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Release notes for fpGUI
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v0.7.rc2 (2010-04-08)
- 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.
v0.7.rc1 (2010-03-04)
- 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.
v0.6 (2008-02-17) revision 534
- Added a new INI Utils unit which introduces ReadOnly ini support
- Implemented the Model-GUI-Meditor design pattern so fpGUI can be
used with tiOPF's object persistent framework. This allows any
fpGUI component to become object-aware. I find this a better
alternative to DB-aware components.
- Many improvements to the GUI Designer. New property editors, new
components, better mouse support, MRU menu etc.
- 64-bit support is now added
- Newly supported platforms: FreeBSD and DesktopBSD
- Unicode text input is now supported under Windows.
- Started implementing Message Dialogs (with multiple buttons, icons etc).
- New components:
* Calendar combobox
* Gauges (pie, bar, needle, etc.)
* DB Label example component.
- Better support for newer desktop environments under Linux.
- Anti-aliased line drawing support.
- Line styles (dot, solid, dash...) are now fully supported on all platforms.
- Implemented the Command design pattern interface. Something like
Delphi's TAction component.
- Fixed many memory leaks in CoreLib units.
- New examples/demos added: Splash Screen, Command Handler, Gauges,
Anti-aliased line drawing etc..
- Started working on Message Dialogs.
- Better clipboard support.
- Including MANY more improvements and bug fixes. There are to
many to list. For a detailed listing of the changes use the svn command
line client as follows: svn log -r 367:534
v0.5 (2007-09-13)
- The first release since the rewrite of fpGUI to use a 'windowed'
multi-handle implementation.
- Available components in this release:
* Button with image support
* Label
* Bevel (aka Panel)
* Radio Buttons
* Check Boxes
* Track Bar (aka Slider)
* Page Control (aka Tab Control)
* List Box
* Scrollbars
* Memo (partially implemented)
* Forms (Windows). Normal, Modal and Popup.
* Dialogs
o ShowMessage()
o Font Selection dialog
o File Open...
o File Save As...
* Text Edit
* Combo Box (aka Choice List)
* Grids (aka Tables)
o Base Grid
o Custom Grid
o Draw Grid
o String Grid
o File Grid
* Progress Bar
* List View
* Main Menu bar and Popup Menus
* Treeview
- Align and Anchor support has been added.
- Clipboard support (application wide). Global (OS based)
is in the works.
- All painting is done via double buffering, so drawing flicker
is a thing of the past.
- Better font support. We now have support for Font Aliases. We
can define a font style (font name, size and attributes) and
give it a text name. Whenever we want to use that font style,
we can reference it by the text name.
- All colors are now defined in RGB order, no matter what platform
we use.
- Modal form support (with some minor issues under Windows that
should be fixed soon).
- Widgets and Forms now have a single consistent constructor due
to the base window class that descends from TComponent.
- Delayed resource allocation. This is very handy under Linux where
the X Server can be in a remote location (not on the same computer).
This gives a performance bonus as we need to communicate less with
the X Server which is inherently slow.
- Supports a Model-GUI-Mediator (MGM) implementation to work with
the tiOPF Object Persistent Framework. Business Objects can now
be saved in a OO fashion. The MGM implementation also makes the
standard fpGUI components Object-Aware. No need for DB Components.
- fpGUI now has a Visual Form (GUI) Designer in the example/apps
directory. Developers can now create forms visually at a much
faster rate. The designer uses the same source file that contains
your code - generating the ui code like you would have done
manually. No external ui files like Lazarus (*.lfm) or Delphi
(*.dfm). See the readme file in the project directory for more
details.
v0.4
- The last version of fpGUI using a single handle (windowless)
design.
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