[Gambas-user] Release of gambas 1.9.50

[Benoit Minisini]

Hi,

I'm back from the mountains, and alive. :-) See the attached image for a proof 
(yes, it's me and my bag inside the blue cloak - it was just before the 
storm).

You get in this release mainly the result of an intensive work on gb.gtk. Now 
this component can almost replace the gb.qt one, and I did so in many 
examples for testing purpose.

You will find in the IDE project property dialog a "swap gb.qt/gb.gtk" button 
that you can use to test your projects against gb.gtk. This button will be 
remove in the final version. But please use it if you want to help testing 
gb.gtk.

The job is not finished, and the following features are not implemented:

* Sorting in TreeView, ListView and ColumnView.

* The transformation matrix of the Draw class. This feature may become 
optional in gb.qt, as it is not supported by the GTK+ drawing model. This 
will be solved in the future by the use of Cairo.

* HTML support in the TextEdit control.

* Some GridView properties.

* The "_DefaultSize" hidden properties used by the IDE when you drag a control 
from the toolbox and drop it on a form.

* The old Drag & Drop code was not reviewed and may not work.

* The MouseDrag event.

* The specific DrawingArea.Enabled behaviour.

* The Settings properties of some controls.

* The Image.Draw() method.

* The Image.Data and Image.Transparent properties.

* The Menu.Hide() and Menu.Show() methods.

* Mouse.Horizontal and Mouse.Vertical.

* Mouse.StartX and Mouse.StartY.

* The Drawing class. This feature does not exist in GTK+, so it may be removed 
from gb.qt, and/or will be replaced by some SVG support in a future release.

* The MovieBox source code was not reviewed.

* The Printer class. This feature does not exist in GTK+, so it may be removed 
from gb.qt and put in a specific component. It is actually a PS generator.

* The ProgressBar, Separator, and Slider control source code was not reviewed.

* The Control.Design property.

* Input methods are not managed by the KeyPress event.

Otherwise, here are the main changes:

* Support for autotools packages of Gambas projects, thanks to Laurent 
Carlier.

* Some new examples: a game ported from Gambas 1.0 and a PDF viewer.
 
* A new property that makes the running program a daemon. 

* Some important bug fixes in the database drivers.

* The gb.net.smtp component should work correctly in all cases now. 

* The enhanced standard dialogs were moved from gb.form to their own 
gb.form.dialog component so that they are optional.
 
And finally you can read the full ChangeLog at 
http://gambas.sf.net/changelog2.html.

Enjoy it!

-- 
Benoit Minisini
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