Release Notes for version 6.14.00
Contributors (in alphabetical order)
Robert Dudley Ackerman
Ezra Boyce
Dirk Busch
Thomas Dixon
Camille Doiteau
Brad Eckert
Bruno Gauthier
George Hubert
Alex McDonald
Rod Oakford
Andrew Stephenson
Jos van de Ven
and others...
Overview
System Changes
- A new console written in Forth. w32fConsole.dll is not needed anymore.
- ForthForm has been integrated into the Win32ForthIDE.
- Help has been totally rewritten and runs in a separate application.
- Inter-process launching and communication via messages has been rewritten.
FSAVE and APPLICATION have been replaced by
SAVE , and TURNKEY modified, to give easier to use
saving words (see "How to convert from
version 6.12.00").- A lot of code has been moved.
- An improved IDE.
- see ~\src\Compat\Evolve.f for specific to the changes between the releases 6.12.00 and 6.14.00.
Bug fixes
A large number of bugs have been fixed. Changes can be found at the
CVS Commit List.
Limitation for the Vista or better
- When you use Vista or better choose ANOTHER directory than the
“Program Files” directory to install Win32Forth.
c:\Forth might be a nice place.
New Tools
- ShowDLLSymbols.f - Enumerates all the symbols in a DLL file.
New classes
New Libraries
- EscapedStrings.f Initial written by Stephen Pelc modified for Win32Forth by Dirk Busch.
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