[fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit v0.8 release for FPC 2.4.4 & 2.6.0-rc

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

Hi,

I'm glad to announce the next release of fpGUI Toolkit.

fpGUI v0.8
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An archived source download and pre-built binaries for DocView (fpGUI's
Documentation Viewer) can be found at the following URL:

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/fpgui/files/fpGUI/0.8/

...or clone the source code repository by using any of the following
commands:

  from SourceForge:
     git clone git://fpgui.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/fpgui/fpgui

  from GitHub:
     git clone git://github.com/graemeg/fpGUI.git
   or
     git clone https://github.com/graemeg/fpGUI.git


Pre-built documentation in the highly optimized INF file format (for
use with DocView) is also available for download in a single archive,
just 1.7MB in side. The archive contains the fpGUI Toolkit API
documentation, and for your convenience, I also included the Free
Pascal Language Reference, FPC Runtime Library and the FPC Free
Component Library.

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/fpgui/files/fpGUI/Documentation/

For more details, please visit the fpGUI home page:

  http://fpgui.sourceforge.net


The v0.8 release contains a lot of added features and enhancements.
Below is just a small list of things that added or changed.

v0.8 (2011-11-02)
  - New widget demos and many improvements to existing demos.
  - New application examples
    * Spinning Globe, show some graphics support with zooming.
    * An experimental IDE called Maximus, which supports project
      management, compiler settings management, macro management,
      multi-threading enabled, fast procedure list searching,
      syntax-highlighting enabled text editor, OS independent
      file monitor support etc.
  - PDF reporting engine and preview support. Thanks to
    Jean-Marc Levecque for this awesome contribution.
  - Huge improvements and enhancements to the Treeview widget.
    * massive speed improvement
    * improved painting support
    * extended treeview and node method calls
    * state image support (eg: having checkboxes next to nodes)
    widget.
  - Many Docview (fpGUI documentation viewer) improvements
    * Bookmark support
    * Improved annotation support
    * Improved the text rendering and text wrapping
    * Rewrote the font handling which gave a massive 200+% speed
      increase in startup times (depending on the amount of fonts you
      have installed on your system), and reduced memory usage by 50%.
  - Added image support to RichView, the text viewer used by Docview.
  - Two new supported platforms: OpenSolaris and MacOSX (with X11
    support).
  - Global keyboard shortcut support for menu items and actions.
  - fpGUI API documentation has been extended and improved.
  - OS independent DND (drag-n-drop) support has been implemented. This
    supports external application-to-application and internal
    widget-to-widget drag-n-drop.
  - Improved the workings of implementing context sensitive help inside
    your applications.
  - Improved fpGUI project templates for use with Lazarus IDE or MSEide.
  - Included the WIPFC (OpenWatcom IPF Compiler) binaries to allow you
    to compile your own IPF help files into binary INF help files.
  - UI Designer (the visual forms designer for fpGUI) has seen many
    improvements:
    * new components on the component palette.
    * new properties accessible in the Object Inspector
    * improved dialogs for "tab order" and "widget order" changes.
    * code generated can now use spaces or tab characters for
      indentation.
    * improved File menu layout and new options.
  - Improved themes support
  - Experimental MDI (multi-document interface) support
  - Extended the Unicode wrapper functions for the FPC's RTL file
    handing
    functions.
  - New built-in code page conversion functions have been added.
  - Grid widgets have improved scrolling support options.
  - Improved fpGUI language translations.
  - Many, many more bug fixes and improvements. For a full list run:
      git log v0.8...v0.7



-- 
Regards,
  - Graeme -


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fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit
http://fpgui.sourceforge.net