Cappuccino News 2014 November 15th

Here’s a quick update on what’s new with Cappuccino for the last two weeks.

Community

• Multi-Nib Applications with Interface Builder by Andrew Hankinson has been added to this blog, so take a look if you missed it.

Cappuccino

New features

• Introducing xCodeCapp 3.2:
  • Each time xCodeCapp processes a file, it now also processes it through objj to issue more warnings.
  • The menu item Check Compilation Issues has been added.
  • The error/warning panel can be configured to stay on top.
  • (Dogild and primalmotion - PR and PR)

• When building your application you can now disable the CommonJS build phase by setting the system environement variable IGNORE_ENV_COMMONJS. (primalmotion - PR)

• .gitignore now ignores the .tm_properties. (primalmotion - PR)

• New options have been added to the command line tool objj:

  • -h or --help to get help
  • -Ior --objj-include-paths to specify the frameworks to be used
  • -m or --multifiles to launch the command on multiple files
  • (Dogild - PR)

Changes/Fixes

• Old CI scripts have been removed from the Tools directory. (ahankinson - PR)

• NativeHost is no longer built by default. (ahankinson - PR)

• The CPButtonBar didn’t remove old buttons from their superview, now it does. (primalmotion - PR)

• The popUpList of a CPComboBox is now a childWindow of the control’s window. (primalmotion - PR)

• Fixed some CPComboBox APIs. You can now set the font, alignment, intercellSpacing and itemHeight of the CPComboBox without listDelegate. (primalmotion - PR)

• The content-inset of a CPComboBox has been changed for better alignment. (Dogild - PR)

• The text cursor of a CPTextField didn’t take the content-inset into account. Now it does, like in Cocoa. (Dogild - PR)

• When switching between two CPPlatformWindows, the new targeted window didn’t get the first CPEvent which instead went to the previous window. This has been fixed. (Dogild - PR)

• You can now open a CPPanel in a CPPlatformWindow other than the main one. (Dogild - PR)

Cucapp

New features

• Cucapp now provides an API to record a set of events and then replay it. This could be very useful when debugging your application as you won’t need to reproduce your actions over and over. (Dogild - PR)

Changes/Fixes

• When using the Ruby function simulate_keyboard_events(string, flags), we now make sure to transform the given string into a string object. (minimilk - PR)

• Cucapp now works with the last version of Thin to resolve an issue when executing tests with a large application. (little-dude - PR)

• The CPMouseMoved events generated by Cucapp between two simulated events are now simulated in different call stacks. This is more similar to real user interaction. (Dogild - PR)

• The method find_cucappIdentifier has been replaced by the method find_control(aKey, aValue). This method prints every controls relative to the given key and value. (Dogild - PR)

Work in progress

As you may know, Apajarita is currently working on the integration of Cappuccino and Node.

Just to make you dream, this is a sneak peak of the next objj-compiler: