Gambas 3.18.0

What's new?

There are almost one thousand of changes in this release since the 3.17.3 version.

The main features of this release are:

• Many interpreter optimizations making it faster.

• The debugger interface was moved to the left panel of the IDE.

• A project browser was added to the IDE that allows to browse the project data files.

• A DBus browser was added to the IDE.

• Bool@(), Byte@()... functions can be the target of an affectation now.

• Integer arithmetic and conversion now raise an error if overflow is detected. This can be disabled at runtime for backward-compatibility.

• Properties can be write-only now.

• The database component now allows to define connection options specific to the underlying database server.

• The FileView control view modes have been redesigned and file preview has been enhanced.

• Many stock icons have been added.

• gb.hash is a new component that implements the Md5(), Sha1(), Sha256() and Sha512() functions, thanks to BusyBox.

• Many enhancements and fixes to the Web application development component.

Compilation and installation

Read the instructions there.

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

Enjoy it !

Changelog

CONFIGURATION

• New bytecode version 3.18.

• Fix detection of C++11 and C++17 compilation flags.

• Update configuration files to autoconf 2.71.

• Update README and README.md files.

• Make Makefile more silent.

• Add 48x48 version of mimetypes and application icons.

• Add m4/pkg.m4 to .gitignore list.

• Do not use the default CFLAGS provided by autotools. Either use the CFLAGS provided on the command-line, or the default one of the project.

DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT

Automatic completion

• Take local variables declared inside loops into account.

• Correctly ignore properties when completing the dot operator.

Code editor

• Selecting an item in the procedure list failed sometimes at the first click.

• Setting a breakpoint does not mark read-only files as modified anymore.

• Fix keyword detection (ME, SUPER...) when analyzing an expression to jump to a definition.

• Fix a possible crash in automatic completion of event handlers.

• Use the gb.form.editor new goto line panel instead of the custom one.

• Call the TextEditor.Reset() method when loading the contents, not to raise the Change event.

• Procedure popup is larger now.

• Paste special now automatically replaces no-break spaces by normal spaces.

Bottom panel

• Add a DBus explorer.

• Console output: Define the icon of the "raise to top" toolbar button.

Debugger

• Allow to ignore up to eight processes in extern debugging mode.

• Workaround gnome-terminal that is not able to hold its child process.

• The console automatic show should work correctly when the console is undocked now.

• Use the new TreeView item Span property, so that the headings of the debugger trees display correctly.

• Move the terminal option from global configuration to debugging configuration.

• Fix xfce4-terminal and mate-terminal support.

• Closing the internal debugger browser now stops the debugger.

• Ignore namespace when searching for current debugged class.

• Display component name in stack backtrace.

• Stack backtrace and variable list headers are not selectable anymore.

• New way of storing breakpoints into configuration file.

• Support for breakpoints inside components.

• Clear the WebView when closing the debugger browser.

• Allow to bypass the name check when searching for a component or library project location.

• Fix a possible crash in stack display during debugging.

• Allows internal browser to access clipboard from javascript code.

• Sort local and global variables.

• Clearing breakpoints outside of debugging mode now works correctly.

• Use the new debugger stock icons.

• Put the debugger in the left panel with the project tree.

• Add a button to reset the location of component projects in the debugger configuration dialog.

• Allow to choose the browser used for debugging web applications, between Firefox, Chromium or the internal debug browser.

• Add an internal browser for debugging web applications.

• The browser used for debugging is now run in its own process and in private mode. Create a custom profile in Firefox for that.

• Support for debugging inside project components. Breakpoints inside components do not work correctly yet.

Color selection dialog

• The color chooser dialog does not overflow anymore when selecting an alpha component greater or equal than 128.

File creation dialog

• The dialog is now used for creating directories.

Form editor

• Fix multicontainer menu icon.

• Make the property sheet row height padding a bit larger, following Desktop.Scale.

• Fix reading and writing of color properties so that they do not trigger an overflow. Forms must be updated and recompiled!

Help browser

• Correctly handle project help links in online mode.

• Information about project classes is correctly displayed again.

• Fix tree refresh on project change.

• Fix layout of IDE shortcuts help window.

• Use the https URL for the Gambas web site.

• Links to a class or a symbol of the current project now do not open in a new window anymore.

• Fix the online help browser settings management.

• Fix links to project classes and symbol documentation.

Image editor

• Change default line join and line cap.

• Selecting a position is more accurate.

• Support for composition operation when pasting the clipboard.

• Do not try to optimize the shape when using the line selection tool.

• Make the resize / stretch dialog remember the last selected ratio.

• Fix mouse button management during press and release events.

• Add a toolbar button that expands or shrinks the selection of the paste frame to the image size.

Main window

• Hide side panels handles.

• Add a menu button to the main toolbar to choose the debug browser.

Make executable dialog

• When making an executable, copy the executable path to the clipboard so that you can paste it to copy the file manually if you need.

Options dialog

• Fix the list of different terminals.

• Remove the ability to choose the external browser. The default one given by the environment is always used.

Packager

• Fix an infinite recursion in category selection.

• Switch Debian helper minimum version to 10.

• Correctly ignore all components provided by the runtime when generating dependencies.

Pretty printer

• A line with PRINT ending with a comma does not indent the next line.

Project browser

• Add a project browser to the IDE, based on the FileView control.

• Add a button that toggles the new project browser.

Project make executable dialog

• When installing a library, do not add the vendor prefix if the project name already has it.

Project open dialog

• Ignore .project files at the root of home folders.

Project properties dialog

• Add local repository user and e-mail in git version control information.

Project tree

• Component files now use the same sort than the project files.

• Fix popup menu entries state according to context.

• Fix visibility of version control information menu entry.

• Fix a possible crash while opening a project.

• Use a fixed size for the emblems.

• Do not crash anymore when opening the Open with popup twice.

• Change the icon for filtering compressed files.

• Lock the project tree while closing the current project, so that it raises no deferred events.

Search

• New result presentation.

Software farm dialog

• Fix layout of project description.

• Do not crash anymore when login to the farm.

System information dialog

• Add the version of some programs.

• Add librsvg to the system information.

Test suites support

• Fix test result label colors.

Text editor

• Call the TextEditor.Reset() method when loading the contents, not to raise the Change event.

• Fix the zoom buttons of the preview toolbar.

• Selecting an item in the procedure list failed sometimes at the first click.

• Fix a crash in automatic completion.

Version control

• Detect errors when git commit is impossible.

• Better detection of ssh prompts.

• Use kate if kwrite is not available as version control text editor.

• Add a menu entry that opens a terminal at the root svn / git repository.

• Add a menu entry that opens the file manager at the root svn / git repository.

• Add a bookmark that points at the svn / git repository directory the current project is part of.

• Support for creating branches.

• Add fields to define your Git repository identity in Repository tab.

• Move version control statistics to a new Repository tab in publish dialog.

• Display the state of the file on top in the information dialog.

• Check more editors for filling the EDITOR environment variable.

• Fix the routine that associates a color with a branch name.

• The command timeout is now 30 seconds instead of 15 seconds.

• Remove the Revert all changes button in the bottom panel. It can be dangerous to leave it there.

• Fix a possible crash triggered by version control initialization while opening another project.

Welcome dialog

• Stop the media player when the form is closed.

• Don't crash when stopping the medial player.

• Try to compute the dialog size better.

• Load and show the welcome dialog only if needed.

• Fix project items layout.

Miscellaneous

• Update French translation.

• The list of translatable properties is now case insensitive.

• Update module icons.

• Update some control icons.

• Update default compact layout.

• Support for write-only properties.

• Use the paste-special stock icon where appropriate.

• Redesign the unique file name generation function.

• Add gb.geom to the list of components.

• Running a project does not remove disabled environment variables anymore.

• Add the component name in IDE tab title for files from other projects.

• Do not clear the version control and the test console when the project is reloaded.

• Better find a web browser when opening an URL.

• Support for gb.hash component.

• Send crash reports to the mailing-list only if the attachment size is not too big, otherwise use my personal new e-mail address.

• Default language of newly created project is the current system language now.

• Start to fix and enhance automatic project documentation.

• The Project menu has been reorganized.

• Add a menu entry and a button to compile and create the executable without opening the executable configuration dialog.

• Always open the project executable configuration if the executable file does not exist on disk.

• Don't load the wiki documentation at exit if the wiki has never been used.

• Add shell script test-fast in root dir for quick selftest.

• Automatic local variable declaration is now enabled by default.

• Redraw the icon of source files that must not be translated.

• Hitting ESC does not crash anymore.

• Disable all actions that could modify the source code while debugging.

• Snow starts to fall one day before X-Mas now.

• Extend the snow period until the Epiphany.

• Use the new application stock icon for the farm dialog.

• Draw the current branch button with a Label and its new border properties.

• Fix colors constants overflow in all forms.

• Fix icon size in the unsaved file dialog.

• Add fuse_hiddenxxxx files to .gitignore

SELF-TESTER

• Fix the tests that now overflow.

INTERPRETER

• Array: Empty is a new property that returns if an array is empty.

• Collection: Empty is a new property that returns if a collection is empty.

• Allow to ignore up to 8 processes in external debugging mode.

• WAIT 0 is now an equivalent of WAIT alone, but with processing of input events.

• Program exit now can be hold by the debugger to workaround a missing feature of the Gnome terminal.

• Fix GB_Wait() calls as the meaning of its argument changed.

• Allow errors to propagate from event handlers when the event is internally raised by the interpreter. All events raised from a component written in Gambas through the Gambas API still do not propagate errors.

• QUIT now ends the process brutally. C++ static exit routines from unloaded shared libraries are not called anymore, avoiding crashes.

• Always flush buffered streams at exit even if the exit is immediate.

• Application.Task is a new property that returns if we are executing a Task object.

• GB.Every() API now creates a timer that is ignored by the event loop.

• Add all comparison constants to gambas.h API header file.

• Fix String[].FindSorted() and String[].ExistSorted() when using gb.Like or gb.Match comparison methods.

• Replace a global variable by a function argument in CLASS_look() and CLASS_find() functions.

• Add component name in debugger positions.

• Add an API to retrieve the last error message.

• The exported name of a class does not overwrite the name field of the class structure anymore, fixing the stack backtrace.

• Remove a now useless flag in the internal class structure.

• Support for breakpoints inside project components.

• Support for write-only properties.

• Add a class flag for bytecode strictly older than 3.18.

• Remove useless LIKELY() and UNLIKELY() macros.

• Enhance GB.SubstStringAdd() and add GB.SubstStringUnquote() API to support custom quoting in gb.db.

• Optimize array access and basic arithmetic operator on integer and floats.

• Fix compilation on non-C99 compiler.

• Some optimizations of the main interpreter loop.

• Fix optimization of dynamic variable reading.

• Fix optimization of dynamic variable writing.

• Always check bytecode version when the current class changes during interpreter execution loop.

• Don't use 3.18 multiply and divide optimization if current bytecode version is lower than 3.18.

• Various optimizations of the interpreter execution loop.

• Avoid unneeded type conversions when manipulating local variables.

• NULL can be serialized on streams correctly now.

• Optimizations of local variables and argument assignments.

• Optimization of small integer floating point constants.

• Bool@(), Byte@()... functions can be the target of an affectation now.

• Move some code outside of gbx_exec_loop.c source file.

• Fix JIT compilation of class inheriting from another class.

• Add an API for the JIT compiler that retrieves the address of an object or a class for external functions.

• The timezone now can be specified in a string representing a date, by adding a space followed by "UTC" or "GMT", a plus or minus sign, the hours, and optionnaly a colon followed the minutes.

• Fix Format$() on numbers when the format string uses "0" character in the exponant part and the exponant is negative.

• The divide operator now raises "Mathematic error" when the numerator is infinity, and raises "Division by zero" error only if the numerator is zero.

• Integer arithmetic and conversion now raise an error if overflow is detected.

• Check for overflow detection only if the __has_builtin pseudo-macro is implemented by the compiler.

• Avoid conversion to boolean when possible in conditional jumps.

• Optimization of conditional jumps based on values known to be Boolean.

• Prevent Add(), Remove() and Resize() methods on read-only arrays.

• Check all child terminations when we detect that the SIGCHLD handler has been replaced by an idiotic library like glib.

• System.IgnoreOverflow is a new property that allows to ignore overflows in arithmetic operations.

• Replace most of boolean global interpreter flags by bit fields.

• Don't use -O3. It makes benchmarks slower than using -O2.

COMPILER

• Add the branch to the version number when it comes from a VERSION file.

• Display bytecode statistics in verbose, no background task mode.

• PROPERTY WRITE now declares a write-only property.

• Does not crash anymore when a negative integer is used for the value of a floating point constant.

• Remove useless LIKELY() and UNLIKELY() macros.

• Forbid PROPERTY WRITE when compiled bytecode version is strictly lower than 3.18.

• Free 14 bytecode slots by using ADD QUICK for numbers between -255 and 255 only.

• Support for local variable manipulation optimization.

• Optimization of small integer floating point constants.

• Bool@(), Byte@()... functions can be the target of an affectation now.

• Make the compiler more clever when deciding if an identifier is a reserved keyword or not.

• Some optimizations in the parser.

• Optimize jumps pointing at a JUMP bytecode.

• The / operator correctly returns a Float if its arguments are Float.

• Optimization of conditional jumps based on values known to be Boolean.

• Workaround incorrect use of unsigned color constants by the IDE form editor.

• Don't crash anymore if an error is raised while reading command-line arguments.

• Fix parsing of Debug symbol in preprocessor lines.

• Optimize variable initialization.

ARCHIVER

• Add the -l option to list all files included in an archive.

BENCHMARKS

• Port Python benchmarks to Python 3.

• Add java benchmarks.

GB.COMPLEX

• Raise a "Mathematic error" if the real or imaginary part of a complex number is not finite.

GB.DATA

• Remove uses of deprecated LIKELY() macros.

GB.DB

• Connection: Request substitution methods now support [&1] and `&1` quoting syntax to quote a table name or a column name.

• Connection: It's now possible to specify the password in the connection URL.

• Connection: The URL argument of the Connection constructor is now handled by the Gambas part.

• Result: Editable is a new property that returns if the result is editable.

• Connection: Options is a new property that allows to define the specific options of a connection.

GB.DB.FORM

• DataSource: Prevent Save() method to call itself.

• DataView: Custom column alignment is taken into account now.

• DataView: Make blob editor fully translated.

• Update control icons.

• Update French translation.

GB.DB.MYSQL

• Support for the Connection.Options property.

• Use VARCHAR for string fields up to 65535 characters maximum length.

GB.DB.ODBC

• Support for the Collection.Options property.

GB.DB.POSTGRESQL

• Support for the Collection.Options property.

• Fix a possible buffer overflow.

• Support for partitioned tables.

GB.DB.SQLITE2

• Support for the Collection.Options property.

GB.DB.SQLITE3

• Support for the Collection.Options property.

GB.DBUS

• DBusProxy: Fix symbol signature generation.

• DBusProxy: Take annotations into account when generating signature.

• DBusConnection: DBusConnection now returns the DBusApplication object registered on the specific bus.

• DBusProxy: _GetSymbols() is a new undocumented method for decoding introspection.

• DBusProxy: _GetSignature() is made public for getting the signature of a DBus method, property or signal, both in native or Gambas syntax.

• Enhance conversion from DBus datatype to Gambas datatype.

GB.DBUS.TRAYICON

• Raise the LayoutUpdated D-Bus signal when the current desktop is Cinnamon, otherwise the menu is not refreshed. Cinnamon seems to ignore the return value of the AboutToShow event.

GB.DEBUG

• Program exit now can be hold by the debugger to workaround a missing feature of the Gnome terminal.

• Add component name in debugger positions.

• Do not display class name ^ prefix in backtraces.

• Support for breakpoints inside project components.

• Add a command to remove all breakpoints in one shot.

• Fix incorrect printf format on 32-bits architectures.

• Save errno before running the debugger, and restore it after.

• The debugger now indicates if the printed information is from the current stack frame or from another one.

GB.DESKTOP

• DesktopFile: GetIcon() now works correctly.

• DesktopMime: Fix GetIcon() so that stock mime icons are preferred.

• DesktopFile: Clean up the internal desktop file decoding method.

• DesktopFile: Add an hidden method for clearing the internal cache.

• DesktopFile: Fix FromMime() method that searched mime information files incorrectly.

GB.DESKTOP.X11

• DesktopWindow: Activate() uses the X11 class directly now.

• The component must require gb.desktop.

GB.DRAW

• Paint: LineDashOffset is now a synonymous for the DashOffset property.

• Paint: LineDash is now a synonymous for the Dash property.

• Paint: Rectangle() with a border radius now works as expected with a negative width or height.

GB.EVAL.HIGHLIGHT

• TextHighlighter: Fix ToHTML(), ToRichText() and ToANSI() methods.

• TextHighlighter: Use <tt> instead of <pre> in ToHTML() method.

• Update some CSS properties.

• Check first for bracket after function keyword.

GB.FORM

DirBrowser

• A new control that displays an horizontal directory browser.

DateBox

• Editor is a new property that returns the internal MaskBox.

DirChooser

• Find the best associated bookmark when setting the root directory.

• Showing the toolbar now automatically updates its contents according to the current view.

• Add the View property.

• SHIFT + F5 now refreshes the preview cache.

• Add a preview progress bar.

• Add a menu entry that disables the preview size limit.

• Default view is now Normal.

DirView

• Display unwritable directories with a lock emblem.

• Display directory custom icons.

FileChooser

• Showing the toolbar now automatically updates its contents according to the current view.

• Add the View property.

• SHIFT + F5 now refreshes the preview cache.

• Use the new Clipboard.CopyPaths() method.

• Add a preview progress bar.

• Add a menu entry that disables the preview size limit.

• Default view is now Normal.

FileProperties

• Use the new Trim property for the file name label.

• Add file last access time.

FileView

• Display a lock emblem on non-readable files in icon view mode.

• Add a permission column in detailed view mode.

• Add FileCount, DirCount and TotalSize properties, to get statistics on the current directory contents.

• Add a Refresh event that triggers just after the FileView has refreshed its contents.

• Correctly refresh icons on icon theme change.

• Add a Selected property that returns if at least one item is selected.

• Correctly set the item texts so that renaming works as expected in all cases.

• Add a Rename event that allows to implement a custom file renaming.

• Copy() is a new method that copy the selected elements to the clipboard as a "text/uri-list".

• Automatic support of drag & drop.

• Paths is a new property that returns the absolute paths of all selected elements.

• Add a Filter event, that allows to filter what is displayed file by file.

• The preview background task is now automatically stopped as soon as the control is hidden.

• MaxPreviewSize is a new property that allows to define the size limit of previewed file.

• The preview size limit does not apply to text files and video files.

• Remove file details in icon view mode. It's ugly.

• Fix preview refresh when the control is shown or hidden.

• Fix a crash when filling the popup menu.

• Add preview of webp image files.

• The image file previews are now cached in the /tmp directory. The cache is cleared when the process terminates.

• Fix generation of svg file previews.

• Add column padding to the detailed view, as there is no implicit padding anymore in ColumnView.

• Display directory custom icons.

• Memorize a different icon size for Compact and Normal view.

• The ShowDetailed property is now deprecated.

• View is a new property that allows to define the view style between Normal, Compact, Detailed and Preview.

• Generate thumbnails differently so that they are smooth on Qt.

• Display icons for XDG user directories having no explicit .directory desktop file.

• Add preview of text files and PDF files.

• Add preview of video files if ffmpeg is installed.

• Add preview of OpenOffice and EPub files.

• Add the file mime icon on top of its preview, except for video and images.

• Add line count in text files preview.

• Add page count in PDF or OpenOffice files preview.

• Correctly abort the preview background task when the Dir property changes.

• Reload() method takes an optional boolean argument for refreshing the preview cache.

• Do not forget to kill the preview background task is some cases.

FontChooser

• Display font preview correctly in dark mode.

ListEditor

• Add a Grid property that toggles a grid.

MenuButton

• Don't crash anymore when triggering the MenuButton shortcut.

SidePanel

• ShowButton is a new property that hides the little arrow buttons that toggle the panels, and also hides the side handle in transparent mode.

• Fix layout according to the different combinations of Transparent, Separator and Border properties values.

Stock

• Implement the ./ syntax for Gambas icon theme.

• Update stock icons.

• Fix icon map so that the generated Gambas icon theme is better.

• Add icon for Gambas 3 application in Gambas icon set.

SwitchButton

• Make the middle bar narrower.

TabPanel

• Make ShowTabPanel property visible in the IDE.

• Fix layout routine.

• Inner container was one pixel too short vertically!

• Fix container layout when ShowTabBar property is false.

• Ensure that the current tab button is always visible even if the last tab is hidden.

ValueBox

• SelectAll() is a new method that selects the text inside the ValueBox internal editor.

Miscellaneous

• Bookmarks: Changing the bookmarks automatically updates all DirChooser and FileChooser controls.

• Update French translation.

GB.FORM.EDITOR

• TextEditor: The Remove() method now normalizes its arguments to avoid crashing if they are outside the document.

• TextEditor: ShowFindPanel() and ShowGotoPanel() are now public methods for showing the action panels.

• TextEditor: Add a panel to go to a specific line.

• TextEditor: Add a default popup menu.

• TextEditor: Setting the Breakpoint property correctly raises the Change event.

• TextEditor: Raise the Change event when loading a file, settings the bookmarks or the disabled breakpoints.

• TextEditor: Raise the Change event when setting the Text property.

• TextEditor: Update French translation.

• TextEditor: Redesign the goto panel.

• TextEditor: Do not show the goto panel if there is only one line.

• TextEditor: Application.MiddleClickPaste is taken into account.

GB.FORM.HTMLVIEW

• HtmlView: Fix a crash triggered by the Clear() method.

• Fix use of C++11 compilation flags.

GB.FORM.MDI

• Toolbar: Configuring is a new property that returns if the toolbar is in configuration mode.

• Use the new Cursor constants.

GB.FORM.PRINT

• Update French translation.

• Update the layout of the option panel.

GB.FORM.STOCK

• Many icon added or redrawn.

• Gambas icon theme does not inherit gnome icon theme anymore.

• Fix Gambas IDE application icon in Gambas icon theme.

• Gambas icon theme now can have specific icons for applications.

• Update the list of icons that must be reversed with ltr languages.

GB.FORM.TERMINAL

• TerminalView: Don't open the default popup if the Menu event handler exists.

• TerminalView: Correctly update the popup menu when it opens.

• TerminalView: Compute the character width so that non-fixed font characters are not truncated.

• TerminalView: Use the new support of file paths in the Drag.Paste() method.

• Update project icon.

GB.GEOM

• Make the component visible.

• Add ALIGN_MAKE() macro in gb.geom.h.

• Add Expand() and Shrink() methods to the rectangle classes.

GB.GTK

• SvgImage: Painting routine has been redesigned and is now faster.

• TextArea: Modifying the contents by code now refreshes the control as expected.

• TextArea: Fix drag and drop.

• UserControl: Call the UserControl_Resize() public method on resize.

• The WAIT instruction alone now ignores input events like Qt components.

• Support for WAIT 0 syntax.

• Remove the native ComboBox.

• UserControl_Draw() event handler is called before drawing the control children.

• UserControl._Focus is a new property that defines if a UserControl can take focus.

• Allow calling WAIT alone during a keyboard event handler.

• The new proxy of a control is now correctly unlinked if it was already the proxy of another control.

• Closing the main window when it is persistent correctly quits the application.

• Reparenting a window correctly triggers automatic arrangement.

• The parent window of a modal window is now always the current active window.

• Hide menu before destroying it, so that the top-level menu bar is correctly updated.

• Container are now still arranged when they are hidden because of a null size.

• Container hidden because of a null size do not disable arrangement.

• Restarting a timer during its event handler should not lead to a possible crash anymore.

• Menu.Parent is a new property that returns the parent menu of a menu, or NULL if the menu is a top-level one.

• Fix menu relayout after the Show event has been handled..

• Watcher now should finally raise their Show event correctly.

• Setting the Drop property now acts on the proxy, and the DnD events are handled by the proxy first.

• Update deferred arrangements before handling focus changes (and other posted routines).

• Align.Make() is a new method that build an alignment constant from its horizontal and vertical parts.

• Fix drag & drop management.

• Popup menus are scrollable again.

• Fix some use of deprecated functions.

• Fix compilation with old versions of librsvg.

• Fix some default control sizes.

• WAIT now runs the deferred routines even if there is no pending GUI event.

• Application.MiddleClickPaste is a new property that tells if middle click should paste. The global GTK+ settings is taken into account at application startup.

• Paint.DrawText() and Paint.DrawRichText() do not move the current point anymore.

• Fix value of Key.Shift, Key.Control, Key.Alt, Key.Meta and Key.Normal.

• Control.Drag() now calls Drag(), so that text/uri mimetype is supported.

• Correctly release the current grab when the debugger wakes up.

• Starts program by assuming the clipboard has been modified.

GB.GTK3

• SvgImage: Painting routine has been redesigned and is now faster.

• TextArea: Modifying the contents by code now refreshes the control as expected.

• TextArea: Fix drag and drop.

• UserControl: Call the UserControl_Resize() public method on resize.

• The WAIT instruction alone now ignores input events like Qt components.

• Support for WAIT 0 syntax.

• Remove the native ComboBox.

• UserControl_Draw() event handler is called before drawing the control children.

• UserControl._Focus is a new property that defines if a UserControl can take focus.

• Allow calling WAIT alone during a keyboard event handler.

• The new proxy of a control is now correctly unlinked if it was already the proxy of another control.

• Closing the main window when it is persistent correctly quits the application.

• Reparenting a window correctly triggers automatic arrangement.

• The parent window of a modal window is now always the current active window.

• Implement Application.ShowTooltips property.

• Hide menu before destroying it, so that the top-level menu bar is correctly updated.

• Container are now still arranged when they are hidden because of a null size.

• Container hidden because of a null size do not disable arrangement.

• Restarting a timer during its event handler should not lead to a possible crash anymore.

• The changes in main window stylesheet do not apply to the embedded title bar anymore.

• Menu.Parent is a new property that returns the parent menu of a menu, or NULL if the menu is a top-level one.

• Fix menu relayout after the Show event has been handled..

• Watcher now should finally raise their Show event correctly.

• Setting the Drop property now acts on the proxy, and the DnD events are handled by the proxy first.

• Update deferred arrangements before handling focus changes (and other posted routines).

• Top-level window background color is correctly taken into account again.

• Align.Make() is a new method that build an alignment constant from its horizontal and vertical parts.

• Fix drag & drop management.

• Popup menus are scrollable again.

• Fix some use of deprecated functions.

• Fix compilation with old versions of librsvg.

• Fix some default control sizes.

• WAIT now runs the deferred routines even if there is no pending GUI event.

• Remove debugging messages on dnd.

• Application.MiddleClickPaste is a new property that tells if middle click should paste. The global GTK+ settings is taken into account at application startup.

• Paint.DrawText() and Paint.DrawRichText() do not move the current point anymore.

• Fix value of Key.Shift, Key.Control, Key.Alt, Key.Meta and Key.Normal.

• Control.Drag() now calls Drag(), so that text/uri mimetype is supported.

• Correctly release the current grab when the debugger wakes up.

• Starts program by assuming the clipboard has been modified.

GB.GTK3.WEBVIEW

• WebView: GetHtml() is a new method that retrieve the HTML contents of the view.

• WebView: Language is a new property that allows to define the HTTP Accept-Language headers. By default the current language is used.

• Fix use of GB.Wait().

• Don't recreate the view when clearing it, it segfaults on Wayland. Just fill it with a void page.

• WebView.Cookies.Clear() is a new method that removes all cookies.

GB.GUI.BASE

Clipboard

• Paste() now returns a file path array as soon as the mime type is "text/uri-list".

• Copy() now can takes a file path array as soon as the mime type is "text/uri-list".

ComboBox

• It's now a control written in Gambas!

Drag

• The Dnd Frame now has a darker border.

• Drag() now can takes a file path array as soon as the mime type is "text/uri-list".

GridView

• Save and restore the Paint context before calling the Draw event.

• Take custom row border into account correctly.

• Use Color.TextBackground when the Background property is set to Color.Default.

• RowAt() now returns rows at negative coordinates.

• Add GridView.Rows.Padding property for an additional cell vertical padding.

• Add GridView.Columns.Padding property for an additional cell horizontal padding.

• Start scroll timer immediately.

• Fix integer overflow in cell span management.

• Fix row and column spanning algorithm.

IconView

• Selection is now updated during rubberband selection.

• Selection is a new property that returns an array of the keys of all selected items.

• Fix computation of text icon position when renaming.

• ESC key now unselects all items.

• UnselectAll() now always resets the current item.

• Use Color.TextBackground when the Background property is set to Color.Default.

• Support for DnD.

• Rubberband selection is more clever.

• Add Scroll event.

• Select event is correctly raised again in single selection mode.

• Item shape now follows the icon size and the text size.

• The layout algorithm has been cleaned up and fixed.

• Fix drawing and selection in horizontal orientation.

• Check an update hovered item at each refresh.

• Handle PageDown and PageUp keys.

• Fix icon layout so that the number of text lines specified by IconLines is actually displayed.

Label & TextLabel

• Use the new UserControl_Resize() handler. It saves one Watcher.

• Take the frame width into account when aligning the contents.

• Clip frame drawing for style that draw an unwanted background.

• Add BorderRadius, BorderWidth and BorderColor property.

• Trim is a new property that trims the text if it overflows its frame.

• Vertically centered TextLabels take the AutoResize property into account correctly.

ListBox

• Add a Grid property, that adds a grid and some padding inside cells when set.

Picture

• Refresh() does not try to refresh invalid windows anymore.

ScrollArea

• Automatic scrolling during DnD now should work as expected.

SpinBox

• Buttons in wide mode correctly follow the enabled state now.

Splitter

• Support of the Invert property.

• Proportional resize when there is more than two children.

• Layout does not include separator size anymore.

• A double-click on the handle now resets the layout.

• Fix layout in vertical mode.

TreeView, ColumnView & ListView

• Items have a new Span boolean property, that tells if the first column spans the control width.

• No column padding by default.

• Add Padding property to the ColumnView.Columns object.

• Fix automatic resizing of the first column.

• Treeview items now have a Selectable property. If set to FALSE, the item is not selectable anymore.

• Do not cancel the row change if the row is set to -1 (no selected row).

• Add a Selected property that returns if at least one item is selected.

Miscellaneous

• The _Gui.MustAnimate() internal method is accurate now, so that animations occur on the activated window only.

• Do not crash while checking if an animation must be triggered when Application.ActiveWindow is invalid.

• Paint.StretchImage() now returns the frame of the drawn image as a rectangle.

• Rewrite and fix Paint.TrimRichText() method.

GB.HASH

• This is a new component that implements the Md5(), Sha1(), Sha256() and Sha512() functions. The code comes from BusyBox.

• Hash is a new static class with methods that implement The Md5, Sha1, Sha256 and Sha512 hash functions.

GB.HTTPD

• Fix some warnings.

GB.IMAGE

• The Image constructor now fills the image data with Color.Transparent color by default. To get uninitialized image data, you must specified Color.Default as fill color.

GB.JIT

• Optimization of small integer floating point constants.

• Bool@(), Byte@()... functions can be the target of an affectation now.

• Fix compilation of Left$(), Right$() and Mid$() routines.

• Fix JIT compilation of extern function calls.

• Implement overflow detection in integer arithmetic operations. The UNSAFE keyword disable them to get full speed.

• Support for conditional jumps optimization.

• Factorize exception management in JIT code.

GB.MAP

• Update GoogleMap tile version to make it work again.

• _ShapeItem now has a more accurate name _MapShapeItem and is exported.

• Now _MapLayer have hidden functions for mouse events (_MouseMove, _MouseUp...)

• Add a new hidden function to map to add generic _MapLayer. This will allow to easily create information layer or other.

• Continue fixing bugs.

GB.MARKDOWN

• Add error location when displaying an error message in the generated HTML.

GB.MEDIA

• Add support for GstValueArray datatype.

• Get rid of deprecated GValueArray datatype.

GB.MEDIA.FORM

• MediaView: Ensure that the internal media player is deleted with the control.

GB.OPENSSL

• Use the API instead of directly including interpreter header files. It breaks compilation on Ubuntu 22.10.1.

• Fix the sort_and_dedupe() internal method.

GB.PCRE

• Print an explicit message during configuration telling if we are using libpcre or libpcre2.

• Fix compilation on systems that only have libpcre2 installed.

GB.PDF

• Try to make gb.pdf compile with poppler 22.06, and disable it for higher versions.

GB.POPPLER

• Add C++ 17 compilation flag to make gb.poppler compile everywhere.

• Mark the component as "unfinished" instead of "unstable".

• Don't try to free unallocated things when releasing the PdfDocument object.

GB.SETTINGS

• Settings: The Maximized property of a window is now correctly restored when it is present in the settings.

GB.QT4

• Drag & Drop: Eat the DragMove event as soon as the Drop event has an event handler.

• UserControl: Call the UserControl_Resize() public method on resize.

• Support for WAIT 0 syntax.

• Remove the native ComboBox.

• Style methods draw focus and tab focus.

• UserControl._Focus is a new property that defines if a UserControl can take focus.

• Remove now useless ComboBox source code.

• Allow calling WAIT alone during a keyboard event handler.

• Ensure that the copy of a Font is internally completely detached from its source.

• The new proxy of a control is now correctly unlinked if it was already the proxy of another control.

• Use the explicit keyword in all C++ constructors.

• Fix gb.qt4 compilation.

• The parent window of a modal window is now always the current active window.

• Menu.Parent is a new property that returns the parent menu of a menu, or NULL if the menu is a top-level one.

• Correctly send wheel events to widgets that handle them when the associated control is a proxy.

• Setting the Drop property now acts on the proxy, and the DnD events are handled by the proxy first.

• Align.Make() is a new method that build an alignment constant from its horizontal and vertical parts.

• Fix some default control sizes.

• Ignore spurious duplicated mouse move events.

• Fix the use of a local variable out of scope.

• Prevent a possible infinite recursion when initializing window menu bar.

• UserControl now automatically refreshes itself when its enabled state changes.

• Application.MiddleClickPaste is a new property that tells if middle click should paste.

• Control.Drag() now calls Drag(), so that text/uri mimetype is supported.

• Fix reference leak in drag & drop target management.

• Starts program by assuming the clipboard has been modified.

GB.QT4.EXT

• TextEdit: Add InsertRichText() method, a more obvious way to set TextEdit.Selection.RichText.

GB.QT4.WEBVIEW

• WebView: GetHtml() is a new method that retrieve the HTML contents of the view.

• WebView: Add the Language property, but it has no effect on Qt4.

• WebView.Cookies.Clear() is a new method that removes all cookies.

GB.QT5

• Drag & Drop: Eat the DragMove event as soon as the Drop event has an event handler.

• UserControl: Call the UserControl_Resize() public method on resize.

• Support for WAIT 0 syntax.

• Remove the native ComboBox.

• Style methods draw focus and tab focus.

• UserControl._Focus is a new property that defines if a UserControl can take focus.

• Remove now useless ComboBox source code.

• Allow calling WAIT alone during a keyboard event handler.

• Ensure that the copy of a Font is internally completely detached from its source.

• The new proxy of a control is now correctly unlinked if it was already the proxy of another control.

• Do not use the deprecated printer functions anymore.

• Use the explicit keyword in all C++ constructors.

• The parent window of a modal window is now always the current active window.

• Menu.Parent is a new property that returns the parent menu of a menu, or NULL if the menu is a top-level one.

• Correctly send wheel events to widgets that handle them when the associated control is a proxy.

• Setting the Drop property now acts on the proxy, and the DnD events are handled by the proxy first.

• Align.Make() is a new method that build an alignment constant from its horizontal and vertical parts.

• Fix some use of deprecated functions.

• Fix some default control sizes.

• Ignore spurious duplicated mouse move events.

• Make window activation specific to the GUI platform, in the hope of finding a workaround to the fact that window activation request is impossible in Wayland.

• Fix the use of a local variable out of scope.

• Prevent a possible infinite recursion when initializing window menu bar.

• UserControl now automatically refreshes itself when its enabled state changes.

• Application.MiddleClickPaste is a new property that tells if middle click should paste.

• Control.Drag() now calls Drag(), so that text/uri mimetype is supported.

• Fix reference leak in drag & drop target management.

• Starts program by assuming the clipboard has been modified.

GB.QT5.EXT

• TextEdit: Add InsertRichText() method, a more obvious way to set TextEdit.Selection.RichText.

GB.QT5.WAYLAND

• Implement the SetTransientFor() API by using a Qt 5.13 non-documented public method.

• Add a message to warn that Window.Stacking property does not work with Wayland and Qt5.

GB.QT5.WEBVIEW

• WebView: GetHtml() is a new method that retrieve the HTML contents of the view.

• WebView: Language is a new property that allows to define the HTTP Accept-Language headers. By default the current language is used.

• WebView: Settings property is now actually specific to the view.

• Fix use of GB.Wait().

• Remove an unused class public slot.

• WebView.Cookies.Clear() is a new method that removes all cookies.

GB.REPORT2

• The German translation by Claus Dietrich is now complete.

• Remove the use of deprecated and removed function of DocumentView in ReportView. The page detection is available now

GB.SDL

• Remove useless LIKELY() and UNLIKELY() macros.

GB.SDL2

• Support for WAIT 0 syntax.

• Key.IsPressed() is a new method that tells if a specific key is pressed. An optional argument allows to ignore the keyboard layout.

• Correctly synchronize the image texture when the image has been modified by a method from gb.image.

• Clear the modified flag after the image texture has been synchronized.

GB.SETTINGS

• Settings: Reading a collection from a settings file now works correctly.

• Store and restore the maximized state of windows.

GB.SIGNAL

• Signal[].Send() is a new method for sending a signal. It's an alternative syntax to the Signal.Send() method.

GB.TEST

• Adapt Assert.Ok() method to the new backtrace format.

GB.UTIL

• CsvFile: Reading the Fields property now automatically reads the fields from the first line of the file if needed.

• Date.DaysInMonth() is a new method that returns the number of days in a month of a specific year.

• String.IsIPv6() is a new function that checks if a string is an IPv6 address.

• String.IsIP() is a new function that checks if a string is an IPv4 address.

• String.IsEmail() is a new function that checks if a string seems to be an e-mail address.

• Language.GetTranslations() method now browses the correct language files in executables.

GB.WEB

• Request.Language now correctly ignores the encoding part of the current system language.

• The contents of the .public directory is now automatically served by webpages.

GB.WEB.FORM

• Fix upload management when Request.TempDir is set.

GB.WEB.GUI

WebAudio

• Tracking is a new property that tells if the Position property is updated in real-time.

• Fix a lot of bugs and implementation problems.

• Add Tracking to the properties visible to the IDE.

• Clean up code and add inline wiki help to WebAudio.

• Do not reset play position to 0 on play in lib.js so audio can un-pause.

• Property Paused gets or sets paused state.

• Property Position gets or set song position.

• Property Duration gets song length.

• Pause event triggers when audio pauses.

• End event fires when a track finishes

• Position event fires as audio position changes during play.

• Ready event fires when audio has loaded.

• Add Sources property for alternative items.

• Add AutoPlay property to enable automatic playing on loading.

• Length is a synonym for Duration.

• For backward compatibility, Play() will play from start if not in paused state.

WebControl

• Implement Enter and Leave event.

WebDrawingArea

• A new DrawingArea control based on a HTML canvas.

• Paint is a new class that draws on a WebDrawingArea.

WebForm

• Correctly cancel refreshes on Open event, as the entire window will be redrawn.

• Disable global shortcuts when a popup -or- a modal dialog is opened.

• Disable the web page until it is fully loaded.

WebLabel

• Fix center align, by replacing justify-content:center by text-align:center.

WebTabPanel

• Correctly render all tabs, even the invisible ones.

• Optimize refresh when the current tab changes.

WebTextArea

• Change event works again.

• Accumulate text changes on the client side, and send them just before the next request.

WebTextBox

• Change event works again.

• Accumulate text changes on the client side, and send them just before the next request.

WebTimer

• Deleting a timer now always emits the javascript code that stops it on the client side.

WebTree

• Fix selection management.

• Add documentation.

• Works correctly now if there is only one item.

• Raise the Select event in single selection mode.

• Don't trigger useless refreshes when selection changes.

• The Clear() method correctly triggers a refresh.

• Settings the Mode' property correctly updates the control.

• In single selection mode, you can't unselect the selected item with the mouse anymore.

• Item Selected property does not crash anymore.

Miscellaneous

• Color: Replace WebControl._GetColor() by Color.ToHTML().

• Session: Add the server port to the session cookie.

• Keyboard events are now sent to the server only if needed (i.e. if a control or a form has a KeyPress event handler).

• New custom focus management.

• Flush the standard output before quitting.

• Remove the useless Message.Name property.

• Focus frame should be managed correctly in all cases now.

• Error raised by the Gambas code on the server should now normally be displayed in the browser within an alert box.

• Remove a possible stack overflow in javascript focus management.

• Key events modifiers do not have two different names anymore according to the context.

• Replace the $() javascript function by $_() in the internal library to avoid conflict with other libraries like jquery.

• Fix conversion of Gambas opacity to HTML transparency in colors.

• Color: Color.ToHTML() is a new method that converts a Gambas color to HTML color.

• Add gb.geom as a new dependency.

• Make the ; explicit in internally generated javascript.

• Fix component dependencies.

• Move focus frame when the window is resized.

• The cookie name now depends on the application name, so that you can run different applications on the same server.

• When checking keyboard events for shortcuts on the client side, take a possible undefined key code into account.