Visual Prolog 10 New Features

Visual Prolog 10 has a number of new language features.

 

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Language

• Object expressions
• Allow a clause for apicall predicate resolved externally from DLL and call it if the corresponding entry is not found in a DLL
• Allow attribute [inline] for Prolog predicate types
• Better codes generation for facts handling due to optimized facts access
• Predicate argument defaults can be a non-constant expressions that is evaluated when the predicate is called.
• Generate call to memory::threadAttachCurrent in not-Prolog predicates which are DLL entry points
• Change representation of the binary domain
• Bitwise operator --
• Attribute [generated] for generated code (makes the compiler issue less warnings)

PFC

• webView2Cotrol and webView2_api for support of Microsoft Edge webView2 control
• direct2DControlSupport for implementing drawing using Direct 2D, Direct Write and Windows Imaging Component
• random number generator (in an object), whose state can be serialized/deserialized.
• Master/slave suppor packages
• pipe_api more kinds of anonymous pipes (notably asynchronous ones).
• topLevelContainerWindow::setBackgroundColor Set the background color of dialogs and forms and their controls (i.e. standard windows controls)

IDE

• Dialog editor and generation on parsing the code
• IDE and builder now run in master/slave mode. Where a number of compilers are being run as child processes, which the IDE/builder communicates with through communication pipes. See wiki articles above.
• Disassembler intermixed with source
• Improve predicate and closure values

Examples

• webView2Demo
• direct2DDemo

See also

See also Visual Prolog 10 Upgrade Notes.