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PureBasic v4.60 "Final" released - happy Christmas time!!

After a long wait the "final" version is now out - grab the new full version in your personal Download Area or the demo version on http://www.purebasic.com.

All what is new or updated, can be read on the Update and History sites. The latest Manual for PB v4.60 is online as well (if you need: the manual for PB 4.50 still can be accessed here).

Why the new version of PureBasic has delayed and the users don't need to worry about the further development, Fred writes in the PureBasic Team Blog.

The PureArea.net Showcase had 400,000 vistors until now - join it and present your PureBasic project to the public!

Otherwise - happy and healthy Christmas time to you all!

learnlearntt wrote:I have a question. Many games cannot be downloaded:
http://www.purearea.net/pb/showcase/ind ... Q=1&sort=4

Andre wrote:

learnlearntt wrote:I have a question. Many games cannot be downloaded:
http://www.purearea.net/pb/showcase/ind ... Q=1&sort=4

Of course not nice, sorry!

But as PureArea.net isn't hosting (almost all) projects presented in the Showcase, it's up to the authors to update download links etc...

PureArea.net News on 27th April 2013 wrote: PureBasic in LinuxUser magazine - new book about 3D programming

The german LinuxUser magazine wrote about PureBasic in its issue of November 2012 as part of a comperative test with Gambas and BlitzMax, where PureBasic got a quite good result. Click here for the (german) article "GUI programming made easy with Basic". Let's see, in which magazines we will find PureBasic in 2013...

To help beginners with the start of programming 3D applications and games, and learning the use of the OGRE 3D engine, Andreas Groß has written a book. This he presents here (german only) - see also the "Books & Tutorial" section for more.

Andre wrote:@learnlearntt: If anyone would do such a thing for PB, it would be nice. But not from me, at least not for now... What's available is the 'Showcase' on PureArea.net

@All: next small update - here are the news:

PureArea.net News on 27th April 2013 wrote: PureBasic in LinuxUser magazine - new book about 3D programming

The german LinuxUser magazine wrote about PureBasic in its issue of November 2012 as part of a comperative test with Gambas and BlitzMax, where PureBasic got a quite good result. Click here for the (german) article "GUI programming made easy with Basic". Let's see, in which magazines we will find PureBasic in 2013...

To help beginners with the start of programming 3D applications and games, and learning the use of the OGRE 3D engine, Andreas Groß has written a book. This he presents here (german only) - see also the "Books & Tutorial" section for more.

=> http://www.PureArea.net

Kuron wrote: That is a very fair article. I do wish it could be updated to reflect that PB now has a cross-platform GUI designer now.

Andre wrote:@Motu: this is the website of 'Lebostein', a well-known user of this PB forum. I think (but can't be 100% sure), that it's a false warning - similar to the regularly happening false Anti-Virus (heuristic) warnings...

PureBasic v5.20 final (LTS) released

Fantasie Software released an absolutely great update of the PureBasic package yesterday. After a longer beta-test phase this new version brings a long list of great additions - only some examples: new Module support (allowing name-spaces in PureBasic sources), new Dialog and Runtime libraries (allowing easier GUI creation using an XML description with automatic resizing...), BindEvent support (attach procedures directly to specific GUI events), GTK3 on Linux, DirectX 11 on Windows, many improvements to 2D and 3D graphics, etc. - see the complete list in the History!


GUI creation using the new Dialog library (using XML-based definition)

Furthermore a new service was introduced with this new version: "LTS" means "Long-time service" - for 2 years (until 17th Sept. 2015) the v5.20 will stay with its current functionality and syntax, but bug-fixes will be done for this version. In the meantime PureBasic evolves further and new versions (PB 5.30...) including this bug-fixes, but also new functions, probably (small!) syntax changes, etc. will be released. So everyone can use what he like - probably stay with PB5.20 LTS for maintaining his actual project, and use future PB versions for new projects...

And best of all - you buy the full-version licence once, but you will get every update and every new version (for all supported OS) for free!! Get your full version licence now!

You should also take a look to the PureBasic Blog. There Fred and freak released interesting articles about API changes and the new Module support. You also find the article about the "Anti-virus plague" (where AV tools are complaining about false positives in PB executables) there.

Show your PureBasic game or application to the community and post it in the PureArea.net Showcase! So other PB users can rate and comment your project... Thanks!