Girder 5.1 beta

[Ron]

Guys, I've been working hard at porting the whole code base to the latest Delphi and Visual Studio 2008 including upgrading as many libraries as I can do without breaking stuff. The result is Girder 5.1 beta. If you see some odd text anywhere please let me know that is probably a spot where I missed the Unicode translation. Some of the features

Girder 5.1.0.590

• Updated lua code editor
• Logger scrolls down, just as the interactive lua console
• Unicode internally (this will help with translations for Girder 6)
• Recompiled all the plugins (still todo lua libraries)
• Integrated clear button on Lua Interactive Console into header to save space
• Integrated clear button on Logger into header to save space
• Turned off the Audio Mixer popups by default
• Moved the columns around a bit on the scripting console, variable inspector and log to allow for sensible auto resizing of the main column
• Variable inspector now responds to key presses and jumps to node starting with the sequence of keys you press
• Variable inspector shows some info on the selected node at bottom of screen instead of in the popup balloon.
• Load some default plugins on startup if nothing has been configured before.
• Included AES lua library

Updated Libraries:

• LuaSockets
• OpenSSL
• Boost
• Docking Library
• NavBar Library
• Treeview Library
• Delphi XE
• Visual Studio 2008 (yeah I know there is 2010)
• PIR-1
• PIR-4
• Updated GD
• Uploaded luacurl / curl

Removed items

• Removed Ammo and OpenMCE, these will become separate downloads
• Removed the lua debugger. It might reappear at a future point but right now I'm aiming for maximum stability.
• Novice interface, did anyone ever really use this? Just confusing

Fixes build 581

• Made IR uploading work again
• Fixed bug report by Mike below
• Fixed double icon bug
• Many many tweaks left and right.
• Fixed ignored repeat setting in IR profiles
• Checkboxes in settings for Girder startup were not being set correctly.

Fixes build 582

• Fixed AES library ( note this has changed name to aes from luaaes to match it's namespace)
• Small tweak to backup saving

Fixes in build 583

• Fixed Help loading
• Re-enabled saving of headers in logger, lua interactive console and variable inspector
• Increased size of component manager window
• Small tweak to internal memory management for the logger

Fixes in build 584

• Fixed lua eventstring and payloads

Fixes in build 585

• Fixed plugin loading that was causing some plugins to be stuck enabled
• Adjusted floating point initialization to hopefully fix issues Mike is seeing.

Fixes in build 586

• Fixed Xap plugin loading
• Fixed unicode error in window targetting

Fixes in build 587 (july 29, 2011)

• IR Profile importing fix
• PIR-1 CCF learn fix
• Webserver plugin performance improvement
• Transport Manager code fix for persistent transactions

Fixes in build 588 (August 15, 2011)

• PIR-1 Learning fix
• Webserver fix for slow responses

Fixes in build 589 (September 27, 2011)

• PIO-1 Support (under transport manager)
• Fixed event matching bug
• Fixed lua object push bug

Fixes in build 590 (July 30, 2012)

• Updated PIR-1, PIR-4 drivers
• Added PRB-16 (16 Relay USB connected board from Promixis)
• Fixed license amnesia

Todo

• Update the manual, include a new getting started bit to help people out
• Address bugs you guys find
• Move to new installer, to avoid the false virus reports??? Not sure yet.

Installing Installation is pretty straight forward, it uses a new installation key and directory so you can keep this installation next to your old Girder 5.0 installation. It does use the same registry keys and app-data directory (so if you uninstall either Girder 5.0 or 5.1 your registry keys and app-data might disappear). I do not suggest to install this into the same directory as your old installation. Backup your current installation Please let me know if anything is broken this was a _very_ intensive port due to the fact that the old compiler Delphi 7 (almost 10 years old now!) was not unicode and the new Delphi forces Unicode on you. Some other libraries used Visual Studio 6 (as old as Girder 13 years). Here's the download have at it! Post bugs in this thread please. Oh an your Girder 5 licenses are of course valid for Girder 5.1

https://s3.amazonaws.com/promixis/Girder-5.1.0.590.exe

[speedbump49]

Any plan to offer support for Girder as a service?

[Ron]

Not in this release for that to work I need to devise a way to split off UI interaction from the main interface. Though if you do not need UI interaction grunt might be able to be convinced to be a service (through some 3rd party service application).

[quixote]

Awesome! Glad to see that Girder is still progressing! I'll give it a try soon.
Thanks, Ron!

[Mike C]

Time Date Source Details Payloads
11:32:33:439 4/16/2011 Treescript DUI Functions: Invalid floating point operation, msg=1, val1: 3, val2: 0, GUID: {CAC3ACDC-F1B1-4A35-8CA0-730B046A6A99}, Name: Enable


i cannot find an guid to match this error

this happens when enabling the hai component. no errors or problems with g 5.0

[Ron]

Okay a weeks worth of fixes recompiles and polishing. build 581 is out.

• Made IR uploading work again
• Fixed bug report by Mike
• Fixed double icon bug
• Many many tweaks left and right.
• Fixed ignored repeat setting in IR profiles
• Checkboxes in settings for Girder startup were not being set correctly.
• ported more of the libraries, just a few to go.

[cjean]

Hi Ron,

As per your suggestion I installed this version, I don't want to confuse the threads so I will report only what is to Gider 5.1.

- Bug where in into the Plugins/plugins tab when you select or deselect items and press "Apply", it close the window without taking into account the changes.

- Positive, seems to be more stable, where the previos version crashes for unknown reasons, this version, no crash so far... and seems a little quicker

This is it for now, generally speaking, very positive.

Charles

[Mike C]

seeing this now

TreeScript (golua): compat-5.1.lua:127: error loading module `luaaes' (A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed.

[Mike C]

ron, is it possible to have an option in the watchdog to have it force an exception when G locks. i still see the odd lock and would like to understand why vs G just getting restarted.

[Ron]

Not sure an exception will give any more information as the exception will not happen in the context of the lock.