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

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.

HyperNext Studio v4.3 for Windows - Release Notes

This is a major release in preparation for developing HN for the Apple macOS and OS X.
Both these have major file system differences compared to the Microsoft Windows platform.

This release uses a new save/load system that can  still load files from pre HN v4.3 versions.
However, it only saves in the new format but unfortunately previous verson cannot read this format.
Therefore please ensure your projects are backed up before working on them with HN v4.3

Note,
Future versions will only be able to read projects from v4.3 and later.
This also applies to any HN Developer built plugins that will need to be recompiled.


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Improvements

1. Added a new cross platform Save/Load function.
   In preparation for future MacOS & OS X, Windows, Linux HN versions.

2. Added 6 array functions
   These greatly improve the speed and flexibility of array searches,
   including exact matches, sub matches, cases, ascending/descending:

   ArrayColumnFindOneFN, ArrayColumnFindAllFN
   ArrayRowFindOneFN, ArrayRowFindAllFN
   ArrayFindUniqueFN
   ArrayFindAllFN

   See the built-in Help for more details.
   There is also an Array project in the Creator Projects folder.

3. Resource libraries are much easier to use and their windows are larger:
   Images, Movie, Sound, Text
 
4. Editor colors can now change LHS panels.

5. Help colors can now change LHS panels.
 

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BUG Fixes

1. Preferences: editor paper and text colors now show up and window improved.

2. Now when loading a project the card background color is fully respected.

3. Removed the buggy Menu Close Project option.

4. Compiling using Ctrl+K now correctly shows card controls.

5. Resource libraries fixed some bugs with duplicate and missing resources.

6. Creator Mode Switcher: removed the annoying click sound.

 
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TigaByte Software
9th August 2024

V4.22 KNOWN BUGS AND ANY KNOWN WORK-AROUNDS

1. HyperNext Creator
     Close project then New project:
     If a project is closed using menu File - Close
     and a New project is created then nothing shows!!!
     even though the new project and its folder are created.
    Solution for now:
      Just save the current project then create a new one.
     
2.  HyperNext Creator
     When a project first opens the card's background color
     is ignored and always shows white:
     Solution for now:
      On the Toolbar just click and toggle the Card's color checkbox
      or else Preview the card.

3. Animation and sprites:
     The RB sprite engine occasionally does not respect a sprite's transparency!
     Resulting in white background around the sprite.
     There seems to be no workaround as the RB sprite engine was deprecated.
     Only solution a new sprite engine.

January 2024 - HN v4.22 released

This is mainly a maintenance release that fixes some urgent bugs

This version is only for Microsoft Windows and is a 32 bit build.
It is has been tested on Windows 10, 7 and XP, and should run on both x32 & x64 versions.


Next Major Release v4.3
The next major release will use the new cross-platform Save/Load code.
It will also build for both x32 and x64 

This new Save/Load code is needed for modern MacOS
such as El-Capitan to Sonoma etc