People often say, no news is good news. It is true. Development on PPL 2.0 is going full speed these days. We have a new real time profiler and memory analyser that giving you tons of information about your running program including Charts and Graphs about memory consumption, leaks, time spent on each line executed and procedures/functions. Very nice addition. I will post a screenshot most probably tomorrow. We just have to include Sprites, Surfaces, API Windows and Objects into the memory analyser to really make it much more useful.

The events list has been moved to its own panel so you can move the events without the properties list.

The search by tag features has been implemented and is really amazing. You can look for almost anything by typing phrases ex:

“move a sprite”

The tag search engine will suggest something like:

MoveSprite
SetSpriteX
SetSpriteY

Multi project support is working well, you can load as many projects as you want into the IDE.

We have worked on polishing the Hint engine, it now displays a little Icon on the left of the hint window to let you know that more help is available, you can just click on the icon to reveal the complete help page.

Here are a few more things we would like to include next week:

A welcome screen that loads an HTML page with the latest news, updates and links to the blog, the forums and support.

A crash reporter that will automatically send via email a complete report about the crash that just happened, including a screenshot and a lot of details. This way it will help us improve the program tremendously.

I am more and more decided on the fast that PPL 2.0 will have a Trial, Pro and Enterprise version. The Enterprise version will focus more on database and profiling.

We have a ton of PCL objects that we would love to include into the official launch of PPL 2.0 but unfortunately that won’t be possible unless we delay the release by half a year. So what we will do is offer them via a component store for a reduced price. This will help ArianeSoft stay viable economically and offer the opportunity for components developers to sell them.