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aparajita — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:20:04 +0000

New features

– Basic support has been added for NSDateFormatter in nib2cib. (Alexander Ljungberg)

– Lazy support for bytes() and base64() added to CFData, +dataWithBytes and +dataWithBase64 methods added to CPData. (cacaodev)

– capp_lint has been added to the Tools directory. capp_lint is a command-line tool to check code conformance with the Cappuccino style conventions. Anyone submitting pull requests should use capp_lint. Note that if you use the SublimeLinter plugin with Sublime Text 2, capp_lint is built in. (Aparajita Fishman)

– Added missing CPSplitView -adjustSubviews method. (Aparajita Fishman)

– Added a rhino-narwhal patch that can be applied to add JAVA_OPTS support when running Cappuccino utilities through rhino. (Alexander Ljungberg)

Changes/Fixes

– CPURLRequest -init correctly initializes the object. (Alexander Ljungberg)

– Fixed a crash when removing objects from an array controller which has its arrangedObjects.@count observed. (Alexander Ljungberg)

– Fixed: a collection view wouldn’t become the first responder when its items were clicked. (Alexander Ljungberg)

– Fixed CPScrollView trying to access subviews in -initWithCoder. (Aparajita Fishman)

– Added an `xcode-select` warning to bootstrap.sh. (Alexander Ljungberg)

– CPKeyedUnarchiver -decodeIntForKey, -decodeFloatForKey, and -decodeDoubleForKey now return 0 instead of nil, per Cocoa. (Aparajita Fishman)

Issues/Pull Requests

261 open issues

~180 left to triage

~20 closed in the last 8 days.

22 open pull requests

1 pull request closed in the last 8 days.

Cappuccino News

aparajita — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:29:46 +0000

If you have news about new projects in which Cappuccino is being used — internal or external — be sure to let everyone know!

Please pay special attention to the Fixes & Changes section, there may be changes that will affect your code.

New Features

– Two new methods have been added to CPView: registerThemeValues: and registerThemeValues:inherit:. These methods allow you to quickly configure the appearance of widgets using the same compact data format used in ThemeDescriptors.j, but at runtime. This is great when you need to customize your widgets but don’t want to go through the hassle of creating a new theme. For example:

ToolbarButtonHeight = 30.0;
ToolbarButtonThemeValues = [];

@implementation ToolbarButton : CPButton

+ (void)initialize
{
    var bezelColor = CPColorWithImages(
    [
        ["button-bezel-left.png", 2.0, ToolbarButtonHeight],
        ["button-bezel-center.png", 1.0, ToolbarButtonHeight],
        ["button-bezel-right.png", 2.0, ToolbarButtonHeight]
    ],
    CPColorPatternIsHorizontal),

    highlightedBezelColor = CPColorWithImages(
    [
        ["button-bezel-highlighted-left.png", 2.0, ToolbarButtonHeight],
        ["button-bezel-highlighted-center.png", 1.0, ToolbarButtonHeight],
        ["button-bezel-highlighted-right.png", 2.0, ToolbarButtonHeight]
    ],
    CPColorPatternIsHorizontal);

    ToolbarButtonThemeValues = [
        [@"font",               [CPFont systemFontOfSize:17.0], CPThemeStateBordered],
        [@"text-color",         [CPColor colorWithHexString:@"c7c8ca"]],
        [@"text-shadow-color",  [CPColor clearColor], CPThemeStateBordered],
        [@"text-shadow-color",  [CPColor clearColor], CPThemeStateBordered | CPThemeStateDisabled],
        [@"bezel-color",        bezelColor, CPThemeStateBordered],
        [@"bezel-color",        highlightedBezelColor, CPThemeStateBordered | CPThemeStateHighlighted],
        [@"min-size",           CGSizeMake(0.0, ToolbarButtonHeight)],
        [@"max-size",           CGSizeMake(-1.0, ToolbarButtonHeight)],
    ];
}

- (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)aFrame
{
    self = [super initWithFrame:aFrame];

    if (self)
        [self registerThemeValues:ToolbarButtonThemeValues];

    return self;
}

@end

– The new Cocoa image scaling constant names have been added to CPControl.j:

New name                            Old name
CPImageScaleProportionallyDown      CPScaleProportionally
CPImageScaleAxesIndependently       CPScaleToFit;
CPImageScaleNone                    CPScaleNone;
CPImageScaleProportionallyUpOrDown

The old names are supported but deprecated, so you should use the new names. Support for CPImageScaleProportionallyUpOrDown has been added as well (thanks Blair Duncan). There is a demo of image alignment and scaling in Tests/Manual/CPImageViewAlignmentScaling.

– valuePath and valueURL bindings have been added for CPImageView. See Tests/Manual/CPImageViewbindingsTest for an example. (Thanks cocoadev)

– Added CPURL -URLByDeletingLastPathComponent and CFURL.createDeletingLastPathComponent.

– We implemented a documented issue life cycle and have started the long overdue process of triaging the hundreds of open tickets. We encourage everyone to take a look here before posting issues:

Posting issues

– Support for symlinks in a project has been added to XcodeCapp. (Thanks Richard van Zon)

Fixes & Changes

– CPEvent -timestamp now returns the fractional number of seconds since startup, as documented in Cocoa. (Thanks cocoadev)

– XcodeCapp ignores userland NS files (NS_*.j).

– When committing changes to an edited table cell, there was an infinite loop. This has been fixed.

– jake will not stop if you don’t enter valid credentials when trying to install man pages for tools.

– Previously, when a control set its value and there were bindings to the control, the value would eventually echo back. In the case of a text field, this would result in the selection changing. This has been fixed. (Thanks cocoadev)

– A bunch of unnecessary and unintended global variables have been removed. (Thanks Blair Duncan)

- Improvements/fixes have been made to the formatting of the log level and title in CPLog. The level will default if none is passed. If nil is passed, it is suppressed.

- When a text field became first responder, it would be focused and then selected in two separate Javascript timeouts. This caused a small flash in some browsers. The second timeout has been eliminated to eliminate the flash.

- CPTabView will not allow a tab to be selected if the delegate disallows it. (Thanks cocoadev)

- The binding collection operators @min, @max, @sum and @avg were rewritten, refactored and fixed to eliminate an infinite loop with empty collections. They now support full property key paths.

- When a text field resigns, it always sends CPControlTextDidEndEditingNotification, whether or not editing had begun. This is consistent with Cocoa.

Ticket/Pull Request Count

276 open issues.
~225 left to triage.
~36 closed in the last 10 days.
18 open pull requests.
27 pull requests merged or closed in the past 10 days.—

Cappuccino News

aparajita — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:44:38 +0000

What’s new in Cappuccino in the past two weeks:

– Some major new features have been added to nib2cib:

nib2cib now supports User Defined Runtime Attributes in Interface Builder.
nib2cib now supports userland NS classes. This is a huge new feature that allows you to add nib2cib support for your own classes without modifying nib2cib. Along with User Defined Runtime Attributes, you can now place and configure your own view classes in nib2cib!
nib2cib now supports file-based configuration options, which is important when you are using XcodeCapp.

See the nib2cib man page for more information on the new nib2cib features.

– If you ever looked at the DOM elements to figure out why your views are not laid out the way you want, this feature is for you. Put the following line in your index-debug.html