[fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit v0.7 (final release) for FPC 2.4

[Mark Emerson]

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 -