Code Examples

This is a small collection of short examples from Harbour’s test directory.

Categories

• Basic
• Arrays
• Database
• Extensions
• Web
• How to build/run applications

Basic

• BEGIN SEQUENCE support
• Manipulating variables by reference
• Codeblock support example #1
• Codeblock support example #2
• Manipulation of date values
• Hello, world!
• INIT/EXIT PROCEDURE support
• Testing long string handling support
• Dynamic code evaluation example
• Mouse support example
• Run command: About to shell to the OS
• .ini file reading/writing

Arrays

• Multidimensional arrays demo
• AEval() example

Database

• Browse() function demo
• TBrowse() and TBColumn() examples

Extensions

• FOR EACH example
• Idle processing advanced
• Idle processing
• SWITCH support

Web

• HTML generator class

More examples

You can find many more examples in the source package of Harbour. Look into the tests and extras directories to find them, but the best example is the source code of Harbour itself.

How to build/run applications

Build:

$ hbmk2 app.prg
$ ./app

or run them as scripts:

$ hbrun app.prg