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 Published by hexaZen
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 Date Posted:   September 6th, 1999
 Last Updated:   March 13th, 2001
 License: See Below
 Downloads: 11,516 total; 15 recently
 Page Views: 30,955 total
 User Rating: Give this application a rating
8.69 / 10, with 35 votes
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About Squirrel:
Squirrel is a scripting language (Logo dialect) for BeOS which offer a simple and flexible way to program under BeOS without using C++.
Original
version 5.3 - Freeware 
   
Details about this version:
This version is a major update of Squirrel.

Version Changes:

  • Added Image object type
  • Added new Add-On Image Processing with two primitives img.crop , img.scale
  • Add-On Skippy modified to allow Skippy object to rendre to an Image directly
  • Added method draw and c.draw to Skippy object that draw image
  • Added primitive mime.icon to get or set the icon for a given MIME type
  • Partial rewrote of the GUI Add-On
    • Less memory consumtion
    • Smaller Add-On (under 1Mb)
  • Added widget Viewer to display image (new Add-On Imaging)
  • Added widget Odometer (new Add-On Widgets)
  • Fixed a bug in the Banner widget (linked variable is created if not existing)
  • Added method invalidate to all the widgets
  • Added config origin to the Sheet widget (Skippy Add-On)
  • Menu widget can now display an image as well as text
  • Added Busy primitive that set the cursor of the application to an animated cursor
  • Fixed few issue in the way the end of a script was handled (crash occuring)
  • Added cursor config to widgets (severals type of cursors available)
  • Added primitive entry.icon that get or set the icon of an entry
  • Fixed a bug when a Menu widget was inheriting the font of the MenuBar
  • Added method i.font to Menu to set the font of a menu item
  • Added primitives safter and sbefore to the String Processing Add-On
  • Menu now spawn a thread to execute the hook
  • Widget hooks : entered, exited, focused, invoked, selected and changed run on a separate thread
  • Fixed a bug with FilePanel (lost message)
  • Menu shortcut COMMAND-Q ask the window to be close (and may end the application) without executing a menu hook (if COMMAND-Q is used as shortcut)
  • added primitive lremove to the List Processing Add-On
  • Question and Info primitives accept now an image as well as a word and a title.
  • Fixed a bug in SQILib.a (crash)
  • Fixed a bug with widget Memo, when changing it contents
  • A string can be spraid over several line , tabulation in a string are no longer taking into account
  • Use \\ followed by a carriage return to spread a function/primitive call onto several lines
  • Added primitive entry.exists to the Storage Add-On
  • Renamed primitives mime.exist in mime.exists, dir.exist in dir.exists, attr.exist in attr.exists , font.exist in font.exists
  • Renamed method exist of the Dictionary in exists
  • Memo widget changed : scrollbars always visible
  • Added configuration constraint and limit to the Window (size limitation).
  • Demo EzCalc improved


 
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Update
version 5.3b - Freeware 
   
Variation description:
Maintenance update to 5.3.

Details about this version:

Version highlights :

  • Fixed a crash when using primitive show on a block pre make "blk {print "hello} show :blk /pre
  • Fixed a bug in the GUI Add-on with the minimum width of a window (constraint in auto)
  • Fixed a small problem in gluing widget bottom and right (GUI Add-On)
  • Fixed minor issue in the GUI Add-on (widget gluing)
  • Fixed error in Memo widget when jumping to a line number
You need Squirrel 5.3 installed to run this update.

 
Intel Version - requires R5   (494 KB) 587 downloads
 
 
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version 5.3c - Freeware 
   
Variation description:
Maintenance update to 5.3b.

Details about this version:
Version highlights :
  • Fixed severals issues in the Memo widget (GUI Add-On)
You need Squirrel 5.3b installed to run this update.

 
Intel Version - requires R5   (274 KB) 518 downloads
 
 
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