[paragui-users] It's 1.1.7 Time

[Alexander Pipelka]

We're straight on the way towards the completion of our roadmap targets.
Next stop: ParaGUI 1.1.7. The new release introduces some major
performance boosts and the needed API cleanup.

Special thanks go to Sebastian Haag for his great work.
Maybe I should mention that there is a (rather uncomplete) API
documentation available.

All that stuff can be found in the "Download" section.

I don't know how many people still use the mailing lists. I would
suggest all of you out there should use the forum on the website (it's
easier).

Here's the changelog for the 1.1.7 release:

- optimized (software)cursor drawing
- removed obsoleted PG_Widget::[Move|Size]Window methods
- added custom itemheight to PG_DropDown::AddItem()
- dynamic resizing of listbox height in PG_DropDown
- disabled alpha for application background
- optimized PG_RectList
- added docs
- major rewrite of PG_WidgetList (new class PG_ScrollArea)
- fixed many widget child-handling bugs
- the new design should simply do it *right*
- removed obsolete PG_WidgetListEx class
- reworked nearly all class constructors
- splitted PG_WidgetList in PG_ScrollWidget / PG_WidgetList
- PG_RichEdit is now inherited from PG_ScrollWidget
- PG_ScrollBar / PG_Slider cleanup
- applied patches from Sebastian Haag:
made AddWidget() / AddItem() obsolete (see roadmap for more info)
added param 'bool bRecursive' to PG_Widget::SetTransparency (set to
false by default)
added PG_Button::SetTransparency(Uint8 t, bool bRecursive) to work
properly
when a parent widget sets transparency recursively
improved graphical update of software cursor a bit by minimizing rect to
be updated
merged multiple calls to SDL_UpdateRects to improve performance
(see SDL reference for more info)
added PG_DropDown::GetIndent()
added PG_Label::GetIndent()
added PG_ListBox::GetIndent()
fixed PG_ListBox::GetSelectedItems() (sorry, my fault :))
fixed: sometimes PG_ListBox items were drawn although parent was not
visible
removed unnecessary BringToFront() in PG_DropDown::handleButtonClick()
improved graphical update in PG_ListBox::SelectItem()
added 24 bpp support for fonts (thanks to Steve McCrea!)
fixed paratest.cpp VC.NET warnings
made some changes to paratest.cpp to make use of
PG_Button::SetTransparency()
and the new way of adding items to lists
made some minor cleanups
fixed VC complaint concerning PG_Application::GetScreen()
added PG_ListBox::SetAlignment() / GetAlignment()
added PG_DropDown::SetAlignment() / GetAlignment()
added PG_Window::GetIcon()
modified PG_Application::SetCaption() to use ParaGUI's SetIcon()
insteadof SDL's
fixed a potential crash occuring when having only one widget in a
PG_RectList
made PG_ListBox / PG_DropDown::SetIndent() work before adding items
added a simple mouse wheel handling for PG_ListBox and PG_DropDown
made PG_Widget's destructor call RemoveFromWidgetList() only if widget
has no parent
added "break"s to PG_Window::handleButtonClick()
connected a slider's sigSlideEnd signal in paratest.cpp
made use of new SetAlignment() method in paratest.cpp
- applied patches from Ulf Lorenz
documented pgsurfacecache.h
remove obsolete code from drawline.cpp

Have fun

Alex