Gambas 3.8.1

What's new
ChangeLog
Compilation and installation

What's new

This release includes all bugs fixes and little changes made since the release of Gambas 3.8.0.

ChangeLog

DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT

Error translations updated.
French translation updated.
Editor: Do not mark a file as unsaved when refactoring is triggered by saving this same file.
Some HiDPI fixes.
Recent Projects use the saved sort order now
Do not display the SVN revision anymore in the welcome dialog. Only in the system information.
SVN revision is now taken from the interpreter executable.
System information is now anonymous.
Comment, uncomment, indent and unindent now work as expected if the text has been selected from bottom to top.
Color chooser does not crash anymore when the project does not use any GUI component.
The packager now can create a package for a component project whatever the name of the project. It will internally prefix the project name with the vendor name if needed.
Image editor: Fix pen and eraser tool drawing.
Image editor: Information is now displayed on top of the image.
Image editor: The property panel got a close button.
Image editor: The information label is correctly refreshed when zooming in or zooming out.
Fix behaviour of shortcut text properties having ampersands inside.
Packager: Support for a vendor prefix shortcut, that is used in the package name instead of the vendor full name.
Packager: Now package names are normalized for each distribution. All non alphanumeric characters are replaced by an hyphen, but this can be changed independently of the distribution if needed.
Debugger: Displaying a dynamic variable in a static context does not crash anymore
GB.SubstString() API now can take a void substitution string. It returns NULL instead of doing a segfault. Consequently, RegExp.Replace() from gb.pcre can take a null replace string without crashing.

INTERPRETER

Fix DateDiff() day comparison when comparing two dates with different times.
Array.Resize() now correctly raises an error if its argument is negative.
Correctly detect too large arrays.
Array allocation incrementation now cannot be larger than 256 slots.
Fix multi-dimensional arrays size check.
New routine to compute the localized time/date formats and separators.

COMPILER

Syntax errors in constant declarations now give more detailed messages.

GB.DB.FORM

The application busy state is now correctly reset when an SQL error occurs.
Fix the queries requesting the data after the 256th entry.

GB.DB.MYSQL

Use the MySQL documentation trick to make the difference between a blob field and a text field. This should work far better than using the "max_length" value returned by the MySQL API that seems to randomly change between MySQL versions.

GB.DB.ODBC

Allow the Connection.Host property to be a full ODBC connection string.

GB.DB.SQLITE3

Interpret unknown SQL datatypes as "String" instead of using random garbage.

GB.FORM

Stock icon default sizes ("small", "medium"...) are now proportional to Desktop.Scale by steps of 8 pixels. This is for HiDPI support.
Wizard BeforeChange event can be cancelled now.
MessageView: Custom background color is now taken into account.

GB.FORM.EDITOR

TextEditor: Fix tab ("\t") character printing.
TextEditor: Only change the contents of a line if the provided new content is different from the current one.

GB.FORM.MDI

Toolbar tries to update the size of its icons when the font changes.

GB.GTK

Window now raises a Font event when its font changes.
Fix a uninitialized variable that can lead to a crash when creating a window.
TextArea.Paste() and CTRL+V works correctly now.
No GTK+ warning message anymore when a TextArea or TextBox gets the focus using some input methods.

GB.GTK3

Window now raises a Font event when its font changes.
Fix a uninitialized variable that can lead to a crash when creating a window.
TextArea.Paste() and CTRL+V works correctly now.
No GTK+ warning message anymore when a TextArea or TextBox gets the focus using some input methods.

GB.GUI.BASE

IconView: Fix item drawing when in horizontal orientation.
TreeView items height padding is now proportional to Desktop.Scale.
Fix behaviour of shortcut text properties having ampersands inside.

GB.NET.SMTP

SmtpClient.MessageId is a new property that allows to define the Message-ID header of the mail.
SmtpClient.InReplyTo is a new property that allows to define the In-Reply-To header of the mail. It defines the References header as well with the same value.
SmtpClient.AddHeader() is a new method to add a custom specific header to the mail.

GB.PCRE

RegExp.Replace() does not crash anymore when the replace string is void.

GB.QT4

Window now raises a Font event when its font changes.
Correctly initialize window properties when showing it in all cases.
Breeze widget theme patch to fix its bugs on small TextBox, ComboBox and SpinBox controls.

GB.QT5

Window now raises a Font event when its font changes.
Breeze widget theme patch to fix its bugs on small TextBox, ComboBox and SpinBox controls.

GB.REPORT2

The printer resolution is always 1200 dpi now.
Preview: The layout has been changed to be more readable.
Preview: Fix the printer combo initial value.

GB.XML

Document: Fixed a memory leak when the instanciation failed due to a parsing exception.
XmlElement: Internally setting an attribute with a NULL value does not crash anymore.
Encountering a never-ended attribute does not crash the parser anymore.
Optimized parser cleanup when an exception is thrown.
Fix attribute initialization method.

GB.XML.HTML

Encountering a never-ended attribute does not crash the parser anymore.

Compilation and installation

Read the instructions there.

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

Enjoy it !