Thank you for asking.

Actually I don't know for certain. Although most of the conversion is quite easy, the GUI functionality is much more complex.

I'm using Libre Project to keep track of things but it doesn't give a timeline, just a rough percentage of work needed for each module, subroutine, function etc.

HN 5 Creator is still not yet capable of fully running the Chart Demo project.
It can compile most of the scripts into runtime code but the Runtime Engine still needs a few weeks more work.

The GUI, card designer, and control dragging all need more work - yet another few weeks.

Then there is the testing and debugging before release.
The Windows OS version will be released first, followed by Linux.
OS X needs a lot of work, especially to run on OS X Catalina.

Although the current version of HN 5 runs on both Windows 7 and Lubuntu, no OS X versions has even been built yet.

Once the Chart Demo is working smoothly, then HN 5 Creator can be released, and no doubt lots of bugs will show up.

HN Player V5 will be released at the same time as HN Creator.

HN Developer creates HN plugins, but should not need much work as its very similar to Creator, except for some GUI differences.

Please note, these are all alphas.
 

Hello,

Unfortunately the HN command to launch a program/file cannot send parameters to the target.

However, a work-around is to create a simple batch file with HN and then use this to launch the target with necessary parameters.

Attached is a very basic project that converts a video using FFmpeg on Windows X64 - the download link is at the bottom of this post.

The project just has one button and one field.
The location of FFmpeg is hardcoded in the script, and the final video is called Video1.mkv
The video to be converted is selected via a dialog box.

Note, the video source path has " (quotation marks) appended around it,  in case the full path contains spaces.
I didn't do this for the converted file path as it is just saved to the project directory.


Most of the code just displays information into field 1 as to aid debugging.

Also, FolderItemLaunch(fvar,1) executes the FFmpeg in the foreground to aid debugging.
Just use - FolderItemLaunch(fvar,0) to launch it in the background.

Local fname,fvar,fdetails,ftypes,fpaths,fnames,fextens
Local fhandle
 
Local sourcePath

Clear field 1

@ --- Get file ---
Put '--- Get file ---' after field 1
FileAskFilter(fname,'',fhandle,fdetails,ftypes,fpaths,fnames,fextens)
Put fname after field 1
Put line 9 of fdetails into sourcePath
Put sourcePath after field 1


@ --- Create batch file ---
Local batchname
Put ' ' after field 1
Put '--- Create batch file ---' after field 1

Put MyDirectoryFN into batchname
Append FolderSeparatorFN onto batchname
Append 'mybatch.bat' onto batchname
Put batchname after field 1
OpenTWriteAbs(batchname,fvar)


@ --- Build batch file ---
Local commandLine
Put ' ' after field 1
Put '--- Build batch file ---' after field 1
WriteTLine(fvar, 'ECHO OFF')
Put 'C:\ffmpeg-win64\bin\ffmpeg.exe -i ' into commandLine
Append '"' onto commandLine
Append sourcePath onto commandLine
Append '"' onto commandLine
Append ' -c copy ' onto commandLine
Append 'Video1.mkv ' onto commandLine
Put commandLine after field 1
WriteTLine(fvar,commandLine)
WriteTLine(fvar, 'PAUSE')
CloseTWrite(fvar)


@ --- Run batch file ---
Put ' ' after field 1
Put '--- Run batch file ---' after field 1
FolderItemGetAbs(batchname,fvar,fdetails,ftypes,fpaths,fnames,fextens)
FolderItemLaunch(fvar,1)
Put 'DONE' after field 1


 

Here is a brief progress report on HN5 development for the month of August 2020.

The aim is to get the Chart demo project running inside HN5 Creator IDE.

The development is being carried out on a Windows 7 x64 machine with regular testing of HN5 on Linux(Lubuntu).

The development language is Free Pascal which should ensure HN5 will be able to run on a variety of Operating Systems, both newer and older versions. The main targets being Windows, OS X and Linux.


EDITOR

Editor window - Cards, MainCode, Specials, Menus.

Controls List.

Error linking.


CREATOR PROPERTIES/TOOLBAR

Controls.

Controls' images.

Some properties.




 

Here is a brief progress report on HN5 development for the month of June 2020.

The aim is to get the Chart demo project running inside HN5 Creator IDE.

The development is being carried out on a Windows 7 x64 machine with regular testing of HN5 on Linux(Lubuntu).


COMPILER
 Filled in more compiler functionality.


RUNTIME ENGINE
 Filled in more code to support relevant keywords.

Here is a brief progress report on HN5 development for the month of April 2020.

 
LOAD PROJECT
 Parsing of an HN v2,3,4 project file is over 95% done-
  - creation of nearly all objects.
  - loading code.
  - code tables.
  - still needs some data decompression.


RUNTIME ENGINE
 Filled in more functions relevant to Project Loading.


CARD CREATOR WINDOW
 Creation of some controls for Project Loading.


COMPILER
 Filled in more pass 3 compiler functionality.


PLATFORMS
 HN5 will run on multiple platforms:- Windows, OS X, Linux Ubuntu etc, Raspberry Pi.
 HN5 will not create cross platform binaries as earlier version of HN(v1 to 4) did.
 Instead, HN5 Creator will build a universal stack that will be runnable on any platform having a HN5 Player.
 To users of the stack it will seamlessly appear to be an app, just like Java apps appear to be.