News
Friday 19 October 2007
19/10 : PPL 1.40 beta 1 is now available
Pocket Programming Language version 1.40 beta 1 is now available for download.http://www.arianesoft.ca/download.php?view.39
Here is a list of the changes so far:
- 2 new GameAPI screen update modes. This will speed up immensively some games.
- New APE 2d physic engine with tons of new functions.
- Rewrote the PIDE visual form builder display.
- Added new Math.ppl library with functions to convert from and to Binary.
- Fixed click in gutter area of text in PIDE to add breakpoint.
- Added OnKeyPress event for all controls in PIDE.
- Fixed case in form generator where two | characters could stay grouped together causing compile errors.
- Fixed GameAPI and Windows API events call memory leak when used with PIDE VFB & VFB.
- New g_SetInputOrientation() function to change the orientation of the mouse and keys input only.
- New g_InputOrientation() function to retrieve input orientation.
- PIDE, fixed dragging a control outside a form.
- PIDE, fixed mouse wheel scroll in visual form builder properties.
- PIDE, fixed crash when setting wrong color values in properties.
- PIDE, not neccessary to save file in order to compile or run.
- Added HTML manual folder to PC installation.
- New ReplaceEx() function to allow to specify the count of item to replace.
- New function ACount() to return number of dimension in an array.
- New function AMax() to return the number of elements in a dimension in an array.
- New function ASize() to return the size of an array dimension in bytes.
- Fixed bug in DeleteFileFromPackage() that could corrupt the table of content of the package file.
- Fixed bug when loading bitmaps from memory.
- WaitForInput() now checks to see if GameAPI is still running.
- Save As... in PIDE now points to the current file name.
- Fixed Save As... in PIDE for forms.
- Fixed strange bug on PocketPC when assigning a string to a variable. Most probably memory management bug on WinCE.
- Fixed optimizer (release) bug when used with / operator.
- Global() and Local() don't move % variables.
- Fixed GroupBox loading in PIDE form editor, no need to redraw manually anymore.
- New ScreenWidth() and ScreenHeight() functions in Swapi.ppl.
