Gambas 3.15.0

What's new?

This release provides the following main features and fixes:

• A new unit test system made by Christof Thalhofer and Tobias Boege.

• A new diff mode in the IDE code editor.

• The ability to save and restore custom IDE layouts.

• Enhanced support for dark themes.

• Many fixes in the packager.

• A new trace mode in the interpreter.

• A new OPEN NULL syntax for opening a null stream.

• A new PEEK instruction.

• A new WAIT NEXT instruction.

• The &= operator is now hundreds of times faster.

• New special methods that allow any object to be serialized.

• A new faster gb.web.gui component that replaces gb.web.form.

• A new gb.poppler component that replaces gb.pdf.

Compilation and installation

Read the instructions there.

If everything was fine, type "gambas3" to run the development environment.

Enjoy it !

Changelog

CONFIGURATION

• Switch version to 3.15.0.

• Switch bytecode version 3.8 to 3.15.

• Change the order of compilation of components made in Gambas, so that gb.scanner is compiled after gb.form.print, as the project uses it.

• Remove INSTALL.html file. It was including deprecated links that now points at spam.

• Update mail address in appdata xml file.

• gb.ncurses now compiles on systems which only provide wide-character versions of ncurses pkg-config files.

• Update AUTHORS file.

• Compile gb.form.stock before gb.form now that is it checked in the gb.form project components.

• Fix Gambas e-mail in configuration script.

• Fix component template generator.

• Add man pages.

• Update TODO file.

• Fix gitlab CI configuration.

DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT

Automatic completion

• Add _read and _write to the list of special methods.

• Add _ready to the list of special methods.

• Fix completion of identifiers.

• Automatically load gb.test for automatic completion.

Code editor

• Add a toolbar button that toggles display of differences with last commit.

• The automatic completion now appears at the correct position when the view is splitted.

• Error messages now use the same background as the editor, to ensure they are always readable.

• When inserting a color, the color dialog is now initialized with the hexadecimal value under the cursor if any.

• The THEN keyword is now automatically inserted if missing.

• PROPERTY ... USE is taken into account by automatic variable declaration.

• If you use the PROPERTY ... USE syntax, you have to use the SHIFT key with the ENTER key to automatically insert property handlers.

• Return value of CLOSE and SHELL / EXEC ... TO syntax are now taken into account by automatic variable declaration.

Database editor

• The record count is correctly updated now, when records are removed or added.

• Creating, renaming or removing a table now correctly updates the database template file.

Debugger

• The stack trace list can be resized.

• The toggle button that switches between collection or array contents and their symbols does not disappear anymore.

• The program arguments are now defined through a specific dialog displayed when running the project.

File creation dialog

• Remember the size of new images.

Form editor

• Draw the control frame as soon as the Drag event is raised, to try to workaround a drag & drop bug.

• Add a new possible size to the toolbox.

• Replace the toolbar size option by a button on the toolbox.

• Replace the sort properties option by a button on the property sheet.

• Support for a diff mode that replaces the gui editor by a text editor showing the differences.

• Fix default size of virtual controls.

• Add a information line on the toolbox that displays the name of the current hovered toolbox control, and the component it belongs to.

• The frame of control dropped from the toolbox should correctly disappear in all cases.

• Draw the frame of control dropped from the toolbox bigger.

• Fix the tab order of the control toolbox.

• Selection of menu icons now allows stock icons again.

• Toolbox controls icons now adapt to dark themes.

Help browser

• Support for the new help wiki command.

• Fix behavior of offline documentation.

• Cancel downloading when using a custom special url.

• Handle custom array classes in help.

Image editor

• Fix a possible infinite recursion when refreshing the clipboard tab.

• Use the new stock icons in the property panel.

• Draw the grid lines with foreground color.

• Resize the information tooltip for large coordinate values.

• The grid configuration gets a sane default the first time it is toggled.

• Grid configuration is now specific to each editor.

Make executable dialog

• New design.

• Add an option that excludes test modules from the executable.

• The output of the command run after executable has been generated is now put in the IDE console.

• Ask for a confirmation when making executable if no change has been detected and project version should be incremented.

Main window

• Fix an ambiguous shortcut: opening file properties dialog is now triggered by CTRL+SHIFT+I.

• Use a long dash to separate the application name in the IDE window title.

• Display the current branch in the IDE window title.

• Refresh the IDE window title only if necessary.

• Add buttons on top of tab bars to show hidden panels.

• Add a button to toggle sort by inheritance in the project tree.

• Remove the show property help option.

• Use tab bar extra buttons for showing project tree, property sheet, control tool box and property help.

• Add a specific output tab for the unit tests result.

• Add a test button, that run the project in test mode, using the debugger.

• Reorder debug panel buttons.

• Add menu entries for toggling most of the debugging environment variables.

• Adapt the background image to dark themes automatically.

Options dialog

• Add global interface layout save/restore ability.

• Provide two default layouts : a default one, and a compact one.

• Remove "Quiet external commands" option.

• Remove "Minimize on execution" option.

• Add a slider for defining the brightness of the background.

• Make some combo-box a bit larger for some widget themes where their contents is cropped.

• The invert colors option is now active only on dark themes.

Packager

• *.deb packaging now supports spaces in package target directory name.

• Fix ArchLinux packager.

• Take package release number into account in rpm & deb dummy package dependencies.

• Add distribution suffix in rpm support package dependencies.

• Fix refresh of extra dependencies and additional files tables.

• New option to add the project major version number to the package name.

• Underscores are now allowed in extra dependencies package names.

• Emit dependencies for component projects.

• Package directory is now stored in the project configuration file.

• Fix deb package clean directive so that it only deletes the .gambas directory and the executable.

• Do not use compiler absolute path in packages.

• Packaging a component with no requirements does not crash anymore.

Project open dialog

• Do not display the file chooser toolbar when selecting a project.

Project properties dialog

• The first column of environment table has now a minimum width.

• Add more project statistics.

• Add an option to add the current git branch to the project version number.

• Remove the arguments tab.

• Make some combo-box a bit larger for some widget themes where their contents is cropped.

• Fix deletion in argument list when pressing Backspace.

• Use shorter labels so that translations are visible.

Search dialog

• The project browsing is now done through a background task.

• Case insensitive search with words only now works correctly in all cases.

• Support for browsing compressed files.

Text editor

• The Compress file button tooltip now shows the actual compression ratio, not its inverse.

• Text file compression is now transparent, and activated through a toggle button.

• Uncompressed files are now stored in the .hidden/.uncompressed hidden directory. Files are removed from the old Uncompressed visible directory as soon as it is marked compressed again.

• The "remove trailing spaces" formatting option has no effect on *.md or *.MD files.

Version control

• Add a button that clears the version control terminal output.

• The command error dialog now works correctly.

• Correctly cancel commands when password dialogs are cancelled.

• All local and remote branches are now available.

• Git synchronization now updates the local list of branches.

• Fix the height of the error dialog.

• Do not log git branch commands.

• Version control information and file information are now two distinct dialog boxes.

Version control dialog

• Always open the dialog, even if there is nothing to commit.

• Add a version control history tab.

• Hide the modification tab if there is no changes.

Welcome dialog

• Sound and animation on a few specific dates. :-)

• Use a lighter version of the blue color.

Translations

• Update German translation

• Update French translation.

• Update Italian translation.

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation.

Miscellaneous

• Update Gambas fonts.

• Make Gambas 16 pixels size font less round and fix many characters.

• Move the bytecode folder instead of copying it.

• Add .startup, .list and .info to projet default gitignore file.

• Update financial support list.

• Update Zen color theme.

• If chromium is selected as default browser, then stable Google Chrome can be used if Chromium is not installed.

• Do not crash if the layout user directory does not exist yet.

• Add support for test modules.

• Use bold text instead of shadows to display project titles.

• Relative paths on command-line are now assumed to be relative to the current working directory.

• Ignore untranslated title and description when displaying project information.

• The first opening of the console waits a bit so that the arrangement of its container is made.

• Add gb.test.tap to the list of components.

• Allow any form family to use the menu editor.

• Support for custom stock icons sizes depending on the form family.

• Support for gb.web.gui component.

• Redraw the module icons.

• Hitting ESC key when the focus is on the console immediate command textbox now always closes the console tab.

• Change the version control synchronize icon to the download icon.

• Use global constants for IDE blue and orange colors.

• Use -r interpreter option to redirect standard error output.

• Ignore hidden components specified in the project file.

• Automatically load gb.test information.

• Get rid of big orange panels.

• Redraw the class symbols icons, and make them adapt to the desktop font size.

• Start to clean up the image directory.

• Use new stock icons.

• Remove some useless icons.

• Remove dark versions of many icons, now they are automatically generated.

• Better default IDE configuration.

• Check for duplicated class files when opening a project.

• Do not set current project bookmark if opening the project fails.

• Update financial support file.

• Support for the new gb.poppler component.

• Implement "save as" action for external files.

WIKI

• Fix author and translator page.

• Implement help command that inserts help defined in source code comments.

• Use the full page width.

• The @help command now can retrieve class help comments.

• Undo is now possible if the page does not exist.

• Handle custom array classes automatically.

• Add command-line options to find or replace a string in all wiki pages.

• Add a command-line option to print the package table.

• The Italian translations are now complete.

WEB SITE MAKER

• Added Brazilian Portuguese translation.

EXAMPLES

• Add debugging messages to the Printing example and use full page to print.

INTERPRETER

• Read-only arrays are now really read-only.

• Add a -t option that dumps to the standard error the position of each executed line of code.

• Floating-point number to string conversion is now 1.7 times faster.

• System.Trace is a new property that toggles the dump of the position of each executed line.

• Add command-line help for the -t option.

• Do JIT compilation after class loading. Otherwise the JIT compiler may want to load the class that triggers the compilation again.

• Remove a useless global variable.

• Fix exponent sign printed twice in float to string conversion.

• Fix Find() method on Float, Single, and Long arrays.

• Fix compilation of function calls with variable arguments passing.

• Disable some compiler warnings that generate false positives.

• 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.

• Reading a string on a memory stream now correctly skip the terminating null byte.

• Fix serialization of NULL values.

• Remove an old debugging message displayed when writing a pointer to a stream.

• 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.

• 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.

• Rename macro that convert a Gambas stream object to the internal stream structure and add a macro that does the reverse conversion.

• _read and _write are two new special methods that allow to make any object serializable by the READ and WRITE instructions.

• Serializing an object is not ambiguous anymore.

• Use one byte for writing the class name length when serializing objects.

• Memory-mapped component archives file descriptors are now automatically closed when a child process is executed.

• WAIT NEXT is a new instruction that waits for the next event and process it.

• Signals are now correctly unregistered if the program exits during a signal handler.

• Object.Count() does not fail anymore if the object is invalid.

• A class can declare a public _invalid boolean variable. The value of that variable will indicates if the object is invalid.

• gbx3 -L now displays the same Gambas version as gbx3 -V.

• Error.Text, Error.Where and Error.Backtrace are now available inside the Application_Error handler.

• Check special methods return value datatype and raise a dedicated error if it is incorrect.

• 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!

• Add class name in incorrect symbol declaration error message.

• Fix possible memory leaks when reading objects or variants with the READ instruction.

• Application.ParentHandle is a new property that returns the parent process id.

• Fix release of return value of JIT methods called from non-JIT methods.

• Internal name of libraries uses a point now between vendor and library name, not a slash anymore.

• Running a process without an event name does not reference its observer for nothing anymore.

• IsAscii(), IsLower(), IsPunct()... instructions are now a bit faster.

• 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.

• VarPtr() on variants now returns a pointer to the variant contents.

• VarPtr() on local strings are forbidden again.

• Converting a string to a pointer returns a pointer pointing at the beginning of the string.

• Call the event loop just after the JIT compiler has aborted, so that its processes are correctly freed.

• &= operator optimization.

• Strings greater than 4096 bytes are allocated by 4096 bytes steps.

• Support for JIT &= optimization.

• Enabling an already enabled timer has no effect anymore.

• Use -r option now to redirect standard error output. No conflict anymore with -t.

• Update help message and display options in alphabetic order.

• Add -T option to run test modules.

• Interpreter options now accept a void argument.

• Automatically load gb.test component when the -T option is used.

• Make READ and INPUT return void strings instead of NULL, otherwise JIT compiler fails.

• Make a public function static.

• Use time_t in GB.MakeDateFromTime API.

COMPILER

• Correctly generate metadata file for events so that there is no spurious ByRef arguments anymore.

• Remove some useless structure packing directives.

• Fix compilation of function calls with variable arguments passing.

• Correctly detect help comments in all cases.

• Allow initialization of variables associated with property declaration.

• Allow static arrays to be used with the point operator.

• OPEN NULL is a new syntax that opens a null stream.

• Function names can be put between parenthesis to disable possible warnings on them.

• Support for the new WAIT NEXT instruction.

• Workaround a gcc 8 compiler optimization bug.

• Fix a comment typo.

• Support for the new PEEK instruction.

• Support for test modules.

• Fix an uninitialized local variable.

• Do not crash anymore by looking for help comments in form files when controls are public.

• Support for &= operator optimization.

• Automatically add gb.test component information when a project includes a test module.

• Order options in displayed help.

• Output a class flag for test modules.

• Fix compilation of OPEN STRING instruction that sometimes failed.

• Remove now useless structure fields.

ARCHIVER

• Support for test modules.

• Order options in displayed help.

INFORMER

• Redesign verbose messages. Do not print anything if verbose mode is off, except warning messages.

• Order options in displayed help.

• If a component includes the information of one component among many, do not fail if the first one does not exist. Try the other ones.

SCRIPTER

• Order options in displayed help.

AUTHORS

• Added a new italian translator.

BENCHMARKS

• Add a new string benchmark.

GB.ARGS

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese translations.

GB.DB

• Add DB.LastInsertId, the static version of Connection.LastInsertId.

• Connection.ApplyTemplate() now updates existing tables.

• Connection.Url is a new property that returns the URL of the connection.

GB.DB.FORM

• DataView: Add SelectAll() and UnselectAll() methods.

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese translations.

GB.DB.MYSQL

• Add support for GB_DB_MYSQL_NOSSL environment variable, that allows to disable SSL connections. They are buggy in some versions of the mysql client library.

• Make gb.db.mysql compile with older versions of MySQL.

• Make gb.db.mysql compile with MySQL version >= 8.0.1.

• Detect SSL_MODE_DISABLED at configure time, to make the component compile on older mysql clients.

• Print a warning message if disabling SSL connection is not supported.

GB.DB.POSTGRESQL

• Fix a possible buffer overflow.

• Add license exception for OpenSSL.

• Do not put explicit copyright holder name in the COPYING file.

GB.DB.SQLITE3

• Fix memory leak in Connection.LastInsertId implementation.

GB.DBUS.TRAYICON

• Use the Unity protocol on all desktops.

GB.DEBUG

• Debug.Fifo is a new property that returns the name of the FIFO used for communication with the IDE.

GB.DESKTOP

• DesktopFile: Fix the case of the "exist" symbol that is used as a public method name.

GB.DESKTOP.X11

• X11Systray: System tray now works with QT5. A display glitch remains.

• X11Systray: Show() now takes the icon background color as second optional argument. The default color is black.

GB.DRAW

• 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.EVAL

• Don't highlight Null as constant inside the new OPEN NULL syntax.

• Do not crash anymore when analyzing a line that ends with a { character.

• Add Highlight.Added and Highlight.Removed style constants.

GB.EVAL.HIGHLIGHT

• Fix highlighting of long lines and comments.

GB.FORM

• 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.

• ButtonBox: Custom buttons added with _AddButton() are now always between the clear button, and the standard button.

• ButtonBox: Filter icons are now a little darker.

• ColorChooser: Use icons instead of labels for color components.

• DirChooser: ShowToolbar is a new property that toggles the toolbar.

• DirChooser: Custom bookmarks are now correctly refreshed when they change.

• DirView: Do not display an error when a directory is unreadable.

• DocumentView: Some little design changes.

• FileChooser: Correctly deal with & in bookmark names.

• FileChooser: Add a separator above the bottom filters when Border property is unset.

• FileChooser: ShowToolbar is a new property that toggles the toolbar.

• FileChooser: Custom bookmarks are now correctly refreshed when they change.

• FileProperties: Click is a new event that is raised when a tab is selected.

• FileProperties: Index is a new property that returns or sets the current tab index.

• FileProperties: Add() now returns the index of the added tab.

• FileProperties: Adding a tab does not raise the Click event anymore.

• FileProperties: Fix an error triggered by the preview.

• FileView: Display a lock icon when a directory is unreadable.

• FileView: Display a text inside the view when a directory is empty.

• FontChooser: Initializing the font tree is now a lot faster.

• IconPanel: Scale the panel icons so that each panel title has the same height.

• ListEditor: Activate event is now emitted if the user clicks twice on the list.

• ListEditor: Unique is a new property that ensures that all ListEditor elements are unique.

• ListEditor: Add Remove() method.

• ListEditor: Add Find() method.

• ListEditor: Add Index property.

• ListEditor: Text property now returns or sets the text currently edited.

• ListEditor: The insert button text is now "Add".

• MenuButton: Correctly deal with & shortcut character.

• SliderBox: The default value is now applied when double-clicking on the spinbox, not the slider.

• SliderBox: Add a Picture property.

• Spinner: Add a Padding property.

• Stock: Analyze icon directories in alphabetic order, so that numeric directory names are always identified first.

• Stock: Better support of some icon themes.

• 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.

• TabPanel: Fix tab bar layout routine.

• TabPanel: The "close all" button is now drawn after the right padding.

• TabPanel: TabBarSize is a new property that returns the height of the tab bar.

• Use the KDE SVG version of Tux that is a lot smaller.

• Add may new stock icons.

• Update translations.

GB.FORM.DIALOG

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation.

GB.FORM.EDITOR

• TextEditor: Highlight the entire current line when it is wrapped.

• TextEditor: Add support for integrated diff mode.

• TextEditor: CTRL+F opens a simple text search field inside the editor.

• TextEditor: Add F3 and SHIFT+F3 shortcuts for searching forward and backward in the text search popup.

• TextEditor: TextEditor[].Purge() works as expected now.

• TextEditor: Do not use Application.Busy in Load() and Save() methods.

• TextEditor: String closing routine should be less stupid now.

• TextEditor: Draw wrapped lines with little arrows at the end.

• TextEditor: Moving down now should work as expected on wrapped lines.

• TextEditor: Inserting a string delimiter at the beginning of the line does not crash anymore.

• TextEditor: Bold text is made bolder when the background is dark.

GB.FORM.MDI

• ToolBar: Draw a selected border in design mode.

• Toolbar: SetLayout() is a new static method that defines the saved layout of a toolbar from its key.

• Toolbar: GetLayout() is a new static method that returns the saved layout of a toolbar from its key.

• Toolbar: Settings is a new property that allows to return or set the toolbar layout as a string.

• Workspace: 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.

• Workspace: Add a TabPanel property that returns the inner workspace tab panel.

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese translations.

GB.FORM.PRINT

• You can continue to freely zoom with the mouse wheel when current zoom is at 100%.

• The paper size is correctly refreshed when the orientation is changed.

• Add default margin properties to the Printer class (MarginTop, MarginBottom, MarginLeft and MarginRight).

• Add component icon.

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese translations.

• Update project icon.

GB.FORM.STOCK

• Redraw some icons, and add new ones.

• Add a 128 pixels version of the colored directory icon.

• Add 128 pixels version of many icons.

GB.FORM.TERMINAL

• TerminalView: ReadOnly is a new property that makes the TerminalView ignore keyboard input.

• TerminalView: Add a 2 pixels margin around the terminal contents.

• TerminalView: Add a new popup menu entry to select all the text.

• TerminalView: Automatic scrolling is not smooth anymore.

• TerminalView: Automatic scrolling is disabled when the last terminal line is hidden.

• TerminalView: Terminal output processing is now delayed until the control is visible and has been arranged, so that the terminal width is accurate.

• TerminalView: Better default colors.

• TerminalView: Reserve one pixel less between characters for bold text.

• Document the component with help comments.

• Move XTerm files to the hidden project directory.

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese translations.

GB.GEOM

• Remove unnecessary PACKED directives.

• Fix some spaces in source code.

GB.GTK

• TextBox: Add Placeholder property. Beware that it does nothing as GTK+2 entry widget does not support placeholder text.

• Window: Add a State event that is raised when the window is minimized, maximized or set to full screen.

• Windows whose Utility property is set now use _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG instead of _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG.

• Do not imbricate focus events.

• Paint.FontScale is now "transparent". Paint.Font.Size is not changed anymore when assigning the Paint.Font property.

• TextBox and TextArea KeyPress events cannot be stolen by other controls anymore.

• Support for the new WAIT NEXT instruction.

• Fix Drag() that was returning the drag frame instead of the target control.

• Printer.Paper now works as expected.

• The Window State event is correctly raised now, and the state properties are now correctly synchronized.

• Application.DarkTheme is a new property that returns if the current color scheme is dark.

• Style.Name is now lowercase.

• Mouse.Click is a new property that returns the click index in a multi-click event.

• Negative values are replaced by zero when setting Application.Busy.

• Opening a popup always raises it to the pop now.

GB.GTK3

• TextBox: Add Placeholder property.

• Window: Add a State event that is raised when the window is minimized, maximized or set to fullscreen.

• Windows whose Utility property is set now use _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG instead of _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG.

• Do not imbricate focus events.

• Paint.FontScale is now "transparent". Paint.Font.Size is not changed anymore when assigning the Paint.Font property.

• TextBox and TextArea KeyPress events cannot be stolen by other controls anymore.

• Support for the new WAIT NEXT instruction.

• Fix Drag() that was returning the drag frame instead of the target control.

• Printer.Paper now works as expected.

• The Window State event is correctly raised now, and the state properties are now correctly synchronized.

• Application.DarkTheme is a new property that returns if the current color scheme is dark.

• Fix Style.PaintCheck() and Style.PaintArrow() for GTK+ >= 3.14.

• Style.Name is now lowercase.

• Mouse.Click is a new property that returns the click index in a multi-click event.

• Negative values are replaced by zero when setting Application.Busy.

• Opening a popup always raises it to the pop now.

GB.GUI

• Fix detection of GUI components and share some code with gb.gui.qt.

GB.GUI.BASE

• GridView: Selecting while moving the mouse cursor now raises the Select event only when the mouse button is depressed.

• GridView: Select event is not raised twice on click anymore.

• IconView: Fix grid height computation.

• IconView: Do not use rounded rectangles anymore for selection frames.

• ListBox: Click event is now raised when the Index property is modified.

• 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.

• Message: Add a button in message boxes to copy the message in the clipboard.

• Message: Message boxes now correctly handle multi-line text in buttons.

• Paint: Paint.Check() is a new method that draws a check mark.

• Picture: Fix how Picture[] interprets relative paths.

• Picture: Picture[] now automatically inverts the image for dark themes.

• ScrollArea: Do not show the shadows in some cases when they should not be visible.

• TreeView: ShowCheck is a new property that uses checkboxes to handle selection mode.

• TreeView: Fix right-to-left layout management.

• TreeView: Take padding into account when interpreting mouse events.

• TreeView: Use radio buttons when ShowCheck property is set with single selection mode.

• TreeView: Calling Add() or Remove() now automatically cancels the current renaming.

• TreeView: Fix multiple selection.

• TreeView: Setting the Key value with an unknown key now unselects the current key.

• TreeView: The Selection property now handles single selection mode correctly.

• Fix drag & drop frame management.

• Prevent possible flickering of drag & drop frame.

• The DragLeave event is now emitted reliably when the mouse leaves the drag and drop frame.

• Default message icons are now visible when gb.form component is not used.

• Fix Drag() that was returning the drag frame instead of the target control.

• Use the new Application.DarkTheme property.

• Add translations.

GB.GUI.QT

• Fix detection of GUI components and share some code with gb.gui.

GB.HTTPD

• Do not use __DATE__ macro for reproducible builds.

GB.IMAGE

• Remove some surprisingly useless duplicated code in image conversion.

• Add an API to get the luminance of a color.

• Color.Invert() is a new method to invert a color.

• New dark theme color inversion algorithm.

GB.JIT

• Support for read-only arrays.

• Implement fast unsafe compilation of Byte@, Short@... functions, that just access memory without checking anything.

• Fix static arrays management.

• Add support for VarPtr() on variant variables.

• Fix VarPtr() on function arguments.

• Compiling libraries works now.

• Correctly handle unary minus operator.

• Support for the &= operator optimization.

• Cosmetic changes.

• Fix a badly written code that crashes on 32-bits CPU.

GB.MARKDOWN

• Allow special commands to be inserted anywhere in the line, except the index one.

• Lines beginning with # without a space after do not make the parser crash anymore.

• Take anchors into account correctly when generating links.

• Add a couple of tests for common problems.

GB.MEDIA

• MediaPipeline: Play() now takes an extra optional argument that allows not to wait for the command completion.

• GB_MEDIA_DEBUG is a new environment variable that toggles warning messages.

GB.MEDIA.FORM

• MediaView: Muted is a new property that defines if the audio is muted or not.

• MediaView: Volume is a new property to return or set the audio volume.

GB.NET.SMTP

• SmtpClient: Add _= sequence in mime part boundaries, as this sequence should not be present in encoded data.

• SmtpClient: Fix quoted-printable encoding of headers containing e-mail addresses.

• SmtpClient: Clear() is a new method that clears all attachments.

• SmtpClient: Make SmtpClient able to send multiple mails correctly.

GB.OPENSSL

• An internal routine's return value was mismatched causing HMac to return without data whenever the digest method was found. (Bug#1725)

• Add Scrypt function.

• Add Pbkdf2 function.

• Unnecessary kdf.h blocking Xenial.

• KDF Functions under OpenSSL Class.

• Declare longs as longs instead of integers.

• RandomBytes length limit (1 - 0x7FFFEFF7).

• Hash incorrectly allocated by sizeof a pointer.

• Avoid doubles in integer power-of-two test.

• Add beginning of a test suite.

GB.PDF

• Raise minimal supported poppler version to 0.20.

• Fix segfault with poppler > 0.83.

• Make gb.pdf compile with poppler >= 0.85.

• Rely on pkg-config only to detect poppler library.

• Correctly disable gb.pdf component if pkg-config fails.

• Mark gb.pdf as deprecated.

GB.POPPLER

• New gb.poppler component that will replace gb.pdf. It is based on poppler-glib, except for rendering that is based on poppler-splash.

GB.QT4

• TextBox: Add Placeholder property.

• Window: set the window size at creation to 1x1, so that there is no default size.

• Window: Add a State event that is raised when the window is minimized, maximized or set to fullscreen.

• Windows whose Utility property is set now use _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG instead of _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG.

• Control.Next and Control.Previous now never return invalid controls.

• Do not imbricate focus events.

• Apply Paint.FontScale only when Paint.Font is assigned. Not when one of the Paint.Font properties changes.

• Paint.FontScale is now "transparent". Paint.Font.Size is not changed anymore when assigning the Paint.Font property.

• Support for the new WAIT NEXT instruction.

• Fix Drag() that was returning the drag frame instead of the target control.

• Drawing on a cached DrawingArea does not display a warning message anymore.

• Application.DarkTheme is a new property that returns if the current color scheme is dark.

• Some theme-specific workarounds for Style paint methods.

• Style.Name is now lowercase.

• Mouse.Click is a new property that returns the click index in a multi-click event.

• Modal windows are now actually modal before entering their Open event.

• Negative values are replaced by zero when setting Application.Busy.

• A modal window can be opened on top of a popup window without breaking the event loop.

GB.QT4.WEBKIT

• Fix incorrect declarations of special methods.

• Raise Progress evens later on the event loop, to avoir possible crashes of WebView methods.

GB.QT5

• TextBox: Add Placeholder property.

• Window: set the window size at creation to 1x1, so that there is no default size.

• Window: Add a State event that is raised when the window is minimized, maximized or set to full screen.

• Windows whose Utility property is set now use _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG instead of _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG.

• Control.Next and Control.Previous now never return invalid controls.

• Do not imbricate focus events.

• Workaround "Setting a QCompleter on non-editable QComboBox is not allowed" message

• Apply Paint.FontScale only when Paint.Font is assigned. Not when one of the Paint.Font properties changes.

• Utility windows now kept being in front of their parent window correctly.

• Paint.FontScale is now "transparent". Paint.Font.Size is not changed anymore when assigning the Paint.Font property.

• Support for the new WAIT NEXT instruction.

• Fix Drag() that was returning the drag frame instead of the target control.

• X11 event filter correctly handle ClientMessage events now.

• Drawing on a cached DrawingArea does not display a warning message anymore.

• Application.DarkTheme is a new property that returns if the current color scheme is dark.

• Some theme-specific workarounds for Style paint methods.

• Style.Name is now lowercase.

• Mouse.Click is a new property that returns the click index in a multi-click event.

• Modal windows are now actually modal before entering their Open event.

• Negative values are replaced by zero when setting Application.Busy.

• A modal window can be opened on top of a popup window without breaking the event loop.

GB.QT5.WEBKIT

• Fix incorrect declarations of special methods.

• Raise Progress events later on the event loop, to avoid possible crashes of WebView methods.

GB.REPORT2

• Font size is now the same whatever the printer resolution.

• Added Brazilian Portuguese translations.

GB.SCANNER

• Fix bug on the scanimage parser to take various configurations into account.

• An example in the source that use gb.scanner abilities.

• Better error management with an Error event.

• Add PageBegin and PageEnd events to manage actions between each page.

• Support for multiple scans from the feeder.

• Use the stock scanner icon as project icon.

GB.SDL2

• Support for the new WAIT EVENT instruction.

GB.SETTINGS

• Settings.Clear() now takes an extra optional boolean argument that tells to remove slots recursively.

• Display a better error message if the settings file directory disappeared.

• Settings.Keys.All is a new property that returns an array of all children slot keys.

• Settings.Keys.Exist() is a new method that returns if a specific child slot exists.

• Settings.Keys.Count is a new property that returns the number of children slots.

• Settings.Exist() is a new method that return if a specific settings key is set.

• Settings.Count is a new property that returns the total number of settings.

GB.TEST

• New component for unit tests.

GB.UTIL

• ClassStat: Add the flag for test modules.

• CsvFile: Charset now can be specified. If not specified, the first line of the files is used to guess if it could be WINDOWS-1252, or otherwise UTF-8.

• CsvFile: Create() is a new method for opening a CSV file for writing.

• CsvFile: Open() is a new method for opening a CSV file for reading.

• CsvFile: Quote() is a new method that quotes a value for the CSV format according to its separator and escape characters.

• Class.Stat() now understands the ".../" syntax to look for classes in the current project.

• Process: Add Expect() method that allows to answer the prompts of interactive commands running in a virtual terminal easily (think about ssh, scp...).

• String: PadRight() is a new method that pad a string to the right up to a specified length using a string pattern.

• String: PadLeft() is a new method that pad a string to the left up to a specified length using a string pattern.

• Date.ToISO8601() is a new function that converts a date to ISO-8601 format.

• String.FromHTML() has better support for <p>, <ul>, <li> and <ol> markups.

GB.UTIL.WEB

• JSONCollection.Copy() now correctly returns a JSONCollection object.

• Converting a collection into JSON is a now a bit faster.

• URL.Quote() now quotes spaces as "%20" and not "+" anymore.

• URL.UnQuote() takes a new optional argument that prevent unquoting "+" into space.

• Fix query encoding & decoding in URLQuery class.

GB.WEB

• Fix session abandon.

• Compress text responses if its size is greater than 512 bytes, not 128.

• Response.Reset() allows to send the response again.

• Response.Begin() now takes the content-type as optional argument.

• Use System.Language if the Accept-Language HTTP header is void.

• Request.Reset() is a new method that reads the request contents again.

• CGI.Reset() is a new method that resets CGI variables to their initial values.

• Response.SendFile() now correctly deals with relative paths.

• CGI.All is a new property that returns a collection of all CGI environment variables.

• Do not unquote "+" into space in query strings.

GB.WEB.FORM

• Fix management of dynamically created popups.

• Make table headers sticky.

• Fix window buttons.

• Document the component.

• Update project title.

• Fix a typo in WebMenu properties declaration.

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese translations.

GB.WEB.GUI

• New component that replaces gb.web.form.

GB.XML

• Fix incorrect declaration of _put methods.