Main PROMOTIC versions overview
The following description provides information regarding the main PROMOTIC versions. There are some warning concerning the upgrades from lower to upper versions of the system, for example when some obsolete functions are no longer present in newer versions, or some OS support has been remowed, etc.
Upgrades from older PROMOTIC versions to newer versions are free of charge during the period of 10 years since the key has been created. For additional info see PmUpgrade and PmUpgrade10.
Version: PROMOTIC 9
- This version has been released in: 2018
- This version is designed for folowing OS:
OS Windows 10/8/7/Embedded/2003-12Server.
- The following OS is no longer supported: OS Windows XP/Vista
- An upgrade (i.e. transition from older to newer version) to this version can be done only from the PROMOTIC 7.5 version. If the upgrade is needed to be done from older version, then it is necessary to go through the PROMOTIC 7.5 first.
- Main news and modifications:
- The development environment and runtime were separated into two individual programs.
- The application editor and the graphic panel editor were unified in the development environment. The graphics of the PmaPanel object can now be edited directly without the need to open another editor.
- The viewers of alarms/events are now available as graphic objects PmgAlarmStateViewer / PmgAlarmHistoryViewer / PmgEventViewer. It is now possible to completely adapt these viewers to application designer neeeds.
- The
JavaScript language can now be used also in the editor of
Pma objects. It is now possible to create applications while using only a single language. The
VBScript language is no longer needed.
- In order to increase the clarity of the system the application objects and graphic items were renamed - now each object type has clear prefix:
- each application object has Pma prefix (for example the PmData object was renamed to PmaData)
- each graphic object has Pmg prefix (for example the PmiBar object was renamed to PmgBar)
Version: PROMOTIC 8
- This version has been released in: 2009
- This version is designed for folowing OS:
OS Windows 10/8/7/Vista/XP/Embedded/2003-12Server. For versions older than
Pm8.2.0 installed on
OS Windows 10 or
OS Windows 8 it is necessary to complete
PROMOTIC HW Key driver update.
- The following OS is no longer supported: OS Windows 98/Me/2000
- An upgrade (i.e. transition from older to newer version) to PROMOTIC 8 can be done only from the PROMOTIC 7.5 version. If the upgrade is needed to be done from older version, then it is necessary to go through the PROMOTIC 7.5 first.
Version: PROMOTIC 7
- This version has been released in: 2006
- This version is designed for folowing OS:
OS Windows 10/8/7/Vista/XP/Embedded/2003-12Server and
OS Windows 98/Me- The following OS is no longer supported: OS Windows 95/NT
- This version is available in two variations: for
Unicode and ANSII. The ANSII variation is relevant only for
OS Windows 98/Me.
- This version uses the ne Microsoft graphic library (GdiPlus), that displays the texts a little bit wider. After upgrading from older PROMOTIC version it is possible that the size of some texts in graphic panels will be slightly different than before.
The PROMOTIC version 7.5 (no matter if 7.5.0 or higher) is very important, because all currently running PROMOTIC applications (if the upgrade to the PROMOTIC 8 version is wanted) will have to go through this version first. The version PROMOTIC 8 is able to work only with applications, that went through the version PROMOTIC 7.5. The main reason is, that version PROMOTIC 8 no longer contains agorithms for transforming very old applications.
The version PROMOTIC 8 no longer supports some very old (not offered for a very long time) technologies. Therefore in this version 7.5, there is a new item in the INFO system Warnings, that is displaying warnings regarding the usage of obsolete components in current application.
One additional item that is no longer available since version PROMOTIC 8 is the "MDI type main window". The main reason for that is the fact, that using the PmWorkspace object as a main window is positively much simpler, more general and practical than the "MDI window". If the application is using the "MDI" (all applications older than PROMOTIC 7), then this fact will also be highlighted in the INFO item Warnings and the designer can simply transform his application in order to use the PmWorkspace main window.
Because the version PROMOTIC 8 no longer supports the obsolete saving formats, it is necessary for those who use Compound graphic items (these items are saved in independent files with the extension *.pmi), to transform these items into version PROMOTIC 7.5.
Version: PROMOTIC 6
- This version has been released in: 2002
- This version is designed for folowing OS: OS Windows XP/2000/NT/95/98/Me
- This version is available only in ANSII coding, the
Unicode is not available.
Version: PROMOTIC 2000
- This version has been released in: 2000
- This version is designed for folowing OS: OS Windows 2000/NT/95/98/Me
Version: PROMOTIC 4
- This version has been released in: 1996
- This version is designed for folowing OS: OS Windows NT/95
- The following OS is no longer supported: DOS
Version: PROMOTIC DOS
- This version has been released in: 1991
- This version is designed for folowing OS: DOS