The „BlackBox Component Builder“ is a software development system for the programming language „Component Pascal“ including editor, compiler, linker, documentations and source codes. The whole system needs less than 30 MByte disk space. Due to its stability, performance and simplicity, BlackBox is perfectly suited for science and engineering applications. BlackBox can also be used for education.
Prof. Fyodor Tkachov spoke at the 15th International Workshop on advance computing. His speeches: "Less is more. Why Oberon beats mainstream in complex applications".
You can use the „BlackBox Component Builder“ without any installation. Just unpack all files to an empty directory, run "BlackBox.exe", click on the menu bar, choose "Help -> Contents" and read the document "Guided Tour".
In Ubuntu unpack all files to an empty directory with the archive manager and start BlackBox.exe with Wine.
In Windows you need the 7-Zip file archiver. You can download 7-Zip from http://www.7-zip.org/ or https://www.heise.de/download/product/7-zip-13139.
BlackBox compiles Component Pascal programs. Some vendors are doing a bad job. Their antivirus products mark the file "BlackBox.exe" as malicious during the scan. This detection is a false positive alert. That is very annoying. Please tell the company their mistake. You have the full source code to check it. Since I have trouble with false alarm, I do not trust the scanner anymore.
Yes, you can. But they are not object compatible. The best practice is to delete all Sym and Code files and recompile your subsystem. Otherwise you may get errors which are hard to find.
By the way BlackBox 1.7 has a new command called "DevCompiler.CompileSubs" which compiles a whole subsystem. For example the command "(!)DevCompiler.CompileSubs Com Comm Ctl Dev Form Host Obx Ole Sql Std System Text Win Xhtml ~" compiles the complete BlackBox program.
Since 2013 I collect all changes and corrections about BlackBox. A lot of them insert into the Center Editions with their improvements. The improvements from the Center I add back to the CPC editions. It is a long iteration cycle.
Some changes I need for the CPC save-sets immediately and can't wait until the Center releases the new version. The current Cpc Edition already has the necessary changes. That is the reason why CPC edition exists.
There are a lot of changes so I do not count 1.7.1, 1.7.2 and so on. I insert the release year and month into the number (like Linux) e.g.
1.7.1612 means version December 2016
1.7.1704 means version April 2017
1.7.1707 means version July 2017
and so on.
The Cpc Edition 1.7.1610 is equivalent to the Center Edition 1.7
The Cpc Edition 1.7.1712 is equivalent to the Center Edition 1.7.1
Known differences:
Unknown differences are open points for discussion.
If you do not trust BlackBox.exe you can build your own file "BlackBox.exe" by opening the file "Dev/Docu/Build-Tool.odc". A mouse click on the first commander (!) compiles the complete BlackBox program. With the mouse click on the second commander (!) you link it and create a new file "BlackBox2.exe". After leaving BlackBox delete the file "BlackBox.exe" and rename the new file "BlackBox2.exe" to "BlackBox.exe". Now you have your own new system.
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Last Updated 6th September 2018