Change Log

4.30.0.0

Upgrade to SWT 4.30
Upgrade to JDK 21
Upgrade to JRuby 9.4.5.0 with Ruby 3.1 support
Upgrade to Glimmer 2.7.4
Avoid loading the entirety of facets when scaffolding or listing gems (speeding up performance of glimmer list and scaffold commands)
Fix Mandelbrot Fractal sample on Windows as it crashes if run from within VirtualBox due to attempting to access Concurrent.physical_processor_count, which has been changed to Concurrent.processor_count
Fix dimensions of Weather sample on Linux

4.29.0.0

Upgrade to SWT 4.29
Upgrade to JRuby 9.3.11.0
Enable setting properties direclty on main code body styled_text component of code_text by nesting properties underneath the code element (e.g. code_text { code { font font_options } })

4.28.0.0

Upgrade to SWT 4.28

4.27.0.1

Avoid displaying confusing "No such file or directory" message when scaffolding fails due to missing GitHub user configuration (by displaying a friendly message for when either GitHub user or Git user is missing)

4.27.0.0

Upgrade to SWT 4.27
Upgrade to jruby-9.3.10.0

4.26.0.1

Fix an issue that prevented data-binding the image widget property using Shine syntax (e.g. image <= [model, :attr] inside tool_item)

4.26.0.0

Upgrade to SWT 4.26
Ensure that scaffolded custom widget (red label) uses SWT constants passed to custom widget
Update sash form weights in Meta Sample for bigger monitors (give more space to code)
Pass border to multi-line lists since it will not be included by default anymore given they are overridden with :multi SWT style

4.25.0.2

Fix issue with Hello, Label! crashing because image width is getting passed as 0 and the new SWT 4.25 ImageData API rejecting it as not a valid argument

4.25.0.1

Contact Manager Create Button and Table Delete Menu Item
Make default table sorting behavior for strings case-insensitive

4.25.0.0

Upgrade to SWT 4.25
Upgrade to JRuby 9.3.8.0
Upgrade to JDK 19
Make :edge the default SWT style for browser widget on Windows (Microsoft Edge Browser)
Fix Hello, Tool Bar! look in Linux

4.24.4.8

Optimize refined_table sorting to avoid re-running upon navigating pages
Fix issue with refined_table sorting breaking page remembering behavior upon entering a filter query

4.24.4.7

Optimize performance of refined_table in filtering (it now caches results and replays them) and pagination (it now remembers last query page and avoids refiltering when paginating on the same query value)
Improve combo selection data-binding by auto-converting _options values to String before setting as Items on combo (e.g. in case Integer values were set like years)

4.24.4.6

Support refined_table sorting (now clicking on headers sorts the entire model_array collection, not just the visible rows)
Support table no_sort attribute to disable sorting in general if needed
Fix issue with Tetris sample upon restart of game (WidgetProxy#shell_proxy method was failing for being disposed, now it retains a reference to parent that stays if disposed)

4.24.4.5

Support refined_table :editable SWT style and model_array bidirectional data-binding
Update Hello, Refined Table! to allow editing the table
Support Glimmer::UI::CustomWidget/Glimmer::UI::CustomShell support for swt_style_symbols read-only attribute to access array of SWT style symbols (works better than swt_style because some widgets support custom Glimmer-only SWT style symbols not originally supported by SWT)

4.24.4.4

Support refined_table selection data-binding
Remove extra horizontal/vertical margins in refined_table pagination area
Update Hello, Refined Table! to support booking a game with right-click pop up context menu
Have Glimmer::UI::CustomWidget better delegate listners and data-binding observers to @children_owner when set

4.24.4.3

Fix issue with failed table extra property data-binding (e.g. foreground color, background color) due to asynchronous multi-threading optimization (now it works).

4.24.4.2

refined_table filtering support
Ensure correct refined_table enablement of pagination buttons based on whether on first/last page or not
Display vertical scroll bar when setting refined_table per_page to a height value that results in table exceeding screen height
Support refined_table nested elements first_button {}, previous_button {}, page_text {}, next_button {}, last_button {} to customize every widget within.
Support refined_table attributes for accessing nested elements: table_proxy, first_button_proxy, previous_button_proxy, page_text_proxy, next_button_proxy, last_button_proxy to customize every widget within.

4.24.4.1

Optimize table data-binding performance (improving paging performance in refined_table) by making observer registrations run asynchronously in a separate thread
Fix cleaning of old table data-binding observers (it was retaining some old observers after table updates)
Fix issue with ActiveSupport overriding Facets String underscore/snakecase/titlecase/camelcase methods with different incompatible implementations when loaded by a project (now, that is repaired automatically)

4.24.4.0

refined_table custom widget with pagination support (and future filtering support)
Hello, Refined Table! sample demonstrating refined_table
Save WidgetBinding instances on WidgetProxy objects via widget_bindings attribute
Support specifying @children_owner in any custom widget for which adding children will not add them under the body_root (e.g. a composite wrapping a table will designate the table as the @children_owner for adding table_columns)
Add explicit shell_proxy method to Glimmer::UI::CustomWidget that delegates to body_root to avoid annoying false negative error every time that method is called
Optimize table data-binding performance for single-model update scenarios
Fix issue with data-binding a table as the body root of a custom widget when customizing column_attributes

4.24.3.2

Have table data-binding infer model attribute names from column names by convention (no need to specify column_properties)
Support table data-binding column_properties mapping of column names to model attribute names via a Hash
Support table data-binding alias of column_attributes in place of column_properties because the word 'attribute' is more Ruby-idiomatic than 'property' in the Ruby world
Handle boundary condition of font height reaching 0 on repeated zoom out of code_text
Battleship Video Tutorial in Glimmer Meta-Sample

4.24.3.1

code_text default behavior support of zoom in (CMD+= on Mac, CTRL+= on Win/Linux), zoom out (CMD+- on Mac, CTRL+- on Win/Linux), and restore original font height (CMD+0 on Mac, CTRL+0 on Win/Linux).

4.24.3.0

Support table items data-binding of table row cell background, foreground, font, image to model attributes by convention based on specified column_properties (e.g. for column_properties model name attribute, automatically assume model name_background provides [r, g, b] array of color)
Update Hello, Table! sample to demonstrate data-binding table items background, foreground, font, image to model attributes by convention, and to add booked attribute on BaseballGame to disable Book button when already booked
Update Hello, Table! sample to add booked attribute to BaseballGame to disable Book button when already booked
Update Hello, Table! sample to enable booking by hitting the ENTER keyboard button
Optimize table data-binding performance by not recreating table-items when the table grows or stays at the same size, and by not updating a table item (row) when no changes have occurred (detect through diffing)
Update font keyword and FontProxy to support lightweight creation/caching/sharing following Flyweight Design Pattern

4.24.2.3

Default code_text font name in Mac is changed back to 'Courier'

4.24.2.2

Upgrade to jruby-9.3.7.0
code_text can use external Rouge custom themes similar to ext/rouge/themes/glimmer_dark. When in Dark Mode, the specified custom theme must have the word 'dark' in its name to avoid forcing the glimmer_dark theme instead as per default behavior.
Look for 'Monospace' and 'Liberation Mono' fonts on Linux if 'Courier' is not available
Fix issue discovered in Red Hat Linux related to ImageExpression getting loaded before others and missing require 'glimmer/dsl/parent_expression' statement (issue does not happen in other operating systems that load classes in a different order)

4.24.2.1

Fix mistake of changing all themes to dark themes in Hello, Code Text! (not it works just like before)

4.24.2.0

Update code_text to support Dark Mode with glimmer_dark theme, which is applied by default when app is run with OS in dark mode
Fix issue with code_text showing gibberish on Linux when Courier & Consolas fonts are not available. It will attempt to use the first Monospace font it finds now or otherwise stick to the default font.
Update Hello, Code Text! and Glimmer Meta-Sample to support Dark Mode
Refactor Hello, Custom Widget! with on_widget_disposed thread cleanup code
Refactor Hello, Custom Shell! to support keyboard display of emails by hitting ENTER/SPACE after selecting a table row

4.24.1.3

Fix Windows freezing issue with warbler during packaging with the glimmer package command (caused by bundler included in JRuby on JDK18, fixed by installing latest bundler)

4.24.1.2

Fix issue where you cannot call tab_item_proxy.text or tab_item_proxy.text = 'new text' because its swt_widget is the contained composite
Refactor Parking sample to clarify rotation details

4.24.1.1

Fix jar-dependencies gem version to v0.4.1 in scaffolded applications to avoid issue encountered in newly released v0.4.2

4.24.1.0

Upgrade to JRuby 9.3.6.0
Speed up app scaffolding by dropping packaging from the scaffolding steps as there is no point in packaging an unfinished product
Refactor/simplify Hello, Canvas Path!

4.24.0.2

Update Hello, Canvas Data-Binding! to support quadratic bezier curves, cubic bezier curves, and Drag & Drop of endpoints / control points
Fix issue with data-binding quad & cubic path shape point_array

4.24.0.1

Support declaratively setting shape data via data property
Update Hello, Canvas Drag and Drop! sample to set data in draggable shapes for a more sophisticated drag and drop example
Refactor Game of Life sample
Hello, Drag and Drop!, Hello, Canvas Drag and Drop!, and Game of Life Video Tutorials added to Glimmer Meta-Sample

4.24.0.0

Upgrade to SWT 4.24

4.23.1.5

Refactor/Improve the Hello, Cursor! sample
Add Hello, Cursor! video tutorial to Glimmer Meta-Sample

4.23.1.4

Improve convenience by making sash_form accept orientation with SWT style symbols directly (:horizontal directly instead of swt(:horizontal))
Improve convenience by making sash_form accept maximized_control as Glimmer DSL for SWT widget proxy instead of low-level SWT widget (@label instead of @label.swt_widget)
Update Hello, Sash Form! to add Sash Color and simplify with new sash_form improvements

4.23.1.3

Update initial tab folder width in Weather sample
Add Help menu to scaffolded apps/gems with About menu item that used to be in the scaffolded File menu
Fix names of icons generated for custom shell gems to get them picked up by the glimmer package command
Fix issue with shell not packing layout correctly on initial open (might be caused by the latest version of SWT under certain scenarios)
Fix setting of Display app_name and app_version in scaffolded apps and custom shells

4.23.1.2

Add Hello, Pop Up Context Menu! video tutorial to Glimmer Meta-Sample
Add Hello, Menu Bar! video tutorial to Glimmer Meta-Sample
Add Language & Country menus to Hello, Menu Bar!
Fix "Last Name" label in Hello, Tree! (was a duplicate "First Name" by mistake)

4.23.1.1

Switch order of buttons in Glimmer Meta-Sample to put Tutorial first
Make Glimmer Meta-Sample pull list of tutorials from GitHub to avoid needing to update gem when adding new tutorials

4.23.1.0

Upgrade to JRuby 9.3.4.0
Upgrade to glimmer 2.7.3
Add "Tutorial" button to Glimmer Meta-Sample to show Youtube Video Tutorial

4.23.0.1

Add "Speed" menu to the Tetris sample
Add "Show Next Block Preview" View menu item to the Tetris sample
Document Glimmer::UI::Application alias for Glimmer::UI::CustomShell

4.23.0.0

Upgrade to SWT 4.23
Upgrade to JDK 18

4.22.2.6

Fix issue whereby updating string property on the text/string shape does not trigger a redraw on the shape because the text dimensions remained the same despite the change of content (e.g. switching from string content of letter A to S results in the same dimensions)
Canvas Shape DSL graduated from Beta to Final

4.22.2.5

Update all samples to match the GLIMMER_STYLE_GUIDE.md
Update scaffolding code to match the GLIMMER_STYLE_GUIDE.md

4.22.2.4

Address the warning regarding using Ruby singletons on Java objects (shows up when running glimmer samples)
Fix order of calling require 'app_name/view/app_view' in scaffolded app (must be last)

4.22.2.3

Support #content { } on layout_data
Fix issue with data-binding layout_data {exclude} property using Shine <=> syntax

4.22.2.2

Snake elaborate sample
Fixed timer_exec(time_in_millis) {} expresion

4.22.2.1

Upgrade to glimmer 2.6.0
Fixed issue of "unsupported Java version "17", defaulting to 1.7" when scaffolding an application

4.22.2.0

Upgrade to JRuby 9.3.3.0 (supporting ARM64/AARCH64)

4.22.1.2

Fix support for ARM64 on Mac
Upgrade to glimmer v2.5.5, reusing newly added Glimmer::DSL::ShineDataBindingExpression
Include .gladiator-scratchpad in scaffolded app/gem .gitignore
ShellProxy#center_in_display as alias to #center_within_display

4.22.1.1

Fix minor issue with Shape listener disposal
Fix minor issue with Quarto not displaying help message box after game over

4.22.1.0

New Quarto game sample: https://en.gigamic.com/game/quarto-classic
Make Klondike Solitaire (sample) playing cards bigger to be more readable and make tableau slightly taller
Update Hello, Custom Widget! sample with a custom listener example
Optimize performance of glimmer command to be exactly as fast as using jruby directly by avoiding calling jgem or loading rake/Rakefile when not needed
Remove logging gem dependency, improving startup time (still available as an option as per docs/reference/GLIMMER_CONFIGURATION.md).
Ensure that setting both Shape drag_source true and drag_and_move true results in the last one winning (they are mutually exclusive)
Default text shape to flags: [:draw_transparent, :draw_delimiter] to handle newline delimiter correctly when sizing text extent automatically (e.g. when passing width/height 2nd/3rd args as :default or not passing at all)
Remove " - App View" from shell title in desktopify scaffolding mode
Remove SWT Chromium browser option since it is no longer supported by SWT.
Support being able to hook listeners on a shape directly via Shape#on_event calls
Support Shape#on_shape_disposed listener
Automatic display listener disposal upon disposing a custom shape (for listeners defined in before_body/after_body of custom shape)
Ensure deregistering drag & drop listeners from shapes with drag_source=true/drag_and_move=true when they are disposed
Support Shape#transform_point(x, y) by applying current transform to point (similar to existing opposite: inverse_transform_point)
Look into forwarding options for CustomShape#dispose(...) to body_root Shape#dispose(...) (e.g. .dispose(dispose_images: true, dispose_patterns: true, redraw: true))
Fix Linux-only issue with JRuby 9.3.1.0 where GC#drawPolyline requires passing array of values calling array.to_java(:int) manually (it automatically converts array on other platforms and other versions of JRuby)
Fix canvas drag and drop issue (edge case) with having multiple on drop handlers and one of them before the last one setting doit=false while a subsequent on_drop handler being able to handle the drop request but not getting a chance to
Fix canvas drag and drop issue (edge case) with failing when dragging a custom shape by one of its deep children
Fix slowdown issue that occurs with drag and drop in Klondike Solitaire after finishing a full game or multiple games (it seems something is accumulating in memory and slowing things down after a while.. ensure there is no caching residue relating to drag and drop)

4.22.0.0

Upgrade to SWT 4.22
Upgrade to JDK17
Upgrade to glimmer 2.5.4
Support new SWT 4.22 sync_call keyword, which is like sync_exec, but returns value of evaluating expression (though sync_exec was already enhanced by Glimmer to return the expression evaluated value just like sync_call)
More work regarding: Do not clean observers when disposing of a widget while closing the last shell (e.g. when closing an app, it is not needed to clean observers, so it is better to exit faster)
Fix issue in Battleship sample caused by data-binding nil model, which is forbidden in glimmer 2.5.x
Fix issue with closing Stock Ticker sample taking too long

4.21.2.5

Hello, Scrolled Composite! sample

4.21.2.4

Update gem post_install_message to clearly indicate that -J-XstartOnFirstThread jruby option is needed on the Mac and is handled automatically with global configuration after running glimmer-setup.

4.21.2.3

Upgrade to glimmer 2.5.1 to fix an issue with mistakenly referencing OpenStruct without 'ostruct' being loaded

4.21.2.2

Demo file drag and drop in Hello, Drag and Drop!
Make shapes added inside a widget with :default or :max dimensions auto-resize as the widget resizes
Upgrade to glimmer 2.5.0

4.21.2.1

Update Hello, Drag and Drop! to include list, label, text, and spinner examples
Add manual and fully customizable drag and drop syntax alternatives to Hello, Drag and Drop!
Support simpler drag and drop syntax (drag_source true/drop_target true) for simple cases concerning list, label, text, and spinner

4.21.2.0

Support Linux packaging of deb/rpm native executable installers (not just gems) through standard glimmer package call (e.g. glimmer package[deb] or glimmer package[rpm])
Update Glimmer::SWT::ImageProxy implementation of image loading from JAR to use JRuby.runtime.jruby_class_loader.get_resource_as_stream(file_path).to_io.to_input_stream
Remove scaffolding/packaging building/using of a generated Java Resource class
Force installing gem 'psych', '3.3.2' in scaffolded app as a temporary workaround to psych issues with the latest jruby (jruby-9.3.1.0)

4.21.1.1

Fix samples for Windows, espcially Hello, Cool Bar!, Hello, Tool Bar!, and Weather
Fix down button for Tetris on Windows/Linux
Fix pause menu item for Tetris

4.21.1.0

Upgrade to jruby 9.3.1.0
Upgrade to glimmer 2.4.0 (with better observing of array of arrays nested changes)
Minor sample fixes for Linux: Tetris (down button now works), Hello, Scale! (now fits horizontally), and Hello, Slider! (now fits horizontally)
Adjusted minimum size of Meta-Sample to allow more shrinking (minimum_size 640, 384)
Do not clean observers when disposing of a widget while closing the last shell (e.g. when closing an app, it is not needed to clean observers, so it is better to exit faster)

4.21.0.1

Updated default width for shell to 190 (was 130 before)

4.21.0.0

Upgrade to SWT 4.21
Upgrade to JDK 16.0.2
Upgrade to JRuby 9.3.0.0
Update packaging to rely on JDK 16 jpackage (instead of older JDK 8 javapackager)
Renamed Glimmer::RakeTask::Package.javapackager_extra_args to Glimmer::RakeTask::Package.jpackage_extra_args to match the name of jpackage in JDK 16
Change package/[os] scaffolding placement for packaging icons into icons/[os] to accomodate Java 9 Module security for icon retrieval from within a JAR

4.20.15.5

Upgrade to glimmer 2.1.5

4.20.15.4

Fix issue with not tying observer registrations to custom widgets correctly automatically

4.20.15.3

Updated Hello, Text! sample to have a no-border text widget

4.20.15.2

Fixed widget#print support and Hello, Print Dialog! handling of cancellation of printing

4.20.15.1

Glimmer Clock elaborate sample

4.20.15.0

Hello, Print Dialog!
Hello, Print!
widget#print method that automates work in Hello, Print Dialog! and is used in Hello, Print!

4.20.14.2

Hello, Toggle!

4.20.14.1

Upgrade to Glimmer 2.1.1
Correct Hello, Slider! sample class name

4.20.14.0

Extract ObserveExpression into Glimmer
Upgrade to Glimmer 2.1.0

4.20.13.18

Change arrow widget default SWT style to include :down
Hello, Arrow! sample

4.20.13.17

Hello, Slider! sample

4.20.13.16

Fix issue with setting app name (via Display.app_name=) when app is not packaged (always gets set to Glimmer)
Fix Hello, Custom Shell! sample

4.20.13.15

Battleship elaborate sample

4.20.13.14

Connect 4 elaborate sample

4.20.13.13

Parking elaborate sample
Support shape contain?/include? when a transform (e.g. rotation) is applied

4.20.13.12

Fixed issue with dragged shapes having drag_source true not going back to original position when not dropped in a target if they were part of a composite shape

4.20.13.11

Conway's Game of Life elaborate sample

4.20.13.10

Update Glimmer Style Guide, scaffolding, and samples to have before_body and after_body in custom widgets/shells/shapes always take a do; end block since they contain logic not visuals

4.20.13.9

Update Klondike Solitaire to have playing card suit symbols and avoid clipping of cards on the boundaries

4.20.13.8

Glimmer Klondike Solitaire elaborate sample

4.20.13.7

Support accepting ImageProxy objects in Canvas Shape DSL (not just image paths)
Fix issue in ImageProxy not flattening args before selecting file path

4.20.13.6

Ensure a dragged shape can be dropped back into a parent it originally belonged to without it counting as a drop into itself.
Add set_data and get_data to Glimmer::UI::CustomShape, which proxies calls to body_root

4.20.13.5

Fix issue occurring with shape drag & drop when the dragged shape is a drop target too, thus getting dropped back to itself.

4.20.13.4

Improved shape drag and drop checking for inclusion in drop target when there are multiple drop targets

4.20.13.3

Fix issue regarding nil calculated_width/calculated_height encountered in Shape#contain?

4.20.13.2

Support drop_event.doit = false to deny dropping and move dragged shape back to where it was

4.20.13.1

Supporting having a drag_source that is dragged and not dropped at a target go back to its original position
Fix issue of dragged shape getting obscured by ensuring that it is rendered on top of all other shapes
Fix issue with shapes obscured by shapes on top of them getting preference when dragged (surprising behavior). Now, the top-most shapes get dragged first if they overlap with others.

4.20.13.0

Shape drag_and_move true property to make shapes movable via dragging
Shape drag_source true and on_drop {|event| } built-in support for drag and drop
Refactor Hello, Canvas Drag and Drop! to use new Shape built-in support for drag and drop

4.20.12.4

Update Hello, Shape! to take advantage of shape listeners (on mouse click, change color)

4.20.12.3

Make Custom Shapes support on_event listeners just like Shapes
Update Hello, Custom Shape! to take advantage of custom shape listeners (on mouse click, change color)

4.20.12.2

Make Shape listeners check inclusion against all sub-shapes
Refactor Hello, Canvas Drag & Drop! sample to use composite shapes (e.g. ball containing a ball border)

4.20.12.1

Hello, Canvas Drag & Drop! sample

4.20.12.0

Canvas Shape Listeners: on_mouse_up, on_mouse_down, on_mouse_move, on_drag_detected
Make scaffolding not generate an empty () after shell
Hello, Canvas Shape Listeners! Sample

4.20.11.1

Make scaffolded app project use bundler optionally only and still load glimmer-dsl-swt otherwise, like in gem-packaged mode (glimmer package:gem) to avoid erroring out about bundler.

4.20.11.0

Shape #center_x/#center_y methods to identify a shape's center point
Shape #rotate method to rotate around center point

4.20.10.2

Fix issue "Resolve 'NameError: uninitialized constant Glimmer::DataBinding' on Windows" #9 (originally in AMaleh#1)

4.20.10.1

Hello, Scale! sample.

4.20.10.0

Support noun alternatives for Canvas Transform DSL operations:
- multiply(&block) => multiplication(&block)
- invert => inversion
- rotate(angle) => rotation(angle)
- translate(x, y) => translation(x, y)

4.20.9.1

Fix issue with not being able to use :default x/y location with composite/custom shapes containing lines

4.20.9.0

Canvas animation fps/frame_rate property to set frames-per-second rate of rendering (alternative to every)

4.20.8.0

Support data-binding Animation duration_limit property
Improve support of Animation duration_limit property in recognizing when an animation is finished
Added duration limit to Hello, Canvas Animation! sample

4.20.7.0

Add Canvas Animation DSL #finished, #finished?, #finished= properties
Update Hello, Canvas Animation! (formerly had Data Binding suffix)
Update Hello, Canvas Animation Multi! (formerly did not have Multi suffix)

4.20.6.0

Canvas Animation DSL: support parallel animations per canvas (running along canvas static shapes too)

4.20.5.2

Identify trimmed Canvas Shape DSL attribute fill_rule styles without fill_ prefix
Identify trimmed Canvas Shape DSL attribute line_cap styles without cap_ prefix
Identify trimmed Canvas Shape DSL attribute line_join styles without join_ prefix

4.20.5.1

Fix issue with Namespace is required always showing up when buildling a custom widget gem or custom shape gem

4.20.5.0

Relax glimmer-dsl-swt version number when scaffolding custom shape/widget/shell gems. Keep it strict for app development.
Explicit support for tray_item keyword as nested under shell, having menu nested under tray_item, automating everything relating to using SWT TrayItem (no need to work with the Display System Tray or Menu objects manually).
Hello, Tray Item! Sample

4.20.4.2

Hello, Label!

4.20.4.1

Ensure a table with :editable style loses it if items <= ... one-way data-binding (having read_only: true option) was setup.
Tweak/refactor/improve samples

4.20.4.0

Extracted Shine data-binding syntax and BindExpression to Glimmer 2

4.20.3.0

Shine data-binding support for custom widgets, custom shells, and custom shapes
Update remaining samples with bind keyword to switch to Shine data-binding syntax
Switch scaffolded classes' data-binding to Shine
Fix table Shine syntax support for unidirectional (one-way) data-binding

4.20.2.1

Shine data-binding support for animation (also supporting #content {} method in Animation)
Update Hello, Custom Shell! to use Shine data-binding syntax
Fix table automatic sorting support when using one-way Shine data-binding syntax (which was disabling reads)

4.20.2.0

Shine data-binding syntax support for tree widget
Use Shine syntax in Hello, Tree! sample

4.20.1.0

Shine data-binding syntax support for table widget
Use Shine syntax in Hello, Table! and Contact Manager samples

4.20.0.5

Hello, Text! sample
Timer elaborate sample (copied and simplified from external sample)
Calculator elaborate sample (copied and simplified from external sample)
Fixed issue relating to cleaning up display listeners

4.20.0.4

Weather elaborate sample

4.20.0.3

Hello, Shell! sample

4.20.0.2

Hello, Tool Bar! sample
Hello, Cool Bar! sample

4.20.0.1

Hello, Composite! sample
Hello, Layout! sample
Removed inclusion of Glimmer module in scaffolded App class since it is no longer needed with relying on SomeCustomShell.launch method

4.20.0.0

Upgrade to SWT 4.20, supporting AARCH64 experimentally
Upgrade to JRuby 9.2.19.0
Shine syntax for data-binding
Tweak/Fix Samples

4.19.0.2

Fixed issue with Meta-Sample code editing not showing changes properly (although recording them)
Stop Mandelbrot Fractal sample background calculation when its custom shell is closed

4.19.0.1

Upgrade to JRuby 9.2.17.0
Fix Hello, C Tab! sample not showing flags on Windows
Fix Stock Ticker elaborate sample non-scrolling and clipped stock names on Windows

4.19.0.0

Upgrade to SWT 4.19
Upgrade to JRuby 9.2.16.0
Speed up glimmer command startup time by not spawning a jruby a second time for handling Mac-specific options (cutting down glimmer app startup time to half)
glimmer-setup command configures glimmer and girb for the Mac with -X-JstartOnFirstThread in a JRUBY_OPTS environment variable
Switch all scaffolded models/views to Model:: and View:: namespacing instead of the namespaceless 'models' and 'views' directories (new scheme was originally introduced in the Tetris sample)
Make sure that scaffolded shell/app uses new custom shell built-in .launch method instead of custom written .open method
Make scaffold:desktopify generated app window shell fill the screen by default
Support c_tab_folder and c_tab_item
Support c_combo (org.eclipse.swt.custom.CCombo SWT widget) data-binding
Hello, CCombo!
Hello, C Tab!
Shape#clear_shapes just like that of Drawable in WidgetProxy
Set default background of rgb(230, 230, 230) on sash_form to make it more spottable to resize the sash
Fix issue with processing arguments for the glimmer package command.
Fix mandelbrot fractal sample on Windows (added missing jruby-win32ole gem for use with concurrent-ruby gem)
Fix this glimmer package message, which comes out even with the right Java version: WARNING! Glimmer Packaging Pre-Requisite Java Version 1.8.0_241 Is Not Found!

4.18.7.7

Upgrade to glimmer v1.3.0
Handle code_text encountering errors in adding observation request
Always notify widget binding observer on async_exec: true data-bindings

4.18.7.6

Update the Hello, Code Text! sample to use data-binding
Upgrade puts_debuggerer gem dependency to version 0.12.0
Fix issue with code_text data-binding

4.18.7.5

Update ImageProxy with missing methods #size, #parent_proxy, and #parent, needed for a better "Shapes in an Image" support.

4.18.7.4

Add glimmer scaffold:customshape[name,namespace] command
Add glimmer scaffold:gem:customshape[name,namespace] command
Add glimmer list:gems:customshape[keyword] command
Support automatic inference of fill: true for path just like other shapes
Support filled: true alternative for fill: true Canvas Shape DSL option
Fix issue with having to pass base_color to bevel custom shape in Tetris before data-binding instead of data-binding being sufficient

4.18.7.3

Support the ability for nested shapes to override their parent shape common shared properties
Refactor Tetris to use a custom shape (bevel) for its blocks given they are used in both the game and the icon, thus achieving code reuse
Fix issue with moving filled polygon (moving drawn polygon works)

4.18.7.2

Enable defining custom shapes with direct args just like basic shapes (alternative to using keyword arg options)
Fix interpretation of :max/:default width/height values in Canvas Shape DSL

4.18.7.1

Hello, Canvas Animation Data Binding! Sample
Metronome Elaborate Sample
Update Hello, Spinner! Sample to data bind a Thank you message to selected value

4.18.7.0

Support direct use of the shape keyword as a shape composite that could contain other shapes and shares common attributes (e.g. background color) with all of them
Hello, Shape! Sample (implements a method-based custom shape containing other nested shapes)
Support custom shapes via including the Glimmer::UI::CustomShape module to add new shape keywords to the Glimmer GUI DSL / Canvas Shape DSL, representing shapes composed of a group of nested shapes (e.g. car shape representing a group of nested polygon shapes)
Hello, Custom Shape! Sample (redoes Hello, Shape! with the use of a class-based custom shape)
Support :max value for Canvas Shape DSL width and height, meaning fill up parent (useful for using rectangles as borders)
Upgrade to glimmer v1.2.0

4.18.6.3

Support Glimmer::SWT::Custom::Shape::PathSegment#dispose method
Amend Hello, Canvas Path! sample with ability to regenerate paths
Make tab_folder preinit all its tabs by default while supporting the SWT style of :initialize_tabs_on_select to init tabs on first select instead.
Support trimming line style symbols (no need to say line_ before each style. e.g. :line_solid becomes :solid) in Canvas Shape DSL line_style property
Support antialias true as an alternative to antialias :on, antialias false as an alternative to antialias :off, and antialias nil as an alternative to antialias :default

4.18.6.2

Hello, Canvas Data Binding! Sample
Update Stock Ticker sample to keep stock names visible when scrolling graphs off the screen
rgb keyword tolerance of nil values (converts to 0)
Canvas Path DSL Data-Binding
Added Glimmer::SWT::Custom::Shape::PathSegment #path and #root_path API methods to enable determining what path/root-path the path segment is part of.
Fixed issues with geometry calculation of path segments (especially line)

4.18.6.1

Fixed issues with Canvas Path DSL handling of connected vs non-connected path segments (including in geometry calculations)
Optimized Canvas Path DSL redraw performance by removing extra redraws
Fixed issues in the Hello, Canvas Path! sample and renamed to Stock Ticker
Added a new simpler Hello, Canvas Path! sample

4.18.6.0

Canvas Path DSL support (Alpha) for path as drawn or filled (fill: true) to the Canvas Shape DSL, supporting point, line (first point is auto-derived from previous point if not specified)
Hello, Canvas Path! sample showing a Stock Ticker with line curves for multiple company stocks, animated with randomly generated data, moving to the left out of screen second by second. Has multiple tabs demonstrating different types of paths for graphing/charting of different real world business applications: point, line, quad, cubic.
Fix issue to allow invocation of set_min_size off of scrolled_composite proxy directly (not just swt_widget), thus taking advantage of implicit auto_exec
Support Shape#content {} method just like WidgetProxy#content to enable reopening and adding nested shapes at runtime after initial construction
Support a path containing a quad bezier curve with point_array property
Support a path containing a cubic bezier curve with point_array property

4.18.5.5

Automatically recalculate default size (width/height) to accomodate nested shapes when changing x/y/width/height sticking out of parent from right or bottom.
Support special case of centering a nested shape with default x/y within a parent with default width/height calculated from nested shape
Consider Canvas Shape DSL support for LineAttributes line_dash_offset and line_miter_limit
Canvas Shape DSL Polygon include? does an outer/inner check of edge detection only
Ensure all Canvas Shape DSL properties are restored upon painting a shape to what they were prior to painting that shape
Fix issue with bringing high score dialog up in Tetris caused by latest dialog changes for supporting the new color_dialog and font_dialog

4.18.5.4

Support passing width, height as :default (or nil or not passed in if they are the last args) in all shapes that include other shapes to indicate they are calculated automatically from nested shapes, text/string extent, or otherwise defaulting to 0, 0
Support [:default, width_delta], [:default, height_delta] attributes for width and height, which add/subtract from defaults used for shape
Switch from use of :default with x_delta/y_delta to passing [:default, x_delta] or [:default, y_delta] (e.g. image(file, [:default, -30], :default) for x = default - 30 and y = default + 0)
Support a bounding box for all shapes, implementing #bounds (x, y, width, and height) and #size (width, height) for the ones that don't receive as parameters (like polygon)

4.18.5.3

Support nesting shapes within shapes, with relative positioning (meaning x, y coordinates are assumed relative to parent's x, y in nested shapes)
Support passing x, y coordinates as :default (or nil or not passed in if they are the last args) in all shapes, meaning they are centered within parent taking their width and height into account
Support default_x_delta, y_delta attributes, which add/subtract from defaults used for shape

4.18.5.2

Support checking if an arc shape accurately includes a point x,y coordinates within pie region only
Support checking if an oval shape includes a point x,y coordinates in oval region only (not its rectangular region)
Support checking if a focus shape includes a point x,y coordinates
Support checking point inclusion differently in drawed vs filled Rectangle (only check the drawn border when not filled)
Support checking point inclusion differently in drawed vs filled Oval (only check the drawn border when not filled)
Support checking point inclusion differently in drawed vs filled Arc (only check the drawn border when not filled)
Support #include?(x, y) and #contain?(x, y) methods in text shape
Fix point inclusion check for polyline
Fix issue with polygon check if it includes a point x,y coordinates (replace with available java.awt robust geometry algorithms)
Fix issue with transforms not working after the latest changes

4.18.5.1

Hello, Color Dialog! Sample
Hello, Font Dialog! Sample
Handle SWT RGB color data objects when setting colors on widgets (e.g. background)
Enhance Hello, Canvas! with Color selector via right-click menu
Fixed issue with tree multi selection throwing an exception

4.18.5.0

Automatic sync_exec usage from threads other than the GUI thread, thus absolving software engineers from the need to use sync_exec explicitly anymore.
auto_exec keyword to automatically use sync_exec with SWT code when needed (running from a thread other than GUI thread)
Implement sync_exec: option in bind keyword with table, tree, combo, and list data-binding (other data-binding types than the standard)
Add async_exec option to bind keyword (covering data_binding_expression.rb with async_exec properly)
Support tree multi-selection data-binding
Hello, Tree! sample
Enhance Hello, Canvas! with Shape Movement
Add Jars.lock to scaffold .gitignore file
Add Glimmer::GUI alias for Glimmer::UI module, thus permitting inclusion of Glimmer::GUI::CustomWidget, Glimmer::GUI::CustomShell, and Glimmer::GUI::CustomWindow
Provide a quick method for grabbing all available cursor/color options off of SWTProxy (SWTProxy.cursor_options, SWTProxy.cursor_styles, SWTProxy.color_options, SWTProxy.color_styles)
Remove explicit git gem dependency given that it is installed via juwelier during scaffolding and is not needed otherwise
Support partial image shape drawing by passing source and destination dimensions to image shape [documented in docs]
Support alternate Canvas Shape DSL syntax for image by passing nested properties
Canvas Shape DSL argument data-binding support for image
Support alternate Canvas Shape DSL syntax for rectangle by passing nested properties
Canvas Shape DSL argument data-binding support for rectangle(x, y, width, height, fill: false) standard rectangle, which can be optionally filled
Canvas Shape DSL argument data-binding support for rectangle(x, y, width, height, arcWidth = 60, arcHeight = 60, fill: false, round: true) round rectangle, which can be optionally filled, and takes optional extra round angle arguments
Canvas Shape DSL argument data-binding support for rectangle(x, y, width, height, vertical = true, fill: true, gradient: true) gradient rectangle, which is always filled, and takes an optional extra argument to specify true for vertical gradient (default) and false for horizontal gradient
Canvas Shape DSL argument data-binding support for arc(x, y, width, height, startAngle, arcAngle, fill: false) arc is part of a circle within an oval area, denoted by start angle (degrees) and end angle (degrees)
Canvas Shape DSL argument data-binding support for focus(x, y, width, height) this is just like rectangle but its foreground color is always that of the OS widget focus color (useful when capturing user interaction via a shape)
Canvas Shape DSL argument data-binding support for line(x1, y1, x2, y2) line
Canvas Shape DSL argument data-binding support for oval(x, y, width, height, fill: false) oval if width does not match heigh and circle if width matches height. Can be optionally filled.
Canvas Shape DSL argument data-binding support for point(x, y) point
Canvas Shape DSL argument data-binding support for polygon(pointArray, fill: false) polygon consisting of points, which close automatically to form a shape that can be optionally filled (when points only form a line, it does not show up as filled)
Canvas Shape DSL argument data-binding support for polyline(pointArray) polyline is just like a polygon, but it does not close up to form a shape, remaining open (unless the points close themselves by having the last point or an intermediate point match the first)
Canvas Shape DSL argument data-binding support for text(string, x, y, flags = nil) text with optional flags (flag format is swt(comma_separated_flags) where flags can be :draw_delimiter (i.e. new lines), :draw_tab, :draw_mnemonic, and :draw_transparent as explained in GC API)
Update Hello, Button!, Hello, Table! sample, Hello, Checkbox Group! sample, Hello, Radio Group! sample, Hello, Combo! sample, Hello, List Single Selection! sample, Hello, List Multi Selection! sample to utilize a CustomShell
Refactor all samples to rely on Glimmer::UI::CustomShell given its new class launch method for productive app declaration
Fix issue with logging remaining async in debug mode
Fix issue with combo, list, radio group, and checkbox group not supporting nested data-binding

4.18.4.11

Support creating images pixel by pixel with image(width, height) {|x,y| [r, g, b]} keyword, which takes a block with x, y coordinates based on the image width and height and returns a pixel foreground color per point
Add proper indentation in code_text upon hitting ENTER
Reset Canvas Shape DSL alpha value to 255 when not explicitly set on a shape (Apply in Hello, Canvas! Sample)
Provide terse syntax for building canvas objects (autodetecting its width and height)
Provide terse syntax for building :image_double_buffered canvas objects (autodetecting its width and height):
Center mandelbrot where mouse is clicked upon zoom
Fix issue with Mandelbrot sample off by one error on Cores selected via Menu
Fix use of on_events in code_text widget with lines mode true

4.18.4.10

Hello, Progress Bar!
Alias shell as window, Glimmer::UI::CustomShell as Glimmer::UI::CustomWindow, on_shell_xyz events as on_window_xyz events, and :shell_trim SWT style as :window_trim SWT Glimmer custom style
bind option of async_exec or sync_exec (e.g. bind(model, :property, async_exec: true)) to perform GUI updates from another thread safely
Show progress bar for Mandelbrot calculation
Mandelbrot Cores menu options to switch the number of CPU cores being used for calculation on the next zoom calculation cycle

4.18.4.9

Hello, Cursor! Sample
Log errors that occur in widget event listener blocks to help with troubleshooting
disposed? method for Shape objects
Add dispose_images: false, dispose_patterns: false options to Shape#dispose to avoid disposing images/patterns when needed
Mandelbrot background thread pre-calculation of future zoom levels
Mandelbrot menu bar menu items
Mandelbrot panning via scrollbars or dragging

4.18.4.8

Make image a top-level expression keyword
Default placing image on Canvas at coordinates 0, 0 if they are not specified (e.g. canvas {image some_image})
Support passing in color args directly to the pixel keyword as an rgb value array without using the color/rgb keyword, to improve performance for large pixel counts
Support Image Double Buffering by nesting an image built from shapes within a canvas
Shrink image of baseball background for Hello, Table! Sample to reduce the glimmer-dsl-swt gem size (recently bloated)
Fix issue with closing a canvas shell with pixel graphics freezing temporarily for a long time while disposing shapes
Fix issue with disposing image having shapes

4.18.4.7

Fixed issue with Tetris breaking with the latest Canvas Shape/Animation DSL performance optimizations

4.18.4.6

Mandlebrot Fractal Elaborate Sample
Optimize Canvas Shape/Animation DSL performance by combining multiple shapes in a single paint listener
Memoized attribute-to-SWT-property-method-name translation
Support a pixel static expression that is an optimized point, which takes a foreground hash property to bypass the dynamic DSL chain of responsibility

4.18.4.5

Added double_buffered SWT style as default for canvas widget to ensure smooth animations
Officially support timer_exec keyword to execute code asynchronously after time has elapsed
Added disposed? guard to animation frames regarding parent widget for extra safety if a widget was disposed in the middle of an animation
Auto-Dispose observers declared inside custom widgets and custom shells (during their construction with before_body or after_body) with the observe keyword.
Refactor Tetris sample to remove observer deregister calls now that they happen automatically

4.18.4.4

Ensure code_text line numbers text font matches that of the actual styled_text widget
Use after_read data binding option to update top pixel in code text line numbers after updating text (ensuring top_pixel remains in sync after text changes)
Remove unnecessary image copies in hello canvas transform and meta-sample samples

4.18.4.3

Fix flashing issue when using ShellProxy#pack_same_size on Windows
Double buffer Hello, Canvas Animation! Sample to remove flickering
Tetris - Added :double_buffered SWT style for Tetris Playfield and Block to avoid rendering flicker on Windows
Tetris - Substituted command key with control on Windows/Linux to make Tetris menu shortcuts work (e.g. CTRL+P pauses)
Tetris - Workaround for Windows issue with tetromino down invisibility upon holding down arrow key (now holding down does only one down)

4.18.4.2

Remove Tetris Clear button from High Score dialog (since it is available via menu and is rarely used)
Make right control button rotate right with Tetris
Avoid adding the widget listeners for read_only data-binding (instead of just relying on ModelBinding raising exceptions)
Clean up the meta sample code_text style by removing root composite margins/spacing
Made background for top label of Hello, Table! transparent for Windows
Fix glimmer samples command and Meta-Sample on Windows
Fix Tetris on Windows
Fix Hello, Canvas on Windows
Fix Hello, Canvas Transform when launched from glimmer samples
Fix Table editing write_on_cancel option use on Windows
Fix issue with adding content to the end of a styled text widget breaking line number scrolling
Fix issue with code_text not showing line numbers for extra new lines at the end

4.18.4.1

Support data-binding of code_text with lines enabled.
Upgrade the Glimmer Meta-Sample with code_text lines: {width: 2}
With code_text lines enabled, support setting/data-binding properties on root composite via nesting root { } underneath
With code_text lines enabled, support setting/data-binding properties on line numbers styled text widget via nesting line_numbers { } underneath
Update the Hello, Code Text! sample to remove borders and line numbers background in the JavaScript example
Fix issue with updating layout upon later reopening layout/layout data via proxy.content {} method

4.18.4.0

Extract line numbers part of text_editor widget from Gladiator into Glimmer code_text and make it an option (e.g. lines: true or lines: {width: 4})
code_text support select all via CMD+A
code_text support end of line via CTRL+E and beginning of line via CTRL+A
Support automatic inferrence of Canvas Shape DSL gradient option (just like fill option)
Support automatic inferrence of Canvas Shape DSL round option (just like fill option)
Add a background image to Hello, Table! Sample + font/color changes
Make Canvas patterns auto-reused and auto-disposed when canvas is disposed
Make Canvas images auto-dispose themselves when canvas is disposed
Update Hello, Code Text!
Change Glimmer Tetris Sample up arrow default to rotate left
Fix issue with "undefined method lex for nil:NilClass" in code_text

4.18.3.5

Add write_on_cancel: true option for TableProxy#edit_table_item to make cancel behave just like save for special cases where you cannot cancel except the edit mode itself
Make code_text custom widget support multiple code languages via language: 'java' option
Make code_text custom widget support multiple themes via theme: 'github' option
Hello, Code Text! Sample
Fix issue with High Score Dialog in Tetris Sample not sorting by scores correctly (string compare instead of numeric compare) until first game is completed
Fix issue with setting date geting rejected in date_time for month or day being incompatible with the year/month/day combo

4.18.3.4

Support building Image objects with the Glimmer Canvas Shape DSL
Tetris build icon image in-game by nesting Glimmer Shape DSL syntax
Canvas Make shapes auto-fill if you specify a background only (no need to say fill: true) or not fill if you specify a foreground only
Tetris option to switch Up Arrow between Instant Down, Rotate Right, and Rotate Left

4.18.3.3

Support Table data binding read_only_sort: true option to allow visual sorting without affecting model data
on_quit to
Tetris Add lines and level to High Score Dialog
Tetris Immediate Drop on Arrow Up
Tetris Pause on showing High Score Dialog
Tetris Make High Scores -> Show a check menu item
Tetris Disable pause button upon showing High Score Dialog
Fix Quit Tetris CMD+Q shortcut by adding on_quit event to display
Tetris Fix escape button upon entering high score name
If WidgetBinding encounters a disposed widget, it deregisters all observables that it is observing

4.18.3.2

Tetris High Scores
Tetris Modify High Score Player Name
Tetris Show High Scores (Menu Item + Accelerator)
Tetris add a menu item with beep enablement option
Tetris Clear High Scores
Tetris Add left and right alt (option) buttons as alternative to shift for rotation. Use left ctrl as rotate left. Use a, s, d as left, down, right.
Fix issues relating to setting parenthood with custom widgets before building their body (instead of after)
Fix issues relating to not respecting arity of passed in table editing callbacks: before_write, after_write, and after_cancel

4.18.3.1

Provide an auto_sync_exec all data-binding config option to automatically sync_exec GUI calls from other threads instead of requiring users to use sync_exec on model attribute-change logic. Default value to false.
Have CustomShell::launch method take options to pass to custom shell keyword invocation
Update Glimmer Meta-Sample to load entire gem into user directory (since some new samples rely on images)
Update Glimmer Meta-Sample to display errors in a dialog instead of a message_box to allow scrolling
Removed newly added CustomShell::shutdown as unnecessary (could just do CustomShell::launchd_custom_shell.close)
Supporting deregistering Display listeners just like standard listeners via deregister
Enhance performance of excluded keyword check
Remove CustomWidget support for multiple before_body/after_body blocks instead of one each since it is not needed.
Add new :fill_screen style for shell to start app filling the screen size (not full screen mode though)
Tetris Menu Bar with Game Menu -> Start, Pause, Restart, and Exit
Tetris refactor mutation methods to end with bangs
Tetris Stop game if user does not play again in the end (instead of closing it)
End Tetris Thread loop gracefully if game over is encountered
Tetris use more observers instead of callbacks to Game
Turn Tetris::Model::Game class from a singleton class to a standard class supporting instances
Fix issue of tetris keyword not found when run from meta-sample app

4.18.3.0

Canvas Transform DSL (DSL declared Transform objects are auto-disposed after getting used by their parent shape)
Canvas support a top-level Transform DSL fluent interface for methods that use Transform arguments manually (e.g. tr1 = transform.rotate(90).translate(0, -100))
Hello, Canvas Transformation!

4.18.2.5

ColorProxy args now are automatically fit into 0..255 bounds upon use of the color/rgb/rgba keywords
Canvas Shape DSL (Property) Data-Binding support (No Argument Data-Binding support yet)
Add a more bevel 3D look to Tetris blocks
Use flyweight pattern with colors
Use flyweight pattern with widget classes
Use flyweight pattern with custom widget classes
Optimized performance of Canvas Shape DSL
Optimized performance of Tetris game
Fixed issue with top-level sync_exec/async_exec use randomly bombing

4.18.2.4

Tetris scoring
Tetris eliminated Line tracking
Tetris level tracking and speed-ups
Tetris preview upcoming tetromino shape
Added parent_proxy to CustomWidget and CustomShell classes
Update CustomShell#center and ShellProxy#center to center_within_display to avoid clash with row_layout center property
Fixed issue with shell/dialog/custom-shell not maintaining parent when not passed
Fix Tetris sideways edge detection

4.18.2.3

Added Tetris Elaborate Sample
Added support for CustomShell ::launch and ::shutdown class methods to treat a top-level custom shell as a self contained launchable app (saving you from writing boilerplate code for launching Glimmer applications)

4.18.2.2

Fixed issue with processing shape color due to missing Color class package name

4.18.2.1

Ensure drawing image works in Shape DSL
Support passing image as simply an image path or image proxy to Shape DSL image method

4.18.2.0

Canvas animation start method (useful if animation had a frame count limit or cycle count limit and needed to be started again after it stopped)
Canvas animation stop method
Canvas animation restart method (restarts from frame 1)
Canvas animation started? # meaning it is animating
Canvas animation stopped? # meaning it has stopped animating
Canvas animation duration_limit option
Make gradient/round rectangles in Shape DSL receive an option of gradient: true and round: true instead of prefix
Canvas Shape DSL support for Background/Foreground Pattern (NOTE: not extensively tested yet)
Canvas Shape DSL smart defaults for background/foreground depending on shape being drawn
Canvas Shape DSL smart defaults for fill option depending on shape being drawn
Added fallback font "Courier" for code_text widget when "Consolas" is not available.

4.18.1.1

Add smart defaults for round rectangle angles (defaults to 60 degrees angles)
Add smart default for gradient rectangle vertical option
Small update to Hello, Canvas! Sample
Convert SWT style symbol to SWT style integer if method takes integer but receives a symbol (or string)
Make polygon not require [] for its array args
Allow cycle to receive splatted array as varargs
Change references to Display.setAppName and Display.setAppVersion to Display.app_name = and Display.app_version =
Default Glimmer app name to "Glimmer" (instead of previous "SWT") unless Display.app_name = "Somename" is set by consumer before instantiating first display
Set default background to system widget background default for fill shapes
Set default foreground to black for draw shapes
Fix issue with shapes always requiring a block (even an empty one) to render
Fix issue with animation requiring changes to canvas directly in addition to shapes
Fix issue with glimmer list:gems:dsl command
Fix issue with scaffolding still depending on git-glimmer despite being merged back to git gem

4.18.1.0

Canvas Shape DSL
Hello, Canvas! Sample
Animation DSL
Hello, Canvas Animation! Sample
Fixed issue with async_exec not working in ShellProxy when delegate widget is nil

4.18.0.2

Minor update on Hello, Dialog! Sample
Upgrade to glimmer v1.0.7

4.18.0.1

Hello, Dialog! Sample
Added Glimmer icon to Glimmer Meta-Sample (Sample of Samples)
Upgrade Scaffolded projects to JRuby v9.2.14.0
Switch back to official git gem v1.8.1 now that glimmer-git gem branch is merged into it
Fix issue with not reporting exception encountered in editing a tree item if consumer code had a bug

4.18.0.0

Upgrade to SWT v4.18
Upgrade to JRuby v9.2.14.0
Apply all WidgetProxy property converters upon normal setting of properties too (not just in DSL) (like some_widget.background = color_symbol)
Update Hello, Menu Bar! sample to show accelerators on menu items
Have the swt keyword (SWTProxy) support accepting a string character (to build an accelerator style)
Make accelerator property accept symbols and character directly (without swt)
Write meta-sample changes to user directory to avoid permission issues
Zero margin_left, margin_right, margin_top, margin_bottom in layouts given that margin_width and margin_height are set by default
Prevent editing/launching meta-sample from Glimmer Meta-Sample
Fix enablement on menu (as opposed to menu_item, where it works)
Fix issue relating to background image scaling on resize of widget

4.17.10.8

Support editing sample code in the Glimmer Meta-Sample to enable experimentation and learning
Add a "Reset" button to the Glimmer Meta-Sample to allow resetting sample code changes
Refactor/revise hello_message_box.rb and hello_pop_up_context_menu.rb samples
Upgrade to glimmer 1.0.6

4.17.10.7

Loosened dependencies on most Glimmer author-owned gems
Refactored/Simplified/Fixed Hello, Link! Sample

4.17.10.6

Hello, Link! Sample
Refactor hello list samples

4.17.10.5

Hello, Button! Sample

4.17.10.4

Do not select first row in a table by default (keep unselected)
Prevented extra call to model data in table items data-binding
Upgraded to glimmer v1.0.5

4.17.10.3

Fixed issue in StyledText data-binding relating to capturing selection changes on mouse click

4.17.10.2

Upgraded glimmer gem to version 1.0.4
Fixed issues relating to data-binding styled_text widget

4.17.10.1

Upgraded glimmer gem to version 1.0.3
Upgraded rouge gem to version 3.25.0

4.17.10.0

Support table editing via date_time for date/time values
Support table default sort configuration via sort_property
Support table default sort configuration via sort block
Support table default sort configuration via sort_by block
Hello, Table! Sample editor :date_time, property: :date_time in
Hello, Table! Sample label for (Baseball Game Schedule)
Hello, Table! Sample combo for selecting nlds, nlcs, alds, alcs, world series
Hello, Table! Sample promotion field that indicates things like Free Bobblehead, Free Towel, Free Umbrella, etc...
ShellProxy#include_focus_control?
Fix issue with table selection data-binding when in single selection mode vs multi
Hello, Spinner! Sample

4.17.9.0

Add table style :editable to hook editing listener on mouse click automatically (instead of manually via on_widget_selected)
Support table editing via spinner for integer values
date_time widget official data-binding support of date_time, date, time, year, month, day, hours, minutes, and seconds
date widget alias for date_time(:date)
time widget alias for date_time(:time)
calendar widget alias for date_time(:calendar)
date_drop_down widget alias for date_time(:date, :drop_down)
Hello, Date Time! Sample

4.17.8.3

Hello, Table! Sample
Disable editing on a column with editor :none
Improve code_text performance immensely by only styling the lines being shown upon editing
Fix dead spots with syntax highlighting in some files in Gladiator like file.rb

4.17.8.2

Hello, Group! Sample

4.17.8.1

Fixed an issue in Windows with code_text

4.17.8.0

Officially Support SWT FileDialog with the file_dialog keyword (was unofficially supported before via standard SWT)
Officially Support SWT DirectoryDialog with the directory_dialog keyword (was unofficially supported before via standard SWT)
Hello, File Dialog! Sample
Hello, Directory Dialog! Sample
Prevent tree items data-binding from updating if no tree data change occurred
Performance optimization for code_text syntax highlighting through caching

4.17.7.0

checkbox_group built-in custom widget
Hello, Checkbox Group! Sample
Refactor radio_group to render labels instead of relying on radio button text since they are better stylable
Refactor Glimmer Meta-Sample to use radio_group instead of radio
Fix issue with ExpandBar fill_layout with the extra element at the end (remove it)

4.17.6.0

New radio_group built-in Glimmer custom widget
Hello, Radio! Sample
Hello, Radio Group! Sample
Hello, Checkbox! Sample

4.17.5.0

Support auto-scaling by aspect ratio of width and height (write specs)
Support SWT ExpandBar via expand_bar keyword
Hello, Expand Bar! Sample
Hello, Styled Text! Sample
Use expand_bar in Glimmer Meta-Sample

4.17.4.2

Support StyledText data-binding of caret_offset, selection_count, selection, top_index, and top_pixel, useful for code_text
Support width, height hash options for ImageProxy and image properties on widgets
Default SWT styles for tool_bar (:border) and tool_item (:push)

4.17.4.1

Optimize code_text line style listener algorithm or avoid setting code_text style via listener for performance reasons
Optimize code_text syntax highlighting by not lexing except when content changes (e.g. during scrolling, do not lex)

4.17.4.0

Glimmer sample app to launch samples (sample of samples meta-sample)
Syntax Color Highlighting in meta-sample
Make sash_form weights accept splat array elements (not wrapped in [])
Make sash_form weights not get set till the closing of the sash_form (to allow putting it above content instead of below as originally required by SWT)
Replace dependency on tty-markdown gem with dependency on rouge gem instead
Remove rake tasks sample:list, sample:code and sample:run
Add rake task samples to point to the new Glimmer Meta-Sample
Have meta-sample load samples from gems

4.17.3.0

glimmer scaffold:desktopify[appname,website] Mac
glimmer scaffold:desktopify[appname,website] Windows
glimmer scaffold:desktopify[appname,website] Linux (have scaffolding include the glimmer-cw-browser-chromium gem in scaffolded app on Linux)
Remove the native packaging from Linux scaffolding since it is not officially supported
Add gem packaging as part of scaffolding on Linux
Launch the app at the end of scaffolding in Linux
Provide a glimmer package:gem task
Add support for scaffolding "app/scaffolded_app/launch" and "lib/namespace/custom_shell/launch" to enable launching SWT apps in Glimmer DSL for Opal without changing a line of code
Add a binary executable shell in "app" mode (just like "custom shell gem" mode)
Have glimmer packaging check the Java version and give a warning if an unsupported version is used.

4.17.2.4

New glimmer run glimmer command task.
Add built in support for handling jar file paths like that in ImageProxy code processing "uri:classloader" path
Document that gif background_image only works without on_top and no_trim styles in Windows
Give a good error message when Git is not properly setup for Glimmer Scaffolding
Give an error message when attempting to scaffold over an already scaffolded directory
Fix issue on Windows regarding use of the new EXPERIMENTAL Animated gif support in the composite#background_image property
Fix SWTProxy.deconstruct method

4.17.2.3

Maintain image file path upon scaling an ImageProxy
Add a glimmer rake task that wraps the juwelier rake gemspec:generate task
Accept ImageProxy as arg for image and background_image property methods
(EXPERIMENTAL) Animate gif images when set as a background_image on a composite
Fix issue with table redraw after data-binding changes leaving old removed table items visible (even if user cannot interact with anymore)
Fix issue with running package rake task from glimmer command TUI

4.17.2.2

Small updates/refactorings in samples
Fix issue with displaying glimmer command tasks on Windows

4.17.2.1

Add --bundler=group option to glimmer command
Add --pd option to glimmer command
Hello, Custom Widget! sample
Hello, Custom Shell! sample

4.17.2.0

glimmer command --bundler option to run with bundler/setup (instead of picking gems directly)
Remove Gemfile dependency on Juwelier since it does not relate to GUI (delaying install of it till scaffolding)
Remove Gemfile dependency on Warbler since it does not relate to GUI (delaying install of it till packaging)
Move Package and Scaffold classes under Glimmer::RakeTask (Glimmer::Package.javapackager_extra_args is now Glimmer::RakeTask::Package.javapackager_extra_args)
Fixed issue with scaffolding spec/spec_helper.rb with Juwelier (since it changed from Jeweler)

4.17.1.1

Fixed issue with showing glimmer command tasks twice

4.17.1.0

Switch to Juwelier gem (from Jeweler)
Load samples from Glimmer gems automatically (no need for configuration)
Empty body validation in CustomWidget (and CustomShell by inheritance)
require 'bundler/setup' in glimmer command if a Gemfile is present (disabled with GLIMMER_BUNDLER_SETUP=false env var)
Upgrade to rvm-tui version 0.2.2

4.17.0.0

Upgrade to SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit) 4.17 and sync version with SWT going forward
Upgrade to Glimmer (DSL Engine) 1.0.0
Sync version number with the SWT version number (first two numbers, leaving the last two as minor and patch)

0.6.9

Log error messages when running inside sync_exec or async_exec (since you cannot rescue their errors from outside them)
Exclude gladiator from required libraries during sample listing/running/code-display
Ensured creating a widget with swt_widget keyword arg doesn't retrigger initializers on its parents if already initialized
Extract WidgetProxy#interpret_style to make it possible to extend with further styles with less code (e.g. CDateTimeProxy adds CDT styles by overriding method)

0.6.8

Support external configuration of WidgetProxy::KEYWORD_ALIASES (e.g. radio is an alias for button(:radio))
Support external configuration of Glimmer::Config::SAMPLE_DIRECTORIES for the glimmer sample commands from Glimmer gems

0.6.7

Fix issue with re-initializing layout for already initialized swt_widget being wrapped by WidgetProxy via swt_widget keyword args
Change naming of scaffolded app bundle for mac to start with a capital letter (e.g. com.evernote.Evernote not com.evernote.evernote)

0.6.6

Add User Profile sample from DZone article
Colored Ruby syntax highlighting for sample:code and sample:run tasks courtesy of tty-markdown
Support check as alias to checkbox DSL keyword for Button widget with :check style.
Validate scaffolded custom shell gem name to ensure it doesn't clash with a built in Ruby method
GLIMMER_LOGGER_ASYNC env var for disabling async logging when needed for immediate troubleshooting purposes
Fix issue with table equivalent sort edge case (that is two sorts that are equivalent causing an infinite loop of resorting since the table is not correctly identified as sorted already)

0.6.5

Added the rake-tui gem as a productivity tool for arrow key navigation/text-filtering/quick-triggering of rake tasks
Use rake-tui gem in glimmer command by default on Mac and Linux

0.6.4

Display glimmer-dsl-swt gem version in glimmer command usage
Include Glimmer Samples in Gem and provide access via glimmer samples:list, glimmer samples:run, and glimmer samples:code commands
Fix issue with glimmer not listing commands in usage without having a Rakefile
Fix issue with passing --log-level or --debug to the girb command

0.6.3

Scaffolding:

Add mnemonic to Preferences menu in scaffolding
Make bin/glimmer, bin/girb, and scaffolded bin/script files call jruby instead of ruby in the shebang
Launch scaffolded app on Linux without using packaging (via glimmer bin/app_script)
Add all of Mac, Windows, and Linux icons upon scaffolding (not just for the OS we are on)

Packaging:

Perform gemspec:generate first during packaging
Ensure lock_jars step happens before package:jar to have vendor jar-dependencies packaged inside JAR file
Change lock_jar vendor-dir to vendor/jars and add it to .gitignore
Handle naming of -Bwin.menuGroup properly for Windows in scaffolded custom shell gems (and apps) (e.g. instead of Glimmer Cs Timer set to Timer only or namespace when available in a CustomShell)
Support passing javapackager extra args after glimmer package:native command inside double-quotes (e.g. glimmer package:native "-title 'CarMaker'")
JDK14 experimental jpackage support as a packaging alternative to javapackager (Not recommended for production use and must specify JDK8 as JRE with an additional option since SWT doesn't support JDK14 yet)

GUI:

Add radio and checkbox table editors
Add content method to DisplayProxy
Add content method to MessageBox
WidgetProxy now supports taking a fully constructed swt_widget argument instead of init_args

CI:

Add Windows to Travis-CI

Issues:

Fix issue with TableProxy editor rejecting false and nil values set on items
Fix issue with message_box getting stuck upon closing when no parent in its args
Fix transient issue with git bash not interpretting glimmer package[msi] as a rake task (yet as packages instead as it resolves [msi] by picking s to match packages local directory)
Fix issue with getting "Namespace is required!" when running glimmer scaffold[app_name] or glimmer scaffold:gem:customshell[name,namespace] (AndyObtiva/glimmer#5)

0.6.2

Set default margins on layouts (FilLayout, RowLayout, GridLayout, and any layout that responds to marginWidth and marginHeight)
Have scrolled_composite autoset min width and min height based on parent size
Add radio, toggle, checkbox, and arrow widgets as shortcuts to button widget with different styles
Add parent_proxy method to WidgetProxy
Add post_add_content hook method to WidgetProxy
Add image keyword to create an ImageProxy and be able to scale it
Fix issue with ImageProxy not being scalable before swt_image is called

0.6.1

Lock JARs task for jar-dependencies as part of packaging
Add 'vendor' to require_paths for custom shell gem
Add Windows icon to scaffold
Generate scaffolded app/custom-shell-gem gemspec as part of packaging (useful for jar-dependencies)
Support a package:native type option for specifying native type
Add a preferences menu for Windows (since it does not have one out of the box)
Fix app scaffold on Windows by having it generate jeweler gem first (to have gemspec for jar-dependencies)
Fix girb for Windows

0.6.0

Upgrade to JRuby 9.2.13.0
Upgrade to SWT 4.16
Support font keyword
Support cursor setting via SWT style symbols directly
Support cursor keyword

0.5.6

Fixed issue with excluding on_swt_* listeners from Glimmer DSL engine processing in CustomWidget
Add shell minimum_size to Tic Tac Toe sample for Linux

0.5.5

Add 'package' directory to 'config/warble.rb' for packaging in JAR file
Fix issue with image path conversion to imagedata on Mac vs Windows

0.5.4

Fix issue with uri:classloader paths generated by JRuby when using File.expand_path inside packaged JAR files

0.5.3

Set widget image/images property via string file path(s) just like background_image

0.5.2

Added :full_selection to table widget default SWT styles

0.5.1

Made packaging -BsystemWide option true on the Mac only

0.5.0

Upgrade to glimmer 0.10.1 to take advantage of the new logging library
Make Glimmer commands support acronym, dash and no separator (default) alternatives
Support scaffold commands for gems with scaffold:gem:cw pattern (cs as other suffix)
Support listing commands with list:gems:cw pattern (cs as other suffix)
Add -BinstalldirChooser=true / -Bcopyright=string / -Bvendor=string / -Bwin.menuGroup=string to Package class to support Windows packaging
Configure 'logging' gem to generate log files on Windows/Linux/Mac and syslog where available
Configure 'logging' gem to do async buffered logging via a thread to avoid impacting app performance with logging
Make GLIMMER_LOGGER_LEVEL env var work with logging gem
Update all logger calls to be lazy blocks
Add logging formatter (called layout in logging library)
Support legacy rake tasks for package and scaffold (the ones without gem/gems nesting)
GLIMMER_LOGGER_LEVEL env var disables async logging in logging gem to help with immediate troubleshooting
Create 'log' directory if :file logging device is specified
Remember log level when reseting logger after the first time
Dispose all tree items when removed
Dispose all table items when removed
Remove table model collection observers when updating
Make message_box instantiate a shell if none passed in
Eliminate unimportant (false negative) log messages getting reported as ERROR when running test suite
Sort table on every change to maintain its sort according to its sorted column

0.4.1

Fixed an issue with async_exec and sync_exec keywords not working when used from a module that mixes Glimmer

0.4.0

Support SWT listener events that take multiple-args (as in custom libraries like Nebula GanttChart)
Drop on_event_* keywords in favor of on_swt_* for SWT constant events
Remove Table#table_editor_text_proxy in favor of Table#table_editor_widget_proxy
Set WidgetProxy/ShellProxy/DisplayProxy data('proxy') objects
Set CustomWidget data('custom_widget') objects
Set CustomShell data('custom_shell') objects
Delegate all WidgetProxy/ShellProxy/DisplayProxy/CustomWidget/CustomShell methods to wrapped SWT object on method_missing

0.3.1

Support multiple widgets for editing table items

0.3.0

Update API for table column sorting to pass models not properties to sorting blocks
Support table multi-column sort_property
Support table additional_sort_properties array
Display table column sorting direction sign
Update Scaffold MessageBox reference to message_box DSL keyword
Fix issue with different sorting blocks not reseting each other on different table columns

0.2.4

Make table auto-sortable
Configure custom sorters for table columns
Support for ScrolledComposite smart default behavior (auto setting of content, h_scroll/v_scroll styles, and horizontal/vertical expand)

0.2.3

Upgraded to Glimmer 0.9.4
Add vendor directory to warble config for glimmer package command.
Make WidgetProxy register only the nearest ancestor property observer, calling on_modify_text and on_widget_selected for widgets that support these listeners, or otherwise the widget specific customizations
Add glimmer package:clean command
Make scaffolding gems fail when no namespace is specified
Add a hello menu samples

0.2.2

Support Combo custom-text-entry data-binding
Remove Gemfile.lock from .gitignore in scaffolding apps/gems

0.2.1

Support latest JRuby 9.2.12.0
Support extra args (other than style) in WidgetProxy just like ShellProxy
Specify additional Java packages to import when including Glimmer via Glimmer::Config::import_swt_packages=(packages)
Add compatibility for ActiveSupport (automatically call ActiveSupport::Dependencies.unhook! if ActiveSupport is loaded)
Fix bug with table items data binding ignoring bind converters

0.2.0

Simplified Drag and Drop API by being able to attach drag and drop event listener handlers directly on widgets
Support drag and drop events implicitly on all widgets without explicit drag source and drop target declarations
Set drag and drop transfer property to :text by default if not specified
Automatically set event.detail inside on_drag_enter to match the first operation specified in drop_target (make sure it doesn't cause problems if source and target have differnet operations, denying drop gracefully)
Support dnd keyword for easily setting event.detail (e.g. dnd(:drop_copy)) inside on_drag_enter (and consider supporting symbol directly as well)
Support Drag and Drop on Custom Widgets
Fix hello_computed.rb sample (convert camelcase to underscore case for layout data properties)

0.1.3

Added 'org.eclipse.swt.dnd' to glimmer auto-included Java packages
Updated Tic Tac Toe sample to use new message_box keyword
Add DragSource and DropTarget transfer expression that takes a symbol or symbol array representing one or more of the following: FileTransfer, HTMLTransfer, ImageTransfer, RTFTransfer, TextTransfer, URLTransfer
Set default style DND::DROP_COPY in DragSource and DropTarget widgets
Support Glimmer::SWT::DNDProxy for handling Drop & Drop styles
Implemented list:* rake tasks for listing Glimmer custom widget gems, custom shell gems, and dsl gems
Support querying for Glimmer gems (not just listing them)
Fix bug with table edit remaining when sorting table or re-listing (in contact_manager.rb sample)
Update icon of scaffolded apps to Glimmer logo

0.1.2

Extracted common model data-binding classes into glimmer

0.1.1

Fixed issue with packaging after generating gemspec
Fixed issue with enabling development mode in glimmer command

0.1.0

Extracted Glimmer DSL for SWT (glimmer-dsl-swt gem) from Glimmer

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