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Smart Contest 2013 – Round #1

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February is upon us and so is our announced graphics competition! This is the first competition out of four this year. So this is your chance to win some exciting prices by showing off your Object Pascal skills!

The topic of this round is: graphics programming (eg. demo-scene, fractal art, visualizations etc).

The rules are as follows:

  • Registration before the 10th of February (registration at contest@smartmobilestudio.com)
  • Deliver your contribution before 1st of March
  • Games are not accepted this round (that’s scheduled for a later date)
  • User interaction is allowed (but not mandatory)
  • Porting of retro demos is allowed (providing it is a clean rewrite)
  • JavaScript snippets are allowed (within limits)

Fractal art

Fractal art

Demos

Demoscene

Prizes

First prize is a tablet device of your own choice (up to USD 750). So have your pick between

  • iPhone
  • iPad
  • iPad mini
  • Windows Tablet
  • Windows phone
  • Android tablet or phone

Judges

Primož Gabrijelčič

Developer of the popular omnithread library, author of the Smart Mobile Studio Bible, contributor to the Smart Mobile Studio IDE and RTL, and dedicated object pascal speaker and innovator

Christian Budde

Developer of various open source projects. Among these, the popular Delphi ASIO & VST Project for professional audio related development. Another focus of his work is Graphics, which is reflected in projects such as the modernized AggPas implementation, an independent object pascal png library and a native object pascal interface to TrueType fonts (called PascalType). He is also contributor and maintainer of  Graphics32.

Currently he is working on the Smart Mobile Studio IDE and RTL.

Delivery

All contributions must be delivered in full source and binary with no missing pieces. The project must compile on the current version of Smart Mobile Studio (1.1 branch).

Happy coding!

Smart Mobile Studio v1.1 (beta-2)

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We are very proud to present an updated beta-version of our 1.1 release (build number v1.1.0.372) of Smart Mobile Studio. If you would like to give this update a test run before we officially release it, then you can download the installer directly from SmartMobileStudio.com/download/setup_v1_1_0_372_beta.exe


(The context menu is replaced with Ctrl+Shift+R (start/stop recording) and Ctrl+Shift+P (replay the recorded macro).

We have done a lot of improvements in the IDE, the editor, the RTL and the Smart Pascal language. Below is a list of the improvements that have been done since the previous beta (see full manifest of changes for beta 1 here).

IDE changes

  • Fixed: Resizer bugs for nested controls
  • Fixed: Scrolling issue fixed ([CTRL] + [Up]/[Down])
  • Fixed: Disabled unit structure flickering
  • Fixed: LineCount issue
  • Fixed: Case fix for strict hints
  • Fixed: A label “mistake” in the baseframe (it was renamed further up the chain).
  • Fixed: modified [CTRL]+/ to work the same as in Delphi:
    • if a single line is changed, caret is moved to the next line (current column is preserved)
    • if multiple lines are selected, comment is toggled for the whole block and caret is move to the line following the block (current column is set to 1)
    • modification is placed into the undo buffer so that it can be undone
  • Altered: [CTRL]+[/] is replaced by [CTRL]+[#] for systems where [/] is only accessible via [SHIFT]
  • Altered: Minor changes on compiler output (bulk output of errors, warnings and hints).
  • Altered: Search and replace dialog remembers the last states
  • Altered: improved code proposal (insert item highlight)
  • Altered: dialogs are centered
  • Altered: Recent file on welcome tab now supports to show unlimited entries if desired (by default limited to 10 items)
  • Added: Pascal “Gabelou” StyleCop (see prefrences->misc. to enable it).
  • Added: Rename refactoring (including closed files)
  • Added ‘Format Keywords’ action (see popup menu), which translates all keywords to lowercase.
  • Added: Simplified BrowserAPI
  • Added: possibility to filter log messages from the console output (filtered ‘event.layerX and event.layerY are broken and deprecated …’ by default). Select a certain text to filter and right click -> Ignore Message to filter out all messages containing this particular string. The filter will be resetted on restart.

RTL

  • Minor formating and added overload function for CreateImageData
  • Added fast sequential read text file loaders
  • Applied the new ‘Format Keywords’ to the remaining RTL files
  • Removed duplicate & tweaked hash function
  • Improved hashing function
  • dialogs need custom initialization
    • modal dialog support integrated into TW3CustomApplication (ShowModal, HideModal)
    • modal dialog is re-centered if application is resized (for example when orientation of a mobile device changes)
    • added  TW3CustomApplication.CreateOpaqueMask
    • TW3CustomControl.getMaxZIndex is now public
    • modal dialogs triggered from modal dialogs are now supported
  • Fixed: zIndex issues with modal dialogs
  • Fixed: opaque layer has high z-index to cover all controls on the form
  • Fixed: SendToBack
  • Altered: dialogs are centered on the form
  • Altered: event handlers are only called when assigned
  • Altered: W3ModalDialog made external for easier reuse
  • Altered: updated Remobjects interface
  • Altered: Changed default Mouse event X,Y coordinates
  • Added: W3ModalDialog uses opaque div to block owner form (tnx to Eric)
  • Added: PixelRatio info
  • Added TVariant.Properties + OwnProperties
  • Added HorzLine/VertLine
  • Added: New FillRectF/StrokeRectF overloads
  • Added: TW3CustomApplication.FormByName, TW3Component.ChildByName, TW3Component.EnumChildrenAltered: SetSize now virtual
  • Added: PhoneGapAPI is now complete

COMPILER

  • Fixed: Case fixes for strict mode
  • Fixed: an issue where compiler would accept method implementations in a different unit the class was declared
  • Fixed: Lambdas don’t have a “var”/”const”/etc. section
  • Fixed: issue with invalid symbol table in suggestions in case of fatal error in a lambda
  • Fixed: SymbolDictionary bug for forwarded overloaded methods
  • Fixed: calling overloaded inherited constructors
  • Fixed: codegen for assignments of a function’s result to a var param
  • Fixed: timestamp is now up to date
  • Updated: now uses latest compiler core
  • Updated: tokenizer updated to latest revision
  • Altered: Compile speed optimizations
  • Added: Missing semi-colon no longer a stopping error
  • Added: JSON to reserved names
  • Added: JSON static class
  • Added: Preparation for source maps

DEMOS

  • Fixed: style bug in smartflow
  • Fixed: bug in spartacus
  • Fixed: bug in box2d wrapper
  • Altered: Tested all demos (with exception of gyro). All demos now compile.
  • Altered: formating of Archimedes Spiral
  • Added: frames demo
  • Added: modal dialog example

Sincerely,
Jon Lennart Aasenden
—
The Smart Mobile Studio Team

The Smart Contest 2013 – Topic for the first round

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Fractal art created by longan drink.

Fractal art created by longan drink.

As previously announced, we will arrange 4 contests this year with some really cool prizes.

The topic for the first round will be “Graphics”.

We will reveal the details of this round by the end of January, but pay attention to our upcoming blog posts. They will give you lots of inspiration and get you started on the “graphics area” with Smart Mobile Studio.

(To get some inspirations right away, you can click on the image above).

In case you missed it:
First prize in each round will be a tablet (iPad, iPad mini, Android based tablet, Windows tablet). Value ~750 USD

Q: Will it be possible to participate with a trial version of Smart Mobile Studio?
A: Yes. We will even extend your trial period to cover the competition period if that is necessary. 😀

Best regards,
The Smart Mobile Studio Team

Updated roadmap

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We are proud to present our roadmap for 2013, with the goals we have set out to achieve and the technologies we are going to build. Due to unforeseen circumstances – some of the technologies that were planned for 2012 have been pushed ahead into 2013, there have also been significant shifts in the world of browser technologies that have made some of our plans redundant (“native” webservice support is one feature, which is now covered by node.js).
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12 Days of Christmas – Special offer

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Everyone who order Smart Mobile Studio in the period from December 26th to January 6th will receive an additional year of subscription for free!

It has been one year since we launched the first Alpha version of Smart Mobile Studio, and since we officially announced product name “Smart Mobile Studio”. That’s really something to celebrate. 🙂

Secondly, we’re sorry about the delay we’ve had this autumn and we would like make up for that to our existing customers. We would also like to remove all doubt for our new users: We’re serious about Smart Mobile Studio and we will work hard to keep Smart the best tool for HTML5 based (mobile and web) development.

So. Order now, and get two years for the price of one. That’s 50% off.
(All of our existing customers will receive a similar offer, too…)

Take a look at the news in the version 1.1 update and stay tuned for our updated roadmap. Besides, we do have another cool announcement to make during these days.

Best regards,
Jørn E. Angeltveit
—
The Smart Mobile Studio Team

Smart Mobile Studio v1.1 (beta)

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Source thumbnails

Source thumbnails

We are about to release our delayed update of Smart Mobile Studio – version 1.1.

If you would like to give this update a test run before we officially release it, then you can download the installer directly from SmartMobileStudio.com/download/setup_v1_1_0_371_beta.exe

Changes

We have done a lot of improvements in the IDE, the editor, the RTL and the Smart Pascal language.

This is what we have done:

IDE:

  • Added Open project by parameter (SmartMS.exe %1)
  • Added Cmd switches /C /E /Q (SmartMS.exe %1 /E /Q)
  • Added File Type Support in Windows
  • Script based project templates
  • Improved “New project” dialog
  • Added support for drag & drop of external units to the project manager
  • Added support for drag & drop of resources to the project manager
  • Added support for adding multiple resources.
  • Added some more layout presets
  • Added recent projects to welcome screen
  • Added more screen sizes preview dialog (mobile device sizes and standard ad sizes)
  • Improved Class Browser
  • Added Image Map for Document Navigation
  • Added support for external forms (all Smart files are CVS friendly)

Editor:

  • Improved: Search/Replace dialog
  • Added: FindNext and FindPrevious (F3 and SHIFT + F3)
  • Added: Go To Line Number (Alt+G)
  • Added: FocusCodeLine (with auto-centering)
  • Added: Ruler for the Gutter
  • Added: Macro Recorder (CTRL+R and CTRL+P)
  • Added: File Changed Outside Smart Notification
  • Added: Sort lines
  • Added: Surround code feature
  • Added: Toggle comment feature
  • Added: Some basic code templates (CTRL+J)
  • Added: Parameter list (CTRL+SHIFT+SPACE)
  • Added: Toggle Implementation/Interface (CTRL+UP and CTRL+DOWN)
  • Added: Rename Refactor feature (F2)
  • Added: Normalize Refactor (CTRL+N)
  • Added: Some Project Metrics (Preference)

RTL:

  • RTL
  • PhoneGapAPI: Compass class added
  • w3c.Date unit added (maps native JS methods)
  • w3Animation unit added
  • w3DbSql unit added for working with WebSQL
  • w3ListBox unit added
  • w3MouseTouch unit added
  • w3Spinner unit added
  • w3BufferedImage added BackgroundImage support to TW3BufferedImage
  • w3Components: TW3CustomControl: Mousewheel support
  • w3Components: SendToBack and BringToFront
  • w3CookieStorage unit renamed (from CookieStorage)
  • w3Ctrls: TW3Memo: Support for scrollbars
  • w3Graphics: TW3CanvasPattern class added
  • w3Graphics: TW3Canvas: Canvas Line and Dash methods added to TW3Canvas
  • w3Graphics: TW3Canvas: Canvas FillText methods added
  • w3Graphics: TW3Canvas: toDataUrl and toImageUrl methods added
  • w3Inet: TW3HttpRequest: Added Handle and RequestHeaders properties
  • w3List: TStringList: Added insert method
  • w3List: TObjectList: Added insert method
  • w3Scroll: TW3ScrollContent: Bug fix related to scrolling
  • w3Storage: JStorage class added for direct access
  • w3System: TRect and TRectF added Extend functions
  • w3System: Added w3_RequestAnimationFrame unit function

Demos:

  • General improvements…
  • Archimedes Spiral demo added
  • ColorListBox demo added
  • ControlAnimation demo added
  • Large Map Scrolling demo added
  • ListBoxControl demo added
  • MouseTouchDemo demo added
  • TeeChart demo added
  • WebSql demo added
  • ZenSky demo added

Language features:

  • Support for namespaces
  • Aggregated namespaces and conditional units
  • for [var] support
  • A new base-object (JObject) above TObject (can be mapped directly to a JS object)
  • ClassParent added to TObject
  • Support for Lambdas
  • Accepts binary literals (0b…)
  • New syntax for hexadecimal literals (0x…)
  • See also the DWS homepage an overview of news, fixes, and improvements
  • Primož Gabrijelčič has also published a lot of interesting information at his Smart blog, www.SmartProgrammer.org.
  • We would also recommend his book A Smart Book.

We will give more details and examples in dedicated articles 🙂

Murphy’s law has been with us for these last few months, so we are really happy to finally announce this update.

During these Christmas days we will update our road map and give you some insight to our future plans for Smart Mobile Studio.
We have also some special announcements we would like to share at the beginning of 2013.

Oh, and we will give our new users and exciting users a great offer when we officially release version 1.1. So stay tuned!

Sincerely,
Jørn E. Angeltveit
—
The Smart Mobile Studio Team

Sneak peek: Advanced project templates

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In the upcoming version of Smart Mobile Studio, we have added support for customizable project templates.

That means that you can add your own project templates to the template repository, and with the scripting capabilities you can make pretty cool templates.

The project templates are defined in separate folders, which will be reflected in the “New project” dialog.

You define the project title and project description in a configuration file, along with the basic project settings.  The API is based on a Pascal based scripting and pretty powerful.
  



Which project types would you like to have?

Cooperation with bit Time Software

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bit Time Software

bit Time Software

We are very happy to announce that bit Time Software, Italy, is now selling Smart Mobile Studio. We look forward to further cooperation and has already discussed lots of interesting issues with this cooperation. We already attended the DroidDevCon and ITDevCon and gave three presentations of Smart Mobile Studio. The experience from these sessions will form the basis for further Smart-dedicated trainings and seminars on Smart Pascal and mobile development.

We urge our Italian users to discuss Smart Mobile Studio issues – requests, needs and desires – with the nice bit Time Software staff, and order Smart Mobile Studio via their webshop.

Sincerely

The Smart Mobile Team

Cooperation with Barnsten

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Barnsten

Barnsten

We are very happy to report that Barnsten, the leading provider of development tools and components in the Benelux region, is now selling Smart Mobile Studio. This is very exciting news and we look forward to further cooperation with Barnsten, especially with regards to seminars and courses on Smart Pascal and mobile development.

We urge those living within the Benelux region to support Barnsten by ordering Smart Mobile Studio via their website.

Sincerely

The Smart Mobile Team

Smart Mobile Studio Hotfix 2

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We are happy to announce a second hotfix to Smart Mobile Studio (build 1.0.1.122). This hotfix is released due to a couple of important bugfixes (*).

The hotfix deals with the following issues:

  • (*) Designer losing track of controls, not saving changes if one or more forms are open
  • (*) Relative paths when creating a new project was not correct for external files
  • Initial support for dotted unit names
  • Missing <%rescode%> tag in HTML template corrected
  • Support for recursive folders in libraries, rtl and local project directory
  • New compiler switch “devirtualize” added
  • Compiler switch for “optimization” fixed
  • bug in w3inet.pas fixed (event handler failed under obfuscation)
  • w3storage.pas unit rewritten to use THandle rather than TObject references
  • Optimized background compilation and unit scanning (less calls, more accurate)
  • Sourcecode mouse hints
  • Initial support for initialization/finalization
  • Added swap() function on compiler level
  • Fixed resolution of overloaded = & <> operators for classes
  • Fixed support for DateToWeekNumber
  • Added StrToBool
  • Fixed parsing of Unicode literals in JSON
  • Support publishing record properties that map to class functions, class const and class variables

The helper object syntax has been extended to restrict the helper type, and provide Delphi source code compatibility, you can now use the following variants, which also restrict the allowed types

  • class helper for sometype : sometype has to be a clas or metaclass
  • interface helper for sometype : sometype has to be an interface
  • record helper for sometype : sometype has to be a record or base type

Getting the update

Simply uninstall your current version of Smart Mobile Studio and download and install the latest demo from this website.

Sincerely

The Smart Mobile Studio Team

Smart Mobile Studio 1.0.1

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We are happy to announce our first update of Smart Mobile Studio – version 1.0.1.

Download

You can download the installer from our download page.

This setup file is used both as a full installation and as an update (and as a trial installation).

Changes

Some of the fixes have been really time-consuming, so we haven’t finished all the issues we planned to. These will be included in the mid-August release.

Head over to our roadmap to see what we plan for the future.

 

 

The IDE (and the installer):

  • Hi-res application icon
  • Shortcut to RTL-, Demos- and Libraries folders in the Windows Start Menu
  • Shortcut to the project’s folder from the project structure’s context menu
  • Fixed TToolbar skinning-bug
  • Fixed missing support for spaces in the project’s application title
  • Added simple mouse-over information
  • Added CTRL+Click feature (goto declaration)
  • Added RemObjects SDK wizard
  • Fixed size issue and font issue for the CTRL+Space window
  • Fixed problem with unit scanner not listing all methods
  • Added preference settings for unit scanner
  • Added unit wrappers for WebGl
  • Fixed problem with include files in projects folder
  • Updated Chromium Embedded browser (removed exception when closing a media project)
  • Added support for customizable preview sizes (in preferences)
  • Added several demos
  • Applied the Pascal Language Coding Style Guidelines to (most of) the RTL, most Demos and the “new code” generators
Language features:
  • External classes
  • Partial classes
  • DateTime functions
  • Static arrays with negative bounds
  • Inline record constants
  • Support publishing records as JSON
  • Fields initialization
  • Anonymous records
  • Adding static array to dynamic array
  • Operator overloads scoped and supported in units
  • Helper properties
  • Defined() for variants, classes and connectors
  • Dynamic anonymous records
  • Source map support
  • Tolerate, but ignore, “of object” and “reference to”
  • CodeGen improvements
  • Record expr optimization
  • Helper methods for operator overloading

We are really excited about this update, and we hope you’ll find it useful and inspiring.

Sincerely

The Smart Mobile Team

Common knowledge, now smarter!

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Common Knowledge is a business rules management product from Object-Connections that allows business rules and application logic to be visually captured, documented and maintained. The Common Knowledge SDK (rules engine) allows business rules to be automated through integration with .NET and Delphi based applications.

They recently added support for Smart Mobile Studio to their product, which means that you can now export code that is compatible with our version of object pascal directly from this wonderful product. In the words of the guys over at Object-Connections:

So with a few minor tweeks of the CodeGen Delphi generator, out popped a file  containing 100% documented, formatted Smart compatible code. A quick cut & paste, a few fields on a form and Common Knowledge… meet HTML5. A quick build with PhoneGap and business rules… meet iPhone.

The inclusion of a business rules capability into client side HTML5 based code has the potential to enable the development of intelligent and highly maintainable mobile applications across a range of domains such as banking & finance, insurance, telecommunications, health, sales & marketing, and logistics.

Source: Object connections

Source: Object connections

And with a submission to phone gap:

Voila, rule based programming on your iPhone

Voila, rule based programming on your iPhone

Sincerely

The Smart Mobile Team

Roadmap

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We are proud to present our roadmap for the upcoming year, with the goals we have set out to achieve and the technologies we are going to build. In order to see the context in which Smart Mobile Studio has been created we would like to start with the background story for the product and how we got here.
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RemObjects SDK support

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For those that have been following Smart Mobile Studio for a while, you may remember that André Mussche posted some very interesting experiments some time ago on G+. Already when our project was in early alpha stage he used smart to display a database grid from an external JavaScript library, which was very cool considering a lot of our current compiler features were missing.

But André has not been resting on his laurels but is writing the RemObjects SDK wrapper for Smart Mobile Studio. Being a long time RemObjects user myself I actually got goosebumps when I sat down with this, because this has been a long term goal of mine: to connect to our server park (where we have a ton of RemObjects services) directly from our HTML5 web apps with nothing in-between.

Well, on a scale of 1 to 10, I think you will agree that this is pretty darn awesome 🙂

Client server communication doesnt get much easier than this

Client server communication doesnt get much easier than this

It must be underlined that we do not bundle the RemObjects remoting framework with Smart Mobile Studio. You must own your own RemObjects remoting framework license in order to deploy that product from the Delphi side – so head over to RemObjects and check it out!

Sincerely

The Smart Mobile Team

Strategic alliance with Creative IT and Eric Grange

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We are happy to announce a strategic alliance between Optimale Systemer AS Norway and Creative IT France. Optimale Systemer AS have obtained the exclusive rights to Eric Grange’s javascript code generator plug-in, and our companies will work in joint effort to further advance the technology commercially.

The agreement does not affect DWS (delphi web script), which will remain open-source as it has always been. The evolution of DWS will continue, open for all – however the javascript code generator, which is copyright Eric Grange and Creative IT – is hereby withdrawn in the sense that:

  • no more MPL licenses will be granted
  • all apps that would use the codegen must comply with the MPL
  • all apps compiled by applications which use the released codegen, must likewise comply with the MPL

This is great news and we are eager to advance the technology into new and exciting areas of software development. We are also extremely happy to have Eric Grange with us in a greater capacity.

Sincerely

The Smart Mobile Team