example to the FINDFIRST$ function page.
  - added an example to the FRAC function page.
  - added an example to the BCX_LISTVIEW function page.
- Mike Henning
  - added an example to the BCX_LISTVIEW function page.
Version 5.09.1107, May 8, 2006
- Robert Wishlaw
  - consolidated the Working with Files page into the OPEN statement page.
Version 5.09.1106, April 30, 2006
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised the CommaSeparatedExpressions parameter description on the PRINT function page.
Version 5.09.1105a, April 29, 2006
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added, to the CommaSeparatedStrings$ parameter description on the FPRINT function page, a remark stating that variables must have a $ string indicator suffix following each variable name.
  - revised the Comma separated expressions parameter description on the PRINT function page.
Version 5.09.1105, April 22, 2006
- Mike Henning and Robert Wishlaw
  - added, to the GETFILENAME$ function page, an optional integer pointer parameter which returns the index of the user selected file type.
  - added a note to the SAVEBMP function page that states either a HDC or HBITMAP can be passed as an argument for the first parameter.
Version 5.09a, March 22, 2006
- Robert Wishlaw
  - removed, from the BINARY NEW, INPUT and APPEND syntax descriptions in the Opening Binary Files section, incorrect square brackets.
Version 5.09, March 19, 2006
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added description for the -h command line switch to create the header file for use with $Project.
  - added a remark to the FPRINT function page stating that FPRINT will allow the use of stderr as the file handle as in:
```
      FPRINT stderr, "An error has occurred"
 
```
    in order to be able to send formatted output to the stderr.
Version 5.08.1103j, March 14, 2006
- Garvan O'Keeffe
  - corrected bad string array declaration in two User Defined Type (UDT) examples.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected bad formatting in two User Defined Type (UDT) examples.
Version 5.08.1103i, February 26, 2006
- Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected, in the BCX_MDIALOG function example, the omitted IF CBCTLMSG = BN_CLICKED THEN ... END IF block.
Version 5.08.1103h, February 23, 2006
- Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected, in many examples, bad comment formatting.
  - reformatted Purpose, Syntax, Parameter blocks.
Version 5.08.1103g, February 22, 2006
- Robert Wishlaw
  - changed, in the index, "String operators" to "String concatenation operators".
  - corrected and revised the string concatenation operators description.
  - added index link to "String comparison operators" section of Operators page.
Version 5.08.1103f, February 3, 2006
- Vic McClung and Robert Wishlaw
  - revised the BCX_REGWND Purpose description.
  - added, to BCX_WND function page, a remark stating that using BCX_WND sets pixels on as default.
  - added MDIGUI NOMAIN section and example to the MDIGUI statement page.
  - added, to BCX_FORM page, example showing how to use GUI NOMAIN with BCX_FORM.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected the omitted ClassName$ variable in the BCX_WND and BCX_FRAMEWND parameter list.
  - corrected missing SHOWMODAL reference in main index.
Version 5.08.1103e, February 2, 2006
- Vic McClung and Robert Wishlaw
  - added BEGIN MDICHILDEVENTS ... END MDICHILDEVENTS to the BCX_MDICHILD function section of the BCX_MDIGUIstatement page.
  - added BCX_WND function page.
  - added BCX_FRAMEWND function page.
  - added SHOWMODAL ... ENDMODAL to the BCX_WND function page.
  - added GUI NOMAIN to the GUI statement page.
  - added notes to the GUI and GUI NOMAIN sections about the BCX_WNDCLASS WNDCLASSEX structure and the BCX_GUI_Init Boolean variable.
  - added BCX_MDI_MSGPUMP, BCX_MSGPUMP, BCX_REGWND, BCX_SETBKGRDBRUSH, BCX_SETMETRIC, BCX_SETCLASSSTYLE, BCX_SETCURSOR, BCX_SETICON, BCX_SETICONSM procedures.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised the Purpose descriptions of the BCX_DIALOG and BCX_MDIALOG functions.
Version 5.08.1103d, January 30, 2006
- Vic McClung and Robert Wishlaw
  - added BEGIN MDIEVENTS ... END MDIEVENTS page.
  - added, in the BCX_MDICHILD section of the MDIGUI page, the parameters Xpos%, Ypos%, Width%, Height%, MDIStyle% and MDILparam%.
Version 5.08.1103c, January 30, 2006
- Vic McClung and Robert Wishlaw
  - revised the BEGIN EVENTS ... END EVENTS page.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - removed, from the BEGIN EVENTS page WM_DESTROY handler, the superfluous
```
      UnregisterClass(BCXClassName,BCX_HINSTANCE);
      
```
Version 5.08.1103b, January 29, 2006
- Vic McClung and Robert Wishlaw
  - added HANDLE_CMD and CMDHANDLER macros page.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - moved, from The GUI and MDIGUI Statements page, the $ACCELERATOR directive to its own page.
  - moved, from The GUI and MDIGUI Statements page, the MDIGUI procedures to their own page.
Version 5.08.1103a, January 28, 2006
- Vic McClung and Robert Wishlaw
 - added HANDLE_MSG and MSGHANDLER macros page.
- Robert Wishlaw
 - converted the color syntax highlighting to CSS. All ... tags have been replaced with ....
 - reformatted most of the code examples.
 - corrected, on the BCX_FORM function page, Xpos% and Ypos% parameter names in the Syntax description.
 - removed references to the obsolete $PELLES directive.
 - added a SLEEP procedure page.
 - added, to FPRINT page, note regarding semi-colon line continuation character.
 - removed Implementation Limits page.
 - updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 5.08.1103, December 18, 2005
- Andreas Hänsch
  - in the RndAcc.bas example referenced from the "Opening Random Access Files" section, corrected
```
UNTIL x1$ = ""
```
    to
```
LOOP UNTIL x1$ = ""
```
- Evert van Dijken, Mike Henning and Robert Wishlaw
  - added to the "FOR INTEGER | SINGLE | DOUBLE ... NEXT statement" section of the 'Control Flow Statements' page, comments and examples regarding the use of floating point start and end values in a FOR ... NEXT loop.
- Kevin Diggins
  - added, to the BitmapFile$ parameter description of the BCX_BITMAP function, a note stating that if a NULL image pointer is specified without specifying a value for the Res% parameter, a HWND control will be returned from the function but with no immediate image being displayed. An image can be set into such a control at runtime using the new BCX SET_BCX_BITMAP2 function.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added a SET_BCX_BITMAP2 function page.
  - updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 5.08.1102, November 13, 2005
- Mike Henning
  - revised and harmonized the C_DECLARE and DECLARE syntax descriptions and as well, added remarks clarifying the usage of C_DECLARE and DECLARE.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added, to BCX_LISTVIEW syntax and parameter descriptions, an optional argument which allows the number of columns to be specified.
  - added, to SET_BCX_BITMAP syntax and parameter descriptions, optional arguments which allow width and height size to be specified.
  - added, to the BCX_OLEPICTURE function page, remarks about the BCX_OLE_WIDTH and BCX_OLE_HEIGHT macros.
  - updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 5.08d, November 3, 2005
- Evert van Dijken
 - added a note to the SEEK statement Offset% parameter description stating that, "The initial byte in a file is located at position 0."
- fat_boy_3
 - added an example to the BCX_INPUT page.
- Robert Wishlaw
 - corrected HTML <TITLE> on JFE.ini syntax highlighting page.
 - revised the $ASM directive page and added an example for the Pelles "C" compiler.
 - added an example to and revised the Purpose description of the FINDFIRSTINSTANCE function.
 - added references to the BCX_CLASSNAME$ variable in the GUI statement section on the 'The GUI and MDIGUI Statements' page.
 - revised the SW(ShowWindow) constants list on the RUN statements page.
 - removed, from LOCATE statement page, wrong links to examples s71.bas and s124.bas.
 - revised, on the BCX_BMPBUTTON function page, the descriptions for the autosizing of the bitmap to the button.
 - revised, on the BCX_BITMAP function page, the descriptions for the autosizing of the bitmap to the control.
Build 5.08c, October 9, 2005
- Mike Henning
  - corrected an omission in the JOIN$ syntax of the example on the OVERLOADED functions and subroutines page.
  - corrected the omission of JOIN$ in the example on the JOIN$ function page.
Build 5.08b, October 4, 2005
- Robert Wishlaw
  - corrected the Expression parameter description and revised the first example on the CBOOL function page.
  - added, to the MID$ statement page, a syntax and parameter description for the optional argument specifying the length of the replacement substring.
Build 5.08a, October 2, 2005
- Mike Henning
  - removed the case sensitivity notices from BCX_REMTAB and BCX_ADDTAB.
  - replaced the example in the EXPORT qualifier section on the 'Creating a DLL' page.
Build 5.08, October 1, 2005
- Mike Henning
  - added to the BCX_SPLITTER function page, an example using the SplitBarFG and SplitBarBG global variables which allow changing the foreground and background color of the splitter bar.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added to the BCX_SPLITTER function page, descriptions of the SplitBarFG and SplitBarBG global variables which allow changing the foreground and background color of the splitter bar.
  - updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 5.07.200, September 19, 2005
- Mike Henning
  - added a note to the BCX_STATUS page explaining that when a form is built including a menu then the BCX_STATUS function call must be placed after the menu building procedure calls.
  - added notes and an example to the BCX_TABSELECT procedure on the BCX_TAB page
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised the examples for the $COMPILER directive, the GETRESOURCE function, the $LINKER directive and the complete GUI demo on the Compilation Directives page.
  - revised the example for the command line multiple defines(-d: flag) on the BCX Command Line Usage page.
  - corrected the HTML TITLE of the BCX_TAB function page.
  - added BCX_ADDTAB and BCX_TABSELECT procedure sections to the BCX_TAB function page.
  - updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 5.06.198a, September 2, 2005
- Mike Henning
  - added a note to the Operators page explaining that the ^= and %= assignment operators are not supported by BCX.
  - added a note, in the Remarks section following the SET ... END SET statement description, regarding the use of braces when doing partial initialization.
- Doyle Whisenant
  - corrected a typographic error in the example in the Remarks section following the SET ... END SET statement description.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - repaired HTML bold of 'Exponentiation ^ operator' title on the Operators page.
  - revised the parameter descriptions on the BCX_SET_FONT function page.
Build 5.06.198, August 21, 2005
- Mike Sanders
  - added an example to the SHOW statement page.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - removed, from the 'CONCAT statement" page, the obsolete claim that "CONCAT produces an approximate speed improvement of 10:1 when compared with traditional statements like Str1$ = Str1$ + Str2$."
  - changed index entry from 'Apostrophe to ' Apostrophe operator.
  - changed index entry link for -- Decrement operator to Post Decrement operator from Pre Decrement operator.
  - revised BCX_FONTDLG function syntax and parameter descriptions.
  - added BCOPY statement page.
  - updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 5.06.197c, August 14, 2005
- Mike Henning
  - added a note to the $DLL STDCALL section of the '$DLL directive' page that states, "when compiling with the $DLL STDCALL and $CPP directives or with the $DLL STDCALL directive and the command line -c flag, an export file named "ProgramName.def" will be generated in addition to the normal BCX translator output."
- Rich Ciszek
  - removed, on the former 'Constants' page(now 'BCX Preset Variables' page), references to "constant" and replaced them with "preset variable".
- Robert Wishlaw
  - removed, on the 'BCX Preset Variables' page, obsolete references to BCX definitions of preset variables "TRUE" and "FALSE".
  - revised the $CPP directive statement of purpose.
Build 5.06.197b, August 11, 2005
- Mike Saunders
  - corrected typographic error in the SoundFlags parameter description of the PLAYWAV statement.
Build 5.06.197a, August 10, 2005
- Mike Henning
  - corrected syntax and parameter descriptions for the GETRESOURCE function.
Build 5.06.197, August 10, 2005
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added entries to index, $COM_TRACE directive and, as well, COM procedures CREATEOBJECT, BCX_DISPATCHOBJECT, SET ... NOTHING, BCX_COM_ERROR, BCX_GET_COM_SUCCESS, BCX_GET_COM_ERROR_CODE, BCX_GET_COM_ERROR_DESC$, BCX_SHOW_COM_ERRORS,
  - removed duplicate $TRACE index entry,
  - added $COM_ON and $COM_OFF directives,
  - added, to PLAYWAV function syntax and parameter descriptions, optional SoundAttribute parameter,
  - added GETRESOURCE function page,
  - updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 5.06.195, August 3, 2005
- Mike Henning
  - corrected data type, in the MKI$ and CVI$ function descriptions, from integer to SHORT.
  - added a note regarding limitations to the MKD$, MKI$, MKL$ and MKS$ functions due to the fact that these functions contain binary data.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added the AUTO LOCAL alias to the DIM RAW statement section of 'The Usage of Variables in BCX' page.
  - added binary compression MKLD$ and binary decompression CVLD$ functions.
Build 5.06.194, August 2, 2005
- Mike Henning
  - revised the description, in the 'Using DIM in Subroutines and Functions', regarding the retention of value, on exit from a procedure, of a variable dimensioned as LOCAL or DIM within a SUB or FUNCTION procedure.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - relocated 'Using DIM in Subroutines and Functions' section on 'The Usage of Variables in BCX' page.
Build 5.06.193c, August 1, 2005
- Kevin Diggins
  - added an example to the 'Passing Arguments to FUNCTION and SUB Procedures' section of the 'FUNCTION and SUB Procedures" page.
- Mike Henning
  - added, to the SELECT CASE statement section of the Control Flow Statements page, an example and note explaining that a comma acts as an OR statement in a CASE test expression.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised syntax highlighting of the MDIGUI example on 'The GUI and MDIGUI Statements' page.
Build 5.06.193b, July 29, 2005
- Mike Henning
 - added examples to the 'Passing Arguments to FUNCTION and SUB Procedures' section of the 'FUNCTION and SUB Procedures" page.
- Mike Sanders
 - corrected typographic errors on the ABS function page.
- Robert Wishlaw
 - replaced the example on the BCX_BITMAP statement page.
 - consolidated BCX_RECTANGLE and BCX_ROUNDRECT pages and added an example.
 - reformatted examples in the 'Passing Arguments to FUNCTION and SUB Procedures' section of the 'FUNCTION and SUB Procedures" page.
 - revised the syntax and parameter description list of the ENC$ function.
 - added, to the SELECT CASE statement section of the Control Flow Statements page, an example and note stating that when a conditional operator(AND or OR) is used, scalar operators(= or < or > etc.) preceding the test expression must be used.
Build 5.06.193a, July 23, 2005
- Mike Henning
  - corrected FINDINTYPE data type specifier in Help file index and, as well, in the parameter description return value.
- Mike Saunders
  - corrected, in the ResourceID% parameter description on the PLAYWAV statement page, instances of RT_DATA to RCDATA.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - replaced the example on the PLAYWAV statement page.
Build 5.06.193, July 22, 2005
- Stephen Clower
  - suggested adding to the BCX_DIALOG section of the Help file, Mike Henning's comments about using STATIC instead of DIM or LOCAL in dialogs.
- Doyle Whisenant
  - corrected the title on the ASCII Table page.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - reformatted and revised several sections of the Operators page including bit shift, increment, decrement and assignment operators.
  - revised, on the BCX_ICON function page, the Width% and Height% parameter descriptions and added an example showing how to load an animated icon as a resource.
  - revised the MDIGUI example on the GUI and MDIGUI Statements page.
  - changed, on the Compilation Directives page, the $COMPILER directive examples from using the Pelles "C" Compiler/Linker driver cc.exe to using pocc.exe.
  - added optional icon width and height parameters to the SET_BCX_ICON function syntax and parameters description.
  - updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 5.06.192, July 13, 2005
- Rich Ciszek
  - suggested modifying the Delimiter$ parameter description in the SPLIT and DSPLIT functions.
- Mike Henning
  - added, on the BCX_TAB function page, a description to the CtlID% parameter stating that
    A negative value can be entered as an argument for the CtlID% parameter to indicate that the tab control should not be subclassed.
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised descriptions of the SPLIT and DSPLIT functions and added an example to the DSPLIT function section.
  - corrected the description of the example in the GUI section of the GUI and MDIGUI Statements page.
  - replaced the BCX_RESOURCE example with a complete demo.
  - revised the MDIGUI example on the GUI and MDIGUI Statements page.
  - on the FINDINTYPE% function page, reformatted the Syntax description and corrected HTML encoding typos in the list in the Purpose description and the Index% parameter description.
  - added an optional parameter to GETFILENAME$ which allows the last argument to specify a default file name.
  - added BCX_REMTAB statement section to BCX_TAB function page.
  - updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 5.06.191, July 10, 2005
- Robert Wishlaw
  - on the COLOR statement page, changed the bg_color parameter description from
    bg_color Integer from 0 to 7, the color of the screen.
    to
    bg_color Integer from 0 to 15, the color of the screen.
    A similar change was made in the example.
  - on the BCX COM Interface BCX_SHOW_COM_ERRORS function page
    - reformatted the HTML encoding from Open Office style sheet to standard bcx.css style sheet.
  - on several of the BCX COM Interface pages
    - corrected the naming, ordering and omitted parameters in the Syntax parameters and the Parameters description list.
    - uppercased the COM functions names and added them to the JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
  - updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
- fat_boy_3
  - reported a broken link at the bottom of the PowerBasic Macros page.
Build 5.06.012, July 9, 2005
- Robert Wishlaw
  - added $MT and $MULTITHREADED directives.
  - added SYSSTR function page.
  - updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
  - on the Building the BCX Runtime Libraries page,
    - reformatted the HTML encoding from Microsoft Word style sheet to standard bcx.css style sheet.
- Mike Henning
  - added notes regarding Using C++ Code in BCX.
Build 5.06.011, July 8, 2005
- Robert Wishlaw
  - revised HTML coding on FUNCTION and SUB Procedures page.
  - added remarks on FUNCTION and SUB Procedures page that BCX has support for functions in single line Declaration/assignments, for example,
```
DIM RAW RetVal = foo(x,y,z) AS INTEGER
```
    BCX allows static SUB/FUNCTION to be coded as:
```
PRIVATE FUNCTION MyFunction() AS INTEGER

PRIVATE SUB MySub()
```
  - added remark that MODSTYLE does not work to change styles for ListBox controls.
  - added BCX_SETCOLOR statement page.
  - corrected DrawHDC parameter highlighting on BCX_PRINT page.
  - corrected first parameter from hDC to hWnd in syntax descriptions of the BCX_POLYBEZIER, BCX_POLYGON and BCX_POLYLINE functions.
  - rewrote the Purpose of the CLNG function which now gives the same results as Visual Basic.
    CLNG rounds a numeric expression to a LONG(32-bit integer) value. CLNG rounds to the nearest even number. For example, -0.5 rounds to 0, and 3.5 rounds to 4.
  - on the BCX_TOOLBAR function page,
    - reformatted the HTML encoding from Open Office style sheet to standard bcx.css style sheet.
    - corrected the naming, ordering and omitted parameters in the Syntax parameters and the Parameters description list.
    - added descriptions for the Window Style and Extended Window Style parameters.
  - updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 5.06.010, July 8, 2005
- Robert Wishlaw added the flag -t:ArraySize to the BCX Command Line Usage page. A note also was added that the ArraySize must be a power of 2, that is, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 etc.
- Robert Wishlaw, on the $TURBO directive page,
  - reformatted the HTML encoding from Open Office style sheet to standard bcx.css style sheet.
  - revised the remarks and description.
- Mike Henning added, on the BCX_MDIALOG function page, an example and revised the remarks regarding the value returned by the function.
- Robert Wishlaw added an ONSTART and ONEXIT subroutine prefixes page.
- Vic McClung added an example and description for the ONSTART and ONEXIT subroutine prefixes.
- Mike Henning added an example for the ONSTART and ONEXIT subroutine prefixes.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 5.06.009, July 7, 2005
- Robert Wishlaw continued adding square brackets and syntax coloring to the [OPTIONAL] descriptor in parameter description lists.
- Robert Wishlaw, on the BCX_TOOLBAR function page,
  - reformatted the HTML encoding from Open Office style sheet to standard bcx.css style sheet.
  - corrected the naming, ordering and omitted parameters in the Syntax parameters and the Parameters description list.
  - added descriptions for the Window Style and Extended Window Style parameters.
- Mike Henning added, on the BCX_TOOLBAR function page, remarks and examples of usage.
- Mike Henning added, to BCX_MDIALOG function, an example and a remark,
  "When BCX_MDialog is detected within the WinMain function the following globals will be defined: BCX_HINSTANCE, BCX_SCALEX and BCX_SCALEY In addition to this 'BCX_HINSTANCE = hinst' will be emitted immediately before the first occurrence of BCX_MDialog."
- Robert Wishlaw added a note to the BCX.ini file section that the BCX.ini file can reside in the current directory as well as in the directory housing bc.exe.
Build 5.06.008, July 5, 2005
- Mike Henning added, to the Comments in BCX page the following:
  "REM and ' can be separated from from a statement with a colon provided a there is a space between the last statement and colon. Of course the preferred way would be to just forget the colon."
  and, as well, added examples showing valid and invalid syntax for embedded comments.
- Mike Henning added a remark to the OPEN statement page, that expressions such as:
```
OPEN EXTRACT$(filename$,".") + ".bas" FOR INPUT AS FP1
```
  are valid.
- Robert Wishlaw added a note to the INFOBOX statement page that the INFOBOX message is displayed using the Courier monospaced font.
- Robert Wishlaw revised the syntax and and added an optional parameter description for the PLAYWAV statement to load a .wav resource from a resource(.rc) file.
- Robert Wishlaw revised the syntax and and added an optional parameter description for the LISTBOXLOADFILE statement to append a file to the existing list and to adjust the Horizontal scroll to the contents.
Build 5.06.007, July 3, 2005
- Mike Henning added examples to the SET ... END SET and SHAREDSET ... END SET statements.
- Robert Wishlaw reformatted the Runtime Functions Table of Contents and the Directives Table of Contents HTML encoding from Open Office style sheet to standard bcx.css style sheet.
- Robert Wishlaw added optional arguments to BCX_COLORDLG function syntax and parameter descriptions which describe a default color to be passed as well as a parent handle to allow modal operation.
- Robert Wishlaw added optional arguments to BCX_STATUS function syntax and parameter descriptions for a multi-part status bar.
- Robert Wishlaw added, to the OPEN statement page, the $FILETEST ON | OFF directive which specifies whether or not to suppress the automatic failure checking when using OPEN and CLOSE statements.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 5.06.006, July 2, 2005
- Robert Wishlaw added GETTEXTSIZE function page.
- Robert Wishlaw added BCXFONT to the BCX_SET_FONT Statement page.
- Mike Henning added an example, to the BCX_SET_FONT Statement page, demonstrating the usage of BCXFONT and BCX_SET_FONT.
- Robert Wishlaw removed an extra "#INCLUDE "C" header files" listing from the Index.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 5.06.005, July 1, 2005
- Robert Wishlaw added the FINDINTYPE function to the page containing the CONTAINEDIN, INCHR, and INSTR functions.
- Robert Wishlaw consolidated the INSTRREV page with the CONTAINEDIN, FINDINTYPE, INCHR and INSTR functions
- Robert Wishlaw corrected several instances of "Interace>" to "Interface: ".
- Robert Wishlaw added a note, to the Options -d: define section of the command line parameters descriptions on the BCX bc.exe Command Line Usage page stating that "BCX has the ability to specify multiple defines in the command line."
- Robert Wishlaw added the following to the VBScriptControl Procedures section of the BCX Scripting Procedures page.
  When any BCX VBS scripting procedure is invoked, the translator will automatically add the following define to the output "C" code.
```
#ifndef _WIN32_DCOM
#define _WIN32_DCOM
#endif
```
  A similar statement was added to the BCX COM Interface Procedures page.
- Robert Wishlaw revised syntax and and added a third optional parameter description for the BCX_LOADBMP function to load a bitmap with transparent areas.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 5.06.004, June 29, 2005
- Robert Wishlaw added the following listed notes and Michael Henning added examples, in the SELECT CASE statement section of the Control Flow Statements page,
  - "Arrays, functions and variations of variables that contain the dereferencing operator(->) may be used as arguments to the CASE statement."
  - "The NOT operator may be used...."
  - "SELECT CASE BAND may be used. This statement suppresses breaks between CASE statements and performs a binary AND on all CASE statements."
- Robert Wishlaw added a note, on the BCX_SET_LABEL_COLOR function page, to the RGBbackground parameter description stating that "The background color of the parent form will be used if a -1 value is entered"
- Robert Wishlaw added the REFRESH statement page.
- Robert Wishlaw reformatted the JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list HTML encoding from Open Office style sheet to standard bcx.css style sheet.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 5.06.003, June 25, 2005
- S. Sukhani corrected the description for the ArrayToSort parameter of the QSORTIDX statement page.
- Mike Henning created a new example for the QSORTIDX statement.
Build 5.06.002, June 18, 2005
- Dr. X removed an obsolete reference to LPRINT from the Print to Printer section of the PRINT statement page.
- Robert Wishlaw concatenated the Acknowledgements and Kevin Diggins, author of BCX, pages.
- Robert Wishlaw, on the BC Command Line Usage page
  - removed references to the -p flag.
  - reformatted the HTML encoding from Open Office style sheet to standard bcx.css style sheet.
  - Robert Wishlaw revised comments regarding the implicit linking of libraries by BCX through the insertion of #pragmas in the translated "C" code.
Build 5.06.001, June 15, 2005
- Mike Henning added an example to BCX_MDIALOG function page showing how a dialog box based application can be setup using the modal BCX_MDialog function.
- Robert Wishlaw added notes to title page;
  "BCX development is coordinated and finalized by Mike Henning."
  and
  "The BCX documentation is coordinated and finalized by Robert Wishlaw."
- Robert Wishlaw, on the BCX_SPLITTER function page
  - reformatted the HTML encoding from Open Office style sheet to standard bcx.css style sheet.
  - corrected the naming, ordering and omitted parameters in the Syntax parameters and the Parameters description list.
  - added descriptions for the Window Style and Extended Window Style parameters.
Build 5.06, June 5, 2005
- Robert Wishlaw modified the BCX License Exception page. Added GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
- Robert Wishlaw replaced, in all instances, the parameter names
  - Style% withWinStyle
  - ExStyle% with ExWinStyle%
  - X% with Xpos%
  - Y% with Ypos%
- Robert Wishlaw added square brackets and syntax coloring to the [OPTIONAL] descriptor in parameter description lists.
- Robert Wishlaw, on the BCX_DIALOG function page
  - reformatted the HTML encoding from Open Office style sheet to standard bcx.css style sheet.
  - corrected the naming, ordering and omitted parameters in the Syntax parameters and the Parameters description list.
  - added descriptions for the Window Style and Extended Window Style parameters.
  - added FontFace$ typeface and FontSize% point size parameters to Syntax and Parameters list.
  - added BCX_MDIALOG function to the index
  - revised the BCX_DIALOG example program.
- Robert Wishlaw, on the BCX_SLIDER function page
  - reformatted the HTML encoding from Open Office style sheet to standard bcx.css style sheet.
  - corrected the naming, ordering and omitted parameters in the Syntax parameters and the Parameters description list.
  - added descriptions for the Window Style and Extended Window Style parameters.
Build 5.05.174d, June 2, 2005
- Robert Wishlaw corrected the QBCOLOR function TheColor% parameter argument 6 from "yellow" to "brown". A similar correction was applied to the QBCOLOR example.
Build 5.05.174c, 14 March, 2005
- P.Kort added to BCX Help :
  1 : $TURBO directive with help from Csöndes, László.
  
  2 : Help files for COM/ActiveX objects.(Made by Ljubisa Knezevic)
  
  3 : Updated JFE .ini color Syntax List .
  
  4 : -u on the BC Command Line Usage page.
Build 5.05.174b, 13 March, 2005
- P.Kort added to BCX Help :
  1 : BCX_Toolbar .
Build 5.05.174a, 12 March, 2005
- P.Kort added to BCX Help :
  1 : BCX_Tab .
  
  2 : BCX_Slider.
  
  3 : BCX_Dialog.
  
  4 : BCX_Splitter.
Build 5.05.11b, December 24, 2004
- Made changes to BCX Help per Hajo's reports.
Build 5.05.09, December 12, 2004
- Vic McClung made revisions to BCX Help file.
- Added BCX License Exception Topic
- Added BCX Runtime Libraries Topic
- Change License page to include information on the
  new BCX License and exception.
- Update Version Date. But all new information is
  not added to the help file. This will take some time
  and will have to be done by the individual BCX Developer
  or sent to me(Vic McClung - vicmcclung@vicmcclung.com)
  and I will incorporate it into the BCX Help file as I get time.
Build 4.76a, October 10, 2004
- Robert Wishlaw corrected instances of
  Dynamic Link Library
  to
  Dynamically Linked Library
- Garvan O'Keeffe corrected Index entry from
  DLL Direct Link Library
  to
  DLL(Dynamically Linked Library)
- Garvan O'Keeffe added example to $NOMAIN directive page which demonstrates a method of forcing a variable to be declared in the main() procedure of the "C" code.
Build 4.76, September 26, 2004
- Due to the BCX Project being in abeyance, this is the final version of the BCX Help file.
Build 4.75b, August 18, 2004
- Robert Wishlaw corrected syntax color highlighting at end of example on BCX_LISTBOX function page.
- Robert Wishlaw revised note in Dimensioning Arrays section of Variables page to read
  Warning ! do not append any data type declaration suffix, that is, %, to an array index variable.
  
  REDIM PRESERVE array$[i]
  
  is legal however
  
  REDIM PRESERVE array$[i]
  
  is not legal.
Build 4.75a, August 7, 2004
- Doug Wills corrected faulty Table of Contents link to BCX.ini file section of the Using BCX page.
- Robert Wishlaw revised WINDIR$ function return parameter description stating that the returned string contains the path to the Windows directory without a terminating backslash.
- Robert Wishlaw added example to WINDIR$ page.
- Robert Wishlaw removed several instances of data type declaration suffixes appended to array index parameters in REDIM and REDIM PRESERVE sections of Variables page.
- Robert Wishlaw added note
  Warning ! do not append any data type declaration suffix, that is, %, to an array index.
  
  DIM array$[i]
  
  is legal however
  
  DIM array$[i]
  
  is not legal.
  to Dimensioning Arrays section of Variables page.
Build 4.75, August 1, 2004
- Doug Wills suggested revision of the FileExtension$ parameter description of the GETFILENAME$ function.
- Robert Wishlaw rewrote GETFILENAME$ function example.
Build 4.73, July 11, 2004
- Robert Wishlaw added BNOT operator to Operators page.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
- Robert Wishlaw, with Wayne Haldorf's modification of the REDIM statement, modified REDIM and REDIM PRESERVE parameter descriptions to read that array index can be can be any of a literal number, a scalar variable, an array or a function.
Build 4.72, July 10, 2004
- Mike Henning suggested note that REDIM and REDIM PRESERVE array index can be only a literal number or a scalar variable. Arrays and functions cannot be used as an array index.
- Robert Wishlaw added to the Compilation Directives page a $COMPILER directive example using Pelles "C" Compiler driver, cc.exe, to compile and link a .dll.
Build 4.71, July 6, 2004
- Robert Wishlaw added $NOLIBRARY directive.
- Robert Wishlaw added bc.exe -f command line switch to the 'BC Command Line Usage' page.
- Kevin Diggins added warning to CONST statement page regarding the need to use a data type specifier when the constant is used with the PRINT statement.
Build 4.70, July 4, 2004
- Robert Wishlaw replaced example on FIX function page.
- Robert Wishlaw revised example on INT function page.
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX Object Oriented Programming and Classes page
- Robert Wishlaw added two Garvan O'Keeffe REUSABLE CLASSES examples to the BCX_OOP Variables page
- Robert Wishlaw added Classes, Inheritance, OOP, Object Oriented Programming and polymorphism to the index linked to the BCX_OOP page.
Build 4.67, June 27, 2004
- Doyle Whisenant and fatboy_3 added mouse cursor coordinate display to BCX_STATUS example.
- Ljubisa Knezevic added example to VBS_ERROR function on BCX Scripting Procedures page.
- Doyle Whisenant added example to CONST statement page.
Build 4.65, June 20, 2004
- Vic McClung added -ll, -lp and -lc bc.exe command line switches to the 'BC Command Line Usage' page.
- Vic McClung added parameter and comment to $PROJECT directive.
Build 4.64, June 19, 2004
- Mike Henning added QSORTIDX section
- Robert Wishlaw added AS VOID CALLBACK syntax example to CALLBACK functions section of 'FUNCTION and SUB Procedures' page.
- Robert Wishlaw added $PROJECT directive page and -n bc.exe command line switch to the 'BC Command Line Usage' page.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 4.63, June 13, 2004
- Robert Wishlaw corrected typographic error VBS_EVAL_STR to VBS_EVAL_STR in example on BCX Scripting Procedures page.
- Scott Frick replaced Sample BCX_THREAD Application.
- Doyle Whisenant corrected BCX_TREEVIEW to BCX_LISTBOX in remark on BCX_LISTBOX page.
Build 4.62, May 8, 2004
- Andreas Hänsch corrected SubClassLabel1 and SubClassLabel2 variable data types from FARPROC to WNDPROC in example on Subclassing Windows Controls page.
- Robert Wishlaw added note to GUI and MDIGUI sections of the GUI and MDIGUI Statements page that expressions must be inside a FUNCTION, SUB or the BEGIN EVENTS...END EVENTS procedure.
Build 4.61, April 10, 2004
- Robert Wishlaw added $PELLES$ macro substitute and PELLESPATH$ function.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 4.60, April 9, 2004
- Robert Wishlaw replaced the example on the BCX_EDIT function page.
- Robert Wishlaw added NOSORT keyword to Style parameter description of BCX_LISTBOX function
- Robert Wishlaw replaced instances of the directive keyword $NOLIBMAIN with $NODLLMAIN and revised the $NODLLMAIN directive page.
- Robert Wishlaw added END PROGRAM statement to index.
- John Jacques added note to Dimensioning Dynamic Arrays and Dimensioning Dynamic Strings regarding the positioning of the code for dimensioning a GLOBAL DYNAMIC array and a GLOBAL dynamic string.
Build 4.59, March 30, 2004
- FatBoy removed WM_DESTROY redundant code from BCX_Template sample in GUI statement section.
- Robert Wishlaw removed WM_DESTROY redundant code from several other examples.
Build 4.58a, March 29, 2004
- Kevin Diggins removed obsolete example from BCX_UPDOWN function page.
Build 4.58, March 28, 2004
- Robert Wishlaw revised BCX_UPDOWN function.
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX_GET_UPDOWN function.
- Kevin Diggins added examples for BCX_UPDOWN and BCX_GET_UPDOWN functions.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 4.57, March 28, 2004
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX_UPDOWN function.
Build 4.56, March 27, 2004
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX_BMPHEIGHT and BCX_BMPWIDTH functions.
- Robert Wishlaw revised Examples on RTRIM$ function page.
- Robert Wishlaw revised Examples on LTRIM$ function page.
- Robert Wishlaw revised Example on TRIM$ function page.
- Robert Wishlaw revised Purpose and Example on STRIM$ function page.
Build 4.53, March 14, 2004
- Robert Wishlaw revised BCX_PUT purpose description.
- Robert Wishlaw added note to $PELLES directive and -p command line switch sections regarding the auto generation of pragma statements for several .lib files. This eliminates the requirement for explicit linking of these files.
Build 4.50, March 8, 2004
- Robert Wishlaw added console sample S155.bas.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
- Robert Wishlaw added OPTIONAL HDC parameter to BCX_PRINT function.
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX_LOADIMAGE function.
- Robert Wishlaw amended MODSTYLE parameter descriptions.
- Robert Wishlaw added note to FUNCTION and SUB procedures page stating, " do not modify a literal value or string used as an argument in the SUB calling statement."
- Robert Wishlaw amended INSTR and INSTRREV return value description with statement that "0 is returned if a match is not found."
Build 4.49, February 23, 2004
- Robert Wishlaw corrected broken remarks on BCX_SET_LABEL_COLOR function page.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 4.48, February 21, 2004
- Robert Wishlaw added SINL, COSL, TANL, SQRTL and POWL to index and Run-Time Table of Contents.
- Robert Wishlaw added note to 'BCX Run-time Math Functions' that BCX recognizes SINL, COSL, TANL, SQRTL and POWL as returning a LONG DOUBLE.
- Robert Wishlaw added LDOUBLE data type syntax and purpose to 'Dimensioning Floating Point Numbers' section of 'The Usage of Variables in BCX' page.
- Robert Wishlaw added DrawHDC to syntax and parameter descriptions for BC_GET, BCX_PUT and DRAWBMPTRANS procedures.
- Robert Wishlaw removed superfluous references to BCX Console Sample Programs on $LIBRARY directive page.
- Jef Rozenski suggested consolidating, to the same page, the EDITLOADFILE$ and other file loading functions.
- Jef Rozenski corrected the ABS function return value from integer to double precision.
Build 4.47, February 9, 2004
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
- Garvan O'Keeffe added an example to the SET statement page.
Build 4.44, February 1, 2004
- Robert Wishlaw revised the purpose description for the TRIM$ function by adding a list of characters removed.
- Garvan O'Keeffe added an example to the BCX_SET_LABEL_COLOR function page.
- Robert Wishlaw changed Msg from WM_CTLCOLOREDIT to WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC in "C" code for BCX_SET_LABEL_COLOR procedure.
- Robert Wishlaw added Pelles "C" code to bcx_bitmap.bas GUI example of BCX directives.
- Robert Wishlaw added Pelles "C" version of the BCXDoesItAll_II example demonstrating the $ONENTRY, $COMPILER, $LINKER, and $ONEXIT BCX directives.
Build 4.43d, January 26, 2004
- Garvan O'Keeffe corrected defective syntax of PANEL statement.
Build 4.43c, January 25, 2004
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
- Robert Wishlaw added RGB function to the BCX_COLORDLG function page.
- Andrea Tobian-Metzger added GETRVALUE, GETBVALUE and GETGVALUE functions to the BCX_COLORDLG function page.
- Mike Henning and Kevin Diggins added, to the REDIM statement section of the Variables page, a warning that when REDIM is used to redimension a global variable in a function or subroutine, the initial dimensioning code must physically precede the code where the REDIM is used.
Build 4.43b, January 21, 2004
- Garvan O'Keeffe corrected defective HTML syntax on Other BASIC Dialects page.
Build 4.43a, January 19, 2004
- Jef Rozenski reported and Garvan O'Keeffe corrected defective BYREF example.
Build 4.43, January 17, 2004
- Robert Wishlaw added Index entry for "Pelles "C" Compiler"
- Robert Wishlaw modified and corrected Index link from "LCCWin32 Compiler".
- John Jacques removed superfluous 'Introduction.htm' page from the Help file.
- Kevin Diggins added an example to the CENTER statement page showing how to center a BCX_BUTTON on a BCX_FORM.
- Garvan O'Keeffe added an example to the $ACCELERATOR directive section of the GUI and MDIGUI Statements page.
Build 4.41, January 10, 2004
- Robert Wishlaw revised and added to CENTER statement syntax.
- Kevin Diggins added examples to CENTER statement page.
- Kevin Diggins corrected syntax and parameter descriptions in BCX_SET_FONT procedures.
Build 4.40b, January 3, 2004
- Robert Wishlaw revised recursive file find example on Recursive functions page.
Build 4.40a, January 1, 2004
- Robert Wishlaw reformatted recursive file find example on Recursive functions page.
Build 4.40, December 28, 2003
- Evert Van Dijken removed the error causing superfluous data type specifiers from several examples on the CONST statement page.
- Kevin Diggins suggested adding a note of limitation that the OPTION BASE statement does not work with the arrays generated with the SET ... END SET statement.
Build 4.38, December 16, 2003
- Terry Olsen corrected, on REPEAT$ function page, a typographic error in the link to the s34.bas BCX Console Sample Program.
Build 4.35, December 10, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw made more changes to comply with Pelles C.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 4.33, December 8, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added -p 'Generate PELLES "C" Compatible code switch' to 'BC Command Line Usage' page.
- Robert Wishlaw added License conditions for LCC-Win32 to the 'Setting up BCX' page 'Software Requirements' section.
- Robert Wishlaw added description for Pelles "C" to the 'Setting up BCX' page 'Software Requirements' section.
- Robert Wishlaw added references to "Pelles C" in conjunction with existing references to "LCC-Win32".
- Robert Wishlaw added build.bat for Pelles "C" to example on '$PRJ $PRJUSE directive' page.
- Robert Wishlaw added note with example to 'Truth Table for Logical Operators' section on Operators page stating that "When using the operators NOT AND OR XOR, a space must be before and after the operator"
- Ryan Pusztai added note to OVERLOADED procedures page stating that OVERLOADED procedures are NOT compilable with the Pelles "C" compiler.
Build 4.32, December 7, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added #include <winsock2.h> to console samples S92.bas and S128.bas.
- Robert Wishlaw added note to OVERLOADED, OPTIONAL and UDT sections that OVERLOADED or OPTIONAL FUNCTION or SUB procedures are NOT allowed in a User Defined TYPE structure.
- Kevin Diggins added note to BCX_SET_FORM_COLOR function regarding placement within a program of a call to the function.
- Robert Wishlaw added note to LCCPATH$ function that the function returns the Pelles "C" root directory if the $PELLES directive has been used.
- Robert Wishlaw added missing function, statement or directive descriptors to HTML titles.
- Robert Wishlaw added $PELLES directive.
- Mike Henning removed redundant
```
 
 CASE WM_DESTROY
 UnregisterClass(AppName$, BCX_HINSTANCE) 'so destroy it PostQuitMessage(0)
 EXIT FUNCTION
```
 statements from 'Popup Dialog Box from Menu' sample.
Build 4.30, December 6, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw, on the suggestion of HaJo Gurt, changed in several functions, the Width% and Height% parameter description phrase
  in device units or pixels
  to
  in device units or, if the PIXELS optional parameter was specified in the GUI statement, in pixels
- HaJo Gurt added link to Using Resource Files page from BCX GUI Program Samples reference in main Table of Contents.
- Robert Wishlaw removed redundant
```
 CASE WM_DESTROY
 UnregisterClass(AppName$, hInstance)
 PostQuitMessage(0)
```
  statements from MCI PLAYWAV example on PLAYWAV page.
- Robert Wishlaw replaced BCX variable AppName$ with BCX_ClassName$ in the WM_DESTROY handler "C" code example on the BEGIN EVENTS and END EVENTS statements page.
- HaJo Gurt noted coding error in the Popup Dialog Box from Menu sample. The correction was to remove the redundant
```
     
 CASE WM_DESTROY
 UnregisterClass(AppName$, BCX_HINSTANCE) 'so destroy it    PostQuitMessage(0)
 EXIT FUNCTION
```
Build 4.29a, December 3, 2003
- Kevin Diggins added to the Variables page, User Defined Type section, THIS sub-section, a Semi-OOP implementation example demonstrating the use of THIS.
Build 4.29, December 3, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added note to BYREF page stating that an argument being passed by reference to a FUNCTION or SUB must be prepended by an ampersand.
- Robert Wishlaw removed limitation in FUNCTION ... END FUNCTION ReturnValue description regarding the return of an empty string from a FUNCTION.
```
FUNCTION = ""
```
  is now legal in BCX.
- Robert Wishlaw added note to User Defined Type section on Variables page stating that BCX generates a class definition using the UDT's name and places it in #defines section of the resulting "C" file.
- Robert Wishlaw added note to User Defined Type section on Variables page regarding the BCX reserved word THIS.
- Robert Wishlaw added note regarding COLOR_BG and COLOR_FG BCX console mode variables to COLOR statement page.
- Robert Wishlaw added S154.bas to BCX Console Program Samples.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 4.28, November 28, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
- Robert Wishlaw added REWIND function.
Build 4.27, November 24, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added OPTIONAL Startdirectory$ parameter to BFF$ function.
Build 4.25c, November 19, 2003
- Jef Rozenski corrected SubStr$ parameter description of TRIM$ function.
Build 4.25b, November 18, 2003
- Mike H. removed, in the Purpose section of the BCX_EDIT page, an incorrect reference to horizontal scrollbar.
- Kevin Diggins added an example, to the BCX_EDIT page, demonstrating how the BCX MODSTYLE function can be used to add a horizontal scrollbar to a BCX_EDIT control.
- Robert Wishlaw moved $NOINI directive and the "Using the BCX Translator BCX.INI file" section to "BC Command Line Usage" page from the "Modifying the BCX Translator" page
- Robert Wishlaw listed TRUE and FALSE on the Constants page.
- Robert Wishlaw corrected procedure type description in index listing, in the Runtime Table of Contents and on the Subroutine description pages, for many "statement" descriptors which were improperly labeled as "function".
- Robert Wishlaw reduced font weight of many "statement" and "function" labels.
- Robert Wishlaw readjusted several targets for index links.
Build 4.25a, November 11, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw reduced font weight of "function" in the BCX graphics function titles.
- Robert Wishlaw revised BCX_HINSTANCE.
- Robert Wishlaw corrected index listing FSSTATIC faulty link.
- Robert Wishlaw corrected procedure type description in index listing for ISPTR macro, STRARRAY data type-declaration, BCX GUI procedures, BCX_MDICHILD function, BCX_MDICLIENT function BCX_REPEAT variable, BCX_TILE statement, BCX_THREADEND statement, BCX_THREADKILL statement, BCX_THREADRESUME statement, BCX_THREADSUSPEND statement, BCX_THREADWAIT statement.
- Robert Wishlaw inserted hwndMDIChild return variable in syntax description for BCX_MDICHILD function.
- Ad Rienks added icon resource to $BCX_RESOURCE section of MDIGUI example.
- Jef Rozenski removed superfluous "function" from INS listing in index.
Build 4.25, November 9, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw corrected, in index, procedure type description from "function" to "statement" of CHDIR.
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX_FLOODFILL function.
- Robert Wishlaw added STRTOKEN$ function.
- Kevin Diggins added note
  "When using BCX_FORM without
  GUI "Classname"
  a ClassName must be provided by using
  BCX_CLASSNAME$ = "SomeClassName"
  prior to initialization. "
  to BCX_FORM function page.
- Ad Rienks added a self-compiler module to the MDIGUI example.
Build 4.23a, November 9, 2003
- Garvan O'Keeffe added BCX_MDICHILD, BCX_MDICLASS and BCX_MDICLIENT functions to MDIGUI section.
Build 4.23, November 7, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw revised CHDRIVE statement.
- Jef Rozenski corrected missing return value in DEL$ function.
- Jef Rozenski corrected, in index, procedure type description from "function" to "statement" of SWAP, SHOW, HIDE, RMDIR, RENAME, RANDOMIZE, QSORT, PUT$, PLAYWAV, PANEL, OPEN, MKDIR, LPRINT, LOCATE, LINE INPUT, COLOR, CLS, CLOSE, CLEAR, CHDRIVE and C_DECLARE. CLEAR and CHDRIVE also were incorrectly typed in their respective statement descriptions.
- Jef Rozenski corrected, in index, $TRACE type description from "function" to "directive"
- Jef Rozenski corrected, in index, $PIXELS type description from "statement" to "parameter"
- Jef Rozenski changed incorrect instances of "OUTW" to "OUTPW"
- Jef Rozenski added, in index, "function" descriptor to MKD$, MKI$, MKL$, MKS$.
Build 4.22a, November 5, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw updated con_demo sample files from BCX422 full install.
Build 4.22, October 27, 2003
- Kevin Diggins added ENUM...END ENUM block example.
- Robert Wishlaw added ENUM...END ENUM syntax to ENUM page.
Build 4.21, October 25, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added keyboard LINE INPUT statement with links to and from the INPUT statement.
- Kevin Diggins replaced the BCXDoesItAll_II.bas example on Compilation Directives page.
Build 4.19, October 24, 2003
- Garvan O'Keeffe added example for MDIGUI statement.
- Robert Wishlaw added MDIGUI statement.
- Ad Rienks removed, from the RemoveStyle% parameter description of the BCX MODSTYLE function, the list of Window Styles which cannot be removed if they were applied to a control by CreateWindow or CreateWindowEx.
- Garvan O'Keeffe corrected faulty code in the BCX_LISTBOX example.
- Robert Wishlaw revised BAND, BOR, XOR on the Operators page.
- Robert Wishlaw revised the Order of Operations list on the Operators page. Operators not used in BCX were removed.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 4.18a, October 21, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw changed subsection title from 'Passing Arguments to FUNCTION and SUBROUTINE Procedures' to 'Passing Arguments to FUNCTION and SUB Procedures'.
- Robert Wishlaw changed page title 'SUB and FUNCTION Procedures' to 'FUNCTION and SUB Procedures'.
- Robert Wishlaw added statement about using a FUNCTION or SUB as a parameter to 'Passing Arguments to FUNCTION and SUB Procedures' subsection of 'Arguments and Parameters' section on FUNCTION and SUB Procedures page.
- Robert Wishlaw added 'SUB as parameter' to index.
- Robert Wishlaw added 'FUNCTION as parameter' to index.
- Robert Wishlaw added Wayne Halsdorf's SUB pointer example to FUNCTION and SUB Pointers section.
- Robert Wishlaw added index entry 'SUB and FUNCTION Pointers'
- Robert Wishlaw changed index entry from 'Function Pointers' to 'FUNCTION and SUB Pointers'
Build 4.14, October 17, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added -D: switch to BC Command Line Usage page.
- Pat proteusproteus corrected RETAIN$ function broken link on run-time Table of Contents page.
- John Jacques corrected typo and removed dead hyperlink to Listbox.bas at bottom of BCX_LISTBOX function page.
- Robert Wishlaw added, to the RemoveStyle% parameter description of the BCX MODSTYLE function, a list of Window Styles which cannot be removed if they were applied to a control by CreateWindow or CreateWindowEx.
- Robert Wishlaw corrected errorlevel value from 1 to 0 in batch file example on the Error Messages From BCX page.
- Robert Wishlaw added example to $HEADER.
- John Jacques added note regarding scope limitation of $IF directive.
- Kevin Diggins removed redundant HEX2INT example from HEX2DEC section.
Build 4.13, October 13, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added AS STRING * form to Dimensioning Static Strings syntax list on Variables page.
- Robert Wishlaw added PAUSE statement.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 4.12b, October 11, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw revised the DIM RAW section of the Variables page.
- Robert Wishlaw added, to the UNION section of the Variables page, Wayne Halsdorf's example demonstrating the syntax for TYPE/UNION nested structures.
Build 4.12a, October 6, 2003
- John Jacques corrected index page links for 'BCX Functions and Statements', 'BCX GUI functions' and 'GUI Programs' index entries.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 4.12, October 6, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added HEX2DEC function.
- Ad Rienks added note to FUNCTION ... END FUNCTION parameter description regarding the explicit return of an empty string from a function.
- Robert Wishlaw changed
```
GLOBAL Func(a AS INTEGER) AS FUNCTION INTEGER
to
GLOBAL Func(INTEGER) AS FUNCTION INTEGER
```
  in example in Function Pointers section of Pointers page.
- Robert Wishlaw added 'Function pointers' to index.
- Robert Wishlaw added link to s150.bas in Function Pointers section of Pointers page.
- Wayne Halsdorf replaced WITH...END WITH example.
- Robert Wishlaw removed 'INT signed integer' from index.
- Robert Wishlaw repaired broken link for index listing of $LCC$ macro.
- Robert Wishlaw revised OPTIONAL argument remarks on SUB and FUNCTION Procedures page.
- Robert Wishlaw revised CONCAT function remarks and added example.
Build 4.11, October 1, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added WITH ...END WITH control flow statements.
- Robert Wishlaw added OPTIONAL status bar control identifier flag to BCX_STATUS function.
Build 4.10, September 28, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added COMBOBOXLOADFILE and LISTBOXLOADFILE function descriptions.
- Robert Wishlaw revised RETAIN$ function parameters description.
- Robert Wishlaw revised #INCLUDE directive section.
- Robert Wishlaw corrected several page titles.
- Robert Wishlaw added ? print operator to PRINT page.
Build 4.09, September 25, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw corrected faulty REDIM statement link on BCX Procedures page in BCX String Procedures section.
- Robert Wishlaw in index, repositioned out of order IS relational operator.
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX_ClassName to Dangerous Words page.
- Robert Wishlaw added CONTAINEDIN function with example by Wayne Halsdorf.
Build 4.07, September 21, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added $ACCELERATOR directive.
- Robert Wishlaw added OSVERSION function.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 4.05, September 20, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added -subsystem windows to the $LINKER directive parameter in the GUI statement section example.
- Robert Wishlaw added the following to Dimensioning DYNAMIC Arrays section of variables page.
  ☞ In GUI programs, when dimensioning a DYNAMIC array, the
  DIM DYNAMIC
  LOCAL DYNAMIC,
  or
  GLOBAL DYNAMIC
  statement must appear inside a BEGIN EVENTS ... END EVENTS structure or inside a FUNCTION or a SUB.
Build 4.03, September 14, 2003
- Garvan O'Keeffe added example to ENUM page.
- Kevin Diggins clarified scope of ENUM statement.
- David Garner corrected missing comma in example on ENUM page.
- Robert Wishlaw added note to ANSITOWIDE function parameter descriptions that the return variable should be dimensioned as a LPOLESTR.
- Steve Matthews added OPTION BASE 1 to DYNAMIC arrays example.
Build 4.02a, September 9, 2003
- Willie Wilson repaired in the index a dead link to the SPRINT function.
Build 4.02, September 6, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw revised the negative STEP description of the FOR ... NEXT section of the Control Flow Statements page and Kevin Diggins added an example.
- Robert Wishlaw added descriptions of the ability of BCX to use + as well as & to concatenate strings.
- Robert Wishlaw added QBASIC INPUT # to index linked to BCX function FINPUT.
- Robert Wishlaw cleaned up syntax highlighting on Operators page.
- Robert Wishlaw added example to BAND operator section on Operators page. The example demonstrates the use of BAND to determine whether a number is even or odd.
Build 4.01e, August 31, 2003
- Steve Matthews corrected parameter descriptions for return values on the DOWNLOAD function page.
- Robert Wishlaw added to description and example of GUI section.
Build 4.01d, August 27, 2003
- Dr. X corrected faulty function parameter descriptions on the BCX_BITMAP function page.
- Willie Wilson removed superfluous vertical scrollbar.
Build 4.01c, August 27, 2003
- Steve Matthews corrected to HMODULE return value data type for LOADLIBRARY and LOAD_DLL functions.
- Robert Wishlaw added example to WIDETOANSI$ function.
Build 4.01b, August 24, 2003
- Garvan O'Keeffe suggested return value for ANSITOWIDE be changed from BSTR to LPOLESTR.
- Robert Wishlaw added WIDETOANSI$ and ANSITOWIDE to index.
- John Jacques suggested WIDETOANSI$ function be corrected.
- Robert Wishlaw replaced the License page BCX logo .gif with a much smoother .jpg.
- Robert Wishlaw reformatted EXIT syntax block.
Build 4.01a, August 21, 2003
- Don Baldwin corrected a bad link for the $BCX$ macro on the Compilation Directives page.
- Robert Wishlaw added CALLBACK FUNCTION data type parameter clarification.
- Robert Wishlaw revised Flow control section explaining that the BCX implementation of EXIT will not allow a nested EXIT.
- Robert Wishlaw added entries for File attributes and Attributes, File to the index.
- Robert Wishlaw consolidated GETATTR and SETATTR pages.
Build 4.01, August 18, 2003
- John Jacques suggested revisions for the MSGBOX page.
Build 4.00, August 17, 2003
- Kevin Diggins revised and added an example to the BCX_THREADEND description.
Build 3.99b, August 17, 2003
- Kevin Diggins corrected BCX_THREAD parameter data type and description.
Build 3.99a, August 17, 2003
- Kevin Diggins corrected BCX_THREAD return value and parameter data types for BCX_THREADKILL, BCX_THREADRESUME, BCX_THREADSUSPEND and BCX_THREADWAIT.
Build 3.99, August 16, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX_THREAD, BCX_THREADEND, BCX_THREADKILL, BCX_THREADRESUME, BCX_THREADSUSPEND, BCX_THREADWAIT.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list. Comments bracketed with the $COMMENT directive are now correctly highlighted.
Build 3.97, August 11, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw clarified INPUT syntax emphasizing that a string literal must be used for a prompt string and that a string variable cannot be used.
- Robert Wishlaw added new samples Con_Demo 152.bas and 153.bas.
- Robert Wishlaw reformatted Con_demo sample pages; adding BCX header and the standard Light Canary background color for the code.
Build 3.96, August 8, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw revised the descriptions of the $BCX$ macro and The BCXPATH$ function.
- Jeff Shollenberger corrected obsolete references to line numbers in GOTO and GOSUB sections of the Flow Control page.
Build 3.95, August 6, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added UNC (Universal Naming Convention) capability to EXIST function description.
Build 3.94, August 5, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added new syntax to SOUND function page.
- Ad Rienks corrected Instrument-MIDI# Table on SOUND function page. This table is based on Jeff Glatt's MIDI Note Number to Frequency Conversion Chart.
Build 3.93, August 4, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added Instrument-MIDI# Table to SOUND function page
- Robert Wishlaw added Frequency-Note-MIDI# Table to SOUND function page.
- Robert Wishlaw replaced example on SOUND page.
- Robert Wishlaw added note to User Defined Types and Dimensioning Dynamic Strings sections regarding the need to allocate a space for the ASCIIZ NULL character string terminator when dimensioning strings.
- Ad Rienks repaired BCX_RECTANGLE page.
- Robert Wishlaw removed note about adding libraries to some of the samples. This task is now handled by the $LIBRARY directive.
Build 3.90, August 1, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added TRUE and FALSE to Index.
- Robert Wishlaw added InitialDir$ parameter to GETFILENAME$ function.
- Robert Wishlaw added FILELOCKED function.
- Robert Wishlaw added SOUND function.
- Thomas Speirs corrected faulty syntax of BCX_PUT subroutine.
- Robert Wishlaw revised GUI example on Compilation Directives page to eliminate memory leak. Same fix that was made to the BCX_BITMAP and BCX_OLEPICTURE examples in BCX Help 3.83.
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX Registry entry section to Setting up BCX page.
- Robert Wishlaw revised the BC.EXE -r switch parameter description on the BC Command Line Usage page.
- Valdir Ribiero removed superfluous REGSTRING$ listing from Other BCX Procedures section of BCX Procedures page.
- Robert Wishlaw expanded descriptions for compiler directives $BCX$, $LCC$ and $FILE$.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 3.88, July 24, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added $BCX_RESOURCE directive.
- Robert Wishlaw added PRINTER EJECTPAGE to BCX Printer Procedures page
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 3.87a, July 22, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw removed thousands of extra spaces preceding colons. Why were they there in the first place, you might wonder? Using a colon without a space after an italicized word did not look very nice.
- Robert Wishlaw consolidated Optional Parameters page with SUB and FUNCTION Procedures page.
- Robert Wishlaw removed line number demo program Lunar.bas.
- Robert Wishlaw added note to the "Other BASIC Dialects - Similarities and Differences" page that line numbers are not supported in BCX.
- Kevin Diggins added, to BCX Scripting page, an example which shows how to read your VBSCRIPT file from disk and run it.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 3.87, July 21, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added yellow background color to identify coding example blocks. Blue blocks are syntax and parameter descriptions.
- Robert Wishlaw restructured the coding to a .css style sheet. Maintaining the file will be much easier.
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX Unicode page with ANSITOWIDE and WIDETOANSI$ procedures.
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX Scripting page with VBS_ADDCODE VBS_EVAL_NUM VBS_EVAL_STR VBS_RESET VBS_RUN_SCRIPT VBS_START VBS_STOP procedures.
- Robert Wishlaw added the LET statement to the Relational Operators section of the Operators page.
- Doyle Whisenant removed obsolete reference to upper case TYPE name from User Defined Type section of Variables page.
Build 3.85, July 19, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added $HSCROLL directive with example by Kevin Diggins.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 3.83, July 17, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added note to BEGIN EVENTS page regarding the automatic generation of a WM_DESTROY handler.
- Robert Wishlaw revised examples in BCX_BITMAP and BCX_OLEPICTURE functions.
Build 3.82a, July 17, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw revised examples in BCX_BITMAP and BCX_OLEPICTURE functions.
Build 3.82, July 16, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added Function categories to Contents Table.
- Robert Wishlaw corrected several broken links on BCX Directives page.
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX_OLEPICTURE function.
- Robert Wishlaw added $BCXVERSION directive.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 3.81, July 15, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw revised syntax for LOCATE function.
Build 3.80, July 14, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added CREATEREGINT and REGINT Statements with example by Kevin Diggins.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 3.78, July 13, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added CREATEREGSTRING and DELETEREGKEY Statements with example by Kevin Diggins.
- Robert Wishlaw added the command line switch [-r](to update BCX Path variable in the Windows Registry) to BC Command Line Usage page.
Build 3.77, July 12, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added 'Comments in BCX' to index.
- Robert Wishlaw corrected typographic error(an extra comma) in the syntax description of the BCX_PSET function.
- Scott Frick added BCX_RESOURCE ICON example to the GUI Statement section.
- mazinga_atez corrected dimensioning arrays error in Important notes about Dimensioning Arrays subsection of the Dimensioning Arrays section on Variables page.
- Wayne Halsdorf and Garvan O'Keeffe added examples to Passing Arguments to FUNCTION and SUBROUTINE Procedures section of SUB and FUNCTION Procedures page showing how to pass a two dimensional array to a function.
Build 3.76, July 8, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added IREMOVE$ function and IREMOVE statement.
- Robert Wishlaw rebuilt con_demo samples from BCX 3.75 distribution.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 3.75, July 6, 2003
- No revisions.
Build 3.74, July 6, 2003
- Vic McClung added Compiler directive based make to Using the BCX Translator BCX.INI file section of the Modifying the BCX Translator page.
- Doyle Whisenant revised $RESOURCE and BCX_RESOURCE.
- Robert Wishlaw added SPRINT function.
- Robert Wishlaw added IREPLACE$ function and IREPLACE statement to REPLACE page.
- Robert Wishlaw added PRINTER OPEN and PRINTER CLOSE to LPRINT section of Printer page.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
- Robert Wishlaw corrected description of $FILE$ macro substitute.
Build 3.72, July 5, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added LPRINT function to Printer page.
- Robert Wishlaw corrected parameter description for Comma separated expressions on PRINT page.
- Robert Wishlaw revised CLOSE to include syntax for closing all open GLOBAL files.
Build 3.70, July 5, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added REGSTRING$ function.
- Robert Wishlaw added BCXPATH$ and LCCPATH$ to APPEXEPATH$ function page.
- Robert Wishlaw added $RESOURCE directive and BCX_RESOURCE statement to Compilation Directives page.
- Robert Wishlaw added example to Compilation Directives page.
- Robert Wishlaw added $BCX$, $FILE$, and $LCC$ macro substitutes to Compilation Directives page.
Build 3.69, July 4, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw revised Acknowledgments page.
- Robert Wishlaw added $IFNDEF to $IF, $ELSE, $ELSEIF and $ENDIF directives page.
- Robert Wishlaw added example to BCX_BITMAP page.
- Robert Wishlaw added note to BitmapFile$ parameter in BCX_BITMAP description stating that if the bitmap is to be loaded from a resource then this parameter must be empty("").
- Robert Wishlaw revised syntax description for SubName in SUB ... END SUB procedure section of SUB and FUNCTION Procedures page to include warning that an error will occur in translation if a data type is used with the SUB name.
Build 3.67, June 29, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw changed 'Compiling the BCX Translator' page to 'Modifying the BCX Translator'.
- Robert Wishlaw added 'Using the BCX Translator BCX.INI file' section to the 'Modifying the BCX Translator' page.
- Robert Wishlaw added $NOINI directive.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 3.64, June 28, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added $PACK directive.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
- Robert Wishlaw corrected typographical error(arrays instead of array's) in User Defined Types(UDT) section of variables page.
- Garvan O'Keeffe added DO ... LOOP WHILE syntax to DO ... LOOP Statement section of BCX Flow Control Statements page.
- Robert Wishlaw modified FOR ... NEXT statement syntax description allowing an array to be used as the loop index variable.
Build 3.63a, June 24, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw consolidated CALLBACK FUNCTION...END FUNCTION procedure page with the SUB and FUNCTION procedures page.
- Robert Wishlaw added SHAREDSET statement to SET page.
Build 3.63, June 22, 2003
- Kevin Diggins added an example to the EXPORT qualifier section of Creating DLLs page demonstrating the internal and external calling of a function located in a DLL.
- Kevin Diggins added LibMain template to $NOLIBMAIN directive.
Build 3.62, June 21, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added BOOL$ function.
- Robert Wishlaw added $FSSTATIC directive to SUB and FUNCTION Procedures page.
- Robert Wishlaw added Storage Class Specifiers section containing AUTO, EXTERN, REGISTER and STATIC to the Variables page.
- Wayne Halsdorf added two FUNCTION pointer examples to the Pointers page.
- Robert Wishlaw syntax highlighted several DYNAMIC strings examples on the Variables page.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 3.60b, June 10, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
- Robert Wishlaw added $GENFREE and FREEGLOBALS Statements.
- Robert Wishlaw changed REDIM and REDIM PRESERVE index description from function to statement.
Build 3.60, June 7, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
- Robert Wishlaw added LOADFILE$ function page.
- Kevin Diggins corrected HTML titles on VERIFY and RETAIN$ function pages. HTML titles of several other pages corrected.
- Vic McClung revised the BCX Help File Revision History page by replacing all but two occurrences of 'metastatement' with 'directive'.
Build 3.59b, June 6, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw revised CALLBACK function page.
- Robert Wishlaw corrected typographic error in syntax of GUI statement.
Build 3.59, June 4, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX Debugging Directives to Run-Time Table of Contents
- Robert Wishlaw changed all instances of 'metastatement' to 'directive'.
- Robert Wishlaw added instruction to use -m command line option when modules are added with the $INCLUDE directive while $SOURCE, $TEST and $TRACE directives are being used.
- Robert Wishlaw added -m(Enable Module Name/Line Number Reporting) switch to BC Command Line Usage parameter list.
Build 3.58, June 2, 2003
- Wayne Halsdorf added example to DECLARE description showing how to retrieve a string from a DLL.
- Robert Wishlaw added RETAIN$ function.
- Robert Wishlaw added VERIFY function.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
- Robert Wishlaw changed several instances of 'True' to 'TRUE' and 'False' to 'FALSE'.
Build 3.56, May 27, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added -k(Kill the generated BCX generated 'C' file) switch to BC Command Line Usage parameter list.
- Garvan O'Keeffe corrected instances of AS INT to AS INTEGER.
Build 3.55, May 26, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw revised CALLBACK functions page and added a warning not to use the BCX shortcut form of CALLBACK with a resource file based dialog box function.
- Robert Wishlaw added new constants NUL$, BEL$, BS$, TAB$, LF$, VT$, FF$, CR$, EOF$, ESC$, SPC$, DQ$, CRLF$.
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
- Robert Wishlaw corrected syntax numbering error in JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
Build 3.54, May 25, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw restored the BCX Gradient FX image to the Kevin Diggins page.
- Robert Wishlaw removed ELSE IF because it is no longer valid in BCX.
- Garvan O'Keeffe added an example to the BYREF page.
Build 3.53a, May 18, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw revised Dimensioning DYNAMIC Arrays
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
- Wayne Halsdorf added $TEST directive.
- Vic McClung suggested adding the $TEST directive.
Build 3.52b, May 14, 2003
- Garvan O'Keeffe removed UPPER case limitation statement from user defined TYPE.
- Garvan O'Keeffe added JFE ini file syntax highlighting for quoted text.
- Michael S. Sanders corrected typographic error in Syntax description of INSTR.
- Andrea Tobian-Mezger added note to FUNCTION...END FUNCTION procedure that the
```
FUNCTION = ReturnValue
```
  statement causes an immediate exit from the function, returning to the caller the value contained in ReturnValue.
- Robert Wishlaw added 'cursor', 'hConsole', 'color_fg', 'color_bg' to Dangerous Words list
Build 3.52a, May 5, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw corrected SUB ... END SUB parameter explanation for the naming a a subroutine.
Build 3.52, April 30, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added "Passing Arguments to FUNCTION and SUB Procedures" section to SUB and FUNCTION Procedures page.
- Wayne Halsdorf added example showing how to pass TYPE and UNION structures to a FUNCTION or SUB procedure.
Build 3.51, April 27, 2003
- Don Baldwin added note on argument passing to to Function-Subroutines page.
- Valdir de Assis Ribeiro corrected typographic error and modified code on Popup Dialog Box demo.
Build 3.50, April 26, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw replaced the example on the BYREF page.
- Don Baldwin added example which shows how to pass DYNAMIC MULTI-DIMENSIONAL NUMERIC ARRAYS to a FUNCTION or SUBROUTINE by REFERENCE to Function-Subroutines page.
- Robert Wishlaw consolidated User Defined Function and User Defined Subroutine pages.
Build 3.49a, April 26, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added new section BCX GUI Program Samples inaugurated with Doyle Whisenant's Popup Dialog Box from Menu.
- Vic McClung removed duplicate statements from $PP directive section.
Build 3.49, April 24, 2003
- Vic McClung updated $PP directive section.
Build 3.48, April 23, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list.
- Vic McClung added $PP directive section.
- Wayne Halsdorf added example using pointers to SET page.
Build 3.47, April 19, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw renovated Help file array descriptions and examples to embrace the added "BASIC-Style Array Handling".
Build 3.46a, April 18, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw consolidated GUI, BCX_HINSTANCE, BCX_SCALEX, BCX_SCALEY.
- Robert Wishlaw added note to the example on the BYREF page regarding the use of BYREF with a STRING parameter.
- Robert Wishlaw removed extraneous sentence from Remarks section of BCX_CONTROL function page.
- Robert Wishlaw replaced inappropriately used "parameter" with "argument" on APPACTIVATE, ASC, CHR$ pages.
- Robert Wishlaw replaced inappropriately used "argument" with "parameter" on Working with Files page.
- Ryan Pusztai and Master_Trom added the BCX_HINSTANCE keyword.
Build 3.46, April 15, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added note to Other BASIC Dialects - Similarities and Differences page stating that string literals may not be modified.
- Robert Wishlaw removed extraneous parameter description from FINDNEXT$ function.
Build 3.45b, April 12, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw in the REDIM PRESERVE section of the Help file, the phrase
  "Using REDIM PRESERVE with multiple dimension arrays is currently limited to integer, single and double data types."
  has been replaced with
  "REDIM PRESERVE supports all data types in both single and multiple dimension arrays."
Build 3.45a, April 12, 2003
- Kevin Diggins added new BCX logos.
- Robert Wishlaw consolidated FINDFIRST$ and FINDNEXT$ function pages.
- Robert Wishlaw corrected the alphabetic position of RECCOUNT in the index.
- Robert Wishlaw corrected the alphabetic position of Recursive functions in the index.
- Jess Harpur added an example that uses recursion to search for a file to the Recursive Functions page.
- Wayne Halsdorf added note and to LOC that for LOC to work correctly the file must to be opened with a RECLEN.
- Robert Wishlaw corrected index links for LOC, REC, RECCOUNT, RECLEN.
- Robert Wishlaw corrected case sensitivity of WinAPI Sleep function example on DELAY page.
- Wayne Halsdorf added single and multiple dimension array examples to REDIM PRESERVE section of Variables page.
- Andrea Tobian-Mezger added string example to REDIM PRESERVE section of Variables page.
- Robert Wishlaw added REDIM PRESERVE section to Variables page.
Build 345, April 1, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added note to REDIM section on Variables page that when REDIM is used, the values in the string or array variable are not preserved.
- Robert Wishlaw removed superfluous Random file access entry from index.
Build 344e, March 29, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX_POLYLINE function
- Robert Wishlaw added note to EXIT section of Flow control page that, unlike some BASIC dialects, EXIT will not allow a nested EXIT.
- Andrea Tobian-Mezger added an example to User Defined Type section on Variables page.
- Robert Wishlaw corrected faulty positioning of $HEADER directive on Mixing C and BCX code page.
- Robert Wishlaw added note that INP INPW OUTP OUTPW functions use a privileged instruction(in) and will fail with an exception under windows NT, 2000 and XP.
- Robert Wishlaw added AND and OR to Order of Operations table on Operators page
- Robert Wishlaw added, to JFE.ini color Syntax List page, instructions for copying color syntax list to jfe.ini file.
Build 344, March 11, 2003
- Wayne Halsdorf added an example to the Variables page, User Defined Types section, for dynamic memory allocation of the members in a User Defined Type.
- Robert Wishlaw removed dead links from MODSTYLE page.
- Don Baldwin added note to Working with Files section. When passing the handle of a file to a subroutine or function use AS FILE as the argument data type specifier in the FUNCTION parameter list.
- Robert Wishlaw added note to hFont parameter description in the syntax of BCX_SET_FONT function stating that when the font is no longer needed, the hFont handle is used as an argument with the function DeleteObject to delete the font, that is, DeleteObject(hFont).
- Don Baldwin added note to OPTION BASE, SPLIT and DSPLIT that arrays defined in the runtime functions such as SPLIT and DSPLIT cannot be set using OPTION BASE.
Build 343, February 21, 2003
- Garvan O'Keeffe corrected inconsistencies in several statements regarding the behavior of the OPTIONAL flag to save delimiters in the SPLIT and DSPLIT function descriptions
- Kevin Diggins added explanation and example of OPTION BASE statement to variables page
Build 341, February 8, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added to BCX_LISTBOX page URL http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BCX/files/Win32_API_Snippets/Listbox.bas, which contains several WinAPI ListBox functions in BCX wrappers.
- Kevin Diggins added example to BCX_LISTBOX page
- Robert Wishlaw rearranged OpenSave and FileExtension$ which were misplaced in the parameter list descriptions of GETFILENAME$
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list
- Robert Wishlaw added $HEADER directive
- Gerome GUILLEMIN corrected faulty syntax on FINDFIRSTINSTANCE function page
- Garvan O'Keeffe corrected the parameter list of the syntax statement of the BCX_ICON function
- Robert Wishlaw replaced "OPEN" with "SAVE" typographic error in set flag to use SAVE Dialog example on GETFILENAME$ page
Build 340, January 26, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list
- Robert Wishlaw added LOAD_DLL and LOADLIBRARY aliases
- Robert Wishlaw added APPACTIVATE function
- Robert Wishlaw added comment to CENTER function that in calculating the vertical component of CENTER, the area of the system TaskBar is taken into account.
- Robert Wishlaw added new features to the Using BCX page regarding the name of the file to be translated. The file name can have any or no extension. If no extension is given, BCX assumes the file ends in .BAS.
- Robert Wishlaw added new features to purpose description of FINDFIRSTINSTANCE function
- Robert Wishlaw replaced references to font name Garamond with Tahoma
- Gerome GUILLEMIN added note to the OPTIONAL function parameters page stating that OPTIONAL parameters are not permitted in DLL functions
- Robert Wishlaw consolidated INTEGER data types in Dimensioning Integers section of Dimensioning Variables page
Build 338, January 13, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw replaced "built in" with "run-time"
- Wayne Halsdorf added PTR PTR to Variables page
- Robert Wishlaw added Using BCX to table of contents links to BCX command line options usage page
- Robert Wishlaw added Favorites utility to navigation tabs so locations within the Help file can be bookmarked
Build 337, January 8, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX GUI functions and BCX Graphics functions to BCX Functions and Statements table of contents
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX_PROGRESSBAR function
- Robert Wishlaw restructured EXIT statement
- Robert Wishlaw added to QSort purpose "The array can be integer, floating point or string. Note that string array comparisons are case insensitive, that is, 'A' is equal to 'a'."
- Robert Wishlaw corrected "C" output in User Defined TYPE section on Variables page
- Robert Wishlaw corrected syntax and parameters on QSORT page to indicate that Order is OPTIONAL
- John Jacques corrected a bad link on the BCX_INPUT page
Build 336, January 4, 2003
- Robert Wishlaw added modulus(%) operator to index
- Robert Wishlaw added note to Math functions page on use of modulus(%) operator
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list
- Robert Wishlaw revised BCX_REPEAT and added it to index
- Robert Wishlaw added Control Flow statements to index
- Robert Wishlaw corrected in Dimensioning Arrays section
  Syntax: DIM A8$ [10][1024]
  Purpose: Allocates an array of 10 1024 byte strings
  to read
  Syntax: DIM A8$ [10][1024]
  Purpose: Allocates a two dimensional array(10 by 1024) of 2048 byte strings
- Robert Wishlaw added INCHR function to Run-Time Functions Table of Contents
Build 333, December 28, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added GETFILENAME$ function to Run-Time Functions Table of Contents
- Robert Wishlaw added BFF$ function
Build 332, December 24, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added INFOBOX statement
- Robert Wishlaw corrected typographical error in example on GETFILENAME$ page
- Heinrich Hiemesch pointed out that BCX_SET_EDIT_COLOR, BCX_SET_FONT, BCX_SET_LABEL_COLOR and BCX_STATUS return a value. The return parameters were added to the relevant syntax and parameter lists.
Build 331, December 16, 2002
- Heinrich Hiemesch removed superfluous raster operations from parameter list of BCX_GET function
- Heinrich Hiemesch pointed out that RECORD was not a function but a statement
- Heinrich Hiemesch corrected typographical error in BitmapFile$ parameter description on BCX_BMPBUTTON function page
- Heinrich Hiemesch clarified syntax for RecordNumber parameter of RECORD function
- Heinrich Hiemesch corrected extraneous statement in Opening Random Access Files section and OPEN statement page
Build 330, December 14, 2002
- Michael Lobanovsky removed FINT from JFE.ini color Syntax List
- Gerome GUILLEMIN corrected obsolete statements on LOF page
- Heinrich Hiemesch corrected typographical error in example on HEX$ page
- Heinrich Hiemesch corrected typographical error in example and FileName$ parameter description on GETFILENAME$ page
Build 329, December 12, 2002
- The Watcher added LIB statement to DECLARE page replacing Calling _stdcall DLL functions section.
- Robert Wishlaw reformatted example on CALLBACK page
Build 327, December 8, 2002
- John Jacques corrected typo in example on $VSCROLL directive page
- Robert Wishlaw revised GETFILENAME$ syntax and example to include OpenSave flag
- Robert Wishlaw added notice of 10 character limitation in CHR$ purpose statement
- Robert Wishlaw changed default font from Arial to Tahoma
Build 324, December 3, 2002
- Added Kevin Diggins' warning about large environmental sizes to ENVIRON$ page
- Gerome GUILLEMIN added example to CBOOL page
- Gerome GUILLEMIN added comments regarding automatic loading and unloading of DLLs to Calling _stdcall DLL functions section
- Robert Wishlaw added ALIAS to Index
- Robert Wishlaw corrected typographic error on Error messages from BCX page
- Robert Wishlaw corrected typographic errors in "C" code in sample S123.bas
- thebcxwatcher added LIB to Index
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list
Build 323, December 1, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added Kevin Diggins array example to REDIM
- Robert Wishlaw added Calling _stdcall DLL functions section to DECLARE page.
- Robert Wishlaw rewrote ASC purpose.
- Robert Wishlaw rewrote PEEK$ purpose.
- Robert Wishlaw rewrote POKE purpose.
- Robert Wishlaw replaced several instances of incorrectly used "argument" with "parameter"
- Robert Wishlaw added link on DECLARE page to the PLAYWAV example which uses DECLARE
- Frank La Fontaine corrected example on MID$ statement page
- Robert Wishlaw added clarification and syntax examples to OPTIONAL function parameters page
- Robert Wishlaw changed section heading Dimensioning Dynamic Arrays to Dimensioning Dynamic String Arrays on Variables page
- Robert Wishlaw revised example on TIMER page
- Robert Wishlaw revised acceptable CASE parameters usable in SELECT CASE flow control statements to include constructs such as CASE < 4 or > 9
Build 319, November 22, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added a demo program for BCX_FONTDLG, BCX_SET_FONT, and BCX_SET_EDIT_COLOR functions by Andreas Hänsch, modified by Robert Wishlaw
- Robert Wishlaw added example by Wayne Halsdorf of acceptable CASE parameters usable in SELECT CASE flow control statements
- Robert Wishlaw added parameters missing in BCX_SET_FONT syntax list as well as list of font weight variables from win.h
- Robert Wishlaw revised BCX_SCALE page to place emphasis on BCX_SCALEX and BCX_SCALEY as read-only variables
Build 318, November 21, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list
- Robert Wishlaw added CBOOL function with example
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX_PRINT function with example
- Robert Wishlaw corrected faulty grammar in Purpose of BCXSCALEX page
- Robert Wishlaw added reference to loading from resource to Purpose of BCX_BMPBUTTON
- Andreas Hänsch suggested adding BCX_FONT structure information to the BCX_FONTDLG page
- Added Kevin Diggins example to GETFILENAME$ page with comment that GETFILENAME$ may be used to retrieve a file name for opening, saving or performing any other action on files
- Joe Caverly suggested Kevin Diggins' FastPrint example to PRINT page as an example of a solution to the problem of printing at column 80 row 25 of the screen without causing the screen to scroll.
- Robert Wishlaw added Width% and Height%, which were mistakenly omitted, to syntax of BCX_BITMAP function
Build 317, November 18, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added RANDOM files, opening to index
- Robert Wishlaw added TEXT files, opening to index
- Robert Wishlaw added BINARY files, opening to index
- Kevin Diggins added more information to the return value of BCX_FONTDLG
Build 316, November 18, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw corrected syntax typographical error on BCX_SET_TEXT page
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX_FONTDLG function
- Robert Wishlaw modified BCX_SET_FONT function syntax to add the following optional Bold, Italic, Underline, and StrikeThru arguments
- Doyle Whisenant added note to GETFILENAME$ page that GETFILENAME$ may be used to retrieve a file name both for opening and saving files
Build 315, November 17, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX_COLORDLG function with example by Kevin Diggins
- Added return value to syntax for BCX_Set_Text, BCX_Preset, BCX_Pset, BCX_Line, BCX_Lineto, BCX_Circle, BCX_Ellipse, BCX_Rectangle, BCX_Roundrect, BCX_Arc, BCX_Put
- Robert Wishlaw added section on dimensioning multiple variables on a single line to the Variables page.
Build 314, November 15, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list
- Robert Wishlaw changed Wnd to hWnd in BCX graphics functions syntax examples
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX_POLYGON and BCX_POLYBEZIER functions with examples based on code by Wayne Halsdorf
- Wayne Halsdorf added batch example for ErrorLevel on END PROGRAM page
- Robert Wishlaw added a modified version of Larry Keys' Radiobutton demo program to the BCX_RADIO page
- Robert Wishlaw added note to Working with files and the OPEN page that file scope can be limited to LOCAL in a subroutine or function
Build 313, November 9, 2002
- Kevin Diggins added extended syntax and new example to GETFILENAME$ page
- Robert Wishlaw updated AS STRING syntax examples on Variables page
- Robert Wishlaw corrected font HTML error in example on HEX$ page
- Theo Hollenberg added note to STR$ regarding extra space added to beginning of the string formed by STR$. This space is actually a part of the number and is the location of the sign. When it's a negative number, there will be a minus there and when it's a positive number, it'll be blank.
Build 308, November 3, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added PIXELS and ICON to index
- Robert Wishlaw added OPTIONAL parameter ICON to GUI directive. ICON indicates that an icon is to be loaded as a resource
Build 307, October 28, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added revised con_demo\S144.bas SPLIT demo to samples
- Michael Lobanovsky added main to Dangerous Words list
- Robert Wishlaw removed incomplete examples from BCX_BLACKRECT, BCX_BMPBUTTON, BCX_BUTTON, BCX_CHECKBOX, BCX_COMBOBOX, BCX_CONTROL, BCX_DATEPICK, BCX_EDIT, BCX_GRAYRECT, BCX_GROUP, BCX_ICON, BCX_INPUT, BCX_LABEL, BCX_LISTBOX, BCX_LISTVIEW, BCX_RADIO, BCX_RICHEDIT, BCX_TREEVIEW, BCX_WHITERECT
- Robert Wishlaw modified example 1 result on SPLIT page
- Robert Wishlaw modified example 2 on SPLIT page to show option to retain all delimiters and all null fields
Build 305, October 27, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw modified SPLIT and DSPLIT SaveDelimitFlag options to
  - 0 = Eliminate all delimiters(default behavior)
  - 1 = Retain all delimiters and all null fields
  - 2 = Eliminate all delimiters and null fields
  - 3 = Retain all delimiters excluding null fields
- Robert Wishlaw added OPTIONAL WinStyle and ExWinStyle% to BCX_LISTVIEW, BCX_ICON, BCX_BITMAP, BCX_RICHEDIT, BCX_DATEPICK, BCX_BLACKRECT, BCX_WHITERECT, BCX_GRAYRECT, BCX_TREEVIEW, BCX_LISTBOX, BCX_COMBOBOX, BCX_RADIO, BCX_CHECKBOX, BCX_GROUP, BCX_LABEL, BCX_INPUT, BCX_BMPBUTTON, BCX_BUTTON, BCX_FORM functions
- Robert Wishlaw added links to BCX Console Sample Programs on $LIBRARY directive page
- Robert Wishlaw added Running the BCX Translator section which will deal with translation and compilation concerns
- Robert Wishlaw added Error messages from BCX page to Running the BCX Translator section
- Wayne Halsdorf added note on successful and aborted BCX translation to Error messages from BCX page
Build 304, October 27, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added MKD$, MKI$, MKL$, MKS$, CVD, CVI, CVL and CVS functions
- Robert Wishlaw updated JFE.ini syntax color highlighting list
Build 302, October 26, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added enhanced key descriptions for INKEY and KEYPRESS
- Robert Wishlaw added new Results to Example 2 on SPLIT page
- Robert Wishlaw added ERRORLEVEL to Index
- Kevin Zigler added ENDIF syntax to Flow Control page
- Kevin Zigler corrected faulty syntax of SLEEP function on DELAY function page
Build 301, October 19, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added OPTIONAL ErrorLevel syntax to END
- Wayne Halsdorf added several entries to the Dangerous Words list.
- Joe Caverly corrected obsolete SETFORMCOLOR to BCX_SET_FORM_COLOR in example on Subclassing page
- Robert Wishlaw removed Window Styles list from BCX_CONTROL. Reference inserted to check Win32 SDK or PSDK Reference help for details on Window Styles
- Robert Wishlaw added OPTIONAL WinStyle and ExWinStyle% to BCX_INPUT function
- Robert Wishlaw added note to MODSTYLE that WS_BORDER Window Style cannot be removed from an edit control if set with CreateWindow
- Robert Wishlaw clarified C_DECLARE and DECLARE
- Robert Wishlaw clarified EXPORT and added it to Index
- Robert Wishlaw clarified and consolidated Creating DLLs and DLL directive pages
- Robert Wishlaw added remarks to BCX_STYLEX and BCX_STYLEY
Build 300 final, October 6, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added note to STR$ that the return string has a space prepended. If the space is not wanted remove it with LTRIM$ or TRIM$
- Robert Wishlaw replaced _ASM with _asm and added note that _asm must be lower case
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX_BMPBUTTON will autosize to the size of the bitmap if the Width and Height parameters are both zero
- Ad Rienks added example to BCX_FORM
- Justin Calvarese added demo to MODSTYLE page
- Michael Lobanovsky cleaned up code in example on $LIBRARY page and corrected typo in parameter description of $LINKER
- William Bingham corrected example code for B.bas on $NOMAIN page
Build 300z, October 5, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added Acknowledgments section
- Robert Wishlaw added Blue Pagan's MCI_Execute demo to PLAYWAV page
- Robert Wishlaw corrected several entries in JFE.ini color Syntax List
- Robert Wishlaw reformatted and expanded INP, INPW, OUTP, OUTPW, INKEY, INKEY$, INPUT, INSTAT, KEYPRESS, SPLIT, DSPLIT, QSORT, UBOUND, STRPTR, DECLARE, C_DECLARE, STDCALL, CONST, PRIVATE CONST, DOWNLOAD, ENVIRON$, FINDFIRSTINSTANCE, PLAYWAV, RUN, SHELL, SIZEOF, SWAP
Build 300y, October 4, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added several Flow Control statements to BCX Functions and Statements list
- Robert Wishlaw corrected several entries in JFE.ini color Syntax List
- Robert Wishlaw reformatted and expanded TALLY, UCASE$, USING$, DECR, CSNG, FIX, FRAC, HEX$, INCR, INT, MAX, MIN, OCT$, RANDOMIZE, RND, TRIM$, ROUND, SGN, SCREEN, TEXTMODE, WRITE, DATE$, TIME$, DELAY, NOW$, TIMER, END, END PROGRAM, IIF, IIF$, ITERATE
- Robert Wishlaw revised MODSTYLE explanation regarding Window Style and Extended Window Style.
Build 300x, October 3, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added JFE.ini color Syntax List at suggestion of Gerome GUILLEMIN
- Robert Wishlaw reformatted FUNCTION/SUB calling and module parameter list strings by removing superfluous spaces before and after parentheses
- Robert Wishlaw replaced Non-STRING$ FUNCTION use of String$ with MainStr$
- Kevin Diggins added Wayne Halsdorf's FILLARRAY con_demo sample S148.bas and link to it from FILLARRAY page.
- Robert Wishlaw reformatted and expanded PEEK$, POKE, REMAIN$, REMOVE, REPEAT, REPLACE, REVERSE$, RIGHT$, REPEAT$, SPACE$, STR$, STRIM$, STRING$
Build 300w, October 1, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw changed table of contents entry Who Needs a BASIC to "C" Translator to Kevin Diggins, author of BCX.
- Robert Wishlaw moved photo of MrBCX to Kevin Diggins page. Replaced it with BCX logo.
- Robert Wishlaw reformatted and expanded RENAME, SETATTR, TEMPFILENAME$, FINPUT, GET$, PUT$, GETC, LINE INPUT, SEEK, FPRINT, FWRITE, DEL$, ENC$, EXTRACT$, INS$, INCHR, INSTR, INSTRREV, JOIN$, LCASE$, LEFT$, LEN, LIKE, LPAD$, RPAD$, LTRIM$, RTRIM$, MCASE$, MID$ function, MID$ statement
Build 300v, September 30, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added MACROS in BCX to index
- Robert Wishlaw modified Compiling the BCX Translator page
- Robert Wishlaw removed extra Syntax statement from CLOSE page
- William Bingham added TYPE ... END TYPE demo to User Defined Types.
- Robert Wishlaw reformatted and expanded CLS, COMMAND$, CONCAT, CONST, VAL, VCHR$, CURDIR$, MKDIR, RMDIR, TEMPDIR$, WINDIR$, COPYFILE, EOF, EXIST, FINDFIRST$, FINDNEXT$, FREEFILE, GETATTR, KILL, RECLEN, RECORD, REC, LOC, RECCOUNT, LOF, OPEN
Build 300u, September 29, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw changed example on $DLL directive page. Added DLL to index.
- Robert Wishlaw rewrote part of User Defined Functions page
- Robert Wishlaw consolidated CALL and SUB pages
- Robert Wishlaw reformatted and expanded BIN$, BIN2DEC, CDBL, CHDIR, CHDRIVE, CHR$, CINT, CLEAR, CLNG, CLOSE
- Robert Wishlaw added RetVal to syntax of MODSTYLE function
- Robert Wishlaw added links in MODSTYLE function to lists of Window Styles and Extended Window Styles in the BCX_CONTROL function
Build 300t, September 28, 2002
- Justin C. Calvarese restored Using Assembly Language in BCX section
- Michael Lobanovsky cleaned up Substr.bas assembly example
- Wayne Halsdorf added comment to PRJ PRJUSE page
- Robert Wishlaw reformatted and expanded ABS, APPEXENAME$, APPEXEPATH$, ASC
Build 300s, September 28, 2002
- Michael Lobanovsky corrected HTML syntax on $LIBRARY page that had caused mylib.lib to become invisible because it was nested between a < and a > rather than between a < and a >.
- Robert Wishlaw reformatted and expanded BYREF page, DIM RAW section on Variables page, Embedding "C" page, $ASM, $ONENTRY, $ONEXIT, $COMPILER, $LINKER, $INCLUDE and #INCLUDE directives.
Build 300r, September 26, 2002
- Gerome GUILLEMIN added link to the MODSTYLE page from several GUI function pages that contain a reference to a default window style
- Gerome GUILLEMIN replaced the example on the BYREF page with one that contains BYREF for a STRING variable
- Robert Wishlaw reformatted and expanded BCX_BITMAP, BCX_BUTTON, BCX_GROUP, BCX_ICON, BCX_INPUT, BCX_LABEL, BCX_LISTBOX, BCX_LISTVIEW, BCX_RADIO, BCX_BMPBUTTON, BCX_RICHEDIT, BCX_TREEVIEW, BCX_SET_EDIT_COLOR, BCX_SET_FONT, BCX_SET_FORM_COLOR, BCX_SET_LABEL_COLOR, BCX_GET_TEXT$, BCX_SET_TEXT, BCX_STATUS, SHOW, HIDE, CENTER, DOEVENTS, GETFILENAME$, QBCOLOR and SetWindowRTFText functions as well as the $VSCROLL directive.
Build 300q, September 26, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw reformatted and expanded BCX_COMBOBOX, BCX_CONTROL, BCX_CURSOR, BCX_DATEPICK, BCX_EDIT, BCX_FORM
Build 300p, September 25, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw temporarily removed the WinMain() and WinProc() section until it can be rewritten.
- Robert Wishlaw reformatted and expanded GUI statement, BCX_BLACKRECT, BCX_GRAYRECT, BCX_WHITERECT, and BCX_CHECKBOX functions
- Robert Wishlaw cleaned up links on BCX GUI pages
- Added Wayne Halsdorf's multi-file project to the $PRJ $PRJUSE page
- Gwen Carpenter added RAW to index
Build 300n, September 23, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw restructured PRINT page
- magic_user_68 added semi-colon explanation and example to PRINT syntax
- Robert Wishlaw restructured and added another example to InputBox page
- Robert Wishlaw consolidated MsgBox and Message Box pages
- Michael Lobanovsky corrected inconsistency of OPTIONAL parameter in MsgBox function
- Robert Wishlaw added DRAWTRANSBMP to Graphics functions
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX_LOADBMP to Graphics functions
- Robert Wishlaw(unfinished) BCX_SCALEX and BCX_SCALEY statements
- Robert Wishlaw added SEARCHPATH$ function
- Robert Wishlaw revised BCX_GET and BCX_PUT function syntax to OPTIONALWinStyle parameter.
Build 300m, September 10, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added for BINARY INPUT to Working with files and OPEN statement
- Robert Wishlaw added example to GETC function
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX_GET and BCX_PUT functions
Build 300l, September 7, 2002
- Kevin Diggins added corrections and example to SET
- Frank La Fontaine corrected syntax error on BCX_SET_FONT page
- Robert Wishlaw updated list of BCX gui_demo programs that use resource files
Build 300k, September 6, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw consolidated more files in Introduction section
- Robert Wishlaw removed superfluous GOSUB and GOTO pages
- Robert Wishlaw corrected dead link in Index to BCX GUI Functions
- Gerome GUILLEMIN corrected dead link in Index to Getting Started
Build 300j, September 5, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw reordered and retitled parts of main Table of Contents
- Robert Wishlaw consolidated several files in Introduction section
- Robert Wishlaw repaired buggy HTML syntax on GUI Programs page
- Robert Wishlaw repaired buggy HTML syntax on Limitations page
- Robert Wishlaw added Dangerous Words to Help File
Robert Wishlaw Build 300i, September 5, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw new layouts and reformatting for GETBmp, SaveBmp.
- Robert Wishlaw moved SPLIT and DSPLIT from "BCX String Functions" to "BCX Array Functions" on Run-Time Functions page
- Robert Wishlaw added Wayne Halsdorf's Matrix example to FILLARRAY page
- Jeff Nope corrected error on BCX_GETPIXEL page.
Build 300h, September 4, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw started a new layouts and reformatting for the functions. Most of the Graphics functions are in Mode Nouveau.
- Robert Wishlaw added Resource based bitmap options to BCX_Bitmap and BCX_BmpButton
- Robert Wishlaw reformatted several functions adding Parameter descriptions
- Robert Wishlaw added FILLARRAY function
- Robert Wishlaw added optional DrawHDC parameter to BCX_ARC, BCX_CIRCLE, BCX_ELLIPSE, BCX_LINE, BCX_LINETO, BCX_PRESET, BCX_PSET, BCX_RECTANGLE, BCX_ROUNDRECT
- Robert Wishlaw cleaned up BCX_BMPBUTTON, SET_BCX_BMPBUTTON, SET_BCX_ICON in Windows GUI functions
- Robert Wishlaw added EDITLOADFILE function
Build 300g, September 4, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw again tried to remove String Functions table of contents
- Robert Wishlaw added VCHR$ to Run-Time Functions and Statements table of contents
- Robert Wishlaw enhanced Index entries
- Robert Wishlaw removed PRESERVE from index
- Robert Wishlaw added MODSTYLE entry to Windows GUI table of contents
- Robert Wishlaw corrected several errors on MODSTYLE page
Build 300f, September 4, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw rearranged "Run-Time Functions and Statements" table of contents from alphabetic to categorical order. Removed String Function table of contents
- Robert Wishlaw moved DOEVENTS, GETFILENAME$, INPUTBOX$, MSGBOX$ functions from "Run-Time Functions and Statements" to "Windows GUI Functions" table of contents
- Robert Wishlaw renamed Table of Contents "Gui Functions" to "Windows GUI Functions"
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX_BMPBUTTON, SET_BCX_BMPBUTTON, SET_BCX_ICON to Run-Time GUI functions
- Robert Wishlaw color emphasized "Function works only in console mode programs" on relevant pages
- Robert Wishlaw changed TIMER explanation and example to reflect new capabilities
Build 300e, September 1, 2002
- Kevin Diggins added new capabilities for CASE statement as well as an example.
- Robert Wishlaw replaced == with = in IIF$ example
- Michael Lobanovsky corrected typo in IIF$ section
- Michael Lobanovsky added UNTIL conditional DO LOOP syntax examples
- Added new capabilities of INCR and DECR as well as Michael Lobanovsky's INCR and DECR examples
- Robert Wishlaw added the elapsed time crt clock() function from BC.bas to the TIMER page
- Robert Wishlaw moved BCX_BITMAP, GETBMP, SAVEBMP function links from GUI functions table of contents to Graphics functions table of contents
- Robert Wishlaw added SET_BCX_BITMAP to Run-Time Graphics functions
- Peloquin corrected ambiguous syntax on COPYFILE page
Build 300d, August 29, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added more info on Precedence and Associativity to Operators page
- Robert Wishlaw removed erroneous statement about REM from $COMMENT section
- Robert Wishlaw added AS STRING examples in Dimensioning Static Strings
- Robert Wishlaw removed Functions and Subroutines Heading from Table of Contents
- Robert Wishlaw changed the layout of the
  BCX The Free BASIC To "C" Translator by Kevin Diggins
  header on all the pages
- Robert Wishlaw tidied the Compiling BCX Translator page
- Robert Wishlaw corrected index links to ! operator and $CCode
- Robert Wishlaw tidied the PTR section of Dimensioning Variables
- Robert Wishlaw added list of some other commonly used pointer data types that can also be used in BCX.
- Robert Wishlaw clarified reference to case sensitivity of automatically generated variables hWnd, Msg, lParam, and wParam on CALLBACK FUNCTION page.
- Robert Wishlaw added AS FLOAT, AS SINGLE and AS DOUBLE to examples in Dimensioning Floating Point Numbers
- Robert Wishlaw added link to Dimensioning Integers on the Implementation Limits page to reference the acceptable minimum and maximum values for various integer data types
- Robert Wishlaw added several references and example of BCX support for line numbers.
- Robert Wishlaw added MODSTYLE function
- Robert Wishlaw added note that SET supports LOCAL and GLOBAL contexts.
Build 300c, August 26, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw corrected TIMER info on S95.bas example
Build 300b, August 25, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw changed SET to new syntax in S125.bas and S129.bas
- Robert Wishlaw added example to BYREF page
- Robert Wishlaw added note that CINT returns rounded integer
- John Jacques corrected typo in title of GetBMP function page
Build 300a, August 23, 2002
- Michael Lobanovsky corrected omissions of CONCAT from index and Tables of Contents
- Michael Lobanovsky replaced BCX and Assembly code example on Assembly page
- Michael Lobanovsky added INPUTBOX$ to String Functions page
- BusyX corrected faulty case in variables in UDT example
- Robert Wishlaw added note to LOF page that to get the size of an open file the WinAPI function filelength should be used.
Build 300, August 22, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX_CIRCLE to BCX Graphics section
- Robert Wishlaw added note to BCX_BITMAP that the handle returned is to the window containing the bitmap, not a handle of the bitmap
- Robert Wishlaw removed $ from beginning of names of all metacommand files. The $ prevented the HTMLHelp decompiler from extracting the HTML files that began with a $.
- Wayne Halsdorf added warning to Dimensioning Arrays section that using a floating point variable as an index in an array will result in undefined behavior.
- Robert Wishlaw added note that DYNAMIC array cells cannot be used directly by the INPUT statement.
- Robert Wishlaw reformatted $ONENTRY $COMPILER $LINKER $ONEXIT page
Build 299b, August 17, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw removed non-existent REDIM PRESERVE function documentation
- Robert Wishlaw added Kevin Diggins' redimensioning DYNAMIC array example
Build 299, August 17, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added note on Win32 API function SLEEP to DELAY page for those who want a finer timer resolution than available with DELAY
- Robert Wishlaw added PAUSE and WAIT to index with link to DELAY statement.
- Robert Wishlaw added S147.bas sample
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX_Grafx.bas demo to samples
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX Graphics section to BCX Language Functions and Subroutines
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX_PRESET, BCX_PSET, BCX_LINE, BCX_LINETO, BCX_ARC, BCX_RECTANGLE, BCX_ROUNDRECT, BCX_ELLIPSE, BCX_GETPIXEL to BCX Graphics section
- Robert Wishlaw modified SET command examples to multi-line command terminated with the phrase "END SET"
- Robert Wishlaw added CONCAT function
- Robert Wishlaw added INCHR function to INSTR page
- Robert Wishlaw added INPUTBOX$ function
- Robert Wishlaw added REDIM PRESERVE function
- Robert Wishlaw added dynamically dimensioned arrays to REDIM capability
- Robert Wishlaw added ISPTR and STRARRAY functions to Dynamic Arrays section of Dimensioning Variables page
- Robert Wishlaw added Doyle Whisenant's example of using CONST to embed NULL in a string
- Robert Wishlaw added DSPLIT function for dynamic strings
- Dr. X corrected typographic error in UNION section of Dimensioning Variables page
- Michael Lobanovsky corrected faulty syntax in RECORD function
- Michael Lobanovsky added EXIT SELECT and EXIT REPEAT to EXIT statement section of Control Flow statements page
- Michael Lobanovsky corrected typographic errors on Recursive Functions page
- Added Kevin Diggins' PEEK POKE example to PEEK and POKE pages
- Robert Wishlaw added ITERATE cross reference link to several Control Flow statements
- Gerome GUILLEMIN added IS relational operator
- Robert Wishlaw added note to QSORT page about need to use DYNAMIC with QSORT if array being sorted is DYNAMIC
- leneuf22 added several MessageBox bit flags to Message Boxes page
- Garvan O'Keeffe corrected syntax example on SEEK page
Build 297, July 29, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added Dimensioning Dynamic Arrays section to Variables page.
- Robert Wishlaw added OPTION BASE to Dimensioning Arrays on Variables page
- Robert Wishlaw added s144.bas, s145.bas and s146.bas to samples
- Robert Wishlaw added ScanError and example to INPUT page
- Robert Wishlaw added warning to Variables page about DIM and LOCAL variables in SUBs and FUNCTIONs not retaining their value from call to call.
- John Jacques corrected several typos: occurances, conjuction, ascii, Boolean and identifer
- Chris Clementson added BCX String Functions Table of Contents
- Robert Wishlaw changed QBASIC style hex values to decimal on GETATTR page
- Robert Wishlaw added FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY to GETATTR function page
- Robert Wishlaw removed EXIT SUB and EXIT FUNCTION limitations in Dynamic strings section on Variables page
- Gerome GUILLEMIN corrected faulty example on SPLIT page.
Build 296, July 25, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw rewrote Dynamic strings section on Variables page
Build 295, July 23, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw several erroneous HTML page titles were corrected
- John Jacques corrected HTML page title for BCX_INPUT
- Robert Wishlaw removed note from Dynamic Strings section on Variables page about limitation on location of DIM statements in SUBs and FUNCTIONS.
Build 294, July 22, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added new example to INKEY$ page
- Robert Wishlaw added $TRACE to directives.
- Robert Wishlaw added a number of omitted directives to directive Table of Contents.
- Robert Wishlaw added note to Dynamic Strings section on Variables page about limitation on location of DIM statements in SUBs and FUNCTIONS.
- Robert Wishlaw modified syntax on SPLIT page for OPTIONAL SaveDelimiters flag, added note on SPLITs automatic handling of quoted fields and VB6 compatible handling of null fields. Also, an example by Kevin Diggins was added.
- John Jacques suggested simpler explanation of $LIBRARY
- Robert Wishlaw fixed negative step typo on Control Flow page
- Alessio Ribeca added ASCII Table to index
- Alessio Ribeca corrected title on INSTRREV page
Build 293, July 14, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added revisions to RUN function syntax
- Robert Wishlaw added STRIM$ run-time function
- Robert Wishlaw added example and note that REPLACE function allows full expressions and arrays
- Robert Wishlaw added example and note that REMOVE function allows full expressions and arrays
- Robert Wishlaw fixed typo on RND page
- Robert Wishlaw revised INKEY$ page and added examples.
- Robert Wishlaw added Converting from hexadecimal to decimal section to HEX$ run-time in function page.
Build 292b, July 14, 2002
- Kevin Diggins added new example and revised SPLIT run-time function page.
Build 292, July 13, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added INKEY$ and INKEY to run-time functions
- Robert Wishlaw added ENC$ Function to run-time functions
- Robert Wishlaw modified syntax for LTRIM$ and RTRIM$ to include optional char to be stripped.
- Robert Wishlaw added INP, INPW, OUTP, AND OUTPW to run-time functions
- Alessio Ribeca corrected prefix error on TEMPFILENAME$ Function page
- Robert Wishlaw changed demo on FINPUT run-time function page
- Kevin Diggins added new example and OPTIONAL argument to SPLIT run-time function page.
- Robert Wishlaw added RPAD$ and LPAD$ to run-time functions
- Robert Wishlaw added example and description of line numbers in "C" code produced when using $SOURCE directive.
Build 290, July 6 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added new example to INPUT function page
- Robert Wishlaw added SPLIT function to run-time functions
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX_CURSOR to run-time GUI functions
- Robert Wishlaw added FINDFIRSTINSTANCE to run-time functions
Build 289b, July 5 2002
- David Garner added an example of a drag and drop aware executable to the COMMAND$ page
- Robert Wishlaw corrected Table of Contents typo for S142.bas
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX289 con_demo samples
- David Garner added example to HEX$ function
- David Garner added cross references between ASC and CHR$
Build 289, July 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added $LIBRARY directive
- Robert Wishlaw added UBOUND to run-time functions
- Robert Wishlaw added CLEAR to run-time functions
- Robert Wishlaw added Compiling the BCX Translator page with instructions for compiling the BCX Translator Open Source code.
- Robert Wishlaw added IIF$ to run-time functions
- Robert Wishlaw added Random Access file page with examples and explanations for LOC, REC, RECCOUNT, RECORD and RECLEN.
- Peloquin corrected omission of link on MSGBOX statement page to MessageBoxes section.
- Robert Wishlaw added example and comments to FOR NEXT on Control Flow page regarding optional INTEGER, SINGLE or DOUBLE LOCAL loop variable
- Robert Wishlaw added new example to DATA statement page with a reference to DATA accepting unquoted strings
- Robert Wishlaw added note to BYREF page not to use BYREF within SUB or FUNCTION parameter lists when referencing arrays
- Cino Hilliard added examples to COPYFILE
- Robert Wishlaw added BIN$ function
- Robert Wishlaw corrected superfluous commas in several BCX_SET_XXX functions
- Valdir Ribeiro added optional parentheses enclosing arguments in BCX_SET_XXX functions
- Valdir Ribeiro corrected omission of INS$ and DEL$ in BCX Run-Time Functions page
- David Garner corrected placement of $PRJ and $PRJUSE in index
- Gerome GUILLEMIN corrected typo on TIME$ page
Build 287, June 21, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added $PRJ and $PRJUSE directives
- Robert Wishlaw added s142.bas TIME$(value%) demo to samples.
- Robert Wishlaw added new TIME$(value%) function and example to TIME page
- Robert Wishlaw added Printer page
- Cino Hilliard added Printer PRN and LPRINT to index
- Cino Hilliard added AS data type-declaration suffix to index.
- Cino Hilliard added ! Inline "C" operator to index.
- Cino Hilliard added hyperbolic trigonometric functions to Math functions page and index.
- Cino Hilliard corrected IMOD return from double to integer on Math functions page
- John Jacques added SQRT to Math functions page
- Robert Wishlaw cleaned up example on User Defined Functions page
- Robert Wishlaw added example to TIMER page
- Cino Hilliard added comment to TIMER regarding floating point precision
- Jeethu Rao pointed out the omission of $SOURCE directive page
- Cino Hilliard added comment to INPUT that if a PromptString is used it must be followed by a comma. Added commas to INPUT statements in con_demo samples S04.bas, S13.bas, S25.bas, S28.bas, S64.bas and S77.bas
- Chris Clementson added note about the need to reinstall LCC if it is used in an environment other than that in which it was installed
Build 286, June 12, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added FLUSH to run-time functions.
- Kevin Diggins added explanation of STDCALL statement
- Robert Wishlaw updated INPUT function's acceptance of multiple variables including array elements.
- Robert Wishlaw expanded explanation to Increment and Decrement operators
- Robert Wishlaw added more examples to INCR and DECR functions
- Cino Hilliard added Pre Post and Decrement operator to index
- Gerome GUILLEMIN added third argument to COPYFILE which indicates if the destination file is to be overwritten if it exists.
- Robert Wishlaw added NOW$ to run-time functions
- Robert Wishlaw expanded purpose statement on COPYFILE page so search will find the word 'copy'.
- Robert Wishlaw added FINPUT function
- Alessio Ribeca added SetWindowRTFText function
- Robert Wishlaw added GETBMP and SAVEBMP functions
- Kevin Diggins repaired TYPE syntax in Demo s99.bas
- John Jacques added FREEFILE to Working with Files page
- Chris Clementson added note to PRINT page that BCX uses FPRINT to print to a file not PRINT #.
- Cino Hilliard corrected faulty syntax on REPLACE page and added REPLACE to index
- Robert Wishlaw added VCHR$ function
- Robert Wishlaw added INS$ and DEL$ functions
- Robert Wishlaw added note to Dimensioning Variables that strings must be dimensioned large enough to include the ASCII zero(CHR$(0)) terminator.
- John Jacques corrected typo on FWRITE page
- Jeff Nope corrected typos on INCLUDE page
- Jim Lackey added BEGIN EVENTS END EVENTS statements
- Chris Clementson added note and example to Dimensioning Variables page about the problem of a GLOBAL variable being implicitly dimensioned as a LOCAL if the same name is used as an argument in the declarator of a FUNCTION or SUB.
- Chris Clementson corrected grammatically incorrect usage of it's
- Robert Wishlaw removed superfluous parentheses from Flow Control Statements page
- Robert Wishlaw added REM to $COMMENT page
Build 285, May 5 2002
- Robert Wishlaw updated all con_demo samples to BCX285
- Robert Wishlaw refined several navigation links to go to the appropriate part of a page instead of just to the top
- cino hilliard suggested the following index additions
  SCHAR signed char
  UCHAR unsigned char
  SHORT signed short
  USHORT unsigned short
  INT signed integer
  INTEGER signed integer
  UINT unsigned integer
  LONG signed long
  ULONG unsigned long
  LONGLONG long long
  ULONGLONG unsigned long long
- Robert Wishlaw added PTR, LOCAL, FREE, EXIT to index
- Robert Wishlaw added SHOW HIDE and CENTER to BCX GUI functions
- Robert Wishlaw removed WinAPI pointer data types from Variables page
- Robert Wishlaw added examples and Kevin Diggins' dictum that
  'If a SUB does not take arguments and parentheses are omitted, then CALL must be used.' to Subroutines and CALL pages
- Robert Wishlaw reformatted Compatibility\Other BASICS for clarity and moved it to the Introduction area
- Don Baldwin corrected ^ Exponentiation Operator
- Valdir Ribeiro corrected Get$ example on Working with Files page
Build 284, April 27 2002
- Gerome GUILLEMIN suggested restructuring BCX Help File Revision History page
- Robert Wishlaw added example to $SOURCE directive.
- Robert Wishlaw added snippet to show how to use a variable with a negative value for the STEP in a FOR NEXT loop.
- Robert Wishlaw added IMOD(integer modulo) to Math Functions
- Robert Wishlaw added QBCOLOR statement to BCX GUI functions
Build 283, April 23 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added GETDRIVE to Run-Time Functions.
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX_TREEVIEW function to GUI functions.
- Robert Wishlaw added OPTIONAL hWnd(3rd Argument) to GETFILENAME$
- Jeff Nope added GETFILENAME$ function.
- Gerome GUILLEMIN corrected index link for BCX_GET_TEXT$
- Added Greg Heller's comments to using "C" in bcx regarding adding prototypes to a "C" #include header when using functions written in c.
- Robert Wishlaw added default Style information for GUI functions.
- Chuck Roberts Corrected typo in BCX_LISTBOX
- Added Doyle Whisenant's embedding nul chars example to $IPRINT_ON
- Added Kevin Diggins' comments on placement of DECLARE statements
- Don Baldwin added Exponentiation Operator(^) to Index
- Robert Wishlaw added EXP function to math functions
Build 282, April 8, 2002
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX_CONTROL to the GUI commands.
- Robert Wishlaw added $SOURCE meta-statement - BASIC source as comments.
- Robert Wishlaw added the following syntax for STDCALL declarations
  DECLARE SUB/FUNCTION Foo$ LIB "Foo.Dll" ALIAS "Foo"(A$).
- Robert Wishlaw added PIXELS modifier to GUI cmd.
- Robert Wishlaw added BCX_INPUT to the GUI commands.
- Robert Wishlaw modified INSTR page to allow case insensitivity.
- Robert Wishlaw removed Sleeptime and bAlertable from DOEVENT page.
- cino hilliard corrected bad link on REPEAT$ function page.
- cino hilliard added FOR APPEND, FOR BINARY, FOR INPUT, FOR OUTPUT to index.
- Khalid corrected syntax in Playwav function. Parentheses were omitted.
- Jeethu Rao corrected $OPTIMIZER directives on Assembly page.
- David Garner removed reference to 8.3 filename limitation in $INCLUDE.
- David Garner suggested listing PowerBasic Macros in GUI Functions index.
- David Garner added ENUM to Run-Time Functions.
- Robert Wishlaw added CSRLIN CURSORX CURSORY and POS to run-time functions.
- Don Baldwin suggested adding note to Subroutines and User Defined Functions on the need to use data type declarators with parameters passing values to Subroutines and Functions.
Build 27, March 10, 2002
- References to SET_LABEL_COLOR changed to BCX_SET_LABEL_COLOR
- References to SET_EDIT_COLOR changed to BCX_SET_EDIT_COLOR
- References to SET_FORM_COLOR changed to BCX_SET_FORM_COLOR
- References to SET_FONT changed to BCX_SET_FONT
- References to BCX_SETTEXT changed to BCX_SET_TEXT
- References to BCX_GETTEXT$ changed to BCX_GET_TEXT$
- Kevin Diggins added UNION / END UNION
- David Garner suggested adding GUI statement
- Kevin Diggins added GUI statement
- cino hilliard added UDT and TYPE, END TYPE to index
- Robert Wishlaw fixed messed up formatting in REMAIN$ function page
- Robert Wishlaw expanded explanation in Purpose of Download function.
- Gerome GUILLEMIN added note to TYPE about UPPERCASE for TYPE variable
Build 26 February 27, 2002
- Gerome GUILLEMIN corrected dead LCC-WIN32 link in index
- Robert Wishlaw in FOR NEXT and REPEAT Flow Control Statements emphasized "To count backwards, the argument must begin with a minus sign."
- Added Kevin Diggins Subclassing Windows Controls with Demo
- Robert Wishlaw removed erroneous Sample links from ROUND function
- Valdir de Assis Ribeiro and Kevin Diggins added ROUND Function Example
- Robert Wishlaw added warnings to Assembly page about importance of not using LCC optimization -O switch with assembly.
- Robert Wishlaw revised SETFORMCOLOR to SET_FORM_COLOR
- Robert Wishlaw added SET_LABEL_COLOR functions
- Robert Wishlaw added SET_EDIT_COLOR functions
- Robert Wishlaw added SET_FONT functions
- Robert Wishlaw added $OPTIMIZER ON | OFF directive by Jeethu Rao
- Robert Wishlaw added CBHWND to BCX vocabulary, supplementing PowerBasic CALLBACK FUNCTION macros
- Robert Wishlaw added PEEK$ and POKE functions
Build 25 2002/02/24
- Robert Wishlaw added REPEAT, EXIT REPEAT, BCX_REPEAT, END REPEAT to Flow Control Statements
- Robert Wishlaw added note to RUN that 'start' does not work on Windows 2000 or XP and gave alternative solutions using ShellExecute.
Build 24 2002/02/16
- Robert Wishlaw rebuilt HTML samples of con_demos
- Robert Wishlaw added DECLARE to Run-Time Functions and Statements page
- Robert Wishlaw cleaned up C_DECLARE page and added Kevin Diggins' comments
- Robert Wishlaw added reference to BCX distribution DLL_Demo examples in DECLARE and C_DECLARE.
- Added Jeethu Rao's $ASM directive to Assembly page
- Added Cino Hilliard's $ASM directive sample to Assembly page
- Robert Wishlaw added reference to S140.bas on SCREEN function page
- Robert Wishlaw added reference to S141.bas on COMMAND$ function page
- Robert Wishlaw rewrote COMMAND$ to reflect changes made by Pat Kelly's upgrade
- Robert Wishlaw changed GET$ to match new syntax order
- Robert Wishlaw added DOEVENT to Run-Time Functions and Statements
- Added Theo Hollenberg's BCXLIB environment variable to $INCLUDE with comments on BCXLIB added to Setting Up BCX.
- Robert Wishlaw added comment to REMAIN$
Build23 2002/02/07
- Robert Wishlaw noted in Dimensioning Arrays section that AS CHAR qualifier MUST be used when dimensioning strings in functions and subroutines.
- Kevin Diggins added example to SET statement in Run-Time Functions and Statements section
- Robert Wishlaw added Implementation Limitations from LCCWin32 manual
- Robert Wishlaw rewrote section on Dimensioning Integers in Dimensioning Variables section
- Robert Wishlaw added more info to Bit Shift Operators
Build22 2002/01/27
- Kevin Diggins added TEXTMODE.
- Robert Wishlaw comments added to CONST regarding need for parentheses in certain circumstances
- Robert Wishlaw comments added to PRINT and Variables page regarding need for data type specifier following variable name
- Robert Wishlaw comments added to MIN and MAX pages regarding need for intermediate variable if using singles or integers
- Gerome GUILLEMIN suggested that the Help File be modified to save the User's position settings
- Robert Wishlaw restructuring function and statement pages
- Robert Wishlaw remark added to SET function page regarding alternate syntax
- Robert Wishlaw corrected typos in TinyTimes.bas, GUI_demo.bas and BCX_Button pages changed WM_statement to WM_COMMAND.
Build21 2002/01/20
- Robert Wishlaw converted more of the smaller examples to syntax highlighted code
- Robert Wishlaw corrected Purpose on TIMER page
- Robert Wishlaw corrected LTRIM$ typos in TRIM$
- Robert Wishlaw made all Keywords in Run-Time Functions and Statements UPPER case for easier reading
- Robert Wishlaw added note to run-time functions that Keywords can be in any case, UPPER, lower or Mixed
Build20 2002/01/19
- Don corrected typo in Dimensioning arrays missing ] in fourth example
- Robert Wishlaw converted more of the smaller examples to syntax highlighted code
Build19 2002/01/17
- Robert Wishlaw added Kevin Diggins notes about Console Demo Programs, Dimensioning Dynamic Strings, to Dimensioning Variables page
- Robert Wishlaw added note to con_demo\s128.bas to Link with wsock32.lib
Build18 2002/01/13
- BCX home page references changed to http://bcx.basicguru.com
- BCX revision History removed from BCXHelp file
- Robert Wishlaw nomenclature corrections, 'command' replaced with 'statement' where appropriate
- Robert Wishlaw list of file related functions added to Working with files
- Robert Wishlaw italicized Syntax:, Purpose:, Example:, and Remarks:
- Robert Wishlaw main Table of Contents restructured
- On Cino Hilliard's suggestion replaced screenshot bitmap on Running BCX page
- Robert Wishlaw removed Console programs page
Build17 2002/01/12
- Gerome GUILLEMIN corrected the structure pointer section of User Defined Types on the Dimensioning Variables page
- Cino Hilliard
  added ELSE ELSEIF and EXIT statements to Index
  added GLOBAL and SHARED to Index
  added PRIVATE CONST to Index
  suggested reordering of index entries beginning with $
  suggested adding Subroutine information
- dl added BCX and Assembly Language page
- Walt Decker added CHDRIVE
- Robert Wishlaw added SubStr.bas a BCX/Assembly program based on code provided by Rainbow Sally.
- Robert Wishlaw added STATIC to Index
- Robert Wishlaw added User Defined Types to index
- Robert Wishlaw added to Dimensioning Variables
Build16 2002/01/10
- retromike42 Added FREEFILE run-time functions
- Kevin Zigler added comments to Dimensioning Variables
- Felix Chan added comments to Dimensioning Variables
- Robert Wishlaw added STATIC in sub/functions example to Dimensioning Variables
- Robert Wishlaw added GLOBAL example to Dimensioning Variables
- Robert Wishlaw dimensioning Variables was restructured
- Valdir Ribeiro added TALLY function
Build15 2002/01/08
- Felix Chan suggested adding return values for MsgBox Functions adding remarks on KeyPress Function
- Robert Wishlaw inserted remark on Arrays in Dimensioning Variables
- Robert Wishlaw inserted explanation of use of ' Apostrophe in $Comment page
- Robert Wishlaw reformatted SW_SHOW SW_HIDE arguments in Run statement
- Robert Wishlaw reformatted Sample Demo links to horizontal listing
- Robert Wishlaw converted more of the smaller examples to syntax highlighted code
Build14 2002/01/05
- Kevin Diggins added
  APPEXENAME$ function
  APPEXEPATH$ function
  TEMPFILENAME$ function
- Robert Wishlaw changed RUN statement SHOW and HIDE arguments to SW_SHOW and SW_HIDE in RUN statement page
- Felix Chan suggested
  modify the PATH info in Setting Up BCX
  new GUI code for TinyTimes Table example
  corrections to CDBL CINT CLNG and CSNG
  additions to BYREF page
  replace INT example
  add the syntax for creating array of string with user specified length
- dl made corrections to CDBL CINT CLNG and CSNG new GUI code for TinyTimes Table example
Build13 2002/01/03
- Robert Wishlaw added examples to FWRITE and WRITE statements
- Cino Hilliard
  added Operator symbols to index
  added Mathematical keywords to index
  added Mathematical shortcuts to index
  added Limitations to OPEN and CLOSE statements
  added WRITE to index and Run-Time functions table of contents
- Jeff Nope corrected END SUB and Optional Arguments omissions in $CPP example
- Kevin Diggins clarified $include and #include
Build12 2002/01/02
- David Garner corrected
  Version 2.75 to Version 2.76
  copyright date to include 2002
  BCX website address on Getting started page
  Suggested modifications to explanation for setting up BCX PATH
  Omissions from OpenSrc listing on The Free BASIC to "C" Translator page
  Errors on the Flow Control Statements page
  Errors on the Embedded "C" page
  Suggested link from Pointers page to Dimensioning pointer variables
Build11 2002/01/01
- Robert Wishlaw added $CPP directive with example
- Robert Wishlaw added example for SCREEN function
- Robert Wishlaw corrections made to the RUN statement
- MK Khalid corrected BCX_SETTEXT function typos
- Robert Wishlaw join$ function documentation revised to new syntax
Build10 2001/12/31
- Robert Wishlaw added Con_demo samples S138.bas and S139.bas
- Robert Wishlaw replaced example in Optional Parameters section
- Robert Wishlaw added SCREEN function in Run-Time Functions
Build09 2001/12/30
- Added Vic McClung's $NOLIBMAIN directive
- Added Kevin Diggins' MIN(a,b) and MAX(a,b) Floating Point functions
- Added Kevin Diggins' directive $VSCROLL [lines]
Build08 2001/12/29
- Robert Wishlaw replaced Example demo program in GETATTR function
Build07 2001/12/28
- Robert Wishlaw added colorized BCX Console Sample Programs
- Robert Wishlaw linked Con_demo samples to Run-Time Functions
- Robert Wishlaw added ON..CALL, ON...GOSUB, ON...GOTO to Run-Time Functions
- Robert Wishlaw added File Attributes to GETATTR and SETATTR on the suggestion of Walt Decker
- Robert Wishlaw added SETATTR to Run-Time Functions
- Robert Wishlaw added Using Resource File References on the suggestion of Walt Decker
- Robert Wishlaw added Pointer References on the suggestion of Walt Decker
- Robert Wishlaw added Pat Kelly's Dim List to Dimensioning Variables
- Felix Chan added new default path "c:\program files\bcx\bin" or c:\progra~1\bcx\bin to Setting Up BCX
- Doyle Whisenant and Kevin Diggins corrected EXIST function
- Kevin Diggins added DOWNLOAD function
- Jeff Nope added ASCII Table
- Jeff Nope corrected bad link for $LINKER in directives
- John Jacques added TRIM$ function
- John Jacques and Jeff Nope corrected error in KEYPRESS
- Robert Wishlaw added Result to Using$ Function example
- Robert Wishlaw added COMMAND$ Function remarks on Limitations based on information from Kevin Diggins and Jim Lackey
Build06 2001/12/22
- Robert Wishlaw reference to Full Distribution in Table of Contents removed. It was a duplication of information in Getting Started
- Robert Wishlaw bcx code syntax highlighting cleaned up using Pat Kelly's BCX2HTML utility
- Kevin Diggins added BCX_STATUS
- dl added information on PowerBasic Macros CBCTL, CBCTLMSG, CBHNDL, CBLPARAM, CBMSG and CBWPARAM
Build04 2001/12/20
- Robert Wishlaw INSTRREV Function added
- Kevin Diggins added these directives $COMPILER $LINKER $ONEXIT $ONENTRY
- dl added DIM RAW statement
Build03 2001/12/19
- Kevin Diggins added these statements and functions which will be in 2.75
  USING$ Example: A$ = USING$(" ###.##",1.2346)
  PLAYWAV Example: PLAYWAV("mywav.wav")
  SETFORMCOLOR Example: SETFORMCOLOR(HWND,COLORREF)
  BCX_GETTEXT$ Example: A$ = BCX_GETTEXT$(HWND)
  BCX_SETTEXT Example: BCX_SETTEXT(HWND,A$)
- dl decreased help file size by 12kb, added details for the gui functions, fixed ASC. It said ASC("abc", 2) was 66, but it starts at 0, so it is really 67
- Jeff Nope modified Embedded "C" and added CCODE$ statement
Build01 2001/12/18
- David Garner added many functions and notes