View Poll Results: What do you use thinBasic for?

Voters
35. You may not vote on this poll
  • play with it, just for fun and/or programming experience

    8 22.86%
  • write scripts for automation (possibly give some info)

    4 11.43%
  • write GUI based scripts (some info about in which area)

    2 5.71%
  • write Console-based scripts (some info about in which area)

    5 14.29%
  • write games (possibly specify kind of)

    5 14.29%
  • data analysis (possibly specify what kind and how)

    2 5.71%
  • hardware interface (possibly which hw and how)

    0 0%
  • math (possibly state in which field)

    1 2.86%
  • fast prototyping for more complex applications not developed in thinBasic (possibly give some details)

    4 11.43%
  • networking (possibly state what protocol and/or for what)

    0 0%
  • interested in developing thinBasic modules (possibly specify in which area of interest)

    3 8.57%
  • DB handling (possibly give info about which DBMS and for what)

    1 2.86%
Results 1 to 5 of 5

Thread: What do you use thinBasic for?

  1. #1
    thinBasic author ErosOlmi's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2004
    Location
    Milan - Italy
    Age
    57
    Posts
    8,777
    Rep Power
    10

    What do you use thinBasic for?

    Ok, here we are with a new poll about how you use thinBasic.
    Replies can help us to better understand which areas should take our attention for future developments.

    Thanks for your cooperation.

    _________________________________________________
    Rules:
    • you can vote for up to 5 different reasons
    • you can change your vote
    • if you will specify a new interesting reason we will add to the list

    www.thinbasic.com | www.thinbasic.com/community/ | help.thinbasic.com
    Windows 10 Pro for Workstations 64bit - 32 GB - Intel(R) Xeon(R) W-10855M CPU @ 2.80GHz - NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000

  2. #2

    Re: What do you use thinBasic for?

    I have been working on some console games (translating them from other basics to thinbasic for the experience.) It's slow going.

    I haven't worked on any GUI programs lately. I mainly do this when I need something.

    I haven't done much lately as I've been trying to learn how to use Catventure's adventure making programs.

    Thanks
    Sandy

  3. #3
    thinBasic MVPs kryton9's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2006
    Location
    Naples, Florida & Duluth, Georgia
    Age
    67
    Posts
    3,869
    Rep Power
    404

    Re: What do you use thinBasic for?

    Eros, I voted for fun and also gaming, But I think the beauty of thinBasic is that you can do almost anything.

    My biggest worry is not what we can do with it, but on what devices we can run it on really. Just keep up the great job you guys are doing and hopefully PowerBasic will give more options in the future to more device capabilities that will translate well for thinBasic.
    Acer Notebook: Win 10 Home 64 Bit, Core i7-4702MQ @ 2.2Ghz, 12 GB RAM, nVidia GTX 760M and Intel HD 4600
    Raspberry Pi 3: Raspbian OS use for Home Samba Server and Test HTTP Server

  4. #4

    Re: What do you use thinBasic for?

    So far I used thinbasic for developing a small game, a little programming language converter and mostly I'm into developing thinbasic modules.

  5. #5
    Super Moderator Petr Schreiber's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2005
    Location
    Brno - Czech Republic
    Posts
    7,128
    Rep Power
    732

    Re: What do you use thinBasic for?

    I voted for following:

    Play with it, just for fun and programming experience
    I enjoy the syntax and fast script take off without need to wait for compile, advanced statements ( memory overlays / PEEK/POKE, Oxygen ) are nice for practising dirty optimization techniques.

    write scripts for automation
    • Memory watch and defragmentation on pre-XPs OS
    • Selective process termination
    • Process monitoring
    • File conversion and data-from-clipboard conversion ( my favourite )
    • ...


    write games
    You know that 3D stuff

    fast prototyping
    Again strong side of TB, I used it even to prototype software for my bachelors thesis ( which had to be in Python )
    I presume design of graphic effects and shader programming somehow fits in this category as well.

    interest in modules
    TBGL, I like the SDK which allows hybrid syntax.


    Petr



    Learn 3D graphics with ThinBASIC, learn TBGL!
    Windows 10 64bit - Intel Core i5-3350P @ 3.1GHz - 16 GB RAM - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB

Members who have read this thread: 1

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •