GWindows release, 15-Mar-2025 [revision 613]

Gautier de Montmollin — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 07:34:24 -0000

Various fixes and additions.
License change from GMGPL to MIT.

GNAVI is back

Gautier de Montmollin — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 19:44:33 -0000

The GNAVI IDE is out of a 20 years coma!
More details here.
Screenshot:

GWindows release, 13-Apr-2024 [revision 549]

Gautier de Montmollin — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 20:54:28 -0000

Fixes and additions on GWindows.Scintilla, the editor widget.
Custom colors for Status_Bar_Type, Tab_Control_Type and
the extended Ex_List_View_Control_Type.
Improvements on GNATCOM.

529: Added package GWindows.Single_Instance. This allows a new
instance of a multi-document application to pass its command-line
parameters to an already running instance and quit, to ensure
only one instance holds all the documents.

482: GWindows.Common_Controls: added support for middle mouse button
clicks on controls. Application example: for closing a tab.

GWindows release, 29-May-2023 [revision 480]

Gautier de Montmollin — Mon, 29 May 2023 15:18:43 -0000

Changes:

Fixes: color picker dialog, mouse wheel methods

478: Contribution: added package GWindows.Pipes
477: Contribution: added package GWindows.Timers
476: Contribution: added package GWindows.Persistence_IO
466: Contribution: initial release of package Office_Applications
for helping creating office-like applications.

GWindows release, 13-Nov-2022 [revision 459]

Gautier de Montmollin — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 09:50:28 -0000

Changes:

458: GWindows.Common_Controls.Ex_List_View: added Using_Payloads
to the enumerated type Comparison_Technique_Type.
With this choice, sorting runs 100x faster.
More about it in this post.
451: GWindows.Common_Controls.Ex_List_View: added As_Strings_Default
to the enumerated type Comparison_Technique_Type (sorting runs
faster if default alphabetical sorting is desired).
449: GWindows.Application: added procedure Add_To_Recent_Documents.
Windows Explorer & Desktop puts the name on top of various
"recent documents" lists, for instance in the task bar.
447: GWindows.Common_Controls.Ex_List_View: massive speedup on sorting
of large lists (e.g. 6x faster for 20,000 items).
More about it in this post.

GWindows release, 18-Jun-2022 [rev. 440]

Gautier de Montmollin — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 23:19:15 -0000

Changes:

Installer: ResEdit.xml configuration file for ResEdit (directory: gnavi\gwenerator) is automatically created and set up for current GNAT installation(s), GWindows and GWenerator.
Fixed a few 32/64 bit incompatibilities in GWindows.Windows and GWindows.Common_Controls.Ex_List_View (application example: see https://azip.sourceforge.io/ ).
Fixed various GNATCOM issues.

GWindows release, 29-Jan-2022 [rev. 429]

Gautier de Montmollin — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 21:25:20 -0000

Important changes from last release:

427: GWindows.Image_Lists: added color options;
includes features of "extended" Ex_Image_List_Type
in package GWindows.Image_Lists.Ex_Image_Lists, which
is marked as obsolescent.
424: GWindows.Application: added function Screen_Visibility.
423: GWindows.Application: added Enumerate_Display_Monitors.
422: GWindows.Base: added Set_Foreground_Window.
421: GWindows.Base: added Set_Active_Window.
417: GWindows.Common_Controls.Ex_Tb (toolbar): is now 64-bit compatible;
see LEA http://l-e-a.sf.net/ , LEA_GWin.Toolbars for an example.
414: GWindows.Scintilla: method names are "de-camel-cased":
e.g.: "Move_Caret_Inside_View" instead of "MoveCaretInsideView".
412: GWindows.Scintilla: works on both Intel x86 32-bit and x64 64-bit
types of platforms.
411: GWindows.Common_Controls.Ex_List_View: method On_Free_Payload
is now public and can be overriden with effect.
410: GWindows.Common_Controls.Ex_List_View: Sort can use a comparison
method not based on strings (e.g. a numerical comparison).

News about GWindows.Scintilla

Gautier de Montmollin — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 10:48:51 -0000

Some news about GWindows.Scintilla, the powerful text editor widget that is behind, among others, LEA and Notepad++:

The Scintilla notifications work now on 64 bit platforms. Of course the compatibility is kept for 32 bit, so if you need to build your application on 32 bit, the Scintilla widgets will continue to work as before.
Method names are now "de-camel-cased". For instance you have now: "Move_Caret_Inside_View" instead of a cryptic "MoveCaretInsideView". The naming convention is now consistent with the rest of GWindows, GNAT's run-time and most Ada libraries.

Here is a cute screenshot of the Scintilla sample (gwindows\samples\scintilla\sci_example.adb) running, with its source code shown by LEA - so again, GWindows.Scintilla in action!

GWindows release, 01-Jan-2021 [rev. 397]

Gautier de Montmollin — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 10:37:05 -0000

391: GWindows.Common_Controls.List_View: added Ensure_Visible.
387: (contrib) GWin_Util package: added Explorer_Context_Menu.
386: GWindows.Registry and GWindows.Errors work in 64-bit mode too.
385: GWindows.Windows.MDI: added function Count_MDI_Children.
384: (contrib) Added GWin_Util package.

GWindows release, 31-Jul-2020

Gautier de Montmollin — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 17:58:29 -0000

Main changes to the framework are detailed in gwindows/changes.txt.
Latest changes, in a nutshell (since last announcement here):
- a few features from the extensions GWindows.Common_Controls.Ex_List_View
and GWindows.Common_Controls.Ex_TV_Generic have been moved to parent package
and respective parent types for broader use
- fix: a few records for binding with the Windows API were erroneously 32-bit only

More in detail (full details with svn log):

GWindows release, 31-Jul-2020 [rev. 383]

379: Moved type Extended_Style_Type and methods Set_Extended_Style
and Remove_Extended_Style for type Ex_List_View_Control_Type in
package GWindows.Common_Controls.Ex_List_View
to parent package GWindows.Common_Controls,
for type List_View_Control_Type.
377: GWindows.Common_Dialogs: Choose_[Default_]Printer works
in 64-bit mode too.

GWindows release, 01-Sep-2019 [rev. 376]

371: Moved function Select_Item from GWindows.Common_Controls.Ex_TV
and GWindows.Common_Controls.Ex_TV_Generic to parent type
in GWindows.Common_Controls.
363: GWindows.Common_Controls.Ex_List_View: eventually overriden Sort
is called also on a click on a header
359: Moved Paint_Transparent_Bitmap to new GWindows.Drawing.Extended
from GWindows.Drawing (some versions of GCC issue a linker error)

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