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

If you are new to Squirrel, you need to download the complete archive of the version 5.2 and then apply the update 5.2b before updating to 5.2c

Version changes :

• Various rewrite that improve execution speed (mostly for recursive functions) and consume less memory
• Fixed a bug in the primitive output
• Primitive addon.func return now a list of word and no longer one string
• Fixed a memory leak when a widget was destroyed (possible crash)
• Fixed a crash when a script, started from the tracker, was printing to the standard output

The Developer's Guide has been updated.

Version highlights:

• Added _error global variable that contains the error message when an error is raised.
• Speed improvement in the execution of function. Up to 3 times faster than with previous version.

From this release on, there is no more Developer and User Release, if you wish to be keep informs of Squirrel's news and release announce, please email me directly and I will include you on the new list.

Release highlights :

Once you have downloaded the ZIP file and uncompressed it, double-click on the Update! icon it will start the update script (written in Squirrel) and when you will have hit the Update button it will replace the files that have been modified.

If you are new to Squirrel and don't have it on your computer, you need to download and install the complete distribution 5.1 and then update it once with the 5.1b update and then apply the 5.1c update.

What's new ?

• It's now possible to use a list within an expression
• Fixed various issues in the GUI Add-On
• Added primitive lfind in the List Processing Add-On (find an element in a list)

Once you have downloaded the ZIP file and uncompressed it, double-click on the Update! icon it will start the update script (written in Squirrel) and when you will have hit the Update button it will replace the files that have been modified.

If you are new to Squirrel and don't have it on your computer, you need to download and install the complete distribution 5.1 before updating it.

What's new ?

This release can be downloaded with the choice of the package, either you want to develop applications with Squirrel or just use them.

The User Release is 1.6Mo where the Developer's one is 3.2Mo.

Version highlights :

• Name of the executables have change, loosing the .dr.
• The primitive with have been renamed use to be more clear (dev request)
• Lists can contains variable, function/primitive calls and block
• New primitives mime.desc mime.install mime.exist and mime.delete to the Storage Add-On that give access to the BeOS MIME DataBase.
• Added methods bcc and cc to the Mail object to set the carbon-copy and blind carbon copy.
• Added new primitives strim, strim.l, strim.r and smatch to the String Processing Add-On
• Added method exist to the Dictionary
• Added global variables : _path _install and _version.
• New widget BarberPole to the GUI Add-On
• New inputs to the keyboard and mouse hooks to get the key modifiers in the GUI Add-on
• Some bugs fixed

Version highlights :

• The Add-Ons are no longer loaded automatically. Use the with primitive to load the ones you need.
• New timing primitives that output the elapsed time of a function (in microseconds)
• true and false are no longer primitives but literal values
• a list can be spread over several lines
• a bug fixed in the primitive substr

• New Mail Add-On that give the ability to send email from a script
• Access to the File Panel (file selection)
• 2 new widgets in the GUI Add-On (Memo and StatusBar)
• New primitive lsub in the List Processing Add-On
• New methods resize.to and resize.by added to the Window in the Gui Add-On
• New method empty to the Dictionary object (Data Structures Add-On)
• New global variable _file that give the path of the executed script (run-time)
• Compiled for BeOS 5.0
• Some bugs fixed