LuaRT 1.9.0

Highlights

• New C module for C FFI (foreign functions interface)
• New keyboard module to read or send keys
• New sysutils module for various Windows functionalities, including Process launch and control
• LuaRT now uses the latest Lua 5.4.7 VM
• Drag and drop operations are now implemented in desktop applications (text and file list format)
• Better Windows clipboard support (text and file list format)
• Record sounds with various encodings in audio module
• Compiled executables with rtc can now embed and use DLL dependencies seamlessly
• Faster Tasks scheduling
• Faster canvas module with lots of bugfixes

LuaRT interpreter

• Console luart.exe and desktop wluart.exe interpreters now use latest Lua 5.4.7 VM

LuaRT Studio

• Updated: LuaRT Studio is now using the LuaRT 1.9.0 toolchain
• Fixed: Task function can now be debugged (Fixes #237)

rtc

• New: sys.File() constructor now checks for files embedded in the compiled executable if they do not exist
• Updated: DLL binary modules dependencies are now resolved transparently in the embedded content
• Fixed: sleep() now waits for the provided delay to elapse in compiled executables (Fixes #226)

QuickRT

• New: QuickRT uses now an asynchronous loop, to use Task instances and any other asynchronous functions
• Fixed: Objets are now correctly pretty printed (Fixes #221)

RTBuilder

LuaRT C API

• New: lua_wait() to wait for a Task to finish from the C side
• New: lua_throwevent() to launch a new ui event when implementing third party widgets
• New: lua_update() to set an update C function during Task scheduling
• Updated: lua_pushTask() now push a Task with the provided continuation C function and starts it, with a context and optional cleanup lua_CFunction

C module

• New C module for foreign functions interface (FFI)
• Still a work in progress (bugs may occur)
• Call C functions directly from Lua using Library object and functions prototypes definition
• Define C data structures with Struct and Union objects
• Automatic type conversion between Lua and C types with Value object
• Manipulate C pointers with the Pointer object
• Use C arrays as if you were using Lua tables with the Array object

sysutils module

• New sysutils module that provides various system utility functions and properties
• New Process object to start and manage a new process

keyboard module

• New keyboard module with keyboard management functions and properties
• Get keyboard status, wait for keypress asynchronously, bind Lua functions to key presses
• Send virtual key presses to any Windows application

debug module

• New debug.settaskhook() function to set debug hook for all new Tasks

string module

• New: string.normalize() function to replace accentued characters by non accentued ones in a string

sys module

• New: Buffer.encoding property to specify an encoding value, to be used when converting the Buffer to a string
• New: sys.locale property to get/set current locale for Datetime format and error messages from sys.error and net.error
• New: COM objects now support calling items-like properties to access sub items (as Range, Cells and so on...)
• New: File:copytask() and Directory:copytask() methods to copy files and directories asynchronously (without blocking)
• Updated: sys.clipboard property now returns the kind of clipboard data and its content
• Updated: File:copy() and Directory:copy() now returns a booleanvalue indicating if the operation succeeded or not
• Updated: Pipe:read() now returns both stderr and stdout output (Pipe:readerror() have been removed)
• Fixed: Task.after is now called even if the Task returns no result (Fixes #233)
• Fixed: Task switching is now faster (Fixes #210)
• Fixed: Task objects don't cause memory leaks anymore (Fixes #209)
• Fixed: errors thrown inside a running Task don't cause a PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API error anymore (Fixes #228)
• Fixed: COM objects methods now uses more than one argument (Fixes #205)

console module

• Fixed: Using an unknown color with console.bgcolor, console.color, console.clear() and console.writecolor() won't crash anymore (Fixes #211)
• Fixed: Console.x and Console.y properties now return a correct cursor position (Fixes #212)

compression module

• New: Zip.async.extractall() and Zip.async.extract() to extract ZIP archives asynchronously

crypto module

• Fixed : Cipher.constructor() won't crash anymore if the mode parameter is invalid

net module

• New: property Http.content to get the current response content

ini module

• Updated : INI property names and values are now trimmed

json module

• Fixed : JSON numbers are now correctly parsed (Fixes #217)
• Fixed : json.decode() don't unescape escaped characters from json strings (Fixes #227)

webview module

• New : Webview.useragent property to get/set the user agent string

sqlite module

• Fixed : module functions query() and exec() now set column values correctly (Fixes #234)

canvas module

• New: canvas:onMouseDown(), canvas:onMouseUp() events
• Updated : Changing canvas.bgcolor() don't clears the canvas anymore
• Updated : canvas.begin() and canvas.flip() are now required before and after drawing content in event and Tasks.
• Updated: canvas.onPaint() event is now called constantly, providing faster drawing operations
• Updated: Image.draw() and Image.drawrect() now accept an image interpolation mode argument
• Removed: canvas.sync property have been removed
• Removed : canvas.map() function has been removed
• Removed : canvas.onLeave() event has been removed
• Fixed: Canvas dpi support don't use wrong pixel coordinates anymore but DIP instead (Fixes #224)
• Fixed: Canvas rendering is now way faster (Fixes #207)
• Fixed: Canvas widget don't blinks anymore when parent Windows goes fullscreen (Fixes #206)
• Fixed: LinearGradient, RadialGradient and Image objects are now drawn correctly when the Canvas is resized
• Fixed: Canvas:fillrect()and Canvas:fillroundrect() won't crash anymore if the brush parameter is omitted (Fixes #236)

audio module

• New: audio.playdevice and audio.recdevice properties to set/get the current playback and record devices
• New: audio.devices property to enumerate audio devices
• New: audio.record.start() and audio.record.stop() methods to record and encode audio
• Updated: Sound.play() now returns a Task that will complete once the sound has finished playing.
• Removed: audio.device property have been removed.

ui module

• New: Window.notify() to send Windows toast notifications
• New: ui.drag() function to start a drag and drop operation
• New: allowdrop property to set the widget as a drop target
• New: onDrop() event, thrown when the user dropped the mouse on the widget
• New: Edit.hscroll() and Edit.vscroll() horizontal and vertical scrolling functions
• New: Edit.mousepos property to get the nearest character position from the current mouse screen coordinates
• New: ui.selectdir() uses the previous shell directory selection dialog
• Removed: Edit.scroll() method have been removed (replaced by the vscroll() and hscroll() methods)
• Updated: GUI events are now thrown asynchronously as Tasks
• Updated: ui events responsiveness have been increased (as seen in the examples\ui\balls.wlua)
• Updated: ui.dirdialog() now uses modern folder selection dialog
• Updated: onHover() events now provides a third argument for mouse button status
• Updated: cursor property now can be set/can return nil in case no cursor is displayed
• Fixed: GUI won't freeze anymore when calling sleep() inside an event handler (Fixes #232)
• Fixed : Panel:onLeave() event if now thrown as expected (Fixes #231)
• Fixed : Edit.cursor now changes the cursor as expected (Fixes #228)
• Fixed : Groupbox.parent property now returns Tab intead of TabItem (Fixes #225)
• Fixed: ui.opendialog() and ui.savedialog() don't uses old Windows 3.1 theme anymore (Fixes #223)
• Fixed: Calendar widget now supports dark mode (Fixes #218)
• Fixed: Combobox won't draw white background in dark mode anymore (Fixes #202)
• Fixed: Using Entry widget in dark mode won't crash application anymore (Fixes #201)
• Fixed: Picture.resize() now works as expected (Fixed #213)
• Fixed: Label.textalign property now is respected when Label text is changed (Fixes #208)

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