FMSLogo represents an implementation of the Logo programming environment for Microsoft Windows operating systems.
FMSLogo (contrasted with other Logo dialects) has an easy-to-use GUI that encourages learning, especially for young children, making it ideal for elementary school computer labs.
FMSLogo includes support for:
· "Standard" Logo parsing
· Turtle Graphics
· Exception handling
· TCP/IP networking
· Text in all available system fonts
· 1024 independent turtles
· Bitmapped turtles
· MIDI devices
· Direct I/O for controlling external hardware (must be admin)
· Serial and parallel port communications
· Saving and loading images in BMP format
· Calling into native DLLs
· Creating windows dialog boxes
· Event driven programming (mouse, keyboard, timer)
· Controlling multimedia devices (WAV sound files, CD-ROM control, etc.)
· 3D Perspective drawing (wire-frame and solids)
· Creating animated GIFs
What's New in This Release:
· Property lists now support list and array property names
· Fix bug #426 "Bitmap - Save" now shows an error message if it fails
· Fix bug #425; FMSLogo can now save high resolution bitmaps
· Fix bug #422; The wxWidgets version of FMSLogo now handles Ctrl+Right in the commander history the same as the mainline version on Vista
· Fix bug #421; The FMSLogo icon now appears in the Alt+Tab task selector in high DPI modes on Windows Vista when using the Windows Classic theme. This only affects the wxWidgets version of FMSLogo
· Add syntax coloring, multiline pasting, infinite undo buffer, and paren matching to the commander's input box in the wxWidgets version of FMSLogo
· Various updates to the German translation