2003-09-09 GG (v.3.008)
- improved garbage collection. No more leaks of Q*Items.
GC is now believed to be entirely sound.
- faster/cleaner build system (no more automake dependancy)
- speed optimizations (+50% gain)
- 9 new marshallers (Q*List are marshalled as a reference to a Perl array of Q*)
- tied marshallers for non-const QString/QByteArray
$ts = Qt::TextStream( $x, IO_WriteOnly );
$ts << "foo"; # will write to $x
- alternative Sig/Slot declaration syntax
sub a_signal : SIGNAL(int,QString);
sub a_slot : SLOT(int,QString) {
#do something
}
- perleditor plugin for Qt Designer (released separately as pqt-designer package)
- Perl syntax highlighting
- thorough code completion (static and instance methods, &Qt::enums...)
- Perl aware Object Browser ("Class Declarations" tab)
- run your PerlQt project straight from the designer
- STDIN/STDOUT output and Perl messages are redirected to the Output Window view,
with corrected line numbers pointing to syntax errors.
- global scope Qt functions (bitBlt, qCompress...) are now available.
- gathered in the Qt::GlobalSpace namespace
- import them to current namespace with "use Qt::GlobalSpace"
- global scope operators are available as well (e.g Qt::Point + Qt::point)
- bug fixes and other improvements.
=> see ChangeLog.CVS.delta and ChangeLog.CVS for details
2002-02-13 GG (v.3.006)
- "use bytes" pragma now changes the way QStrings are marshalled
back to Perl : within the scope, instead of all utf-8, QStrings are
marshalled to ISO-Latin1 by default, or to locale if "use locale" is
active.
- Operator overloading is now functional. 21 operators are available.
e.g:
$d = Qt::TextStream( $f );
$d << "Foo " << 12 << " Bar";
N.B: the copy constructor operator('=') isn't overloaded.
It clashes with the perl paradigm.
- fixed a bug in QCString Marshaller : plain ASCII was tagged as UTF-8
- raised priority of QString in case of ambiguous call
- allow runtime definition of signals and slots (via eval)
- added two development tools : pqtsh (a graphical PerlQt shell) and
pqtapi (a command line introspection tool)
- look also in super classes when dumping possible candidates (Qt::debug)
- updated french and english documentation
- module Qt::constants for on-demand loading of global Qt constants
(as of now, only concerns IO_* constants defined in qiodevice.h)
e.g:
use Qt::constants qw(:IO)
or
use Qt::constants qw( IO_ReadOnly IO_WriteOnly )
from an idea by Marek Rouchal
2002-12-16 GG (v.3.004-final)
- test suite ("make test" target)
- one more example (progress.pl)
- fixed a bug related to pointer mapping and Smoke's cf_virtual flag
(regeneration of Smoke isn't mandatory, but is recommended)
- fixed possible redefinition of a sub in isa.pm
- raised default test threshold to 10
- some code optimizations (object construction/destruction)
- added an undocumented but supported CAST function
e.g CAST $obj, "Qt::Application"; (it proved to be useful in some
situations)
2002-12-11 GG. (v.3.004-RC2)
- turnaround for segfaults with some KDE themes (KThemeStyles)
=>will work witth kdelibs compiled with --disable-fast-malloc and --enable-fast-malloc,
but not with --enable-fast-malloc=full
- Qt::version()
- updated documentation (marshallers, debugging, i18n)
- switch to Makefile.PL for driving ./configure
2002-12-07 GG. (v.3.004-RC1)
- better ISO C++ compliance and portability
-ansi -pedantic is now almost silent except for some Perl Macros
- speed improvements over 40%
ported memoïze-like cache to C++ ; various code optimizations
- Signal/Slots inheritance now works as expected
- proper handling of Qt modules stored in a hierarchy
- introduced SUPER->method() construct for accessing methods in the
superclass
- Internationalization
Perl strings are marshalled to QStrings either in utf8, iso-latin-1 or
current locale according to context (the rule is: if they are tagged as utf8, use
utf8 ; if not, use iso-latin by default or current locale if the "locale"
pragma is active) ; they are always marshalled back as utf8.
- You can now safely "eval" PerlQt code.
- New marshallers:
QCString /*/&, bool */&, QValueList<int> /*/&
- Debugging channels through "use Qt::debug"
You can now monitor specific parts of your application's behaviour.
Available channels are : ambiguous, calls, gc, autoload, virtual,
verbose, all.
- Updated documentation + french translation
many thanks to Stéphane Payrard for the accurate french translation !
- Subclassing Qt::Application is now possible
- Smoke can be built with Qt-3.1
- Various other bug fixes
2002-08-24 Germain Garand <germain@ebooksfrance.com> (v.3.001)
* initial release