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Hello world

According to Wikipedia “A ‘hello world’ program is a computer program that prints out ‘Hello, World!’ on a display device. It is used in many introductory tutorials for teaching a programming language”

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  1. Make a new application
  2. Insert an Iconbar event handler
  3. Amend the event-handler's code to
    DEF PROCDealWith_Iconbar(event,object,component)
    CASE event OF
     WHEN Iconbar_Clicked : PROCUtils_Alert(“Hello world”)
    ENDCASE
    ENDPROC

Utils_Alert
alert/gif The Utils_Alert procedure is an AppBasic utility which displays a standard alert box on the desktop. Its library listing can be found via AppBasic's main window:
  1. Select the Utils library pane
  2. Select the Alert dbox icon
  3. Select the PROCUtils_Alert link
  4. Select the “pencil” icon to enter command at the caret in a text-editor window.