Win32Forth

Release Notes for version 6.12.00

• Previous version release notes

Contributors (in alphabetical order)

Distributions

SourceForge distributions at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=55294

CVS at http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=55294

Prebuilt CVS distributions at www.win32forth.org

Mailing lists

Discussion group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/win32forth

Bug reports at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=55294&atid=476499

CVS Commit List at http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=43364 , subscriptions at http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/win32forth-cvs

Overview

System Changes

Documentation

A lot of new documentation has been added using an extended version of Brad Eckert's DexH - Document Extractor.

Bug fixes

A large number of bugs have been fixed. Changes since December 12, 2005 can be found at the CVS Commit List.

New Applications

• Player4 (Audio/Video player)
• PlayVirginRadio (Play "Virgin Radio" from the internet)
• Solipion (Classic Morpion Solitaire Like Game)
• Sudoku (Classic Sudoku Game)
• The Win32Forth IDE (It is a replacment for SciEdit and combines SciEdit and the Project Manager. SciEdit was removed from the distribution. But you can still get a copy from our CVS.)
• Picture Viewer (A Simple Bitmap Viewer)

New Tools

• Resources (Utilities to copy, add and enumerate resources in .dll and .exe files (For Win NT4 or better only).
• Component Object Module (COM) Interface.
• src/tools/AxConList.f - Shows a list of all installed ActiveX controls
• src/tools/AxConInfo.f - Shows informations about an ActiveX control
• DexH - Document Extractor
• Helper words for turnkey applications that don't need the w32fConsole.dll
• src/tools/DumpWindow.f - Dump all Top-Level-Windows to the console.

New Controls

• HTML browser control This is a HTML browser control that can be used for all kinds of things. This requires that Internet Explorer is installed (even if it's not your default browser).
• PDF control Embeds a adobe acrobat control into your window. This control uses the dispatch interface to talk to the control (because a real interface wasn't provided). This requires that you have a adobe reader installed.
• Shockwave Flash Control Flash control that can play swf movies. There are many more methods to the calling interface that I did not include because I didn't know what they did. Maybe someone who has more experience with flash could help develop it futher. You do need the shockwave control installed.
• Generic Activex Control

  		AXControl is a class that can be treated like any other control in
  		win32forth, except it is enabled to host an activex component. A short
  		example of it's usage:
  		window win
  		start: win
  		axcontrol ax
  		win start: ax
  		s" MSCAL.Calendar" axcreate: ax 
  		autosize: ax
  
  		The example here hosts a calandar control by it's progid.
  		In order to see this work properly, you need to have that activex
  		control installed on your machine.  ProgID's may also have some 
  		version control to them. "MSCAL.Calendar.7" as the progid would 
  		only host version 7 of the caladar control.
  
  		You may also use the string of the clsid that you want to use instead of
  		the progid, if it suits your purposes better.  Ex:
  
  		s" {8E27C92B-1264-101C-8A2F-040224009C02}" axcreate: ax
  		autosize: ax
  
  		You may also use a url if you want:
  
  		s" http://www.google.com" axcreate: ax
  		autosize: ax
  
  		Just having the control there is nice, but the REAL trick is to
  		communicate with it and exchange data back and forth.  The way that
  		this is done is by  getting the control's interface and using it.
  		That is what was done in all the other activex controls.  
  		

• ListView Control

New ADO class library

• ADOConnection For connecting to a database.
• ADOCursor For manipulating recordsets.

New GDI class library

• gdiPOINT Wrapper class for a POINT struct.
• gdiCOLORREF Wrapper class for a COLORREF struct.
• gdiRGBQUAD Wrapper class for a RGBQUAD struct.
• gdiSIZE Wrapper class for a SIZE struct.
• gdiTEXTMETRIC Wrapper class for a TEXTMETRIC struct.

• gdiBase Base class for GDI objects.
• gdiPen Class for cosmetic pen's.
• gdiGeometricPen Class for geometric pen's.
• gdiBrush Base class for all brush objects.
• gdiSolidBrush Solid brush class.
• gdiHatchBrush Hatch brush class.
• gdiPatternBrush Pattern brush class.
• gdiDIBPatternBrush DIB Pattern brush class.
• gdiFont Font class.
• gdiBitmap Bitmap class.
• gdiMetafile Enhanced metafile class.
• gdiDC Device context class.
• gdiWindowDC Window device context class.
• gdiMetafileDC Metafile device context class.

The 'old' classes in Win32Forth that are dealing with the GDI:

• ColorObject Class for color objects.
• ExtColorObject Class for extended color objects.
• HatchColorObject Class for hatch color objects.
• Font Class for fonts.
• WinDC Device context class for windows.
• WinPrinter Device context class for printing.

were rewritten to use the GDI class library.

Other new classes

• TrayWindow Class for windows that hide themself in the TrayBar when they are minimized.
• SQLite Database Class for SQLite

New Libraries

• WinSock Simple Socket Library

New Demos

• demos/HtmlControlDemo.f - Shows how to use the HTMLControl
• demos/PdfControlDemo.f - Shows how to use the PDFControl
• demos/FlashControlDemo.f - Shows how to use the FlashControl
• demos\COM\*.f - Various demos for the new COM interface.
• demos\GdiDemo\*.f - Various demos for the new GDI class library. Most of them were original written by David R. Pochin.
• demos/ListViewDemo.f - Shows how to use the ListView control. Also shows how to implement a Spliiter window
• demos\Ado\*.f - Various demos for the new Ado class library. Requires MS access to build the .mdb file for the tests.
• demos/SQLite Demo.f - Shows how to use the SQLite class
• demos/SWinSock Demo.f - Shows how to use the WinSock library

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