SIMPOL Limited is pleased to announce that SIMPOL Professional v1.74 has now been released. This is a maintenance release so many of the changes are bug fixes, however some new items have been added. The demo and the full installer have been updated, as have the online versions of the documentation. For those of you who already own SIMPOL Professional, the download is ready.

Here are some of the highlights of this release:

• Bug fixes in db1util.sml as well as adding support for the vola1base virtual database system for adding system tables.
• Various bug fixes and updates in record view, select key, and other places exposed in the appframework.sml library.
• Improvements to the new Superbase program for converting Superbase forms to SIMPOL print forms.
• Fix to the string2date() function to handle a bug that was introduced in the last release that would cause trouble in certain cases. UPDATE NOW IF YOU USE THIS FUNCTION!
• There are also various bug fixes in assorted libraries.

For full details of the additions, changes, and bug fixes, see the Release Notes.

The latest release of SIMPOL Professional can be downloaded and installed by all owners of the SIMPOL Professional release product. To access the new release, log in to your Simpol account. If you don’t yet have a Simpol account, follow the same link to create one.

We look forward to hearing from you with any feedback regarding the new release. For those of you who may not have started converting to SIMPOL, we look forward to welcoming you into our community.

Here are some of the highlights of this release:

• SIMPOL Personal now includes filtering for record, table, and form view. The Print menu item has now been enhanced to print multiple records or forms based on a filter. There have been fixes for reported issues with the Form Designer.
• This is the first release to include the recordview.sml, tableview.sml, and repguilib.sml libraries for use in customer programs.
• This release contains a new Superbase program for converting Superbase forms to SIMPOL print forms.
• There is a new test project that demonstrates the use of the unittest.sml library for creating regression tests.
• There are also various bug fixes in assorted libraries.

For full details of the additions, changes, and bug fixes, see the Release Notes.

The latest release of SIMPOL Professional can be downloaded and installed by all owners of the SIMPOL Professional release product. To access the new release, log in to your Simpol account. If you don’t yet have a Simpol account, follow the same link to create one.

We look forward to hearing from you with any feedback regarding the new release. For those of you who may not have started converting to SIMPOL, we look forward to welcoming you into our community.

Here are some of the highlights of this release:

• SIMPOL Personal now ships as an EXE and is no longer dependent on external image files. It also includes shell support so that SIMPOL files with the extensions .sbm, .sxf, .sxq, and .sxp can be double-clicked in Explorer and this will automatically start SIMPOL Personal and open them.
• SIMPOL Personal now includes a Print Form Designer in addition to the Form Designer (for display forms), and has a new Table View mode.
• Thanks to a member of the SIMPOL community, the IDE now has its initial French translation.
• There are a couple of new libraries, and a new sample program of the Worms game, plus numerous changes and repairs.

For full details of the additions, changes, and bug fixes, see the Release Notes.

The latest release of SIMPOL Professional can be downloaded and installed by all owners of the SIMPOL Professional release product. To access the new release, log in to your Simpol account. If you don’t yet have a Simpol account, follow the same link to create one.

We look forward to hearing from you with any feedback regarding the new release. For those of you who may not have started converting to SIMPOL, we look forward to welcoming you into our community.

Here are some of the highlights of this release:

• SIMPOL Personal with new Quick Report GUI
• New SIMPOL Personal Handbook
• First general release of the SIMPOL ODBC Client component
• New graphical PPCS Server program with backup, restore, and reorganize
• Archiving and compression libraries based on BZip2
• First release with sound support
• Enhanced control of the wxformgrid
• Numerous improved utilities for working with dates, times, and datetimes
• Various bug fixes and minor improvements

For full details of the additions, changes, and bug fixes, see the Release Notes.

The latest release of SIMPOL Professional can be downloaded and installed by all owners of the SIMPOL Professional release product. To access the new release, log in to your Simpol account. If you don’t yet have a Simpol account, follow the same link to create one.

We look forward to hearing from you with any feedback regarding the new release. For those of you who may not have started converting to SIMPOL, we look forward to welcoming you into our community.

Unfortunately, the Newsportal front end for the News server has not coped well with the update to PHP, and we have reluctantly bid it farewell.

Instead, we have added a new WordPress-based forum system. The goal is to have only one registration and password changing method, so we are currently researching how to coordinate the two systems. Once that has been resolved, we will make the new forum available to everyone. In the meantime, if you have previously registered on the Simpol site, you should be able to log in and post messages to the new forum.

One of the big advantages of this site will be to allow us to more easily keep in closer touch with our customers — so please let us hear from you.

In addition to this News section, we also will be running a more informal development blog.

CAMBRIDGE, UK — June 1^st , 2010 Simpol^™ Ltd has been contracted by Papatuo Holdings Ltd to provide support, consultancy and training for Superbase^®. Users can now be sure of on-going support for their Superbase-based systems. Superbase licenses and products can now be purchased from the Digital River website. Simpol are also offering a related range of paid support and professional services.

Whilst this renewed support for Superbase is welcome news to existing users, those wishing to migrate to current technology can take advantage of a planned, phased migration to a SIMPOL-based system.

SIMPOL, (originally conceived as Superbase International Multi-platform Object Language — now just SIMPOL), is the natural successor to Superbase, architected and built by the team who developed the last 5 Superbase products. SIMPOL provides an easy to use and learn cross-platform programming language, database engine and RAD tools.

“For those wishing to migrate from Superbase, SIMPOL offers the unique advantage of enabling a staged migration to current technology through the creation of a SIMPOL/Superbase hybrid; this reduces business risk and minimises disruption”, said Rosalind Shefford, CEO of Simpol Limited.

Neil Robinson, Technical Director of Simpol Ltd added, “This news is good for Superbase users, who are restricted by the fact that although Superbase  products run on most 32-bit Windows^® systems; they will not run on 64-bit Windows^®. SIMPOL has no such restriction.”