[Gambas-user] Beware of the recent changes in the development version

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 20/05/2015 01:42, richard terry a écrit :
> On 20/05/15 08:31, Benoît Minisini wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Since revision #7089, the IDE uses the new TextEditor control that
>> replaced the Editor control.
>>
>> The TextEditor control has not all the features of the old Editor
>> control yet, and it surely still have bugs. So please report any problem!
>>
>> One advantage: TextEditor is entirely written in Gambas, so it will
>> works with all GUI components. And Gambas programmes will be able to
>> easily use and extend it.
>>
>> By the way, the IDE cannot use the new gb.qt5 component yet, because it
>> seems to have many problems. For example: the Balloon is not displayed
>> on the top of other windows, and appears in the task bar; When you
>> resize the IDE console vertically, the Editor is incorrectly redrawn...
>> I have no idea why, as the two components share their code at most as
>> possible.
>>
>> So if you test the gb.qt5 component, please report any problem too!
>>
>> As for gb.qt5.webkit, you must know that QT will drop the support of
>> webkit in the next versions, and replace it by classes based on the
>> Google browser. And guess what, these classes will have less features
>> than the webkit one, especially the hability to deal with the inner DOM
>> (the WebElement Gambas class). You have been warned!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
> Benoit, do you mean the TextEdit control. My program relies heavily on
> that control and its features, without it functioning like the old one
> my entire program falls over - no more medical record progress notes
> editor. Should I be concerned, How can I find out more details.
>
> richard
>

No, TextEdit is a specific Qt control located in gb.qt4.ext. It didn't 
change. I'm talking about replacing Editor by TextEditor.

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Benoît Minisini