thanks for the suggestion! and i need it to be essentially free, i've already spent too much on this possibly marginal project (it could flop, or make me a little $$, a little profit would be nice, breaking even would be ok, a large loss we keep me from doing any other projects for a while). Michael Rigby-Jones wrote: ------- > Loads of them! > > http://www.thefreecountry.com/compilers/basic.shtml > > Xbasic is an open source Visual Basic style language, complete with GUI > designer etc. > http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbasic/ ----------- -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.