PocketMatrix

Wow, the last three weeks have been really busy here.

After asking for help doing the PASM, even offering to pay, nobody was really interested. I finally decided to jump in and do it myself. I managed to get it to work. The PASM is not in it's final form yet but boy it's fast!

I'd like to thank bmanske for all the time he puts into PPL. He is the one who does the development on the PPL Editor and the Visual Form Builder. Brad is also helping a lot with the debugging of PPL.

Here it is! The latest version beta 0.8 pre-release is now available for download at: http://ppl.arwen.com

Bugs fixed:

- PIDE: Fixed Find In Files
- Fixed Eval() function (support for objects).
- Fixed GameAPI initialization and shutdown.
- Fixed GameAPI timing issues.
- Fixed sprite height and width display.
- Fixed SpriteInView().
- Fixed internal string hash algo. for compiler.
- GetProc() can search through other applications.
- Call() can call functions from other app.
- Fixed VarType() to work with Lists.

New features:

- New PASM assembler.
- Added ui_UpdateCaption() function to UI.PPL library.
- SQLite is now supported on the PC.
- New LType() to get the list element type.
- New Hash() function which supports 10 hash algorithm including MD5.
- CASE statement supports strings now.
- Updated Editor and VFB projects.

I have a problem with the 9-9-2005 version for PPC. After installation, I start the PPL and I was trying to edit a program using the menu FILE ---> edit
then appear the console with the message: PPL 0.8 Compiler Error Report (Editor.ppl) [File "OptionsProcs.ppl" not found at character position 643]

Before reinstall ppl on my device I uninstalled the old version and I deleted the directory where ppl was installed.

So what i can do to fix this? Thank you

Hi Matteo,

This file was forgotten by the install script. You can copy this file from the VFB\ folder and put it in the Editor\ folder.

Sorry about this!

Brad:

Thanks for comments! It feels a lot better for me now to know the compiler is more stable. There are still quite a few things to work on to get the GameAPI 100% stable but I am getting there. The object-oriented system is pretty stable now, I might add a few new features to it soon though.

I think Kornalius should have attached the file... They are named almost the same, but they are not interchangable.

Here try mine.

bmanske

Hi

I've visited here a few times (or is that lurked) and have been trying PPL. I must admit i'm becomming a big fan of your work but when I use the visual form builder it just shows a corrupted background on the form where i'm assuming a grid should be Oh i'm usimg an Axim x50v.

Noticed on the front page of pocketmatrix there is a new version of pocket HAL out.

bmanske,

It freezes both ways. When i start a new form, i can locate controls on it, but it freezes when i try to edit the menu or the controls' properties. Seems as the properties/menu windows are modal but they have no action.

Best Regards