Gambas 3.21.0

What's new?

Among the hundreds of fixes and enhancements, the main features of this release are the following:

In the development environment

• A new GUI theme with configurable roundess, flatness and contrast.

• A better debugging of web applications.

• A image editor with better selection and grid drawing, and with faster shape loading.

• A new process manager that displays all Gambas interpreter currently running on the system.

• The debugger panel can be undocked, and put on another screen if needed.

• Project tree filter has been fixed.

• Version control now allows to commit files individually.

• Version control allows to cherry-pick commits.

• The IDE is now colorized according to the current branch.

In the core language

Otherwise

• Support for recent versions of gcc.

Compilation and installation

Read the instructions there.

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

Enjoy it !

Changelog

CONFIGURATION

• Italian translation of mime and desktop files.

• Fix README and README.md files.

• Update AUTHORS file.

• Add Hasan Merkit as Turkish translator to the AUTHORS file.

• Switch bytecode version to 3.21.

• Add -std=gnu17 flag in acinclude.m4 to compile with recent versions of gcc.

• Define bool C type using typedef instead of a preprocessor define.

• Define the bool datatype only if _Bool is not a native datatype.

DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT

About dialog

• Workaround a GTK+ bug that makes the window enlarge horizontally up to the screen width.

• Disable animations on the hidden GridView.

• New design with styled borders.

Code & text editor

• Diff mode works again.

• Use thousand separators when displaying cursor position.

• Do not allow diff mode for locked files.

• Add the ability to paste as help comments in the paste special dialog.

• Always show the filter in the procedure list.

• If the procedure list displays only one name, hitting Return or Enter key automatically selects it.

• Fix editor layout in split mode.

• Procedure combo colors are defined correctly now.

• Fix local variable type detection.

• Fix error message colors.

• Always use a white background when printing editor contents.

• Correctly show and hide the current debugger position on split editor views.

• The event completion triggered when hitting _ on a function declaration is back.

• Support for json highlighting.

• Support for the new xml highlighting.

• Fix breakpoints synchronization between the editors and the debugger.

• Editor location style prefix is correctly handled now.

Console output

• Rework the undock feature.

Database editor

• Fix request editor layout.

• Some cosmetic changes.

• Display the database name in the connection button.

• Fix table copying.

Debugger

• Fix a crash occurring when clicking in a void stack backtrace list.

• Fix background color of error label on dark theme.

• Fix error message colors.

• The hexadecimal button now works on the contents tab of expression windows too.

• Use styled borders.

• Fix debugger window layout.

• Fix automatic layout of stack backtrace and breakpoints list.

• Make the stack backtrace always visible.

• Add a button for undocking the debugger panel.

• Values that just changed are displayed using the theme highlight color for the foreground, not the background.

• Do not emit the q debugger command on stop if the debugger is running.

• External debugging does not stop automatically anymore.

• Prevent a crash if the debugged process terminates while the IDE is quitting.

• Fix a possible crash when there is an error before the startup function is called.

• Open the console immediately as soon as something is written in it.

• Save debug windows configuration each time the Stop button is pressed in external debugging mode, otherwise the current configuration is lost the next time a running process is caught.

• Fix parsing of collection keys in debugger windows, thanks to the new Split() syntax.

• Don't allow to remove breakpoints while the debugger is running.

• As gb.httpd embedded HTTP server component does not serialize requests anymore, the debugger now uses external debugging to debug projects using that component, directly or indirectly.

• Fix Firefox profile name used for debugging web applications.

• Prevent a possible recursion when opening the project location dialog.

Debugger configuration dialog

• Redesign debug configuration dialog.

• Add a toggle for disabling JIT compiler cache.

• Add automatic file completion to argument list.

• Allow to toggle the "Use HTTP server" debugging option when gb.web.gui component is used.

Editor highlighting

• Fix specific IDE highlighting files.

• Highlighting themes automatically adapt to the background color.

• Remove default highlighting themes. They were moved to the gb.highlight component.

• Fix highlighting theme initialization.

• Support for new oblique style property.

• Add CSV files highlighting.

File information dialog

• Fix version control label position.

• Fix layout.

Form editor

• Fix toolbox refresh, when sometimes no tab were selected.

• Fix a possible crash when dropping a control on the background from the toolbox.

• Redraw arrangement icons.

• Display the control help when selecting a control.

• Draw panel borders correctly.

• Draw the background color of containers.

• Fix how Panel is rendered.

• Controls can define a _SimilarApply property that list the properties applied when the control is changed into another one.

• Draw border of unknown controls correctly.

• Redesign and fix gradient tab.

• Rework background drawing.

• Make the control change routine more robust to properties that are not compatible between the old and the new control type.

• Make current menu readable in the menu editor.

• Ensure that the width of the left column of the property sheet can be wide enough.

• Workaround the QT6 bug that make control with one pixel width or height invisible to mouse events.

• Fix the layout of the WebForm font selection dialog.

• The backward-compatible property conversion is now done in the family classes.

• Support for the new WebForm Font class.

• Remove all ScrollView workarounds that are not needed anymore.

• Add a placeholder text in the search field of the hierarchy tab.

• Display the controls of the libraries used by the project in the toolbox.

• Fix toolbox refresh.

• The font chooser dialog allows to explicitly toggle whether we want to use the default font family or an explicit one.

• All properties whose name ends with "Text" are translatable by default.

Help browser

• Fix offline help browser in dark mode.

• Implement the readme wiki command.

• Some CSS fixes for offline mode.

• Fix GUI components help.

Icon selection dialog

• Display the number of displayed stock icons.

Image editor

• Fix "magic wand" selection tool.

• The arrow keys can be used for moving the image when the "move" tool is enabled.

• Fix "polygon" drawing tool, and allow 3 and 4 sides.

• Take dark theme into account when drawing available shapes.

• "ellipse", "rectangle" and "polygon" tool now uses the ALT key for centering. SHIFT is for ignoring snapping.

• Use the invert stock icon everywhere.

• Always use ALT instead of SHIFT for resizing tools.

• Fix how grid state is saved.

• Remove diagonal grids, they are useless.

• Make the shape delete button smaller.

• Draw shapes with solid lines.

• Correctly detect shape points located on the shape extents.

• Optimize the loading of shapes.

• The "line" tool automatically starts at the last point of the current selection if available.

• Choosing a color now automatically selects the color tab in the property sheet.

• Opened selections now use their first and last points as magnets.

• Fix magnet representation on dark and light modes.

• The unselect selection button now unselects only the current shape if only a shape is selected.

• If SHIFT is pressed, then all points of the selection are magnets.

• Colorize action now always apply a 100% brightness increase first.

• Choose an accurate height for the font selector in the property panel.

• Draw grid lines in a more visible way.

• Draw selection bolder and in yellow so that it is more visible.

• Rework background drawing.

Main window

• Add a toggle button and a menu entry in the View menu that displays the breakpoints list.

• Fix the behavior of the search button on the main window.

• Fix main window icon.

• Fix halt icon in View menu.

• Do not show the warnings panel automatically anymore after a compilation.

• Print the number of warnings in the corresponding bottom panel button.

• Use the new styled borders everywhere.

• Make workspace and side panel buttons a bit bigger.

• Fix "View browser" menu entry visibility management.

• Display compilation and making executable duration time with three decimal digits, as the compiler is so fast. :-)

• Use an arrow instead of a dot to separate project paths from project names in the recent project menu.

Make executable dialog

• Use styled borders.

• Add a global option that copies the executable path into the clipboard when an executable is made.

• Layout and GUI fixes.

Open project dialog

• Some little design fixes.

• Layout fixes.

Options dialog

• Correctly save the "Automatically revert non important files" settings.

• Use new SpinBox MinText property to display "Number of CPUs" instead of a zero value in the number of background jobs option.

• Fix refresh when options change.

• Add a button to define the background color of the editors and terminals.

• Don't use a too big editor font for displaying options.

• Theme background color is now chosen between a fixed number of predefined colors.

• Fix background color buttons check mark drawing.

• Make the dialog without margin.

• Backgrounds now follow the brightness slider and the dark theme.

• Fix title fonts.

• Add options for choosing the background and the selection types.

• Store theme options settings in their own slot.

• Add an option to toggle flat borders.

• Uncompress the offline documentation using a background task.

• Light backgrounds are less saturated.

• Remove the selection shape option.

• Add an option to define the style opacity.

• Redesign the highlighting tab.

• Add a option to always use a white background on image previews in dark mode.

• Move the "image preview background" option in the "Interface" tab.

• Use a yellow color for the "new documentation available" message.

• If uncompressing the online help fails, display a detailed error message.

Packager

• Add QT6 support packaging. Fix other support packaging.

• Update AppImage default configuration.

• Add support for OBS syntax in appimage Ubuntu repository.

• Fix message label layout during packaging.

• Fix version control command output displayed in error message dialogs.

Procedure popup

• The procedure combo didn't shrink anymore.

• Handle editor locations that can be prefixed with style flags now in the procedure list.

• The procedure popup now follows the new styled theme.

• Fix the drawing of the "declarations" entry in the procedure list.

• Fix some drawing and keyboard handling in the procedure list.

• Add a filter in the procedure list.

• Better drawing of private methods in the procedure popup.

Process manager

• Add a process manager tool to display the Gambas interpreter processes currently running on the system.

Profile editor

• Fix background color of duration column in the code viewer.

Project browser

• Clicking on the directory browser works correctly again.

Project management

• Don't crash when closing a project if reverting non important files fails. Display a message instead.

• Ignore unknown inherited classes when loading information about a component or a project.

• Draw project boxes rounded and bigger.

• Fix drawing of "Open in another window" button in project boxes.

• Correctly import class list from *.list description file.

• Don't put the .desc directory inside the source archive.

• Removing compilation files now removes the description files too.

• Display a warning message when creating the executable if there are compilation warnings.

• Save and restore class descriptions directory when making the executable.

• Invert project icons when a dark theme is used.

Project open dialog

• Fix how Open in another window button is rendered inside project boxes.

• Better drawing of "open in new window" button.

Project properties dialog

• Add 3.21 version to the bytecode list.

• Some relayout.

Project tree

• Rework filters so they are reliable.

• Lock the project tree during refresh.

• Do not lock the project tree between project changes.

• Fix breakpoint icon in the project tree top bar.

• Correctly reset project tree filter when loading a project.

Report editor

• CReportBrush class now handles transparent colors in gradients correctly.

Search panel

• Hitting ENTER or SHIFT+ENTER in the search field now moves to the next or previous find when we are searching inside the current function or current file.

• Fix background color of last column.

• Opening the search panel now always starts with a void search field.

• Fill the search and replace fields combos with previous values in the right order.

• The title of the callers list is now a button that moves back to the called function when clicked.

• Always hide the panel when searching for callers.

• Fix callers list refresh.

• Fix search in current function when nothing is found.

• Use the new AutoResize property on the search location combo-box.

• Prevent a possible crash during status refresh.

• Print a warning if the estimated character width is null, and use the width of the 0 character instead.

• Ignore search results whose source code has been removed.

• Hide the search result list only if the search panel is explicitly hidden. Not if the IDE window is minimized.

• Don't refresh the search list if the bottom panel is hidden.

• Fix a possible crash when displaying a search result having no line position.

Software farm

• Don't crash when uninstalling a project installed from the software farm from the welcome dialog or the project open dialog.

• Check that the project archive is smaller than 128 MB before publishing it to the farm server.

• Fix checksum of published projects.

• Check downloaded software checksum without case sensitivity.

• Fix Gambas Farm installed desktop files not creating a menu entry.

System information dialog

• Some redesign.

• Add the value of Application.DarkTheme.

• Add a message about information anonymizing.

• Enhance how program versions are displayed.

Tips dialog

• Make wizard buttons larger.

Translation workspace

• Some layout fixes.

Version control

• Allow to individually check the files to commit.

• Single file version control information dialog works again.

• Always show the push-only (without commit) button.

• The diff view is correctly refreshed when checking a form file whose only code has changed.

• Do not show horizontal scroll bar in the branch list.

• The current branch color is applied to the GUI.

• Replace some toggle buttons by check boxes.

• Add the ability to cherry pick a commit from the history tab popup menu. Cherry-picking is automatically aborted if the git cherry-pick command returns any error.

• Fix crash when opening the history popup menu.

• Update some messages.

• Add a button to synchronize the branch displayed in the history (fast-forward only).

• Add a "cherry-pick" button.

• Split the history tab toolbar.

• Some layout fixes.

• Take the .environment file into account in version control (i.e. ignore it).

• Draw the current branch without a background, letting the Style.Color property do the job.

• Add application icon and project icon to gitignore. They are generated, so no real need to put them under version control.

Welcome dialog

• Draw selected button with a frame.

• Don't invert big Gambas head on dark themes.

• Draw a disable image for disabled buttons.

• Add a button that displays system information.

• Use style to draw buttons.

• Use a small space between buttons.

• Fix welcome logo and welcome background color.

• Do not show the menu bar with the welcome dialog.

• Remove shadows around the welcome dialog.

Miscellaneous

• Update French translation.

• Update Simplified Chinese translation.

• Update German translation.

• No need to call Stock.Refresh in Application_Change anymore, as it is done automatically now.

• Fix incorrect icon references in the main form.

• Update control icons for dark mode.

• Environment chooser: Replace a ToolButton by a MenuButton, so that disabled text is grayed out.

• Update Gambas icons to thin theme.

• Remove some icons not used anymore.

• Update default project icon.

• Update Gambas logo icons.

• Make the project icon points at Gambas application icon in gb.form.stock.

• Update Gambas fonts.

• Support for new gb.gui.qt.webview component.

• Theme management now uses the new TextHighlighterTheme.Adapt() method and its new behavior.

• Fix terminal and search result list colors.

• Add Tango color theme.

• Redraw some backgrounds that were too opaque.

• Creating a class with a name length smaller than two characters now raises an error.

• The warning panel button is highlighted.

• Correctly upgrade the gitignore file to its last version.

• Rework the background drawing routine.

• Update financial support list.

• Use the new After Do statement.

• Don't crash when showing the properties of a broken symbolic link project file.

• Optimize the switching of image preview background.

• Update error message list.

• Correctly refresh theme background color on system colors change.

• Add an --update command-line option for updating a project by opening it.

• Try to print all messages on the error output when using command-line actions.

• Use gb.clipper2 instead of gb.clipper.

WIKI

• Fix page width.

• New upload interface for image pages.

• Dark mode.

• Change how titles are displayed.

• Fixes for the new wiki server.

• Support for the new password system of the bugtracker.

• Automatically detect and display the since command of each symbol in the class symbols list.

• Add a vertical space between the different letters of the index.

• Code blocks now have a light background.

• The since command is displayed alone on its line if it is at the beginning of the line.

• Some CSS fixes for spacing between different markups.

EXAMPLES

• Update examples projects.

• Remove the "MoviePlayer" example, as it uses the deprecated Embedder control.

INTERPRETER

• Add GB.CheckString() API.

• Fix memory misalignment on ARM 32 bits systems.

• Do not crash when loading misaligned archive files on ARM 32 bits systems.

• Fix JIT implementation of the &= operator.

• Add GB.FromUnicode() and GB.IntegerToString() APIs.

• GB.SplitDate() now takes one more argument to tell if the result must be in the local timezone or in UTC.

• Array.Clear() does not crash anymore on static arrays. It just voids them now.

• The -T option without arguments works as expected now.

• Fix conversion to Variant routine that didn't work on 32 bits systems.

• Make the interpreter compile with C23.

• If poll() signals a file descriptor with POLLHUP or POLLERR, immediately remove the watch, otherwise the file descriptor will be signaled again and again.

• Ensure that all pending JIT compilation is finished before forking.

• Update gbx3 man page.

• Rework breakpoint management so that breakpoints inside _init static initializer function work as expected.

• Add new Clamp() function that clamps a value between a minimum bound and a maximum bound.

• Don't search for Application_Log in the startup class if it has not yet been loaded.

• Avoid false positives in circular reference detection by freeing objects differently.

• Fix compilation on recent gcc.

• Add a component hook called inside the child process after a fork.

• Fix the error message raised when reading a floating point value on the stack.

• Implement AFTER DO..., AFTER DO... and EVERY DO ... syntax.

• AFTER DO now cannot be run again if its previous call has not been triggered yet.

• Redesign the GB_TIMER structure to save a bit of memory, while adding some flag.

• Process.Exist() is a new static method that returns if a process exists with a specific id.

• Correctly release breakpoints set by external debugging.

• If an object has a __DebugCount property, it will be used by the debugger instead of Count for knowing the number of elements to display.

• Don't print deprecation messages while evaluating for the debugger.

• File.RealPath(Path, True) now correctly returns the path unchanged if it starts with .../.

• Rework how error messages are displayed. Try to always prefix messages with the name of the program.

• Do not raise an error if the load of an exported class at startup fails. Print a warning message instead.

• The Is operator now returns FALSE if its first argument is not an object, instead of raising an error.

• The Is operator now correctly checks that its second argument is actually a class.

• GB.ExistClassLocal() and GB.FindClassLocal() API now take the length of the symbol to lookup as argument.

• When some object cannot be freed at program exit, print the list of pending allocations before forcing release them.

• Correctly print the warning message if an error occurs while loading the exported classes of a component.

• Add FromHtml() routine.

• Tokenize() is a new subroutine that splits a string into tokens.

• Take skipped optional subroutine arguments into account.

• NInStr() is a new routine that searches for a pattern into a string and returns the number of matches.

• Add String.NInStr(), the UTF-8 sister method of NInStr().

• When running a child process is an pseudo-terminal, we try initializing the child terminal several times, as it sometimes fails.

• Split() now uses \ for escaping the right escape character if its escape argument is twice the same character.

• File.Load() on a directory path does not raise a spurious "Out of memory" error anymore.

COMPILER

• Add new Clamp() function.

• Make the compile more clever in making the difference between a keyword and an identifier.

• Add AFTER DO..., AFTER DO... and EVERY DO ... syntax.

• Add a limit of 255 AFTER / EVERY instructions by class.

• Don't mismatch the first written FAST and UNSAFE functions options as global options.

• Be more tolerant when detecting EXEC keyword.

• Automatically remove all bytecode and description files before compiling everything.

• Do not remove description file if the -d option is not used.

• Add FromHtml() routine.

• Tokenize() is a new subroutine that splits a string into tokens.

• Allow to skip optional arguments when calling a subroutine.

• NInStr() is a new routine that searches for a pattern into a string and returns the number of matches.

ARCHIVER

• Do not emit misaligned archive files anymore.

• Fix some warning messages.

INFORMER

• Describe the -f option in the help and in the man page.

FARM SERVER

• Use a settings file located in the home directory of the user running the CGI script.

SELF TESTER

• Plan tests to ensure each will run.

GAMBAS PACKAGE CONFIG

• Fix package descriptions.

• Disable gb.pdf in openSUSE TumbleWeed.

• Disable gb.sdl and gb.sdl.sound on openSUSE Tumbleweed.

• Correctly disable gb.sdl.sound on openSUSE Tumbleweed.

• Add support for debian 13 aka debian testing for the moment.

• Fix debian control and rules files.

• Ignore
  Unknown command @{package}
  @ commands when the corresponding package is disabled.

• Add support for Ubuntu 25.04.

GB.ARGS

• Update Italian translation.

GB.CLIPPER

• This component is now deprecated.

GB.CLIPPER2

• Update to Clipper2 1.5.4.

GB.DB

• Update to the new GB.SplitDate() API.

GB.DB.MYSQL

• Update to the new GB.SplitDate() API.

• Correctly identify TINYINT(1) as Boolean Gambas datatype in all cases.

GB.DB.ODBC

• Update to the new GB.SplitDate() API.

GB.DB.POSTGRESQL

• Update to the new GB.SplitDate() API.

GB.DB.SQLITE2

• Update to the new GB.SplitDate() API.

• Fix an incorrect function declaration.

GB.DB.SQLITE3

• Update to the new GB.SplitDate() API.

GB.DB2

Connection

• The Subst(), Exec(), Find()... methods now substitute the same way as in gb.db.

• Fix Tables.Add() method.

• Fix Create() and Edit() methods.

Field

• Fix Table property.

Index

• Fix Table property.

Result

• Field names are correctly quoted now when calling the Update() method.

• Fix a spurious comma in Update() request.

• Retrieve the current driver from the connection once for each method.

• Update() does not crash anymore when no field has been set.

• All() now correctly deals with numeric fields having a NULL value.

Table

• Fix Fields.Add() method.

Miscellaneous

• A null value is always translated into a SQL NULL. It is never passed to the driver formatting routine.

• Fix component name in warning or debug messages.

• Check that a connection is opened before calling the database driver everywhere it is needed.

• Redesign the links between the different objects so that their validity behaves the same as gb.db.

GB.DB2.MYSQL

• Don't prefix fields defined with AS with a dot in query results.

• Correctly identify TINYINT(1) as Boolean Gambas datatype in all cases.

GB.DB2.SQLITE3

• Correctly return fields of system tables.

• Add some new SQLite3 error messages.

• Fix debug message prefix.

GB.DBUS

• Fix use of "Every" as an argument name in DBusSignal class.

• Add the name of the interface in the "Unknown interface" error message.

GB.DBUS.TRAYICON

• Fix a compilation warning.

GB.DEBUG

• Update to the new GB.SplitDate() API.

• Rework breakpoint management so that breakpoints inside _init static initializer function work as expected.

• Do not automatically stop the Read event when there is no data to read on the debugger pipe.

• Add process identifier in debugging messages.

• Fix a possible crash caused by the string argument of the Read event being incorrectly forged.

GB.DESKTOP

• Add warning messages when some desktop portal methods fail, and use xdg-util as a fail over solution.

• xdg-email uses its generic method on KDE6, otherwise attachments do not work.

• Don't use desktop portal by default, it is too unreliable.

• DesktopFile: Add Type property, needed to fix Gambas Farm installed desktop files.

GB.DESKTOP.X11

• Update project icon.

• X11.MoveWindow() and X11.ResizeWindow() do not crash anymore if they are called first.

GB.DRAW

• Paint.Shear() is a new method that shears the paint transformation matrix.

• Paint.Rectangle() takes three new optional parameters that allow to define the radius of each border independently.

• A little optimization in Paint.Rectangle() when some borders have no radius.

GB.EVAL

• Highlight.IsFunction property correctly takes the UNSAFE keyword into account.

• Be more tolerant when detecting EXEC keyword.

• Better error message when an identifier that should be a class name is unknown.

• Correctly parse class names in expressions.

• Allow to skip optional arguments when calling a subroutine.

GB.EVAL.HIGHLIGHT

• Fix default theme.

GB.FORM

ButtonBox

• Redraw default filter images, so that they are visible on more background colors.

• Ensure that the button is square unless if too wide.

ColorButton

• Make disabled buttons more readable.

ColorChooser

• Color component icons are now correctly refreshed on theme change.

• Do not raise the Activate event when picking a color on the desktop.

• Use styled border, and redesign the interface a bit.

• Fix the drawing of the top standard colors palette.

ColorPalette

• Use styled border.

• Mouse wheel scrolls the palette again.

Completion

• Fix popup foreground color.

DateChooser

• Use styled border. Some clean-up and redesign.

DirBrowser

• Use styled border.

DirChooser & FileChooser

• The bookmark button is now correctly hidden again when useless.

• Relayout controls on styled border change.

• Remove little gradient at the end of the directory browser.

• Setting preview mode by code works as expected.

• Use new styled borders when the Border property is TRUE.

DirView

• Keep the current item at the same position when the contents changes, to avoid problems during mouse events.

DocumentView

• Zooming with mouse wheel now uses the mouse position as zoom center point.

• Mouse wheel works again.

• Lighter default background.

FileProperties

• Use styled border.

• Fix layout.

FileView

• Use new styled borders when the Border property is TRUE.

• PreviewBackground is a new static property that allows to define the background color of image previews.

FontChooser

• Add more characters in the text preview.

• Font preview works correctly with gb.qt6 now.

• Fix font preview in dark mode.

• Support for decimal font size.

• Interface sightly redesigned.

• Fix layout.

• Redesign the layout behavior.

• DefaultOnly is a new property that allows to force the font family to be the default application one.

• Support for the new Font Spacing property.

• The letter spacing icon is now a button that resets the letter spacing to 0.

• Do not give the focus to the size SpinBox automatically when the mouse cursor enters it.

• Display the full font description instead of just the font family.

• Do not raise spurious Activate events.

• Use styled border.

• Some interface redesign.

• Some layout enhancement.

IconPanel

• Rework the control layout when there is no border.

• Uniformize how selection is drawn.

• Highlight the background of the button panel when the Border property is unset.

• Fix layout between border and borderless.

• Fix how selected tab is drawn.

ImageView

• Support styled border.

ListEditor

• Use new styled borders when the Border property is TRUE.

• Fix backgrounds for flat border style.

• Fix text box background.

MenuButton

• Don't use selected colors to draw the button when the Menu property is not defined.

• Correctly react to system colors change.

• Spurious frames should not be drawn anymore during menu popup.

• Don't crash when restoring the focus if the previous focused control is now invalid.

• Add a Draw event that allows to customize what is drawn inside the button.

• Remove the Wait Wayland workaround when opening the popup.

• Change how the button is highlighted when the popup is opened.

• Make disabled buttons more readable.

• Fix background refresh when the system colors change.

• Do not translate the contents one pixel bottom right when the button is pressed.

SidePanel

• Remove the popup menu that could change the SidePanel options.

• Support for styled border merges.

Stock

• Rewrite the declaration of the Debug property.

SwitchButton

• New look.

• Some look tweaks.

• Adapt look to styled border properties.

• Better drawing contrast.

• Fix contrast on extreme values of Style.Opacity.

TabPanel

• The tab bar width was sometimes not correctly refreshed.

• Add a Separator property that allows to hide the separator between the tab buttons and the contents when the Border property is FALSE.

• Better tab bar buttons layout both with border and without border.

• Fix layout and styled borders merge.

• Draw current tab button with background color, and hovered buttons with selection color.

• Draw current tab button and hovered tab button with the same width.

TableView

• Do not put a flat solid background behind the cell editor.

• Ignore cell padding when setting the size of the cell editor.

• Use the cell font for the cell editor.

• Do not put a flat solid background behind the cell editor.

• Ignore cell padding when setting the size of the cell editor.

ValueBox

• Fix mask for currency type.

Wizard

• Wizard buttons are automatically resized according to the longer button caption.

Miscellaneous

• The internal DocumentView test form now uses gb.poppler instead of gb.pdf.

• Update French translation.

• Update control icons for dark mode.

• Update filter images so that they are visible inverted on dark themes.

• Support for new background drawing system in many controls.

GB.FORM.DIALOG

• Dialog.SelectFont: Use style borders.

• Dialog.SelectFont: Use default application font when Dialog.Font is NULL.

• Update project icon.

• Fix layout of font dialog.

• Fix layout of ask password dialog.

GB.FORM.EDITOR

TextEditor

• Fix how margin modification markers are drawn so that it looks correct on dark mode.

• Prevent a possible infinite recursion when setting the Theme property.

• Prevent a possible infinite recursion when setting the Highlight property.

• Highlight matching characters less.

• Add json mode.

• Fix highlighting of wrapped lines.

• Fix GetLocation() method of Gambas mode.

• Do not put breakpoints and bookmarks in the undo stack anymore.

• Optimize drawing of wrapped long lines.

• Use the control background now that there is no background color in highlighting theme anymore.

• Paint indent lines with dashes. Use the highlight color for the current indent line.

• Paint include background with hatches.

• Replace TextHighligterTheme Adapt() method by the Background property.

• Support for new oblique style property.

• Draw selection, matching characters, indent lines... on top of the text.

• Draw matching characters with dotted lines.

• Draw matching characters and indent dotted lines larger on a light background.

• Line numbers drawing now shows current line and selected lines.

• TextEditor[].Highlight() is a new method that returns the result of the line highlighting.

• Fix a possible crash while drawing, that may have triggered because of the new background drawing system.

• Use new styled border.

• Transparently keep BOM character when reading the Text property or using the Save() method if it was present when setting the Text property or using the Load() method.

• Draw bold text a bit better on big font sizes.

• The Border property returns the correct value.

• Use a global styled border only when the preview is visible.

• Fix look of find and goto panels.

• Correctly update margin layout in all cases when ShowExpand property is set.

• React to system color changes.

• Selection highlight has better contrast according to Style.Opacity.

• Fix and enhance location detection of javascript files.

• Editor locations now can be prefixed by style flags.

GB.FORM.MDI

Toolbar

• Support for Spring controls now they do not inherit Panel anymore.

• Support for styled borders merge.

• Fix layout when border is set.

• Add Border property.

Toolbar configuration dialog

• Correctly update the layout when a style border property has changed.

• Toolbar elements are more visible now.

• Use the new expander, spacer and separator stock icons.

• Redesign toolbar configuration dialog.

Workspace

• Workspace: Add Separator property.

Miscellaneous

• Update Simplified Chinese translation. Avoid a duplicated translation of some word.

• Update control icons for dark mode.

GB.FORM.MEDIA

• MediaView: Setting Position property before playback now works as expected.

• MediaView: Be sure to reset Startup position marker.

GB.FORM.PRINTER

• Update project icon.

• Redesign preview window using styled borders.

GB.FORM.STOCK

Stock icons

• Add caps-lock icon.

• Redraw identity icon in gambas-thin theme.

• Add heal, histogram, text-letter-spacing icons.

• Add lamp-off icon.

• Add speed icon.

• Update mahjongg icon in gambas-thin.

• Redraw gambas icon in gambas-thin.

• Redraw gambas-thin volume icon so that it is visible correctly on dark themes.

• New python and perl icons.

• Redraw equalizer icon.

• Add expander, spacer and separator icons.

• Fix wifi status icons in Gambas icon theme.

• Add wifi-none icon.

• Add a new battery-empty icon.

• Change the color for battery-medium to yellow to have a better difference between each state.

• Update language icon.

• Add bird, cat and dog icons.

Mime types icons

• Use js icon for text/javascript mime type.

• Use archive icon for application/x-bzip2-compressed-tar mime type.

Application icons

• Add some application icons.

• Redraw suse application icon.

• Add vim application icon.

• Redraw X11 application icon.

• Add application icon for hp tools.

• Redraw minecraft application icon.

• Add application icon for SubtitleComposer.

• Add Brave application icon.

Miscellaneous

• Icon map fixes. Right-to-left icon list fixes.

• Default stock icons now use the gambas-thin theme.

• Move a debugging message displayed when GB_STOCK_DEBUG environmental variable is set.

• Modify some gambas-thin icons that were not very readable when converted to dark mode.

• Restore contrast in gambas-thin icons, and modify the dark theme generation so that the inverted icons are still readable.

• Add some saturation to dark themes.

• Rewrite application links file.

• Update color inversion for dark theme to the new Color.Invert() algorithm.

• Fix the declaration of the table icon in the icon map.

• Better automatic conversion of icons to dark theme.

• Add applications icons and modify icon map for KDE plasma widgets.

• Fix icon map for battery icons.

• Now the battery status is working great in all gambas icons exported themes.

• Remove unused icons.

GB.FORM.TERMINAL

• Use new styled borders when the Border property is TRUE.

GB.GEOM

• Rectangle intersection with NULL now returns itself instead of raising an error.

GB.GTK

Application

• Remove the Animations, Shadows, Theme properties.

• The Change property is now writable. Writing it raises the Change event everywhere.

• Call Stock.Refresh if Application.Theme changes.

• Change events now automatically refresh the control they are sent to.

Border

• Add Border.Styled constant.

CheckBox

• Fix width computation on automatic resize.

Color

• Fix light background color.

• Fix light foreground color.

Container

• Add ._Children hidden property for returning the direct children of a container ignoring its possible proxy.

• ContainerChildren: Add First and Last properties.

Control

• TopLevel is a new property that returns the top-level windows that contains the control.

• Drop property is not proxied anymore.

• Fix default naming of controls so that GTK+3 style sheets work.

• Control background is now drawn according to the possible NoBackground properties as expected.

Font

• Add Spacing property for letter spacing.

Key

• The "Windows" key is now associated with the Key.Meta flag like with Qt.

• Key.Code returns the accurate values when hitting a numeric pad key with "num. lock" off.

• Add Key.Clear constant used when hitting the 5 numeric pad key with "num. lock" off.

Mouse

• Add LeftOnly, RightOnly, MiddleOnly properties, that return if a specific button is pressed and all the others are not.

• State correctly returns the META key state now.

Paint

• Fix matrix shear transformation.

• Paint.Opacity is correctly saved by Paint.Save() and restored by Paint.Restore().

RadioButton

• Fix width computation on automatic resize.

Style

• BackgroundOf() and ForegroundOf() now correctly handle control proxies.

TabStrip

• Fix TabStrip arrangement.

UserContainer

• Add _NoBackground property to prevent the control from automatically drawing its background color.

• _Container property now correctly handles properties proxied to the actual internal container.

UserControl

• Add _NoBackground property to prevent the control from automatically drawing its background color.

• Add _SetBorderSize() hidden method for defining the size of the control borders.

Window

• The MouseUp event that can be raised by Window.ShowModal() has valid mouse event data now.

• Fix a possible automatic increase of window size of 1 pixel horizontally and vertically.

• Opacity property fixes.

• Take the menu bar into account again when arranging windows.

• Fix Window arrangement.

Miscellaneous

• Don't call gtk_window_set_resizable() on popups, it makes their dimension incorrect.

• Remove the popup left margin if it is not needed.

• Remove Panel, HBox, VBox, HPanel and VPanel controls.

• Change events now automatically refresh the control they are sent to.

• Fix horizontal centered arrangement with right-to-left direction.

• Clear the Pango fontconfig caches after a fork to prevent deadlocks.

• The gb.gtk component is now deprecated.

• Raise the Change events in one loop.

• Remove ScrollBar control.

• Adapt to the new GB_TIMER structure.

GB.GTK.OPENGL

• The gb.gtk.opengl component is now deprecated.

GB.GTK3

Application

• Remove the Animations, Shadows, Theme properties.

• The Change property is now writable. Writing it raises the Change event everywhere.

• Call Stock.Refresh if Application.Theme changes.

• Change events now automatically refresh the control they are sent to.

Border

• Add Border.Styled constant.

CheckBox

• Fix width computation on automatic resize.

Color

• Fix light background color.

• Fix light foreground color.

Container

• Add ._Children hidden property for returning the direct children of a container ignoring its possible proxy.

• ContainerChildren: Add First and Last properties.

Control

• TopLevel is a new property that returns the top-level windows that contains the control.

• Drop property is not proxied anymore.

• Fix default naming of controls so that GTK+3 style sheets work.

• Control background is now drawn according to the possible NoBackground properties as expected.

• Correctly take fractional font point size into account in custom control CSS.

• Fix generated css for fonts with an integer size.

Font

• Add Spacing property for letter spacing.

Key

• The "Windows" key is now associated with the Key.Meta flag like with Qt.

• Key.Code returns the accurate values when hitting a numeric pad key with "num. lock" off.

• Add Key.Clear constant used when hitting the 5 numeric pad key with "num. lock" off.

• Key[] now returns the expected values.

Mouse

• Add LeftOnly, RightOnly, MiddleOnly properties, that return if a specific button is pressed and all the others are not.

• State correctly returns the META key state now.

Paint

• Fix matrix shear transformation.

• Paint.Opacity is correctly saved by Paint.Save() and restored by Paint.Restore().

RadioButton

• Fix width computation on automatic resize.

Style

• BackgroundOf() and ForegroundOf() now correctly handle control proxies.

TabStrip

• Fix TabStrip arrangement.

• TabStrip buttons do not shrink anymore as soon as a control internally using a GtkBox is created.

TextArea

• TextArea: Workaround the utterly stupid broken design of GtkTextView so that setting the Text property works as expected.

TextBox

• Remove round borders of flat TextBox.

UserContainer

• Add _NoBackground property to prevent the control from automatically drawing its background color.

• _Container property now correctly handles properties proxied to the actual internal container.

UserControl

• Add _NoBackground property to prevent the control from automatically drawing its background color.

• Add _SetBorderSize() hidden method for defining the size of the control borders.

Window

• The MouseUp event that can be raised by Window.ShowModal() has valid mouse event data now.

• Fix a possible automatic increase of window size of 1 pixel horizontally and vertically.

• Opacity property fixes.

• Take the menu bar into account again when arranging windows.

• Fix Window arrangement.

• StartResize() is a new method that asks the window manager to resize the window.

• StartMove() is a new method that asks the window manager to move the window.

• Use gtk_window_set_resizable(), so that client-side decorations do not draw a useless maximize button when the window is not resizable. Alas the stupid Gnome window manager continues to draw it in that case on the server side.

• Fix non-resizable windows whose minimum size was always forced to the size of all inner widgets.

• Resize the window back to its original size when setting the Transparent property.

Miscellaneous

• Don't call gtk_window_set_resizable() on popups, it makes their dimension incorrect.

• Remove the popup left margin if it is not needed.

• Remove Panel, HBox, VBox, HPanel and VPanel controls.

• Change events now automatically refresh the control they are sent to.

• Fix horizontal centered arrangement with right-to-left direction.

• Clear the Pango fontconfig caches after a fork to prevent deadlocks.

• The gb.gtk component is now deprecated.

• Raise the Change events in one loop.

• Remove ScrollBar control.

• Adapt to the new GB_TIMER structure.

• Containers are now correctly refreshed when setting their background.

• Fix mouse button tests and mouse management in popup menus.

GB.GTK3.WEBVIEW

WebView

• Add Find(), FindNext() and FindPrevious() methods to search for a string.

• Define the FindIgnoreCase constant.

• The Link property is now accurate for Start and NewView events.

• Always accept navigation requests on inner frames, without raising events.

• Compile with WebKitGTK < 2.40.

GB.GUI.BASE

Application

• Implement Theme, Animations and Shadows properties in Gambas.

• Call Stock.Refresh if Application.Theme changes.

ComboBox

• AutoResize is a new property that makes a read-only ComboBox resizes itself automatically to fit its contents.

• Add Oxygen style workarounds for the popup placement.

• Draw popup selection with a rounded box, and add more padding.

• Add a GTK+3 painting bug workaround when the popup is closed.

• Fix drawing with flat borders.

• Always use a border and text background.

• Add horizontal padding in the popup according to the styled border radius.

• Fix popup vertical size.

• Fix popup selection drawing.

• Fix popup border.

• Really fix popup border.

• Make the arrow a bit smaller.

• Fix popup drawing.

• One pixel less for borderless editable ComboBox.

• Add ComboBox[].Display property that allows to display some rich text instead of the actual item text. Beware that sorting does not take it into account.

• The Display property of the items is taken into account when sorting.

• Fix popup border shape when it opens on top of the control.

Font

• Rewrite some Font methods in Gambas and put them here.

• Don't convert font family to lowercase.

• ToString() now rounds letter spacing to one decimal.

• Use no more than three decimal digits in font size.

GridView

• Fix how current cell is drawn, and selection drawing.

• Adapt default background to border flat style.

• Correctly react to styled border changes.

• Fix row refresh routine, and selection drawing.

• Do not draw the bottom selection limit when it touches the GridView bottom border.

• Choose a grid color adapted to the background style.

• Fix how selection is drawn.

• Selected color is more visible in flat style.

• GridColor is a new property that returns the color used for drawing the grid.

• Try to make the selected lines more visible.

IconView

• Draw selection desaturated when the control is disabled.

• Icon selection now follows styled border properties.

• Do not crash anymore if Paint.ClipRect returns NULL during the Draw event handler.

• Keep the current item at the same position as much as possible when the contents changes, to avoid problems during mouse events.

Label

• Styled border support.

• Spacing is a new property that adds padding to the left and right side of the Label.

ListBox

• Draw selection normally.

• Add ListBox[].Enabled property that allows to disable some ListBox items.

• Add ListBox[].Display property that allows to display some rich text instead of the actual item text. Beware that sorting does not take it into account.

• The Display property of the items is taken into account when sorting.

Message

• Fix flat message style.

• Fix flat message style again.

• Fix button panel background.

Panel

• Draw background with the Style class when the Border property is set to Border.Raised, Border.Sunken or Border.Etched.

• Fix padding management.

• Fix padding management when new borders are used again.

• Use Border.Styled for new border system.

• Use the new _SetBorderSize() method to take the size of the border into account.

• Do not take the hovered style flag into account when painting the background.

Picture

• Make Stretch() arguments behave the same way as Image.Stretch().

PictureBox

• Styled border support.

ProgressBar

• Draw them rounded.

• Follow the styled border properties.

ScrollArea

• Add DefaultBackground property.

• Draw background with the Style class.

• Fix scrolling management when the language direction is right to left.

• Fix styled border and clipping.

• Add Shape property to let him use a custom border shape.

• Fix clipping before calling the Draw event.

• Fix drawing when the Shape property is set.

ScrollBar

• The scrollbar button has now a minimum size.

• Use Style.BorderColor to draw scrollbars.

• Mouse wheel scrolls the scrollbar now.

• Fix a possible overflow.

• Fix a division by zero error.

• Fix arrows colors.

ScrollView

• Setting the Arrangement property recomputes the contents size immediately. It fixed the behavior of automatic arrangement of controls drawn with a ScrollView in the IDE.

• Use extra padding when the new background drawing system requires it.

Slider

• Make the slider button one pixel smaller so that it is not cropped when the control has the focus.

• Fix overflows in internal computations.

• Make the button bigger if possible.

• Use a button a little bit smaller.

SpinBox

• Add MinText property. The SpinBox will display that text when its value is the minimum value.

• Add Round property. The SpinBox value will be rounded to the value of that property.

• Add Precision property. It is the number of decimal digit that will be displayed.

• The value of the control is now a Float.

• Forgot to define the default value of the Border property correctly.

• Add ShiftStep property. It's the step value used when the SHIFT key is pressed.

• Add Suffix and Prefix properties.

• Add AutoResize property.

• Update documentation.

• Only the mouse left button can change the value.

• Add ShiftStep property to the control property list.

• Add Activate event.

Splitter

• Prevent possible divisions by zero while computing layout.

• Order children so that styled borders can be merged.

• Make splitter work again.

Spring

• Do not inherit Panel anymore.

Style

• New system for drawing "styled" control borders and backgrounds.

• Add Shape, BorderSize and BorderRadius properties.

• Add Flat property. It is FALSE by default.

• Add Opacity property.

• The FramedSelection is now deprecated.

• Add PaintSelection() method for drawing a selection frame according to the previous properties.

• Add ClipBackground() method for creating a background clip region according to the previous properties.

• Add PaintBackground() method for drawing a background according to the previous properties.

• Add constants for the different shape types.

• Add a list of shape options constants for squaring specific rounded borders, or hiding specific borders.

• Paint focus frame even when the Style.BorderFlat property is set.

• Make square border shapes the default, for backward-compatibility.

• Use the same opacity for flat background in dark and light themes.

• Add Color property to define the color used for drawing borders (Color.Foreground by default).

TreeView

• In multiple selection mode, if ShowCheck is set, then the SPACE key toggles the selection of the current item.

• In multiple selection mode, if ShowCheck is set, then there is no automatic selection anymore when the arrow keys are used.

• Set the internal cursor when selecting a single item in multiple selection mode, and correctly raise the Select event.

• Do nothing when trying to move an item before or after itself.

Miscellaneous

• Update Italian translation.

• Use $XDG_DATA_HOME for the last resort directory of the application desktop file.

• Store the application desktop file inside one of the $XDG_DATA_DIR directories only if it is writable.

• Try to standardize how selection is drawn in the different controls.

• Implement Panel, HBox, VBox, HPanel and VPanel containers in Gambas.

• Add support for background and selection drawn with the Style class in many controls.

• Define _Similar property for container controls.

• Automatically merge borders of contiguous controls arranged in the same direction (horizontally or vertically).

• Rework message dialog layout in both normal and flat styles.

• Changing HBox, VBox, HPanel and VPanel into other containers define the value of the Arrangement property.

• ScrollBar control is now implemented in Gambas.

• Replace timers by After Do where it was possible.

• Fix symbolic link on gambas logo icon.

• Only create the temporary application desktop file on Wayland as it is a Wayland workaround.

• Add a Wayland warning about the desktop file creation.

• Update message default icons.

• Use the new FromHtml() routine instead of String.FromHTML().

• Update documentation.

GB.GUI.QT.OPENGL

• Fix gb.gui.qt.opengl.component description file.

GB.GUI.QT.WEBVIEW

• gb.gui.qt.webview is a new component that loads the webview component according to the GUI component loaded by gb.gui.qt.

GB.HIGHLIGHT

TextHighlighter

• Commands can take options with that syntax: command(option,option...)

• Implement ignorecase option for word, keyword and symbol commands.

• symbol command can have children state.

• Fix default state colors in highlighting files.

• Print a warning if an highlighting state declares different default state colors.

• Update color inversion for dark theme to the new Color.Invert() algorithm.

• Forgot to add Label as a common state.

• Print a warning if a non-common state has no default state color.

• The colors of included highlightings are more visible in dark mode now.

• Fix included highlighting colors again.

• Do not merge highlighting of successive results of the Symbol command.

• Use the File.RealPath() method instead of reimplementing the wheel when loading a theme.

TextHighlighterStyle

• Add Oblique style property.

TextHighlighterTheme

• AdaptToBackground() is a new method that adapt the theme colors to a specific background color according to its luminance.

• Names is a new static property that returns the display names of the default themes.

• List is a new static property that returns the list of default themes.

• Include background colors are a little bit better.

• Calling Adapt() without argument resets to the not-adapted initial style.

• Adapt() keeps a save of the initial styles, so that you can call it several times.

• Rename AdaptToBackground() method as Adapt().

• Support for fake "Background" style for backward-compatibility.

• Replace the Adapt() method by a Background property.

• Correctly recompute the value of the Dark property in all cases when setting the theme background color.

• Adapt a theme to a background color by fixing colors having not enough contrast.

• Do not crash when initializing a theme.

• Fix theme adaptation to background color.

• Use new Oblique style property in themes for comments and documentation.

• Better theme adaptation to background colors.

• Allow .../ in the theme path.

CSS highlighter

• Fix highlighting of identifiers starting with dashes.

CSV highlighter

• Add CSV file highlighter.

• Add default colors for CSV file columns.

Highlight highlighter

• Make highlight highlighter takes command options into account.

• Fix highlight highlighter.

Javascript highlighter

• Fix regexp highlighting.

JSON highlighter

• Add json highlighter.

Settings highlighter

• Add settings highlighting for settings files.

SQL highlighter

• Support for case insensitive keywords.

XML highlighter

• Add XML syntax highlighting.

Miscellaneous

• Add the default highlighting themes to the gb.highlight component.

• Clean up default highlighting themes.

• Update French translation.

• Don't use pure blue colors in highlighting themes, as they are hard to read on dark backgrounds.

GB.HTTPD

• Remove a useless test in GB_HTTPD_HOST environment variable management.

• Pass the GB_JIT_DEBUG variable to CGI scripts.

• Destroy timers outside of SIGCHLD handler, as the timer destruction function is not reentrant.

• Pass more headers to the CGI script.

• Don't serialize forks anymore. gb.httpd can be used as a true CGI-only HTTP server.

GB.IMAGE

• Color inversion while keeping hue now just uses a 180° hue rotation on the inverted color, so that the action is reversible.

• Color.Contrast() is a new method that returns the contrast between two colors as a number between 0 (same color) and 1 (maximum contrast).

• Export blend color routine.

• Color.Blend() takes an extra optional opacity argument.

• Color.Opacity() is a new method that add some transparency to a color.

GB.JIT

• Put all headers inside the translated code without using #include, so that the cache is not incorrectly used if the headers contents change.

• Display compiler errors better.

• If $PATH is not defined, define it using the directory where the compiler was found.

• Prevent a crash at exit if the JIT temporary directory does not exist anymore for any reason.

• Display the warning message about $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR being not set only in debugging mode.

• use correct datatype in JIT method.

• Add -std=gnu17 to the compiler flags, so that JIT code compiles on recent gcc or clang versions.

• Add -std=gnu17 flag to all compiler executions.

• Panic on AFTER / EVERY bytecode.

GB.LOGGING

• Formatter: Replace CStr() by Str() when printing date.

• Formatter: Add more non showable Backtrace steps.

• FileHandler: Throw an error on non valid paths.

• Logger: Stop using autom.FileHandler when sOutput is empty.

GB.MAP

• Update control icon.

GB.MEDIA.FORM

• Styled border support.

GB.NET

• DnsClient: Fix host resolution when the host has both an IPv4 and IPv6 address.

• Socket: Keep the status socket after an internal error has been raised, so that the posted Error event gets it.

• Socket: Fix Connect() method with no arguments.

GB.NET.CURL

• HttpClient: Don't crash if the sending callback is called whereas the client has been stopped.

• Fix compilation warnings, and possible incorrectly set options.

• Correctly ensure that the value of all curl numerical options are passed as long.

GB.NET.SMTP

• Don't put tests inside gb.net.smtp.

GB.OPENGL

• Use libepoxy instead of GLEW if present.

GB.PCRE

• Implement the RegExp.__DebugCount property that tells the debugger the real number of elements in the RegExp array.

GB.PDF

• Fix compilation of gb.pdf on last poppler library.

GB.QT4

Application

• Remove the Animations, Shadows, Theme properties.

• The Change property is now writable. Writing it raises the Change event everywhere.

• Call Stock.Refresh if Application.Theme changes.

• Change events now automatically refresh the control they are sent to.

Border

• Add Border.Styled constant.

CheckBox

• Fix width computation on automatic resize.

Color

• Fix light background color.

• Fix light foreground color.

Container

• Add ._Children hidden property for returning the direct children of a container ignoring its possible proxy.

• ContainerChildren: Add First and Last properties.

• FindChild() correctly finds controls on top first.

Control

• TopLevel is a new property that returns the top-level windows that contains the control.

• Drop is not proxied anymore.

• Use the same default naming of controls as gb.gtk3.

• Control background is now drawn according to the possible NoBackground properties as expected.

Font

• Add Spacing property for letter spacing.

Key

• Add Key.Clear constant used when hitting the 5 numeric pad key with "num. lock" off.

Mouse

• Add LeftOnly, RightOnly, MiddleOnly properties, that return if a specific button is pressed and all the others are not.

Paint

• Paint.LineWidth returns 1 when it has been set to 1.

• Paint.DrawImage() takes Paint.Opacity into account correctly now.

RadioButton

• Fix width computation on automatic resize.

Style

• BackgroundOf() and ForegroundOf() now correctly handle control proxies.

TrayIcon

• Fix a possible crash while freeing an X11 tray icon.

UserContainer

• Add _NoBackground property to prevent the control from automatically drawing its background color.

• _Container now correctly handles properties proxied to the actual internal container.

UserControl

• Add _NoBackground property to prevent the control from automatically drawing its background color.

• Add _SetBorderSize() hidden method for defining the size of the control borders.

Window

• Opacity property fixes.

• Center newly opened windows by default on X11.

• Take the menu bar into account again when arranging windows.

Miscellaneous

• The MouseUp event that can be raised by Window.ShowModal() has valid mouse event data now.

• Fix global mouse coordinates after a mouse grab.

• Remove Panel, HBox, VBox, HPanel and VPanel controls.

• Fix horizontal centered arrangement with right-to-left direction.

• The gb.qt4 component is now deprecated.

• Remove ScrollBar control.

• Adapt to the new GB_TIMER structure.

GB.QT4.EXT

• TextEdit: Format.Color and Format.Background correctly take alpha channel and default color into account.

• The gb.qt4.ext component is now deprecated.

GB.QT4.OPENGL

• The gb.qt4.opengl component is now deprecated.

GB.QT4.WEBKIT

• Update to the new GB.SplitDate() API.

• The gb.qt4.webkit component is now deprecated.

GB.QT4.WEBVIEW

• The gb.qt4.webview component is now deprecated.

GB.QT5

Application

• Remove the Animations, Shadows, Theme properties.

• The Change property is now writable. Writing it raises the Change event everywhere.

• Call Stock.Refresh if Application.Theme changes.

• Change events now automatically refresh the control they are sent to.

Border

• Add Border.Styled constant.

CheckBox

• Fix width computation on automatic resize.

Color

• Fix light background color.

• Fix light foreground color.

Container

• Add ._Children hidden property for returning the direct children of a container ignoring its possible proxy.

• ContainerChildren: Add First and Last properties.

• FindChild() correctly finds controls on top first.

Control

• TopLevel is a new property that returns the top-level windows that contains the control.

• Drop is not proxied anymore.

• Use the same default naming of controls as gb.gtk3.

• Control background is now drawn according to the possible NoBackground properties as expected.

Font

• Add Spacing property for letter spacing.

Key

• Add Key.Clear constant used when hitting the 5 numeric pad key with "num. lock" off.

Mouse

• Add LeftOnly, RightOnly, MiddleOnly properties, that return if a specific button is pressed and all the others are not.

Paint

• Paint.LineWidth returns 1 when it has been set to 1.

• Paint.DrawImage() takes Paint.Opacity into account correctly now.

RadioButton

• Fix width computation on automatic resize.

Style

• BackgroundOf() and ForegroundOf() now correctly handle control proxies.

TrayIcon

• Fix a possible crash while freeing an X11 tray icon.

UserContainer

• Add _NoBackground property to prevent the control from automatically drawing its background color.

• _Container now correctly handles properties proxied to the actual internal container.

UserControl

• Add _NoBackground property to prevent the control from automatically drawing its background color.

• Add _SetBorderSize() hidden method for defining the size of the control borders.

Window

• Opacity property fixes.

• Center newly opened windows by default on X11.

• Take the menu bar into account again when arranging windows.

• StartResize() is a new method that asks the window manager to resize the window.

• StartMove() is a new method that asks the window manager to move the window.

• StartMove() and StartResize() require at least Qt 5.15.

Miscellaneous

• The MouseUp event that can be raised by Window.ShowModal() has valid mouse event data now.

• Fix global mouse coordinates after a mouse grab.

• Remove Panel, HBox, VBox, HPanel and VPanel controls.

• Fix horizontal centered arrangement with right-to-left direction.

• Remove ScrollBar control.

• Adapt to the new GB_TIMER structure.

• Workaround popup positioning bug of QT5 on Wayland. Not perfect.

GB.QT5.EXT

• TextEdit: Format.Color and Format.Background correctly take alpha channel and default color into account.

GB.QT5.WEBVIEW

WebView

• Add Find(), FindNext() and FindPrevious() methods to search for a string.

• Fix the Find() logic with case sensitivity.

• Always raise the Finish event after the Error event.

• The Link property is now accurate for Start events (but not for NewView events).

• Always accept navigation requests on inner frames, without raising events.

• Do compile with Qt version < 5.14.

• Fix incorrect declaration of slot only used with QT6.

GB.QT6

Application

• Remove the Animations, Shadows, Theme properties.

• The Change property is now writable. Writing it raises the Change event everywhere.

• Call Stock.Refresh if Application.Theme changes.

• Change events now automatically refresh the control they are sent to.

• Calls the event loop just after setting Application.Font, so that the effect is immediate like with Qt5.

Border

• Add Border.Styled constant.

CheckBox

• Fix width computation on automatic resize.

Color

• Fix light background color.

• Fix light foreground color.

Container

• Add ._Children hidden property for returning the direct children of a container ignoring its possible proxy.

• ContainerChildren: Add First and Last properties.

• FindChild() correctly finds controls on top first.

Control

• TopLevel is a new property that returns the top-level windows that contains the control.

• Drop is not proxied anymore.

• Use the same default naming of controls as gb.gtk3.

• Control background is now drawn according to the possible NoBackground properties as expected.

• Remove the Wayland workaround in ScreenX and ScreenY properties, it seems not to be useful anymore.

Font

• Add Spacing property for letter spacing.

Key

• Add Key.Clear constant used when hitting the 5 numeric pad key with "num. lock" off.

Mouse

• Add LeftOnly, RightOnly, MiddleOnly properties, that return if a specific button is pressed and all the others are not.

Paint

• Paint.LineWidth returns 1 when it has been set to 1.

• Paint.DrawImage() takes Paint.Opacity into account correctly now.

RadioButton

• Fix width computation on automatic resize.

Style

• BackgroundOf() and ForegroundOf() now correctly handle control proxies.

TrayIcon

• Fix a possible crash while freeing an X11 tray icon.

UserContainer

• Add _NoBackground property to prevent the control from automatically drawing its background color.

• _Container now correctly handles properties proxied to the actual internal container.

UserControl

• Add _NoBackground property to prevent the control from automatically drawing its background color.

• Add _SetBorderSize() hidden method for defining the size of the control borders.

Window

• Opacity property fixes.

• Center newly opened windows by default on X11.

• Take the menu bar into account again when arranging windows.

• StartResize() is a new method that asks the window manager to resize the window.

• StartMove() is a new method that asks the window manager to move the window.

Miscellaneous

• The MouseUp event that can be raised by Window.ShowModal() has valid mouse event data now.

• Fix global mouse coordinates after a mouse grab.

• Remove Panel, HBox, VBox, HPanel and VPanel controls.

• Fix horizontal centered arrangement with right-to-left direction.

• Remove ScrollBar control.

• Adapt to the new GB_TIMER structure.

• Workaround a QT6 bug that quits the application when a standard file dialog is closed.

• Apparently QT 6.9 does not have a global thread pool GUI-specific anymore.

GB.QT6.EXT

• TextEdit: Format.Color and Format.Background correctly take alpha channel and default color into account.

• Load the correct component interface and do not crash anymore.

GB.QT6.WEBVIEW

WebView

• Add Find(), FindNext() and FindPrevious() methods to search for a string.

• Fix the Find() logic with case sensitivity.

• Always raise the Finish event after the Error event.

• The Link property is now accurate for Start and NewView events.

• Workaround Qt6 bug so that the request can be cancelled by stopping the Start event.

GB.REPORT2

• Hidden object are now taken in the count of elements processed by the vertical container.

• The container is not pushed on next page if its size is exactly the remaining space.

• The ReportPanel with None arrangement correctly sets the index now.

GB.SCANNER

• Update project icon.

GB.TEST

• Fix some documentation comments.

• When printing all project tests, display one test by line.

GB.UTIL

• Shell.Copy: Fix the behavior when the target is a directory.

• Use File.RealPath() for decoding relative paths arguments of CSVFile and Shell.Copy().

GB.UTIL.WEB

• The component now has a part written in C that provides an almost 20 times faster version of JSON.FromString().

• Rewrite JSON.ToString() and JS() in C so that it is a lot faster.

• JSON.ToString() now converts date values using the Javascript JSON format.

GB.VB

• Update to the new GB.SplitDate() API.

GB.WEB

• Request: Documentation fix.

GB.WEB.FEED

• Update project icon.

GB.WEB.GUI

Align

• IsLeft() and IsRight() methods take System.RightToLeft into account.

DrawingArea

• Don't update explicitly on initialization, as the ResizeObserver already triggers it.

Font

• A new class that represents a Paint and a Control font.

• The string representation now follows the IDE convention.

• Only the "size:xxx" property understand the <size>/<line height> CSS syntax.

• Raise a Change event when one of its property changes.

• The Font class has Underline and Strikeout properties.

Paint

• Paint.Font set a css font string for painting text with WebDrawingArea.

• Setting the Font or the Brush property makes a copy of their argument now.

• Add Background property for the background color used for drawing.

• Add Paint.FillText that draw filled text.

• Add Paint.StrokeText, that draw stroked text.

• Add Font property and DrawText() method for drawing text with alignment.

• Add Opacity property.

PaintBrush

• Add a Copy() method.

WebContainer

• DeleteChildren() method acts on the _Container property.

• Some methods can be called by the WebControl constructor, when the children array is not yet initialized.

WebControl

• The Font Normal property is correctly taken into account.

• The Font property now takes and return a Font object.

• Changing the Font object returned by the Font property updates the font and the control.

• Deleting a control now removes the pending refresh javascript code.

WebDateBox

• Take the Enabled and the ReadOnly properties into account as expected.

• Raise the Click event when a date is selected in the popup.

WebForm

• Correctly generate <div> markups for embedded forms.

WebListBox

• Raise the Click event as expected.

WebMenu

• Popup sub-menus work correctly again.

WebScrollView

• Update focus rectangle on scroll.

• Implement a specific internal WebScrollViewContainer class, so that the control correctly refreshes.

WebTable

• EnsureVisible() does not trigger a refresh if the row is already visible.

• EnsureVisible() works correctly in all cases now.

• Optimize table refresh when the selection changes.

Miscellaneous

• Added new environment variable GB_HTTPD_HOST to set the binding of the embedded HTTP server.

• Update French translation.

• Automatically stops session processes if the server process disappears.

• Make "favicon" a symbolic link.

• Do not export test forms, as they are not put into the executable anymore.

• Add documentation.