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3.1 KiB
3.1 KiB
QB64 development build - Changelog
New features
All platforms
- New
$Debug
metacommand, with added breakpoint/step abilities and real-time variable watching to the IDE. - Quick reference for commands is now shown in the status bar when syntax errors are detected.
_Source
is now also set to_Console
when$Console:Only
is used.- Allows
Ctrl+\
to be used as a shortcut to repeat search (legacy QBasic shortcut). - Functions
_MK$
and_CV
can now deal with_OFFSET
values. - New "View on Wiki" button on help panel (launches equivalent wiki page using the default browser).
- New
_EnvironCount
function to show how many environment variables are found. - Color schemes can now be set/saved individually for each running instance of the IDE.
Windows
- Automatically embeds a manifest file when compiling an exe with
$VersionInfo
, so that Common Controls v6.0 gets linked at runtime. - Adds the %TEMP%, Program Files and Program Files (x86) directories to
_Dir$()
folder specifications.
Fixes
All platforms
- Improved wiki parser.
- Contextual menu would crash when right-clicking a series of high-ascii characters.
- Fixes an issue with passing an array as a Sub/Function argument (missing parenthesis now properly detected).
- Fixes
Clear
making$Console
mode invalid. - Fixes a syntax highlighter issue regarding scientific notation.
- Fixes an issue in Windows Vista and up with incorrect resolution returned on a scaled desktop.
- Fixes
Const
parser accepting unsupported string functions and failing with some very specific const names. - Explicitly sets x87 fpu to extended precision mode.
- Removes 255-character limit for
Input/Line Input
with strings. - Fixes
Data
commands failing to compile in some circumstances. $NoPrefix
,Option _Explicit
andOption _ExplicitArray
can now be placed anywhere in a program, no longer having to be the first statement.- Fixes
MEM
reverting to_MEM
as a sub parameter in$NoPrefix
mode. - Fixes case adjustment of array names in
UBound
/LBound
calls. - Prevents users from creating self-referencing
Type
blocks. - Fixes issue that prevented loading file names beginning with numbers.
- Fixes file open/save dialogs issue with path navigation.
- Complete rewrite of the internals for
Environ$()
. - Fixes evaluation of valid var/flag names for
$Let
/$If
- same rules for variable names now apply. - Fixes incorrect parsing of
Type
blocks with multiple elements using theAS type element-list
syntax. - Fixes issue with
Put #
and variable-length strings in UDTs (Binary
files).
Windows
- Allows
$Console:Only
programs to return_WindowHandle
. - Saving a file to the root of a drive would display double backslashes in the Recent Files list.
Linux
xmessage
added to dependency list (setup script).- Fixes
InKey$
acting too slow. - Fixes compilation error with DATA statements on gcc 11.
- Detects non-x86 based architectures.