Oxygen Basic
Information => Latest Version => Topic started by: Charles Pegge on January 01, 2011, 11:00:18 AM
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Some significant changes for this first release of 2011.
Further incursions into C territory:
1 iteration: for (i=1 : i<=e ; i++) {..}
2 do {... i++} while (i<e)
3 #semicolon separator / #semicolon comment
Ability to exclude unused procedures when compiling with source libraries.
#economy enabled / #economy disabled
Obsolete instructions:
Symbols (was used to reprogram punctuation)
Exposed (wa use to make procedure inside a scope visible to the outside)
Exposed Functions and hidden functions are better managed by placing the functions you wish to conceal inside the visible function. Oxygen will let you do this!
Alpha025
06:02 23/12/2010 remove "loadlibs" and "linklibs" commands
06:02 23/12/2010 fix conflict between scope brackets and dim statements
11:20 28/12/2010 C style iteration with for (i=1 ; i<=10 ; i++){...}
11:21 28/12/2010 C style do {..i++ } while (i<=10)
06:22 29/12/2010 fix "while 1"
00:35 31/12/2010 Scrap "symbols" directive
09:12 31/12/2010 Support C style semicon separators with "#semicolon" directive (normally comment marker)
07:13 01/01/2011 #economy directive to exclude unused procedures from compilation
07:14 01/01/2011 Improve compiler string pool. (reduce size & make flexible)
07:48 01/01/2011 Scrap "Exposed" prefix. (exposing function inside a scope)
Charles
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I now have a "rough draft" of the 32 bit run time library which will allow compiled programs to run without Oxygen dependency. To make a program anaerobic :), including rtl32.inc at the beginning is all that will be needed. The only thing it won't do is secondary (dynamic runtime) compiling.
If all goes well with the testing, I will include it in the next release (Alpha026)
Charles
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I now have a "rough draft" of the 32 bit run time library which will allow compiled programs to run without Oxygen dependency. To make a program anaerobic :), including rtl32.inc at the beginning is all that will be needed.
This would be so cool.
How small would the smallest "Hello World!" program be?
(not that it's really important nowadays but it would add more to the coolness factor...)
The only thing it won't do is secondary (dynamic runtime) compiling.
If dynamic compiling is needed a separate dll might not be a problem at all.
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Hi efgee,
I think the smallest Exe I've produced is around 2.5K - but this is mostly empty space and zips down a lot smaller. The number of sections determines the lower limit for size. They come in blocks of 512 bytes.
16k covers the whole runtime without chopping into separate pieces. I think all but trivial code will use most of the run time functions.
When dynamic compiling is invoked it engages the entire O2 compiler - well almost. So Oxygen.dll will always be needed for this.
Charles
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Charles thanks for this new compiling option to be totally independent with just a single exe file.
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Below is a sample of independent Executables using the new run time library RTL32. There is still some way to go but these compile successfully, and are lean with a library size of less than 14k
I checked them at virustotal.com and they give false positives with Avira and Mod32 so you may have trouble if you use these antiviruses.
Charles
PS: You should be able to run these directly from the zip folder.
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Charles,
All 4 demos run without any issues under Wine/Linux.
John
Update
Wine is complaining if I resize the OpenglChildWins2.exe example. The other three examples resize without a problem. Are you seeing the same under Windows?
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Thanks for testing John.
The OpenGL child windows example is a bit unusual in that it uses 2 opengl device contexts. I don't know how Linux / Wine resolves this but it resizes okay in MS.
Below is the most complex compiled program tested yet. The library has passed all the tests so far and we are nearly ready for the Alpha026 release.
Charles
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Charles,
Tested all independent programs and all work fine.
As an AntiVirus program I use Microsoft Security Essentials and all is fine.
Good job!
efgee
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is the most complex compiled program tested yet
Most complex is working fine on Linux/Wine.
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This is the progenitor of OpenglChildWin2.
It is derived from an MSDN child windows example with very little alteration and does not use Opengl but the resizing technique is the same. - I wonder if it works correctly in Wine?
Charles
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Works great and resizes without issue.
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John,
In this prog I have removed opengl from the right hand window.
If this one resizes then the problem is with multiple Opengl child windows.
If it does not then it is an issue with Opengl rendering in a child window under Wine, (rather than the main window)
Charles
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Charles,
I'm in the middle of upgrading Wine 1.2 (current version) to 1.3 beta.
I will try the original and the one you just uploaded when completed.
John
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Charles,
The one OpenGL instance version resizes without a problem.
The two OpenGL instance version (original) still errors even with the Wine 1.3 beta installed.
John
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That is a fair result John, and probably the best we can hope for prior to going native and digging into XWindows/Opengl directly.
A single Opengl surface will suffice for most applications.
Thanks.
Charles
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Charles,
If the second OpenGL window didn't work at all, I would call it a Wine limitation. Not being able to resize the parent window could be a one line fix. I would report the issue to www.bugs.winehq.org and maybe it will make it in the 1.3 final release.
My Linux testing is just another set of OS eyes on the development effort. When you're developing in ASM, even testing on different versions of the same OS can flush out problems. I'm overjoyed how many applications run under Wine. Maybe not as fast as native but still usable when you just can't leave that Windows application behind. At this point I have transitioned to all native Linux applications and couldn't be happier.
John
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Okay. I'm signing on. Will have to see if the bug is already known.
Charles
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John,
There is a remote possibility that Wine may be able to run this - depending on whether it understands Microsoft's SAPI COM Speech interface and whether your Ubuntu Linux has a voice available.
Charles
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(http://files.allbasic.info/Oxygen/O2H_SAPI.png)
Hope ? (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=935567)
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Error 80040154 retreiving COM Class factory
I would interpret this as being unable to locate the speech engine, but it shows Wine supporting the COM iUnknown interface at least.
Charles
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I downloaded the sapi.dll and put it in the Wine /windows/system directory but still no luck. I read somewhere that there are 4 dlls to the sapi speech engine. What is the dependencies needed to make sapi work?
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I don't know John. Since XP, all the components came with the OS - the voice was crude on XP but came very good on Vista. I think SAPI 5 is required plus a voice but I don't know what the other components might be. Voices are quite bulky items. The ones you buy can be hundreds of Meg.
Charles
PS: A Text-to-Speech facility is excellent for listening to long texts, web pages etc. I installed one for the Mandriva / KDE desktop, I am sure Gnome has the equivalent on Ubuntu.
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Voices are quite bulky items. The ones you buy can be hundreds of Meg.
I think I'm going to pass on trying to get SAPI working under Linux. I'm not interested in Windows bloatware API interfaces. I couldn't find SAPI.DLL on my XP partition so I don't think comes installed as a standard Windows service. (may be wrong and just can't find it)
I have decided to try GNOME-Speech (http://live.gnome.org/Orca/GnomeSpeech) instead.
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I would go for a native speech system first. You may already have it in your Ubuntu distro. I have a clipboard reader on MS called Digalo (cost me 10 pounds several years ago). I rely on it totally though the voice is years out of date. The voice is called Gordon (he is obviously a heavy smoker :) ). Female voices I find rather shrill.
Charles
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The RunTime Library has successfully compiled a selection of the more challenging programs. So I can now release it with a degree of confidence.
Some notes:
RTL32.inc
OxygenBasic RunTime Library
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For creating standalon executables and dynamic link libraries which
will run independently of Oxygen.dll
NB Functions relating to dynamic compiling are not implemented in this library:
"compile" and "uncompile"
Version Alpha026
21:48 09/01/2011
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EXAMPLE:
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'ENTER THESE LINES AT THE START OF YOUR PROGRAM
'$ dll 'THIS PRODUCES A DLL INSTEAD OF AN EXE FILE
$ FileName t 'SPECIFIES THE COMPILED FILENAME "t.exe" or "t.dll"
include "..\..\inc\RTL32.inc" 'INCLUDE THE RTL
'...
print "Hello World"
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Alpha 026 Release Log
Alpha026
13:34 05/01/2011 Support asm push/pop for 16 bit registers ax bx etc.
06:54 06/01/2011 fix asm ability to read dotted operands in square brackets. eg: mov eax,[foo.a]
23:56 06/01/2011 RTL2: 32 bit runtime library for use in Independent mode compiled programs
13:53 07/01/2011 _epilog system macro for appending code to end of source.
14:17 07/01/2011 prevent direct execution of independent mode compiled code
21:32 09/01/2011 Fix Assembler bug affecting shld / shrd eg: shld esi,edx,4
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Charles,
I tried to record the speech generated by GNOME-Speech but using the voice recorder app and the speech program together distorted the sound which wasn't worth attaching. In all the speech program works very well. You can still check it out with this link. "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe (http://espeak.sourceforge.net/samples/raven.ogg)
jrs@Laptop:~$ test-speech
1: OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Espeak:proto0.3
2: OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Speech_Dispatcher:proto0.3
3: OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.3
Select a server: 1
Attempting to activate OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Espeak:proto0.3.
Driver name: eSpeak GNOME Speech Driver
Driver version: 0.3
Synthesizer name: eSpeak
Synthesizer Version: 1.44.04 14.Sep.10
Enter desired gender ('m' or 'f'): m
Enter desired locale, or 'all' to display all voices: all
1. default (language en)
2. en-scottish (language en-sc)
3. english (language en-uk)
4. lancashire (language en-uk-north)
5. english_rp (language en-uk-rp)
6. english_wmids (language en-uk-wmids)
7. english-us (language en-us)
8. en-westindies (language en-wi)
9. esperanto (language eo)
10. spanish (language es)
11. spanish-latin-american (language es-la)
12. finnish (language fi)
13. french (language fr)
14. french (Belgium) (language fr-be)
15. greek-ancient (language grc)
16. hindi-test (language hi)
17. croatian (language hr)
18. hungarian (language hu)
19. armenian (language hy)
20. armenian-west (language hy)
21. indonesian-test (language id)
22. icelandic-test (language is)
23. italian (language it)
24. lojban (language jbo)
25. kurdish (language ku)
26. latin (language la)
27. latvian (language lv)
28. macedonian-test (language mk)
29. nahuatl - classical (language nci)
30. dutch-test (language nl)
31. norwegian (language no)
32. papiamento-test (language pap)
33. polish (language pl)
34. brazil (language pt)
35. portugal (language pt-pt)
36. romanian (language ro)
37. russian_test (language ru)
38. slovak (language sk)
39. albanian (language sq)
40. serbian (language sr)
41. swedish (language sv)
42. swahihi-test (language sw)
43. tamil (language ta)
44. turkish (language tr)
45. vietnam-test (language vi)
46. Mandarin (language zh)
47. cantonese (language zh-yue)
48. afrikaans (language af)
49. bosnian (language bs)
50. catalan (language ca)
51. czech (language cs)
52. welsh-test (language cy)
53. danish (language da)
54. german (language de)
55. greek (language el)
Select voice: 1
Please select a "test".
1. Parameter test.
2. Callback test.
3. Speech Interrupt test.
4. Wait test.
5. UTF-8 test.
0. Exit.
Select test: 2
Speech started.
Speech progress 70.
Speech ended.
Finalize!
Driver name: eSpeak GNOME Speech Driver
Driver version: 0.3
Synthesizer name: eSpeak
Synthesizer Version: 1.44.04 14.Sep.10
E-triloquist (http://www.etriloquist.com/) - A PC-based communication aid for a speech impaired person. It serves as an electronic voice for those who can't speak on their own.
I have this installed on my Windows partition for my daughter that is regaining her voice after suffering from the worse case of H1N1 imaginable. (loss of right lung, brain damage, ...)
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John,
I found a utility called Narrator which should be present on all MS Windows. It is primarily intended for the visually impaired but will give descriptions of Windows controls and read out lines and paragraphs in editors.
There are a large number of keyboard controls to make it read various things. I can't persuade it to read paragraphs directly from a web browser but they can be pasted into notepad and read from there. But as I recall the SAM voice on XP is quite crude. On Vista and 7 SAM is replaced by Anna and sounds a lot better.
I am so glad Athena is making good progress. In the UK nearly all the flu deaths this Winter have been from H1N1 - about 50 at the last count. The Govt has now decided to make its entire stockpile of H1N1 vaccinations freely available. (supplementing the seasonal flu cocktail).
Charles
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Charles,
I installed a GNOME-Speech based screen reader but haven't had a chance to play with it yet. I'm trying to not to fall back on my Windows partition for applications if all possible.
Athena is making good progress. She is now able to stand up for 15 minutes at a time and her voice is returning with being able to speak phases. The lack of oxygen to her brain during the early stages of H1N1 has caused ataxia which makes if difficult for her with motor control and doing anything with precision. Mira Vista Care Center is doing an outstanding job with her rehab and I hope Athena will be able to come home within the next 6 months.
John
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Alpha 027 Release
These are small changes but it is worth posting a clean release now. It is curious how the size of Oxygen has remained around 370K for several months even though many improvements have taken place. Quite often more code comes out than goes in.
Charles
Alpha027
12:10 12/01/2011 Fix rex coding (64 bit mode) assigning immed values to [r8]..[r15]
16:48 12/01/2011 Fix string literals in 64 bit mode
08:51 13/01/2011 Linker support for wide string literals eg: w"Hello World"
06:18 28/01/2011 Fix precedenter handling of empty brackets in expressions: if foo()=1 and v=1 ..
07:30 28/01/2011 Support functions without brackets in expressions: foo=42 : if foo=42 ..
12:15 28/01/2011 Fix ++/-- for float operands
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Quite often more code comes out than goes in.
I have the same problem, but with money!
Peter
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Hi Charles,
Zip file is corrupt!
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I removed some unwanted files directly from the zip. I do not see the corruption here but I am sure this is the cause of the problem on your system. So I have reposted the Zip without attempting to modify it this time.
Sorry about that.
Charles
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Charles,
You may not be the one at fault. I have had a problem with corrupt zip files (main download offering) on SourceForge and had to resort to a mirror to get a working one.
John
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Sorry, but I have unexpected end of file
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It could be a SourceForge problem as John suggests.
I Used 7zip to compress the file - same as for the other releases. Could you try using Windows instead of RAR to extract the folder? - See if that makes any difference.
Edit:
I have just tried downloading. It truncates the file to 135k (should be 1.7megs!)
Charles
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It's no good :-\ John you are right. Unfortunately Illinois is the the only available SourceForge site.
I'll post here temporarily.
Charles
PS Download now available from our main web page
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Okay, I got it!
Thanks
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Still having trouble with SourceForge file truncation. Presumably the problem lies with the mirror site being used. I am surprised this can happen in 2011!
Instead I will post the latest versions directly to the main web page http//:www.oxygenbasic.org
Charles
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Alpha 028
Plugging a memory leak in the garbage collection system - hopefully this is the last.
Alpha028
07:33 03/02/2011 Plug memory leak relating to string expression parameters (when calling funcs)
Charles
PS: SourceForge downloads are working correctly now (A027 and A028)
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Glad to hear, the last download left me unusable oxygen. Will download now, thanks for the udpates.
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I get this error when running PortViewer2.o2bas with the latest A028.zip
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Hi Kent,
All the SourceForge downloads should be working now. including A027 - the SourceForge sites are fully operational again (though projects web page security is still being upgraded)
I checked the Example in A028 with and without Scite and there were no obvious problems. Could it be that the directory structure got messed up during extraction?
Another potential problem is that Scite, which relies on the Registry to hold some of its settings, may be pointing to the folders of an earlier version.
Charles
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Ok Charles, thanks I will dig into it knowing the downloaded had no problem with it.