LuaRT 1.6.0 released

Samir

Hello everyone,

It's finally time to release LuaRT 1.6.0!
This version focuses on Desktop applications by bringing some new features, but above all a number of bug fixes relating to the user interface. The documentation have been updated with the latest changes, and implements now a search functionnality.

Among the few new features, you can find:

a new ui.Panel object, which can contain child widgets
a new ini module to write/read configuration files in INI format
a new tool rtcheck.exe to automatically search and update LuaRT

Significant improvements have been made, including:

Optimized Task management, allowing for more responsive applications
Widgets align property now remember the last widget position and size
Better RTF support in ui.Edit widget
Webview:eval() now returns a Task that will be finished once the Javascript engine has returned the result

Some fairly annoying bugs have been fixed:

The management of window color, ui.Label, ui.Groupbox has been improved
wluart.exe interpreter errors are now correctly displayed
Clicking on the "stop" button in LuaRT Studio will finally stop the current program running
ui.run() will no longer run indefinitely in certain cases
Window:maximize() will work on first display
Label.textalign and Button.textalign now work correctly

This release will prepare for the upcoming arrival of the LuaRT GUI Builder.

For the moment, and as usual, do not hesitate to share your remarks, comments, or bug reports on this forum !

All LuaRT releases now includes a .minisig file to check integrity of the downloaded LuaRT distribution.
You can download the minisign.exe tool at the release section of the [Login to see the link]
Open a console prompt and go to where you downloaded LuaRT released .zip and .minisig files and type the following command to check for integrity :
minisign -Vm LuaRT-1.6.0-x64.zip -P RWQePKEZPWae5LOhoGMWSH8l3tbnk1lG9Lxufdu6wSk3oxyiPzYdvylF

Regards,

Samir

ruby

why minisign. nice to know a new tool first time. maybe it is easy to develop another little tool minisignRT , with luaRT

Samir

Hi ruby,

Minisign is a well known signing tool using state of the art cryptography algorithms (which is not the case with LuaRT crypto module, for the moment...).

As a side note, rtcheck.exe was developped 100% in LuaRT (see the file update.lua in the setup\ folder) thanks to the net module and asynchronous Tasks : it checks for a new LuaRT release, can download it with the right architecture (x86 or x64) and install it... but we will see it working in next LuaRT release 😅

ruby

RWQePKEZPWae5LOhoGMWSH8l3tbnk1lG9Lxufdu6wSk3oxyiPzYdvylF

in your public key, this part: nk1lG9
there is lower letter l and number 1,
these are quite similar characters, hard to distinguish.

maybe it is helpful to get rid of o0O1lI, kind of base58?

I used minisign to generate 1 million keys, and only 6k is base58 compatible.

Samir

Or one might just copy/paste the key to the command line 😉

ruby

true. even though one always copy and paste such key, people invented base58 and use it a lot, to prevent confusing characters. because that key is always visible in command line.

maybe even go further, to ignore case.

esferatec

Thanks for the update. I have just started converting my libraries to the new version. So far everything works perfectly.

In the GitHub release note you mention "Updated: Using require() to load .wlua files is now possible". Can you explain for which use case this is useful?

So far I always create my libraries as ".lua" files to make it clear that they are not executable programs.

Samir

esferatec So far everything works perfectly.

Thank you esferatec, good to know !

esferatec Can you explain for which use case this is useful?

LuaRT supports .wlua files to be run directly from the Windows explorer. By extend, some developpers may use .wlua files to indicate that it contains ui related code. This update make it possible to require for this kind of files too (and make LuaRT 100% compatible with some third party debugger plugins in neovim, vscode...)

ruby

what is rt in name?

in home page [Login to see the link], it is in lower letter, Luart,
and here it is in upper letter , LuaRT 1.6.0

lower or upper?

Samir

Lower when you can put "rt" in sup characters, upper otherwise.

"rt" means runtime 😉

ruby

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cos00kun

hey hello I'm back 🙂
Wow, there are a lot of innovations and a more advanced "LuaRT". 😀

I had to take an urgent break from all my hobbies for a long time due to my work. Now I am among you again.
I guess I have to remember a lot of things, including Lua.
Congratulations again and thank you [Login to see the link] for consistently improving the "LuaRT" library.

I feel like I'm back home again. 😎 I will start writing various programs by doing a quick review.

Samir

Hey coskun !
Nice to have you here again, I hope you will appreciate all the changes 😉

Mike

It's good to see the direction LuaRT is moving. Do you have a general outline of planned features for 1.7?

Samir

Thannk you Mike !
LuaRT 1.7 will highlight the LuaRT GUI Builder
Then next versions will focus on providing new modules

Mike

I'm looking forward to the GUI builder. I did a lot of programming professionally in Visual Basic 6 and VB.net. They are not great languages overall, but both included good GUI builders. May you have much success implementing it