Here is a brief progress report on HN5 development for the month of July 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
Script editor and its links with compiler and debugger.


DEBUGGER
Compiler error processing system.


COMPILER
Filled in more compiler functionality.

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

 
LOAD PROJECT
 Parsing of an HN v2,3,4 Chart project file now works.

 The Chart project has several different controls: buttons, fields, canvases etc:-
  - creation of objects.
  - loading code.
  - code tables.
  - Note, UTF8 import is not working correctly.


Project Converter

Built a primitive app that converts  HN v2,3,4 project to HN5 format.

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

 
LOAD PROJECT
 Parsing of a project file still ongoing.


COMPILER
 Filled in more pass 3 compiler functionality.


RUNTIME ENGINE
 Filled in more code to support relevant keywords.


PLATFORMS
 Current HN5 build Works on these platforms:-

* Windows 10 and 7(x64)

* OS X Leopard G4 (carbon)

* Lubuntu(x64)

* Raspberry Pi 4 Model B(Raspbian)

Note: OS X Catalina
Having problems with Xcode Command Line files.

I'm sorry you are having this Save As problem but I am to with HyperNext V4.01 on Windows 7 - it gives exactly the same error messages.

I've just set up the orginal HyperNext source code in REALbasic and used the debugger to see if there is a problem but Save As works perfectly. It saves the current project with the correct name and reloading it also works.

Unfortunately there is not much I can suggest except manually copying your HyperNext project folder to another folder and then renaming it:

(1) For example with a project called Test that needs to become Test 2.

(2) Copy the folder Test to a new folder Test 2.

(3) Inside folder Test 2, rename the project file from Test to Test 2.

(4) Double-click project file Test 2  to open the project in HyperNext Creator.

Here is a brief progress report on HN5 development.

GUI
 The new integrated GUI using just one window to replace the Designer, Properties toolbar and Mode Switcher just doesn't seem intuitive or easy to use.
 Therefore, HN 5 will keep the older GUI except its Menubar now has some tool bar options and includes the three Mode Switcher options of Design, Preview and Run.

COMPILER
Filled in more pass 3 compiler functionality.
Also some work on objects such as buttons and their events .

RUNTIME
Filled in some runtime engine code related to the runtime window(form).
Also some work on the interrupts system related to objects such as button events etc.

FREE PASCAL
Some Free Pascal users now have Free Pascal Lazarus working reliably on OS X Catalina so HN 5 should now run on that.
 
TEST LAB
 Started replacing virtual machines with physical computers in a small lab.
 Currently have machines for Windows, older OS Xs, Ubuntu, and a Raspberry Pi.