If everything was fine, type "gambas3" to run the development environment.
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Fix an ambiguous shortcut: opening file properties dialog is now triggered by CTRL+SHIFT+I.
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Use a long dash to separate the application name in the IDE window title.
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Display the current branch in the IDE window title.
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Refresh the IDE window title only if necessary.
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Add buttons on top of tab bars to show hidden panels.
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Add a button to toggle sort by inheritance in the project tree.
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Remove the show property help option.
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Use tab bar extra buttons for showing project tree, property sheet, control tool box and property help.
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Add a specific output tab for the unit tests result.
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Add a test button, that run the project in test mode, using the debugger.
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Reorder debug panel buttons.
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Add menu entries for toggling most of the debugging environment variables.
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Adapt the background image to dark themes automatically.
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Update Gambas fonts.
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Make Gambas 16 pixels size font less round and fix many characters.
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Move the bytecode folder instead of copying it.
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Add .startup, .list and .info to projet default gitignore file.
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Update financial support list.
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Update Zen color theme.
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If chromium is selected as default browser, then stable Google Chrome can be used if Chromium is not installed.
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Do not crash if the layout user directory does not exist yet.
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Add support for test modules.
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Use bold text instead of shadows to display project titles.
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Relative paths on command-line are now assumed to be relative to the current working directory.
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Ignore untranslated title and description when displaying project information.
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The first opening of the console waits a bit so that the arrangement of its container is made.
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Add gb.test.tap to the list of components.
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Allow any form family to use the menu editor.
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Support for custom stock icons sizes depending on the form family.
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Support for gb.web.gui component.
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Redraw the module icons.
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Hitting ESC key when the focus is on the console immediate command textbox now always closes the console tab.
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Change the version control synchronize icon to the download icon.
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Use global constants for IDE blue and orange colors.
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Use -r interpreter option to redirect standard error output.
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Ignore hidden components specified in the project file.
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Automatically load gb.test information.
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Get rid of big orange panels.
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Redraw the class symbols icons, and make them adapt to the desktop font size.
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Start to clean up the image directory.
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Use new stock icons.
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Remove some useless icons.
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Remove dark versions of many icons, now they are automatically generated.
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Better default IDE configuration.
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Check for duplicated class files when opening a project.
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Do not set current project bookmark if opening the project fails.
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Update financial support file.
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Support for the new gb.poppler component.
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Implement "save as" action for external files.
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Read-only arrays are now really read-only.
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Add a -t option that dumps to the standard error the position of each executed line of code.
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Floating-point number to string conversion is now 1.7 times faster.
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System.Trace is a new property that toggles the dump of the position of each executed line.
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Add command-line help for the -t option.
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Do JIT compilation after class loading. Otherwise the JIT compiler may want to load the class that triggers the compilation again.
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Remove a useless global variable.
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Fix exponent sign printed twice in float to string conversion.
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Fix Find() method on Float, Single, and Long arrays.
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Fix compilation of function calls with variable arguments passing.
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Disable some compiler warnings that generate false positives.
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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.
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Reading a string on a memory stream now correctly skip the terminating null byte.
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Fix serialization of NULL values.
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Remove an old debugging message displayed when writing a pointer to a stream.
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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.
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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.
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Rename macro that convert a Gambas stream object to the internal stream structure and add a macro that does the reverse conversion.
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_read and _write are two new special methods that allow to make any object serializable by the READ and WRITE instructions.
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Serializing an object is not ambiguous anymore.
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Use one byte for writing the class name length when serializing objects.
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Memory-mapped component archives file descriptors are now automatically closed when a child process is executed.
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WAIT NEXT is a new instruction that waits for the next event and process it.
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Signals are now correctly unregistered if the program exits during a signal handler.
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Object.Count() does not fail anymore if the object is invalid.
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A class can declare a public _invalid boolean variable. The value of that variable will indicates if the object is invalid.
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gbx3 -L now displays the same Gambas version as gbx3 -V.
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Error.Text, Error.Where and Error.Backtrace are now available inside the Application_Error handler.
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Check special methods return value datatype and raise a dedicated error if it is incorrect.
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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!
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Add class name in incorrect symbol declaration error message.
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Fix possible memory leaks when reading objects or variants with the READ instruction.
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Application.ParentHandle is a new property that returns the parent process id.
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Fix release of return value of JIT methods called from non-JIT methods.
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Internal name of libraries uses a point now between vendor and library name, not a slash anymore.
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Running a process without an event name does not reference its observer for nothing anymore.
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IsAscii(), IsLower(), IsPunct()... instructions are now a bit faster.
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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.
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VarPtr() on variants now returns a pointer to the variant contents.
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VarPtr() on local strings are forbidden again.
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Converting a string to a pointer returns a pointer pointing at the beginning of the string.
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Call the event loop just after the JIT compiler has aborted, so that its processes are correctly freed.
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&= operator optimization.
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Strings greater than 4096 bytes are allocated by 4096 bytes steps.
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Support for JIT &= optimization.
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Enabling an already enabled timer has no effect anymore.
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Use -r option now to redirect standard error output. No conflict anymore with -t.
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Update help message and display options in alphabetic order.
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Add -T option to run test modules.
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Interpreter options now accept a void argument.
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Automatically load gb.test component when the -T option is used.
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Make READ and INPUT return void strings instead of NULL, otherwise JIT compiler fails.
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Make a public function static.
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Use time_t in GB.MakeDateFromTime API.
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Correctly generate metadata file for events so that there is no spurious ByRef arguments anymore.
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Remove some useless structure packing directives.
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Fix compilation of function calls with variable arguments passing.
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Correctly detect help comments in all cases.
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Allow initialization of variables associated with property declaration.
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Allow static arrays to be used with the point operator.
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OPEN NULL is a new syntax that opens a null stream.
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Function names can be put between parenthesis to disable possible warnings on them.
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Support for the new WAIT NEXT instruction.
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Workaround a gcc 8 compiler optimization bug.
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Fix a comment typo.
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Support for the new PEEK instruction.
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Support for test modules.
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Fix an uninitialized local variable.
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Do not crash anymore by looking for help comments in form files when controls are public.
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Support for &= operator optimization.
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Automatically add gb.test component information when a project includes a test module.
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Order options in displayed help.
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Output a class flag for test modules.
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Fix compilation of OPEN STRING instruction that sometimes failed.
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Remove now useless structure fields.
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ButtonBox: Settings the Filter property to FALSE correctly destroy the internal associated button, and prevent the control to crash if you set the property again.
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ButtonBox: Custom buttons added with _AddButton() are now always between the clear button, and the standard button.
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ButtonBox: Filter icons are now a little darker.
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ColorChooser: Use icons instead of labels for color components.
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DirChooser: ShowToolbar is a new property that toggles the toolbar.
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DirChooser: Custom bookmarks are now correctly refreshed when they change.
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DirView: Do not display an error when a directory is unreadable.
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DocumentView: Some little design changes.
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FileChooser: Correctly deal with & in bookmark names.
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FileChooser: Add a separator above the bottom filters when Border property is unset.
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FileChooser: ShowToolbar is a new property that toggles the toolbar.
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FileChooser: Custom bookmarks are now correctly refreshed when they change.
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FileProperties: Click is a new event that is raised when a tab is selected.
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FileProperties: Index is a new property that returns or sets the current tab index.
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FileProperties: Add() now returns the index of the added tab.
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FileProperties: Adding a tab does not raise the Click event anymore.
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FileProperties: Fix an error triggered by the preview.
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FileView: Display a lock icon when a directory is unreadable.
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FileView: Display a text inside the view when a directory is empty.
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FontChooser: Initializing the font tree is now a lot faster.
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IconPanel: Scale the panel icons so that each panel title has the same height.
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ListEditor: Activate event is now emitted if the user clicks twice on the list.
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ListEditor: Unique is a new property that ensures that all ListEditor elements are unique.
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ListEditor: Add Remove() method.
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ListEditor: Add Find() method.
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ListEditor: Add Index property.
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ListEditor: Text property now returns or sets the text currently edited.
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ListEditor: The insert button text is now "Add".
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MenuButton: Correctly deal with & shortcut character.
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SliderBox: The default value is now applied when double-clicking on the spinbox, not the slider.
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SliderBox: Add a Picture property.
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Spinner: Add a Padding property.
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Stock: Analyze icon directories in alphabetic order, so that numeric directory names are always identified first.
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Stock: Better support of some icon themes.
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TabPanel: Add TabBarPaddingStart and TabBarPaddingEnd properties. They allow to define space on the left and the right of the tab bar, so that you can put some widgets on top.
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TabPanel: Fix tab bar layout routine.
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TabPanel: The "close all" button is now drawn after the right padding.
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TabPanel: TabBarSize is a new property that returns the height of the tab bar.
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Use the KDE SVG version of Tux that is a lot smaller.
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Add may new stock icons.
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Update translations.
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TextBox: Add Placeholder property. Beware that it does nothing as GTK+2 entry widget does not support placeholder text.
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Window: Add a State event that is raised when the window is minimized, maximized or set to full screen.
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Windows whose Utility property is set now use _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG instead of _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG.
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Do not imbricate focus events.
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Paint.FontScale is now "transparent". Paint.Font.Size is not changed anymore when assigning the Paint.Font property.
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TextBox and TextArea KeyPress events cannot be stolen by other controls anymore.
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Support for the new WAIT NEXT instruction.
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Fix Drag() that was returning the drag frame instead of the target control.
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Printer.Paper now works as expected.
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The Window State event is correctly raised now, and the state properties are now correctly synchronized.
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Application.DarkTheme is a new property that returns if the current color scheme is dark.
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Style.Name is now lowercase.
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Mouse.Click is a new property that returns the click index in a multi-click event.
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Negative values are replaced by zero when setting Application.Busy.
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Opening a popup always raises it to the pop now.
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TextBox: Add Placeholder property.
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Window: Add a State event that is raised when the window is minimized, maximized or set to fullscreen.
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Windows whose Utility property is set now use _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG instead of _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG.
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Do not imbricate focus events.
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Paint.FontScale is now "transparent". Paint.Font.Size is not changed anymore when assigning the Paint.Font property.
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TextBox and TextArea KeyPress events cannot be stolen by other controls anymore.
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Support for the new WAIT NEXT instruction.
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Fix Drag() that was returning the drag frame instead of the target control.
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Printer.Paper now works as expected.
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The Window State event is correctly raised now, and the state properties are now correctly synchronized.
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Application.DarkTheme is a new property that returns if the current color scheme is dark.
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Fix Style.PaintCheck() and Style.PaintArrow() for GTK+ >= 3.14.
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Style.Name is now lowercase.
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Mouse.Click is a new property that returns the click index in a multi-click event.
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Negative values are replaced by zero when setting Application.Busy.
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Opening a popup always raises it to the pop now.
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GridView: Selecting while moving the mouse cursor now raises the Select event only when the mouse button is depressed.
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GridView: Select event is not raised twice on click anymore.
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IconView: Fix grid height computation.
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IconView: Do not use rounded rectangles anymore for selection frames.
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ListBox: Click event is now raised when the Index property is modified.
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Message: The ENTER key now selects the button having the focus, not the default one, so that message boxes behave the same with GTK+ and Qt.
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Message: Add a button in message boxes to copy the message in the clipboard.
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Message: Message boxes now correctly handle multi-line text in buttons.
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Paint: Paint.Check() is a new method that draws a check mark.
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Picture: Fix how Picture[] interprets relative paths.
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Picture: Picture[] now automatically inverts the image for dark themes.
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ScrollArea: Do not show the shadows in some cases when they should not be visible.
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TreeView: ShowCheck is a new property that uses checkboxes to handle selection mode.
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TreeView: Fix right-to-left layout management.
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TreeView: Take padding into account when interpreting mouse events.
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TreeView: Use radio buttons when ShowCheck property is set with single selection mode.
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TreeView: Calling Add() or Remove() now automatically cancels the current renaming.
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TreeView: Fix multiple selection.
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TreeView: Setting the Key value with an unknown key now unselects the current key.
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TreeView: The Selection property now handles single selection mode correctly.
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Fix drag & drop frame management.
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Prevent possible flickering of drag & drop frame.
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The DragLeave event is now emitted reliably when the mouse leaves the drag and drop frame.
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Default message icons are now visible when gb.form component is not used.
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Fix Drag() that was returning the drag frame instead of the target control.
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Use the new Application.DarkTheme property.
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Add translations.
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TextBox: Add Placeholder property.
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Window: set the window size at creation to 1x1, so that there is no default size.
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Window: Add a State event that is raised when the window is minimized, maximized or set to fullscreen.
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Windows whose Utility property is set now use _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG instead of _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG.
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Control.Next and Control.Previous now never return invalid controls.
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Do not imbricate focus events.
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Apply Paint.FontScale only when Paint.Font is assigned. Not when one of the Paint.Font properties changes.
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Paint.FontScale is now "transparent". Paint.Font.Size is not changed anymore when assigning the Paint.Font property.
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Support for the new WAIT NEXT instruction.
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Fix Drag() that was returning the drag frame instead of the target control.
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Drawing on a cached DrawingArea does not display a warning message anymore.
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Application.DarkTheme is a new property that returns if the current color scheme is dark.
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Some theme-specific workarounds for Style paint methods.
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Style.Name is now lowercase.
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Mouse.Click is a new property that returns the click index in a multi-click event.
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Modal windows are now actually modal before entering their Open event.
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Negative values are replaced by zero when setting Application.Busy.
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A modal window can be opened on top of a popup window without breaking the event loop.
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TextBox: Add Placeholder property.
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Window: set the window size at creation to 1x1, so that there is no default size.
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Window: Add a State event that is raised when the window is minimized, maximized or set to full screen.
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Windows whose Utility property is set now use _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG instead of _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG.
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Control.Next and Control.Previous now never return invalid controls.
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Do not imbricate focus events.
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Workaround "Setting a QCompleter on non-editable QComboBox is not allowed" message
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Apply Paint.FontScale only when Paint.Font is assigned. Not when one of the Paint.Font properties changes.
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Utility windows now kept being in front of their parent window correctly.
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Paint.FontScale is now "transparent". Paint.Font.Size is not changed anymore when assigning the Paint.Font property.
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Support for the new WAIT NEXT instruction.
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Fix Drag() that was returning the drag frame instead of the target control.
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X11 event filter correctly handle ClientMessage events now.
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Drawing on a cached DrawingArea does not display a warning message anymore.
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Application.DarkTheme is a new property that returns if the current color scheme is dark.
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Some theme-specific workarounds for Style paint methods.
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Style.Name is now lowercase.
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Mouse.Click is a new property that returns the click index in a multi-click event.
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Modal windows are now actually modal before entering their Open event.
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Negative values are replaced by zero when setting Application.Busy.
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A modal window can be opened on top of a popup window without breaking the event loop.