Introduction

LB Builder is open-source software under the GPLv3 license and hosted by SourceForge.

LB Builder is a freeware, project-oriented programming environment for the Liberty BASIC language for Windows 98+. Liberty BASIC is a powerful, yet easy programming language. However the standard Liberty BASIC programming environment is not very rich on useful features known from other IDEs. That's why I've created LB Builder as a more advanced editor.

It's still as easy to use, but with many more features such as tabs which allows you to have multiple documents opened simultanously, a WYSIWYG graphical interface editor, creation tools that reduces normally advanced tasks such as creating toolbars to a few clicks and keystrokes, folding, block comment/uncomment, quick insert, syntax help and much more And as mentioned it's project-oriented. Projects are archives which are used to keep track of source files and data files in larger projects where splitting the code into several files (modules) gives a greater overview. LB Builder allows you to manage your files in such project archives in a hierachial structure of multiple levels of folders in a tree. Moving these files and folders around can be easily done through drag-n-drop. For a more thorough documentation of the features in LB Builder go to features.

But LB Builder is more than just an editor. The program now includes an inbuilt WYSIWYG interface editor plus creation tools for message boxes, menus, toolbars and for the GUI builder also status bars.

LB Builder is currently at version 1.1.1. LB Builder is not a compiler only an editor, so you'll need to install Liberty BASIC to compile your code. Liberty BASIC is shareware and a trial version (which doesn't expire, but can't create stand-alone exe files of your source code) can be downloaded here.

LB Builder will automatically open your code and compile it in Liberty BASIC once you've specified the path to the compiler and the program.

For more information you can go to features or FAQ or go to this external link or this external link.

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