Voice of the PPL

After many months, it has finally arrived. The long awaited v1.52 of the Pocket Programming Language is here. This new version fixes a lot of memory leaks, bugs and has some new optimization and features.

Here is change log:

09.16.2008 1.52
  – Renamed function Inherited to DefWndProc.
  – New ToByte() function.
  – New ToShort() function.
  – New IndexOf() and cIndexOf() functions to easily search a list item value (cIndexOf is case sensitive).
  – New DelEx(listvar$, index$) to delete a list item at a specific index location.
  – Tons of object-oriented engine fixes and optimization.
  – New FillEach() function to fill each element of a struct, array, matrix, string or list with a specified value.
  – New AddEx() function to allow to create a specified number of blank list elements.
  – Changed #inherited operator to inheritcall function.
  – New #class syntax when inheriting from another class. #class <classname> inherit <classname>
  – Fixed Private and Public functions in multiple object class definitions.
  – Fixed bug in Reg_SetKeyValue() function in Registry.ppl library.
  – Fixed many GameAPI functions execution speed related to update modes introduced in 1.40.
  – Fixed passing list offsets as parameters.
  – Fixed struct of struct freing of memory issue.
  – Fixed issue with Main and WinMain function naming internally.
  – New InheritCall() function to inherit a function call in an object.
  – New GameAPI event processing mode. GA_PEEKONLY (default) and GA_WAITFOREVENT which waits for a system event before continuing game cycle.
  – New functions: g_SetCycleMode() and g_CycleMode().
  – Updated Tiny-Rex library to latest (1.3) to fix some regular expressions bugs.
  – Changed Search() function to Search(expr$, string$) -> string$
  – Changed SubExp() funciton to SubExp(string$, index$) -> string$
  – g_TextOut(), if X value is passed, alignment is relative to it.
  – Fixed Int() and Str() functions to remove variable information from the stack.
  – Call() function has been fixed not to leak items on the stack.
  – Some stack handling fixes.
  – #declare, #declareapi, #c_declare, #c_declareapi allow to add parameters at the end within ().
  – WaitForInput has a new parameter to process events normally.
  – Fixed some issues with game collision detection.
  – Lots of internal functions with output parameters accepts array offsets now.
  – Fixed Sort() function descending order for string types.
  – Fixed ForEach() with array variables to copy string information properly.
  – Support for unsigned short has been added via TUSHORT.
  – Rewrote internal garbage collector to be more accurate and stable.
  – Fixed memory leaks in +=, -=, *=, /=, ++, –, Delete(), Insert(), Replace(), ReplaceEx(), Strip(), Change(), Match(), Search(), NewForm(), NewFormEx(), NewControl().
  – Fixed PASM ppl opcode.
  – Added g_rvalue(), g_gvalue(), g_bvalue() functions to obtain R G B color values in 565 format.
  – New g_rgb565() to convert r,g,b values from 565 color format.
  – New GetRValue(), GetGValue(), GetBValue() functions.

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