Phoenix 3.05 ON SALE !

[Theo Gottwald]

This is more like a news for those who have been waiting for it.
I have already made a small Review of it here:
http://www.jose.it-berater.org/smfforum/index.php?topic=4578.0

Now its ON SALE here:

Order Phoenix 3

I am pleased to announce the release of Phoenix 3.0 to the PowerBASIC community.
I will be sending out emails notifying registered users of the new version.

Please read the readme.txt and history.txt files. The readme.txt file contains important information about using ActiveX controls in Phoenix. The history.txt file contains the changes, fixes, and additions.

You can now take the demo version for a test run or order the commercial version.

This release features a major overhaul of the Phoenix IDE and adds an unprecedented level of support for IntelliSense..

What is Phoenix?
Phoenix is a complete self-contained Rapid Application Development (RAD) environment
featuring an advanced form designer, code generator and editor for the PowerBASIC
Windows compiler. With the ability to edit any number of projects and documents
simultaneously, and access to numerous WYSIWYG property editors and controls, User
Interface design has never been so easy. Design menus and see them in their true form
as you design them; initialize controls such as listboxes and treeviews with data at
design time; design complex resizeable windows with a few button clicks using a layout
manager that offers unprecedented control over how controls resize in relation to each
other; change the name of a control or its associations, and your code is automatically
updated; rebuild a project and the generated code is updated without overwriting your code.

This is a designer that is limited only by your imagination.

For more details, visit Prometheus Software

Main Features

The Phoenix IDE

Still wishing for an IDE that goes beyond the basics of a tabbed interface and
reloading the previous session? How about one where you never lose your code.

Welcome to the Phoenix experience. Start Page, Form Designer, Code Editor

Automatic recovery from power failures and crashes means your never lose your code.
Tabbed or Multiple Document Interface(MDI). Tabbed, MDI
Forward and Back commands to browse documents or locations visited in your code.
An explorer that offers unparallel one-click access to your code and external references. Phoenix Explorer
An Explorer where the elements of your code are always visible.
A statusbar that displays the current class, interface and method the caret is located in. Where am I?

The Phoenix Code Editor

Still wishing for an editor that goes beyond the basics of bookmarks, syntax highlighting,
Go To, and Code Finder dialogs? How about trying one that does the following:

Unlimited undo/redo.
Fully configurable syntax highlighting and keyword files.
Find/Replace dialogs with scope such as selection, procedure, file, and project. Find Dialog, Find Dialog Scope
Direct search(find next or previous occurrence of word under caret).
Find in Files dialog with dual mode (string search, file find).
Column mode editing.
Automatic quotation. Typing one of " ( / [ \ < { when text is selected on a single line surrounds the text with the closing character.
Highlights global and instance variables.
Autocompletes long variable and function names.
Capitalization of variable and function names based on their previous definitions.
IntelliSense for annonymous unions and enumerations.
IntelliSense with unparallel support for PowerBASIC objects and ActiveX controls.
Displays the methods for the pseudo-variables ME and MYBASE. Pseudo-variable me
Catches invocation errors(potential GPF) not reported by the compiler for the OBJECT LET|SET|CALL syntax.
Code Snippet Manager.
Code snippets with replacements. No need for Find/Replace after inserting a snippet. Code Snippet Selector, Literal Replacement Mode
Jump to Definition command for instant access to the location in a file where the word at the caret is defined.
Displays a toolip with the definition of the word under the cursor.
Syntax and user-defined code folding.
Split views and synchronized scrolling.

The Phoenix Form Designer

Still wishing for a form designer that goes beyond the basics of adding controls to a form
and setting basic properties? How about one that does the following:

Unlimited undo/redo.
Smart management of Project namespace eliminates duplicate name definition errors.
Cut, Copy and Paste between forms belonging to the same project or different projects.
Arraying and moving controls.
Form duplication.
Snap to Lines and Snap to Grid layout modes.
Easy aligning of text baselines of controls. Text Baselines
Precise and easy aligning of controls. Control Alignment
WYSIWYG editors. Menu Editor
WYSIWYG design of tab pages. No need for separate forms. Tab Pages
Support for High DPI awareness with four scale options(No scaling, DPI, Font, Dialog Units).
True seamless support for ActiveX controls. No need to fiddle around with type library browsers to find GUIDs and event interfaces.
Initialize an ActiveX control with data at design-time using its builtin property dialog. Property Dialog
User defined control templates.
A rock-solid sink for monitoring events from COM servers such as high-performance market data and electronic trading applications.
Layers(pages/panels) based on the generic control.
Control embedding. Add controls to other controls such as toolbars and statusbars.
One click of a command makes a window fully resizeable. No need to define tedious layout rules. Letting the designer do the work, Window resized at run-time
A Layout Manager to tweak or construct your own layout rules.
Assign and check mnemonics.
Nonrectangular windows.
Multi-language version editor.
Control subclassing and superclassing.
Custom control creation and packaging.

The Phoenix Code Generator

Generates code using the standard Windows programming technique of source and resource files.
The generated code is clean, well commented and is similar to handwritten code. That is, the
code does not reflect the underlying data structures used by the code generator, or form
designer, or have unnecessary library code.
Phoenix supports two code generation modes and four project layout models. This allows the
choosing of a file organization that closely resembles your coding style.

[Patrice Terrier]

Dominic--

That's a tremendous piece of work, i hope it is not coming too late.

Good luck!

[Theo Gottwald]

I have an additional note. When installing or downloading Phoenix 3, you may get false Alerts from AVIRA Antivirus.
I got four such false Alerts.
I have therefore sent those files to AVIRA, means the problems will be solved with one of the next Pattern Updates.

[Dominic Mitchell]

That's a tremendous piece of work, i hope it is not coming too late.

Thanks for the compliments.
I hope all is well at PowerBASIC, because compared to the other BASIC compilers I have tried in the past it is  excellent.

[Theo Gottwald]

Got a PowerBasic Gazette 120 today (second time?).
At least the Marketing staff is still alive.

AND i got a Phoenix Update Notification.

Phoenix 3.06.200 is available for download.

The Mail did not contain a list with changes.

[Patrice Terrier]

PowerBasic Gazette 120 --

This gazette brings up nothing new, except that looking at the photography on the tee shirt, i do understand why he died from a heart attack.

...

[John Spikowski]

i do understand why he died from a heart attack.

I'm sure it was a contributing factor but I think the self inflected stress of knowing copies of PowerBASIC were being freely distributed on the torrents and he wasn't seeing a dime drove him crazy. Anyone that knew Bob knows I'm not lying.

[Theo Gottwald]

What you eat and what you drink may always influence how healthy somebody is.
Especially what you drink can change personality of persons to a unknown degree.
Thats why i have always urgently recommended to avoid any sorts of alcohol to anybody.

About the shirt ... I'd buy it together with a copy of PB 12. But not Standalone ...

[John Spikowski]

@Theo - I have heard of disappearing ink before but doing it with pixels with our posts is a slick trick. You are truly an admin magician.

@Other Members - It may be wise to stay clear of Theo's board(s) unless you have something specific for him and it matches his interest categories.

[José Roca]

If you want to talk about O2, start your own thread and don't hijack other people's threads. These off topic posts are irritating.

O2 isn't going to attract much attention until someone writes a decent help file for it.

[John Spikowski]

If you want to talk about O2, start your own thread and don't hijack other people's threads. These off topic posts are irritating.

Sorry, I will try to be more aware of staying on topic.

O2 isn't going to attract much attention until someone writes a decent help file for it.

I couldn't agree with you more.

[Theo Gottwald]

Let me state that this board prefers contributions before opinions.
Opinions are also welcome, but open an own thread for that.
If we open something about XYZ, we want "value".
Value for our readers. Not necessarily an opinion, especially we prefer to avoid negative opinions. Thts why i radically delete some stuff that has no real value for readers.
I am not my own lawyer here, but the lawyer of the forum users.
Whatever i do is with their advantage in mind, as this is what brings a forum forward.
You have an opinion - you know the rules - lets start a post and lets discuss it.