Difference between revisions of "EDT:The Differences between EDT 0.8.2 and EDT 0.8.1"

Revision as of 12:36, 10 December 2012

It is recommended that you use a new workspace after upgrading to 0.8.2 M3 or later.  Existing projects can be imported into the new workspace from the file system or from a source code repository.

Changes between .8.1 and .8.2 M3

• Only the package "eglx.lang" from the system eglars is automatically imported. All other types from the system eglars must be imported explicitly in the code.
  • Fix: Right-click on your projects >  EGL Source > Organize Imports
• Annotation syntax is now more strict. For simple annotations with a single field we used to allow it as: myAnnotation = "some value". This is no longer supported.
  • Fix: Manually change the syntax to: @myAnnotation{"some value"} (or you can explicitly name the field, @myAnnotation{myField = "some value"})
• Timestamp patterns are now case-sensitive. Month must be uppercase 'M', minute must be lowercase 'm', hour must be uppercase 'H'. The full pattern is: yyyyMMddHHmmssffffff
  • Fix: Manually change invalid patterns to the correct case
• The field named "class" in Widget has been renamed to "cssClass".
  • Fix: Manually change references to this field to the new name.
• New versions of the widget projects need to be used. The previous versions of the projects will contain compile errors.
  • Fix: Delete the existing widget projects, create a new project to import the new version of the projects, and update the EGL Path of the projects that referenced the old widget projects. 
• Services cannot be declared as variables anymore. Clients do not instantiate a service, they use a proxy to invoke the service.
  • If you were using "call serviceVariable.func() ..." you can change it to "call ServiceType.func() ..." - referencing the service function in a static way without a variable. 

Changes between 0.8.2 M3 and 0.8.2 M4

• The precision and decimals functions were moved from MathLib to the numeric data types.
  • Fix: Change MathLib.precision(x) to x.precision(). Change MathLib.decimals(x) to x.decimals().
• The second parameter of MathLib.modf changed from bigint to float.
  • Fix: Existing code will continue to work since bigint and float are compatible, but the value assigned to the parameter may be slightly different than before.
• The empty statement ';' has been removed from the language, in support of being able to write a function with no body as 'function foo(){@IBMiProgram ... };' 
  • Fix: Remove the ';' statements. They did not actually do anything so no logic changes are required.