[Gambas-user] gambas 0.97

[Benoit Minisini]

Hi everybody,

Here is gambas 0.97!

I almost finished all I wanted to do before the final release. I just want to 
fix the way you use selections in the icon editor in the next version, 
changes some things in the component files to support many versions of the 
same component, and that's all...

I invite everybody to track bugs as much as possible, so that they can be 
fixed as quickly as possible. 

If you find a bug, send me a Gambas project, otherwise it is almost impossible 
to fix it.

I need support from packagers for other distributions than Mandrake, so that 
the package architecture is implmeented everywhere. This way, for example, an 
application packaged on a Mandrake will be able to be delivered on a SuSE, 
and vice-versa.

When everything seems to be good, I will release a 1.0RC1, and create 1.1 
branch in the source package, so that I can quickly include the pending 
contributions (a pretty printer from Charlie Reinl, a function browser and 
many other ideas from Yizhou He)

For the time being, here are the main changes in this version:

- Gambas is now compiled with gcc 3.4

- Project arguments are correctly managed in the IDE. 

- F2 allows to find a symbol definition, and SHIFT-F2 allows to go back to the 
initial cursor emplacement. VERY USEFUL!

- A new option to display or not display class files of a form in the project 
window. If form class files are not displayed, you can open them by pressing 
CTRL when you double-click on the form icon in the project window.

- The divide operator now returns the true result of the division as a 
floating point number. Now, 1/3 will return 0.333333. Use the backslash 
divide operator to get the integer quotient of two numbers.

- A new class, Settings, allows you to store and retrieve configuration data 
for a configuration file. By default, the configuration file has the name of 
the project with the '.conf' extension, and is stored in the ~/.gambas 
directory. 

- The 'Util' Gambas archive has been removed. No need for that, thanks to the 
Settings class.

- A new class, String, provides a set of static functions for manipulating 
UTF-8 strings: String.Len(), String.Mid(), String.Left(), String.Right(), 
String.Upper() and String.Lower(). 

Best regards,

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