LuaRT, the opensource Windows programming framework for Lua, is now available as alpha 1.9.0 !
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This is an alpha version of LuaRT 1.9.0. It will probably contain some bugs. Feel free to report them here or on the Discord server.
This version has been a lot of work for me, as it fixes a lot of bugs but also brings a lot of exciting new features!
Please note that this alpha version does not come with any documentation (work in progress!), but you can easily try to find the new features by your self 👀
Here is the full changelog :
LuaRT v1.9.0 (alpha release)
Highlights
- New
C module for C FFI (foreign functions interface)
- New
keyboard module to read or send keys
- New
sysutils module for various Windows functionalities, including Process launch and control
- LuaRT now uses the latest Lua 5.4.7 VM
- Drag and drop operations are now implemented in desktop applications (text and file list format)
- Better Windows clipboard support (text and file list format)
- Record sounds with various encodings in
audio module
- Compiled executables with
rtc can now embed and use DLL dependencies seamlessly
- Faster
canvas module with lots of bugfixes
LuaRT interpreter
- Console
luart.exe and desktop wluart.exe interpreters now use latest Lua 5.4.7 VM
LuaRT Studio
- Updated: LuaRT Studio is now using the LuaRT 1.9.0 toolchain
rtc
- New:
sys.File() constructor now checks for files embedded in the compiled executable if they do not exist
- Updated: DLL binary modules dependencies are now resolved transparently in the embedded content
QuickRT
- New: QuickRT uses now an asynchronous loop, to use
Task instances and any other asynchronous functions
- Fixed: Objets are now correctly pretty printed (Fixes #221)
LuaRT C API
- New:
lua_wait() to wait for a Task to finish from the C side
- Updated:
lua_pushTask() now push a Task with the provided continuation C function and starts it, with a context and optional cleanup lua_CFunction
C module
- New
C module for foreign functions interface (FFI)
- Still a work in progress (bugs may occur)
- Call C functions directly from Lua using
Library object and functions prototypes definition
- Define C data structures with
Struct and Union objects
- Automatic type conversion between Lua and C types with
Value object
sysutils module
- New
sysutils module that provides various system utility functions and properties
- New
Process object to start and manage a new process
keyboard module
- New
keyboard module with keyboard management functions and properties
- Get keyboard status, wait for keypress asynchronously, bind Lua functions to key presses
- Send virtual key presses to any Windows application
string module
- New:
string.normalize() function to replace accentued characters by non accentued ones in a string
sys module
- New:
Buffer.encoding property to specify an encoding value, to be used when converting the Buffer to a string
- New:
sys.locale property to get/set current locale for Datetime format and error messages from sys.error and net.error
- New:
COM objects now support calling items-like properties to access sub items (as Range, Cells and so on...)
- New:
File:copytask() and Directory:copytask() methods to copy files and directories asynchronously (without blocking)
- Updated:
sys.clipboard property now returns the kind of clipboard data and its content
- Updated:
File:copy() and Directory:copy() now returns a booleanvalue indicating if the operation succeeded or not
- Updated:
Pipe:read() now returns both stderr and stdout output (Pipe:readerror() have been removed)
- Fixed:
Task switching is now faster (Fixes #210)
- Fixed:
Task objects don't cause memory leaks anymore (Fixes #209)
- Fixed:
COM objects methods now uses more than one argument (Fixes #205)
console module
- Fixed: Using an unknown color with
console.bgcolor, console.color, console.clear() and console.writecolor() won't crash anymore (Fixes #211)
- Fixed:
Console.x and Console.y properties now return a correct cursor position (Fixes #212)
crypto module
- Fixed :
Cipher.constructor() won't crash anymore if the mode parameter is invalid
ini module
- Updated : INI property names and values are now trimmed
json module
- Fixed : JSON numbers are now correctly parsed (Fixes #217)
webview module
- New :
Webview.useragent property to get/set the user agent string
canvas module
- Updated:
canvas.onPaint() event is now called constantly, providing faster drawing operations
- Removed:
canvas.sync property have been removed
- Removed :
canvas.flip(), canvas.begin(), canvas.map() functions have been removed
- Fixed:
Canvas dpi support don't use wrong pixel coordinates anymore (Fixes #224)
- Fixed:
Canvas rendering is now way faster (Fixes #207)
- Fixed:
Canvas widget don't blinks anymore when parent Windows goes fullscreen (Fixes #206)
- Fixed:
LinearGradient, RadialGradient and Image objects are now drawn correctly when the Canvas is resized
audio module
- New:
audio.playdevice and audio.recdevice properties to set/get the current playback and record devices
- New:
audio.devices property to enumerate audio devices
- New:
audio.record.start() and audio.record.stop() methods to record and encode audio
- Updated:
Sound.play() now returns a Task that will complete once the sound has finished playing.
ui module
- New:
Window.notify() to send Windows toast notifications
- New:
ui.drag() function to start a drag and drop operation
- New:
Widget.allowdrop property to set the widget as a drop target
- New:
Widget.onDrop() event, thrown when the user dropped the mouse on the widget
- New:
Edit.hscroll() and Edit.vscroll() horizontal and vertical scrolling functions
- New:
Edit.mousepos property to get the nearest character position from the current mouse screen coordinates
- Removed:
Edit.scroll() method have been removed
- Updated:
Widget:onHover() events now provides argument for mouse button status
- Updated:
Entry.onSelect() event is now fired too when the widget has lost the focus
- Updated:
Widget.cursor property now can be set/ can return nil in case no cursor is displayed
- Fixed:
ui.opendialog() and ui.savedialog() don't uses old Windows 3.1 theme anymore (Fixes #223)
- Fixed:
Calendar widget now supports dark mode (Fixes #218)
- Fixed:
Combobox won't draw white background in dark mode anymore (Fixes #202)
- Fixed: Using
Entry widget in dark mode won't crash application anymore (Fixes #201)
- Fixed:
Picture.resize() now works as expected (Fixed #213)
- Fixed:
Label.textalign property now is respected when Label text is changed (Fixes #208)
