[Gambas-user] Release of gambas 1.9.14

[Lorenzo Tejera]

No for to much run you could arrive shortly :DDDDDDDd recent compiled, I
get this error in gambas2-1.9.14 IDE

cerebro:/opt/gambas2/bin# ./gambas2.gambas
ERROR: #2: Cannot load class 'ValueBox': Unable to load class file

Regards FIDO BUG :D

> Hi, all guys.
>
>
> Here is a new release of the development version that you can get there:
>
>
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gambas/gambas2-1.9.14.tar.bz2?download
>
>
> Now making Gambas components in Gambas really works :-)
>
>
> The development environment gets a new font selection dialog and a new
> color selection dialog both based on two new controls made with Gambas.
>
> Here is the complete Changelog:
>
>
> --8<---------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------
>
>
> CONFIGURATION
>
>
> * BUG: Finally applied the "fish jail" :-) patch of Dirk Mueller to the
> symbolic link creation. * BUG: Components directory including a gambas part
> are now correctly packaged.
>
> DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT
>
>
> * New font and color dialogs in the property sheet.
> * The welcome, about and tips dialog now use the system colors.
> * Symbols including an underscore are not displayed anymore in the
> completion list.
>
> COMPILER
>
>
> * BUG: events from gambas classes are now internally prefixed with a
> colon, as the events from native classes. * The bytecode version is now
> written in each compiled class.
>
> INTERPRETER
>
>
> * BUG: Now a native class can have a static property that returns a
> usable virtual class. * If the bytecode version of a compiled class is
> different from the bytecode version of the interpreter, then an error is
> raised. * BUG: Many fixes in the gambas archive management. Now everything
> should work as expected :-) * The Boolean[] array class was implemented.
> * Object.GetProperty() now can return the value of static properties.
> * BUG: Classes located in gambas archives are now freed with the global
> classes when the interpreter ends. * BUG: Format$(0, "+#") now works
> correctly. * A new property, Application.Dir, that returns the application
> startup working directory at startup. Note that the current working
> directory is modified by the interpreter. * BUG: Hex$() and Bin$() now
> correctly display negative values.
>
> QT COMPONENT
>
>
> * Eight new properties in Color class that returns system colors.
> * A new array operator in Color class to split a color in its Red, Green,
> Blue, Alpha or Hue, Saturation, Value parts.
> * BUG: Some fixes in the arrangement algorithm of containers.
> * BUG: The DrawingArea draws its border correctly again.
> * A new property, Font.Scalable, that returns if a font is freely
> scalable. * A new property, Font.Grade, that represents a predefined font
> size proportional to the default application font. Range from -9 to +9. * A
> new control, UserControl, that acts as a parent class for implementing
> user controls directly in Gambas. * A new method,
> ScrollView.EnsureVisible, that ensures that a specified
> area of the ScrollView is visible. * A new property, TextArea.ScrollBar, to
> choose the display policy of the scrollbars. * A new class, TrayIcons, for
> enumerating all TrayIcon controls. * New properties in the TrayIcon class:
> Tag, ScreenX, ScreenY, Width and
> Height.
> * BUG: TrayIcon now catches Enter and Leave events.
> * BUG: The Design property now works with controls written in Gambas.
> * BUG: Some fixes in Open event trigerring of embedded forms.
> * Three new controls made with Gambas: FontChooser, ColorChooser and
> CustomListBox.
>
>
> DATABASE COMPONENT
>
>
> * A new method, CConnection.Subst(), that converts gambas values into
> the underlying database SQL syntax, and substitutes them in a query string.
>  * BUG: Result can manage tables whose primary keys are not the first
> fields of the table. * BUG: Result enumeration are deletion-safe now.
> * BUG: You can use variant values with functions that use substitution.
>
>
> GTK+ COMPONENT
>
>
> * Updated.
>
>
> SDL COMPONENT
>
>
> * Updated.
>
>
> OPENGL COMPONENT
>
>
> * Updated.
>
>
> --8<---------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------
>
>
>
> ABOUT THE GAMBAS COMPONENTS MADE IN GAMBAS THING
>
>
> The source of these controls is the "gb.qt" gambas project located in the
>  gb.qt component source directory. At the moment, it is part of this
> component, but it may become an independent component in the future.
>
> How does it work concretely ?
>
>
> I added a new control named "UserControl", and every user control made in
>  Gambas should inherits it. This control is just a container with no
> properties. I just embedded a Form inside it.
>
> Why is Usercontrol needed ?
>
>
> Because if you use a form as a component, the user will see all its
> public properties and event handlers. By embedding the form, I can provide
> to the user a control with the interface I want, and this way hide all the
> specific stuff located in the embedded form.
>
> UserControl is a container with no properties, and its internal
> Arrangement
> property set to 'Fill'. But it is not declared as a usable control to the
> IDE.
>
>
> The simpler for understanding is looking at the sources :-)
>
>
> For example, the ColorChooser control embeds a form named FColorChooser,
> and in the IDE you will only see ColorChooser. The internal FColorChooser
> is completely hidden.
>
> As you may know ;-) Form controls are their own event observer. So I
> attached the FColorChooser to ColorChooser to get all events generated by
> the Form, and raised back the events like Form_Open or Form_Resize that
> the form needs to work.
>
> I am not completely satisfied with that, but at the moment it is the only
> way I found to make user controls behave like I wanted.
>
>
> In the future, I may implement something like UserContainer, to help
> implementing user controls that have containers.
>
> Note that components made in Gambas work exactly like any executable
> projects. They can include all the resource files they need, and their own
>  translations.
>
> Please look at that as much as possible :-) This is the base for a future
>  implementation of components like: - Complex controls like FontChooser or
> ColorChooser: FileChooser, DirChooser,
> anything you can imagine. - Controls bound to database.
> - Report designer.
> - WebForm designer.
> - Gambas MDI windows.
> ...
>
>
> The limit is time and imagination :-)
>
>
> Enjoy it!
>
>
> --
> Benoit Minisini
> mailto:gambas at ...1...
>
>
>
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