Making a console scripting language with Liberty basic is very easy. All you have to know is some batch file commands. In the code below there will be a text window with a "Run" menu. When you press the Run menu a console window will open. I will not use any kinds of API calls or DLL's just old fashion batch files :) . The only command will be the print command. You can develop other commands on your own. First of all batch files are text files that execute DOS or Console commands. The commands that we will be using are:

• @Echo off - Hide commands
• Echo - print text to the console
• pause - wait for user input then continue

Let's get started. The first thing you have to do is create a "run.bat" file with LB. Here is the code:

I named the handle #rrun because it gives out an error when i use #run. With this command a batch file will be created in you current directory. now we have to print "@echo off" to the batch file to know that is shouldn't display the commands.

The next thing we have to do is find out the number of lines in a text editor with a handle #main.textedit1. This is how that is done

The number of lines is now stored in a integer variable named linenum. Next we will make a variable that will hold the current line when the code is compiled and give it a value of 0 (zero). We will call it linee (because line is forbidden)

Now we need to start a loop that will process a line at a time. We will use a while loop.

I put in the statement linee < linenum because i wanted it to stop looping when linne is equal to linenum or in other words when all lines have been processed. Now we must increase the number of the current line for 1 and put that line in a string variable that we will call com$.

Now we must detect if the user typed a command to print something and if he did print the text to the console. It is done like this.

At first sight it is not understandable so here is the explanation. first we find out if the user typed "print" and quotation marks on both sides (chr$(34)). In the other two lines we separate the text wrom the quotation marks. And finally we need to add a command that tells the console to print that text. I mentioned earlier that the "echo" command print text to the console. And finally we end the "if" statement.  The next thing we have to do is end the loop ,run the console ,close the #rrun handle and add the pause command that prompts the user to enter a key.

We are now done. Wasn't this easy :D. And for the end, here is the complete code:

Tutorial By MONTENEGRO