Hi,
There are some things that are actually easier in Jabaco than in Basic; usually one finds that a very small change takes some figuring out. Re forms, I had been stuck for a long time in that a program with two forms, in Form1 I had

Form2.text1.text="hello"

and it would give an error message about using class names. I finally realized that you can have lots of copies of Form2 with different names like

Dim A as new Form2
Dim B as new Form2

and then you can say

A.text1.text="Hello"
B.text1.text= "And hello again from over here!"

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Regarding reading from a URL into a file, the only thing I had trouble with was detecting the end of the URL. Jabaco understands that Nothing is different from the empty string, but when you say

a$=Nothing
b$= ""
if a$=b$ then msgbox ("they are equal")

it says that they are, ie once Nothing is read into a string, it is considered to be the empty string. This means I was having trouble detecting when the URL from the internet was read. Finally I found that Java has something called ready() for buffered readers, analogous to available() for input streams. Here is how to read a website into an array of strings. Much easier than Basic!

dim a as string
dim b as java#net#url
dim c as java#io#InputStream
dim d as java#io#InputStreamReader
dim e as java#io#BufferedReader
dim f(1000) as string
dim n as integer


a="http://www.javaco.org" ' or whatever you want
b= New java#net#url(a$)
c=New java#io#InputStream(a$.openStream)
d=New java#io#InputStreamReader(c$)
e=New java#io#BuffferedReader(d)
n=1

Do while e.ready()
f(n)=e.readline()
n=n+1
loop
d.close()
e.close()



I might have misremembered something, this is just typed from memory, so it you copy and paste it might require an adjustment, but Jabaco was good about explaining errors during compile time and run time; and during compile time it seemed to understand the meaning of all the various java classes...

Yes, I already see this line was wrong

c=New java#io#InputStream(a$.openStream)

should of course be

c=New java#io#InputStream(b$.openStream)