Dolphin Smalltalk X6.1 Release Notes

Fix Version	Closed Date	Number	Summary	Type	Product	Fix Notes	Release Notes Notes
6.1 beta 2	1/8/2008	2250	Walkback when opening new System Browser from existing browser with no class selected	Incorrect Functionality	DPRO
6.1 beta 2	1/8/2008	2253	Double clicking on D6.0 images after installing D6.1 gives "Image Version Mismatch"	Incorrect Functionality	DCE	The FILEVERSION and PRODUCTVERSION for the VM and launcher had been changed to 2008,6,1,0 from 2005,6,1,0. For the time being at least I have restored the latter.
6.1 beta 2	1/7/2008	2251	Right click on TestCase class in browsers is very slow	Incorrect Functionality	DCE	The lookup test in ClassDescription>>correspondingTestCase is rather slow. Because the linear searching implementation of UnitTestPlugin>>classUnderTest this has a detrimental effect on the perfomance of context menu clicks oer TestCase subclasses. ClassDescription>>correspondingTestCase now uses £includesBehaviour.
6.1 beta 2	1/7/2008	2252	There is no longer a easy way to launch the SUnitBrowser on all the tests in a class or package	Incorrect Functionality	DCE	Since the UnitTestPlugin only works on a single (rather than multiple) class selection it no longer seemed appropriate to reinstigate the old Browse Tests context menu commands as these work on multiple class or package selections. Instead I have added an SUnitBrowser toolbar button to the tools which will launch a test browser on the current selection. This works in a similar way to the browseHierarchy and browseSystem commands.
6.1	12/31/2007	2116	IconicListAbstract>>selectionState should be using selectionsByIndex (plural) family of messages as otherwise will not restore multiple selections	Incorrect Functionality	DCE	I notice that Andy has fixed this already
6.1	12/31/2007	2171	Opening a System Browser from another browser with selection/focus in categories/variables/protocols filter always opens on Object	Cosmetic	DPRO	Just missing a browseSystem implementation in ClassBrowserAbstract (a copy of that in ClassSelector)
6.1	12/31/2007	2213	Drag' and drop icon for dragging methods from method browser is String rather than CompiledMethod icon	Cosmetic	DCE	Just change the order of the objects in the collection (bug description is incorrect - there is an object type, CompiledMethod, on the drag & drop objects)
6.1	12/31/2007	2246	View Composer view toolbox tab has wrong (string) icon	Cosmetic	DCE
6.1	12/31/2007	2245	Support Scintilla "modern" indicators and deprecate old style-byte indicators	Enhancement	DCE
6.1	12/31/2007	2247	Support Visa Command Link style buttons	Enhancement	DCE
6.1	12/24/2007	2151	Float>>asTrueFraction does not handle denormalized numbers (gradual underflow)	Incorrect Functionality	DCE	All fixed, including problem with syntax colouring/parsing of 1.0e-316 in a workspace.
6.1	12/24/2007	2219	Compiler does not parse 1.0e-316 correctly	Incorrect Functionality	DCE	Bug in CRT: Changed compiiler from using strtod to atoi. Added test coverage to CompilerTest>>testFloatScanning
6.1	12/21/2007	2221	Canvas>>#fillRectangle:startColor:endColor:verticalGradient: ignores rectangle origin	Incorrect Functionality	DCE
6.1	12/20/2007	2209	Tip of the Day popup causes Vista to display a window stating that help is not available for Dolphin (due to missing WinHelp engine)	Cosmetic	DCE
6.1	12/20/2007	2243	Sliding back a SlideyInneyOuteyThing under Vista's Aero leaves screen scarring	Cosmetic	DCE	Temporary fix is to disable the retraction animation if Aero is enabled under Vista. The extension animation can be left in place since it doesn't scar.	The slidey's unpin/slide-back animation is disabled when desktop composition is found to be enabled when running on Vista. Slide-out animation doesn't cause any problems.
6.1	12/20/2007	2138	Provide a public API to allow the configuration of pluggable filters in addition to the package selection in the System Browser	Enhancement	DPRO	Temporary solution is to check whether Aero is enabled under Vista and, if so, disable the SIOT animation as the pane retracts. The extension of a pane can still be animaed since it doesn't scar.
6.1	12/20/2007	2143	Allow IdeaSpace configurations to be saved to template (.IST) files	Enhancement	DPRO
6.1	12/18/2007	2242	Use new Vista themed tree views by default	Enhancement	DCE
6.1	12/17/2007	2239	Tidying Up section in First Splash tutorial has typo	Walkback	DCE	Fixed in the Education Centre
6.1	12/17/2007	2240	STS Load Package Edition command from Package Browser and PackageSelector should select current package	Incorrect Functionality	DPRO	Fixed by moving #loadPackageFromRepository from the SmalltalkSystemModel into both PackageBrowserShell and PackageSelector. Had to make minor fixes to the method too.
6.1	12/17/2007	2241	Keeping STS and SourceSafe projects in sync can be difficult	Enhancement	DPRO	If connected to an STS repository we always offer the ability to version any package as it is saved.
6.1	12/6/2007	2238	UnitTestPlugin for Class and System Browsers	Enhancement	DPRO	Added UnitTestPlugin
6.1	11/6/2007	1568	Selection in System Browser PackageSelector lost on image restart	Incorrect Functionality	DSE	IconicListAbstract was only saving selection state for single (not multiple) selection lists.
6.1	11/6/2007	2237	Code Mentor tab does not always display correct icon for failures	Incorrect Functionality	DPRO	CodeMentorPlugin now perfoms £refreshIcon on UI thread as part of £runLintChecks. Previously, this was being done on background thread before model was necessarily updated with the failing rules.
6.1	6/22/2007	2236	Typo in BytecodeRewriter>>testIsZero	Incorrect Functionality	DCE
6.1	6/5/2007	2235	Process>>showWalkback:callStack:debuggable:resumable: has typo	Incorrect Functionality	DCE
6.1	5/1/2007	2231	Typo in Pluggable Models documentation	Cosmetic	DCE
6.1	3/28/2007	2226	Save Image As can be non-modal if image file already exists	Incorrect Functionality	DCE	Made the MessageBox task modal
6.1	3/28/2007	2227	ActiveX Control Browser can give exception when opening a new control	Incorrect Functionality	DCE	IanB tracked it down to the ScriptBridge.ScriptBridge.1 component - whatever that is. The problem appears to be that the registry contains a negative value for its ToolboxBitmap32 key (see method below).... 'C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe' '-17' Having the negative value as the Bitmap id seems to cause the crash in Dolphin. Putting a guard test in to display the default icon for negative values resolves (or at least, disguises) the problem for now.
6.1	3/27/2007	2225	Missing return in ExternalStructure>>printFieldsOn:limit:	System Crash	DCE	Missing ^self added.
6.1	2/14/2007	2223	BinaryPackages with classes that contain "forward" references to subclasses will not file back in correctly	Walkback	DPRO	Introduced STBBinaryPackageProxy to ensure that all the class "definitions" are filed out first without their method dictionaries. The methods are filed out subsequently and later restored into the classes on fixup. See the comment for STBBinaryPackageProxy.
6.1	1/31/2007	2215	Method Workspace auto (dynamic) parse now reports all errors and warnings reported by the Compiler for the same source, and many more	Enhancement	DCE		The auto-parse uses the SmalltalkParser augmented by a simple semantic checker. This parsing identifies all syntax errors that the compiler spots, but not all semantic errors and warnings. This limited the usefulness of the automatic parser, and meant an apparently clean method would generate warnings (and even errors) when Accepted. The semantic checker now reports all errors and warnings that the compiler reports, and adds a number of extra semantic warnings, for example temps that are read before written, written not read, unassigned, etc.
6.1	1/31/2007	2220	Support Scintilla version 1.75, including new indicators	Enhancement	DCE
6.1	12/20/2006	2218	NotSignedCertificate new yield an invalid certificate	Walkback	DCE	The problem appears to be that the STB bytes for the not signed certificate (in NotSignedCertificate class>> new) have not been regenerated correctly after we changed the OA private key for Dolphin 6.
6.1	11/28/2006	2216	SysLink control gives walkback when link activated by keybaord	Walkback	DCE	Add #item (to return self) to LITEM
6.1	11/10/2006	2156	GPFault debugging blocks using floats	Walkback	DCE	Quite significant problems with the text mapping between debug and release versions of methods. Major compiler mods and changes to the Debugger needed.
6.1	11/10/2006	2206	Cannot open debugger from stack overflow walkback (get another stack overflow)	Walkback	DCE	The Debugger is now opened by the new main process when the Debug button is pressed in the walkback, rather than by the debugged process itself.
6.1	11/10/2006	2214	Warning of unimplemented selectors is now dynamic rather than only on method save	Enhancement	DCE
6.1	10/20/2006	2108	Error reporting may go into an infinite loop producing an enormous crash dump if there is an error opening message box	Incorrect Functionality	DCE
6.1	10/20/2006	2210	Disassembled output may print string literals containing newlines (breaking debugger source selection) or which are excessively long	Cosmetic	DCE
6.1	10/18/2006	2212	MouseEvent>>button: answers wrong button symbol for right-clicks	Incorrect Functionality	DCE	Fixed by answering #right for RBUTTONxxxx events
6.1	10/16/2006	2207	Clone Class refactoring added which creates a duplicate of the selected class at a specified point in the hierarchy and in a specified package	Enhancement	DPRO	Clone Class... added to all menus. It uses the CopyClassRefactoring. The new class name, superclass, and package are prompted for using the default view of the CreateSubclassDialog. This does not have the subclasses pane, as these are not needed, although potentially we could create a copy of these too I suppose. There is also a simpler implementation of class copying in SmalltalkSystem for DCE that is at least undoable as a unit (i.e. it uses the RB change objects)	This is inspired by Tim Mackinnon's class copying feature in his Intelli-Dolphin package. It differs in being implemented as a full refactoring that has performs the operation more intelligently, and which is undoable/redoable atomically. Note that a drag & drop copy of a class in DPRO will also use this refactoring operation.
6.1	10/16/2006	2208	Auto-Correct/Declare All Undeclared Temps command added for method workspaces	Enhancement	DPRO	See MethodWorkspace>>declareAllUndeclaredVariablesAsTemps	Inspired by the "Define All Temps" feature of Tim Mackinnon's Intelli-Dolphin package.
6.1	10/16/2006	2211	Debugger now steps into methods that return self, a literal constant, or static (global or class) variable	Enhancement	DCE	Modified the primitive implementations to look at the stepping flag, and if set fail the primitive. Cost of this should be minimal
6.1	10/1/2006	2201	Compiler exception on invalid syntax (use of reserved word for argument to #ifNotNil: block)	Walkback	DCE	Extended the test on redefining pseudo vars to include block examples for normal blocks, and optimised blocks with args (e.g. ifNotNil: and #to:by:do:)
6.1	10/1/2006	2180	Views browser plugin pane should switch to method source when a method is selected	Cosmetic	DCE	I must have fixed this (vaguely remember doing so) as it no longer reproduces
6.1	10/1/2006	2204	Automated deployment from script may leave certain development classes in image	Cosmetic	DCE
6.1	10/1/2006	2205	Initial System Folder window sizes are incorrect for Vista (folder has vertical scroll bar)	Cosmetic	DCE
6.1	9/30/2006	2203	VM now has a primitive to rapidly calculate instance count and space usage statistics for classes	Enhancement	DCE
6.1	9/28/2006	2197	Lagoon Wizard can't easily be scripted due to final MessageBox requiring user intervention	Enhancement	DPRO	Add #isUnattended flag. This must be set through the advanced/custom properties.	Add #isUnattended flag. This must be set through the advanced/custom properties.
6.1	9/28/2006	2202	Support auto URL detection and link clicked notifications in RichTextEdit	Enhancement	DCE	Does not restore correctly over an image save. This seems to difficult to fix for now.
6.1	9/8/2006	1724	A ReadWrite FileStream can get into a tight loop if it contains unflushed data and the stream is reset	Incorrect Functionality	DPRO	Fixed as per Bill's suggestion
6.1	9/8/2006	2164	Some category changes not being recorded in the change log	Incorrect Functionality	DCE	Also fix a couple of other cases
6.1	9/8/2006	2175	When the Go Search bar has focus in the System Folder the navigation buttons in the tool bar are disabled.	Incorrect Functionality	DCE
6.1	9/6/2006	2198	"Smalltalk deepCopy" causes stack overflow walkback	Walkback	DCE	Flaw in #deepCopy
6.1	9/6/2006	2199	Class comment text colour should be configurable as an option (without code changes)	Enhancement	DCE
6.1	9/5/2006	2192	"Object class DNU #methodFor:" walkback from Package Browser/Browse/Unimplemented Messages command in DCE	Walkback	DCE
6.1	9/5/2006	2137	Editing experience is poor with multi-byte characters	Incorrect Functionality	DCE	Requires verification that this does not break in locales other than 1252 and 949.
6.1	9/5/2006	2167	Tight loops may prevent higher priority processes from running	Incorrect Functionality	DCE
6.1	9/5/2006	2193	ShlwapiLibrary>>patchCompactPathEx:etc has incorrect return type	Incorrect Functionality	DCE	Regenerate all manually coded ShlwapiLibrary methods from Win32 type library
6.1	9/5/2006	2187	Debugger fails to step into methods that just get or set an instance variable	Cosmetic	DCE
6.1	9/5/2006	2189	Debugger "Implement In" steps over accessor methods it creates	Cosmetic	DCE
6.1	9/5/2006	2194	Checkbox with null backbrush does not draw correctly (has black background)	Cosmetic	DCE	Use PaintThemeParentBackground API	This fix works around a bug in Windows XP when themes are enabled.
6.1	9/5/2006	400	Support drag&drop of files from Windows explorer	Enhancement	DCE
6.1	9/5/2006	2186	Dolphin no longer supports application creation for Win98/ME OS	Enhancement	DCE
6.1	9/5/2006	2191	ShellLibrary repackaged from base system to "Windows Shell" package	Enhancement	DCE		ShellLibrary was only present in the base system because of some references for icons. These now refer to the DLL through an ExternalResourceLibrary instance, and ShellLibrary now lives in the "Windows Shell" package where it belongs. If you have any references to ShellLibrary then your applications will now be dependent on the "Windows Shell" package (if they weren't before).
6.1	8/10/2006	2182	RadioButtonSetPresenter>>enableAll does not work	Incorrect Functionality	DCE
6.1	8/10/2006	2184	Class Comment Plugin ignores word wrap option setting	Incorrect Functionality	DCE
6.1	8/10/2006	2183	"Confirm" message boxes fail to display icons on Vista	Cosmetic	DCE
6.1	8/10/2006	2185	Standard system Icon instance creation methods use hard code integer constants rather than symbolic IDI_xxxx constants	Cosmetic	DCE
6.1	8/10/2006	2158	PAI on Set always shows every item, unlike other "paging" mechanism used for other types of collection when large	Enhancement	DCE
6.1	8/7/2006	1472	Install package causes infinite recursion in PB if as yet uninstalled prereqs share no common root	Walkback	DCE	When there is no common root, then all packages are shown, not just those under $.
6.1	8/7/2006	2165	'Implement In' refactoring/auto-correction fails if self/super/thisContext passed as arguments	Incorrect Functionality	DCE
6.1	8/7/2006	2173	Syntax highlighting causes walkback on user typing/displaying float that is too large to scan	Incorrect Functionality	DCE		See also #1726
6.1	8/7/2006	2027	SystemBrowser opened from MethodExplorer is not positioned at selected method	Cosmetic	DPRO
6.1	8/7/2006	2147	Inspector on IDispatch should not display "restricted" properties (such as _NewEnum) as published aspects	Cosmetic	DCE
6.1	8/7/2006	2168	RadioButtonSetPresenter class comment is misleading (does not trigger separate selection event)	Cosmetic	DCE
6.1	8/7/2006	2169	Debugger should set initial focus to the source pane	Cosmetic	DCE
6.1	8/7/2006	2170	Method Explorer should set initial focus to the source pane	Cosmetic	DCE
6.1	8/7/2006	2178	Package Browser does not prompt to save changes to package comment	Cosmetic	DCE
6.1	8/7/2006	2163	Would be useful to control the caret color in workspaces	Enhancement	DCE	Added #defaultCaretColor to SmalltalkWorkspace class and SmallltalkWorkspaceDocumentt classs.
6.1	8/7/2006	2166	Make Date>>evaluateYYMMDD: public	Enhancement	DCE	Also improved class comment and method comments in the two methods Steve refers to.
6.1	8/7/2006	2172	New class browsers should set initial focus intelligently depending on initial selection	Enhancement	DCE
6.1	8/7/2006	2174	ActiveX Component Wizard and Active-X Control Browser are now only available in Dolphin Professional	Enhancement	DCE
6.1	8/7/2006	2176	CRTLibrary>>spawnForOutput:[args:] should be removed	Enhancement	DCE
6.1	8/7/2006	2179	Test Browser class should be configurable	Enhancement	DCE	#2179
6.1	8/7/2006	2181	Add option to allow info-tips in method browsers to be disabled	Enhancement	DCE
6.1	8/4/2006	1726	Entering a literal integer as 2e0111111 appears to hang	Incorrect Functionality	DCE	The styling scanner (SmalltalkStylingScanner) now uses special number scanning code that does not calculate the actual value of the numbers in the source. This avoids potentially very expensive computations such as calculating very very large integers such as 2e01111111. Of course if you actually attempt to compile a method containing such a very large literal integer, then the system will still have to compute the value and it will take a very long time. This change is more to guard against typos causing the system to grind to a halt (in this case the user probably mean't to type 2.0e1111111)	The styling scanner now uses special number scanning code that does not calculate the actual value of the numbers in the source. This avoids potentially very expensive computations such as calculating very very large integers such as 2e01111111. Of course if you actually attempt to compile a method containing such a very large literal integer, then the system will still have to compute the value and it will take a very long time. This change is more to guard against typos causing the system to grind to a halt (in this case the user probably mean't to type 2.0e1111111). See also #2173
6.1	6/20/2006	2157	ListView no longer displays nil items (text and image always blank regardless of text/image block settings)	Incorrect Functionality	DCE	Caused by change to way request for "stale" row is detected (refactoring to avoid full block was not a true refactoring). Added ListViewText>>testNilRow
6.1	6/12/2006	2154	RichTextEdit>>color: causes Integer DNU #asColorRef walkback	Walkback	DCE	Remove #asParameter from RichTextEdit>>color:
6.1	6/3/2006	2152	Fraction>>asFloat can overflow	Incorrect Functionality	DCE
6.1	6/3/2006	2153	LargeInteger>>asFloat may not round to nearest fp value due to accumulation of rounding errors	Incorrect Functionality	DCE
6.1	5/27/2006	2087	Dolphin does not play well inside some virtaul desktop managers (e.g. MSVDM)	Incorrect Functionality	DCE	Rather than use the "no visible windows" mechanism for panic, reset the system launcher explicitly from the panic command. Leave the "no visible windows" reset in place, but make it optional, and turn it off by default.
6.1	5/27/2006	2144	Methods with selectors containing ! (bang) character do not file out correctly.	Incorrect Functionality	DCE	Problem in filing out of method categories only - the selector is assumed not to contain ! characters.
6.1	5/27/2006	2145	Remove a method required by a supported protocol no longer generates a warning prompt	Cosmetic	DCE
6.1	5/27/2006	2146	Add Ctrl+F4 accelerator key sequence to close current tab in IdeaSpace	Enhancement	DPRO
6.1	5/14/2006	2139	In Code Mentor HTML report for lint rule failure make the rule name a link to open browser on all failed methods	Enhancement	DPRO
6.1	5/14/2006	2142	Write package load warnings to transcript as well as showing message boxes to make it easier to follow up and correct after load	Enhancement	DCE
6.1	5/10/2006	2140	SmalltalkScanner accepts many characters as valid letters in identifiers that are not part of the ANSI Smalltalk lexicon	Incorrect Functionality	DCE		This should not affect existing code, because the actual Dolphin compiler enforces the ANSI lexicon more strictly already