Thank you, Graeme, for all your hard and excellent work. Mark Emerson On Monday 02 August 2010 08:00:57 am Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > fpGUI v0.7 is finally available > ------------------------------- > > This was a long wait since the previous v0.6 release, but v0.7 is > well with it with loads of new features and tools. > > An archived source download can be found at the following URL, or > the source code could be pulled directly from the source code > repository. > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/fpgui/files/ > > > For more details, please visit the fpGUI home page: > > http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ > > > The v0.7 release contains a lot of added features compared to the > previous release. Below is just a small list of things that changed > or was added (see the repository log for more details). > > The pre-built HTML and INF class documentation will be made available > during the next few days. This will include updated Class Documentation > for fpGUI, FPC's RTL, FPC's FCL and a special version of FPC's Language > Reference document in INF format. I will also include pre-built binaries > of DocView (fpGUI's own help viewer) for Linux and Windows, plus > instructions on how to integrate DocView with Lazarus IDE and MSEide so > you can have context sensitive help from within each IDE's code editor. > > Change highlights > ----------------- > * FPC 2.4.0 compatible. > * Fully tested on 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. Tested on Linux, > Windows and the *BSD family. > * Mobile device support is back. Tested on ARM Linux and Windows > Mobile devices. > * fpGUI UI Designer has improved a lot and extended it's component > palette and Object Inspector. > * Various bug fixes, memory leaks and other enhancements have been > applied. > * Units have a more uniform naming style. > * Classes have a more uniform structure/hierarchy with base classes. > * Help support has been added to the core framework > * fpGUI now has it's own help file viewer called DocView. > Docview includes the following features: > - document annotation > - bookmarks > - browse history > - exporting articles to plain text or IPF format. > - full text search (including weighting of results to see how > relevant the results are) > - Font and Color customization > - Concatenation of help files at run-time so a library of help > files can be viewed simultaneously. > - Easy integration via the "external tools" feature of IDE's like > Lazarus or MSEide. This allows for context sensitive help. > - History of most recently viewed help files. > - Help file format used is the INF format (IBM's format used it > OS/2), which is very compact, incredibly fast and supports full > text search. > * A lot of new components have been added, including enhancements > to existing components. > * Various new dialogs have been added, which include Color Wheel, > Character Map, Database Login etc. > * Improved integration with tiOPF project via the Model-GUI-Mediator > design pattern. > * Graphical FPCUnit unit test runner. > * Lots of new language translations for the core fpGUI library. > * A lot of new example projects demoing various GUI components. > > > Some changes in v0.7-rc1 > ------------------------ > - FPC 2.4.0 compatible. > - Fully tested on 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. Tested on Linux, > Windows and the *BSD family. > - Mobile device support is back. Tested on ARM Linux and Windows > Mobile devices. > - fpGUI UI Designer has improved a lot and extended it's component > palette and Object Inspector. > - Various bug fixes, memory leaks and other enhancements have been > applied. > - Units have a more uniform naming style. > - Classes have a more uniform structure/hierarchy with base classes. > - Help support has been added to the core framework > - fpGUI now has it's own help file viewer called DocView. > Docview includes the following features: > - document annotation > - bookmarks > - browse history > - exporting articles to plain text or IPF format. > - full text search (including weighting of results to see how > relevant the results are) > - Font and Color customization > - Concatenation of help files at run-time so a library of help > files can be viewed simultaneously. > - Easy integration via the "external tools" feature of IDE's like > Lazarus or MSEide. This allows for context sensitive help. > - History of most recently viewed help files. > - Help file format used is the INF format (IBM's format used it > OS/2), which is very compact, incredibly fast and supports full > text search. > - A lot of new components have been added, including enhancements > to existing components. > - Various new dialogs have been added, which include Color Wheel, > Character Map, Database Login etc. > - Improved integration with tiOPF project via the Model-GUI-Mediator > design pattern. > - Graphical FPCUnit unit test runner. > - Lots of new language translations for the core fpGUI library. > - A lot of new example projects demoing various GUI components. > > > Some changes in v0.7-rc2 > ------------------------- > - Localization of Character Map dialog. > - Insert from Character Map added to TfpgEdit default popup menu. > - ModalResults is now a enum type. Improved integration with UI > Designer. > - Memo: problems with deleting selected text is now fixed. > - Improved WinCE support, including reading BMP files. > - Fixed compilation of all example projects. > - Extended available properties that can be edited via the Object > Inspector of the UI Designer. > - Fixed issues where dialogs are closed via the window border X > button and not the available buttons in the dialog. Developer > can define behaviour of X close button. > - Improved TabSheet handling in UI Designer. > - Various improvements to TfpgPageControl and TfpgTabSheet. This > includes new tab positions: Bottom, Left, Right and None. > - SelectDirectory dialog was not working under Windows. > - Setting selected directory in SelectDirectory dialog now works. > - New mouse cursor demo. > - Improved the ability to customize the HintWindow. HintWindow > demo was extended to show how this can be done. > - Improved Visible property handling especially with child > components. Now only the parent Visible property is changed. > - tiOPF: correctly disable event handlers in edit mediators. > - Added a script which generates a fpGUI version number based on > Git repository information. Later this will be converted to > a object pascal console application. > > > Some changes for final release v0.7 > ----------------------------------- > - Quite a few more minor bug fixes since v0.7-rc2. > - Some memory leaks in TfpgListView > - Added an example Debug Server in examples/apps/debugserver > - This can be used with FPC's dbugintf unit so you can send > debug messages. Handy for debugging CGI apps on your server. > - A new unit fpg_imgutils was added. It contains some handy > utility functions for images. > - Implemented disabled images support for all controls that can > display images. > - Added a new TfpgMemo Mediator for use with tiOPF based > applications. > - Improved quick date selection in TfpgComboCalendar. Users can > now click the Year or Month to quickly select a different value > without the need for scrolling through every month. > - Many more improvements to the "prototype" text editor component > located in prototypes/textedit/. Soon this will become a > standard component in fpGUI. > - Minor improvements to DocView's toolbar. > - DocView now has a 'File | Open Special' option, which can open > environment variables pointing to a location where INF files are. > - Grids now have a smooth scrolling option for horizontal scrolling. > - A new Input Query dialog was added. > - Some demos where improved. eg: SplashScreen demo. > - JPEG image format support was added. Soon all image formats > supported by FPImage will be included. Unfortunately it did not > make it into this release. > - Added a fpGUI project template for when you use fpGUI with MSEide. > - A new Color Selection dialog was added to fpGUI. > - fpGUI's UI Designer has a few more components on the component palette. > eg: TfpgFilenameEdit, TfpgDirectoryEdit, TfpgFontEdit, etc... > - Some more minor changes to allow compiling fpGUI under MacOSX with X11. > > > Regards, > - Graeme -
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