[Gambas-user] News about Gambas 3.7 release and why it is delayed

[Fabien Bodard]

i need to hurry up so ...

But the basis is ok ... i just need to add ReportRichTextLabel

2015-02-23 2:00 GMT+01:00 Benoît Minisini <gambas at ...1...>:
> Hi,
>
> Here are news about Gambas 3.7 release and why it has been delayed...
>
> It's mainly because of a nasty bug in keyboard management in the GTK+
> component. The good news is that it is now fixed at 90%.
>
> The short explanation : GTK+ keyboard events management sucks.
>
> The long explanation : keyboard management is based on "input methods"
> that are the way complex text (non ASCII) is entered in a control.
>
> Contrary to QT, GTK+ has no way to insert some management code just
> after the input method has entered text, and just before the control
> gets it.
>
> So there is no clean way to raise the Gambas "KeyPress" event with the
> inserted text and to allow the user to cancel it if he wants to.
>
> So I had to spend hours and hours to try different workarounds and dirty
> hacks.
>
> It seems that I have finally some code that works with all input
> methods, except the XIM input method for controls others than TextBox,
> ComboBox and TextArea.
>
> The symptom is that compound keys ("^" + "e" to make an "ê" for example)
> do not send event on controls others than TextBox, ComboBox and TextArea.
>
> Don't ask me why, I have no idea. It may be my fault, but as there is no
> documentation on how to correctly use the GTK+ input method API...
>
> When you use Ubuntu, the default GTK+ input method seems to be IBUS,
> which is correctly handled in all cases. But when you use Mint, the
> default input method is XIM, which has the problem described above.
>
> I will wait a few days to be sure that I didn't break everything in
> gb.gtk, and if Fabien is agree, I will release Gambas 3.7.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Benoît Minisini
>
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Fabien Bodard