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 version to newer version are free of charge during the period of 10 years since the key has been created. For additional info see
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Version: PROMOTIC 9
- This version has been released in: 2018
- This version is designed for folowing OS: OS Windows 10/8/7/2008-19Server
- The following is no longer supported: OS Windows XP/Vista/2003Server
- 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.
- In order to increase the clarity of the system the application objects and graphic objects 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
Hardware (USB) licence key driver update.
- The following is no longer supported: OS Windows 98/Me/2000
- 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.
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/98/Me- The following is no longer supported: OS Windows 95/NT
- This version is available in two variations: for
Unicode and ANSII. The ANSII variation is meaningful 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 PROMOTIC version
8 is able to work only with applications, that went through the version
PROMOTIC 7.5. The main reason is, that PROMOTIC version
8 no longer contains algorithms for transforming very old applications.
The PROMOTIC version
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 "
Warnings" in the INFO system, 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
PmaWorkspace 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 "
Warnings" item of the
INFO system and the designer can simply transform his application in order to use the main window of the
PmaWorkspace type.
Because the PROMOTIC version
8 no longer supports the obsolete saving formats, it is necessary for those who use
Compound Pmg objects (these objects are saved in independent files with the extension
*.pmi), to transform these objects into version
PROMOTIC 7.5.