From: James I-C. H. <jh...@ow...> - 2004-03-23 04:35:00
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There is a new beta release of DrJava made in preparation for the next stable release (http://drjava.org). The primary features added to this release relate to improving the Interactions Pane. First, uninitialized variables are assigned the correct default value and initialization of multi-dimensional arrays now works correctly. Second, newlines are automatically inserted for users if the current interaction is not yet complete. This makes defining methods and classes in the Interactions Pane much easier. Third, users can type in the first few letters of a command in the history and hit the Tab key to cycle through all commands that begin with that sequence of letters. Fourth, the minimum size of the bottom pane has been reduced to allow more room for editing files. Other changes include an improved undo command that can now undo series of typed text at a time. Forward brace matching has been added as well. Also, using System.in will no longer cause DrJava to hang in some cases. Please download this beta release and use it as your primary copy of DrJava, submitting any bugs that you find. We intend to release a stable version of DrJava based on this release by the end of this week, depending on the feedback we receive. Thanks for your help with DrJava! James |