Little update
Ah, the wonderful days of programming like a maniac and finally getting some results. I have rewritten the object link engine to be internal to the interpreter (fast) and removed all references to PLink objects in the PCL libraries (lot smaller).
Now the base PObject class handles binding (new name for the object linking engine) for all types of objects.
You can link a Form.Caption to a Application.Title directly without any code. The source and target binds can have READ, WRITE and DEFAULT attributes. If the Form.Caption is set to READ + DEFAULT, the default value for the Application.Title will be the Form.Caption. If the Application.Title is changed it won’t change the Form.Caption since its binding attributes are set to read-only.
You can create a PRect object and link it to the Form’s Left, Top, Right, Bottom properties so that they are tightly linked.
This new binding engine opens up a whole lot of possibilities and power to PPL 2.0.
In terms of release time-frame, we are hoping to spend another month on testing and finishing documentation. You will be happy in end that PPL 2.0 has been delayed, trust me. Oh, on a sad note, there is a little problem with the user manual, the freelancer I have contracted for the job is MIA. He doesn’t respond to my emails anymore, so I am a little stuck there. Having no money to re-contract this job, I am in a very bad position.
Beta 4 is coming out very soon and it will clearly show the beta testers that PPL 2.0 was NOT ready for release on May 1st 2009.
