PPL 2 Demo is here, early!

[kornalius]

Hello dear PPL and PPL 2 fans,

Today is a special day for us. We are looking into a bright future as we are releasing the PPL 2 Demo version. This should improve the response from more users to the product, bring more people to our amazing community and hopefully convert to more sales.

As a special present for all PPL 2 followers who are itching to try out PPL 2, we offer the demo to you early.

We would appreciate your feedback's before we make the Demo official.

The demo gives you a copy of PPL 2 with the Windows Mobile SDK, with limited features that are only available in the full version.

Here is the link: http://www.arianesoft.ca/Downloads/PPL2DemoSetup.exe

[Mike Halliday]

Hello dear PPL and PPL 2 fans,

Today is a special day for us. We are looking into a bright future as we are releasing the PPL 2 Demo version. This should improve the response from more users to the product, bring more people to our amazing community and hopefully convert to more sales.

As a special present for all PPL 2 followers who are itching to try out PPL 2, we offer the demo to you early.

We would appreciate your feedback's before we make the Demo official.

The demo gives you a copy of PPL 2 with the Windows Mobile SDK, with limited features that are only available in the full version.

Here is the link: http://www.arianesoft.ca/Downloads/PPL2DemoSetup.exe


Well done Alain. I know you have been working hard on V2 for a long time - Anyone who wants to get into PC development using an easy language should really download the demo of V2 to see what is available and just how easy it is.

Fingers crossed Alain, you get more followers (and buyers) now! :)

[kornalius]

Thanks Mike. Will post an official demo to the whole Internet as soon as hear from people who have tried it and when I get the finished tutorial manual.

[kornalius]

Hey guys,

Would be nice to get a little bit of feedbacks on the demo. I have just updated it today. Isn't there anyone that does not have PPL 2 yet in the forums?

[Nicknack]

I will try it out this weekend, but a person without PPL experience would have as you said more contact to reality.

[kornalius]

Well, if I can at least get one person to install it and test it a bit, that is fine enough for me, for now. :) Thanks

[c4esar]

Hey, it's really cool you released a demo now, because I'm still insecure whether to buy or not to (although the videos were really convincing)...
I'd like to test it, but I wonder if I'd have to uninstall my PPL 1.53 before?

[kornalius]

Thanks. Yes you can keep 1.53 installed

[kornalius]

New version of the demo is out now. Please update using the link in thr first post.

[kornalius]

Oups, my bad. The demo build process did not finish properly due to an error in the code, so the demo has NOT been updated yet. Sorry about the confusion. I am re-building it now and it should be updated.

[kornalius]

Nick, please check it out and let me know

[Nicknack]

ok most of the issues have been solved, the new welcome looks and feels good ;)
only three problems remain and a new one arises:

run on mobile: if I click on mobile-run button now, it will try to connect, fails, gives the common "ppl uses tcp/ip" error message and after the pide shuts the connection down, the ppl.exe on the mobile device is just being executed (at least I think so). the debug and error log give no further information.
I can still run only compiled for releases files directly on the device, normal compiled ones don't finish the building/compiling process.

groupbox: the radiobuttons are still created as children from groupbox, so they are still black on screen.

menu items: this bug is more involved in PPL 2 than early thought. I made this test:
I used the default winapi skeleton, included swapi.ppl and put a menu_set after the second newmenuitem call. you have to make some changes to this second newmenuitem call, otherway you won't have the handle etc.. so I compiled this code with 1.53 on pocket pc and everything works correctly, the menuitem got a new caption instead of the old "Exit". then I compiled it with PPL 2 and run the compiled code on pocket pc. behold those silly white quadrats are shown. therefore I suspect it is really a new internal problem with strings or whatever of PPL 2.

english keyboard layout: somehow I have now a english keyboard setting instead of a german one. do you have changed something related or is it my fault?

[kornalius]

We are gettig there :) I will work on these issues next week. Thanks for your time.

[kornalius]

Nick,

I know you are probably gone but I will ask anyway just in case you check the forums while away.

Do you have any User Watches entered by any chance?

[Nicknack]

haven't done much with the watches window yet. I made a quick test now (of course with my original version, the demo miss profiling) and I couldn't find the entry of a PValue, especially its value. how should it goes?
maybe you should add a search to the watches window, those many variables are a bit overwhelming.
this leads me to one more question: is the manual already finished?

concerning the english keyboard design, I couldn't reproduce this problem, so possibly I have made a crude shortcut :rolleyes:

[kornalius]

Don't use watches just yet then. They are fixed in the latest beta. If you are using the demo it is disabled.

I have changed the system language in the version resource of the exe back to the system default. It was set to English by default. This could have been the issue with the software keyboard.