[Gambas-devel] Release of gambas 1.9.13

[José L. Redrejo Rodríguez]

mmm, what happened with the gb.form and gb.xml.rpc? I have lost them in
the new release...
Only gb.settings is kept in the comp directory.

El dom, 24-07-2005 a las 19:02 +0200, Benoit Minisini escribió:
> Here is a new release of the development version.
> 
> Many big changes there, some of them being experimental: 
> 
> * The source package structure has been redesigned a little, and now uses
>   symbolic links so that size is reduced. 
> * The configure script does not use $(ROOT) anymore, but only $(DESTDIR).
>   Maybe making binary packages with rpmbuild is broken... 
> * The IDE now stored control coordinates proportionally to the system font
>   height. THIS IS EXPERIMENTAL, BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR PROJECTS! 
> * Extern functions can be public. 
> * The interpreter uses mmap() to load executables and components written in
>   Gambas. 
> * Each component can have a part written in C/C++ and a part written in
>   Gambas. 
> * Enumerable container classes now know when they are enumerated so that they
>   can safely delete their elements. 
> * Some new functions and instructions: DEBUG, ERROR, Week(), DFree(). 
> * Some new syntaxes in File.Dir(), File.Ext(), File.Name() and
>   File.BaseName(). 
> * The TrayIcon class was implemented. 
> * The OpenGL beta component was included. 
> 
> And many bug fixes of course... 
> 
> Please read the ChangeLog carefully before using this release! 
> 
> 1) The IDE storing proportional coordinates stuff is a way of having dialog 
> boxes that adapt themselves to the user screen, by looking at the size of the 
> font it uses.
> 
> To convert a project to this feature, open it, open all forms, move all of 
> them, and save the project back. The absolute coordinates are replaced by the 
> scaled ones.
> 
> BE CAREFUL! You may lose your projects if I made a bug, as the form files are 
> modified.
> 
> 2) There is a new iterator class named Enum that is used internally to 
> implement the FOR EACH instruction.
> 
> Try this code in older versions of Gambas:
> 
> --8<---------------------------------------------
> 
> DIM cCol AS NEW Collection
> DIM iInd AS Integer
> dim sElt AS String
> 
> FOR iInd = 1 TO 8
>   cCol[iInd] = Chr$(64 + iInd)
> NEXT
> 
> FOR EACH sElt in cCol
>   IF sElt = "E" THEN cCol.Clear
> NEXT
> 
> --8<---------------------------------------------
> 
> If it doesn't crash, you are lucky, but try it with valgrind...
> 
> This new iterator class allows the Collection class to deal with elements 
> removing while being enumerated. In the example, the enumeration is stopped 
> by the Clear method. Removing one element will make the enumeration jumps it.
> 
> There is three new functions in the interpreter API for component developers 
> that have enumerable classes whose elements can disappear without notice.
> 
> I will write more about that when I will start filling the new documentation 
> system with updated information on how to program components.
> 
> 3) Now components can have a part written in gambas. To do that, just add a 
> gambas project inside the 'src' sub-directory of the component, having the 
> same name as the component. That's all :-)
> 
> Note that components Makefile.am were modified. Now they all share the same 
> base, located in the component.am file. This file is included in all 
> component Makefile.am, and do all the stuff of installing the *.component 
> file, compiling the gambas part of the component, and generating the 
> information files for the IDE.
> 
> Enjoy it!
>