The PowerBASIC Utilities Toolkit* is a large suite of applications that are designed to aid PowerBASIC programmers. Descriptions for each utility have been listed below.

PowerBASIC for Windows is a powerful Win32-based compiler that enables developers to write programs in the familiar BASIC language. Programs made with PowerBASIC are small and efficient and do not require any ´runtime´ dependencies, OCX controls or additional DLLs. Click here to find out more about the compiler.

* This product has no affiliation with PowerBASIC, Inc. or any other company.

Description of programs

• analyze - Reports statistics for your program
• codefmt - Code formatter, formats your PowerBASIC source code
• codepk - Packs all #INCLUDE files of a project into a single file
• decgen - Declares generator, generates internal DECLARE statements for your program
• dlldec - Generates and sorts declares for EXPORTed DLL functions in PB/WIN or PB/DLL projects.
• dyncall - Converts DLL declares to macros that can be called dynamically (LoadLibrary, STDCALL only)
• equated - Equate (constants) editor. Features include a random value generator
• expand - Expands all lines in a source code file if they are split
• file2db - Converts any file to !db statements and copies to clipboard
• filedate - Easy to use file time-stamping utility
• findwnd - A Spy++ style program for retrieving window information
• hdr2inc - Assists in converting C header files to PowerBASIC includes
• ico2inc - Converts icon files to code that can be used inline without resources
• killapp - Terminates any program. Handy when you have a program you can´t stop normally
• linechk - Checks source code lines to see if they are too long (over 255 characters)
• maklib - Generates C-compatible .DEF and .LIB files for your DLL projects
• shorten - Shortens lines in a source code file to the specified character width
• subsys - Allows changes to a Win32 PE EXE sub-system type (console, gui, etc)

Cautionary Note:

It is highly recommended that you back-up any source code files that will be used with PBUTILS, in case a problem occurs and data is lost.