[Gambas-user] Release of Gambas 2.20

[Benoît Minisini]

Hi,

Here is a new release of the stable version.

This release fixes a lot of bugs in the interpreter, the development 
environment, the GUI components... Most noteworthy are:

* The Debian and Ubuntu packaging should work correctly now. 

* RDir() handles too long paths correctly. 

* The CR / NL input conversion flags is cleared when initializing a serial 
port. 

* Using gb.desktop made the interpreter crash at exit in some cases. 

* In gb.qt, TreeView.Count and ColumnView.Count now return the number of items 
in the view like in gb.gtk, not just the number of root items.

* ComboBox now raises the Click event when it gets its first element, because 
that element is automatically selected.

Beware that the two previous changes may introduce a little backward 
incompatibility in your projects! 

The full changelog then:

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[DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT]
* BUG: Always correctly round control coordinates in the form editor when
  the form Scaled property is set.
* BUG: Clicking on the "About component" button in the project property
  dialog cannot crash anymore.
* BUG: Fix the packager for Debian and Ubuntu distributions.

[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Never display newlines inside error message, the debugger does not
  like them.
* BUG: Correctly detect out of memory errors when creating big arrays.
* BUG: Use the system maximum path length constant, not ours.
* BUG: Do not crash if a RDir() finds a too long path.
* BUG: Fix string charset conversion routine API.
* BUG: DateAdd() now does not fail anymore when substracting months up to
  January.
* BUG: Allow a dynamic class to inherit a native static class without
  crashing.

[COMPILER]
* BUG: Use the system maximum path length constant, not ours.
* BUG: Allow INHERITS to be followed by any identifier.

[INFORMER]
* BUG: Use the system maximum path length constant, not ours.

[GB.DEBUG]
* BUG: Use the system maximum path length constant, not ours.

[GB.DESKTOP]
* BUG: Prevent gb.desktop from being unloaded by the interpreter. Otherwise
  there is a risk that the libxtst library is unloaded before the libx11
  library, which leads to a crash.

[GB.FORM]
* BUG: Clicking inside the FontChooser style ListBox now always works
  correctly.
* BUG: Right and bottom SidePanels now shrink as expected when their parent
  container has no arrangement.
* BUG: In DateChooser, switching to February works now, when there is 28
  days in February and the current day is greater or equal than 29.

[GB.GTK]
* BUG: Prevent a crash when creating an Image or a Picture with incorrect
  constructor arguments.
* BUG: Move the window before showing it, so that it does not flicker.
* BUG: When a modal window is running, only it can be closing from the
  window manager close button.
* BUG: Popup menus now grab events correctly.
* BUG: Store last event time for all low-level events, not just for mouse
  events.
* BUG: Dialog.OpenFile does not use Dialog.Path as default file anymore if
  Dialog.Path is a directory.
* BUG: Modal windows are really modal.
* BUG: Try to prevent a possible crash in event management.
* BUG: Fix the Key[] array accessor, so that it (almost) works like gb.qt.

[GB.NET]
* BUG: Clear the CR / NL input conversion flags when initializing a serial
  port.

[GB.PDF]
* BUG: PdfDocument.Find() now works correctly.
* BUG: PDF indexes should be read correctly now.

[GB.QT]
* BUG: Setting MovieBox Path property to NULL does not fail anymore.
* BUG: Do not try to reparent a window in its Show() method when it is
  already visible.
* BUG: Remove debugging messages.
* BUG: Fix a possible crash in the MovieBox class due to the previous
  changes.
* BUG: TreeView.Count and ColumnView.Count now return the number of items
  in the view like in gb.gtk, not just the number of root items.
* BUG: Ignore disabled tab when using the mouse wheel on TabStrip.
* BUG: Some text alignment flags were not correctly detected.
* BUG: The ComboBox now raises its click event when it gets its first
  element, because that element is automatically selected.
* BUG: Fix an infinite recursion in previous commit.

[GB.SDL.SOUND]
* BUG: Music.Pos now returns 0 when the music is stopped, and not the
  position of the last pause.

[GB.XML.RPC]
* BUG: Use CR+LF as end-of-line in the XML/RPC server.

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Enjoy it!

-- 
Benoît Minisini