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February 2021 Update


 

A tad late in posting this month's news but here's what happened during January.

 

 2021-01:
    gnocl::window
        o issues with snapshot subcommand fixed.
          added snapshot options: -delay, -pointer, -color, -radius, and -alpha.
    gnocl::pixBuf
        o new creation option offScreen.
    gnocl::offScreen
        o new widget type.
    gnocl::notebook
        o fixed problems with -onCreateWindow and -detachable options.
        o popupmenu labels now accept markup.
        o tabConfigure -label, -detchable, -menuText, -menulabel, -position options now work
        o tabConfigure -fill, -expand, -pack do workd, but may give unexpected results.        
    gnocl::dialog
        o -content option retired, use -child if used.
        o new option -actionWidget (add widgets to action area widgets), typically buttons.
        o -onResponse new substitution string, %c. Return child widget-id.        
    gnocl::text
        o swap substrings, now stored in widget params struct rather than data assignment.
        o new option -corrections, substitute whole words.
    gnocl::canvas
        o integrated separate module code into main module. Comparable with Tk.
    gnocl::vte
    gnocl::vfs
    gnocl::file
    gnocl::mime

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