[Foxgui-users] New Development snapshot

[Jeroen v. d. Z. <je...@fo...>]

FOX DEVELOPMENT 1.7.85

    New PNG image support. First, its faster! Also, it no longer requires libpng; the PNG format support is now built-in, although the libz compression library is still required [for now...].

    fxsavePNG() supports some fine-control via new save-flags. You can analyze the image, and shrink output by taking advantage of image features; for example, saving opaque image means alpha-channel may be dropped. If the image is gray-levels only, the RGB may be dropped to plain gray only. Also, shrinking further by emitting colormapped [indexed-color] image is possible if only a few colors are used. Finally, pre-compression filtering, as well as desired compression level can be selected.

    PNG I/O is optimized with when target ISA x86-64-v2 or higher are selected.

    FXStat::isSame() checks if two files are the same (same inode).

    FOX Desktop Calculator augmented with Unicode button labels (please select a font that has the math symbols!), also now supports additional functions, common physics constants, and other features.

    The fxCPUFeatures now can detect AVX512 presence.

    New FXPerformanceCounter and associated macros may be used to count clockcyles of critical code segments.

    FXAtomic.h APIs now mostly inlined for lower overhead.

    Read processor ticks on AARCH64.

    Adie text editor undo buffer size and undo buffer items can now be configured.

    New QOIF (Quite OK Image Format) now supported for either images (FXQOIFImage) or icons (FXQOIFIcon).

    FXColor to/from FXVec3d, FXVec3f, FXVec4d, FXVec4f now using SSE if compiled for x86-64-v2 or higher.

    Updated byte swap APIs in fxendian.h.

    New APIs in FXMat3f, FXMat3d, etc. classes to set up mirror-matrix.

    Moved new hash32() etc. functions into fxendian.h.

    Bug fix in FXIODevice reading > 1GB files in one readBlock(), writeBlock() call.

    Markdown syntax coloring in Adie.

    Per-syntax mode setting for removing trailing spaces in Adie saving a text file.

    Subtle change in operation of FXPath::relative().

    Support for CRC32 calculations added.

    Additional conversion options in FXString::fromFloat() and FXString::fromDouble(): thousands groupings, force decimal point, and hexadecimal float output.

    FXJSON JSON loader now may report duplicate key warning reading json file.

    FXMappedFile improvements.

    FXString uncode escapes bug fix.


Cheers,
                         -- JVZ