Lazarus 0.9.28 release notes

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LCL Interfaces major changes

• Gtk2 is now default widgetset on linux

LCL major changes

• TPen: cosmetic/geometric, Join Style, End Cap Style
• Most of component properties now have default values => smaller .lfm files
• TMonitor class: multi-monitor support
• Refactoring of LCL-Interface interface interoperability => size of empty form application was reduced by 17-18% (qt, win32). Gtk applications size was not changed.
• TreeView component got editing support and misc visual enhancements

Widgetsets

• Windows CE: Implemented TCalendar.

LCL minor changes

• TColorBox, TColorListBox has been rewritten. Now they are more delphi compatible.
• TColorDialog.CustomColors has been added.

IDE changes

• New IDE options dialog combines environments, editor, codetools and debugger options. A new api is introduced to add custom ide settings into IDE options dialog.
• The deprecated jitform were removed. They used a dirty trick to create methods at design time. This trick is no longer needed.
• Project enhancements:
  • Application icon has been added to the Project Options.
  • Application icon, Version information and XP manifest are merged into one .rc file which has the same name as project main file (.lpi)
  • .lrs files can now be saved/auto created in the project output directory (disable in Project / Project Options / Miscellaneous / save .lrs file in the output directory). This way you no longer need to store the .lrs files in the svn/cvs repository.
  • more compiler options can be tuned using compiler options dialog:
    • warnings and hints to be shown by compiler
    • use external debug symbols file (-Xg)
    • generate dwarf debug information (-gw)

• Editor enhancements:
  • adjustable gutter
  • showing line changes on gutter
  • customizable colors for more elements
  • code folding:
    • support for $region
    • more structures can be folded

• Object inspector enhancements:
  • customizable colors for more elements
  • non-default values can be shown bold, better detection of default/non-default values
  • gutter
  • information box

• Form designer enhancements:
  • non-visual components can be drawn with captions
  • copy/paste component now includes events

• Jedi code formatter is intergrated (withot an ability to customize settings at moment): use Ctrl+D to format your source code

• Codetools enhancements:
  • empty published methods (event handlers) can be removed automatically on unit save
  • renaming of some unit will update references in other project units
  • remove unused units tool

• Debugging:
  • Assembler window
  • Call stack dialog improvements: icons for entries, сlicking on valid source line can be used to toggle breakpoint for that line, for those stack entries which have no source line an adress is shown.
  • Lines which are present in executable are shown as dots in the source editor gutter.
  • New debugger exception notification dialog with ability to turn off notification for this exception and continue execution is shown insted of old exception dialog
  • EAbort exception is added to the default list of exceptions to skip (all new projects skips this exception by default)
  • Breakpoint properties dialog

• Misc:
  • Most of dialogs was reviewed to support multi-monitor systems