The Aurora compiler has just been updated to Beta 1. To get the update redownload from the link provided when purchasing and reinstall the compiler.
Changes/Additions
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- NEW was not calculating the size of unicode strings correctly. Fixed.
- C3DCamera::Move fixed.
- C3DMesh::CreateMeshEx now allows 0 for number of indices to create non-indexed triangle lists.
- C3DScreen::Reset method added. Allows changing the size of the surfaces in windowed mode.
- Animated key framed X files now work correctly when loaded with C3DMesh::LoadSkinnedX
- C3DScreen::MouseX and C3DScreen::MouseY added.
- CRichEdit::GetSelText was broken. Fixed.
- Include file processing change to resolve conficts with user included files.
- C3DLight now allows the same positioning and rotation as other objects respecting the transfromations of the parent.
- C3DObject::LookAt method added.
- The caret color in the IDE is now the inverse of the background color to ensure visibility.
- The ClassView pane in the IDE now does something.
- F1 with a highlihted keyword now searches through the user guides for a match.
- File attribute constants were missing from fileio.inc, added.
- CWindow::GetHandle method was declared but never implemented. Fixed.
About the ClassView pane:
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The ClassView pane shows all of your derived objects as well as the classes available from the Aurora libraries. Right clicking on a method in the class list allows you to go to a methods declaration or implementation. Methods in the Aurora library list will allow you to go to the declaration only, since the implementation of those classes are in compiled form.
The listing of your programs classes is only available in project mode. You can refresh the list by right-clicking anywhere in the pane and selecting "Refresh".
There will be more added to the ClassView pane as the beta progresses including the lising of all member variables, structure definitions and global functions.
State of the documentation:
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I have been working hard trying to get the documentation finished. All help files now have a keyword list allowing context sensitive help (highlight a class name and press F1 for example). The text of the docs are still in the process of being filled in and many of the class method descriptions are still empty, but listed. You'll need to browse through to see what is there. CWindow is mostly finished for example, as are half of the independant functions.
I will be uploading numerous "documentation updates" over the next few weeks as more of the information gets filled in. Just to save the hassle of having to redownload the install again.
There was a bug in the help database manager that we are using which listed all return types of independant funcitons as "None". But you'll figure out by reading the docs what it is supposed to return.
Upcoming changes:
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For Beta 1 Rev1 most of the changes will be to the compiler itself. Planned are enumerations and security attributes for class members (private, protected, etc). The 3D library will have more format loaders in Rev1 as I just didn't have time to finish them before this release.
Have fun and watch the announcement topic for more updates ;)
Paul.
[EDIT]: Demo was also updated.
Thanks, wow what a great way to bring in the new month!!
Cool ! looks great Paul ;)
There is a bug in the class viewer - some classes are displayed twice. For an example, download the BabyGrid source and open the project. You'll have two entries under "BabyGrid Objects" titled "BabyGrid" and one titled "CGridWnd". My guess is something to do with include file processing, but I have no idea because I don't have the IDE's code.
If you have the class defined twice you will get it displayed twice.
This rocks!!! Thanks Paul! :o ;D
Indeed, what an exciting first day of the month!! We've gone Beta. Aurora really has come a long way since the Alpha was released in October when i came along last year.
Now hopefully the Beta will pull in the punters too.
Looking forward to the security attributes ;)
Lewis
Paul, my sincerest thanks.
I have enough with lighting to keep me busy for a while, I can now do individual room lighting with falling over lamps, track lighting where the light actually moves along the track instead of having to create tons of lights and turn them on and off, I create one and have it follow a path, lots of fun stuff.
Looking into the other new features this weekend :)
Great times ahead of us for sure.
Also noticed a bug in the class list thing. I opened up a project and in the list, one of my methods had a square at the end. Not sure why, it was just the same in the source code as all the other methods.
Lewis
Its a tab character.
I had that in all the other builds from time to time, just nuke it, it causes problems.
I have opened a standard project where windows.inc from /include was included. Waited and waited... 4 minutes was too long for me, the GUI was totally blocked so i terminated it.
Loking for file names in process explorer - it looped from file a to file b, then again to file a.
Great work, Paul!!
We're at BETA 1!! :D
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Nice work, Paul.
Quote from: sapero on September 01, 2006, 09:02:20 AM
I have opened a standard project where windows.inc from /include was included. Waited and waited... 4 minutes was too long for me, the GUI was totally blocked so i terminated it.
Loking for file names in process explorer - it looped from file a to file b, then again to file a.
ClassView isn't perfect yet. You may have a cyclic include somewhere, if file a includes file b and file b includes file a.
I'll have an update in an hour or so. ClassView will check for files included twice and such.
OK the installation has been updated. The classview pane now checks for cyclic includes and duplicates. Hopefully that solves Sapero's difficulty.
I've had a problem with the class viewer. When i choose 'Show Declaration' it works fine on my projects. But when i choose 'Show Implementation' on a class member it opens the include file where the declaration is and selects nothing. ???
Yes, it helped! Thanx for this fast fix :D
Quote from: Kale on September 01, 2006, 03:24:07 PM
I've had a problem with the class viewer. When i choose 'Show Declaration' it works fine on my projects. But when i choose 'Show Implementation' on a class member it opens the include file where the declaration is and selects nothing. ???
Which method? Which class?
If you updated your projects files right-click on the classview pane and select 'refresh'.
Quote from: Paul Turley on September 01, 2006, 03:42:25 PM
Which method? Which class?
If you updated your projects files right-click on the classview pane and select 'refresh'.
See the attached zip file, and try it on the class methods contained in this simple test. :)
OK. I'll look at it.
OK the installation has been updated. The classview pane now opens the correct file when searching for the implementation of a method. Hopefully that solves Kale's problem ;)
I apologize for those of you on 56K modems still :)
Quote from: Paul Turley on September 02, 2006, 11:08:43 AM
OK the installation has been updated. The classview pane now opens the correct file when searching for the implementation of a method. Hopefully that solves Kale's problem ;)
Yep, all sorted! ;D Ta. BTW pressing F1 for the help search is very welcome. :)
F1 help really is nice and I see that some of the documentation is already in there with examples. I was looking at FileRequest for example.
I really like lots of stuff in the IDE, I really like the brace highlighting, it really makes it easy to find the matching counter brace.
Also I love the intelligent Home key. It takes you to the beginning of the text not just the line.
I am older, so I found using Lucida Console 10 pt makes it a lot easier to look at { } and ( ) * ^ etc.
Also, I think it is neat how the compiler finds all my flaws, like a little helper robot in programming and gives pretty useful info in helping find the mistakes.
All of the last few things I mentioned have been available, I just never mentioned how much I enjoy them and appreciate the coding behind it all.
All good Paul. Just thought of a little suggestion. Double clicking on a method in the class view perhaps opening straight to the declaration would be very good. You would just have to add some code to detect if the users clicks on a method or not. Really just for ease of use.
Lewis
Glad I just reread the planned, I was going to ask a dumb question like is enum available.
Paul,
Could you move (and rebuild all libraries) the two method implementations from dx2d.inc for class C2DSurface to standard module? I mean method GetSurfacePointer and GetSurfacePitch.
Maybe you don't know this, but the two methods are exported from all your library modules, and from every module (object) we compile. It increases our code and crashes the ar while creating libraries with debug info.
From gui.lib it is exported 166 times!
I'm surprised that the ar.exe lib tool allows that without any warning.
I've looked at string tables in gui.lib: symbol C2DSurface@GetSurfacePointer and C2DSurface@GetSurfacePitch exists 166 times in one string table! (in deprecated first linker member).
Second problem: #include searches first in /bin, then in /include. Only "..\\include\\file.inc" can help here.
Suggestions:
- #use could search first in project directory, then in /libs. It would be very usefull for all to link modules without "installing".
- would be neat to see ar and gorc errors in build window.
- and to limit number of displayed errors from parser to max 20-50 lines :) One syntax error can generate thousands of other errors, and all this is displayed. My record is 47s to wait until all error messages are added to this slow listbox in build window ;)
ar crashes with any debug info and has nothing to do with those two methods. The linker ignores duplicate methods that are not referenced which is why it doesn't create an error.
47 seconds is an awful long time, are you sure your system is working right?. Even on my lowly 800Mhz athlon the error messages show up almost instantly. Even with hundreds of warnings/errors from the compiler the most it takes is 1-2 seconds.