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U++ 2017.2 released [message #49074]

Thu, 14 December 2017 14:30

mirek
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2017.2 (rev 11540) (Dec 2017)

**Core**
* New AsyncWork class - U++ future-alike tool
* CoWork: Exception propagation from worker threads, job cancellation support.
* Bits class optimized, it is now possible to set multiple bits (count parameter)
* WebSocket refactored for asynchronous operation
* UTF-32 support functions, UnicodeCompose and UnicodeDecompose functions, support for UTF16 surrogate pairs
* DeleteFolderDeep now deletes symlinks
* MakeOne function (alternative to One::Create)
* LoadFromFile, StoreToFile - Event variant
* ReverseRange and SortedRange
* Server Name Indicator support in Socket and HttpRequest
* SSL1.1 API support
* RegisterGlobalSerialize

**GUI programming**
* ArrayCtrl: Improvements in sorting, new public GetCellRect, GetCellRectM, GetSelKeys, SetRowDisplay, SetColumnDisplay, AcceptRow methods
* Button NakedStyle style.
* WithDropChoice: Set/Remove entry in drop-down list
* TextCtrl::Load refactored, now can break very long (>1MB) lines
* TreeCtrl: GetOpenIds, OpenIds
* IdCtrls, SqlCtrls refactored, improved
* Option: SetColor
* Edit...Spin: RoundFromMin modifier method
* ColorPopup now has button to enter the color as text
* New features in ScatterDraw, ScatterCtrl
* Header / Footer can now be changed using paragraph properties
* QTFDisplay now ignores text color / paper if style is not normal

**TheIDE**
* Improved debugging of console applications with MinGW
* MacroManager
* Explicit Go to line.. operation (in addition to Navigator)
* BRC now supports LZ4, LZMA and Zstd compression
* File comparison tool improved
* Directory comparison now can show/filter new/modified/removed files
* Dark theme highlighting
* Duplicate package function
* FindAll button in normal Search (finds all occurences in current file)
* HexView now remembers position
* Selection can be interpreted as error list
* now shows the number of selected characters
* tab size now possible on per-file basis
* Repository synchronize refactored, now supports both svn and git
* Layout visgen improvements
* theide now supports Visual Studio 2017 C++ compiler auto setup
* MS build tools autosetup

**3rd party modules**
* MinGW 64 updated to GCC-7.2.0
* OpenSSL for VC++ updated to 1.0.2l
* plugin/lz4: lz4 updated to 1.7.3
* plugin/bz2: updated to 1.0.6
* plugin/jpg: updated to version 9b
* plugin/pcre: updated to 8.41
* plugin/png: updated to 1.2.57
* plugin/sqlite3: updated to 3.17.9
* plugin/z: Updated to 1.2.11
* plugin/Eigen: Updated to version 3.3.4

[Updated on: Sat, 16 December 2017 14:12]

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