Lazarus 0.9.24 release notes

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Statistics:

  1. commits: 1942
  2. log: svn log -r 10808:12750


LCL Interfaces Major changes:

  1. win64 experimental version
  2. huge improvements in Carbon (by Tombo):
    • Improved TGraphicControl and TCustomControl descendants, scrolling, TSpeedButton and TSplitter.
    • Implemented TMainMenu, TPopupMenu, TStatusBar, TNotebook, T(Float)SpinEdit, TArrow, TPairSplitter.
    • Implemented regions and TClipboard.
    • Implemented TabOrder, TabStop and focusing.
    • Added TOpenDialog, TSaveDialog and TSelectDirectoryDialog from Philip J. Hess, TFontDialog.
    • Added TListBox, TCheckListBox from Giulio Bernardi.
  3. huge improvements in Qt (by Zeljko (Zeljan), Felipe, Den and Paul)
    • Improved TCustomControl descendants, TCustomEdit, TCustomComboBox, TRadioButton, TCheckBox, TTrackBar, TFontDialog, TSaveDialog, TOpenDialog ...
    • Implemented TScrollBar, TSpinEdit,TCustomListView, TCalendar, MDIForms, TCustomCheckGroup, TCustomRadioGroup, TColorDialog, TArrow, TCheckListBox, TToggleBox, THintWindow ...
    • Implemented winapi functions: clipboard, caret, capture
    • Implemented drag and drop.
    • Lazarus Qt IDE can be compiled & used :)
    • A lot of various improvements & bugfixes.
  4. huge improvements in Gtk2
    • the GTK2 IDE works pretty good and the overall stability is comparable to the gtk1. Some things work better in gtk2, some work better in gtk1. For compatibility reasons the gtk1 is still better and therefore still the default.
    • event handling of OnClick, OnChange, ... is now more compatible
  5. Bitmap rework (details will come from Marc)
  6. Imagelist rework. Using win32 native imagelist (with returning valid win32 handle).
  7. Removed gnome widgetset. The gnome specials are used in the gtk2 widgetsets anyway.
  8. Much improved unicode support with the win32/64 widgetset

LCL Major changes

  1. New class TThemesServices (unit Themes) to support theming (Theme library).
  2. New component THeaderControl

LCL Minor changes:

  1. Drag/Drop fixes
  2. Cursor fixes
  3. Various WinXp themes improvements (new speedbutton and splitter look, fixes)
  4. DBGrid improvements
  5. Various improvements and fixes in file dialogs (save/open file dialog, select directory dialog)
  6. New application and form event OnDropFiles (Drop files event)
  7. TBitBtn: implemented NumGlyphs from Giuliano Colla
  8. removed TRTLCtriticalSection, it is provided by the RTL now
  9. made TMenuItem.Caption and Hint translatable (TTranslateString)
  10. Moved the minimum necessary types and constants from commctrl to lcltype to allow compilation of gtk, gtk2, carbon and qt. Removed the commctrl unit as it is no longer needed.
  11. masks: added TParseStringList for parsing mask lists
  12. enabled loading of standard windows status icons instead of LCL
  13. force alpha channel when PNG has alpha
  14. Published Colorbox selection property
  15. Rawimage rework, e.g. changed TRawImage into object
  16. grids: added gdSelected in addition to gdfocused
  17. FindNextControl returns first control, if the current control is not in the taborder list (fixes 9390) from Gerard Visent
  18. removed dummy function SetTextAlign, SetMapMode, GetMapMode
  19. translations: default charset is now UTF-8, gtk1 and win32 will disable this if needed
  20. removed TLeftRight, is now part of the classes unit
  21. moved TButton from buttons unit to stdctrls
  22. added procedure CloseDebugOutput to LCLProc unit
  23. derived T(Float)SpinEdit from TCustomEdit to remove redundant code
  24. added TColorBox.GetColor, TColorListBox.GetColor from Michael Van Canneyt
  25. published TFileListBox.Directory
  26. published Font and ParentFont for Radiobutton and Checkbox
  27. removed endian conversion functions, they are part of the fpc 2.0.4 RTL now
  28. removed HKEY_xxx constants from lcltype unit, fpc supplies them in the registry unit
  29. published TEditButton.CharCase and OnEditingDone for several TCustomEditButton descendants
  30. published TRadioGroup.AutoSize
  31. keep selected item list of a treeview ordered from Gerard Visent
  32. Forced graphic to be transparent when TImage is transparent
  33. added TTrayIcon
  34. autosizing parent control now work with childs anchored to parent
  35. added example how to load current .po file with the gettext uni
  36. changed TApplication.AddOnIdleHandler to use TIdleEvent instead of TNotifyEvent
  37. added TCustomSpeedButton.OnMouseEnter/Exit from Graeme

IDE:

  1. debugging under mac osx
  2. Added Lazarus IDE Application Bundle for Mac OS X from Phil J. Hess
  3. added insert todo dialog from wile64
  4. identifier completion: adding := (can be disabled in environment / codetools options)
  5. new IDE package - editor toolbar (details will come from Graeme)
  6. modern icons in ide menu and some dialogs
  7. new build lazarus dialog look
  8. Ability to add xp manifest into windows executables (project options)
  9. improved and enabled creation of .lrt files and combining all .rst/.lrt files into one .po files per project from Luis Rodrigues
  10. added package option Provides (Package Editor / Options / Provides) - needed by KOL
  11. using sysutils.GetTempDir to find the temporary directory on windows
  12. added menu item Help -> Reporting a bug from Tom
  13. implemented auto invoking code templates on space
  14. code explorer: added directives page
  15. designer: implemented menu item: Change parent
  16. added various tests to Project / Compiler Options / Test to find common misconfigurations
  17. added workaround for the fact that windres (called by fpc 2.2.0) cannot find the preprocessor, if it is not on the path
  18. added Lithuanian to the list of translations
  19. added new project type: console application - a program using TCustomApplication
  20. added fpc component TEventLog
  21. codetools: now parses fpc 2.3.1 generics, simple find declaration for generics, added directives parser and optimizer, added tools to fix alias types and functions