Dear LuaRT Community,
LuaRT 0.9.6 is now available, and can be downloaded at [Login to see the link].
This is a bugfix release (resolving LuaRT 0.9.5 related bugs) but with some new features/improvements. The codebase has been reworked with the aim of making the project open source.
The [Login to see the link] has been updated accordingly and a lot of typos, errors (bad links) have been fixed.
Please feel free to post any feedback or bug reports.
Here are the main changes since version 0.9.5 :
[ NEW ] LuaRT now uses Lua 5.4.4 VM
[ NEW ] New ui.Tree Widget supporting icons and new theme for Windows 10/11
[ NEW ] New TreeItem Object
[ NEW ] New documentation for ui.Tree and ui.Picture widgets
[ NEW ] New Picture:load(), Picture:save(), Picture:resize() methods
[ NEW ] New Picture:onClick() and Picture:onDoubleClick() events
[ NEW ] New Widget:center() method
[ NEW ] New Tab.style property
[ NEW ] New Label:onDoubleClick() event
[ NEW ] New fireworks.lua example from QB64 version
[ NEW ] New zoom.wlua example
[ NEW ] New imgconv.wlua example
[ UPDATED ] console.locate() now accepts float numbers
[ UPDATED ] console:readln() provides a better user experience (support now arrows, history, HOME,...)
[ UPDATED ] Widget:show() now shows the Widget and bring it on top
[ UPDATED ] examples updated for new ui.Tree widget
[ UPDATED ] ui.opendialog() and ui.savedialog() now use the selected file extension if omitted by user
[ UPDATED ] Combobox and List don't loose their icons anymore when switching between "text" and "icons" styles
[ UPDATED ] Ftp:upload() now expect a string or a File object
[ UPDATED ] sys.cmd() now has an optional parameter to show/hide the executed command window
[ UPDATED ] Zip object iterator now returns an entry string and a isdir boolean value
[ BUG FIXED ] Lots of documentation fixes
[ BUG FIXED ] luart.exe and wluart.exe now shows the right LuaRT version
[ BUG FIXED ] Fixed: Window:show() now should show the Window on top
[ BUG FIXED ] error message in console are now followed by a newline
[ BUG FIXED ] global _VERSION variable is now uptodate
[ BUG FIXED ] Combobox.text property is now back
[ BUG FIXED ] example widget.lua : Picture widget now load LuaRT.png correctly
[ BUG FIXED ] Various GUI application crashes fixed
[ BUG FIXED ] sys.registry.read() now fixed prior to Windows 10
[ BUG FIXED ] LuaRT install script don't crash anymore prior to Windows 10
[ BUG FIXED ] console.readchar() fixed for unicode char 'à' (0x00E0)
[ BUG FIXED ] console.fullscreen now don't show scrollbars when set to true
Regards,
Samir
