File Browse Control

[PointOfLight]

What's the name of the control that you use in PPL to add file browsing support?

[bmanske]

[PointOfLight]

[mmtbb]

How is NSBasic these days?

[PointOfLight]

It's getting better, but fortunately they'll never have one thing for me that PPL has, which is native support for a graphics API.

[mmtbb]

Have you been using it a lot? Are you still using the spritehand control for your games?

[PointOfLight]

Yes I am using NSBasic quite a bit. However, I never really used the ASpriteCE control for anything. I played around with it a little bit, but there were too many issues for me to seriously consider developing a game with it.

[mmtbb]

[PointOfLight]

[kornalius]

I am now looking at the possibility to include OLE controls (ActiveX) in the PIDE Form Builder. I hope you guys will appreciate my dedication to this product!

I hope it will be feasible within a reasonable amount of time.

[PointOfLight]

I hope you already know how much we appreciate your dedication to this project Personally, I wouldn't even care so much if I could put OLE objects on a form through the IDE or not. The main issue I have with them is that they are a tad more complicated to work with in the code than other environments I work with. Of course, what it really boils down to is that I'm just lazy Rather than having extended OLE functionality in the PIDE, I'd like to see the ability to respond to events (unless that's already there and I missed it, which is entirely possible with me).

[mmtbb]

Alain,

I have faith in PPL. I think you have something here that's potential is well beyond what you originally imagined. With your dedication, you have gone to some great places.

I know a year and a half ago mentioned that PPL was NOT meant to replace any langauge. However, after 1 1/2 years of bug testing, I think PPL is able to sway many people to come over to the team from whatever langauge they may be using. It just needs greater visual aspects.

ActiveX controls (*with great EVENT handling*) are so important. After buying and using NSBasic from it's infancy I have noticed one secret to their success: supporting controls that OTHER people make! This has rocketed their list of features into the stratosphere.

[kornalius]

Event support is there, it's basically a regular invoke just like a method. However, I need PPL internals to be able to call the standard ActiveX events, like Draw, OnMouseDown, OnMouseMove, OnMouseUp etc... I also need to implement some kind of mecanism in the PIDE to allow users to easily create PPL ActiveX header files and then import them into the PIDE.

Don't worry I will start to work on these issues real soon. I will keep you guys up-to-date.

I am still working on the PASM, which is starting to run very well. I will need some more testers for it. It's very powerfull and easy to use, it's a whole language in itself inside PPL.

[PointOfLight]

How would an event work as an invoke? The event is triggered by the control, and should launch a coresponding routine within the PPL code, should it not?

[kornalius]