VA Smalltalk ECAP Build 409 Available...Changelog described

Code-Cutoff is official and the team is working to wrap up the release.

In the meantime, we will do one more ECAP build for our customers to take a look at.

At this point, we are internally only accepting bug-fixes, so I wouldn't expect too much change from here.

If you spot something though, please let us know.

There is a _CHANGELOG.txt that you can always refer to for a list of changes.
However, I usually like to highlight some of the changes here for all to see what we have been doing.

ECAP Build 409 has the following areas of change:

- indexOfAny: | indexOfAny:ifAbsent: | indexOfAny:startingAt: | indexOfAny:startingAt:ifAbsent:

- EsString>>indexOfAny:startingAt:ifAbsent: is prim-assisted for String and DBString

- In support of "Stream with auto line-ending detection (cr/lf/crlf)"

- skipToAny: | upToAny:

- In support of "Stream with auto line-ending detection (cr/lf/crlf)"

- No performance loss

- Fixed Inflater/Deflator has a 32-bit limit on describing totalBytesRead/totalBytesWritten on some platforms

- Reads/Writes Zip archives to memory/sockets/files

- Does not require a file descriptor

- Implements Zip64 extended spec.

- Cursor stream based approach

- Example: Writing a valid zip archive to a ByteArray with 2 entries (a.txt and b.txt) in a subdirectory called 'dir'.

- Refactored to meet Instantiations new coding policy (class comments, method comments, formatting, categorizing...)

- Refactored AbtConditionalWait to be a proper subclass of AbtTimedWait and has a true isKindOf relationship now.

- Removed platform dependent subapps...no longer necessary with new vm implementation of AbtSleep primitive

- New creational helper APIs on AbtConditionalWait

- This really only impacts Unix because of how the gui framework works.

- The async queue grew to be much larger now

- The new policy is to not raise an error when an overrun occurs and just drop the events.  Most of the time we are talking about gui events

- If async events are important to you (perhaps you have special code that posts to the async event queue and dropping it is not an option)

  then you can set [Process ignoreAsyncQueueOverrun: false]

- Browsing implementors with only one implementor will skip a methods list browser and go directly to opening up a class hierarchy browser

- When selecting code in the editor and browsing implementors/senders, it now uses lexer context to know what construct its looking at.
  For example, OrderedCollection is both a class and a method...now the tooling knows which it is and will either offer to 'browse hierarchy/references' or 'browse implementors/senders'

- Fix Various code assist features can just stop working in certain editor instances

- Improve how StsApplicationConfigBrowser handles loaded classes with same name as shadow 

- Fix Scintilla indicator of size 1 char may fail to undraw during text modification

- CwPushButton can show an image and text

- Some enhancements and fixes to TOBWidgets

- SstHttpClient refactored to meet Instantiations new coding policy (class comments, method comments, formatting, categorizing...)

- Fixed SstHttpClient proxy capability when making multiple calls

- Fix SstUnixSocketDemultiplexor>>poll bug in V9.0/V9.1

- Fixed the numerous '10000 iterations' messages that would flood stdout on the Linux console

- Implement Dirty Icons for Linux/Unix tabbed browsers.  Now when you type in the linux editor...the tab icons will color themselves just like on windows

- Fixed Composition editor buttons have incorrect width on Linux with motif 2.3.x

- Improve how EtWindow deals with disconnection of UndoManager for none standard window close on Linux