Specifications

Specifications

February 1, 2005

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This is a list of commands, statements, functions and other parts that make up NS Basic/Desktop. They are described in more detail in the NS Basic/Desktop Handbook and in the Language Reference under the NS Basic/Desktop Help Menu.

NS Basic/Desktop is a subset of Microsoft's Visual Basic. It includes all of VBScript, plus additional statements, functions and controls.

Statements

Error handling	On Error
Flow of control	Call, Do...Loop, Exit, For...Next, For Each...Next, If...Then...Else, Select Case, While...Wend, End, Bye
Other	AddObject, Break, DoEvents, Execute, ExecuteFile, Print, Randomize, SetMenu, ShellExecute, Sleep, UpdateScreen, WaitCursor
Structure	Function, Sub, With
Variables	Const, Dim, Erase, Option Explicit, Property Let, Property Get, Property Set, ReDim, Rem, Set

Functions

Arithmetic	Abs, Asc, Atn, Cos, Exp, Fix, Int, Log, Rnd, Round, Sgn, Sin, Sqr, Tan
Conversion	Cbool, Cbyte, Ccur, Cdate, CDbl, Chr, Cint, CLng, CSng, CStr, Hex, Oct
Date/Time	Date, DateAdd, DateDiff, DatePart, DateSerial, Date,Value, Day, Hour, Minute, Month, MonthName, Now, Second, Space, Time, TimeSerial Time,Value, Weekday, WeekdayName, Year
Formatting	FormatCurrency, FormatDateTime, FormatNumber, FormatPercent
Input/Output	InputBox, MsgBox
Other	CreateObject, Eval, GetCommandLine, GetLocale, GetObject, GetRef, LoadPicture, PlaySound
String Handling	Escape, Filter, InStr, InStrRev, Join, Lcase, Left, Len, Ltrim, Mid, Replace, Right, Rtrim, Split, StrComp, StrReverse, String, Trim, UCase, Unescape
Variable Handling	Array, IsArray, IsDate, IsEmpty, IsNull, IsNumeric, IsObject, Lbound, TypeName, Ubound, VarType

Constants

Color	vbBlack, vbRed, vbGreen, vbYellow, vbBlue, vbMagenta, vbCyan, vbWhite
Comparison	vbBinaryCompare, vbTextCompare
Date/Time	vbSunday, vbMonday, vbTuesday, vbWednesday, vbThursday, vbFriday, vbSaturday, vbFirstJan1, vbFirstFourDays, vbFirstFullWeek, vbUseSystem, vbUseSystemDayOfWeek
Date Format	vbGeneralDate, vbLongDate, vbShortDate, vbLongTime, vbShortTime
MsgBox	display: vbOKOnly,vbOKCancel, vbAbortRetryIgnore, vbYesNoCancel, vbYesNo, vbRetryCancel, vbCritical, vbQuestion, vbExclamation, vbInformation, vbDefaultButton1, vbDefaultButton2, vbDefaultButton3, vbDefaultButton4, vbApplicationModal, vbSystemModal return: vbOK, vbCancel, vbAbort, vbRetry, vbIgnore, vbYes, vbNo
String	vbCr, vbCrLf, vbFormFeed, vbLf, vbNewLine, vbNullChar, vbNullString, vbTab, vbVerticalTab
VarType	vbEmpty, vbNull, vbInteger, vbLong, vbSingle, vbDouble, vbCurrency, vbDate, vbString, vbObject, vbError, vbBoolean, vbVariant, vbDataObject, vbDecimal, vbByte, vbArray
Global	CurrentPath, NSBVersion, AppComments, AppCompanyName, AppFileDescription, AppLegalCopyright, AppLegalTrademarks, AppMajor, AppMinor, AppRevision, AppTitle,, AppEXEName, AppPath, ScriptEngineMajorVersion, ScriptEngineMinorVersion, ScriptEngineBuildVersion
Values	True, False, Null, Empty, Nothing

Operators

Arithmetic	Addition (+), Division (/), Exponentiation (^), Integer Division (\), Mod, Muliplication (*), Negation (-), Subtraction (-)
Boolean	And, Eqv, Imp, Not, Or, Is, =, <, >, Xor
String	Concatenation (&)

Standard Objects

CheckBox	Standard checkbox object: can be left or right text
ComboBox	Standard combobox object
CommandButton	Standard command button
Err	Error codes
Frame	A container to group objects
HScrollBar	Horizontal ScrollBar
Label	Standard Label
OptionButton	Standard option button
Output	The main output object
PictureBox	An object to display pictures and graphics.
TextBox	Standard Text input box
Tributton	3 state checkbox
VScrollBar	Vertical ScrollBar

Variable Types

Variant

Empty, Null, Integer, Long, Single, Double, Currency, Date, String, Object, Error, Boolean, Variant, Data Object, Byte, Array

Specifications

February 1, 2005

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