Changelog:
For the release 20.03, we provide a changelog hereby about what has changed since 17.12 (to download the change log, a link is provided at the bottom of this page):
General UI/SDK changes:
UI: Add information about the wxWidgets library being used in Help -> About dialog
UI: Fix two asserts for incorrect use of wxALIGN_LEFT when opening the Project -> Properties dialog
wx3: Fix assertion when removing last virtual target (ticket #892)
UI: Add logging of execution time to various places in the code
UI: Add compiler ID to Help -> About dialog (ticket #870)
UI: Make Plugin manager to have resizeable plugin info control
UI: Fix Toolbars corruption when saving perspective (ticket #846)
Fix crash with batch build on linux by moving the build process out of OnInit() when using wx>=30
UI: Improve child window placement. Introduce 3 options: center-on-parent (default), center-on-display and leave to OS/ Window manager.
UI: Make sure pressing escape works correctly in the Reorder targets dialog
UI: Fix the parents of various child dialogs in the Build -> Properties
UI: Make sure we call PlaceWindow for the dialog for selecting platform for targets
UI: Make sure the correct parent is set when showing the project dependencies dialog
UI: Fix possible assert when the language selection is invalid
UI: Make data paths more resilient to changes to the current directory
UI: Make pressing Escape in scope "Code Refactoring" dialog to close it
UI: Adjust borders for the Find/Replace dialog
UI: Fix corruption of toolbars when saving perspective (ticket #846)
UI: Fix assert that a bitmap is already selected in a DC on Windows
UI: Fix crash if the list in Settings->Scripting is empty (ticket 842)
UI: Show only one message box if a project could not be loaded while loading a workspace (ticket #809)
scintilla-wx: Remove double buffering for wxGTK (it doesn't fix the flickering problem)
UI: Select the correct language in the menu shown from the language button in the status bar
scintilla-wx: Cherry-pick changes from wx-master (Better support for passing images from wx to scintilla)
UI: Some places in the code were trying to load images from file system and not from resources.zip (ticket #826)
UI: Replace the wxComboBox with wxChoice in Project->Properties->Build targets->Type
UI: Make the layout of Environment Settings -> View a bit more compact
UI: Replace the radio buttons for images sizes in Env Settings -> View with wxChoice controls
UI: Use better looking icon for the "Select text" button in the Incremental search toolbar
UI: Fix layout issue in the environment settings dialog
UI: Print config file path as the first line in the list ctrl for the main log
UI: Fit toolbars on every load
UI: Make MainFrame::DoFixToolbarsLayout to really work when toolbar size changes
UI: Make it possible to assign a keyboard shortcut to Build -> Select target -> Select target...
sdk: Fix memory leak when showing the "choose compiler" dialog, because the current compiler is not available
UI: Log the info message to the main log
UI: Avoid crash or assert when application is closed via OS's TaskBar
UI: Fix a warning emitted by wxWidgets about incorrect use of wxALIGN_CENTER_HORIZONTAL in the EditPath dialog
UI: Treat editor and project files as modified when altered outside of Code::Blocks and not reloaded (ticket #492)
wx30: Do no call LoadResource for plugins which don't have xrc files in their zip archives
wx30: Fix assert that all images added to an image list must have the same size
batch build: Fix segmentation fault after batch build (ticket #738)
UI: Fix crash in GotoFile::BuildContent(74)
SDK: Fix memory leak when loading new workspace
UI: Fix a memory leak of Page objects on application shutdown
UI: Fixes to the auto-sizing feature of the GotoFile dialog (see r11468)
UI: Make the Goto File window to resize itself when the content of the list ctrl doesn't fit
UI: Make opening containing folder work when the path contains whitespace (ticket #734)
wx3-stl: Make almost everything (wxSmith doens't) to build with wxWidgets in STL mode
sdk: Remove duplicated calls to AddBuildTarget for generated files
sdk: Make sure we don't add the same file twice if it is stored with different relative path in the project file
sdk: Make CompilerFactory::GetCompiler using an id faster
sdk: Small optimization in cbProject::addFile (don't call wxFileName::GetExt multiple times)
sdk: Small optimizations in MacrosManager
sdk: Don't save empty extension tags in the project file
sdk: Sort extensions just before saving the project
sdk: Add $PLATFORM macro that expands to "msw" on windows and "unix" on linux and mac
sdk: Path delimiters in the .cbp file aren't Unix-normalized when saving project on Windows (ticket #705)
UI: Print a message in the log when the application is ended because another instance is detected
UI: Fix a crash/assert on shutdown when the CallAfter is executed after the managers have been shutdown
UI: Print an error in the log if opening a file fails
UI: Make sure passing --file=path/to/file.ext without line number works, too
ProjectManagerUI: Implement both external and internal wxTreeCtrl Drag and Drop for the project manager tree
ProjectManagerUI: Temporary disable external drag and drop from project manager wxTreeCntrl. External and Internal drag and drop are incompatible.
UI: Remove double dollar signs (ticket #653)
wx30: Fix de-serializing wxStrings when doing DDE
UI: Prevent the splash screen from staying on top from the compiler selector dialog
Fix possible null pointer dereference in plugins management (ticket #673)
UI: Set the focus to the OK button in the Multi Select dialog (used when adding files to a project)
UI: Make sure that the file path control in the EditPath is larger, so longer paths could be reviewed
UI: DefaultMimeHandler: Set min size for the selection dialog
UI: Fix crash when reloading multiple projects in a workspace and they have dependencies
wx3-gtk3: Fix crash when doing Control-A, Control-V (ticket #629)
UI: Make sure the current project is always visible in the project tree while moving it up/down (ticket #617)
UI: Show the scintilla version in about dialog
wx30: Fix editor redraw problems on Windows (workaround, related to status bar)
UI: Make return to select the filtered option in the Goto File, Goto Function and Select Target dialogshe toolbar if the requested icon couldn't be loaded
Make the SpellChecker icons in the status bar to be HiDPI aware
Use toolbar art providers for main, compiler and debugger toolbars
Move select_target.png to sdk/resources
Make it possible to use the cbArtProvider with toolbars
Make button images (zoom in/out) in the help plugin panel to be HiDPI aware
Apply scale factor to the toolbar size
Make icons in various dialogs to be HiDPI aware
Fix browse buttons in Project -> Properties to look good on HiDPI monitors
Make the icons for the buttons in IncrementSearch to be HiDPI aware
Make the icon in scope "Code Refactoring" dialog to be HiDPI aware
Add support for bitmap buttons to the cbArtProvider
Fix scaling of menu images created with the cbArtProvider on macOS
help plugin: Fix bigger icons in the Help menu on Windows
IncrementalSearch: Fix the menu icon to use the menu size and scaling (HiDPI aware)
DoxyBlocks: Make the Module menu images to be HiDPI aware
Make the readonly icon used in editor's notebook to be HiDPI aware
Try to make Notebook icons in 'Logs and Others' look non-blurry on GTK3+GDK_SCALE=2
Make all loggers in 'Log & Others' to provide HiDPI aware icons
Make the OpenFilesList plugin HiDPI aware
Better support for creating the image list on GTK3 when scaling factor is 2
Modify cbProjectTreeImages::MakeImageList to add a red image in the generate image list when a file fails to load
Make the tree images in project tree and file manager trees to be HiDPI aware
Use the scaling factor detection to select the image size for menu images
Fix debug log message about ClientToScreen failures coming from the call to wxDisplay::GetFromWindow
Update icons from the cb-icons repo (compiler and incremental search pluigns)
Move images to codecompletion.zip instead storing them on the file system and fix all build systems
Implement sizeable images in the auto completion list produced by the CC plugin
Remove wrong warning message in the log from the cbArtProvider
Fix the icon size in Breakpoints dialog on HiDPI windows builds
Make the list images in Breakpoints dialog to look good on scaled GTK+3 build (scaling factor 2 or more)
Make images in the Build menu (compiler plugin) to be DPI aware
Make the IncrementalSearch menu image to be DPI aware
Make the DoxyBlocks menu images to be DPI aware
Make the images in the debugger menu to be DPI aware
Make all images defined in main_menu.xrc to be DPI aware
Add additional image sizes which would be used for the main menu
Make the icons in the Breakpoints dialog to be DPI aware
Remove toolbar images with size 22x22
Print the resource id of the toolbar when there are problems loading a bitmap
Add 20x20, 24x24, 28x28, 40x40, 48x48, 56x56 and 64x64 for contrib plugins
Add 20x20, 24x24, 28x28, 40x40, 48x48, 56x56 and 64x64 for core stuff
Add more options for the sizes of the toolbar icons
Print log message when loading an image for a toolbar fails
Fix asserts in the wxBitmap c-tor when the image file cannot be found on this
Print a warning when changing the size of toolbar images
Make the wx31 builds to be system dpiAware
Fix missing image after the move of 22x22 images to a separate folder
Do not use scalingFactor on Windows
Add wrapper for wxWindow::GetContentScaleFactor to make it easier to use this call
Make toolbar images for DoxyBlocks work correctly when using GTK+3 on HiDPI (scale >= 2) monitor
Make toolbars on wx3.1 and GTK3 to almost look sharp
Print scaling factor for the main frame during startup
Do not call Realize toolbars for every disabled tool in a xrc file
Reenable the dpi aware flag on windows
Add 32x32 images for the rest of plugins which create toolbars
Make toolbars work on retina mac machines
Add the possibility to select toolbars which are 32x32 big
Add 32x32 images for main and debugger toolbars
Print warning message when a toolbar image requires resizing
Make the xrc wxToolbarAddon handler to be able to remap bitmap paths
SDK new/changed APIs:
sdk: Implement cbProject::operator= so it is possible to copy projects
sdk: Change the return type of cbWatch::GetDebugString (ABI break)
sdk: Remove cbWatchesDlg::UpdateWatches, because it is no longer used
sdk: Add cbEVT_DEBUGGER_CONTINUED event for debugger
UI: Try to place child windows always on a valid display (ticket #770)
sdk: Make cbAssert to send SIGINT instead of SIGTERM
SDK: Make cbResolveSymLinkedDirPath a bit more robust
sdk: Add function which could be used to get the rect of the monitor where a window is placed (extracted from PlaceWindow)
sdk: Add API for sorting menu items in the editor's context menu (modify all plugins to use it)
UI: Use sorted container to provide a more stable iteration when building the module menu
UI: Use the setting for caret line to show it in the syntax highlight settings
Performance improvements:
UI: Minimize the time needed to open the file/replace dialog for the LLVM project
SDK: Call the virtual function GetTitle just once inside loops in cbProject::RemoveBuildTarget
Syntax Hightlight UI improvements:
UI: Make it possible to type in the syntax highlight preview
wx30: Fix assert introduced with rev 9667 (reading null color for syntax highlight)
Editor:
Try to fix flicker when moving the cursor with keyboard/mouse (ticket #890)
Disable middle-mouse button paste until user sets Settings -> Editor -> Other editor setting -> Enable marked text paste with middle mouse click (on Windows)
Fix non-latin keys to work in shortcuts in the editor on Linux
Add controls for selecting the technology and font quality
Auto-size marker margin column and switch to breakpoint image with the correct size
Make the width of the change bar to change with the zoom
Add an option which can be used to disable the save-to-temp-and-move operation we use by default
Add menu item 'Copy full path' in the editor tab context menu
Implement 'Fold current block' to work when the cursor is inside the block (ticket #700)
Fix the feature which restores editor folds when the project/editor is reloaded
Make it possible to set the white-space mode to "Only indent"
Enable pasting when there are multiple cursors and typing with them is enabled
Group all find related items together at the top of the context menu in the editor
Move the Code Refactoring -> Rename symbols menu item to the Insert submenu
Move Properties to the bottom of the editor's context menu
Remove excessive separators from the editor's context menu
Remove menu items from editor's context menu which are duplicated in the editor's tab
Move Copy/Cut/Paste from a submenu Edit to the main context menu of the editor
Add 'Close to the left' and 'Close to the right' menu items in the context menu for the editor's notebook
Implement caret buffer in the editor (up to now we have it implemented in the EditorTweaks plugin). UI in the Settings -> Editor -> General -> Other editor settings
Do not mess the editor with brace selection completion when there are multiple cursors
Pass a theme object to editors created for new files (ticket #100)
Make the line for the current position during debugging to use the same colour as the caret line (ticket #659)
Lexers:
Add syntax highlighting for Nim (ticket #657)
Add WAVE keyword to Windows resource lexer (ticket #834)
Improve C/C++ lexer (ticket #741)
Add YAML lexer, make sure to always use spaces when editing YAML xers not only for the ObjC lexer
Add selection, active line, matching brace and no matching brace style options using code
Add lexer for plaintext files
Add lexer for Markdown (ticket #640)
Update doxygen keywords in the C/C++ lexer
Upn the project files
Save the old print function and restore it after executing the script in ScriptingManager::LoadBufferRedirectOutput (ticket #817)
Make it possible to use relative paths when including squirrel scripts (ticket #812)
Library updourceExporter plugin)
Astyle:
Finally make Mozilla-style/example work
Add new options, remove obsolete options
Code completion plugin:
Take the zoom of the current editor into account when deciding if to use a buffered auto completion listticket #25)
Fix parsing of struct instances declared on same statement (ticket #762)
Fix parsing of multi-line #if defined() (ticket #761)
Fix parsing of 'for' loops with empty declaration block. Handle the case where the first token is a semiif the list of directories is empty (ticket #780)
Improve the logic for starting/stopping system header threads
Fix crash when the project has files with invalid targets and the user tries to do header completion
Ignore attribute((whatever)) in typedef definition (ticket #759)
Support function declaration lists (ticket #724)
Handle comma as terminator for function declarations
Fix leaks of SystemHeadersThread objects when shutting down the application
Log how much time traversing a directory to find headers takes
Do not traverse root folders for drives
Use better method for detecting file system loops
Do not block the UI when showing the list of include completions while a thread is traversing
Fix assertion when clicking on "Find references of:" (ticket #633)
Compiler plugin:
Add an option to targets which allows the user to select the linker executable to be used for the target
Make the LinkerExecutableOption::AutoDetect work as advertised
Cleaned up obsolete interim C/C++ standards that are now properly supported by GCC (i.e. C++11/14/17; C17)
Print Build banner at command preBuild step, else they appear to belong to previous target
Fix assert about RecalcSizes (ticket #857)
Expand CodeBlocks variables for non-ttCommandsOnly targets also
Fix potential crash if the choice control is removed from the toolbar
Print a log message that we are modifying the dll search path before running an executable
Adjust the regexp for detecting the compiler version to support double digit numbers
Do not switch to the build log when the workspace is closed
Fix a crash introduced in r11465 (ticket #582)
Clear target specific variables from the MacroManager on every recalculation (ticket #582)
Remove duplicated compiler option
Clear logs when the workspace is closed (ticket #656)
Make sure the goto prev/next build error goes only on errors
Show the build message when the user requests goto prev/next error
Add support for -std=c++17 flag
Don't show a log message when the wxKill command fails to kill children, because they've finished already
Hide process output when the process is stopped/killed
Fix double send of cbEVT_COMPILER_FINISHED when the executable is closed after run
Make the abort button work again (ticket #104). Kill the started process and all children instead of using wxSIGTERM
Debugger plugin:
Make sure we always store remote debugging project options sorted by target
Rework the plugin to not use ProjectLoaderHooks
Fix crash when trying to attach when there is no loaded project (ticket #879)
Fix regression when executing additional commands before
Make sure we don't save empty serial baud attributes in the debugger extension
Improve UI of Debugger project options panel
Check additional shell commands when deciding if the remote settings for target/projects need to be saved
Rework the UI for the "Remote connection" tab in the project opions to look a bit more pleasant
Improve the IsPointerType to detect restrict and const volatile types as pointers correctly
sdk: Add another parameter to cbDebuggerPlugin::AddWatch to make it similar to AddMemoryRangeWatch
sdk: Make it possible to delay the update of memory range watches (possible massive breakage)
sdk: Add event which will be used to notify debug windows that data is ready
Initial implementation of Memory Range Watches
Set the plugin value of the event when sending EVT_DEBUGGER_UPDATED
Send CURSOR_CHANGED event when the debugger has stopped on a breakpoint/signal
Fix the disassembly view with newer GDBs
Make it possible to evaluate expression in wxSmith code blocks
Improvements for Fortran (ticket #717)
Put the recent entered command in the position 0 of the wxComboBox list.
Remove gdb_types.script because it is not longer used (the scripting support has been removed from the debugger)
Make sure to quit correctly when attaching to process fails
Make it possible to attach to a process using the command line (This commit adds --dbg-attach and --dbg-config command line options)
Prevent warning for invalid current directory when attaching to process
Make sure to set the SHELL variable before starting GDB
OccurrenceHighlighting plugin:
Update the permanent occurrence highlights when editor is split
Handle editor open events to highlight all words that match the set for permanent highlights
Make it possible to set the plugin to override the text colour
Scripting wizard:
Fix wxWidgets script on windows (ticket #676)
Print better message when the xrc file fails to load
Change extension for files added to Fortran projects to f90 (ticket #605)
Browse tracker plugin:
Create default.Browsetracker.ini from old Browsetracker.ini (only once) when personality == default
Fix deprecated wxFont usage in config panel
Honor Toolbar activation/deactivation from View/Toolbars; Change config toolbar setting to "Show Toolbar Always"
Fix crash in JumpTracker when the editor object is nullptr
Internationalize the configuration panel
Fix shutdown assert on linux when using wx3.x
Unregister hooks/sinks to prevent crashes when uninstalled
Code snippets plugin:
Let user know that attempt to edit file failed
Adds DnD to ProjectManagerUI, removes it from the plugin, and fixes asserts
Fix assert (ticket #631)
Drag scroll plugin:
Add user config option to reverse mouse wheel zoom
Fix right mouse click in project window. See http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php/topic,22863.new.html
Don't move cursor when using right mouse key (wx3.x)
Environment variables plugin:
Crash when closing Environment settings dialog (ticket #877)
Rework the plugin to not use ProjectLoaderHooks
Incorrect variables could be set or variables could be lost when using the configuration dialog (ticket #641)
File manager plugin:
Slow down caused by incorrect fix in rev 11463 (ticket #722)
Fix assert when clicking the 'goto parent directory' button beyond the root (ticket #713)
Fix wrong use of stl-containers (erasing invalidates iterators) (ticket #722)
Key binder plugin:
Fix warning for Ctrl-P being duplicated
Introduce version 2.0 using CodeLight key binding methods; allowing future ability to dynamically set menu and global accelerators to any frame
Sort cbKeybinder20.conf file and remove old (duplicate) bindings
Use correct file separator on Linux for .config/cbKeyBinder10.ini
If there is no <personality>.cbKeyBinder10.ini file try to load cbKeybinder10.ini
Add overridden menu accelerators to global table for Linux
Obtain correct config folder on linux (ticket 840)
Freeze config panel while updating
Avoid 'Wheres the event handler gone' asserts when modifying shortcuts
Fix F2, Shift-F2 and allow linux to handle any View menu check items (ticket #273)
Nassi-Shneiderman plugin:
Convert the toolbar images from xpm buffers defined in code to using pngs stored in a zip
Fix crashes during drag n drop of bricks
Use wxBRUSHSTYLE_ constants to get rid of depricated-warnings from wx31
Remove wxALIGN_CENTER_HORIZONTAL|wxALIGN_CENTER_VERTICAL for expanded item. Avoids assert from wxWidgets 3.1
Project options manipulator plugin:
Replace all options in one go (partial fix for ticket #868)
Report success after changing the compiler options (ticket #470)
Fix the UI layout of main dialog (ticket #607)
RndGen plugin:
Some code cleanup (ticket #736)
Add the plugin to the builds on linux/macos (ticket #728)
Better explanation of the purpose anaracter handling.
Fix wrong white space handling on windows by using the scintilla word finding functions
Speedup by moving code out of loop and advancing the position of the parser
Add Spanish flag images (ticket #881)
Make the popup menu(ticket #742)
Prepare the plugin to support more than two resolutions of UI images
Make the images in plugin's toolbar to work correctly on GTK+ 3 and scaling of 2x
Remove almost all places in the plugin which used the /environment/toolbar_sizefault style for wxListView (ticket #884)
Add wxDIRP_SMALL flag for wxDirPickerCtrl (ticket #861)
Fix wrong grouping of radio boxes in the wxSmith settings dialog (ticket #875)
Fix image editor layout for wxWidgets >= 3.1.0 and rename dialog to be resizable
Handle the default color in the color property class the same in both wxWidgets 3.x and wxWidgets 2.8 (ticket #815)
Fix "dangling" frames which prevent Code::Blocks's process from exiting correctly
Fix wxImagePanel preview errorx assert when using the wxGridBagSizer (ticket #664)
Fix use-after-free error when moving a control in a sizer
Add Radio as possible wxAuiToolBarItem item kind (ticket #15)
Fix assert after inserting wxListCtrl (ticket #671)
Set sensible d:
Astyle: Fix argument bug (ticket #698)
AutoSave: Add option to save log rotated backup files in a sub-folder (ticket #132)
ClassWizard: Remember file extensions for header and source files
CppCheck: Fix crash when the generated xml is missing
CScope: Add configuration dialog to select the cscope executable. Also add a link to the help page in the settings dialog.
EditorConfig: Rework the plugin to not use ProjectLoaderHooks
EditorConfig: Allow to use global editor settings for EOL (ticket #577)
EditorTweaks: Remove caret buffer code, because it was added to the core editor
Help: Fix bug in man2html (ticket #626)
IncrementalSearch: Try to have better/simpler history in the choice control (ticket #740)
IncrementalSearch: Make it possible to get focus by clicking (ticket 625)
MouseSap: Remove all direct GTK calls. Fix Shift-MiddleMouse key pasting to avoid overwriting Primary clipboard.
OpenFileList: Fix crash when disable/enable the plugin in the plugin manager dialog (ticket #774)
OpenFileList: Fix memory leak when unloading the plugin
ReopenEditor: Fix memory leaks
SmartIndent: Improve brace completion for Fortran (ticket #667)
ToDo plugin: Fix memory corruption due to splash screen (ticket #635)
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