AnyaBasic

AnyaBasic

[A]bsolutely [N]ot [Y]our [A]verage BASIC

"The little toy language that could."

AnyaBASIC is a portable Interpreted Programming Language made in Java. It has a syntax similar to BASIC with a bit of C, Javascript and PASCAL thrown in.

This is a "Toy Language", so don't expect much. However, while this started as a "joke", this language evolved into something which is capable of doing a lot more(games, graphics, etc). It's also a language whose keywords are in English so it should be a good language to use in teaching kids how to program.

Release 1.1.0

Author: Relminator (Richard Eric M. Lope) http://rel.phatcode.net email: vic_viperph@yahoo.com

AnyaBASIC uses the MIT license. That means it's free to use for either non-commercial or commercial purposes. See LICENSE.txt for full license.

Features

• Very easy to use
• Case insensitive
• As loosely-typed as any language can get
• Easy to figure out with clean syntax
• Uses very few global keywords
• Fast(for an interpreter made in an interpreted language)
• Portable
• Graphics capable
• Full hardware acceleration
• First class functions

Installing:

• Unzip the archive to any directory of your choice.
• C:/Programming/ is recommended for the ConTEXT IDE to work.
• There's a video of how to set up an offline version of Context on my facebook page(read the docs for the link).

How to run the sample codes:

Usage: java -jar AnyaBasic.jar <source.abs>

• Just type the above line on the terminal/console or
• Double click any of the "runxxxxxx.bat" for Windows users.
• For graphics and sound apps, you need to include the lib path:

java -Djava.library.path=. -jar AnyaBasic.jar <source.abs>

• See the batch and SH files in the samples section.
• Just use the IDE <AnyaBasicIDE.jar> to simplify usage.

How to Compile:

I used Eclipse so it may be different depending on what IDE you use.

1. File -> Import Existing projects into wokspace.
2. Project -> Properties -> Java Build Path -> Libraries tab -> Add Jars.
3. Add all the jars in the /libs folder. * jinput.jar * lwjgl.jar * lwjgl_util.jar * pngdecoder-1.0.jar
4. Export as a "Runnable Jar"

Note: AnyaBasic.jar needs to be in the same directory as the native files (DLL, SO, dylib) Fun fact:

• The language supports "jejemon" and "tagalog" keywords.
• Please read the docs for the keyword counterparts or open and run "jejetaggame.abs"

Credits:

• LWJGL for AnyaBasic's graphics and sound backend
  www.lwjgl.org

• ConTEXT Project www.contexteditor.org

• Mehmet Emin Coskun for Contra. mehmetcoskun@fastmail.com.

• Bob Nystrom for Jasic. www.stuffwithstuff.com

• Andre Victor T. Vicentini for FreeBasic. www.freebasic.net

• Matthias Mann for his nice PNG decoder.

• Alexis Munsayac for some really important inputs while testing the language.

• Jonelle H. Castañeda for the trick to force the console to open on windows.

• Jhun Leo Belen and Vincent Kyle Eusebio for the jejemon conversions.

• Wilmar Calderon and Gerald Cruz for beta testing.

Greets:

• Jon Petrosky(Plasma) for hosting my site at www.phatcode.net
• Dave Stanley(Dr.D)
• Ryan Lloyd
• Richard Wright
• Adigun A. Polack
• Joe Antoon
• Ebben Feagan
• Eric Carr
• Piptol
• Shockwave
• Mario Zechner(Badlogic.com)
• James Robert Osborne
• Angelo Motolla
• Hex Disaster
• Ruben Rodriguez
• Dean Janjic (Lachie)
• Vin Sagun
• John Carlo Franco
• Argelo Royce P. Bautista
• John Derick Mejia
• Vriz Alejo
• Ruel Rule
• Ramon Lansangan
• Romell de Torres
• Marlo Barrientos
• All the guys at Programmers,Developers Facebook Group
• All the guys at FreeBASIC.net
• All the guys at Java-gaming.org
• All the guys at dbfinteractive.com

Changelog:

0.1.0 (03-08-16) Initial release.

04-04-16

• Ditched the old line based-interpreter
• Added interfaces for AST
• Recoded the parser
• Added AST

04-05-16

• re-implemented while:loop
• one statement per block only

04-06-16

• nested AST. Main AST ->while :: while AST -> blockAST
• nested loops
• IF-ELSE construct
• REPEAT loop
• FOR loop
• Support for single line IF-ELSE, FOR and REPEAT statements

04-07-16

• Single variable Functions
• Multi variable Functions
• User defined Sub/Function ( can only be called as a statement and parameters are not working yet )

04-08-16

• Java2D graphics backend
• OpenGL graphics backend 'cuz setcolor() refused to work in Java2D
• Graphics primitives
• Keyboard support

04-10-16

• Refactored code
• Graphics Print
• Graphics Image
• Timer

04-11-16

• format(string, number) function
• User defined functions as part of an expression
• Function parameters

04-12-16

• String variables
• String concatenation
• String comparisons
• Arrays(both definition, assignment and access)
• Swap function

04-13-16

• NOT, AND, OR
• windowClosed
• New syntax for DrawImage
• DrawTransformedImage

04-14-16

• Documentation
• New syntax for DrawLine

0.2.0 04-15-16

• Comments
• Fixed the array[multi-expression] bug

04-16-16

• GetSubImage()
• int() cast
• BoxIntersects()
• CircleIntersects()
• SizeOf()

04-17-16

• Better error reporting

04-18-16

• Break statemment

04-19-16

• Structs

04-20-16

• Array of Structs
• VAR so that definition and assignment is properly delineated for safety
• Better runtime error handling

0.3.0 04-21-16

• Cleaned up how Functions are handled (Definition, Execution and Expression)
• Boolean Conditions now support parentheses
• Better runtime error handling

04-21-16

• Cleaned up how Functions are handled (Definition, Execution and Expression)
• Boolean Conditions now support parentheses
• Input statement

04-22-16

• var max = 10 var array[max] support
• SetBlendMode() for glowing sprites
• DrawFancyLine()
• Free()
• DrawScrolledImage()
• SubString()
• ValAscii()

04-27-16 (got a bit lazy... LOL)

• 2D array support for both vars and user types
• sizeOf(arrayName, dimension)
• Function params are local now.

04-28-16(0.4.3)

• StringLength(stringname)
• Screen() can have an extra 3rd argument to set vsynch(1 - On, 0 - off)
• ScreenFlip() can have a single param to set synch value(60 if absent)
• SoundInit(), SoundPlay(), SoundPause(), SoundStop()

05-05-16

• val()
• isDigit()
• isLetter()
• lowerCase()
• upperCase()

05-10-16

• Functions as paramenters and arguments
• functions can now return a Type, an Array, or an Array of Types.
• split(string) function
• GFX and Sound contexts are destroyed when there's a runtime error.

05-15-16(0.5.1)

• Associative arrays Map< String, value >
• ContainsKey(mapName, keyName)

05-24-16

• Multiple ELSEIF construct

11-14-23

• OpenTextFile(path)
• SaveTextFile(path, content)

11-15-23

• FileExists(path)

11-19-23

• Added "workspace" commandline argument(used in the IDE)

11-22-23

• Fixed sound loader and sound player (Parser.java and Sonics.java)

12-05-23

• Added a proper IDE

12-29-23

• Added a Swing-based terminal emulator for portability