Latest news (31 August 2008)

  • Local arrays aren't always released
    A subroutine declaring local arrays of any type other than String AND without a local string variable, do not automatically destroy the local arrays. This may lead to unwanted and increasing emory consumption.
  • English Helpfile is available now!
    All documentation that was included in the German helpfile and German PDF documents is now collected into one helpfile. The Help includes, keywords, statements, functions, OCX object, properties, methods, and events. Undocumented functions and OCX objects are included of course. In addition, the right-click help for built--in API functions is extended by providing their full syntax.

  • December 2007 Upgrade: Vista ready
    GFA-BASIC 32 has been upgraded to v2.30.1164. What's new: IDE doesn't crash when renaming an OCX in the property control in the form editor. When running under 98/Me no kernel32 error. 
  • GfaWin23.OCX Upgrade
    The first update of the GFA-BASIC 32 runtime GfaWin23.OCX, which solves a bug in the CommDlg OCX. The ShowOpen and ShowSave methods show the explorer style dialogbox now, rather than the old-style dialog box when cdoExplore is set. 
  • September 2007 Upgrade
    GFA-BASIC 32 has been upgraded to v2.30.1163. What's new: resolved bug of disappearing mouse cursor in margin (build 1162), an additional pixel between lines for better readability, "Find backwards with Match Case selected" bug resolved. 

Did you download the new bitmaps for the GFA-BASIC 32 IDE?

Use GFA-BASIC 32 freely now!

GFA-BASIC for Windows 32-bits is now abandonware. Back in 2001 the firm responsible for 15 years of GFA-BASIC products went bankrupt. Despite several pleas for providing the source code to the public domain, no former employee of Gfa Software Technologies GmbH responded to the GFA-BASIC community. This site is dedicated to GFA-BASIC (32) and we will support GFA-BASIC 32 as long as possible. This means fixing bugs and providing the means to use GFA-BASIC 32 on the new OS platforms (Vista).

For a more detailed discussion about abandonware see wikipedia.