What's New in VA 8.5.2
Looks like there's new stuff to cover on the screencasts -
- Monticello Importer, integrated with ENVY
- Code Completion added to inspectors
- Better support for high latency WAN connections to ENVY
- Packaging Instructions for Seaside (IC support)
- Various Tool Improvements
- TimeZone Support, in DateAndTime class - very seamless with existing code
- Added System>>processId to get process ID from Windows
- Rebar Control in the Composition Editor
- Glorp updated to 0.4.190
- Updated Web Services
- Support for Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12
- More online doc, including ST4U videos
What's Coming Next?
- New Text Editor coming - atop Scintilla - exposes full Scintilla API to Smalltalk, used in browsers, inspectors, workspaces
- Date and Time picker added from Windows common controls
- Various Development Tool improvements
- Some old limitations from EMSRV (multi-processor warnings on Windows, size limitations on Linux) removed.
- Monticello Importer Refinements - relevant metadata arranged where it makes sense
- Can prefix all windows with an image "short name" - so that multiple images are easily distinguished by the mark one eyeball
- Cross development (build on one platform, deploy on another) improvements
- Possibly Announcements and Roassal
- HTTP Multipart message support (mostly for Seaside
- Glorp updated to latest version in Cincom Smalltalk public repository
- Installation with InstallShield (Windows), RPM (Linux)
- Further out - GTK+ on Linux
- Redesigned Change Browser and Merge Tools
- TCP/IP VI
- Open SSL Wrappers (full)
- IGC on 64 bit Smalltalk
Comments
Re: What's New in VA 8.5.2
[kilon] June 10, 2013 14:10:20.101
time for a stupid question . What is VA ?
Re: What's New in VA 8.5.2
[kilon] June 10, 2013 14:12:20.687
ignore my question, found it , sorry :(
Apparently I was not aware of VA Smalltalk existing, shows how much new to smalltalk I am :D