LMD 2009 - History LMD IDE-Tools
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Introduction
This documents contains history logs for LMD IDE-Tools 2.0 and corresponding standalone packs.
First official release: 23-September-2008
Major version numbers are:
LMD IDE-Tools 2.0, LMD DesignPack 5.0, LMD ScriptPack 5.0, LMD SyntaxEdit 2.0
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[+] Feature added
[*] Feature changed
[-] Bug fixed
History Logs
SyntaxEdit
Release 2.02 (17-Nov-2008)
[+] Variable width fonts supported
[+] Significant performance improvements for big files, with long lines
[+] Property MaxLineLengthToParse added to TLMDEditDocument. It helps to prevent parsing too long lines.
[-] Bug fixed: http://lmd.de/newsgroups/newsgroups.php?art_group=lmd.public.vcl.idetools&article_id=541
[-] Bug fixed: when "print selected area only" option is selected in print dialog, entire text printed
[+-] VisibleCountScroll property changed to GetVisibleCountScroll method
[+] MaxHorizScroll property added to TLMDCustomEditView
[+-] UseLettersToShow property removed from TLMDSpecialChars
RoadMap
For LMD 2009 R2 release (free update for all LMD 2009 user) in December following additional features are planned:
ScriptPack
Native (pure Delphi) Pascal Script implementation including integrated debugger support.
SyntaxEdit
Middle of December release
- Rectangular selection
- Incremental search
- LMD Themes engine support
- Basic auto-complete GUI which is based on user events and document contents
Next major release
- Separate color scheme for View printing, (good for black-and-white printers).
- Custom text highlighting API, to let user highlight text ranges with some styles. This is useful for highlighting search results, various compiler errors etc...
- Tooltips show, based on user event.
- Major Parser reworking to implement following features:
- Paired language constructs highlighting (begin/end etc, based on syntax)
- EBNF-grammatics support, to create syntax schemes easier and more powerful.
- Document structure treeview (document function and types lists). View's auto-complete feature can use this information.
- Auto-complete based on document syntax constructs (procedures/functions/classes)
- Visual editor for syntax schemes.