Hi Everyone,
I know that it has been a long time between FF3 updates. Today, I finished the last bug fix for FF3 3.10 so I will be releasing the new package in the next few days (I want a couple of days to test the application just to be safe). This is mostly a bug fixing release so don't be too disappointed if a new feature request you've made doesn't find its way into this update.
I did not do much FF3 programming over the summer. I had to convert an old PB/DOS application to Windows (finally). Now that the conversion is finished, I have more time to devote to FF3.
Thanks for the update, Paul!
Hope you were able to get a little R&R over the summer.....can't work all the time. :D
Thanks,
Gary
Great :) looking forward to it.
Doug
Now that you convinced me I need FF 3.10 - Where is it ??? :)
Seriously, I believe I sold someone else on PB using FF to convert them from VB6.
Keep up the good work.
Finally got the 3.10 update uploaded...
http://www.planetsquires.com/protect/forum/index.php?topic=2701.0
:)
Thank you Paul. Its been a year ???????? seems like a few weeks ago. Anyway FF3 Rocks. I do my best to pass on how good it is, pretty sure I've helped sell a couple copies. Can't wait to see what the next few years bring.
Thank you
Doug
Hi Guys!
Thanks for being such strong supporters of FF3. I don't promote FF3 on the PB Forums anymore so every person that you help expose to FF3 the more it builds our community.
Hopefully v3.10 is a strong build that does not introduce any additional problems (it shouldn't). Now I can move on to implementing many of the new feature suggestions that I have logged over the past few months.
:)
Thanks for the update Paul! :)
I just keeps getting better!
Thanks Paul ;D
Thank you for the great work, Paul!
Quote from: TechSupport on November 01, 2010, 09:55:37 PMI don't promote FF3 on the PB Forums anymore <snip>
May I ask why not?
Quote from: Marc van Breemen on November 03, 2010, 01:14:34 PM
Quote from: TechSupport on November 01, 2010, 09:55:37 PMI don't promote FF3 on the PB Forums anymore <snip>
May I ask why not?
For personal reasons probably not appropriate to discuss here.
:)
Since there is no PB for Win Mobile I have to do a lot of work in C# lately. What is really funny that I didn't realize until yesterday is while programming in it I still have FireFly, Win32API.inc, and Win32.hlp all open in the background at least 80% of the time. There are so many things that were left out of .NET, and even more on the Compact framework. I'm always looking up API calls and testing in FF all kinds of crazy things trying to get even simple things like a Combobox working how I want.
I have some comboboxes with data that is about 5-10 chars too large to fit on the screen and the first chars are the same in many cases, so the last ones are important. I figure, no big deal the dropdown has a scrollbar...nope it doesn't. So, I can change it to the style that is an edit box then they can scroll to see the rest in the edit portion, but they can also type in what they want which I don't want to allow. I'm able to get the edit control handle with a "pinvoke" call to GetWindow and make it Readonly which works pretty slick and still allows them to scroll to see their text without being able to edit it. Then I get complaints that it lost the ability to press a key and have it jump to that entry. I decide I have to get the listbox with a scrollbar. GetComboBoxInfo doesn't exist, CB_GETCOMBOBOXINFO appears to work but keeps failing with Invalid Handle, the Compact Framework gives no ability to override the WinProc so getting the handle any other way is out as well as getting the keys to work. Meanwhile FireFly does everything as it should. I've even went as far as trying to make the combo and edit portion taller and multiline. .Net overrides it all and any attempts to even add a scrollbar either fails or just tosses one below the edit or combo control that does nothing.
If .NET can't even get something as simple as a combobox right, everyone should be using FireFly.
I know what you mean, Roger. Developing for the compact Net Framework is no fun. Especially because of Microsoft's lousy documentation. I did in EVB (which was not bad) and VB.Net. Often I thought I had found a solution, only to find out that this would not work in the Compact Framework. I hate it!
A good alternative is NSBasic - another excellent Canadian product. George Henne from Toronto does it. It's ninety percent VB6 compatible. Programs run very fast.
The problem is that the days of WindowsMobile are counted, and MS allows no third party tools for Phone7 which is out since a couple of days. And older programs do not run anymor on Phone7.
You should take a look at Android - Amazing what you can do with it! Have a look a Google's AppInventor. It is still in Beta and no Tool to creat real big applications, but you can put some nice little apps together really quick.
NS BASIC looks very interesting, can't believe I've never heard of it before. It looks to use a lot of existing technologies which is surprising why PB never went that direction. They make it sound so simple like it only needs an IDE to make use of the VBscript engine. Could be something FF could do. I'd have to agree that Android seems to be the way of the future. It looks like Palm is still going stronger than I thought too.
QuoteYou should take a look at Android - Amazing what you can do with it!
Can't believe "nobody" knows about Palms WebOS and ease of getting into creating applications for it.
I hadn't been aware of Palm's WebOS kit at all - looks quite promising. I am gonna give it a try!
One alternative; https://ares.palm.com/Ares/about.html