[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: 'System.IgnoreOverflow' is a new property that allows to ignore overflows in arithmetic operations.
* OPT: Replace most of boolean global interpreter flags by bitfields.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: New "Unknown stream size" error when 'Lof()' cannot know the size of a stream.
* BUG: If we can't know the size of a stream watched for reading, then we don't unwatch it automatically anymore.
* BUG: Streams based on non-regular file descriptors (devices for example) opened in direct mode now never use 'fstat()' for getting the file length.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Add a debug API that returns the current error message, and remove the API that printed it.
[GB.DEBUG]
* BUG: The debugger now correctly saves and prints the current error message.
[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: 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.
[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: Assert is an new instruction that raises an error as soon as its boolean argument is FALSE. The associated bytecode is not emitted if the '-x' option is specified.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Assert is an new instruction that raises an error as soon as its boolean argument is FALSE.
[GB.DEBUG]
* BUG: Fix a potential array overflow.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Add a new message error for free object being referenced.
* NEW: Raise an error if a object being freed has been referenced by its '_free' special method.
* OPT: Add a boolean flag in the class structure not to try to call the '_free' special method if there is not.
* BUG: The error backtrace is now reset only when raising a new error. Consequently, the information is now kept when an error is propagated.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@7807 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* NEW: Work on internal expression datatype analyze has continued.
* OPT: Compiling syntax trees is faster now.
[INTERPRETER]
* OPT: Analyzing objects a method or a property applies to is faster now.
* NEW: Remove an unused method in table symbol implementation.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@7647 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.
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* NEW: If the IDE throws an uncatched error, try to save all modified files
before aborting.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: If a static public method named Application_Error() is defined in
the startup class, then this method will be called when an unhandled
error is thrown, just before the program is aborted.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@5678 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* BUG: Ensure that the interpreter temporary directory is owned by the
current user and that its rights are accurate. Otherwise abort.
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* 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: Support for variable number of arguments in extern functions.
* BUG: Fix use of static classes as extern function argument.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: Support for variable number of arguments in extern functions.
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: The GB_JIT environment variable has really no effect if it is
defined but a null string.
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* NEW: Add some debugging options directly in the 'Debug' menu.
* NEW: A new option to activate the profiling of the debugged project.
* NEW: Profiling windows. Not finished yet.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Fix a crash that could occur if a error is raised inside an event
handler.
* NEW: Support for profiling.
* BUG: Fix a crash that could occur if a error is raised inside a signal
callback.
[GB.DEBUG]
* NEW: Support for profiling.
[GB.FORM]
* NEW: GridView now raises a Sort event when the sort properties are
changed.
* BUG: Fix a crash when changing the IconPanel Count property.
[GB.GTK]
* BUG: Fix the Font.Copy() method.
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* OPT: Use mmap() to allocated the stack, not malloc(). Consequently,
calling functions recursively are now very fast.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: New FAST keyword.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@4536 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* BUG: Do not try to handle Home and End keys in editors.
* BUG: Fix the translation of error messages made by the debugger.
* NEW: Update error message list.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Chmod, Chown and Chgrp were implemented.
* NEW: Stat.Auth is a new property that returns the file mode as a string,
using the format of the 'chmod' shell command.
* NEW: Rmdir raises a specific 'Directory is not empty' error now, when
trying to remove a non-empty directory.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: Chmod <path> To <mode> was implemented. <mode> is a string having
the same format as the 'chmod' shell command.
* NEW: Chown <path> To <user> was implemented. <user> is the name of the
user as defined in the /etc/passwd file.
* NEW: Chgrp <path> To <group> was implemented. <user> is the name of the
group as defined in the /etc/group file.
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* NEW: New error message when a child process cannot be run for any reason.
* BUG: EXEC / SHELL ... FOR INPUT now work correctly when OUTPUT is not
specified, and there is not a true terminal to get the data that is not
redirected.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@4392 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* NEW: The LIKELY() and UNLIKELY() macros do nothing now, as it seems that
recent CPUs are better than humans for branch prediction.
* BUG: Error.Backtrace is accurate now.
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* BUG: Write and Read instructions now deal with NULL values without crashing.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@3946 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* BUG: Found a workaround for the AX_CFLAGS_GCC_OPTION macro bug in
autoconf 2.67.
[DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT]
* BUG: Do not try to display wiki help for symbols located in libraries.
* NEW: A new project tree filter that shows files that must be added to the
version control system.
[WIKI CGI SCRIPT]
* BUG: Use the correct language code for czech language.
* BUG: Be more clever with formatting characters having a space before or
after them.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Serialization now detects circular references and raises an error.
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* NEW: Handle compiler errors having column information.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Manage errors from native methods differently.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: Return the column in error messages generated by the parser.
[GB.GTK]
* BUG: Make TabStrip behave like in gb.qt when inserting a new tab.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@3156 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* NEW: System.FirstDayOfWeek is a new property that allows to define the
first day of the week if the default is not accurate. The default value
is gb.Sunday for english countries and gb.Monday otherwise.
* NEW: The Week() function now use the default first day of the week.
[GB.FORM]
* NEW: DateChooser now takes System.FirstDayOfWeek into account.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@3151 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* NEW: Print a summary of warning messages after each component
compilation.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: StrPtr() with a length argument now works correctly.
* NEW: Support for callbacks: when converting a function to a Pointer, an
internal closure is created with the libffi library. The pointer then can
be sent to any extern function as function pointer argument.
* BUG: Opening memory stream should work in all cases now.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@3038 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* NEW: Bytecode version has been incremented, so all projects need to be
recompiled!
[INTERPRETER]
* OPT: Many little optimizations.
* OPT: Avoid calls to setjmp() when it is possible.
* OPT: Do not encode the stack drop inside the CALL instruction.
Executables are a bit larger, but a little speed is gained.
[COMPILER]
* OPT: Do not encode the stack drop inside the CALL instruction.
Executables are a bit larger, but a little speed is gained.
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* BUG: Correctly deals with unknown components in the project property
dialog.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Error backtrace is now always printed.
* OPT: Some optimizations in mathematical routines.
[GB.IMAGE]
* NEW: Image.FillRect() is a new method that fills a rectangle with a
specified color.
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* NEW: Bytecode version has been increased, and so all projects must be
recompiled.
[INTERPRETER]
* OPT: Objects that do not raise events do not allocate the event
management structure anymore. That save four pointers by object.
* NEW: Structure management is done, and embedded (static) structures are
handled too.
* BUG: Static array management was fixed.
* NEW: All functions synonymous whose name ends with a question mark have
been removed.
[COMPILER]
* OPT: Some optimization again.
* BUG: EXTERN declarations compile again.
[GB.DB.SQLITE2]
* BUG: Fix a misuse of GB.NewString().
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@2970 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* NEW: More work on structure support.
* BUG: Fix optimization in error management.
[COMPILER]
* OPT: More optimizations. The Gambas 3 compiler is faster to compile the
Gambas 3 IDE than the Gambas 2 compiler to compile the Gambas 2 IDE,
which is smaller!
* NEW: Do not compute variable position and size, as it is done by the
interpreter anyway.
[GB.EVAL]
* NEW: Use the same optimizations as the compiler in the parser.
[GB.XML.RPC]
* BUG: The component compiles again.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@2964 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* NEW: New GB.NewZeroString() API to create a Gambas string from a
null-terminated string. Components were modified to use it.
* OPT: Many optimizations everywhere.
[COMPILER]
* OPT: Many optimizations. The compiler should be noticeably faster.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@2953 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* BUG: Do not compile database manager anymore, it has been deprecated.
* BUG: Compile the gb.dbus component.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Pointer is a real datatype now.
* NEW: Static arrays came back. They are now like real array classes,
except that they are not resizable.
* NEW: IsPointer() is a new function that tells if an expression is a
pointer.
* NEW: All XXXX?() function synonymous were removed. Use the IsXXXX()
version instead.
* NEW: Remove now useless source files.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: Static arrays came back, with actually the same syntax as before.
[EXAMPLES]
* BUG: Fix the examples according to the new array syntax.
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* NEW: gb.Text has been deprecated, and a warning is printed each time it
is used now. Use gb.IgnoreCase instead.
* NEW: Natural string comparison and sorting were implemented. Use the
gb.Natural constant for that.
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* NEW: VarPtr() now works on a string variable. It returns the address of
the string.
* NEW: TypeOf("") now returns gb.String. "" is equal to NULL yet, but now its
string datatype is kept.
* NEW: Memory is new instruction like Open that opens a memory stream from
a Pointer.
* NEW: A Pointer can not be used as a stream directly. You must use the new
Memory instruction for that.
* NEW: The [...] array constructor now checks the datatype of all its
argument to decide the type of the new array.
* BUG: The ["key":value] collection constructor now does not leak memory
anymore if it fails.
* NEW: A new error, "void key", whose code is 64.
* NEW: TypeOf(Null) now returns gb.Null and not gb.Object anymore.
* BUG: IIf() now returns a Variant only if needed. It uses the same
algorithm as the array constructor.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: Memory is new instruction like Open that opens a memory stream from
a Pointer. The syntax is: hStream = Memory pPonter For Read | Write.
* NEW: Support for form controls being individually public.
* BUG: VarPtr() is compiled correctly again.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@2339 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* BUG: Fix a backtrace memory leak in error management.
* BUG: Fix a memory leak in process streams.
[GB.FORM]
* BUG: Some bug fixes in DatePicker. It does not work correctly with
gb.gtk yet!
[GB.GTK]
* BUG: Fix the container arrangement and the ClientX / ClientY properties.
* BUG: A form is not its own event observer if one was specified at
instanciation time.
[GB.QT]
* OPT: The container arrangement is now triggered the same way as in
gb.gtk. No Qt event filter is used anymore.
[GB.QT4]
* OPT: The container arrangement optimization from gb.qt has been partially
applied to gb.qt4.
git-svn-id: svn://localhost/gambas/trunk@1858 867c0c6c-44f3-4631-809d-bfa615b0a4ec
* NEW: Bytecode version has been incremented. All projects must be
recompiled!
[DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT]
* BUG: Rewrite code that used badly overridden symbols.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Check that the overridding symbol is compatible with the overridden
one. For example, a static method can be overridden by a static method
only, a constant can be overriden by a static property, and so on.
* NEW: A new error message for badly overridden symbols.
* NEW: Tr$() is a new function that translates its argument and returns it.
[GB.GTK]
* BUG: Rewrite code that used badly overridden symbols. Affected classes
are: Window, TabStrip,
[GB.FORM.MDI]
* BUG: Translate action descriptions in the action configuration dialog.
* NEW: Sort actions by description in the action configuration dialog.
* NEW: Automatically remember action configuration dialog size.
* BUG: Fix authorized shortcuts in the shortcut edit dialog.
* BUG: Rewrite code that used badly overridden symbols. Workspace is the
only affected class.
[GB.SETTINGS]
* NEW: LoadWindow() and SaveWindow() are two new public methods to load
and save window position by specifying the settings key.
[GB.QT]
* BUG: Rewrite code that used badly overridden symbols. Affected classes
are: Window, TabStrip,
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