Changelog
lazarus (1.0.8+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low
[ Abou Al Montacir ]
* New upstream major release and multiple maintenace release offering many
fixes and new features marking a new milestone for the Lazarus development
and its stability level.
- The detailed list of changes can be found here:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.0_release_notes
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.0_fixes_branch
* LCL changes:
- LCL is now a normal package.
+ Platform independent parts of the LCL are now in the package LCLBase
+ LCL is automatically recompiled when switching the target platform,
unless pre-compiled binaries for this target are already installed.
+ No impact on existing projects.
+ Linker options needed by LCL are no more added to projects that do
not use the LCL package.
- Minor changes in LCL basic classes behaviour
+ TCustomForm.Create raises an exception if a form resource is not
found.
+ TNotebook and TPage: a new implementation of these classes was added.
+ TDBNavigator: It is now possible to have focusable buttons by setting
Options = [navFocusableButtons] and TabStop = True, useful for
accessibility and for devices with neither mouse nor touch screen.
+ Names of TControlBorderSpacing.GetSideSpace and GetSpace were swapped
and are now consistent. GetSideSpace = Around + GetSpace.
+ TForm.WindowState=wsFullscreen was added
+ TCanvas.TextFitInfo was added to calculate how many characters will
fit into a specified Width. Useful for word-wrapping calculations.
+ TControl.GetColorResolvingParent and
TControl.GetRGBColorResolvingParent were added, simplifying the work
to obtain the final color of the control while resolving clDefault
and the ParentColor.
+ LCLIntf.GetTextExtentExPoint now has a good default implementation
which works in any platform not providing a specific implementation.
However, Widgetset specific implementation is better, when available.
+ TTabControl was reorganized. Now it has the correct class hierarchy
and inherits from TCustomTabControl as it should.
- New unit in the LCL:
+ lazdialogs.pas: adds non-native versions of various native dialogs,
for example TLazOpenDialog, TLazSaveDialog, TLazSelectDirectoryDialog.
It is used by widgetsets which either do not have a native dialog, or
do not wish to use it because it is limited. These dialogs can also be
used by user applications directly.
+ lazdeviceapis.pas: offers an interface to more hardware devices such
as the accelerometer, GPS, etc. See LazDeviceAPIs
+ lazcanvas.pas: provides a TFPImageCanvas descendent implementing
drawing in a LCL-compatible way, but 100% in Pascal.
+ lazregions.pas. LazRegions is a wholly Pascal implementation of
regions for canvas clipping, event clipping, finding in which control
of a region tree one an event should reach, for drawing polygons, etc.
+ customdrawncontrols.pas, customdrawndrawers.pas,
customdrawn_common.pas, customdrawn_android.pas and
customdrawn_winxp.pas: are the Lazarus Custom Drawn Controls -controls
which imitate the standard LCL ones, but with the difference that they
are non-native and support skinning.
- New APIs added to the LCL to improve support of accessibility software
such as screen readers.
* IDE changes:
- Many improvments.
- The detailed list of changes can be found here:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/New_IDE_features_since#v1.0_.282012-08-29.29
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.0_release_notes#IDE_Changes
* Debugger / Editor changes:
- Added pascal sources and breakpoints to the disassembler
- Added threads dialog.
* Components changes:
- TAChart: many fixes and new features
- CodeTool: support Delphi style generics and new syntax extensions.
- AggPas: removed to honor free licencing. (Closes: Bug#708695)
[Bart Martens]
* New debian/watch file fixing issues with upstream RC release.
[Abou Al Montacir]
* Avoid changing files in .pc hidden directory, these are used by quilt for
internal purpose and could lead to surprises during build.
[Paul Gevers]
* Updated get-orig-source target and it compinion script orig-tar.sh so that they
repack the source file, allowing bug 708695 to be fixed.
-- Paul Gevers <email address hidden> Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:12:17 +0200
