Release notes for EiffelStudio 6.1

Graphical environment

What's new

• New default layout for EiffelStudio tools to highlight the most common used tools whereas other tools are still available at the bottom or via the View menu.
• New Errors and Warnings tool. It replaces the former Errors tool and Warnings tool and provides a nicer way to show errors and filtering them.
• Revisited all the dialogs to provide a nicer and consistent look and feel.
• Multiple errors are reported for each compilation degree.

Improvements

• Use the default OS font for displaying tooltips.
• C compilation failure will now show up as an error in the new Errors and Warnings tool.
• Completion list will now show immediately after pressing '.' when the completion list is active.
• Added ability to submit a problem report within EiffelStudio when it quits unexpectedly.

Changes

• Support for the MinGW C compiler on Windows 32-bit. Borland is officially not supported anymore.
• Completion list no longer shows obsolete items by default (set via a preference option).

Bug fixes

• Fixed incorrect results when using the profiler with a finalized system.
• More bug fixes can be seen at the EiffelStudio open source site .

Compiler

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Debugger

Graphical environment

• Added debuggee object storage. This allow to store and retrieve debuggee's object.
• Added basic execution replay mechanism. This allows to record the execution, and replay the recording in EiffelStudio and see/browse the recorded values.
• Rename "debugging" into "execution" in EiffelStudio's message and title.
• Better dialog to change the layout of the Objects tool grid. It is possible to easily change the order of 'Current, arguments, locals, ...'.

Debugger engine

• Added support for creation of SPECIAL instances.
• Added support for creation of TYPE instances. (i.e: {FOO} will return a instance of TYPE [FOO])

EiffelBuild

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Libraries

EiffelBase

• BINARY_SEARCH_TREE: Added tree_item which matches the item being searched.
• LINEAR: Added item_for_iteration as a synonym of item.
• STRING_8 and STRING_32:
  • Improved speed of the to_xxx routines.
  • Added starts_with and ends_with.

• GC_INFO: Fixed non working computation of CPU time usage on Windows and added two new queries (cpu_total_time and sys_total_time) to find out the total CPU execution time of the program at the last GC cycle.
• MEMORY: Added execute_without_collection to execute a procedure with no GC.

EiffelVision2

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