Voice of the PPL

Omg. It’s been such a long time. Almost 4 months without updating the blog.

I have been very busy working on a new project for the iPhone. This has really took all my time. Working way more than I should have.

The survival of ArianeSoft is quite tied to the success of this new game.

I am back to working part time on ppl and datamite next week. I will concentrate on fixing the list of problems reported by the users on our bug tracking web site. Once that done I will work on enhancements and new features.

I will devote some time to update the blog more often as well.

Like I have mentionned on the forums, we are dedicated on our products and our customers.

I realize now that I made a mistake leaving some products behind. I guess only the fools never learn. I think I have learned something important about running a business.

We have versions of ppl 2 and 1 tgat were never released with some important bug fixes. This will get addressed very soon.

We also have a version 1.5 of DataMite that is almost ready for release as well.

Hope to spur some activity in the forums at the same time. I know you guys are out there. You are just keeping quiet. PPL 1.62 has had a huge amount of downloads since it became free.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you. We wish you joy and happiness for the new year.

PPL 1.60 has just been released and it is FREE.

PPL 1.60 is our latest most stable release of PPL. It includes all the good features of the PPL 1 Pro.

Check it out: http://arianesoft.ca/request.php?74

The PPL 2 Demo has been released.

The PPL 2 Demo is FREE and is not time-limited. Some features are obviously missing from it but the essential is there.

Check it out here: http://ppl-lang.com/downloads.php?dl=17

PPL 2.2 is finally out. You can download it from CleverUpdate.

PPL 2.2 is going to be release in a couple days. This version is going to be great! The stability and the new features are going to prove to you our dedication once more to our products.

PPL 2 Demo is built on the 2.2 version of PPL 2 and we were going to release it last Friday but unfortunately there are still a few things to fix, so we are going to take the next couple days to make sure everything is in good working conditions.

PPL 1.60 (the next version of our programming language) is going to be released for FREE. Yes, the Pro version, you get everything for FREE.

We are going to release PPL 1.60 in the next few days.

I know I have been quiet lately. Trust me it is for a good cause. PPL 2.2 is getting better by the day. I have rewritten important critical parts of the interpreter to achieve better speed and most importantly to allow full multi-threading integrated in the interpreter.

The list of things fixed and new features is pretty long so I will give out more info in the forums http://forum.arianesoft.ca

The release is coming very soon it will be another great step forward for PPL.

PPL 2.2 was un-officially supposed to be out last week. We had to go through some big to-do list of problems and in the meantime we have added a lot of extremely cool features to PPL 2.2. The reason for all this is that we want the PPL 2 Demo to representative of the huge potential this product has.

The welcome screen has been entierely redesigned from the ground up. All the items that appear on it are defined in the Welcome.ini file. So if you want to add some stuff on it, you are free to do it. Notice on the left, most recent files are displayed and categorized.

Something we’ve been wanting to redesign for a long time is the property panel popup menu. Now it it entirely user-customizable via a new file format (PTF – Property Template File) which is an XML file (just like all of our file formats) where you can specify what to include in the menu. The beautiful thing with this is that you can customize the items action via PPL code using the PIDEAPI objects.

We needed a better to differentiate the visual code lines from the the rest in the Project Manager. We now have a visualcode.bmp file that is tiled in the background of each visual code line.

We have also added new project templates to allow for low-level code skeletons, like WindowsAPI and GameAPI coding.

The Edit -> Visual Code menu is now populated with plug-ins.

So, the possibilities are endless (almost) to customize the IDE to your liking. You can make the interface behave intelligently with the PIDEAPI.

For PPL 2.3, we have some nice new features and enhancements in the work.