[DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT]
* NEW: Update French translation.
* NEW: Support of the new '.list' file format.
* NEW: Support of the new EXPORT AS syntax.
* NEW: Update error messages.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: EXPORT AS is a new syntax for exporting a class with a specific name that can include a namespace.
* NEW: New header file to start sharing reader code with the 'gb.eval' component.
* NEW: Class names can include a colon. The part before the colon is assumed to be a namespace.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Classes exported in a namespace are now declared both in the global symbol table and in the local symbol table of their component.
* NEW: Class names are now allocated inside the symbol tables, and not in the class objects anymore.
[GB.EVAL]
* NEW: Share some reader code with the compiler.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Check special methods return value datatype and raise a dedicated error if it is incorrect.
* NEW: Error.Text, Error.Where and Error.Backtrace are now available inside the Application_Error handler.
* BUG: 'gbx3 -L' now displays the same Gambas version as 'gbx3 -V'.
* NEW: A class can declare a public '_invalid' boolean variable. The value of that variable will indicates if the object is invalid.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Do JIT compilation after class loading. Otherwise the JIT compiler may want to load the class that triggers the compilation again.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: JIT compiler does not run static initializers anymore when loading a class. Otherwise bytecode can be modified before being compiled, leading to a JIT compiler crash.
[COMPILER]
* BUG: Fix LOCK subroutine meta-information.
[GB.JIT]
* NEW: Don't display abortion debugging message if there is no compilation to abort.
* BUG: Object variables are correctly managed now.
* BUG: DO...LOOP and REPEAT...UNTIL at the beginning of the function now is correctly compiled in all cases.
[INTERPRETER]
* OPT: JIT compilation is run in two steps.
[GB.JIT]
* OPT: Run JIT compilation in the background.
* NEW: JIT.Debug is a new property that allows to enable JIT debugging messages at runtime.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: When creating a new class, set its component immediately if we know the archive it comes from.
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: Correctly load classes from archives other than the main project one.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Add a JIT API for loading classes without running the _init method.
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: Load classes without running the _init method, so that the JIT behaviour is closer to the interpreter behaviour.
* NEW: UNSAFE is a new keyword used in conjunction with FAST. It tells the JIT compiler not to do any safety check (null objects, division by zero, out of array bounds...). It makes the code a bit faster, but prone to segmentation fault.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Support for the UNSAFE keyword.
[GB.JIT]
* NEW: Support for the UNSAFE keyword.
* NEW: Check validity of objects that can be invalid.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: JIT: Support for SUPER.
* NEW: JIT: Support for extern functions.
* NEW: Add a flag in Gambas functions to know if they are static or not.
[GB.JIT]
* NEW: Support for SUPER.
* NEW: Support for extern functions.
* BUG: Fix object arrays access.
* OPT: Optimization of Abs, Sgn, Int, Fix, and Pi subroutines.
[INTERPRETER]
* OPT: String routines are now compiled with -O3.
* NEW: Don't display JIT debugging message unless GB_JIT_DEBUG is set to something different from zero.
* NEW: String whose length is greater than 256 now have a growth step of 256 bytes instead of 16.
[GB.JIT]
* NEW: Do many global optimizations as now the class metadata is fully available.
* NEW: Support for optional argument. Still buggy at the moment.
[CONFIGURATION]
* NEW: Add '.jit' directory to '.gitignore'.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: New '-j' option that disables just in time compilation.
* NEW: JIT: Support for private functions calls.
* NEW: JIT: Support for native arrays accessors.
* BUG: JIT: Fix loop support.
* NEW: JIT: Support for GOSUB.
[GB.JIT]
* NEW: GB_JIT_DEBUG is an environment variable that defines if JIT compilation debugging messages are printed.
* NEW: GB_JIT_CFLAGS is an environment variable that defines the JIT compilation flags. The default is "-O3".
* NEW: Support for native arrays accessors.
* NEW: Work on JIT continues...
* NEW: Better panic errors.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Remove the old JIT stuff.
* NEW: Calls gb.jit at runtime if needed. If a fast function has no jit implementation, the bytecode version is used.
* NEW: Start defining the JIT interface needed by the JIT functions.
* NEW: The common static character buffer is now twice the size of the maximum symbol length, to avoid possible overflows.
[GB.JIT]
* NEW: Compilation starts to work.
* NEW: Debugging messages.
* BUG: Correctly handle the current component interpreter variable when an error occurs.
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* NEW: Add an gambas appdata file and install it in /usr/share/appdata.
[DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT]
* BUG: ImageEditor: Fix a possible crash when pasting an image.
* BUG: Correctly detect if a project is handled by subversion or not.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Replace the internal `class->state` variable by two boolean flags:
`class->loaded` and `class->ready`.
* NEW: Overriding a class that is the parent of other classes is possible
again. I don't remember what prevented that to work, so I want to see.
[GB.DEBUG]
* NEW: Propagate the changes in the interpreter class structure.
[GB.EVAL]
* NEW: Propagate the changes in the interpreter class structure.
[GB.GUI.AREA]
* BUG: GridView: Setting the background color correctly refreshes the
control.
[GB.JIT]
* NEW: Propagate the changes in the interpreter class structure.
[GB.NET.SMTP]
* NEW: Replace the old gb.net.smtp component written in C and Gambas by a
new component with the same name entirely written in Gambas.
* BUG: Fix the authentication process.
* BUG: Fix how the result of the EHLO command is read.
[GB.QT4.EXT]
* NEW: LCDNumber control is now put in a "Deprecated" tab in the IDE
control toolbar.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@6403 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* NEW: Raising an error during the program exiting is possible now.
* NEW: Raise an error if an _exit method loads a new class. This is now
forbidden!
[GB.SETTINGS]
* OPT: Settings.Clear() does not mark the settings file to be saved if
there is nothing to clear.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@6293 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* OPT: Write in the bytecode file if a function uses the IsMissing() native
routine.
[INTERPRETER]
* OPT: Don't use a stack slot for missing arguments if the IsMissing()
function is not used.
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* BUG: Use a control variable to store the missing optional argument map,
so that the JIT compiler is not trapped.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@6264 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* NEW: IsMissing() is a new function that returns if an optional argument
is missing. It always returns FALSE on a non-optional argument.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Support for IsMissing().
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@6258 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* NEW: Update copyright year to 2013.
[GB.FORM]
* NEW: ImageView is a new control that allows to view an image inside a
scrolled view, at different zoom levels.
* BUG: FileProperties now works correctly if 'gb.desktop' is not used.
* NEW: The FileProperties preview tab now uses an ImageView control and has
a toolbar to zoom the preview.
* BUG: Add the 'linux' and 'gnu' icon in the stock icon list.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@5770 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* NEW: "Compress all" and "Uncompress all" action on project sub-
directories.
* BUG: Do not crash when checking for completion in text editor.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Void string contants work correctly now.
[COMPILER]
* BUG: Functions now can have up to 65536 bytecode operations instead of
32768.
* NEW: Support for the Parent property of WebPage.
* NEW: WebPage markups attributes can use the <%...%> syntax.
[GB.EVAL.HIGHLIGHT]
* NEW: HTML highlighting has be rewritten. <%...%> markups are taken into
account inside <style> and <script> markups.
[GB.FORM]
* NEW: FileView and DirView now display hidden files lightly, and symbolic
links in italic.
* NEW: File properties dialog in FileChooser and DirChooser.
[GB.FORM.STOCK]
* NEW: Default icons for some mime types.
[GB.GTK]
* BUG: Menu click event is now triggered the same way as in gb.qt4.
* BUG: Control.HasFocus() works correctly now.
* BUG: Modal windows cannot be shrinked less then their initial size
anymore.
[GB.GUI.BASE]
* NEW: IconView, TreeView, ListView and ColumnView items now have a
RichText property.
[GB.WEB]
* NEW: WebPage.Parent property returns the parent webpage that includes the
current webpage with the <<...>> markup.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@5623 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* BUG: Fix structure field alignment mismatch that led to memory leaks.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@5519 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* BUG: Fix the order of component exported classes loading after the
project has been loaded.
* BUG: Fix GB.CanRaise() API.
[GB.DB.FORM]
* NEW: DataView.Sorted is a new property that tells if the data can be
sorted by clicking on the column headers.
* NEW: DataView columns now show sort indicators, and data can be sorted in
descending order.
* NEW: DataSource.Ascending is a new property that defines the order of the
sort defined by the DataSource.Sort property.
[GB.FORM]
* NEW: Remove all controls that were moved to gb.gui.base.
* NEW: FileView file size units are translatable now.
[GB.GTK]
* NEW: Remove TreeView, ListView and ColumnView.
* NEW: Control.Tracking takes the proxy into account.
* NEW: Remove the Gambas part.
[GB.GUI.BASE]
* NEW: gb.gui.base is a new hidden component that is automatically loaded
by gb.qt4 and gb.gtk. It implements the following controls and classes
entirely in Gambas: TreeView, ListView, ColumnView, IconView, Action,
ScrollArea. These classes were located in gb.form and in the Gambas part
of GUI components before.
[GB.QT4]
* NEW: Remove TreeView, ListView and ColumnView.
* NEW: Control.Tracking takes the proxy into account.
* NEW: Remove the Gambas part.
[GB.WEB]
* NEW: Request.Query and Request.Path can be modified now.
* BUG: Overriding a CGI variable with Null works now.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@5251 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* BUG: The name of GridView controls is now always visible in the form
editor.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Support for new QUIT syntax.
* NEW: Do not display overriding prefix in class names.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: QUIT now can takes an optional argument which is the program return
value.
[GB.ARGS]
* BUG: The "--version" option is not "----version" anymore
* NEW: If an error occurs, returns 1 as exit value and not 0.
[GB.FORM]
* BUG: GridView is correctly updated now when the Border property is set.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@5246 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* NEW: Object.CanRaise() is a new method that returns if a specific object
event has an event handler.
[GB.DB.FORM]
* NEW: DataView now raises a new Data event that allows to format the
contents of a cell just before it is displayed. The event receives three
arguments: the row, the column, and the cell value directly from the
underlying database.
* NEW: DataBrowser propagates the Data event of its inner DataView.
[GB.FORM]
* BUG: TableView: Apply a white background behind the currently edited
cell.
* BUG: ScrollArea: Draw the inner shadow correctly in all cases.
[GB.GTK]
* BUG: The Font object returned by Control.Font is now correctly updated
when the font of any of its parent changes.
* BUG: Ensure that when a mouse button is pressed, the same control
receives the mouse button release event.
[GB.QT4]
* BUG: The Font object returned by Control.Font is now correctly updated
when the font of any of its parent changes.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@5059 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* OPT: New optimizations in profile file size.
* NEW: PageUp and PageDown keys now work as expected in the project filter
box.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Support for new profile file format.
[GB.DEBUG]
* OPT: New profile file format.
[GB.LIBXML]
* NEW: Make this component exclude gb.xml.
[GB.XML]
* NEW: Make this component exclude gb.libxml.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@4961 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* BUG: Add a check to not create array classes when reimplementing or
inheriting native array classes. Hope that check is not wrong...
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@4856 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* NEW: "Extern" functions should now work hopefully, but callbacks are still not yet implemented.
* BUG: Fix conversion Class -> Variant for non-virtual classes.
* BUG: Some minor bug fixes.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Load classes from JIT should work better now.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@4831 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* BUG: Fix class loading so that circular dependencies between class
initialization is possible.
* NEW: Exported classes are now completely initiliazed at startup. It may
break some things...
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* NEW: Debugging information is printed as soon as the GB_JIT environmental
variable is not null.
* NEW: If LLVM version is lesser than 3.1, a warning message is printed.
Normally, a crash should occur just after. :-)
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@4779 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* NEW: Switch to JIT compiler if available, and make it able to talk to gb.jit.
* BUG: GP must be NULL for new void stack frames.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: 'Fast' keyword means the class should be JIT-compiled.
[GB.JIT]
* NEW: JIT Compiler.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@4759 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* NEW: Define the 'Exec' preprocessor constant when making an executable.
* BUG: Packager: Replace spaces with underscores when using the vendor name
as package name prefix.
* BUG: Packager: Fix "make uninstall" in autoconf packages.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Allow to override native array classes without crashing.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: New '-x' option to define the 'Exec' preprocessor constant.
[EXAMPLES]
* NEW: MediaPlayer: Real-time seeking.
* NEW: MediaPlayer: Use gb.desktop to suspend the screen saver while
playing a media file.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@4715 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* BUG: In Report forms, draw ReportImage and ReportSvgImage according to
their Stretch property.
* NEW: Use a TabPanel instead of a TabStrip to draw the Report form.
* NEW: Make the grid visible in all form families, and align it correctly
even in a Report form.
[WEB SITE MAKER]
* NEW: Remove text shadows.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Define a minimum and maximum bytecode version that the interpreter
can handle.
[GB.FORM]
* NEW: TabPanel buttons take a bit less space.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@4389 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* OPT: Internal conversions between unicode and utf-8 have been optimized.
* OPT: String.UCase(), String.LCase() and String.Chr() have been optimized.
* BUG: Arrays of classes exported from a component or a library are now
automatically exported too.
* NEW: Param.All is a new property that returns all extra arguments as an
array.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@4143 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* NEW: The startup class icon is now just drawn with a dark outline.
* NEW: Error messages updated.
* NEW: French translation updated.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Inheritance is stricter now: the child symbol must have exactly the
same kind than the parent symbol.
* BUG: A child method must return the same datatype as its parent method
now.
* NEW: Gambas 3 executable mime description file and icon have been renamed
so that they do not conflict with Gambas 2 files.
[GB.FORM]
* BUG: IconView.Find() has been renamed as IconView.FindAt(), to avoid the
conflict with the inherited UserControl.Find() method.
[GB.FORM.MDI]
* BUG: Workspace.Children has been renamed as Workspace.Windows, because
the Workspace.Children property was in conflict with the inherited
Container.Children property.
[GB.GTK]
* NEW: ListView, TreeView and ColumnView Find() method has been renamed as
'FindAt' to match the IconView class.
[GB.IMAGE]
* NEW: Color.SetRGB() and Color.SetHSV() are two new methods that takes a
color as an integer, modifies one of its component, and returns it. They
are faster than using the ColorInfo class.
* NEW: Color.GetAlpha() returns the alpha component of a color from its
integer value.
[GB.QT4]
* NEW: ListView, TreeView and ColumnView Find() method has been renamed as
'FindAt' to match the IconView class.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@4015 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* BUG: Translatable string constants are now correctly translated when they
are used as public symbols.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@3963 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* BUG: Fix the use of boolean in the interpreter API.
* NEW: Change the GB.New() API signature, and update all components
accordingly.
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