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Gambas 3.16.3

What's new?

This release includes important bug fixes made since the 3.16.2 release.

Compilation and installation

Read the instructions there.

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

Enjoy it !

Changelog

DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT

  • Report editor: Use Style.FrameWidth for the padding of CoordBox, so that the control is usable with GTK+3.

  • Report editor: Fix drawing of CoordBox background.

  • Fix the rich text syntax of some tips.

  • Help browser: Hide the print button, as printing is not yet implemented in the new Qt/GTK+ WebView controls.

  • Form editor: Image properties can be set without error.

  • Additional project references using relative paths are correctly handled now.

GB.COMPRESS.ZLIB

  • zlib inflate function sometimes returns an incorrect error code that was leading to a crash.

GB.DB.MYSQL

  • All UTF-8 charsets variants are now returned as "utf8".

  • Creating a numeric field with a default value works correctly now.

GB.DB.ODBC

  • Adapt GetRecordCount() to the SQLite ODBC database driver.

GB.DBUS.TRAYICON

  • TrayIcon: Change the icon name each time the Picture property changes, so that the system tray reloads it.

GB.DESKTOP

  • Fix desktop standard paths computation when there is no explicit configuration file.

GB.FORM

  • SliderBox: Always set both the SpinBox and the Slider, so that they keep being synchronized when the SliderBox has been locked.

  • DirBox: Correctly raise the Change event each time the contents actually changes.

  • ButtonBox: Raise the Validate event.

  • MaskBox: Make cursor moves more clever.

  • MaskBox: Handle space separators correctly when setting the Text property.

  • MaskBox: Don't crash when hitting Backspace at the beginning of the editable text.

GB.FORM.EDITOR

  • TextEditor: Correctly reset the Alternate flag before starting highlighting text.

GB.FORM.MDI

  • Workspace: The Add() method now can safely move a window from a workspace to another workspace.

  • Workspace: Activating an unknown window is now silently ignored.

GB.GTK

  • Modal windows are now centered before being shown.

  • Realize the window widget before trying to center it, as we need the monitor it is displayed on.

  • Fix mouse cursor management.

  • Make popup menu event behave the same way as in Qt components.

  • Menu.Popup() now works correctly if the opened menu is not defined in the window of the click event.

  • Fix Font.RichTextSize().

  • Rich text support for <pre> markup.

  • Fix rich text paragraph and title line breaks.

  • Fix csd size computation.

GB.GTK3

  • Modal windows are now centered before being shown.

  • Realize the window widget before trying to center it, as we need the monitor it is displayed on.

  • Fix mouse cursor management.

  • Make popup menu event behave the same way as in Qt components.

  • Menu.Popup() now works correctly if the opened menu is not defined in the window of the click event.

  • Fix Font.RichTextSize().

  • Fix startup initialization.

  • Rich text support for <pre> markup.

  • Fix rich text paragraph and title line breaks.

  • Fix csd size computation.

GB.GUI.BASE

  • Message: Correctly define the message title for standard message box style.

  • Splitter: Fix how the panels follow the mouse on resize.