[Gambas-user] gambas 0.71

[Benoit Minisini]

Hi, Gambas users,

After a long period of two months, here is gambas 0.71.

There are many bug fixes in this version, and many incompatible changes in the 
Key class and the Process class, so read the Changelog carefully !

The network component of Daniel Campos will be integrated in the next version.

Here is a list of the problems I want to fix before the 1.0 release:

1) Clean up the 'introspection' mechanism, i.e. the Symbol, Class and 
Component classes.

2) Try to solve the problem with EXEC/SHELL ... WAIT that do not call the 
event loop. This needs a GLibc function that exists, but that relies on a 
missing Linux system call ! For those interested, type 'man pselect'.

3) Having a better image processing class: at the moment, you can access 
pixels, replace colored pixels by transparent pixels, flip, stretch or rotate 
an image. I'd like to have more powerful functions and a more beautiful 
interface to this functions :-)

4) I'd like to be sure that gambas install and run correctly on all Linux 
distributions, so don't hesitate to tell me when you can't do that with your 
distribution, or when you can, so that I know. I have only a Mandrake 9.2 at 
home, no VMWare yet !

5) At the moment, you need to call Conv$() to convert Desktop.Charset to 
System.Charset, and it is boring. For example, if you type a file name with 
non-ASCII characters in your source code, then it is stored as UTF-8 
character. If you want to open this file with OPEN, you need to convert the 
file name to System.Charset (ISO-8859-15 on my Mandrake) before. This is not 
needed on systems like RedHat that use UTF-8 everywhere. Maybe I should 
simulate UTF-8 file system internally in the interpreter, i.e. do the 
conversion automatically ?

6) Integrating cleanly the Daniel Campos' network component.

7) Having an updated documentation on the Wiki made by Rob. I hope this will 
come soon ;-)

And, of course, if you see other important points, tell them on this 
mailing-list !

I have very little time at the moment, but I try to work on gambas as 
frequently as possible. There is no many pending problems for the 1.0, so I'm 
confident :-)

Regards,

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Benoit Minisini
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