BasinC's tools

BasinC offers a number of tools, accessible through the Tools Menu, which can make certain aspects of programming a touch easier by removing the tedium of say, entering long lists of DATA values, or designing UDGs on paper.

Some of these tools will do a certain amount of programming for you, others are aids to programming. The Token Table Window, for example, makes it easier to insert colour control characters or keyword tokens into your program, and the Renumber Tool allows you to make your program tidier and create room for more lines between lines that have become a bit tight in their numbering.

Choose a tool that you want to read the help for:

• The Token Table helps you to locate and insert special symbols.
• The BEEP Composer lets you generate speaker tunes using musical notation.
• The UDG/Charset Editor can manipulate user-defined graphics (UDGs) and fonts.
• The Screen Paintbox allows you to create Spectrum screen images using a familiar paint-package style interface.
• The Renumber tool changes the line numbering in all or part of your program.
• The Tape Creator packages your program and data into a virtual cassette tape image.
• The Assembler allows you to write z80 assembly routines in BasinC and include them in your BASIC programs.
• The Compiler is not yet completed.

Other tools

These tools are used by one or more of the tools or debugging utilities, and as such are not available for use by the user except in conjunction with those parts of BasinC. However, they are documented here:

• The UDG Editor's "Grab" window extracts graphical characters from memory.
• The UDG Editor's "Send" window puts your edited characters into the memory.
• The BASIC Options window sets options on how code generated by the UDG editor is inserted into your program.
• The Add Code window controls the insertion of groups of program lines.
• The Add Memory Block window adds a tape block to the Tape Creator Window from a block of memory.
• The Tape Block Properties window lets you set options for tape blocks in the Tape Creator Window.