[fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit v0.7-rc1 for FPC 2.4

[Joseph Montanez]

Graeme,

Amazing update, can't wait to get time to have my hands on this!

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys
<graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> fpGUI v0.7-rc1 is available
> ---------------------------
>
> 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. A more detailed change-log will be made available when I
> create the final v0.7 release. The final release will also include
> updated Class Documentation (in HTML and INF format) and application
> help for DocView and UI Designer. The FPC Language Reference document
> will also be made available in INF format.
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
>  - Graeme -
>
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>
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