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Subject: Re: [Gambas-devel] Release of gambas 1.9.13
From: José "L. Redrejo" =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rodr=EDguez?= <jredrejo () meri
Date: 2005-07-24 19:53:41
Message-ID: 1122234821.11369.15.camel () localhost
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mmm, what happened with the gb.form and gb.xml.rpc? I have lost them in
the new release...
Only gb.settings is kept in the comp directory.
El dom, 24-07-2005 a las 19:02 +0200, Benoit Minisini escribió:
> Here is a new release of the development version.
>
> Many big changes there, some of them being experimental:
>
> * The source package structure has been redesigned a little, and now uses
> symbolic links so that size is reduced.
> * The configure script does not use $(ROOT) anymore, but only $(DESTDIR).
> Maybe making binary packages with rpmbuild is broken...
> * The IDE now stored control coordinates proportionally to the system font
> height. THIS IS EXPERIMENTAL, BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR PROJECTS!
> * Extern functions can be public.
> * The interpreter uses mmap() to load executables and components written in
> Gambas.
> * Each component can have a part written in C/C++ and a part written in
> Gambas.
> * Enumerable container classes now know when they are enumerated so that they
> can safely delete their elements.
> * Some new functions and instructions: DEBUG, ERROR, Week(), DFree().
> * Some new syntaxes in File.Dir(), File.Ext(), File.Name() and
> File.BaseName().
> * The TrayIcon class was implemented.
> * The OpenGL beta component was included.
>
> And many bug fixes of course...
>
> Please read the ChangeLog carefully before using this release!
>
> 1) The IDE storing proportional coordinates stuff is a way of having dialog
> boxes that adapt themselves to the user screen, by looking at the size of the
> font it uses.
>
> To convert a project to this feature, open it, open all forms, move all of
> them, and save the project back. The absolute coordinates are replaced by the
> scaled ones.
>
> BE CAREFUL! You may lose your projects if I made a bug, as the form files are
> modified.
>
> 2) There is a new iterator class named Enum that is used internally to
> implement the FOR EACH instruction.
>
> Try this code in older versions of Gambas:
>
> --8<---------------------------------------------
>
> DIM cCol AS NEW Collection
> DIM iInd AS Integer
> dim sElt AS String
>
> FOR iInd = 1 TO 8
> cCol[iInd] = Chr$(64 + iInd)
> NEXT
>
> FOR EACH sElt in cCol
> IF sElt = "E" THEN cCol.Clear
> NEXT
>
> --8<---------------------------------------------
>
> If it doesn't crash, you are lucky, but try it with valgrind...
>
> This new iterator class allows the Collection class to deal with elements
> removing while being enumerated. In the example, the enumeration is stopped
> by the Clear method. Removing one element will make the enumeration jumps it.
>
> There is three new functions in the interpreter API for component developers
> that have enumerable classes whose elements can disappear without notice.
>
> I will write more about that when I will start filling the new documentation
> system with updated information on how to program components.
>
> 3) Now components can have a part written in gambas. To do that, just add a
> gambas project inside the 'src' sub-directory of the component, having the
> same name as the component. That's all :-)
>
> Note that components Makefile.am were modified. Now they all share the same
> base, located in the component.am file. This file is included in all
> component Makefile.am, and do all the stuff of installing the *.component
> file, compiling the gambas part of the component, and generating the
> information files for the IDE.
>
> Enjoy it!
>
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