IDE – Quartex Pascal

Full steam ahead!

We also implemented a full MariaDB / MySQL driver for node.js, which is now a part of our RTL (more DB engines will follow). And we dug into node.js clustering and have made strides in the node.js application model(s) that you can also use.

V0.20.0 “Debugger” build

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.

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.