Cypress Enable-Basic Scripting for Applications is a Visual Basic for Applications VBA and VBScript compatible Basic Scripting Language designed to be embedded in software applications. With Enable, developers can add scripting language functionality to their applications or Web pages to automate complex tasks. Users can also create scripts for launching and manipulating other applications via OLE Automation or external DLL's. Enable is a complete programming language and is available under Microsoft Windows 3.1, Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Mac, UNIX, DOS and will soon be available on Windows CE.

Cypress Enable-Basic Scripting for Applications ships in both 16 bit and 32 bit versions, with a set of tools including a full Editor/Debugger with color syntax highlighting and Script tips (VBA style syntax assistance), Dialog Editor, and free technical support and upgrades (via our web site) for six months. A Color Syntax Editor/Debugger OCX with syntax assistance is also available as a binary or in source code format in the corporate developer license. Source code licensing for the Cypress Enable basic engine is available. This allows customers who need source code to purchase it and customize Enable for their own special needs. Cypress Software Inc. also provides contracting services to customers for product enhancements and modifications.

Cypress Enable supports a substantial subset of Visual Basic for Applications. In addition, Enable supports Microsoft Word Dynamic Dialogs, offers full OLE support, fully interacts with Dynamic HTML forms, and has a powerful API, that's easy to learn and easy to integrate. Through the Enable API you can share variables, objects, and functions with your application. Enable scripts can get and set properties and call methods or objects in your application. Callbacks can be registered so that your application can respond to compile and runtime events such as undefined variables, functions and data types. In addition, Enable has the ability to save and load compiled scripts, supports UNICODE, and can handle huge scripts (all with a footprint of about 400k).

End-users can call functions that are embedded in DLL's or in the calling EXE. These functions must first be declared using the hidden but standard Declare Statement syntax. By building a string containing the declare statements and appending it prior to executing the user's script, these functions will appear to be built into the Enable language and can be used on demand by your end users. New functions and subroutines can be added or redirected at runtime though Enable's powerful API.