Original Author Paul Laughton, 2011
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BASIC!
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Opens the BASIC! home page,
BASIC!
U
SER
F
ORUM
Opens the BASIC! user forum site,
BASIC!
U
SERS
'
P
ROGRAMS
Opens a repository of BASIC! programs written by members of the BASIC! user forum, hosted by the
founder of BASIC, Paul Laughton. The programs are found at
BASIC!
ON
B
INTRAY
Opens the BASIC! page of the binary hosting site Bintray,
. At this site, you can download this manual in PDF format and the Android installable (.apk file).
Both are available for recent versions of BASIC!. You can also read the release notes for each version.
BASIC!
ON
G
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H
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Opens the BASIC! page of the software development site GitHub,
site you can download the source for every version of BASIC! since v01.69. You can also download the
"source" for this manual, as a MicrosoftTM WordTM document, for each version.
BASIC!
O
PEN
-S
OURCE
L
ICENSE
Displays the GPLv3 license under which BASIC! is distributed. This copy of the license is hosted at
. This license is reproduced in Appendix E of this manual.
BASIC!
P
RIVACY
P
OLICY
Displays the BASIC! Privacy Policy. Installing BASIC! requires several Android permissions, some of which
Google considers sensitive. The BASIC! program interpreter does not use any of these permissions.
Except for limited use by the Editor, these permissions are requested only to enable your BASIC!
programs to use the full power of the Android platform. This is explained in the Privacy Policy, which is
hosted at
Exit
The only way to cleanly exit BASIC! is to use the Exit option.
Pressing the HOME key while in BASIC! leaves BASIC! in exactly the same state it was in when the HOME
key was tapped. If a program was running, it will still be running when BASIC! is re-entered. If you were
in the process of deleting, the Delete screen will be shown when BASIC! is re-entered.
Run
Selecting Run from the Editor's menu starts the program running. However, if the source in the Editor
has been changed, then the Save dialog will be displayed. You may choose to save the changed source
or continue without saving.
The BASIC! Output Console will be presented as soon as the program starts to run. You will not see
anything on this screen unless one of the following situations occur: