v3.14.1

Enhancements

• #531, #532 - Extended ON ERROR GOTO syntax - @RhoSigma-QB64
  • _NEWHANDLER and _LASTHANDLER keywords allow for easy overriding and restoring of error handlers

Bug Fixes

• #529 - Fixed file extension filters for kdialog (_OPEN/_SAVEFILEDIALOG) - @flukiluke
• #531 - Fixed auto-generated help pages (F1) for user functions which use arrays as arguments - @RhoSigma-QB64
  • reported here https://discord.com/channels/975381912350752819/1208941399127494667/1274879519387418676
• #533 - Fixed a serious bug in _SNDOPEN when used with the "memory" load feature - @a740g
  • reported here https://qb64phoenix.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2982

Full Changelog: v3.14.0...v3.14.1

Developer Notice

We are probably going to deprecate the $NOPREFIX feature sooner or later in the future. Nothing is finally decided yet, but as we have more and more efforts to keep new things compatible with $NOPREFIX it's a decision we've to make. Especially CONST and the pre-compiler metacommands show bad interactions with $NOPREFIX over and over again and make implementations overcomplicated.

With this notice we wish to get your attention for the issue and recommend to adapt your coding habits to no longer rely on $NOPREFIX right now, so it becomes an easy transition when we finally drop it.

v3.14.0

Enhancements

• #499 - Reliably enable window defocus on Linux. - @flukiluke
• #501 - Modifies _FILES$ to default to the * pattern rather than *.* when fileSpec$ is empty, enabling _FILES$ to retrieve all directory entries rather than omitting files and directories that lack an extension. - @a740g
• #502 - Optimize IDE internal string concatenation somewhat to reduce IDE lag. - @SteveMcNeill
• #503 - Allow _UPRINTSTRING to render directly into any image, which can be specified as an optional argument. - @a740g
• #506 - Added Metacommands and Variable Types items to the Help menu for quick access to these essential help pages. - @RhoSigma-QB64
• #508 - Introducing the brand new Format Mode as command line switch. - @flukiluke
  • The -y command line option will format the input instead of compiling it.
  • Formatting is performed either according to the current IDE settings (Options > Code Layout...) or by overriding those settings using the new -f flags, e.g. ./qb64pe -y source/qb64pe.bas -f:autolayout=true -f:keywordcapitals=true -f:autoindent=true -f:autoindentsize=4 -f:indentsubs=true -o source/qb64pe.bas
• #510 - Optimizes _DEFLATE$ and _INFLATE$ to eliminate unnecessary buffer copies. This results in a nice speed boost of upto 15% in some cases. - @a740g
• #517 - Stabilized and updated MIDI support. - @a740g
  • MIDI support in QB64-PE is finally out of the $UNSTABLE state now.
  • The compiled executable will no longer include an embedded soundfont.
  • To address this issue discussed in the forum, ymfmidi, Opal, and a tiny FM bank are now used.
  • Soundfonts can be loaded using the _MIDISOUNDBANK command.
  • Depending on the sound bank type, a suitable MIDI rendering backend is selected.
  • The available backends are primesynth (SF2), TinySoundFont (SF3, SFO), and Opal (AD, OPL, OP2, TMB, WOPL).
  • For Windows users, a VSTi 2.x based renderer that is configurable by the user is also provided.
  • Multiple MIDI file formats are supported: MUS, HMI, HMP, HMQ, KAR, LDS, MDS, MIDS, RCP, R36, G18, G36, RMI, MID, MIDI, XFM, XMI
  • The use of $UNSTABLE:MIDI and $MIDISOUNDFONT triggers an appropriate "deprecated feature" warning message now.
• #519 - Various IDE improvements. - @RhoSigma-QB64
  • Changing certain toggle settings in the Options Menu no longer causes your code to be marked as "changed".
  • IDE related config and workfiles were moved out of internal/temp into settings directly under the qb64pe folder.
  • Note the folder does not exist in the release archives, but is created on the first IDE run, at this time the user has a choice to import his settings from another QB64-PE installation or to continue with default settings.
  • The recent files and search string histories are globally shared now by all running IDE instances, limits can be set in the Undo/History... dialog (Options Menu).
  • We've added 4 new preset color schemes, Cornfield, Broadcast, X11 SgiColors by me (@RhoSigma-QB64) and VS Code curtesy to @a740g. If you use your own custom scheme, then it's ID will be automatically adjusted when importing your settings.
• #520 - _LOADIMAGE and _SAVEIMAGE improvements. - @a740g
  • Added support to load ICO (icon) and CUR (cursor) files.
  • Added support to save ICO (icon) and single GIF (not animated ones) files.
• #525 - Improving IDE Option dialogs. - @RhoSigma-QB64
  
  

Lib/MinGW Updates

• #513 - Updated nanosvg and stb_image to latest available versions. - @a740g
• #522 - Update to LLVM-MinGW 20240619 with LLVM 18.1.8 for WoA. - @a740g

Bug Fixes

• #497, #527 - Properly initialise memory when REDIMming with UDT, fix #331, #524. - @flukiluke
• #500 - Allow setting environment variables with space in values on Linux, fix #386. - @flukiluke
• #503 - Font fixes, in some fonts the underscore was clipped away with _UPRINTSTRING. - @a740g
• #506 - IDE Help fixes. - @RhoSigma-QB64
  • Select All (CTRL-A) in the help text actually didn't select ALL after text was selected manually once before, because some internal variables were not reset correctly (bug dates back to the ancient SDL versions).
  • Fixed Definition Lists eating the first text char, if the list introducer is followed by a space.
• #513 - Fixed the PCX image loader issues reported in the forum. - @a740g
• #515 - Avoid eating 0-argument functions used after L/UBOUND, fix #244. - @flukiluke
• #523 - Fixing a bug in the KILL command, which would previously terminate and fail to process the remaining files if the user opted to continue after an error condition. - @a740g

Full Changelog: v3.13.1...v3.14.0

Developer Notice

We are probably going to deprecate the $NOPREFIX feature sooner or later in the future. Nothing is finally decided yet, but as we have more and more efforts to keep new things compatible with $NOPREFIX it's a decision we've to make. Especially CONST and the pre-compiler metacommands show bad interactions with $NOPREFIX over and over again and make implementations overcomplicated.

With this notice we wish to get your attention for the issue and recommend to adapt your coding habits to no longer rely on $NOPREFIX right now, so it becomes an easy transition when we finally drop it.

v3.13.1

What's Changed

• #490 - Refactor RAD v2 Opal OPL3 FM Emulator - @a740g
• #491 - Multiple font related optimization and improvements - @a740g
  • Especially some monospaced fonts related quirks discovered with the previous release have been fixed

Full Changelog: v3.13.0...v3.13.1

v3.13.0

Enhancements

• #478, #484 - Added support for _NEGATE, _ANDALSO, & _ORELSE Boolean operators. - @a740g, @mkilgore
• #468 - Added support for _MOUSEWHEEL on macOS. - @a740g
• #475 - Added support for _CLIPBOARDIMAGE on macOS & Linux. - @a740g

Bug Fixes

• #468 - Fixed _MOUSEMOVEMENTx behavior on macOS. - @a740g
• #470 - Fixed an issue where the IDE would lock up if the source code had too many DATA statements on macOS. - @a740g
• #473 - Fixed the "Export As" menu state in the IDE. - @RhoSigma-QB64
• #474 - Fixed the GLUT thread to redraw at an accurate 60 FPS. - @mkilgore
• #476 - Fixed an issue on Windows where special keys were monitored even when the window was not in focus. - @a740g
• #477 - Fixed the IDE to open the GUI file dialog when Ctrl+S was pressed and GUI Dialogs were enabled. - @a740g
• #480, #487 - Fixed mono-mode font rendering and quality issues, and corrected font width calculations when loading monospaced fonts. - @a740g
• #481 - Fixed an issue that would cause LLVM-MinGW to incorrectly generate Windows GUI applications when $CONSOLE was used. - @a740g
• #484 - Fixed macOS startup script bugs. - @tothebin
• #485 - Fixed various wiki issues. - @RhoSigma-QB64
• #486 - Fixed an issue where the IDE was reporting an incorrect error. - @SteveMcNeill

Other Fixes

• #467, #483 - Corrected multiple typos in the source code. - @RainRat

Full Changelog: v3.12.0...v3.13.0

v3.12.0

Enhancements

• #438 - Reduced memory impact of the Export As feature for large sources. - @RhoSigma-QB64
• #442, #450, #433 - Implemented checks for External Dependencies into the IDE. - @RhoSigma-QB64
  • Formerly, if changes to $INCLUDE, $EMBED, $EXEICON, $MIDISOUNDFONT or DECLARE LIBRARY files were made while the main source was opened in the IDE, a fake change like adding/removing a line was required to force the IDE to recompile/rebuild the source when pressing F5/F11.
  • Now you can simply hit F5/F11 again (even after a programming error happened in such external file which is still displayed in the IDE status area) and the IDE will automatically recognize changes to those external files and recompile/rebuild the source as needed. No more fake changes are required.
• #444, #447 - Implemented new checksum and hashing functions. - @RhoSigma-QB64
  • Added _ADLER32, _CRC32 and _MD5$.
• #448, #240 - Implemented the $INCLUDEONCE metacommand. - @RhoSigma-QB64
  • This works like the known #pragma once in C/C++ and avoids the need for $IF DEFINED... style include guards.
• #454 - Implemented the _READFILE$ and _WRITEFILE commands - @RhoSigma-QB64
  • These functions will read/write whole files without OPEN/CLOSE overhead, hence similar to BLOAD/BSAVE.

Lib Updates

• #430 - Updated stb_image to v2.29 - @a740g
• #431 - Updated FreeType to v2.13.2 - @a740g
• #441 - Updated GLEW to v2.2.0 and FreeGLUT to v2.8.1 - @a740g
• #453, #455, #456, #457, #458, #146, #147, #424 - Various internal refactoring to libqb. - @mkilgore

Bug Fixes

• #426 - Several fixes to _FILES$. - @a740g
• #428 - Fixed bug where OPEN COM would lock the program up. - @a740g
• #435, #359, #196, #192 - CONST evaluation was rewritten to resolve several longstanding issues - @mkilgore
  • CHR$() and ASC() can now be used in CONST expressions.
• #449 - Fixed $IF prioritization, $IF can now be used around $NOPREFIX, $COLOR and $DEBUG - @SteveMcNeill
• #462, #461 - Fixed typo in -? usage details. - @grymmjack

Full Changelog: v3.11.0...v3.12.0

v3.11.0

Enhancements

• #419 - Filesystem refactor and update - @a740g
  • Added _FILES$ to read file and directory names programmatically.
  • Added _FULLPATH$ to get an absolute or full path name for a specified relative path name.
  • _DIR$ now works as expected on Linux & macOS.
  • FILES now works on Linux & macOS.
  • KILL now supports deleting files on Linux & macOS using wildcards.
• #421 - Updated MinGW-GCC to v13.2.0 and LLVM-MinGW to v17.0.6 - @a740g
• #422 - Updated miniaudio to v0.11.21 - @a740g

Bug Fixes

• #420 - Fixed several CONST issues - @SteveMcNeill
  • Negative &H, &B, and &O numbers will now evaluate to the correct values.
  • Type suffixes on numbers will no longer cause CONST to ignore the rest of the expression past the suffix.
    • Ex. 20& + 1 previously caused the + 1 to be ignored, it now evaluates correctly as 21.

Full Changelog: v3.10.0...v3.11.0

v3.10.0

Enhancements

• #392 - Allow single quoted strings in $VERSIONINFO. - @a740g
• #399 - The IDE waits for release of F5 key before running the program to avoid start of multiple copies of the program. - @SteveMcNeill
• #401 - Add Support for optional paramter for an image handle to CLS. - @SteveMcNeill
• #404 - Increased the maximum number of possible SUBs/FUNCTIONs in a program from 1000 to 25000. - @SteveMcNeill
• #414, #415 - Implemented $EMBED metacommand and _EMBEDDED$ function. - @RhoSigma-QB64
  • Can be used to embed any files (images, sounds, fonts and other assets) into the compiled executable and recall it in the program when needed.
  • Read the respective Wiki pages: $EMBED and EMBEDDED$

Bug Fixes

• #389 - Internal fixes to use correct math functions from std:: namespace. - @a740g
• #391 - Fixed no sound issue on macOS discussed in this forum posts. - @a740g
• #397, #398 - Fixed several CONST issues. - @SteveMcNeill
• #405 - Fixed checking for invalid domains in _ARCSEC and _ARCCSC as per the forum posts
• #407, #410 - Change IDE save method for better speed on big source files. - @SteveMcNeill
• #412 - Avoid segfault on bogus SVG data pretending to be valid SVG text. - @a740g

Full Changelog: v3.9.1...v3.10.0

v3.9.1

Bug Fixes

• #387, #389 - Use correct math functions from std::. - @mkilgore
• #385 - Fix menu item Run #Only (No EXE). - @a740g

Full Changelog: v3.9.0...v3.9.1

v3.9.0

Enhancements

• #368 - Image library enhancements. - @a740g
  • Adds the _SAVEIMAGE fileName$[, imageHandle&][, requirements$] statement
    • It can save graphics and text screens / images as PNG, QOI, BMP, TGA, JPG and HDR
  • Adds SVG vector image loading support from files and memory buffers
  • Adds QOI image loading support from files and memory buffers
  • Adds high quality pixel scaler support
    • Scalers can be used only during image loading and thus has zero performance impact when the image is in use
    • 6 supported scalers that can be used by specifying the scaler name in _LOADIMAGE's requirements$ string
      • SXBR2 - Super-xBR 2x
      • MMPX2 - MMPX Style-Preserving 2x
      • HQ2XA - High Quality Cartoon 2x
      • HQ2XB - High Quality Complex 2x
      • HQ3XA - High Quality Cartoon 3x
      • HQ3XB - High Quality Complex 3x
• #370, #352, #374 - Audio library enhancements. - @a740g
  • QOA format support
  • Updates miniaudio to v0.11.18
  • Includes latest fixes for Hively Tracker and TinySoundFont
  • Updates Libxmp-lite to v4.6.0
  • Removes the legacy LGPL OpenAL audio backend
• #356, #361 - Adds Save As OS-native GUI dialog support to the IDE. - @SteveMcNeill
• #373 - IDE editor enhancement. - @RhoSigma-QB64
  • Now when the Home key is pressed, the cursor will only jump to the start of line if its current position is exactly on start of text, and from all other positions in the line (including anywhere in the indention space) it will always jump to start of text
• #367 - Adds support for FNT, FON, PCF and BDF fixed width bitmap fonts. - @a740g
• #371 - Updates MinGW. It now supports GCC 13.1.0 with MinGW runtime v11. - @a740g
• #380 - Adds initial Windows on ARM support using LLVM-MingW. - @a740g
  • For now, Windows on ARM versions of QB64-PE can only be built by locally cloning the repository and then running setup_win.cmd
• #379 - Updates libstem Gamepad library to the latest version. - @a740g

Bug Fixes

• #351 - Fixes and issue where fonts were getting vertically misaligned. - @a740g
• #367 - Fixes a seg-fault when using fonts on macOS as reported by @grymmjack. - @a740g
• #353 - Fixes DECLARE DYNAMIC LIBRARY path issue. - @a740g
  • QB64-PE will no longer replace ./ with an absolute path
• #358 - Fixes a bug that was hiding part of the IDE screen by the Window frame when compiled with LLVM-MingW. - @a740g
• #365 - Patches a compiler function CopyFile() to clear the file first before writing. - @SteveMcNeill
• #366 - Fixes CONST Blink ($COLOR:0) and _BLINK name collision with $NOPREFIX is used. - @SteveMcNeill
• #372 - Fixes PRINT to print spaces and tabs correctly when _KEEPBACKGROUND is set. - @a740g
• #377 - Fixes wrong KSL (key scale shift) values in RAD player. - @a740g

Full Changelog: v3.8.0...v3.9.0

v3.8.0

Enhancements

• #338 - C/C++ compiler update. - @a740g
  • Updates the MinGW toolchain to v12.2.0 r2.
• #339 - Improvements on the various dialog functions. - @a740g
  • Many mandatory dialog parameters are now optional.
  • Parsable option string arguments are case-insensitive now (required lower case before).
• #341 - Adds _UCHARPOS() to the _U* functions family. - @a740g
  • Ideally, this should have been added in v3.7.0 but was not due to an oversight. This function calculates the pixel distance of every character in a string from the origin and is especially helpful for variable width fonts.
• #347 - Audio enhancements. - @a740g
  • Updates miniaudio to v0.11.17, which adds support for Apple AIFF and AIFC audio formats. So, we get those too.
  • PLAY has been extended to:
    • Select waveforms @n (square = 1, sawtooth = 2, triangle = 3 (default), sine = 4, noise = 5).
    • Adjust volume ramping Qn (0ms to 100ms).
  • SOUND has been extended to use the following syntax:
    • SOUND frequency#, duration#[, volume#][, panning#][, waveform&]
• #346 - Improves the IDE code export abilities. - @RhoSigma-QB64
  • Added ability to export into a [qb=export] Forum codebox.
    • Thanks to @grymmjack for implementing all these new codeboxes: https://qb64phoenix.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1740
  • The Forum/Wiki exports now go to the clipboard instead of a file and can directly be pasted into the Forum post or Wiki page.
  • Progress of export is shown in the status line and you'll get a message upon export completion.

Bug Fixes

• #341 - Fixing the cut-off on certain letters in conjunction with _LOADFONT and PRINT. - @a740g
  • Issue was reported here: https://qb64phoenix.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1691
• #347 - Fixing issues with PLAY statement. - @a740g
  • PLAY is now feature complete supporting "X" + VARPTR$(...)

Full Changelog: v3.7.0...v3.8.0