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:![]()
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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.
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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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