2 days

[kornalius]

Yes 2 days to go before release. <img src=&quot;/e107_images/emotes/default/amazed.png&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px&quot; alt=&quot;amazed.png&quot; />*It's coming real fast. It will be available starting 10 AM EST on the 14th.</p>

What a crazy time it is for us. Brad is finishing up on the PocketPC's IDE (he's put so much work into these tools, it's unreal), I am cranking procedures for the SWAPI library at a inhuman pace, Eric has just sent me his latest revision of the help file, I am adding new contents to it, polishing the PIDE and PPL, last minute bug fixes, implementing a new protection system (it'll as I mentionned before, 1 license per machine), trying to get press releases out by a pro. company, send demo versions to download sites (for Thursday)*and the list goes on...</p>

Version 1.0*is so much better than the last beta, we've put so much*effot into it in the last few months you will all be amazed.</p>

We are*palnning a lot of activity around PPL. A contest in October, a newsletter starting in October with lots of content, more tech notes to come and so much more...</p>

We are already having some plans for 1.1. The future is bright my friends!</p>

[Solonn]

A couple of questions: is there a way to install ppl on 2 desktop machines? I remember something about this, but I'm not sure.
How is the tcp/ip support coming forth? I had some problems with winsock library in the past and I'd like to know if there is a fix avaiable!
Nonetheless: keep up the good work! It's just amazing the amount of progress made by PPL.!

P.S. : Can't wait! Already bought some boozes for the launch party! ;)

[kornalius]

You will need either version Pro (which comes with 2 licenses) or buy an extra license for $9.95.

Hehe, the launch party will be held in a couple weeks. I couldn't prepare the release of PPL and the party at the same time. But it doesn't mean I won't be having a little party and some beers on release date! ;)

[kornalius]

Concerning the WinSock, I am still working on it, hopefully I can fix it for release, if not give a couple more days to release a patch.

[kornalius]

WinSock API is fully fonctionnal now.</p>

Here is the new WinSockDemo.ppl program, it's simpler than before:
</p>

</p><pre><span style=&quot;color: #0066ff&quot;>#include &quot;Winsock.ppl&quot;
#include &quot;console.ppl&quot;</span></pre><pre></pre><pre><span style=&quot;color: #0066ff&quot;>* InitConsole;
* ShowConsole;</span></pre><pre><span style=&quot;color: #0066ff&quot;>* writeln(&quot;Opening internet connection...&quot;);
* // Open an internet connection.
* hINet$ = InternetOpen(&quot;InetURL/1.0&quot;, INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_PRECONFIG, NULL, NULL, INTERNET_FLAG_DONT_CACHE);
* if (hINet$)</span></pre><pre><span style=&quot;color: #0066ff&quot;>...&quot;);
*** // Open an internet connection.
*** hUrl$ = InternetOpenUrl(hINet$, &quot;</span>[url="&quot;http://www.google.com/index.html&quot;> ("&quot;http://www.google.com/&quot;>[/url)<span style=&quot;color: #0066ff&quot;>&quot;, NULL, 0, INTERNET_FLAG_RELOAD, 0);
*** if (hUrl$)</span></pre><pre>[url="&quot;http://www.google.com/&quot;>[/url]<span style=&quot;color: #0066ff&quot;>...&quot;);
*****
***** new(dwSize$, tint);
***** dwSize$ = sizeof(dwSize$);
***** new(dwStatus$, tint);
***** HttpQueryInfo(hURL$, HTTP_QUERY_STATUS_CODE | HTTP_QUERY_FLAG_NUMBER, &amp;dwStatus$, &amp;dwSize$, NULL);</span></pre><pre><span style=&quot;color: #0066ff&quot;>***** if (dwStatus$ != HTTP_STATUS_OK)
******* Showmessage(dwStatus$);
***** end;</span></pre><pre><span style=&quot;color: #0066ff&quot;>***** dwSize$ = 0;
***** HttpQueryInfo(hUrl$, HTTP_QUERY_CONTENT_TYPE, NULL, &amp;dwSize$, NULL);
***** new(pContentType$, dwSize$);
***** HttpQueryInfo(hUrl$, HTTP_QUERY_CONTENT_TYPE, &amp;pContentType$, &amp;dwSize$, NULL);</span></pre><pre></pre><pre><span style=&quot;color: #0066ff&quot;>***** // Create a buffer to receive data from html file.
***** New(buffer$, 2048);
***** // Create a variable to receive number of bytes read from file.
***** New(dwRead$, tint);</span></pre><pre><span style=&quot;color: #0066ff&quot;>***** writeln(&quot;Reading /index.html document...&quot;);
***** d$ = &quot;&quot;;
***** // Read file from request.
***** while (InternetReadFile(hUrl$, buffer$, 1024, &amp;dwRead$))
******* if (dwRead$ == 0)
********* break;
******* end;</span></pre><pre><span style=&quot;color: #0066ff&quot;>******* // Make sure buffer is the same length as dwread.result$
******* buffer$[dwRead$] = 0;</span></pre><pre><span style=&quot;color: #0066ff&quot;>******* // Concatenate buffer data to the d variable.
******* d$ = d$ + buffer$;
***** end;</span></pre><pre><span style=&quot;color: #0066ff&quot;>***** Writeln(&quot;&quot;);
***** Writeln(&quot;Document content&quot;);
***** Writeln(&quot;&quot;);
***** Writeln(d$);
***** Writeln(&quot;&quot;);</span></pre><pre><span style=&quot;color: #0066ff&quot;>***** Writeln(&quot;Closing connection...&quot;);
***** // Close connection.
***** InternetCloseHandle(hUrl$);
*** end;</span></pre><pre><span style=&quot;color: #0066ff&quot;>*** Writeln(&quot;Closing internet connection...&quot;);
*** // Close internet connection.
*** InternetCloseHandle(hINet$);
* end;</span></pre><pre><span style=&quot;color: #0066ff&quot;>* Return (true);
end;</span></pre>

A lot of the WinSock declares were not implemented correctly. I didn't use the right name.</p>