Roadmap

1.7

The changes of BlackBox 1.6 for the 1.7 center release

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Feature #4: The new icon with up to 256x256 resolution
Feature #15: Adapting the About dialog
Feature #18: Adding Dialog.appVersion and adapting Dialog.version for upcoming center releases
Feature #19: Adding 16-bit Unicode support for Component Pascal identifiers
Feature #27: Adding SET conversion to the module Strings
Feature #33: adding platform detection for wine, Windows 7, and Windows 8
Feature #36: support for long identifiers in StdInterpreter
Feature #43: extending the size of code procedures
Feature #50: unlimited number of columns in SqlControls.Control
Feature #51: support for ANYPTR and SYSTEM.PTR in Meta.LookupPath
Feature #53: support for empty text in DevCompiler.CompileText
Feature #60: underlining white space
Feature #61: Unicode support for fold labels
Feature #62: Unicode and Internationalization support for StdStamps
Feature #66: improvements in StdScrollers
Feature #67: improvements for Obx->Primes...
Feature #68: option for suppressing Dialog.Beep
Feature #73: Custom tags in headers and footers
Feature #80: localizable menus
Feature #83: Different window title for Mod, Rsrc, and Docu files
Feature #86: improvements in RTF import
Feature #87: adding support for LONGINT in SqlDrivers.Table
Feature #88: support for localizable documentation
Feature #89: adding language selection to Preferences dialog
Feature #90: adding horizontal scroll bar to list boxes
Feature #92: office automation
Feature #93: opening a form with a tab view
Feature #94: using BlackBox without the Windows registry
Feature #98: improvements of GUI controls
Feature #101: improvements for the standard properties inspector
Feature #102: improvements for color selection in menu Attributes
Feature #104: calling URLs and commands (InfoCmds capabilities)
Feature #105: background task processing while mouse tracking
Feature #110: use mapped strings for labels in all forms
Feature #111: code cleanups
Feature #122: enabling write access to list of installed converters
Feature #129: command for generating a compile list for a set of subsystems
Documentation #11: About.odc
Documentation #35: Add docu for DevSelectors
Documentation #97: Create Docu for (System)Kernel
Documentation #100: Review all the existing documentation
Infrastructure #12: Initializing the repository with BlackBox 1.6 final
Infrastructure #112: producing a change list from Redmine
Infrastructure #131: Release 1.7

1.7.1

New version after 1.7 final release

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Feature #135: adding hierarchical menus
Feature #137: Enlarge the size of the default font
Feature #138: Files64 - Support for files larger than 2GB
Feature #139: Support for localization of error messages
Feature #140: Unwrapping IMPORT aliasses
Feature #142: adding a disassembler to the ocf importer
Feature #147: Adding a "Mod1" function to Math/SMath
Feature #148: StdCoder to support file names with spaces
Feature #150: improvements in DevSearch
Feature #151: Extending the domain of Math.ArcTan2
Feature #153: adding basic console I/O
Feature #154: Atomic operation to get date and time
Feature #156: adding Coroutines to BlackBox
Feature #157: Extending the domain of Math.Sin, Cos, & Tan
Feature #158: adding low-level console logging
Feature #163: Adding 'Decimal' Tabs to Rulers
Feature #166: adding SendInput to WinApi
Feature #172: adding BOOLEAN parameters to StdInterpreter
Feature #173: adding new modifiers in Controllers
Feature #175: Display StdLinks.Link command
Documentation #146: TextRulers docu improvements
Documentation #152: Documentation improved for CommStreams, Dialog, Controllers
Documentation #155: Cleanups in the sources of HostDialog
Documentation #159: Annual copyright date change in About & License files.
Documentation #160: Outdated link to OP2.Paper.ps in the compiler sources
Documentation #171: fixing inconsistent links in docu
Infrastructure #162: generic Build-Tool
Infrastructure #177: adding property 'buildBranch' to System/Rsrc/Strings
Infrastructure #183: Release 1.7.1

1.7.2

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Feature #187: adding a run-time debugger to BlackBox
Feature #189: improving the treatment of the sign bit in Math/SMath
Feature #196: StdCoder to support both "\" & "/" in file paths
Feature #201: Importer and Exporter for UTF-8 texts
Documentation #190: add comment about stack and heap memory configuration