New version on its way?

Amiga5k · Post by **Amiga5k** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 9:29 pm

It's about that time again for a new version of PB to appear. Anyone 'inside' PB willing to confirm or deny this?

Thanks!
Russell

LarsG · Post by **LarsG** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 9:39 pm

I am not "inside" PB, but Fred said on IRC tonight, that the new version will be out ASAP (which should be relatively soon, I hope.. hehe)

-Lars

Amiga5k · Post by **Amiga5k** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 10:46 pm

Excellent! I wonder what's going to be included in this release? Physics? Fluid dynamics?

Actually, I'll be happy with whatever Fred has put in there...especially if the manual has been updated.

Russell

LarsG · Post by **LarsG** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 10:53 pm

Well.. actually, he gave us the addition to the history list..
Take a look at: http://nopaste.php-q.net/13274

-Lars

Dreglor · Post by **Dreglor** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 11:14 pm

sweet, sounds like he's finalized the relese.
maybe he will relese this week or so

Post by **freak** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 11:17 pm

Outch... where's the surprise now?

btw. have a look at the 'Description:' in this nopaste site:
says: "The poster was too lazy to write a description. "
how true...

Timo

LarsG · Post by **LarsG** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 11:24 pm

As he said the update is going to be released ASAP, and even gave us the history change doc, then I bet there is no need for a surprise, and I believe the 3.8 update is coming out *very* soon.. *drool*

-Lars

Post by **freak** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 11:28 pm

> and I believe the 3.8 update is coming out *very* soon.. *drool*

I know

Timo

Amiga5k · Post by **Amiga5k** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 6:33 am

Nice.

Fewer additions than a lot of the past "point" updates, so I'm not sure why it's 3.8 instead of 3.7x...

Still, for free, what do I want?

Russell

p.s. Someone said a while ago that a user guide was being written. Is this puppy about done, or what? It's been months! Sure would be nice for the newbies out there!

PB · Post by PB » Mon Sep 22, 2003 6:43 am

> [Fred] gave us the history change doc

<i>Added: Break and Continue to modify the loops flow</i>

Woohoo!

But I don't see any fix for the "Find" dialog switching the focus to another
app if you cancel it... this is important to fix (Fred?). Also, pressing F1 on
an item to get help does not always work anymore, and requires a restart
of PureBasic to fix it. Please don't forget about these, Fred. Thanks!

GedB · Post by **GedB** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 11:23 am

Amiga 5k,

- Added: Interface/EndInterface to support object function call ! Yes, COM and DX objects are now accessible natively in PureBasic...

Native Com access! Surely that alone makes it a major release.

Kale · Post by **Kale** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 11:36 am

Native Com access! Surely that alone makes it a major release.

Agreed!

LarsG · Post by **LarsG** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 12:15 pm

Quote:
Native Com access! Surely that alone makes it a major release.

Agreed!

I have actually NO IDEA what this means... (this COM and DX stuff)..
Is there anyone who care to explain it in layman terms?!?
(or atleast give me an url to such a site?!?)

-Lars

Post by **Andre** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 12:59 pm

p.s. Someone said a while ago that a user guide was being written. Is this puppy about done, or what? It's been months! Sure would be nice for the newbies out there!

Tinman is the author of the partly written user-guide. Sadly he hasn't time to continue the work in the last months...

As the (planned) chapter overview is already ready - but only the first 6 chapters are written, any help to continue the work would be very nice.

GedB · Post by **GedB** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 3:24 pm

LarsG,

COM (aka ActiveX) is Microsoft's Common Object Model. It enables Windows applications to make Components available to any language with Com support.

For example, when you use WebGadget, you are really using a component exposed by Internet Explorer via COM. If you look in the helpfile for the WebGadget you'll see that it explains that ActiveX is used. Activex is COM, it was just rebranded by Microsoft to compete better against Java.

Read more here: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActiveX

DX refers to Direct X. Direct X is Microsoft's multimedia library that gives low level, 'bare metal' access to the graphics hardware.

The DirectX API is exposed through COM, rather than the old-style Windows API dll calls that PureBasic already supports.

Native COM support will give the native access to the API, so you are no longer dependent upon the subset of features supported by the PureLibraries.

More about Direct X here: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX