Enhanced IDE v0.21.0 released
I'm pleased to announce a new Enhanced IDE version 0.21.0 on Recent Contribution
Page. Following is a list of new features and fixes:
- Removed prior error message from Code Editor's status bar when MenuRun and
there is no error.
- Added 'Tools' Menu to Code Editor with 'Show Color Palette" MenuItem. This
allows you to open a tool window that has 64 colors and the System colors. At the
bottom you can double-click and add your own colors from the getColorDialog. As
you left click a color or double-click to add a color the numerical value of that
color shows in the titlebar. This might be useful when writing code in code
editor.
- Added colorization for ProgressBar and it's bar.
- Improved the way emulated Group and ScrollBar controls are drawn.
- Improved the way CWindow is drawn. Sometimes when Style Type is {...} the
CWindow disappeared from Design unless actually clicked. Now it will be drawn
with a dotted black outline.
- Added Left, Center and Right options for caption of PushButton, ToggleButton,
DefPushButton and CancelButton.
- When changing Caption, Caption Side, Font Name, Font Points, Font Attibutes or
move position of LabelEdit control and the control is in a parent, the caption
will be checked that it is still within bounds of the LabelEdit's parent, if it
has one.
- Changing CheckBox to TriCheckBox changes the background of the checkmark to a
light gray in Design.
- StatusBar may be added to CWindow. StatusBar may be moved to Window or CWindow
as long as they do not already have a StatusBar.
- Improved ToolBar, FlatToolBar and ReBar on CWindow: drawing in Design
correctly when CWindow did and did not have Titlebar and when moving to and from
Window1.
- Change of rule when adding StatusBar to project. StatusBar must be dropped
onto Window or CWindow control and not any other controls.
- When backing up project before save, you can be shown the SaveAs dialog. In
the event you want to use the default projectname.bak then simply press the Save
button. If you want to skip the backup, simply press the Cancel button in the
dialog. If you do not want a backup at all, uncheck this option. If you want the
backup but never want to rename or skip the backup before save then check
Configurations "Re-use backup filename" next to "Backup Before Save." This will
suppress showing the SaveAs dialog. The initial default state is checked when
"Backup Before Save" is checked.
- Added a new backup option in Configurations for "Backup project after MenuRun
if no errors" which backs up the project after MenuRun (F5) if (1) it had been
previously Saved and (2) did not ex.err or crash file. The new backup is named
projectname.AfterSave.bak unless you override with another filename. If you want
to use the default projectname.AfterSave.bak simply press Save button. If you
want to skip the backup, press Cancel button in the dialog. If you never want to
rename or skip the backup then check Configurations "Re-use backup filename" next
to this option which will suppress showing the SaveAs dialog. The initial default
state is unchecked.
- Introducing XPMmer internal to IDE. This allows you to design your icons for
Picture Button, Toggle Picture buttons, and Bitmap controls, store them in your
project file and have them placed automatically on the control in the exw. See
documentation within XPMmer.
- Good news for those of you who bind Standalone Editor.exw. No longer does
Editor automatically require the latest IDE.cfg file. If there are no new entries
in Configurations for IDE which affect Editor, your previous bound version runs.
However, if new entries affect Editor, you will get a error message when starting
the prevously bound Editor and you will need to rebind.
- IDE now correctly minimizes during MenuRun and restores when the generated exw
is closed. If user has indicated in Configurations not to minimize during MenuRun
then IDE will stay on the desktop.
- The generated exw or ew will have a variable TheProgramType which may be
tested within the program to determine if the program is an 'exw' or 'ew' which
would be useful if your project can generate either or both types of generated
programs.
- Properties 'Color' and 'System Color' had minor bugs. If you used the color
dialog in Color and selected Black color, the dialog correctly returned zero.
However in IDE zero color means BTNFACE. Now when selecting Black, -2 will be
placed in Color. Selecting a System Color that is Black had a similar bug and
fix. Also System Color was not saved correctly and when reloading the project
corrupted coloring, often resulting in BTNFACE. Since these bugs happen when
writing the project, I can not automatically correct for you. If you were
affected by this bug, change your Color or System Color, re-save the project and
reload.
- Color is no longer an expandable Property. System Color now shows below Color
(for Window class) and a new item, "User Color" has been added. "User Color" is
not selectable and only a reference item. When showing, it means you used "Color"
manually or by the color dialog.
- More than 10 digits in Color is ignored.
- In Design do not allow Window class use arrow keys without Shift or Control
because moving Window is not allowed, only resizing.
- If you entered Property "Text Color" for EditText but did not enter "Color"
the generated exw did not change the text color. It now does.
- CWindow with StatusBar caused problems in keying Property "Color" for Window1.
This has been fixed.
- There were reported problems with Code Editor showing the statement of an
ex.err. The routines have been reworked.
- There were reported problems that adding changes or new data to
Window1_General event and pressing F5 does not save the change but closing Code
Editor and then pressing F5 does. I've changed the F5/F6 routines to use a
similar method.
- Added variables for Hint Font, Hint Text and Font. You must declare the
variable and set its value within your project.A couple of points to remember.
When using variable in FontName and/or FontPts, IDE can not draw your control in
Design using the font and can not warn you if you LabelEdit control's caption
exceeds the LabelEdit parent. To get access to the variables check Property "Open
Vars" under Font and HintFont. All the variables should be entered in a Code
Editor event with integer values except for Font Name, Hint Font Name and Hint
Text. When using variables in Font and Hint Font attributes, the variable is an
integer with values Bold, Italic, Underline or Strikeout. Do not combine the
attributes in a single variable.
- Reported cases where ToolBar was not full width of parent have been fixed.
- Fixed resizing CWindow with ToolBar and ToolBar controls, where the ToolBar
controls moved to the top of the Window instead of staying in CWindow ToolBar.
- Fixed problems redrawing ReBar/ReBarBand after changes to ReBarBand.
- Fixed problems with Colors in EuGrid that were defaulted to BTNFACE value. If
all the digits were removed it became zero instead of back to BTNFACE value.
- Hint Font is now working.
- Fixed bug in stand alone editor which sometimes crashed "find" processing.
NOTE: If you have bound editor.exw you should rebind.
- You may now view and edit data you have added to IDE in any external editor
which is able to read params. Under Menu 'Launch' select 'Pass controls and
routines to editor of your choice'. Your passed data is saved in IDE's folder
under the name IDEPassFile.exw for the external editor to read. Remember if you
edit the file, IDE will not know anything about your changes! IDEPassFile.exw is
deleted when IDE closes. If you want to keep the file once in external editor
please SaveAs another file name. The external editor is entered in Configurations
with the default being Editor.exw if you do not enter anything.
Enjoy,
judith evans
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