PocketMatrix

Can Anyone Help!

I have been playing around with PPL for a couple of weeks and looking forward to the release of version 1.0 later this month.

I have come across a problem that I hope that someone could help me with, I’m using a checkbox on a form but I want to save the results from the checkbox form I need to be able to read it’s results once the form is closed, and then next time the form is shown reset the control.

I understand that I can set the value of an EditBox with SetText(Control, Value) and retrieve it with GetText(Control, Value) but can find no reference for CheckBoxes.

Any help or guidance will be greatly received.

Hi Paul,

Thanks for your interest in PPL.

If you need to save values to a file, I suggest you take a look at the inifiles.ppl library. It has some very handy functions that you can easily use in your programs to save and load information from a file.

Hope you like PPL, we are working very hard to make sure it is as easy as possible to use. We have great plans for the upcoming versions.

PPL is a product that will always evolve and get better!

Kornalius,

I have already discovered the delights of the ini file routines; this is great advantage over EVB, no need to parse the file myself, although (and I appreciate still at Beta stage) I find the documentation / help causes a lot of time looking back and forward through the demos to find an example to shed the light as I’m still gaining knowledge all the time.

That said I really like the whole package, especially as I use and aging P2 laptop to do the bulk of my programming on so the small PC footprint / requirement with the ability to titivate on the Pocket PC a great boost.

When you release version 1.0 will the documentation be overhauled? Or is this still an area of work in progress?

Yours

Paul.

The documentation will be overhauled, but it is a work in progress. Once 1.0 is released I hope we will be able to have a few intermediate updates to the help file to fill in some of the gaps. The delay in the completed text is actually my doing, as I did not realize how big of an undertaking it was going to be. I assure you, though, that there will be skilled individuals on the boards to help you along the way until the documentation is complete. I hope Kornalius doesn't somehow strike me down for speaking out of turn, but I believe one of the main focuses of PPL is ease of use, and I understand as much as anybody that part of the requirement to accomplish that is a good help system.

So I gather from your post that you are well in on the development of PPL, is this a full-time occupation or a sideline? I must say that I wasn’t expecting such a speedy response to my original post the forum seems quite at the moment. I enjoy the changes that programming brings but it does dent you if you spend a whole day searching for what would normally be a very simple operation. As it transpires in PPl it is also very simple (when you know how)

I believe for Kornalius it is a full time gig. For me it's just a sideline right now. I must confess, however, that I probably spend as much time per week on my PDA "hobby" as I do on my full time job. As far as PPL the product is concerned, it is set to release on the 14th of this month. That's where the comment about the evolving help file comes in. It would have been nice to have a completely revamped manual for the launch, but unfortunately my multiple commitments prevented that from happening. It will certainly be in a much more presentable fashion than it is now, however.

Here is a quick one for you, how do you get the output window / pane back I closed it somehow now can't find how to get it back again, real pain if you have an error in your code because you can't see the line number with the link into the code.

Paul

Honestly, the quickest way I can think of is to recompile the program. Under the Windows menu there's an option to pull up the error log, but it doesn't actually display the last error you received. Kornalius, hopefully you can either point out something simple I'm missing, or maybe bringing up the last console output is something you could add.