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VDKBuilder 2.0.0
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*	Porting to Gtk+ 2.0.0
*	Redesigned interface
*	New project wizard
*	New source editor based on GtkTextView
*	Class browser
*	More new widgets support
*	More plugins
*	Many minor bug fixes
*	Finally a VDK/VDKBuilder tutorial

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VDKBuilder 1.2.5
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*	Bug fix that makes now builder handling horizontal
	radio button group correctly.
*	Added an hints editor, now users can add/remove/change their own 
	editor hints
*	Implemented a projects-reopen feature based on a lru algorithm.
	User can reopen last recently used projects (up to 10)
*	Many minor bug fixes and enhancements.

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VDKBuilder 1.2.4
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*	Added  translation to french to nls support.
	---
	IDE
	---
*	Enhanced widgets moving/resizing with mouse into VDKFixed container.

*	If Form has a pixmap as background, this is set using
	a VDKRawPixmap* as form data member (private) named: _backpix.

* 	Implemented Native Language Support (NLS)
	VDKBuilder supports now NLS. In a limited way however
	since it takes care to write the code to support NLS
	on gui files side only (thus those files that are
	overwritten by builder and out of user control).
	The remaining part of the NLS stuff is under user
	responsibility that must write his own code to support
	NSL and take care of use gettextize, editing configure.in, 
	aclocal.m4, POTFILES.in, po.* files and other necessary 
	activities.
	At this end if the user try to autogen more than once (most
	likely) he/she will be prompted if want save configure.in,
	Makefile.am and acconfig.h as configure.in.old, Makefile.am.old
	and acconfig.h.old since they will be overwritten by builder 
	and he/she could loose 	the previous written NLS instructions 
	into those files.
	User can use configure.in.old,Makefile.am.old and acconfig.h.old
	to restore NLS instructions on newly written configure.in,
	Makefile.am and acconfig.h
	To help new users a short tutorial in how to build a nls application
	with builder can be found into example/nls_HOWTO.

*	About form revisited and (hopefully) made more pleasant.
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	GUI Editor
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*	Now vdkbuilder uses modified version of gtkextext as vdkb editor base.
	Modified version stolen from glimmer <http://glimmer.sourceforge.net>,
	modified gtkextext seems to be faster, more stable and with some extra
	features.
*	Added auto indent capability (user customizable with environment
	dialog). Hitting enter key triggers code indenting.
*	Added show/hide line numbers (user customizable),this option 
	operates for all code editors.



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VDKBuilder 1.2.3
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	---
	IDE
	---
*	Adding an argument to command line:
	$ vdkb <file.prj> 
	will run vdkbuilder on file.prj
	Gnome and KDE users can set MIME-type:
	Mime Type: application/vdkbuilder
	Extensions: .prj
	Mime type actions: vdkb %f
*	Automake/autoconf support.
	If a file named am_include.am exists, am_include.am is appended to
	EXTRA_DIST, and the contents of the file are copied verbatim to the end
	of Makefile.am.
	am_include.am can be used for automake features not yet supported 
	directly
* 	VDKBuilder maker modified to be runned either modal or non-modal
	during application run.
	User can customize this behaviour using VDKBuilder environment dialog.
	NOTE: Some user may experience "X Server async replay" error during
	non-modal runs. In such cases reset "run-modal" option
*	Emacs supported as external editor using emacs-server 
	and emacs-clients. When emacs server is called all text-edit requests 
	made on builder are forwarded to emacs via an emacs-client. 
	However internal builder editor is mantained in background 
	and wakes up as emacs server is terminated.
	To run emacs click on GNU icon on main form toolbar.
	GNU icon will became visible checking the emacs checkbox
	on environment dialog at "Miscellanous page".
	(VDKBuilder must be rerunned to make the change effective).
	As emacs lovers knows almost all activities besides editing 
	can be done from within emacs (except gui editing of course).
	- To compile:
	<alt-x>
	compile <cr>
	make -f vdkbMakefile
	- To execute application:
	<alt-x>
	compile <cr>
	make -f vdkbMakefile run
	- To clean:
	<alt-x>
	compile <cr>
	make -f vdkbMakefile clean
	- To debug with gnu-gdb
	<alt-x>
	gdb <cr>
	gdb ./your-app
	- For those that use automake/autoconf support emacs can compile
	makefile in the usual way:
	<alt-x>
	compile <cr>
	make

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	Building environment
	--------------------
*	./configure now generates vdkbuilder.spec
	redhat user can install vdkbuilder with:
	rpm -at vdkbuilder-1.2.3.tar.gz
*	Added a vdkb.png icon that is installed into:
	<prefix>/share/pixmaps and can be used as program icon
	in desktops and wm's.
* 	Changed app icon to vdkb.xpm
	Note: this icon is displayed when builder is minimized but
	not all wm's allows it.
	(Should work on gnome-compliant wm's such as enlightnment,
	sawfish,windowmaker)
*	Changed configure.in to check for libvdkxdb-0.0.4
	to decide if support xdb or not.
	User that had libvdkxdb-0.0.2 should upgrade to 0.0.4
	to continue having xdb support.
	libvdkxdb-0.0.4 should be installed before vdkbuilder.

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	GUI Editor
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*	Pixmap data can be set also using a symbol besides file name.
	In such way pixmap data are hard-coded into executable rather
	than be loaded from a file at run-time.
	This affects:
	VDKPixmap, VDKCustomButtom, VDKToolbar and VDKMenuItem.
	Setting pixmap data is achieved with a checkbox into WI.
	The file containing pixmap data must be used however, it will
	be included into source code rather than loaded at run time.
	Pixmap data symbol name (char**) are made from standard
	xpm file header in this way:
	Filename: pixmap.xpm
	Data symbol name: char** pixmap_xpm;
	If file name contains chars as : - or . they are converted into
	_ (underscore):
	Filename: pixmap-file.xpm
	Data symbol name: char** pixmap_file_xpm;
	Note:
	While setting pixmaps by data on VDKPixmap, VDKCustomButtom,
	VDKMenuItem is made on a widget basis, in VDKToolbar affects all
	buttons contained into toolbar.
*	Multiple drops of equal widgets without having to reselect 
	the widget all the times:
	- Select a widget from palette
	- shift-click on gui editor (cursor will became a diamond cross,
	different from the hair cross showed for a single drop)
	- following shift-clicks will continue to drop an equal widget.
	Resetting from multiple drops can be done in two ways:
	- drop last one with a simple click
	- click on "reset selection" icon on main form toolbar.
*	Now widgets can be declared "public" using a checkbox
	into WI.
*	Now is possible set widgets minimum size also 
	with keyboard besides using right click pop menu.
	- Select the widget:
	<ctrl-down> increment v size
	<ctrl-up> decrement v size
	<ctrl-right> increment h size
	<ctrl-left> decrement v size
	Moreover a little tip window will show you widget
	dimensions.

	
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VDKBuilder 1.2.2
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* 	VDKBuilder text editor
	Added:
	- word completion and code templates 
	- brackets matching
	- hints
	- code indenting
	- support for foreign characters

*	Word completion and code templates
	Pressing <ctrl-tab> with the text cursor over a partially
	written word will complete that word if this is known.
	For most common c/c++ syntax structures such as 
	for, if, while and do, 	completion will write 
	an empty structure template.
	If there are more than one completion possibility they
	will be listed into a tip window that will disappear at 
	first keystroke.
	If the word isn't into completion list it can be 
	added pressing <ctrl-a>, an user modified completion list
	will be prompted to be saved at session end. Default 
	completion list file contains a few most used c/c++ key 
	words, in this way user can easily expand them adding 
	their own words. Each user has his own completion list file at:
	$(HOME)/.vdkb/res/tokens.db


*	Bracket matching
	Added ala Emacs bracket matching for () and {}	
	Inserting a closing ')' or '}' shows the match with
	the proper nested  '(' or '{'.
	If the matching bracket isn't visible a tip window with matching
	informations is showed.	If a match isn't found a user warning 
	is showed as well.
	Same effect can be achieved pressing <ctrl-p> with
	the text cursor immediately before a ')' or '}'.

* 	Hints
	Pressing <ctrl-q> with the text pointer over a word
	will display a tip window containing hints on that word.
	Tip window will disappear at first keystroke.
	Hints file contains most common used vdk class members,
	generally calling an hint over a class function member
	will display a full function prototype.
	Hints file isn't complete however, will be completed on next
	versions.
	User can customize the file <prefix>/share/vdkb/res/cpphints
	adding or removing hints. (See cpphints file to see how
	to format key and text, be careful however since file
	parser isn't protected against errors nor syntax check is
	performed, generally a bad formatted hint section will break
	parsing operations)
	Hints should be formatted as follow:
	HINT{
	KEY[put here the keyword]
	TEXT[put here hint text]
	}

*	Code indenting
	Pressing <tab> will indent code. Indenting logic is naive 
	since it follows only nested bracket matching plus 
	syntax keywords or syntax constructs if they are contained 
	into the previous line.
	Code will be indented at nearest nested "{" or keyword plus user 
	defined tab spaces.
	Unsatisfied user can disable code indenting setting
	"code indenting" to false on environment options at
	"miscellaneous" page, in this case indenting revert to 
	normal indenting where entire line is shifted to the next 
	tab stop computed as a multiple of user set tab spaces. 
	Anyhow <shift+tab> will override indenting and behave as 
	a normal tab.
	I hope indenting logic will be smarter and more complete in
	future versions.

*	Support for foreign characters
	Keystrokes combination: <alt + num key pad> permits
	to insert foreign chars into editor.
	For instance pressing <alt> + 169 (into num key pad)
	and releasing <alt> inserts copyright symbol into editor.
	Those windoze guys that were used to <alt + 123>, <alt + 125> 
	to insert left-rights braces will appreciate this feature.
	Should be useful too for those non-english guys that want insert 
	some odd char that their keyboard does not support.

* 	VDKBuilder environment
	Added a save-restore session capability.
	Last session is saved on $(HOME)/.vdkb/res/last.session,
	next run will restore things (opened project, forms, editors etc.)
	Unfortunately restoring text cursor position didn't succeed :-(
	Save/restore last session can be disabled/enabled using environment 
	dialog (Miscellaneous things)

* 	Minor fixes and enhancements.
	See ChangeLog

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VDKBuilder 1.2.1
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*	VDKBuilder now supports vdkxdb, a set of classes and
	data-aware widgets made to build light-weight database
	applications. (See INSTALL file)
* 	Minor bug fixes and enhancements(See ChangeLog)
	
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VDKBuilder 1.2.0
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*	New much faster in syntax highlighting and more stable 
	text editor. Thanks to Mikael Hermansson <mikeh@bahnhof.se>
	and his clever gtkextext widget.
*	Native Language Support implemented for
	- en English
	- it Italian
	- de German
* 	VDK class reference accessible from vdkbuilder help.
*	Users that have enabled gnome-support on vdk can use
	gnome help support to browse class reference manual.
*	Many improuvements and bug fixes (See Changelog)

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VDKBuilder 1.0.6
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*	No changes

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VDKBuilder 1.0.5
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*	No changes

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VDKBuilder 1.0.4
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* Added gnome support:
	- VDKGnomeApplication
	- VDKGnomeForm
	- VDKGnomeAppBar
	- VDKGNomeDateEdit
	- VDKGnomeEntry

* Application wizard modified to support gnome-compliant applications.

* Putting "@sep" into a menu item caption makes it a "separator"

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VDKBuilder 1.0.3
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* Better designed WI and gui editor
	- another look and feel using both containers and widget icons
	- added cut/copy & paste capability (see below)
	- added dnd support (see below)

* Gui editor:
	Added drag and drop features for dropping widgets.
	Now user can drag widgets from tool palette and
	drop them directly on the gui editor.

* WI/Gui editor:
	Added enhanced cut/copy & paste capability to gui editor and WI
	Widgets can be cutted and pasted into another container.
	Cut/copy & paste can be done on gui editor using pop menu 
	on selected widget (right click) or using pop menu on WI, 
	or using speedbar on the WI top.
	Cut/copied widgets are placed into a clipboard stack,
	user can paste last cut widget or choose
	one or more from the clipboard stack.
	Widget pop-menu (both on gui editor and WI)
	have these menu items:
	"Copy" enabled on selected widget (not for containers)
	"Cut" enabled on selected widget
	"Paste" enabled on stack top widget
	"Paste others.." enabled when clipboard stack contains
	more than one widget.
	- Key accelerators can be used in gui editor:
	Ctrl+x  cut a widget
	Ctrl+c  copy an widget
	Ctrl+v  paste the stack top widget
	- Some limitations holds:
	* cut and paste is allowed only into
	the same form, pasting between different forms
	is denied.
	* Cut & paste isn't available for menus handling.
	* containers can't be copied

* Added dnd support to WI, dragging an widget-node into a
	a container-node achieves same effect as cut/paste.
	However some buggy behaviour remains:
	dragging a node-widget into a node-container that has another
	node-container nested (as first node) makes the dragged widget
	dropped into innermost node-containe

* VDKBuilders use placeholders to fill an empty box
	before user drops an widget.
	When an user drops an widget into a box the
	placeholder is taken away and substitued with the user
	dropped widget. Now this placeholders are marked with
	light grey dashed lines for better visibility until
	they remain empty.

* Now builder autonomously writes both signal list and
	event list (dynamic tables) declaration and definition
	in <project>_gui.h and <project>_gui.cc.
	** WARNING **  this is s possible code break with already
	existent user projects.
	Users should delete their own declarations.	

* All widget caption entries now react to enter key as well.

* Debugger: now when user changes "debugger" field
	debugger executable is checked in default
	paths, if not found warns user and let
	"debugger" field blank.

* Improuved menus handling:
	added some more functionalities:
	- appending
	- prepending
	- inserting to a position
	menu items into a menubar or a menu.

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VDKBuilder 1.0.2
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* editor: added an undo undo key, now you can use  also <alt-backspace>
* added realize_signal to WI signals map.

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VDKBuilder 1.0.0
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* Upgraded to vdk 0.6.7 and gtk+ 1.2.5-pre2

* Improuved syntax colouring

* Added plugin capability. Now users can plug into
  builder their own components without recompile it.

* New customizable environment flags:
  - timed auto saving of text files
  - auto back-up of text files

* Improuved VDKBuilder maker

* New redesigned and improuved project wizard

* New examples and tutorials (see ChangeLog)

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VDKBuilder 0.1.6
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* upgraded vdkbuilder to gcc 2.95.1

* Enabled menu item "View => View Forms" and "View Forms" icon.
	It opens a form that lists all project forms
	and allow to edit them.
	Useful when the screen is crowded.
* Now vdkbuilder denies to run more
	than one instance per user.
	At start vdkbuilder looks for a lock file:
	$(HOME)/.vdkb/.vdkblock
	(Uses a similar alghoritm as netscape)

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VDKBuilder 0.1.5
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This release is mainly a bug-fix one and contains
some additional features:

* added VDKFixed support
	Moving/resizing widget contained into a fixed
	with mouse and keyboard implemented.

* two more tutorial steps

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VDKBuilder 0.1.4
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* Added a cacapbility that writes header dependencies
	(not recursive) for source files into
	vdkbMakefile. Dependencies are valid only for those
	files in project dir.Added:

* Added a xpm browser to set glyphs on various widgets:
	pixamp buttons, toolbars, menuitems.
	VDKXpmBrowser was derived from VDKFileDialog, is simple and
	naive too.

* Added a grep capability under Tools menu.
	Grep results are loaded into editor message list,
	double clicking on a list item will jump to
	matched line.
	(A little bug, selecting just one file prevents
	jump capability, it depends on how grep utility outputs
	results).

* Added help/tutorial system (incomplete)
	Help/Tutorial uses the great Mozilla that can be invoked
	from within builder with Help->Index menu.
	Again thanks to:
	Jonathan Hudson <jonathan.hudson@jrhudson.demon.co.uk>

* At first start VDKBuilder autonomously installs
	vdkbide.defaults and vdkbrc files into
	<home>/.vdkb/res

* Enabled toggle form/unit on main tool bar.
	-  Activating a VDKBEditor page and cliking on
	form/unit toggle button the related form editor will be
	activated and raised.
	- Otherwise activating a form editor and clicking
	on form/unit toggle button the related text editor
	will be activated and raised.
	Very useful when screen becomes crowded.

* Added autoconf/automake support
	Requires:
	- autoconf version >= 2.13
	- automake (GNU automake) >= 1.4

	This capability makes some assumptions:
	a. all project files are into project dir.
	b. if the user wants add some extra files
	it should prepare an <extra_dist.am> file.
	These files will be added to distribution.
	(useful for pixmaps, docs, etc.)
	The <extra_dist.am> file should contains a file list,
	each one separated by a new-line.
		
	* Supported configure commands:
	./configure [various options]
	./configure --help
	
	* Supported make targets:
	make
	make clean
	make distclean
	make dist
	make install
	
	* For redhat users (and most probably for others)
	If automake/autoconf support fails with:
	"AM_PATH_VDK macro not found on aclocal library"
	make a symlink into /usr/share/aclocal/
	to /usr/local/share/aclocal/vdk.m4
	Like this:
	$ su
	Password:
	(have su permission)
	# cd /usr/share/aclocal
	# ln -s /usr/local/share/aclocal/vdk.m4
	# exit
	$

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VDKBuilder 0.1.3
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* Added support for:

- VDKStatusbar
- VDKSLider
- VDKGrid
	not very complete, users should hack
	on vdkcompo/vdkgrid.h and vdkcompo/gtksheet.h
	Also use vdkgrid example on vdktest
- VDKPacker
- Accelerators (VDKBMenuItem and VDKBCustomButton).
- Widgtes place holders
  	Place holder is a widget that hold place for those
	widget that aren't currently supported by builder
	or are user defined.
	User should supply constructor definition for
	widget that will replace place holder.
	Builder declares and construct "real" widget
	using user supplied constructor definition.
	User can set common widget properties such as
	color,fonts,visible etc. Other behaviours
	must be coded by user.
	The right place is in YourForm::Setup()

* Editor no more constructed at start-up.
  It will be displayed  when opening a project.

* Changed (WITH CODE BREAK)
	Changed all _Padding,_Fill,_Expand
	properties from a bool value to int.
	Also _justify changed from literals to int
	l_justify = 0
	c_justify = 1
	r_justify = 2
	This can break compatibility with previous .frm files.
	Users should manually change in their .frm files
	all above properties from true/false to 1/0
	i.e. (from vdkbuilder/example/hello)
	[object]
	{
	  this:Hbox2;
	  class:VDKBox;
	  parent:nihil;
	  _justify:l_justify; <== change to 1
	  _Expand:true; <== change to 1
	  _Fill:true;   <== change to 1
	  _Padding:true; <== change to 1
	  Tag:nihil;
	  Usize:239,78;
	  mode:h_box;
	  BorderWidth:1;
	}
	NOTE:
	This break was necessary to properly support a new
	useful widget: VDKPacker.

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VDKBuilder 0.1.2
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* Added support for VDKCustomButton

* Better colors selection

* More customizing parameters:
- autosave:
	when autosave is set to "yes" (into vdkbide.defaults)
	changed files (both .frm and .cc/.h) are saved without
	ask to user
- startup dir:
	user can customize starting up working dir

* Enabled customizing environment with dialog

* Enabled project manager to manage console application
	projects. (Console applications do not use any
	gui features)

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VDKBuilder 0.1.1
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Automake/Autoconf support