yab FAQ What is yab? What can i do with yab? Where can i get it? Where i can find tutorials? How to communicate with other developers? Where are many programs developed in yab?   What is yab? The yab interpreter is a basic dialect and a further development of yabasic. Yabasic is available for Windows, Linux and Playstation2. Yab is optimized for Haiku, BeOS and ZETA and therefore contains many additional commands. Past version 1.7 yab does not support BeOS and Zeta OS any more. Yab is a development project of Jan__64. Back to Index   What can i do with yab? Yab is a easy to learn development language. It is very easy to create small and even complex programs. A good example is the in ZETA OS included burning application JABA. Back to Index   Where can i get it? Version 1.7: Haikuware     A yab development editor (IDE) and many examples are allready included yabIDE BeSly Edition: Haikuware     yabIDE BeSly Edition is a further development version of the original yabIDE. yabConcept Creator: Haikuware     A complete new IDE for Haiku. Back to Index   Where i can find tutorials? You can find many tutorials on the BeSly the Haiku, BeOS and Zeta knowledge base. Many tutorials are available in several languages. Here is a small selection of them: Beginners Tutorial     First steps programming in yab (The "bind" function does not run anymore (Zeta only)) Beginners Tutorial Number 2     How to make a little application Game Tutorial     Creating a memoy game The yab - what is what     Shows all widgets Help for developers     A collection of examples yabIDE basics     How to work with the yabIDE yabConcept Creator Documentation     yabConcept Creator Documentation yab 1.5 Command     A list of all yab 1.5 commands How to add new commands to yab     Make your own commands? BuildFactory - Compiling yab Source as Binary     Using the BuildFactory out of the yabIDE Testing yab programs     How to test yab programs properly Back to Index   How to communicate with other developers? There are a lot of options to communicate with other deveolpers. There are mailing lists, forums and ICR channels: Mailing lists yab-dev     Mailing list for yab developers Forums Forum     Haikuware Forum German Haiku Usergroup     It is a german community site, but there are many developers. Register please and use the forum. IRC Channels IRC Channel on Freenode.org: #yab Tutorial to setup IRC Client (Haiku, BeOS, Zeta): Vision For Mozilla Browsers on Windows/Linux use: ChatZilla Back to Index   Where are many programs developed in yab? You can find a list of released yab programs on BeSly. Back to Index FAQ by Christian Albrecht (Lelldorin) May 2012 Made available by BeSly the Haiku, BeOS and Zeta knowledge base.