[GB.TEST]
* NEW: TapParser can now parse subtests. Consequently, TestRunner assembles a tree of TestAssertions.
* BUG: Remove trailing '\r' characters from TapStream lines.
By our convention a subtest is opened by a "Test ..." line and closed by
its summarizing "ok" / "not ok" assertion.
This commit regresses on TInternals's reflection tests because I added
tests for the parser and runner which need event handlers to do their
testing. These are unintentionally detected as test methods.
[GB.TEST]
* NEW: 'gb.util' and 'gb.settings' are not required anymore.
* NEW: Add an Helper module that implements the functions replacing what was used in 'gb.util' and 'gb.settings'.
* BUG: Rewrite the GetTestSuiteByName() method without 'gb.settings', and fix it. It was completely broken.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Remove the now useless testing specific code.
* NEW: 'gbx3 -T' now just loads the 'gb.test' component and calls Test.Main() passing it the '-T' option argument.
[GB.TEST]
* NEW: Move 'gb.test' sources in '/main/lib'.
* NEW: 'gb.test' has now a part written in C that allows him to load project classes on demand.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Now '-T' option with no argument calls Test._List() method.
* NEW: If '-T' gets an argument, the Test._Run() method is used.
* NEW: If '-T' argument is '*', then the Test._RunAll() method is called.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: Order options in displayed help.
[ARCHIVER]
* NEW: Order options in displayed help.
[INFORMER]
* NEW: Order options in displayed help.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Add '-T' option to run test modules.
* NEW: Update help message and display options in alphabetic order.
* BUG: Use '-r' option now to redirect standard error output. No conflict anymore with '-t'.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Support for JIT '&=' optimization.
* BUG: Fix '&=' optimization on argument variables.
* OPT: Strings greater than 4096 bytes are allocated by 4096 bytes steps.
[GB.JIT]
* NEW: JIT optimization of '&=' has been implemented.
[GB.GUI]
* BUG: Fix detection of GUI components and share some code with 'gb.gui.qt'.
[GB.GUI.QT]
* BUG: Fix detection of GUI components and share some code with 'gb.gui'.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: Support for the new PEEK instruction.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: PEEK is a new instruction that peek some bytes from a stream without removing them, so that they are available to the next READ instruction.
* OPT: IsAscii(), IsLower(), IsPunct()... instructions are now a bit faster.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Internal name of libraries uses a point now between vendor and library name, not a slash anymore.
[GB.DEBUG]
* BUG: Undo "make debugger output writes more robust". Apparently it does not work.
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: Compiling libraries works now.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Add class name in 'incorrect symbol declaration' error message.
* NEW: Opening a pipe for reading does not block anymore if the pipe has not been opened for writing yet. It help synchronizing applications using the same pipe a lot!
[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]
* NEW: WAIT NEXT is a new instruction that waits for the next event and process it.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: Support for the new WAIT NEXT instruction.
[GB.GTK]
* NEW: Support for the new WAIT NEXT instruction.
[GB.GTK3]
* NEW: Support for the new WAIT NEXT instruction.
[GB.QT4]
* NEW: Support for the new WAIT NEXT instruction.
[GB.QT5]
* NEW: Support for the new WAIT NEXT instruction.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: '_read' and '_write' are two new special methods that allow to make any object serializable by the READ and WRITE instructions.
* NEW: Rename macro that convert a Gambas stream object to the internal stream structure and add a macro that does the reverse conversion.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: OPEN NULL is a new syntax that opens a null stream. Reading always returns end of file, and writing does nothing except advancing the file pointer, allowing to know how many bytes were written.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: OPEN NULL is a new syntax that opens a null stream.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Stream.NullTerminatedString is a new property that tells if writing a string on the stream emits the string length first, or a null terminated zero byte. This property is TRUE by default on memory streams.
[COMPILER]
* BUG: Allow static arrays to be used with the point operator.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Fix static array management. They are not read-only anymore. Only methods that want to modify the size of the array are forbidden, as well as the ReadOnly property.
[COMPILER]
* BUG: Fix compilation of function calls with variable arguments passing.
* BUG: Remove some useless structure packing directives.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Fix compilation of function calls with variable arguments passing.
[GB.DRAW]
* NEW: Paint.TextHeight is a new property that returns the height of one line of text. This is not the same as Paint.Font.Height, as the device resolution is taken into account.
[GB.GTK]
* NEW: Paint.FontScale is now "transparent". Paint.Font.Size is not changed anymore when assigning the Paint.Font property.
[GB.GTK3]
* NEW: Paint.FontScale is now "transparent". Paint.Font.Size is not changed anymore when assigning the Paint.Font property.
[GB.QT4]
* NEW: Paint.FontScale is now "transparent". Paint.Font.Size is not changed anymore when assigning the Paint.Font property.
[GB.QT5]
* NEW: Paint.FontScale is now "transparent". Paint.Font.Size is not changed anymore when assigning the Paint.Font property.
* BUG: Utility windows now kept being in front of their parent window correctly.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Do JIT compilation after class loading. Otherwise the JIT compiler may want to load the class that triggers the compilation again.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Add command-line help for the '-t' option.
* NEW: The '-t' command-line option has a '--trace' long version.
* NEW: System.Trace is a new property that toggles the dump of the position of each executed line.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Uncatched errors raised from an event handler can be ignored now.
[GB.GTK]
* NEW: Uncatched errors raised from an event handler can be ignored now.
[GB.GTK3]
* NEW: Uncatched errors raised from an event handler can be ignored now.
[GB.QT4]
* NEW: Uncatched errors raised from an event handler can be ignored now.
[GB.QT5]
* NEW: Uncatched errors raised from an event handler can be ignored now.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: Don't emit debugging information for generated functions, but emit void sections for backward compatibility.
* NEW: Don't emit source file path in the debugging information.
* NEW: Add a driver API that handles debugging messages.
* NEW: Print the current date/time before any debugging message.
[GB.DB.MYSQL]
* NEW: Use the new driver API to print debugging messages.
[GB.DB.ODBC]
* NEW: Use the new driver API to print debugging messages.
[GB.DB.POSTGRESQL]
* NEW: Use the new driver API to print debugging messages.
[GB.DB.SQLITE2]
* NEW: Use the new driver API to print debugging messages.
[GB.DB.SQLITE3]
* NEW: Use the new driver API to print debugging messages.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Array.ReadOnly is a new property that make an array read-only. Once set, the property cannot be unset.
* NEW: The "Embedded array" error message has been rewritten as "Read-only array".
* NEW: Add two new standard errors: "Multidimensional array" and "Unknown class".
* NEW: Replace some specific error messages by standard errors.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: Add ByRef annotations to the ".info" files generated by the compiler. The name of "ByRef" method arguments is now prefixed with a '&' character.
[GB.DRAW]
* NEW: Paint: FontScale is a new property that defines a scale applied to the size of the fonts assigned to the Paint.Font property.
* NEW: Paint: Scale() second argument is now optional, and takes the same value as the first argument if omitted.
[GB.GTK]
* NEW: Paint: Implementation of Paint.FontScale.
* BUG: Printer: All printer events are raised between a single Paint.Begin() / Paint.End().
[GB.GTK3]
* NEW: Paint: Implementation of Paint.FontScale.
* BUG: Printer: All printer events are raised between a single Paint.Begin() / Paint.End().
* BUG: Printer: Print() does now crash anymore.
* BUG: Printer: Font sizes now are the same as with QT components.
[GB.QT4]
* NEW: Paint: Implementation of Paint.FontScale.
[GB.QT5]
* NEW: Paint: Implementation of Paint.FontScale.
[GB.EVAL]
* NEW: Highlight.Alternate is a new constant that represents the background style used for coloring code embedded into webpages.
[GB.EVAL.HIGHLIGHT]
* NEW: Support for new Highlight.Alternate style.
[GB.FORM.EDITOR]
* NEW: Support for new Highlight.Alternate style.
* NEW: Matching braces now blink with the cursor.
* BUG: When the cursor moves, the blinking timer is reset so that the cursor blinks only when it is not moving.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Ignore errors when loading a class for the JIT compiler.
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: Loading a class during JIT compilation can fail. Take that into account.
[COMPILER]
* OPT: Some optimizations in symbol table routines.
* NEW: Emit column position in almost all error messages. It makes the compiler 2.5% slower, even with the optimizations.
[CONFIGURATION]
* NEW: Update version to 3.13.90.
[DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT]
* NEW: Redone extra references support.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: Take project extra references into account.
[GB.TERM.FORM]
* BUG: Fix project description.
[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]
* BUG: Active file descriptor watches and active timers are now automatically transferred to the component declaring a custom event loop. Consequently, a process started before the declaration of the event loop will have its termination signal correctly catched.
* NEW: Use waitpid() instead of wait4().
[GB.GTK]
* BUG: Declare the event loop hook last so that active file descriptor watches and active transfer are automatically transferred.
[GB.GTK3]
* BUG: Declare the event loop hook last so that active file descriptor watches and active transfer are automatically transferred.
[GB.QT4]
* BUG: Declare the event loop hook last so that active file descriptor watches and active transfer are automatically transferred.
[GB.QT5]
* BUG: Declare the event loop hook last so that active file descriptor watches and active transfer are automatically transferred.
[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: Variant[].Sort() and Variant[].SortUsing() methods have been added.
* NEW: SortUsing() methods now take an optional sort mode as second argument.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: File.RealPath() is a new statis method that returns the the canonicalized absolute pathname of path, with no symbolic links inside.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Allocate custom language environment variables statically, because environment is accessed by shared library exit routines, after the interpreter memory allocations have been freed.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Allow one more decimal digit in floating point number constants.
* BUG: Ignore trailing zeros in the decimal part of floating point number constants. It may introduce rounding differences.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Add a API to know if a native component exists on the disk.
[GB.GUI]
* BUG: Take the other requested GUI components into account to choose the toolkit.
[GB.GUI.QT]
* BUG: Take the other requested GUI components into account to choose the toolkit.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Correctly clear observer reference on the observed object when it is freed.
* BUG: Clear environment variables set by the interpreter, as they can be read by the shared libraries exit routines after main() has been terminated.
