Hi Everyone,
As hundreds of you already know, FireFly Visual Designer makes designing your PowerBASIC programs a breeze. Why struggle designing your graphical user interfaces? With FireFly you can spend more time writing your code than moving controls via code a pixel or two at a time until you get it right. Sheesh, that is such a waste of your valuable programming time.
FireFly 2 has been serving the PowerBASIC market with great success for a long time. FireFly users are proud users who love the product and best of all, "get things done - fast".
FireFly 3 is in the works and will prove to be another giant leap forward in visual design for PowerBASIC. More details on that to follow later...
If you have been wanting a proven visual design tool then do yourself a favor and download FireFly today. You get to try it for free for 30 days. Give it a good workout and decide for yourself if it suits your needs. Feel free to stop over to the PlanetSquires forums if you need some help. I'll be more than happy to see you there and help you the best that I can.
Download from: http://www.planetsquires.com/firefly.htm
Okay, here is the hard sell, hold on it won't be too painful - I promise.
Why FireFly?
Whew, that's a lot and it only scratches the surface of what FireFly can do for you.
Hope to see you soon as a FireFly user.
As hundreds of you already know, FireFly Visual Designer makes designing your PowerBASIC programs a breeze. Why struggle designing your graphical user interfaces? With FireFly you can spend more time writing your code than moving controls via code a pixel or two at a time until you get it right. Sheesh, that is such a waste of your valuable programming time.

FireFly 2 has been serving the PowerBASIC market with great success for a long time. FireFly users are proud users who love the product and best of all, "get things done - fast".
FireFly 3 is in the works and will prove to be another giant leap forward in visual design for PowerBASIC. More details on that to follow later...
If you have been wanting a proven visual design tool then do yourself a favor and download FireFly today. You get to try it for free for 30 days. Give it a good workout and decide for yourself if it suits your needs. Feel free to stop over to the PlanetSquires forums if you need some help. I'll be more than happy to see you there and help you the best that I can.
Download from: http://www.planetsquires.com/firefly.htm
Okay, here is the hard sell, hold on it won't be too painful - I promise.

Why FireFly?
- No runtime DLLs (Dynamic Link Libraries) of any kind. Every FireFly created application is totally self-contained and does not require any supporting DLLs to be distributed. Please note: If your application requires any 3rd party custom controls then you will have to distribute those DLL's with the FireFly generated EXE. However, FireFly does not use any runtime libraries like Visual Basic.
- OCX and ActiveX support. Easily integrate visual COM/ActiveX programming into FireFly programs.
- Built-in support for Microsoft's ADO and ADOX (Active Data Objects) database support.
- Choose from almost 200 internal functions that make combining your code with TreeViews, ListViews, Labels, Command Buttons, TabControls, ProgressBars, etc... extremely easy. You can code entire applications without any Win32 API knowledge.
- Modular Code. FireFly allows the programmer to "attach" code to individual window's messages that are destined for the controls that you create. Separating the code for each control allows for highly maintainable code and discourages the use of bug causing global variables. The code editor is "built in" - no need to shell back and forth between a designer and a code editor.
- WYSIWYG Designer. In the tradition of many of today's powerful visual designers, FireFly presents a "what you see is what you get" design experience. Easily create controls, re-size and move them, and apply different visual characteristics to them. FireFly handles all of the tedious code creation. Easily create and modify forms and controls with ease. Position controls with precision. Create menus, toolbars and statusbars effortlessly.
- Easily create form templates that can be re-used in new projects. You can even create templates for menus, toolbars and statusbars.
- Design MDI (Multiple Document Interface) applications in seconds.
- 3rd Party Custom Controls can integrate directly into FireFly. This allows you to use 3rd party controls as if they were standard, native Windows controls. Simply select the tool from the FireFly Toolbox. You can even assign property values at design time as well as respond to custom messages at run-time.
- Harness the power of the Windows API and never feel constrained by pre-determined programming methods. With the Windows API you have the ultimate degree of coding power in your possession. Windows API coding is not difficult and the benefits are truly amazing! You picked PowerBASIC as your compiler... now pick the Windows API to ensure that you retain that level of ultra-small, ultra-fast executables.
Whew, that's a lot and it only scratches the surface of what FireFly can do for you.
Hope to see you soon as a FireFly user.
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