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- Runway Alpha 3
- By Brad Larson (darb@add-inc.com)
-
- Runway is a Windows 95 Integrated Development Environment for the
- U.S. Robotics Pilot. It uses Wes Cherry's PilRC compiler to generate the
- resource binaries, and Darrin Massena's Pila assembler to compile the code.
- CoPilot is used as a debugger, and when the program has been compiled, the
- PRC file can be automatically installed using the InstApp util. It is
- suggested that you download the Pila assembler from Darrin's Pilot
- Software Development page (http://www.massena.com/darrin/pilot/index.html).
- Even though the Runway package includes the Pila assembler, the package at
- Darrin's web site includes all documentation and may be more recent.
- Also, the CoPilot debugger is not included in the Runway package, so you will
- have to download it from the author at
- http://userzweb.lightspeed.net/~gregh/pilot/copilot/.
-
- Since this is an Alpha release, there are many, many bugs in the
- software.
-
- --The program is path-sensitive, so all the executables for Pila,
- Copilot, PilRC, and InstApp must reside in the directory you unzipped the
- Runway.exe file into. Also, for the batch files to work properly, you MUST
- add the Runway path to your Autoexec.Bat Path statement.
-
- --The font in the editor menu is fixed. I plan to add a font menu in the
- future.
-
- --To pass a file name to Pila or PilRC, Runway strips off the last three
- characters of the name of the currently active document. It then tacks on a
- "asm" or "rcp" for Pila or PilRC, respectively.
-
- Fixed in Alpha 2:
- --A bug was causing the program to call the Win95 MAPI. This caused an
- Unhandled Exception on WinNT machines. This bug has been removed.
-
- --Decreased the size of the executable considerably by optimizing the code.
-
- Fixed in Alpha 3:
- --Runway now calls the external programs through batch files, which remain on the
- screen after the programs have finished. This lets you see any error messages
- produced by the programs.
-
- --The editor auto-saves any files being compiled.
-
- --A help file detailing the PalmOS API calls is now part of the Help menu.
-
- --I finally added a unique icon for Runway.
-
- If you find anything else wrong, or if you have any additional comments,
- feel free to email me at darb@add-inc.com. You can also reach me in any of
- the Pilot newsgroups that run off of the Pilot Software Development web server.