This has been a long time coming but it’s finally time for a new backer build! There have been a long list of improvements, so this bould should do wonders – and ofcourse, this version has the long awaited debugger included.
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Debugger is alive and rocking
So what is new? Well, quite a lot! Here is a rundown of the major changes and additions. There are literally hundreds of commits since our last public post, but these are the big ones (!)
Library project type added
QTX now supports a library project type!
Putting some final touches
We are nearing the end of this developer cycle, meaning that the last deep-dive is coming to an end, and thus we turn back from the low-level coding and return to the UI tickets and final push.
The mysterious non-working keypress delegate
If you are writing full-screen games, or games where the keyboard should be operational regardless of what has focus on screen – I strongly urge you to create your delegates manually and attach them to TApplication->Body.
New unit structure and mini parser
To speed up the amount of time the IDE uses to display the unit structure, we have spent some time implementing a special parser. This parser is diffent from the one already present in the compiler core
New JQuery UI package
One of our more experienced backers, Ed Van Der Mark, has updated his JQuery-UI package for Quartex Pascal. His latest package installs both the widgets into the component palette, and also registers project templates – so that you can create new project types tailored for JQuery UI directly from the “New project” dialog.
Changes, fixes and debugger
We still have some way to go before Chrome’s debugger protocol is fully integrated with the IDE, but we are making excellent headway!
Saturday video blog!
It’s Saturday and QTX work day for me, so why not tag along and have a look at what I’m working on in this video 🙂
Theme styling: A primer
In order to bring uniformity to how component writers work, the IDE operates with a few basic laws regarding CSS styles and how they are applied. These laws are simple and non-intrusive. It is very important that QTX don’t get in the way of whatever styling developers write themselves, or collide with existing JavaScript frameworks and their styling