[Gambas-user] Release of gambas 1.9.50

Benoit Minisini gambas at ...1...
Tue Aug 14 14:43:59 CEST 2007


On mardi 14 août 2007, Benoit Minisini wrote:
> 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!

Three files are missing in the tarball, so please wait until I fix the 
problem...

-- 
Benoit Minisini




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