DelphiTools, SamplingProfiler and General Delphi News
DWScript source code recently introduced a newcomer: TRefCountedObject.
This base class takes the place of TObject in dwsUtils, and is now present throughout the DWScript code. What it adds is, well, a manually reference-counted class.
With SmartMS v1.0.1 out you can now use WebGL!
Download HelloWebGL.zip (51 kB), it contains the first demo (in .opp form and pre-compiled), as well as the initial WebGLScene units which you’ll have to copy to your “Libraries” folder (the WebGL import units should have been delivered in v1.0.1).
This is an informal announcement that work has begun on WebGL and bringing some of GLScene browser-side!
If you’ve got a a WebGL-capable browser (see “compatibility” below) click on the following links to see it in action:
Recent additions to DWScript… as well as for next Smart MS version 😉
With the SmartMS release a deal has also been concluded between Creative IT and Optimale Systemer AS, to safeguard their investments and ensure future evolutions, the JavaScript CodeGen portion of DWScript will no longer be developed as open-source, but will be exclusive to Optimale Systemer AS. Sales permitting, this should allow to dedicate more time to improving JavaScript code generation, optimizations and debugging support 🙂
Support for partial classes has been added to DWScript: they can be declared as “class partial (TAncestor)” as well as with the Oxygene syntax “partial class (TAncestor)” syntax.
In the SVN version, DWScript now has experimental support for helpers. This is a generalization of Delphi’s class helpers, which can be applied to (almost) any type. You can also have multiple helpers per type.
Here is a summary of the changes of recent happenings in the SVN.
Note that this list doesn’t include the very latest changes and features, which will get an article of their own.
Amongst the samples included with Delphi, you can find a “Meteors” clone. With SmartMobileStudio approaching the next beta milestone, I gave it a run at compiling old Delphi code, VCL, TCanvas-based, that was never intended to run Web-side… but now does! Click here or the image below to test it!
Oxygene syntax (aka Delphi Prism) for enumerations was recently added to DWScript, with both enum and flags contextual keywords.
Enumerations scoping was already in, but optional, using these keywords make scoping explicitly required.