VFB Problems; Broken Link in Help File

[plinydogg]

I've got a few things to report:

(1) In the help file, in the PPL->References folder, the link to the document entitled "Beginner's Guide to Windows API" is broken;

(2) I'm using 1.01 lite and tried to make a simple form using the VFB on my Pocket PC just to get a sense for how things work. I saved the form and ran it but got a bunch of errors. Most of the errors looked something like this:

Proc or Func "&BTN04PROC" not defined at &BTN04PROC' (16, 38)

"btn04" is what I named the button in its &Name property. Is this a bug or do I need to add some sort of code to initialize the button?

(3) Having been unsuccessful on the PPC VFB, I tried to make a simple form on my laptop. I got an error that said

'WS_VISIBLE|WS_TABSTOP Checked,|State,' is not a valid integer value

I don't know why this happened. The only properties I changed after I created the button were the &Caption and &Name properties.

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For the record, PPL looks very promising. I've spent a LOT of time trying to find a good PPC development solution and I really, really hope that PPL is it! Please let me know if I can help in any way.

[plinydogg]

Follow-up: a deleted some controls and then re-created them exactly the same way and the problem set forth in (3) above is no longer an issue.

I've noticed a new small problem though: if you try to set a button's &caption property to % it doesn't work. The caption will appear to be blank.

[plinydogg]

Follow-up: the problem set forth in (3) above comes back randomly

[kornalius]

Thanks for reporting these issues we will look into them and fix them in 1.02.

Can you please tell us the exact steps you took to make the PIDE VFB crash?

Btw, the PPC VFB for generation is not finished, Brad is working on it to make sure it's in better shape for 1.02.

[plinydogg]

Sadly, when I just started the PIDE again, I got the same message I got when I first ran version 1.01. It says:

"Unable to run Program Files\ArianeSoft PPL\PPL.exe"

It's like it's trying to run it from the PPC location.

I am going to call it quits for the evening. Tomorrow after work I'll uninstall and reinstall PPL and try to recreate the problem. I'll keep a detailed list of what I do.

[plinydogg]

Alright. I couldn't resist....I went ahead and uninstalled and reinstalled PPL. It still says that it can't run PPL.exe. I know that this is a problem that is unique to 1.01 but I was able to fix it the last time by simply pointing PPL to the correct directory. This isn't working this time though....

I think I'm going to have to just wait until version 1.02 is released to try this whole thing again =(

[kornalius]

Delete C:\WINDOWS\PIDE.INI. This file keeps the settings from previous installs.

This is fixed in 1.02, the file is deleted on re-install.

The other reason why it's trying to run from the PocketPC I believe is that your target is selected to PocketPC. This is something that has also been fixed in 1.02.

[kornalius]

The % character is reserved for macro processing in the form generator. You can't use it. The best solution would be to set the caption a Form OnCreate time.