Do you have a Sax Basic application with user scripting? You can make your application compatible with the latest Microsoft operating systems by upgrading to WinWrap® Basic. The WinWrap® Basic Scripting Engine Version 10 with WWB-COM Language delivers fully compatible support for Sax Basic legacy scripts.
Feature | WinWrap® Basic | Sax Basic | Notes |
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Windows 7 and Windows 8 Compatibility | Full support | Limited support - Sax Basic F1 help does not work. "Send Keys" command does not work. | WinWrap® Basic is current with the latest Microsoft software |
Windows Server 2008/2012 Compatibility | Yes | Limited - Will not run on Windows Server 2008/2012 unless the optional WoW64 feature is installed | Windows Server 2008 R2 is the first Windows OS platform to go 64-bit only |
64 Bit Support | Yes | No - 32 Bit supported via WoW64 (Windows 32-bit On Windows 64-bit) | Unable to purchase a 32-bit server from Microsoft for over two years |
Access Large Memory Configurations | Yes - Access up to 8 Terabytes | No - Access up to 4 Gigabytes | Sax Basic is 32 Bit only |
UI Support for 16 Languages | Yes - Chinese (simplified and traditional), Korean, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Armenian and Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and English | Limited - English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish | Consistent but localized user interface with component menus and dialogs available in target language |
Globalization Support | Yes - 100% Unicode | No - Single language. Sax Basic is built on DBCS | WinWrap® Basic supports scripts with multiple languages including right-to-left languages |
.NET Host Support | Yes - Host application can use .NET Framework v2.0-v4.0 | No - Host application must use COM | .NET applications can make use of thousands of Microsoft .NET classes |
WPF Host Support | Yes - Host application can use WPF 4.0 | No - Host application limited to COM | |
VB.NET Style Syntax Scripting | Yes - Use either WWB.NET (VB.NET style) or WWB-COM (VB6 style) scripting language | No - WWB-COM (VB6 style) scripting language only | WWB.NET scripts can access any of thousands of Microsoft .NET classes |
Project Alternative to #Uses | Yes - Group scripts into a project entity | No | Multiple class blocks supported per script file |
Compile Scripts | Yes - Speed up WWB.NET scripts by 100 times | No | Uses the VB.NET compiler |
Display Custom .NET WinForms | Yes - Display pre-designed custom .NET forms (WinForms) from WinWrap® Basic scripts | No | Implement custom user interfaces |
Display Custom WPF Forms | Yes - Display pre-designed custom WPF forms from WinWrap® Basic scripts | No | Implement custom user interfaces |
Script Encryption | Yes - Encrypt developer scripts that contain proprietary information | No | For IP protection |
Remote Debugging | Yes - Debug scripts executing in another process or on another machine | No | Complete debugging capability |
Now you can join the growing number of Sax Basic developers using the new capabilities the WinWrap® Basic Scripting Engine provides while maintaining the compatibility for Sax Basic scripts your development team and your customers require.
Polar Engineering has designed WinWrap® Basic to minimize the effort and maximize the compatibility for your existing VB6, MFC, or ATL (COM host) applications to run on the latest Windows operating systems.
By switching to WinWrap® Basic, you can maintain and extend your Sax Basic investment and keep your applications running on the latest Microsoft operating systems and .NET platforms. Polar Engineering has designed WinWrap® Basic to be fully compatible with Sax Basic and to work seamlessly with Microsoft's latest operating systems and Microsoft's latest .NET technology.
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