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Smart Mobile Studio 2.2 (beta-5)

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Last October we thought that we have version 2.2 all but ready, but then users found some hard to fix problems and our schedule plan got heavily delayed into the 2016. Of course we spent all this time improving Smart in all its aspects and we added a ton of fixes and even some small new features. So now – when the original problems are fixed – we decided to release yet another beta. Hopefully this will be the last one.

If you are already running the beta-4, you can just start the SmartUpdate program and it will fetch the new version. Otherwise, you should follow the detailed instructions outlined in the beta-1 announcement.

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Smart Mobile Studio 2.1 (beta-1)

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Smart Mobile Studio 2.1 (beta)Version 2.1 of Smart Mobile Studio will soon be released.

If you would like to give this a try, you can download the installer here:

A valid license key (trial or subscription) is required.

NOTE: Since v2.0 isn’t forward compatible, you can’t open v2.1 projects in v2.0 anymore. Make sure to always backup your projects case you want to revert to v2.0 again.

—
Sincerely,
The Smart Mobile Studio Team

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Smart Mobile Studio v2.0 (beta)

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Version 2.0 of Smart Mobile Studio will soon be ready for the release.

Over the last few days, we have distributed a private beta to some selected users, and now we would like to make this available for everyone.

We know you have been waiting for this – and so have we!

Download the installer and follow the instructions.

We hope you’ll be as excited about this release as we are 🙂

—
Sincerely,
The Smart Mobile Studio Team

Smart Mobile Studio 1.1.2 (beta-2)

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We have received lots of useful feedback from the first beta-version of v1.1.2 (build 13).
We have fixed these issues in a new beta-version.

News in 1.1.2.14

These are the changes from beta-1 (v1.1.2.13):

  • Snippets will not be overwritten during installation.
  • Existing RTL files and Library files are backed up with a date-time stamp.
  • RTL index gets rebuild autmatically.
  • Cleanup in css-files.
  • CD out of the project folder when a project is closed.
  • ‘Rename Unit’ works again.

Download/installation

Download the installer, (link removed, since new version is available) and install as normal.

Known issues

We have one more issue we would like to fix before we release this version. That’s a compiler bug we discovered in the last minute.
If you write this Smart code:
[code]
Round(1 / (r / 10));
[/code]

It will be compiled to this JavaScript code:
[code]
Math.round(1/r$4/10);
[/code]
which is equal to “Round((1 / r) / 10);”

The workaround is to use a temp variable for “(r / 10)”.
[code]
var
tmp: Real;
begin
tmp := (r / 10);
Result := Round(1 / tmp);
end;
[/code]

—
Sincerely,
The Smart Mobile Studio Team

Smart Mobile Studio 1.1.2 beta

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Just before the first round of summer holidays we managed to put together a beta version of the next Smart Mobile Studio, version 1.1.2. Installer is available on the download page (link removed, since beta 2 is ready).

Installation

In case you are using the snippets functionality of the Smart Mobile Studio, you should first make a backup copy of the snippets file, because the installer will silently overwrite it with a fresh version. (Yes, this is a bug. Yes, we will fix it.) Navigate to Documents, Smart Mobile Projects and make a copy of the snippets.xml file (in another folder). Restore it after the installation.

Before the installation you should check that SmartMS.exe process is not present in the memory. Due to a bug in the 1.1.1 version, closing Smart Mobile Studio sometimes left SmartMS.exe process active in memory and that would prevent the new version from being installed. Just run Task Manager and kill any SmartMS.exe you can find (or reboot the computer, that would also work).

SmartMS

If you are upgrading an existing installation, please run Tools, Rebuild RTL Index the first time you start Smart Mobile Studio. This should be done automatically on the first run but we made a mistake preparing the installer and this step is skipped. It will be fixed in the real 1.1.2 release.

Changes

The focus of this release was mainly on fixing old bugs and making everying run smooth. We did, however, add some useful new features.

As you’ll probably notice looking at the changelist below, we didn’t fix most of the problems with the form designer. The reason for this is that we’re working on a completely new designer which will be included in the 1.2 release (expected to be released in autumn).

Compiler

New functionality

  • Compiler now supports the “in” operator to check if a string contains another string.
  • Added a bunch of built-in helpers/aliases for types String, Integer, Float and Boolean. (Full list can be found in the DWScript documentation.)
  • Helpers can operate directly on in-line constants. For example, now you can write “hello”.Reverse (which would return “olleh”).
  • “For in” syntax can be used on variants (for var s in someVariant do …). This allows enumerating members of a raw JavaScript objects.
  • “For in” syntax can be used on sets (for var el in someSet do …).
  • Dynamic arrays now have a “sort” method which takes a comparison function; that maps directly to JavaScript array sort method. String, Integer and Float arrays also implement a “sort” method without a parameter which sorts the array in the natural order.
  • Dynamic arrays now have a “map” method which maps directly to the JavaScript map method.
  • Conditional compilation symbol DWSCRIPT is always defined.
  • Added CompilerVersion constant. It holds a floating point value that holds the compiler version in language terms under the form YYYYMMDD.XX, with XX the minor version. This will be updated each time the language changes.
  • Added ability to mark all named types as deprecated (just postfix with deprecated “optional message”), this means among other things that (unlike in Delphi) classes and records can be marked as deprecated.
  • Added limited support for sets.
    • Only sets of enumerations are supported.
    • Only in operator is supported.
    • Compiler supports Include and Exclude methods, which can be used in two ways, either as “Include(mySet, value)” or as “mySet.Include(value)”.

Improved functionality

  • Better code completion hints on array elements.
  • Functions and methods can be marked inline. This is implemented only for Delphi compatibility; inline is ignored in the compiler.
  • “For x in string” loops now accept “break” and “continue” statements.

RTL

New functionality

  • Unhandled exceptions in console applications are caught and logged to the console window.
  • Added w3_prompt function which maps to the JavaScript prompt command.

Improved functionality

  • W3Effects unit supports FireFox.

Bugs fixed

  • A toolbar button glyph is displayed even if the button caption is empty.
  • TW3CustomStorage.getKeyInt tries to convert string data back to the integer form; only if that fails it returns the default value.
  • TW3Label appearance changes when it is disabled.
  • TW3CheckBox is fully disabled when the Enabled property is set to False.

IDE

New functionality

  • Forms and units can be stored in external files by default (Preferences, Store new forms and units in external files).
  • Position and size of the Smart Mobile Studio is remembered between sessions.
  • Open tabs, editor bookmarks and active tab are stored in the project (.opp) file and are restored when the project is open.
  • Project file (.opp) uses CDATA for form/unit storage to be more version control-friendly.
  • When a file is modified outside the Smart Mobile Studio environment, a prompt will ask the user to reload the file. A built-in “difference” engine can be used to show changes between the editor and disk file. External program (such as WinMerge or Beyond Compare) can be configured and used instead of the internal one.

Improved functionality

  • When a built-in server is used to serve the application files, address in the Serving link can be changed to any of computer’s internal addresses.
  • Name of the open project is shown in the window title.
  • Screen resolution list in Preferences, Layout can be sorted manually.
  • Units and forms can be deleted from the project by pressing the Del key when a unit/form node is selected in the Project Browser.
  • Ctrl+Click on an identifier jumps to the beginning of the row.
  • Ctrl+Click on an identifier scrolls the target to the middle of the screen.
  • Better performance when many JavaScript messages are logged to the console log window in the integrated browser.
  • Add Form/Add Unit commands prompt for the new form/unit name.
  • Search centers the result in the text editor.
  • Ctrl+/ removes comment markers that are preceeded by whitespace.
  • Scroll past EOF setting is enabled on a new install.
  • Improved highlighter configuration. All elements (strings, numbers, reserved words …) can now be configured separately for different file types (pascal, javascript …). Highlighter settings can be stored in a file.
  • New examples.

Bugs fixed

  • Edited data is not lost anymore if you click on the form designer while editing data in the property inspector.
  • A text containing single quotes can be now entered into the Caption and Text properties in the property inspector.
  • Right-clicking in the project browser works as expected.
  • Shortcuts (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V, Del) on the Design tab are now working correctly.
  • Form and unit renaming corrected.
  • Del key works in the Search & Replace dialog.
  • Search & Replace works correctly when Case-sensitive checkbox is not checked and the found text doesn’t match case-sensitively.

—
Sincerely,
Primož Gabrijelčič, product manager

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

Smart Mobile Studio v1.1 (beta)

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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

Smart Mobile Studio v1.0.1 (beta)

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We are about to release our first update of Smart Mobile Studio – version 1.0.1.
Due to our roadmap we were supposed to release this version today (June 18th).
We do, however, still have some testcases we would like to run trough before we officially announce it.

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__v101_beta.exe

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.

We will publish a detailed changelog when we announce the update officially tomorrow.
In short, this is what we have done:

  • Lot’s of small fixes in the IDE (hi-res app.icon, spaces in app.title, TToolbar skinning-bug, etc etc)
  • Some big fixes in the IDE (CTRL+Click, CTRL+Space/Unit scanner)
  • Some language features (CodeGen improvements, DateTime functions, Static arrays with negative bounds, Record expr optimization, Anonymous records, Helper methods for operator overloading , Defined() for variants etc etc)
  • Some big features (RemObjects SDK support, WebGl wrappers)

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