PerlQt

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Release Name: PerlQt-3.006

Notes:


Changes:
2002-02-13 GG (v.3.006)
         - "use bytes" pragma now changes the way QStrings are marshalled
           back to Perl : within the scope,  instead of all utf-8, QStrings are
           marshalled to ISO-Latin1 by default, or to locale if "use locale" is
           active.
         - Operator overloading is now functional. 21 operators are available.
           e.g:
           $d = Qt::TextStream( $f );
           $d << "Foo " << 12 << " Bar";
           N.B: the copy constructor operator('=') isn't overloaded.
                It clashes with the perl paradigm.
         - fixed a bug in QCString Marshaller : plain ASCII was tagged as UTF-8
         - raised priority of QString in case of ambiguous call
         - allow runtime definition of signals and slots (via eval)
         - added two development tools : pqtsh (a graphical PerlQt shell) and
           pqtapi (a command line introspection tool)
         - look also in super classes when dumping possible candidates (Qt::debug)
         - updated french and english documentation
         - module Qt::constants for on-demand loading of global Qt constants
           (as of now, only concerns IO_* constants defined in qiodevice.h)
           e.g:
               use Qt::constants qw(:IO)
           or
               use Qt::constants qw( IO_ReadOnly IO_WriteOnly )
           from an idea by Marek Rouchal

2002-12-16 GG (v.3.004-final)
         - test suite ("make test" target)
         - one more example (progress.pl)
         - fixed a bug related to pointer mapping and Smoke's cf_virtual flag
           (regeneration of Smoke isn't mandatory, but is recommended)
         - fixed possible redefinition of a sub in isa.pm
         - raised default test threshold to 10
         - some code optimizations (object construction/destruction)
         - added an undocumented but supported CAST function
           e.g  CAST $obj, "Qt::Application"; (it proved to be useful in some
           situations)
2002-12-11 GG. (v.3.004-RC2)
         - turnaround for segfaults with some KDE themes (KThemeStyles)
           =>will work witth kdelibs compiled with --disable-fast-malloc and --enable-fast-malloc,
           but not with --enable-fast-malloc=full
         - Qt::version()
         - updated documentation (marshallers, debugging, i18n)
         - switch to Makefile.PL for driving ./configure

2002-12-07 GG. (v.3.004-RC1)
        - better ISO C++ compliance and portability
          -ansi -pedantic is now almost silent except for some Perl Macros
        - speed improvements over 40%
          ported memoïze-like cache to C++ ; various code optimizations
        - Signal/Slots inheritance now works as expected
        - proper handling of Qt modules stored in a hierarchy
        - introduced SUPER->method() construct for accessing methods in the
          superclass
        - Internationalization
          Perl strings are marshalled to QStrings either in utf8, iso-latin-1 or
          current locale according to context (the rule is: if they are tagged as utf8, use
          utf8 ; if not, use iso-latin by default or current locale if  the "locale"
          pragma is active)   ; they are always marshalled back as utf8.
        - You can now safely "eval" PerlQt code.
        - New marshallers:
          QCString /*/&, bool */&, QValueList<int> /*/&
        - Debugging channels through "use Qt::debug"
          You can now monitor specific parts of your application's behaviour.
          Available channels are : ambiguous, calls, gc, autoload, virtual,
          verbose, all.
        - Updated documentation + french translation
          many thanks to Stéphane Payrard for the accurate french translation !
        - Subclassing Qt::Application is now possible
        - Smoke can be built with Qt-3.1
        - Various other bug fixes

2002-08-24  Germain Garand  <germain@ebooksfrance.com> (v.3.001)

        * initial release