[Gambas-user] gambas 0.72

Benoit Minisini gambas at ...1...
Thu Nov 20 14:16:16 CET 2003


Hi, Gambas users,

Here is the 0.72 version of Gambas:

- The network component of Daniel Campos has been integrated.

- I did many clean-up in the source code so that Gambas compiles under CygWin. 
At the moment, just the compiler and the interpreter compile, and the 
interpreter does not work !

- I fix many bugs reported by users.

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) 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 :-)

3) 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 !

4) 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 ?

5) 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 !

Regards,

--
Benoit Minisini
mailto:gambas at ...1...





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