Basic             

Two words about PointerCE Basic Version
and ..... some screenshots


		PointerCe Basic Version  was developed following the EFsoft specification
		(I.E. do not use proprietary DLL or write anything into the registry of the unit.
		The program use the original VB5 code (about 60%) that has been transfered
		as was on a Cassiopeia A20 running WinCE 2.0 and NsbasicCE version 2.0. 
		NSbasic did a good job allowing to transfer the code in a few time but,owing
		to the WinCe limits i was unable to reproduce all original Pointer's functions.
		In addition some procedures are quite slow if your unit stores many files.
		You may incur in these problems using the downloadable version here, so
		i suggest you to dowload this version only if you have an old HPC unit like
		the mentioned Cassiopeia A20 or similar with few memory space available..
		The program anyway runs correctly and if you need some of its function and
		you have to not use too memory space it may be still a good choice.
		If you use the check sys option i suggest to disable the authomatic switch 
		off utility to avoid the hanging of the unit as the function require several 
		minutes to performe the checking. 
		

  Starting view 

  Find a file and move to other Dir 

  Check for Duplicates files 

  See a Directory content 


HPC

		This is the NEW version of PointerCE.
		It is no longer a simple porting of VB code on WinCE unit but a new
		code written for WinCE.
		It is also the first program of mine that no fully apply the Efsoft 
		specifications as it use a separate DLL to increase the speed of
		some funcions. (Thanks to Mark Gamber for his excellent  CE API dll)
		It is also the first program developed using my NSassistant helper
		program which reduced programming time and also, organizing better
		the code, allowed to add new functions.
		The GUI also has been redesigned to match better the WinCE unit's
		needs, with a larger view of files and folders' list, reduction of button
		to use and the adding of the waitclock for long time execution.
		As previously said the new functions are:
		- The current system status panel where you can see the total and
		  free storage and memory space, the percentage of memory used
		  and the actual status of main and backup battery.
		- The new check to Run box that, if selected allows to launch any
		  executable application or link to to the same directly from the
		  PointerCE program.
		You may see below some views of the program:   
 The starting view		 

 Finding files
 
 Folders' Viewers
  
 Property check

		As you may see the graphic is more readable, the commands 
		are grouped to use the easy and the program advise the user
		of all the operations it is performing during use. 

 P/PC  
 		PointerCE for Palm type PC  is the natural following of the HPC version..
		It is not necessary to repeat here the features and the functions of the
		program as they are the same that you find on the CE unit with the 
		keyboard. This is also the version running on POCKET PC.
		I have to point out here only the differences that you may see in the
		GUI tha has been adjusted to meet the look of the ppc unit.
		The less available space on the screen allows to use the space in the
		same way even if the list of the files are more crowed.
 		Anyway the efsoft GUI rules remain valid for the PPC screen also with
		some little adjustments. See below:

		

 		


La  versione PPC di Pointer non funziona su il Compaq Ipaq poichè l'utente
non riesce a caricare la libreria addizionale MGCEwin32.dll. 
Dopo una rapida ricerca ho scoperto che NSbasic Runtime funziona con la 
ARM cpu ma non è così con la DLL in questione, mai compilata per questa cpu
(Il problema è stato poi risolto teoricamente. Vedi QUI) 
Usando unità CE MIPS e SH soltanto per provare i miei programmi non avevo
avuto modo di notarlo e così nacque la version POINTCEA.
Sviluppando qusta versione dedicata, che usa il vecchio codice senza la suddetta
DLL, adottando l'inrfaccia grafica creata per eVBPointer ed ottimizzando il codice
e nata la versione POINTCE-UP   (NEW)
Alcune funzioni non possono essere riprodotte con il codice base (cioè verifica
memoria e stato batteria) e sono mancanti, ma il codice ottimizzato risulta molto
leggero e funziona abbastanza bene da poterlo considerare la nuova versione
standard del programma Pointer sviluppato con NSBasic.
ATTENZIONE: Questa versione salva i dati di sistema nella Root Dir  "\" invece che
****************  nella dir "\Temp" come le precedenti. I VECCHI UTENTI dovranno
                      usare Pointer stesso per muovere il file Pointext.txt dalla directory
                      Temp alla dir principale "\" poi lanciando questa versione potranno
                      continuare ad usare i vecchi dati.
Il codice è stato testato su su una cpu a 70Mhz e una 206Mhz dell' Ipaq e funziona
su qualunque Cpu (ARM-MIPS-SH3) e con qualsiasi sistema WinCE 2.11 e 
PocketPC proprio perchè non usa DLL aggiuntive.

   
La nuova versione è disponibile se volete provarla (pagina Download) e non necessita
di programmi di istallazione come è mia abitudine.

E' facile capire che ogni suggerimento da parte dell'utente è molto apprezzato.



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