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Announcements => Development Progress => Topic started by: Malkom on April 25, 2025, 09:38:23 AM

Title: HN 4.3 and HN 5 using Free Pascal
Post by: Malkom on April 25, 2025, 09:38:23 AM

This a belated post about the status of HyperNext Studio.

Unfortunately HN 4.3 is the final release using the previous modern 'commercial' compilers.
Sadly those compilers still produce very buggy HN runtimes and so are no use for future HN development.
HN runtimes require good reliable interactions between threads and the GUI which they cannot now do.

HN 5 is using Lazarus Free Pascal which has really matured over the past few years and is very reliable.
This is a continuation of the old HN 5 development project.
Development should now go much faster as some already FP debugged code can be copied from other projects.

HN 5 aims to build on HN 4.3 functionality including loading projects from previous HN versions.
 

For details on HN 4.3 just follow this link

http://www.tigabyte.com/smf/index.php?topic=3442.0


Further details on HN 5 development will follow.

Title: Re: HN 4.3 and HN 5 using Free Pascal
Post by: Peter1001 on October 15, 2025, 12:59:01 PM

Hello,

This project remains active. There have been no updates.

Regards,
Peter

Title: Re: HN 4.3 and HN 5 using Free Pascal
Post by: Malkom on October 15, 2025, 04:45:32 PM

Hi Peter,

Yes, I'm working on it nearly every day in the mornings and its certainly progressing.

However, converting to Free Pascal is taking longer than expected.

Right now it can Run the Chart project although the Color Picker and a few other things in Chart project are not working. For example, Card Preview that was working now has some bugs. The debugger has been improved but is still work in progress.

Once these are fixed then I'll upload some info and pictures.

Before a usable version can be released it needs more work on Load/Save and the Editor.
 
Main thing is to release a demo and get some feedback.

All the best,
Malcolm