Gambas 3.17.1

What's new?

This release includes important bug fixes made since the 3.17.0 release, and a few new features.

Compilation and installation

Read the instructions there.

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

Enjoy it !

Changelog

DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT

Code editor

• Pretty printer does not confuse structure keywords with symbols anymore.

• Opening the procedure list now should make the current procedure name visible reliably.

• Identifiers can now include the "-" character for autocompletion.

Debugger

• Fix dialog initialization of debugger configuration dialog.

• Removing all breakpoints should not sometimes crash anymore.

• Display process memory size greater than 2 GiB correctly.

File property dialog

• Center the "Close" button under the TabPanel.

Form editor

• Cursor property is not applied anymore.

• Some cosmetic changes.

• Allow the DrawWith control constant to define the initial value of properties of the control used for drawing.

• When a control cannot be loaded because of a missing component, now display the form with a red background, in read-only mode, and with a button that allows to remove all controls whose component is missing.

Help browser

• Compute the title of a symbol the same way as the wiki.

• Use a SidePanel for the left panel.

• Correctly take help font into account in offline mode.

Options dialog

• Use a switch button instead of a combo.

Project open dialog

• Display the project directory on the bottom of the project box.

• Draw project box buttons differently.

Project properties dialog

• Save the project before opening the dialog.

Project tree

• Classes are now correctly sorted in all cases when showing inheritance is activated.

• Renaming does not miss sometimes the correct item anymore.

Test suites

• Add a button to run the selected test suite, that reacts to the F4 shortcut.

• Remove the test suite combo selection. The test that will be run is now the one selected in the test suite list.

• Add a button to open the test suites dialog in the test panel.

Version control

• Add a button to locate a specific change inside the source code.

• Add a rotating spinner while the git log history is loading.

• Don't wrap lines of git history log, to speed up loading of huge history.

Miscellaneous

• The IDE italian tips are now complete and correct.

• Redraw some icons.

• Update French translation.

• Update Italian translation.

COMPILER

• Line number in error message should now be correct when the faulty code spans on multiple lines.

GB.DB.POSTGRESQL

• Integer datatypes are correctly detected now.

GB.FORM

• DateChooser: Don't draw weeks if the ShowWeek property is false.

• FileProperties: Center the Close button when it is used as a dialog.

• ListEditor: The remove button is correctly enabled when the first item is selected.

• Use the new GUI API to decide if a control must be animated.

• Some new stock icons.

GB.FORM.EDITOR

• TextEditor: Correctly define the identifier characters of the different modes.

• TextEditor: Take the mode into account when selecting a word.

GB.FORM.HTMLVIEW

• HtmlView: Fix incompatibility with gb.xml.html component.

• HtmlView: Font changes now should be taken into account correctly (litehtml has some weird layout bugs sometimes).

• Update to the latest litehtml master.

GB.FORM.MDI

• Toolbar: Try to prevent a crash when configuring a toolbar.

GB.FORM.STOCK

• Some new icons, and some changes in existing ones.

GB.GTK

• Don't grab the current modal window, it seems unnecessary.

• Current modal window is not incorrectly reset at each window initialization anymore.

GB.GTK3

• Don't grab the current modal window, it seems unnecessary.

• Current modal window is not incorrectly reset at each window initialization anymore.

GB.GTK3.OPENGL

• Add linking against OpenGL libraries.

GB.GUI.BASE

• ScrollView: Ignore controls with Ignore property set when resizing the contents.

• Add a GUI API for checking if a control must be animated.

GB.QT5.WEBVIEW

• WebView: Try to prevent a possible crash when clearing the view.

GB.UTIL

• Language: Support for some languages from India.

GB.WEB.GUI

• WebScrollView: Draw the control with a ScrollView whose Border is initially unset.

• WebTable: Always define row ids, so that EnsureVisible() works when ShowCheck is TRUE.

• WebTable: Fix internal row ids and checkbox ids, so that selection works as expected.