About the v0.18.3b Release

Post by **coderJeff** » Dec 29, 2007 0:10

About the v0.18.3b release

The official announcements will go to the main News forum and sourceforge.net tomorrow or the day after but in the meantime, here's some information about the latest release.

In addition to the many updates, bug fixes, improvement to graphics library, and general improvements to all platforms (see this release's changelog for all the details) here are probably what would be considered the most significant updates:

New features, changes in -lang fb:
- CONST qualifiers for type safety and porting C++ headers.
- CONDWAIT now takes a much needed mutex parameter.

QB Compatibility Updates in -lang qb:
- 16 bit INTEGER, 32 bit LONG
- default numerics are INTEGER(16 bit) or SINGLE
- Only those keywords present in QB are allowed
- SLEEP, INKEY$ improvements
- STICK, STRIG added

Downloads

Windows:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/fbc/Fr ... e?download

Linux:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/fbc/Fr ... z?download

DOS:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/fbc/Fr ... p?download

Manual - in CHM Format:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/fbc/FB ... p?download

Lachie Dazdarian · Post by **Lachie Dazdarian** » Dec 29, 2007 0:42

WTF?!?

If I put anything after NEXT the compiler goes amok (gives me NEXT without FOR error).

Post by **coderJeff** » Dec 29, 2007 0:47

Does the "NEXT var" match the "FOR var" or not?

srvaldez · Post by **srvaldez** » Dec 29, 2007 0:48

thanks coderJeff :)

Lachie Dazdarian · Post by **Lachie Dazdarian** » Dec 29, 2007 0:51

Ups, my mistake. Variable checkup after NEXT found few bugs in my code. I apologize.

DaveUnit · Post by **DaveUnit** » Dec 29, 2007 2:08

no new OO advancements. :[
my wait shall continue.
but good to see enhancement none the less.

notthecheatr · Post by **notthecheatr** » Dec 30, 2007 1:14

Great, about time an official release came along :)

Anyone interested in using Const qualifiers can read my tutorial about them at http://www.freebasic.net/wiki/wikka.php ... Qualifiers

Glad to see -lang qb is still being updated, I really don't know why people complain over it when it's constantly being updated and being made more accurate.

Be nice to have some more OO features, but I understand they're harder to implement so I won't complain, especially given all the time the developers put in as it is.

Post by **coderJeff** » Dec 31, 2007 15:41

Here is the official news release for freebasic.net
http://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10273

If there is anything you think is really missing from the news release, please feel free to comment. A similar announcement is going to sourceforge.net soon.

Just want to say thanks to everyone willing to be the first testers of the latest release. This seems to work well having an initial release here just on the forums to the most interested users. That helps us catch any major problems with the packages.

And on to 0.18.4 where hopefully there will be enough oop improvements to satisfy. :)

notthecheatr · Post by **notthecheatr** » Dec 31, 2007 21:26

Out of curiosity, what's planned for 0.18.4? Anything big?

Post by **coderJeff** » Dec 31, 2007 22:29

I guess the euphoria of getting a release out can't last ... what a downer.

What's planned? More of the same I guess, just keep pounding away at bugs/TODO/docs/etc. The thing that makes working on FreeBASIC enjoyable is that there are goals but not a specific timeline. So, until 0.18.4 is about to be released (whenever that might be), I have no idea what might be in there. There could be no new OOP stuff and instead some other improvement that is seen as important. What gets done all depends on how much (free) time the developers and contributing users are able to put on the project.

notthecheatr · Post by **notthecheatr** » Dec 31, 2007 22:35

No, I'm excited like everyone else. About the new release and about the future, of course. I hope I didn't sound impatient... I'm not impatient, just excited. This is a good (albeit a few days late) Christmas present.

badmrbox · Post by **badmrbox** » Jan 01, 2008 0:45

I'm so tired about OOP. Let it be and have a happy new year.

caver · Post by **caver** » Jan 01, 2008 6:50

Sorry if I'm just blind or stupid, but I can't seem to find the ogg or vorbis includes or library files (the change log mentions them) after installing 0.18.3 Beta.... (not that i'd know how to use them anyway... but I wanted to try).

Can someone point me in the right direction. I looked in inc and lib and tried to do a un-install re-install.

Thanks,
CAVer

Post by **coderJeff** » Jan 01, 2008 7:15

Thanks caver. I forgot that inc/dirs need to be added to the windows installer explicitly. Will get that updated ASAP. Here are the headers that are in SVN but not the windows package:

http://www.execulink.com/~coder/tmp/fbc ... eaders.zip (~14K)

Includes for ogg, vorbis, lzo, and a few others. Unzip to "<Install_Path>\FreeBASIC\inc" with directory structure preserved.

LukeL · Post by **LukeL** » Jan 01, 2008 9:40

What about the ogg/vorbis libraries? Are they supposed to be included as well?

About the v0.18.3b Release

About the v0.18.3b Release

Sorry if I'm just blind....