APL+Win 5.2

There has been a huge development made by APL2000 in APL+Win 5.2: they have written a brand new APL+ Component File System which is called "the Colossal File System" and is greatly superior to the previous file system: for example, it is up to 10 times faster, solves the exploding Œfreplace problem and would allow you to perform a million transactions per second for 600.000 years! The Colossal File System is the major enhancement of APL+Win 5.2: other improvements are detailed below. APL+Win 5.2 is upward compatible with previous versions of APL+Win. For example, the old file system based on Œf... and Œxf... functions continues to work unchanged. APL+Win 5.2 Upgrades may only be acquired with an APLDN Premium Subscription (see yellow lines in our Prices page). APL+Win 5.2 requires APL+Win Versions 5.0.10, 5.0.11 or 5.0.16 but as an APLDN Premium subscriber you can download APL+Win 5.0.16 if you own an older version of APL+Win. Here are the APL+Win 5.2 enhancements:

Colossal File System	Uses Œcf... functions instead of Œf... functions Œcf... functions have same name and similar behaviour as their Œf... counterparts Is up to 10 times faster than the current APL+Win File System (especially for write operations) Solves the "exploding Œfreplace " problem (your file will no longer grow with unused space when replacing components by larger ones and therefore you will no longer need to compact them with Œfdup ) Accepts up to ¯1+2*32 components File size of up to a 64-bit number of bytes Uses transaction counters (64-bit) providing a basis for historical tracing and better file recovery possibilities Files now contain a component 0 where you can store any data (like the file documentation for example) Contains new system functions: Œcfversion returning the version number of the Colossal File System Œcfinfo returns 9 numeric information about the file Œcfsync allows you to decide when to force writing data to the file Uses the MD5 hash algorithm when writing data to the file Uses Universal Time instead of local time to store timestamps information etc.

Renaming the APLWCO.DLL	It is now possible to rename the APLWCO.DLL For example, if your provide a Run Time application with the APL+Win RunTime interpreter renamed MyApp.Exe, you can now provide AplwCo.Dll as MyAppCo.Dll. For this to work you need APL2000 to provide you with a new version of APLWCO.DLL renamed and using a new GUIDs. See details about this APL2000 service. Note: The custom APL+Win ActiveX Server (APLWCO.DLL) is free to customers with a Tier-1 thru Tier-3 APLDN subscription. For others, the cost is 250€ per DLL with free updates available with incremental updates to the interpreter.

File tie quota	The file tie quota has been increased from 200 to 400! You can now therefore write applications opening more files simultaneously.

Edit Object	A new style has been added to the Edit control to avoid having the Paste option available in its context menu when the Edit control style is set as Read Only

Printer Object	The Eject method has been enhanced to now use an optional right argument to be able to eject the page even if nothing has been written to it yet

Œdr	Now accepts 2 new left arguments (I64 and F64) to allow to convert 64-bit integers to floating point and vice versa

Online manuals	the APLGUI.CHM, APLNI.CHM and SESSMAN.CHM help files have been updated the APL+Win 5.2 documentation is provided as a Word .doc document (52Update.doc)

Other improvements	A number of other minor enhancements have been made and are described in the APL+Win 5.2 documentation