Manual for PureBasic

Warren Sugden · Post by **Warren Sugden** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 4:08 am

I have just come across PureBasic and am anxious to learn to use it.

Although I have usedv Viual Basic v5 for some years now, it does not offer any assistance to using PureBasic.

Can anyone refer me to a manual suitable for a new user.

Warren Sugden

rsts · Post by **rsts** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 4:34 am

Welcome to PureBasic. You'll love it.

Try these.

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... ival+guide

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... ival+guide
cheers

Mistrel · Post by **Mistrel** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 5:27 am

Best PureBasic book ever. It's also the only book on PureBasic ever published.

rsts wrote:http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=37059

PB · Post by PB » Sat Jun 13, 2009 7:37 am

> It's also the only book on PureBasic ever published

I thought that too, but somebody corrected me in another thread. There was
previously a book published that was written for PureBasic game programming.

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 10:10 am

Help -> Help from the IDE shows the reference. Before starting you should read "Getting Started", "Editing Features", "Compiling your programs", "General syntax rules", "variables types and operators" and "Purebasic objects overview".

Mistrel · Post by **Mistrel** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:46 pm

PB wrote:I thought that too, but somebody corrected me in another thread. There was previously a book published that was written for PureBasic game programming.

I know there was some game programming bundle sold in Germany way back. Maybe it was part of that.

thanos · Post by **thanos** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 11:08 pm

Mistrel wrote:
PB wrote:I thought that too, but somebody corrected me in another thread. There was previously a book published that was written for PureBasic game programming.
I know there was some game programming bundle sold in Germany way back. Maybe it was part of that.

The first book was the "Programming 2D Scrolling Games with Purebasic".
I have this book and to my opinion it is a very good book.
Check its website
Regards.

Thanos

dell_jockey · Post by **dell_jockey** » Sun Jun 14, 2009 11:29 am

and the following document is from the horses' mouth, covering PB up to 4.30:

http://www.purebasic.com/documentation/PureBasic.pdf

with over 700 pages it is the most current and extensive documentation, basically it is the entire help file in a hyper-linked PDF format.