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IDE and major frameworks

Lightweight IDE version 0.9.3 (App and small set of demos, including iPhone demos and QuickRef. 10.4 required for this build)

News in Lightweight IDE 0.9.3:

• Auto-frameworks for CUDA.
• Auto-frameworks fixed for C/C++ "build" (was already correct for "run").
• Added block indenting, shifting left and right, supports both TAB and space.
• CUDA programs are now fully stand-alone, with no need for extra scripts for running!
• Irritating bundle type role messages fixed, I think.
• QuickRef (which hasn't even been included in recent releases) updated with a version indexing CocoaAll, and the MacOSAll version is updated. A Cocoa version is also partially done, indexing MacOSAll, CocoaAll and iPhoneAll. Finally, QuickRef now has its own icon.

Lightweight IDE version 0.9.2 (App and small set of demos, including iPhone demos. 10.6 required for this build)

News in Lightweight IDE 0.9.2:

Anniversary version!

• No more whipping, instead a more careful rewrite of the process management... and it really looks more stable this time!
• Simplified process management for non-interactive processes, gives better performance in some cases.
• Universal target no longer disturbs iPhone builds.
• iPhone/iOS builds include properties for running on iPad. At this time, the builds allow both iPhone and iPad. I might add a target setting, but it seems superfluous.

Lightweight IDE version 0.9.1 (App and small set of demos, including iPhone demos. 10.6 required for this build)

News in Lightweight IDE 0.9.1:

This is the "Let it whip" version, which refers to the last point below, the improved process management. Otherwise, theer are a number of vital fixes for the still very new iPhone support.

• Automatic codesigning for iOS "release builds", so you can upload (manually so far) to the iOS device after building. (FPC only so far since final build doesn't work for ObjC yet.)
• Removed chdir for iPhone since that doesn't help on the device so it makes some programs work in the simulator but not in the device.
• Final builds for iOS are made using an "ARM" subfolder in order not to confuse it with simulator code. (FPC only.)
• Fixes in the process management, to handle errors better, to make sure processes are truly finished. Maybe, maybe we have a more stable system so we don't run out of processes, a bug that have been there for several years! If so, this is a BIG change!

This will not work on 10.4! I can build for 10.4 if anyone needs it but the Mac I work on could only build for 10.5 or 10.6.

Lightweight IDE version 0.9.0 (App and small set of demos.)

Source-code to Lightweight IDE version 0.9.0

TransSkel 5.0b6 (important TransEdit fixes and more)

News in Lightweight IDE 0.9.0:

• Preliminary iPhone/iOS support, both ObjP and ObjC! For the simulator only at this time.
• Auto-selects between different FPC versions for OSX, OSX with Cocoa, iOS simulator and iOS device. (Can not yet codesign or upload the latter.)
• New settings for compilers.
• Builds iOS bundles.
• Color coding fix for a bug that could make C code crash the color coder.
• Carbon and -Tdarwin no longer default settings.
• Includes detailed and updated instructions for installing Objective Pascal for OSX and iPhone.

News in TransSkel 5b6:

• PenMode support in QDCG (although not thoroughly tested yet - needs 10.5 or better)
• Crashing in TransEdit seems solved!
• TransEdit fixes for proper use of paths vs filenames.

Lightweight IDE version 0.8.10 (App and small set of demos.)

Source-code to Lightweight IDE version 0.8.10

TransSkel 5.0b5 (overhaul to synch with current ObjPas version plus many other changes)

News in Lightweight IDE 0.8.10:

• Color codes "library" and "exports" in Pascal.
• Builds FPC shared libraries (not universal).
• C/C++ links with shared libraries (.dylib) if there is a matching .h file.
• C file lists are displayed briefer, without paths.
• FPC "operator" is color coded.
• FPC operators show up in the popup menu (although "/" isn't correct).
• Now checks for frameworks in /Library, not only /System/Library. (For C/C++/ObjC compilation.)
• Added /Frameworks folder in bundles.
• Copies .shlib to /Frameworks in bundle. (Applies to C/C++/ObjC only, can be added to FPC by checking for shlibs.)
• Modifies path to .shlib to /Frameworks. (Applies to C/C++/ObjC only, can be added to FPC by checking for shlibs.)
• Added CFBundleTypeRole in bundles (to avoid error messages in 10.6)
• C projects detect multiple file types, .c, .cpp, .m to allow mixed projects.
• FPC dylib support using {$linklib} for finding dylibs.
• Added a button in "advanced settings" for quickly switching to and from the experimental ObjP compiler.
• The option -mmacpas is no longer part of the default! And if you plan on using Objective Pascal, don't type it in as global default! You don't want it. Put -mmacpas in .options files for your Carbon projects and you will be fine.

News in TransSkel 5b5:

1. TextFace support in QDCG!

• All "Stroke" calls removed from QDCG. Instead, TextFace now supports outline. TextFillColor controls the inside of outline fonts (which was always transparent in QuickDraw).
• GetFontInfo implemented using ATSUI calls, and prepared for future CoreText implementation.
• TextFace now supports underline, strikethru, double underline, overline, condense, extend, shadow.
• TextFace supports italic and bold in a simplified, preliminary version. (Will fail sometimes.)
• The new call TextExtend added to allow detailed extend/condense control, sets the amount that extend/condense will change the text. (Default is 1.5.)
• New QDCG demo, QDCGTextDemo.

2. Updated for synchronizing with the current Objective Pascal. (With much help from Richard Ward!)

• Added NSApplicationDelegateProtocol to AppDelegate declaration.
• Removed (commented out) index-based EnableMenuItem and DisableMenuItem, due to itemAtIndex no longer working. Will be put back when it is possible.
• Added init to all NS objects that are alloc'ed with no init (controllers, delegates, NSTimer, NSNib).
• Added itemAtIndex to the CocoaAll code, a change I can't easily include in my distributions! This is a bug in CocoaAll. You fix it by editing NSMenu.inc and recompiling CocoaAll.
• Lightweight IDE was changed to produce more correct application bundles, only referring to a nib/xib if it exists. You should strongly consider a complete rebuild if you have old code, trashing both old built programs and the intermediate-filer folders.

3. Other changes

• TransEdit and TransDisplay renamed TransEdit5 and TransDisplay5, to avoid confusion while both versions 4 and 5 must live side by side for quite some time.
• Modifiers now work for keydowns. (Already worked for mouse downs.)
• Supports xib, not only nib.
• Detects the main nib if it is called either main (as before) or mainMenu (common in demos).
• Detects if a nib/xib is available, and only in such a case refers to it in the info.plist.
• Doesn't try to create a nib reference if no name is given.
• Text views handle controlTextDidChange in order to update the controlled variable while typing. I believe that is what we usually want. (If not, I can make the setDelegate optional.)
• SkelSetRealStringViewHandler now uses SkelSetRealValue, which gives decent formatting. (But it would be even better to use Str() with some formatting control.)
• Generally replaced the ".p" extension with ".pas".

Installation

Lightweight IDE itself needs no installation, just unpack. However, you must install:

• Apple Developer Tools, for GCC and its tools, both for using GCC from LWP and since FPC needs the GCC linker. Download from Apple.
• For Pascal, Free Pascal version 2.0.4 or better, both PPC and Intel versions if you plan to build universal binaries. Get it from the Free Pascal archives. (Note that for old versions like 2.0.4, many demos will need you to edit MacOSAll to the older name FPCMacOSAll.)
• GPC can also be used. (Support without makefiles added in 0.6.)

For using Objective Pascal, you need to install the preliminary FPC 2.5.1. For getting started easier, here is an installer (tested under 10.5).

Installer for FPC 2.5.1 with Cocoa interfaces (for getting started easier with Objective Pascal)

Demos and reusable code

The number of demos for Lightweight IDE is getting out of hand. Thus, new or particularly interesting demos or units are listed here as separate downloads. (Newest last.)

Lightweight IDE demos The complete demo package except OpenGL demos. Big archive, since executables are included.

TransSkel 4.0.5 A callback based framework to simplify Carbon application development. A new, Cocoa-based version is available above.

OpenGL demos A set of selected OpenGL demos by Ingemar.

CarDisplay New demo by Saabino D'Elia.

QDCG Much of QuickDraw re-implemented on top of Core Graphics, with two demos. (Note: Old version! The new QDCG is part of TransSkel 5 and much extended.)

New CarbonStandardFile CarbonStandardFile is in the TransSkel package, but this is newer than the one in 4.0.5. (Note: This is now abandoned and replaced by NSStandardFile, part of TransSkel 5.)

pngdemo: Demonstrates how to load a PNG file to an OpenGL texture.

SimpleAudioMovie: Demostrates how to play a QuickTime movie with modern calls, audio only.

openal_fpc: Or "Ingemar's OpenAL Kit for FPC". It is based on code from several sources on the web, merged and rewritten into a more complete kit.

textureFont-with-demo.zip: This is a C only demo of how to render a texture font on OpenGL. It uses pnglite for texture loading.

pnglite-with-demo.zip: pnglite is a smaller and easier replacement for the more common libpng, written by Daniel Karling. I have added a demo program (C and FPC), loading a PNG to an OpenGL texture, and FPC interface.

Simple Objective Pascal demos: Three demos, Skel, Minimal and MinimalAnimation, all also available in Carbon versions in the standard package (above). Here they are rewritten in Objective Pascal, as nibless Cocoa applications.

ToolbarSample: Cocoa demo from Apple, adapted to Lightweight IDE and, most significantly, ported to FPC/Objective-Pascal.

GlutGears: New version of a classic OpenGL demo, now with FPC version (as well as C) and better timing.

Ingemar's Objective Pascal demos: A bigger set of Objective Pascal demos, including the "simple" set above but extended with demos for menus, text editing (with line numbers!), toolbars, file dialogs, sheet alerts and tables.

Old versions

Old versions are listed here.