Gambas 3.14.3

What's new?

This release fixes an important regression in static arrays that were incorrectly read-only, and a lot of small other bugs here and there.

Compilation and installation

Read the instructions there.

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

Enjoy it !

Changelog

DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT

Automatic completion

• Add _ready to the list of special methods.

Code editor

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

• Return value of CLOSE and SHELL / EXEC ... TO syntax are now 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.

Help browser

• Handle custom array classes in help.

Packager

• Fix archlinux package generation.

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

Miscellaneous

• Update French translation.

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

• Update financial support list.

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

• Update Gambas fonts.

INTERPRETER

• 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 skips the terminating null byte.

• Fix serialization of NULL values.

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

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

COMPILER

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

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

• Workaround a gcc 8 compiler optimization bug.

• Fix a comment typo.

GB.EVAL

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

GB.FORM

• MenuButton: Correctly deal with & shortcut character.

• FileChooser: Correctly deal with & in bookmark names.

GB.GTK

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

GB.GTK3

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

GB.GUI.BASE

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

• Fix how Picture[] interprets relative paths.

GB.NET.SMTP

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

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

GB.SCANNER

• Fixed bugs in the scanimage parser to take various configurations into account.

GB.QT4

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

GB.QT5

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

GB.UTIL.WEB

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

GB.WEB

• Fix session abandon.

GB.WEB.FORM

• Fix management of dynamically created popups.