Smart Mobile Studio 3.9.1 is released

We are proud to release Smart Mobile Studio 3.9.1. This is the first Alpha release of the upcoming Smart Mobile Studio 4.0. The biggest improvement is the new WYSIWYG Designer, which takes developing visual applications in SMS to a new level. The compiler was updated with a new version of DWS (Delphi Web Script) and the IDE uses an updated Chromium component. On top of this, there are new components and improvements to the RTL.

We’ve attempted to keep this release as much backwards compatible as possible, so old projects should compile and run without changes.

The new Designer is written from scratch in Smart Mobile Studio itself and runs inside the IDE in an embedded Chromium browser. It uses Websockets to communicate with the IDE itself. As the Designer is an HTML4 application, it’s able to display accurately what all the components look like, instead of the dull old boxes in the old designer. You can set Align, Anchors, Angle, styles and any other properties and see exactly how they look like visually. You can also add a TW3TabControl and add and edit contents inside any tab.

The new Designer also supports non-visual components. Out of existing components in the RTL, TW3Timer, TW3HttpRequest and TW3WebSocket were added to the component palette in this release, but many more can also be added easily. This brings Smart Mobile Studio a lot closer to the way developers are used to work in Delphi.
The new Designer also has proper Undo-support and extensive copy-paste, even between multiple instances of SMS.

The RTL contains a new TW3PopupMenu-component along with a Menu Editor. The popup menu can be added to any component easily, by using any button as a Hamburger Menu or by using it as a traditional popup menu by right-clicking on a component. The designer itself uses the new TW3PopupMenu for any editing actions.

There is also a new TW3FormResizer-controller, which can be used to make any component resizable and draggable. It’s used in Designer’s Wizard forms.

The biggest changes in the RTL are related to constructing of forms when the application is starting. The code that the IDE generates for all the visual components makes sure that the components are ready before setting properties or creating child components. The RTL also properly waits until every single component is created, initialized and sized before calling InitializeForm. This eliminates tricky situations where a component was accessed, resized or hidden at the wrong time.

Some big changes were also made to TW3Application.ShowModal. In previous versions the OnInit(), OnOk() and OnCancel() -callbacks passed Dialog: TW3CustomForm as parameter. This was changed to passing ModalInfo: TModalInfo. You can access the modal form through ModalInfo.ModalForm to set and read parameters. Finally, call ModalInfo.Close in the OnOk- or OnClose-callback to properly close the modal form. There is also a new Application.ShowModalForm()-procedure, which lets you show any form as modal.

Installation

This Alpha-version can be downloaded with the SmartUpdate utility. Select the ALPHA -channel for this version.

Known issues and limitations

– The IDE may not always close properly leaving an extra SmartMS.exe or CEF4Delphi.exe process hanging. If this happens, they can be terminated through Task Manager.
– The designer currently only uses the default theme.
– Selecting multiple components for moving/editing is not yet implemented.
– TW3StringGrid does not yet have a Wizard.
– More advanced components like the Ace editor, TW3GoogleMaps and TW3LeafletMap do not show a WYSIWYG designer component. This is by design as they’d bloat the designer with huge amounts of external code.

Changes since 3.0.2

20.12.2019

IDE:
– New WYSIWYG Designer, which is a huge improvement over the original visual designer
– Made in Smart Mobile Studio itself.
– Visualizes every property including align, anchor, angle, styles
– Supports non-visual components like TW3Timer and TW3PopupMenu
– Allows advanced editing of controls, like TW3TabControl pages and contents
– Supports Wizards (TW3PopupMenu)
– Supports cut/copy/paste correctly using System clipboard
– Has extensive Undo-support
– Improved code generator for generating Form impl-code
– When an event is created, add missing dependency units for function parameters too
– Improved handling of Anchors
– Anchors can be set in the Object Inspector
– Added two new properties: AnchorGapRight and AnchorGapBottom.
These are set by the Designer to the distance of the bottom right corner
from the parent bottom right corner.
– Add new Welcome Page, which was made in Smart Mobile Studio itself.
– Update internal Chromium browser
– Update DWS to version 20190215.0

Most important RTL-changes:
– Improvements to constructing of forms when the application is starting.
– The code that the IDE generates for all the visual components makes sure
that the components are ready before setting properties and creating
child components.
– The RTL makes sure to wait until every component is created and initialized
before calling InitializeForm.
– These changes eliminate tricky situations where a component was accessed
or resized at the wrong time or a form was hidden while it was being built.
– Callbacks in ShowModal changed to pass ModalInfo as parameter instead of Form.
– You can still access the form through ModalInfo.ModalForm
– Close the modal form in OnOk() or OnCancel() by calling ModalInfo.Close
– New TW3Application.ShowModalForm
– Application.FormsArray will now only contain the forms that were automatically
created and registered during application startup.
– Change GetVisible to only check visibility-style from the component itself
– Add new IsVisible, which checks any other reasons for a component’s visibility,
like for example if the parent is visible.
– Change GetTop, GetLeft, GetHeight and GetWidth to read values from computed style,
which lets us read these values also when the component or form is hidden.

Additional RTL-changes:
– New TW3PopupMenu, which can be added to any component easily, by using a button
as a Hamburger Menu or by using it as a traditional popup menu by right-clicking
on a component. The new Designer has a Wizard for editing the menu items.
– Improvements to TW3ScrollBox
– AutoUpdate-property. If true, the scrollbox monitors changes in child components
and updates itself automatically.
– ForceParent-property. If true, child components are automatically moved
to the Content- component.
– Child components can be added to the ScrollBox in the new Designer.
– TW3TabControl: Tabs and Tab contents can be edited in the new Designer.
– New versions of TW3CheckBox and TW3RadioButton. Uses only CSS for resizing.
– Bug fixes to TW3ToggleSwitch
– Improvements to EventManager:
– Make OnAllMovement compatible with SetCapture
– Prevent extra OnClick when using SetCapture
– Make sure that more advanced components stop painting contents when the component
is not visible (for example: TW3ListBox, TW3TabControl, TW3ScrollBox)
– New TW3URL, which contains URL parameter handling like Delphi’s ParamStr, ParamCount etc.
– New controller: TW3FormResizer, which can be used to make a form (or any other control)
resizable and draggable.
– Move initialization of Label alignment styles to SmartCL.Css.Stylesheet,
so they can be used in other units as well
– Add TPoint.MoveBy
– Add DateTimeToLocal and LocalDateTimeToUTC to DateUtils
– Parent can now be changed, so components can be moved to different parents just like in Delphi
– Add support for Background position
– Change w3_getPropertyAsInt to return 0 if value is NaN
– Animations and some other browser specific CSS did not work properly in Firefox
due to wrong Browser-prefix.
– Bug fix to setting the cursor by name.
– Fix numerous bugs in TW3EdgeSenseController.
– Bug fixes to BringToFront and SendToBack

18.7.2019

IDE:
– Zip Entire Project did not include Form .sfm -files

RTL:
– Bug fixes to TW3TabControl

6.7.2019

IDE:
– Anchors (and other sets) can be set in the Object Inspector
– Improvements to generated Form implementation code:
– Wait until created components are ready before setting properties and creating children
– Set Anchors last
– Prevent conflicting keyboard shortcuts from being saved
– Use better default project options (no manifests, do not embed Javascript)
– Add new units to units defaults and improve formatting

RTL:
– Add xml-js to Libraries.
– New ECMA.Promise unit from api docs
– System.JSON:
– Support for adding/setting JSON arrays
– Add TJSONObject.Delete
– Set form size to 100% before calling InitializeObject
– Add missing units to SmartCL.Controls
– Setting control’s angle did not work in Firefox
– Don’t raise an exception while freeing a form which is not registered
– Themes: default styles were not applied for all elements in Android and iOS
– Fixes a bug where textarea’s size is too big in TW3Memo

24.4.2019

RTL:
– Anchors and Align-support to the RTL.
– Support in the IDE is currently being worked on. Currently Anchors can
only be set in code. Align can be set in the Object Inspector, but the
changes are not reflected in the designer.
– Bug fix to BoundsRect
– Themes: New background for highlighting errors: bsErrorBackground
– TW3StringGrid:
– New event for setting custom row borders and backgrounds: OnDrawGridLineTheme

14.4.2019

RTL:
– Improvements to TW3StringGrid:
– New columns types:
– TW3StringGridNumericColumn
– TW3StringGridButtonColumn
– Added sorting
– New event: OnCellChanged
– TStringList and TObjectList: Add Sort() with CompareFunction.
– Fix CSS browser prefix for Firefox
– Themes: Use normal size and style text in buttons.

27.3.2019

RTL:
– New control: TW3StringGrid
– New featured demo for the StringGrid.
– New TW3CustomScrollControl, for developing scroll controls with scrollbars/indicators-support.
– New border types: btLightBorderTop, -Bottom, -Left, -Right, -Horiz and -Vert
– EventManager: Check TouchPreventDefault before trying to prevent extra artificial mouse events from touch events
– Improvements to TW3BlockBox and Modal dialogs:
– TW3BlockBox did not trigger a resize
– Dialogs did not get resized when window was resized or device flipped
– Make sure the dialogs are not too big

21.2.2019

Bug fixes and improvements to the IDE:
– BringToFront and SendToBack will now affect component creation order.
– Opening files from Project Search Path is fixed.

20.1.2019

RTL:
– New controls: TW3SpinButton, TW3ArrowUpButton, TW3ArrowDownButton, TW3ArrowLeftButton and TW3ArrowRightButton.
– Add 1px margin to TW3ButtonBorder to prevent the border from being clipped.
– Bug fixes to Tween.Effects

IDE:
– Bug fixes and changes to renaming of forms:
– Renaming in Project Manager will not change form class any more.
– Form class name can be renamed in Object Inspector.
– Improvements to Project Statistics:
– Only count Total time when Smart Mobile Studio IDE has focus.
– Only Count Design time when changes are made in Form Designer.
– Add clear button.
– Component Palette:
– Added new controls
– New icons for many existing controls

Smart Mobile Studio 3.0.2 is released

This release contains lots of fixes and improvements to the IDE as well as improvements to the RTL.

Installers

• Smart Mobile Studio installer
• Free command-line compiler

Portable installation

Smart Mobile Studio can also be downloaded with the SmartUpdate utility. Select the MASTER -channel for the official version.

Changes since 3.0.1

20.12.2018

RTL:
– TW3TabControl:
– AnimateTabs-property to control how tabs are changed.
– TW3ListBox:
– Prevent an exception if TW3Image is used as a line control and OnShowItem is not set.
– TW3ListMenu, TW3HeaderControl and TW3SimpleLabel:
– Don’t set default caption to classname during initialization.
– DWScript: Capitalize day and month names correctly (January instead of january, Sunday instead of sunday)

IDE:
– Improvements to the way the IDE reacts to a changed external file.
– Use caption while drawing generic controls instead of component name.

12.12.2018

RTL:
– TW3ListMenu:
– Add Items-property, so items can created in Object Inspector.
– Add OnSelected-event.

IDE:
– Bug fix to renaming of units
– Show form source instead of designer when form is selected from Project Manager

6.12.2018

– SmartNJ.Server.Http: Do not free Request and Response after OnRequest has been generated.
– Updated nodejs http- and https-demos with an example on how to read POST content.

5.12.2018

– Fixed “Argument out of Range” -error while renaming forms or units.
– Fix bug in renaming Form1, which did not change TForm1-classes in Form1.
– This happens if Form1 is not listed in the uses-clause of the main project source.
– Fixed in new projects.
– In older projects, users should change the uses-clause to also contain Form1
– Update uses-clauses in Form1 of a new project to get the same units as a new form.

26.11.2018

RTL:
– Bug fix to SmartCL.Layout: Set component size before position, to avoid problems in bottom and right alignments.
– Bug fix to TW3ToolControlFlatBorder in iOS theme.
– TW3BufferedImage: Don’t try to use TW3BackgroundGraphicContext, which was deprecated in Chrome

22.11.2018

RTL:
– Add styles for TW3RadioButtonLabel and TW3CheckBoxLabel. Also remove hard coded color from source code.
– Add default property values for in various components for the Object Inspector.

IDE:
– Property Inspector shows default values from RTL source.

17.11.2018

RTL:
– Changes to handling of Cursor:
– Style definitions moved from basic html elements to control styles
– GetCursor and SetCursor can now be overridden
– Bug fixes to how many controls handle cursor. Especially TW3Label.
– Themes:
– Add missing styles TW3CheckBox, TW3CheckMark, TW3RadioButton, TW3RadioToggle and TW3RadioGroup
– Two new backgrounds: TW3DecorativeListItemBackground and TW3TransparentBackground
– RTL optimizations to creation of controls, GetBoundsRect, SetBounds, MoveTo and SetSize.
– Bug fix to SmartCL.Graphics.pas: Changing of canvas font, size and styles did not work.
– Bug fix to System.DateUtils.DecodeDate.

IDE:
– Delete key works now Search dialog and other dialogs.
– Bug fix: Internal Browser Window showed only a white screen if Execute was clicked while it was open.

Compiler:
– Now(), EncodeDate() and EncodeTime() returns now the same values as Delphi and FPC
– All time/date -functions fixed to work with the new TDateTime-values

Smart Mobile Studio 3.0.1 is released

This is the first release since 3.0. Biggest new feature is TW3LeafletMap, which lets you use OpenStreetMap. As it does not need API keys (like TW3GoogleMaps), it’s really fast and easy to use:

– Create a project
– Add a TW3LeafletMap -control on the form
– Set AutoCreateMap to true on the map control

Please see the changelog at the end of this post.

Installers

• Smart Mobile Studio installer
• Free command-line compiler

Portable installation

Smart Mobile Studio can also be downloaded with the SmartUpdate utility. Select the MASTER -channel for the official version.

Changes since 3.0

8.11.2018

RTL:
– EventManager:
– Add procedure AllowDefaultAction, that can be called from OnClick when the default
action should happen. For example: To let the virtual keyboard to pop up from OnTouch.
– Bug fixes:
– Native scrolling was prevented if scrolling was done from an unknown element.
– Prevent an extra OnClick from being fired on mobile devices.
– TW3ListView: Bug fix to resizing of items.
– Bug fixes to GeoLocation. Also update the Geolocation demo.
– Deprecate PhoneGapAPI’s JGeolocation functions. SmartCL.GeoLocation.pas should be used instead.
– Fix slider so that OnMouseDown, OnMouseUp and OnMOuseMove can be used.
– TW3TabControl Tab’s OnShow was sent twice for the first tab
– SmartCL.RegEx moved to System.RegEx. Also fixed TW3RegEx.Exec to return a proper empty array instead of nil.
– Bug fix to Chart: TSeriesData.Refresh now also updates the X axis
– TW3Grid:
– Added TW3ImageColumn
– Add Alignment-property to TW3ColumnHeader
– Added a new OnCellControlCreated-event, which fires when a button, toggle, progress bar or image is created.
Makes it possible to change properties of the control easily.
– Added support for OpenStreetMap using the Leaflet library:
– New control: TW3LeafletMap
– New featured demo: LeafletMap

IDE/Compiler:
– Fixed search path compilation issues
– Relative and absolute paths are working now
– Compiler is updated when search path is modified in options
– $I will look for include file in the project folder first
– $R supports absolute paths, wildcards, folder name extension and ($Libraries) macro
– Fix exceptions in Search
– Upgrade to UPX 3.95

23.7.2018

– SmartCL.Effects: Properly handle padding and margins while doing effects.

22.7.2018

– Fix to css-files for selected text in TW3Edit and TW3Memo

We are proud to release Smart Mobile Studio 3.0!

So, what’s new? Oh boy. Where do I even start? There’s tons of changes. The RTL has gone through a big rewrite, which has made it a lot faster. Also, all JavaScript- related quirks have been taken care of. Events work as you expect as a Delphi programmer. All weird resize- bugs are gone. There’s a new way of doing styling, where you can choose backgrounds and borders from a set of pre-defined styles. This makes it easy to have a consistent look in all your controls instead of having to write separate CSS definitions for every control.

A huge amount of attention was to make everything work fast and smooth on mobile devices. There’s a very nice TabControl that lets you change tabs by swiping. And a new ListBox, that is blindingly fast with huge amounts of lines. There are scrollboxes with momentum scrolling. And PhoneGap works as it should adding very easy-to-use push notification support.

Compatibility is great across browsers and mobile devices. While older versions were close to unusable on a Windows phone, Smart Mobile Studio 3 makes even an old Lumia phone fly.

On top of all that, we have made programming easy and fun with margins and padding. The RTL automatically resizes and moves your controls respecting the margins and paddings that the style sheet has. You can also use relative positioning and FlexBox.

We have many new visual controls: TW3ScrollControl, TW3ScrollBox, TW3NativeScrollBox, TW3ListBox, TW3CheckListBox, TW3TabControl, TW3GroupBox, TW3RadioGroup, TW3MediaPlayer and a very cool TW3GoogleMaps. We also added the Ace Editor!

In the IDE we’ve not only fixed bugs, but added better support for properties in the Object Inspector. While previously you had to add ComboBox -items in code, you can simply set the items with the Object Inspector, just like in Delphi.

Under the hood, in the RTL there are also a lot of changes. System.Collections, storage devices that unify file handling across platforms, streams, datasets, you name it.

A lot of work has been done on Smart Mobile Studio’s NodeJS features, which lets you produce scalable applications for cloud platforms or even cheap mini computers like the Tinkerboard or Odroid XU4. You can write HTTPS-servers and use Secure Web Socket.

As an example of what Smart Mobile Studio 3 can do, we’ve written a Smart Desktop -demo to show what is possible. Go to desktop.smartmobilestudio.com and hit the Login-button. The Desktop communicates with a Linux-server running a NodeJS-server application, which is also written in Smart Mobile Studio. The source code of both demos is included in Smart Mobile Studio 3.

Installers

• Smart Mobile Studio installer
• Free command-line compiler

Portable installation

Smart Mobile Studio can also be downloaded with the SmartUpdate utility. Select the MASTER -channel for the official version.

Smart Mobile Studio 3.0.0 beta2 is released!

Installers

• Smart Mobile Studio installer
• Free command-line compiler

Portable installation

Smart Mobile Studio can also be downloaded with the SmartUpdate utility. To get the beta, make sure to select the BETA channel. If you already have the Alpha-version installed, you can upgrade it to the Beta -version by running the SmartUpdate.exe with the /changechannel switch.

Changelog since beta1

8.6.2018

RTL:
– Prevent whole page from being dragged down/up in iOS.
– TW3TabControl: New property AllowSwipe, to control if tabs can be changed by swiping sideways.
– Bug fix to TW3CustomControl.SetNativeScrolling.

7.6.2018

NodeJS:
– New Ragnarok message framework.
– Lots of changes and improvements to the websocket server.
– Use the latest node.js engine and get rid of the websocket.io framework.
– SQLite3 import api: Nodejs.SQLite3.pas
– Lots of imporvements to TApplication object.
– Lots of improvements and bug fixes to the WebSocket server
– TW3DirectoryWatch moved to SmartNJ.Device.Storage.Watch.pas
– New logfile using write-stream in append mode: SmartNJ.LogFile.pas

RTL:
– New base-classes for a unified DB Framework: System.DB.pas
– All Base64 and UTF8 encoding implemented in Smart Pascal code instead of external js.
– Added OnChildAdded/Removed events to TW3TagContainer.
– New TIniFile-class: System.IniFile.pas
– TW3TagObj.FreeAfter, which can be used to free components after a delay.
– Src property published in TW3IFrame
– TW3ScrollControl to lock scrolling direction to the detected direction.
– Can be controlled with ScrollController.LockMovementDirection -property.
– Improvements and bug fixes to TW3ListBox
– Added InvalidateVisible for a quick and full repaint.
– Added horizontal scrolling if ItemWidth is wider than the listbox.
– Improvements and bug fixes to TW3EditBox and TW3Memo
– Fix text selection bug in Firefox.
– Add MaxLength-property.
– New function TString.EncodeTags, which converts tags and dangerous characters to safe html symbols.
– EventManager: Prevent extra mouse events if OnClick was generated from touch events.
– TabControl:
– Prevent from calling InitializeForm twize, if the tab was a form.
– Improve tab header resizing.
– ListBox:
– Change TagValue to Variant.
– Fixed mouse handling bugs in the ACE editor.
– Bug fixes to font measurement.

Compiler:
– Implemented ‘static’ linking of Javascript files: {$I ‘file.js’}

18.3.2018

RTL:
– Moved WriteLn and WriteLnF from SmartCL.System to System.Types, so they can be used
in WebWorker -projects.
Demos:
– New WebWorker -demo, which counts Primes, demonstrating how you can use all CPU cores.

17.3.2018

RTL:
– Moved coversion and encoding related functions from System.Types to System.Types.Convert,
which results in a lot smaller js-size in WebWorker projects.

16.3.2018

Bug fix to WebWorkers.

14.3.2018

Bug fix to the IDE and TW3GoogleMaps to make the CenterLat- and CenterLng-coordinates work.

13.3.2018

IDE:
– Added TStrings-support to Object Inspector, which allows editing of:
– TW3ListBox.Items
– TW3ComboBox.Items
– TW3RadioGroup.Items
– TW3TabControl.Tabs
– NodeJS background executions are stopped when project is closed.
– Bug fixes to OmniXML
– Updated Datasnap proxy generator dll to latest
– Fixed problem with Datasnap access interface importer

RTL:
– New control: TW3GoogleMaps
– TW3TabControl can use Forms as Tab contents (Check TabForms -demo)
– Updated node.js headers to version 8.10.0 LTS compatible with stable v9.8.0)
– Isolated node.js EventEmitter in separate unit (NodeJS.Events) as per specification (node.js v6.9.1)
– Implemented System.IOUtils with storage independent TPath class
– Implemented a synchronous node.js filesystem API, TW3NodeSyncFileAPI class in SmartNJ.System
– Implemented abstract directory parser (TW3DirectoryParser in System.IOUtils)
– Implemented standard system file and folder functiction in SmartNJ.System
– Upgraded our virtual, BTree based in-memory filesystem to use TPath
– Changed TW3VirtualFileSystem to store data as TByteArray rather than variant
– Implemented directory parser for Linux, Unix and Windows
– Implemented abstract storage device driver (System.Device.Storage)
– Implemented storage device driver for browsers (SmartCL.Device.Storage)
– Implemented storage device driver for node.js (SmartNJ.Device.Storage)
– Implemented TW3DirectoryWatch class for node.js (SmartNJ.Device.Storage)
– Implemented TApplication object for node.js, exposing traditional properties and process info
– Updated our message api (SmartCL.Messages) to support javascript messagechannel ports
– Added full support for socket.io clients (SmartCL.Net.Socketio)
– Updated TW3Memo control to initialize states for autocorrect, autocapitalize etc.
– Added GetIsRunningInBrowser function to system.types
– TStreamReader and TStreamWriter moved to System.Reader and System.Writer units.
This deprecates the System.StreamReader and System.StreamWriter units.
– Implemented new string parser functions for recognizing intrinsic types (TDataType in System.Types.Convert)
– Updated TW3DatasetFilter to use new parser framework
– Fixed string-to-intrinsic-type (TryStrToInt, TryStrToBoolean etc) functions
– Full re-implementation of our parser framework (System.Text.Parser)
– Partial class TBinaryData, under node has functions for consuming and emitting data as a node buffer
– Fixed bug in our node.js http server (SmartNJ.Server.HTTP) where the response object would not release if an
error occured, causing the server to drop the connection.
– Cleaned up multiple declarations for JBuffer and JNodeBuffer, now isolated in unit nodejs.core
– Changed default creation flags for node.js files to R+W as opposed to R+W+E (only affects Linux)
– Fixed bug where TNJHttpRequest.GetHeaders function returned null
– Removed use of JError under node where applicable, now use TJSErrorObject from system.types unit
– Updated bytecode assembler and virtual machine project to latest
– Removed TFileNameHelper class from SmartCl.Legacy unit, this is now handled by TPath in System.IOUtils
– Updated codec manager (system.codec unit)
– Implemented RC4 encryption codec and binding (System.Codec.RC4)
– Updated Base64.js to latest revision (libraries/base64.js) which is added by the linker on demand
– Full re-implementation of base64 codec (System.Codec.base64 unit)
– Changed TString.ToBase64() function to use new codec
– TW3GroupBox header fixed, now uses TW3Label rather than mapping the unreliable “legend” tag
– Improved AutoCreateForm routine, this now performs better checking before construction
– TW3Grid control now uses TW3ScrollControl as a container, adding momentum scrolling and better touch handling
– Fixed important problem with TString helper class, function missing @ for result caused exception

Demos:
– Full reimplementation of our websocket server, replacing websocket.io with the standard ws package
– Updated all node.js demos to use our high-level classes
– Updated WebSQL demo to use correct names
– Updated “Binary data” demo to use TBinaryData class (System.Memory.Buffer unit)
– Fishfacts demo updated to use new functionality
– Fixed problems with advanced demos (biotopia in particular) to work with latest RTL

We are proud to release Smart Mobile Studio 2.9.9!

This is an Alpha Version of the upcoming version 3.0.0. We’ve been making so much changes and new features, that listing them all is next to impossible.

A lot of work has been done to make this the fastest and most stable version of Smart Mobile Studio with great support for all major browsers and mobile devices.

How to download this alpha?

Simple. Click here to download the ZIP containing portable version 2.9.9.34. Unpack it into any folder.

If you have a valid Smart Mobile Studio license, copy file user.lic to that folder, too.

Start SmartMS.exe. If you don’t have a license, you can click the button “Request trial license” to get a free 35-day trial key.

You can also periodically run program SmartUpdate.exe to check if Alpha was updated.

What’s new?

Following list reflects just the most important changes:

• New TW3ScrollControl, TW3ScrollBox
• Supports MomentumScroll
• Supports touch
• Supports both scroll bars and indicators
• New TW3ListBox
  • Supports desktop and mobile devices
  • Very fast
  • Can have huge number of lines
  • Dynamic item draw
    • Only draws visible lines
    • Can be customized with OnShowItem to produce TVirtualListBox-kind of features
  • New events for “refresh by pulling list down”:
    • OnPullStart
    • OnPullMove
    • OnPullEnd
  • Old one renamed: TW3ListView
• New TW3Label
  • Very fast
  • Supports Word wrap, autosize and both horizontal and vertical alignments
• New control: TW3CheckListBox
• New control: TW3TabControl
  • Smooth scrolling and tab changes
• New control: TW3BitBtn
• EventManager
  • Fixes a lot of problems when dealing with mouse and touch events
    • Events firing at multiple controls
    • Mouse getting stuck while releasing mouse button outside of the browser window
  • Listens to both mouse and touch events
  • Can convert touch events to mouse events, so one only has to listen to OnMouseDown, OnMouseMove and OnMouseUp
  • New events for scrollable controls:
    • TW3CustomControl.OnBeginMovement
    • TW3CustomControl.OnEndMovement
    • TW3CustomControl.OnVerticalMovement
    • TW3CustomControl.OnHorizontalMovement
    • TW3CustomControl.OnAllMovement
  • New properties for TW3CustomControl:
    • SimulateMouseEvents: SMS generates OnMouseDown, OnMouseUp and OnMouseMove events also from touch events.
    • TransparentEvents: If true, events are passed to the parent control.
• IDE: Bug fixes and improvements

A lot more listed here:
https://jonlennartaasenden.wordpress.com/2017/02/06/smart-pascal-changes/

Known bugs/issues

• Project options/Linker/Add Source map results in an exception during compile.
• There are graphical glitches in the internal browser. For example: Combobox list.
  While these may look weird, they do only show up in the internal browser and do not affect how your app behaves in a browser.
• TW3TabHeaders does not have styling for all platforms.
• Compile and Execute while the Internal Browser window is visible results in a white window.
  Just close and hit Execute again.
• Styles are still not completely finished. Default style works best while other styles may have issues.

Guide for porting your old projects

If the compiler can’t find:

• TPoint, TRect or other graphics related types, add System.Types.Graphics to the uses clause.
• TW3EventRepeater, change SmartCL.Time to System.Time in the uses clause.
• TW3Component, add System.Widget to the uses clause.
• Memory buffers, change SmartCL.Buffers to System.Memory.Views in the uses clause.
• Local storage, add SmartCL.Storage.Local to the uses clause.

Code changes

• Old: Canvas.Font := ’14px sans-serif’;
  New: Canvas.FontStyle := ’14px sans-serif’;
• Old: Http.SetRequestHeader(‘Content-Type’, ‘application/x-www-form-urlencoded’);
  New: Http.RequestHeaders[‘Content-Type’] := ‘application/x-www-form-urlencoded’;
• Old: EncodeURIComponent()
  New: TString.EncodeURIComponent()
• Old: VariantToObj()
  New: TVariant.ToObject()
• Old: w3_Callback()
  New: TW3Dispatch.Execute()
• Old: w3_SetInterval()
  New: TW3Dispatch.SetInterval()
• Old: w3_ClearInterval()
  New: TW3Dispatch.ClearInterval()
• Old: w3_SetTimeout()
  New: TW3Dispatch.SetTimeOut()
• Old: w3_ClearTimeout()
  New: TW3Dispatch.ClearTimeOut()

If you are using the old TW3ListBox and features that are not available in the new TW3ListBox, change all TW3ListBox -> TW3ListView.

If you are listening on mouse and touch events through Control Handle or addEventListener,

• Use standard TW3CustomControl.OnClick, OnMouseMove, OnMouseDown, OnMouseUp etc.
• If you want to also support touch events, set TW3CustomControl.SimulateMouseEvents:=True;

If you call Resize in your own code, change the call to Invalidate. Invalidate calls resize with a short delay. And if there are multiple calls to Invalidate before the timer has triggered a resize, the extra calls will be ignored resulting in a lot faster app.