What's new

Palmphi
What's new

Version 1.63 (2004-02-01)

Most of the warnings have been deleted
Automatic check of unwanted libc functions
Event OnStep for ScrollBars (thanks César Gómez for the idea)
Fixed some bugs in the parser.
Syntax highlighting turned optional to improve performance with big files

Version 1.61 (2004-01-21)

makefile.ppc changed. Less temporary files are created and prc's are more compact. The new makefile.ppc was made by Jerzy Witkowski
Remove temporary files calls "make clean". You can now customize what it should clean (thanks J. Witkowski for the idea)
Custom make's added to the menu, so you can perform repetitive actions with just a shortcut, by customizing the makefile.ppc

Version 1.60 (2004-01-19)

Makefile is now customizable (makefile.ppc) for the moment only for non-multisegmented projects (multisegmented projects doesn't seem to work well anyway, still waiting for ideas, specially from César Gómez :-). The idea of makefile.ppc is to be danked to Jerzy Witkowski
Some other minor changes too in the help file and in other preprocessor files. Thanks Axel Rauther and Jerzy Witkowski for these ones.

Version 1.55 (2004-01-09)

Object arrays are now recognized. So you can write :

TForm myform[3];
myform[0]=form1;
myform[1]=form2;
myform[2]=form3;
a=2;
myform[a].Popup();

Version 1.52 (2003-06-22)

Bug fixed when moving panels with comboboxes. (thanks Thilo Schotter for reporting it)
Bug fixed when replacing strings in whole file (thanks Thilo Schotter for reporting it)

Version 1.51 (2003-06-09)

Bug fixed in parser which prevented void methods to be correctly parsed and showed strange messages (void value not ignored as it should be)

Version 1.50 (2003-06-08)

Some bugs fixed with Multi-segment support.
TEdit.AsFloat can optionally get a precision parameter to limit the number of decimals shown. It also accepts now ',' as a decimal point separator

Version 1.49 (2003-06-08)

Multi-segment support. TApplication.MultiSegment property added. Now programs can be bigger than 32k (Thanks Héctor Antonio for the documentation)
Infrared class added with basic functionality for sending and receiving data through the infrared port
TPalmDB class extended to use categories (thanks Héctor Antonio for the code)

Version 1.46 (2003-05-29)

Some bugs when using ComboBox and Panel together have been fixed (Thanks Thilo Schotter for reporting them)
Function TPalmDB.DeleteDB added
A bug with The method TPalmDB.Remove was also fixed (Thanks Héctor Antonio Villa Martínez for reporting the bug and the solution)
Source Code released, download from the yahoo group.

Version 1.45 (2003-04-26)

Property TComboBox.ItemIndex changed, so assigning a value updates also the displayed text.
The settings for the location of the emulator are now changed, so the specified location has priority over the value in the registry.

Version 1.44 (2003-04-19)

Method TForm.NewLabel added

Version 1.43 (2003-03-24)

New menu "Search" added. Search dialog enhanced
Bookmarks added.
TEdit.AutoDraw property added.
Bug when using spaces in project path fixed

Version 1.42 (2003-03-23)

ExtraLibraries property added to TApplication.
Float point example updated to support sin and cos functions
Extra toolbar button for "make"

Version 1.41 (2003-03-14)

Zoom function. By pressing F5 you switch between fullscreen-edit mode and normal window mode
A weird bug with menus with more than one column was fixed. (Thanks Pieter Kraaima for reporting it)
Menu Tutorial updated.

Version 1.40 (2003-03-13)

TApplication: Added functions ProcessMessages, NoBlockDelay
Screen: Added screen scrolling functions
A bug with switching objects in the object inspector fixed
Tetris example : Download here

Version 1.39 (2003-03-13)

TTable. New properties : Col, Row, ColWidths, Font, Editing
Sharper glyphs

Version 1.38 (2003-03-12)

Toolbar added for often used commands
Glyphs for classes in the object inspector changed
Big speed improvement when selecting components with the designer

Version 1.37 (2003-03-11)

TEdit.AsFloat property added. It transforms directly the text into a float.
TTable.OnDrawCell event added for cells of type TGadget (custom draw)

Version 1.36 (2003-03-09)

HTML format for help, it looks very nice now.
New help API sections added : Text management, Sound, Memory, File streaming, Error management, System dialogs. All API functions are callable from Palmphi.
F1 shows now also context-sensitive help for API functions
TTable.RowCount and TTable.ColCount properties added at runtime.

Version 1.35 (2003-03-07)

Better format for help
French version integrated. Translation by Marc Collin.
TBitmap.Visible property added

Version 1.34 (2003-03-07)

API Help : Float point functions
Splitter added to enable resizing of the example in the class browser

Version 1.33 (2003-03-06)

65k of extra API Help included (String functions, serial communication, Date/Time functions)
Examples added to many methods and properties (class browser)
A bug with the object inspector regarding selection fixed

Version 1.32 (2003-03-05)

Help enhanced, you can press now F1 over a function to get help about it
Last recent used menu added for projects. Thanks César Gómez for the idea
Some actions require confirmation (you can disable this in the settings). Thanks César Gómez for the idea
New function TPalmDB.Open added to open a database by name (thanks Michael Schmidt for the infos)
Property ExtraResources added to TApplication to include extra RCP files in the project (like string resources). Thanks Michael Schmidt for the idea
Tabs are now substituted into spaces when loading and indent and unindent commands use also spaces. Size of the block can be set at the settings box (Thanks M. Schmidt for the idea)

Version 1.31 (2003-03-04)

TPanel: Property Color working
TPanel: Enable to enable/disable all subcontrols
Assigning visibility does not need a redraw of the form anymore.
To see the new functionality download the Tab example

Version 1.30 (2003-03-03)

New class : TPanel. This is a container for other components and it is not a native Palm component. You can now add components to a panel and control whether they are visible or not by changing the panels visible properties. This allows you to easily do Tab pages (example at the files section of the yahoo group)
Components are now numerated by class type
Pressing F9 compiles and (new) executes the program if an emulator is present in the system

Version 1.27 (2003-03-01)

Multiselect is now possible in the Form editor, you can select more than one component and set properties to all of them at the same time, change their size or move them.

Version 1.25b (2003-02-28)

Fixed a bug in the parser. Comments made the parser go crazy (Thanks César Gómez for reporting it)

Version 1.25a (2003-02-27)

Fixed a bug in the parser. The parser refused to compile single lines containing both assignations and loops. Now it should work (Thanks Philip Kasten for reporting the bug)

Version 1.25 (2003-02-26)

Search box is now more functional and has more options. You can even select "Change id" to perform a control-name change on all source code windows automatically.
pprj format has been changed again (backwards compatible). Now controls information for visual components is stored in .frm files. So you can reuse your forms much more easily. By loading a ".c" file is loaded automatically the ".frm" file
A Category can be specified at the TApplication to automatically sort your program to the corresponding category in the launcher. (Thanks to César Gómez for the information)
Changing the name of a component changes automatically all references to this component in code.
Changing the name of an event in the Object inspector changes automatically the name in the code.
Some bugs were also fixed

NOTE: Projects created with version 1.25 are not loadable from earlier versions of Palmphi.

Version 1.23 (2003-02-24)

Some bugs with the parser were fixed
Function RemoveRecord is working again

Version 1.22 (2003-02-24)

Autocompletion window is now a real window
pprj format changed (backwards compatible). Now it is more readable
Some bugs with the grid fixed.

NOTE: Projects created with version 1.22 are not loadable from earlier versions of Palmphi.

Version 1.21 (2003-02-23)

Support for gray scales and colors in TBitmap (Thanks to Bill McAllister)
Support for gray scaled and colored icons (Thanks to Michael Schmidt)
Some minor bugs fixed

Version 1.20 (2003-02-21)

Many strings are now in the text file "help.txt". That means you can now run palmphi ¡en español!. You can also add new languages by copying a language section. Please mail me if you are interested on supporting your language with palmphi and translating help.txt

Thanks Michael Schmidt for following ideas:

Syntax highlighting is now completely customizable, brackets included
Multiline function calls are now recognized by the parser
You can now see if a file was modified or not by looking at the status bar
Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab can be used to navigate thru files
You can delete temporary files (*.grc, *.bin, etc) with a single command
You can associate .pprj files to palmphi to open easily a project with double click

Version 1.17 (2003-02-18)

Bug when adding events to TMenu fixed (an ugly GPF).
Setting the default event handling is now included in TApplication too
Hints added to the Object Inspector. Letting the cursor over the selected property shows you a short description of the property.
Include path "/m68k-palmos/include" is included by default. So you can include standard headers like stdio.h

Version 1.16 (2003-02-17)

Bug when adding events to TApplication fixed.
Expert mode for setting when the default handler must be used or not (tool|settings)
Method TForm.HandleEvent added to handle events before the event handler actions take place.
See an example of this expert mode downloading MemoPadV116.zip from yahoo group

Version 1.15a (2003-02-16)

A bug with TListBox and TComboBox was fixed (thanks to Bill McAllister for reporting it)

Version 1.15 (2003-02-16)

OS5 compatible code.
Tables and Lists internal handling improved.
Color support. Get sample code at Yahoo group.

Version 1.11 (2003-02-15)

New class TMemBlock added. Using dynamically allocated chunks is now hopefully easier.
Event OnKeyDown added to TForm
Method FocusedControl() added to TForm. It returns the current focused component.
A parser bug was corrected. (problem when making a comparison with a property)

Version 1.10 (2003-02-14)

Functions TScrollBox.GetValuesFrom and TEdit.ScrollFrom added to link a TScrollBox with a multiline TEdit
The autocompletion box appears now in the right position.

Version 1.09b (2003-02-14)

Some parser bugs fixed.
Possibility to change the size of a record with RecordSize added
The memoPad example works with this version

Version 1.09a (2003-02-14)

GPF when adding an event to the TForm class fixed.

Version 1.09 (2003-02-13)

Some bugs were fixed.
Screen.SetFont is working again.

Version 1.08 (2003-02-12)

A general bug introduced in the version 1.07 was fixed.

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Version 1.02 (2003-02-10)

Bug with TTable example fixed

Version 1.01 (2003-02-08)

TGadget implemented
OnPaint implemented
OnPenDownXY, OnPenMoveXY, OnPenUpXY, implemented. They pass directly the coordinates of the pen to the event
Some bugs with autocompletion solved

Version 1.0a (2003-02-05)

Font Editor implemented and some minor bugs fixed.

Version 0.99b (2003-02-02)

Some more bugs and enhancements reported by Bill McAllister were fixed / developed.

Version 0.99 (2003-02-02)

Bug fix release
TCheckBox now functioning again.

Version 0.98 (2003-02-01)

TComboBox class added. Internally is implemented as a LIST and a POPUPTRIGGER.
TListBox has now some more methods. It seems PalmOS has problems using lists with VISIBLEITEMS set to 1, so this value is no longer supported.
Lots of bugs where fixed and the source code has been cleaned for its release with version 1.00
TComboBox can be buggy, please report any bugs to me.

Version 0.95 (2003-01-31)

TGraffitiIndicator and TListBox classes added.

Version 0.92 (2003-01-31)

Colors and Font can be now changed and are keeped between sessions.

Version 0.91 (2003-01-30)

The position of the windows is stored between sessions.

Version 0.9 (2003-01-30)

Code autocompletion. Class and objects browser.

Version 0.81 (2003-01-26)

TTable is now functional ! Download the example project for tables to know how it works.
Project example zip files contain now also the "pprj" file, so you can compile them now.

Version 0.75 (2003-01-25)

TTable improved.again, now it has an editor an can be optionally autoinitialized. It doesn't create editable items yet though.
Some bugs were fixed.

Version 0.7b (2003-01-24)

TTable improved.again, now it looks even like a table when placed onto the form.
Bug fixed: id's cannot contain illegal characters anymore (thanks to Bill McAllister)

Version 0.7a (2003-01-20)

TTable not fully functional yet, but improved.
Syntax highlight. Palm reserved constants : False and True are now recognized.

Version 0.7 (2003-01-18)

Parser improved, nested method functions are now allowed.

Version 0.65b (2003-01-18)
Bug fixed : '!!!' not found

Version 0.65a (2003-01-17)
Icon and Version properties added to TApplication.

Environment installer

Don't bother anymore with installation of individual components !. My installer does everything for you.

Version 0.65

ScrollBars now supported !
Just drop a ScrollBar on the formular and set either OnClick (value is changed) or OnScroll (value is being changed). Four properties can be read and write, MaxValue, MinValue, Position und PageSize.
Help file added to the main distribution.

Version 0.62a

Error message (RCP file not found) fixed
HLP File for parser.c released

Version 0.62

First public release