Что нового в VIP 7.3

Язык

Generic Interfaces and Classes

See Шаблон:Lang.

Monitors

Шаблон:Lang with Шаблон:Lang2

Must Unify оператор

Новый оператор == (must-unify)

Термы универсального типа

any и предикат toAny/1->

Подготовка к 64-битной реализации

Подготовка к 64-битной реализации 64bit systems: built-in типы integerNative и unsignedNative

Интерфейс с другими языками

Native interfaces support (attributes):

• Шаблон:Lang2: Inline structures and strings.
• Шаблон:Lang2: Functor-less unions.
• Шаблон:Lang2: Passing parameters by value.

External resolution is default for predicates declared with apicall calling convention.

• They cannot have clauses
• explicit externally resolution is only legal when a DLL is stated

Other language features

• The precedence of unary minus is changed (so that power operator has higher precedence)
• Extended versions of built-in predicates toTerm/2-> and tryToTerm/2-> (type as the first parameter).
• New built-in predicate fromEllipsis : (...) -> any* Terms
• Runtime distinction between privately and publicly supported interfaces is removed

New attributes

• Шаблон:Lang2
• Шаблон:Lang2
• Шаблон:Lang2

Warnings:

• Local object predicates which do not use This (and therefore can be declared as class predicates)
• Unused local constants
• Condition of foreach statement which has no backtrack point (i.e. mode is not multi or nondeterm)
• unheckedConversion's that would be illegal on 64 bit platforms (e.g. pointer -> integer)

IDE

Project tree

The project tree is redesigned and reimplemented. The functionality is more or less unchanged, but the performance is improved.

The IncludedIn and Includes windows has been moved to preview pane of project window.

It is not possible to have several packages with same name in a project (which can make much sense when using namespaces).

Browse dialog

The Browse dialog is improved in several smaller respects, including:

• It automatically jump to the 1st occurrence of search entity on locate
• The last dialog position is saved for next appearence

Find In Files

The Find In Files dialog is improved in several respects, including:

• result window is reused for subsequent searches
• F8 button for next match (Shift+F8 - previous)
• Prolog case sensitive search mode
• state is saved for next appearence

Namespace support

The Namespaces support is improved, so that forms, dialogs, etc can be places in namespaces when created.

IntelliSense

The IntelliSense feature is improved for better overview, speed typing and convenience of work.

Tab navigation диалог (Ctrl+Tab)

Добавлена функциональность tab navigation диалога:

• при использовании кнопки ALT фильтруются все [ReadOnly] окна
• при нажатии Del - соответствующее окно закрывается

Go to Position on Clipboard

The Go to Position on Clipboard (Shift+F2) has been extended to accept a complete exception dump. F8 will go to the next stack entry.

Сортировка в некоторых окнах

Окно ошибок (Errors Window), точек останова (Break points Window) и некоторые другие появилась возможность сортировать колонки. Для этого надо просто нажать на вверх колонки.

• Optimal Set of Includes improved (output, local scopes, etc.)

Debugger

• Highlighting changed values in variable window
• View of long lists improvement
• Speed of restarting is improved
• Memory break points and fact access (for some types)
• Multi-threaded application debugging is improved (thread names, break points handling)
• Multi-line tool tips

PFC

Новые пакеты

• Collection library
  • Algebraic: redBlackSet, leftistPriorityQueue
  • Modifiable: mapM_redBlack, priorityQueueM_leftist, queueM_fact, setM_redBlack
  • Persistent: mapP_redBlack, priorityQueueP_leftist, queueP_fact, setP_redBlack
• varM modifiable variable
• linkControl PFC version of the Link common control
• richEditControl PFC version of the RichEdit common control
• treeControl PFC model based version of the TreeView common control
• gdiplus PFC version of GDI+
• cryptography hash, sha1, md5 & base64
• eventSource generalization of event notification/listening
• monitorQueue thread safe queue class based on the monitor facility
• reflection basic functionalty for code reflection
• inputStream_null & outputStream_null media-less streams (input is exhausted; outpt throws away)
• lZ_fileSystem_native Interface to Lempel-Ziv Decompression API functionality
• shell_api Api level interface to the Windows Shell
• winsock2_native native bindings to Windows Sockets 2

Extensions and improvements

• list package:
  • speed: sort, removeDuplicate, drop, min/max, etc.)
  • functionality: isMemberEq (and similar predicates) that uses a determ predicate as test
• listControl with owner-drawing capabilities
• uxTheme_native extended with the rest of the functions and the constants from vsStyle.h, etc.
• Add moving listener/responder to splitTwoControl
• Add the fraction handling from format to formatTime
• Speed improvements for:
  • string
  • fileName
  • listViewControl
• string::rear/2-> returns the rear part of a string
• Math package: predicates roundToInteger64/1-> and roundToUnsigned64/1->
• Better handling of default button size
• msXLM_api update to version 6.0 of various COMponent classes

Others

• Более эффективное управление памятью; во многих случаях используется типовая аллокация памяти, для составных доменов, списков и цепочек баз данных
• Несколько различных оптимизаций для увеличения скорости и уменьшения генерируемого кода
• Новые примеры для демонстрации (Demo Examples) (только для коммерческой версии):
  • Parser Generator
  • LZDecompression
  • TreeControlDemo
• Help on built-in entities
• VipBuilder: новая опция для игнорирования директивы #requires
• В библиотеку Win32 добавлены имена из многих MS библиотек.
• При ошибки выполнения предиката consult выдается добавочная информация, позволяющая локализовать ошибку в базе данных
• Ускорен линкер
• Интеграция со службой Vault теперь работает с версией 5.0.1