Changes in .3071 since .3059

Core

• E27587: Android Templates: VS asks to choose Target Framework, which is not applicable
• E27535: Android: Fix Android Sample Projects for build and deployment issues
• E27569: C#: inconsistent initialization for out vars in Cocoa vs .NET
• E27556: CC: DisplayText had changed to include the namespace, leading to duplicate info
• E27558: CM: NRE in GetShortName for method having array result
• E27326: Cocoa: InstanceType-inferred variable cannot be reassigned
• E27577: Debugger/.NET: support for boolean operators
• E27602: Debugger/Echoes: BreakpointID isn't set correctly in x86 mode
• E27575: file-scoped must symbols use different mangling on Java ($ not <>)
• E27269: HI: don't emit default namespace for each type, for codegen option
• E27450: Island/Delphi: duplicate symbol: __unnamed_1 at building island/Delphi app -- Use InternalLinkage for the delphi type name in GenerateTypeInfoFor
• E27574: NRE in Go to Definition
• E27571: NRE when trying to Go to Definition inside a directive
• E27520: Raw strings: line numbersfor errros sometimes were off
• E27367: Refactor: doesn't find all vars
• E27513: Reloading references fails after they were rebuilt
• E27596: Weird N13 “Method CreateFromFile exists, is there a semicolon missing?” error with linebreaks in method call
• E26513: Wrong error code (E271 custom error) for missing type in method declaration
• Android: bundletool updated to 18.3
• Android: Fixed "obsolete" warning in the Android’s Tabs app template
• Android: New Wear OS project templates
• Android: Set Android min SDK in the project settings
• CC regression: Insert text include "in " when namespace is inserted
• Change nested type name separator to "+" (to match ToString)
• Confusing error locations for prematurely terminated raw string
• Debugger/Island: Get Locals fix
• Debugger: CLR: Error when trying to call a non-static member on TypeValue self
• Debugger: CLR: fixes for indexer evaluations
• Debugger: Island/Darwin Release build doesn't break on exceptions
• Debugger: Log exceptions raised when reading debug files
• Debugger: NRE when evaluate anonymous method (not supported for now though)
• Delphi Compatibility: $ZEROBASEDSTRINGS directive is now ignored for OFF, and errors for ON
• Delphi Compatibility: const Empty: TEmpty = () recognised as empty named-field record init
• Delphi Compatibility: const Lambda: Func<Integer> = () -> 99
• Delphi Compatibility: deprecated directive’s message was ignored
• Delphi Compatibility: experimental added
• Delphi Compatibility: Allow 'label' section after 'var' section (while still allowing 'label' as a variable name)
• Delphi Compatibility: Fix for include search path being tied to legacy preprocessor; allow relative include search path
• Delphi Compatibility: Handle goto label inside case statement
• Delphi Compatibility: Ignore additional preprocessor directives: INLINE, LEGACYIFEND, DEFINITIONINFO, J+/J-, O+/O-, T+/T-, X+/X-, A1-A16
• Delphi Compatibility: Support {$IF Declared(X)} in legacy preprocessor
• Delphi Compatibility: Warn if enum and label names shadow/duplicate)
• Delphi import: cleaner exception type
• Delphi Package Import: Windows/arm64 (wip)
• Installer: Reset files association to defaults after Elements deinstallation
• Internal: Adjustments to “E27569: C#: inconsistent initialization for out vars in Cocoa vs .NET”
• Island/Delphi: Support for Windows/arm64 prep-work (wip)
• Merged CodeGen4
• Merged EBuild
• Merged InternetPack
• Merged IslandDelphi
• Merged IslandRTL
• Merged ROCodeGen
• Merged RTL2
• Merged Samples
• NRE fix (ExactBefore and ExactAfter could be nil)
• Oxygene Delphi Compatibility: absolute keyword (Island, Echoes, Toffee; not implemented for JVM)
• Oxygene Delphi Compatibility: label keyword recognised after var/const (was interpreted as var/const name)
• Oxygene Delphi Compatibility: weak keyword/type disambiguation
• Oxygene Delphi Compatibility: adjust DCM-gated keywords: Oxygene allows initialization/finalization, cdecl/stdcall (supported for external methods), overload (doc-ed as ignored). 'packed' is DCM, use [Packed]
• Oxygene Delphi Compatibility: Allow accessing @TType.InstanceMethod (static type, not an instance) as a method pointer
• Oxygene Delphi Compatibility: Allow cast from method pointer to pointer and back (requires DCM; unsafe in Echoes)
• Oxygene Delphi Compatibility: Function name can mean function address in DCM mode (missing @)
• Oxygene Delphi Compatibility: Legacy Preprocessor: avoid mutating types
• Oxygene Delphi Compatibility: Legacy Preprocessor: can resolve sizeof() for compiler inbuilt (e.g., Integer, Pointer) and referenced types (e.g., TMethod)
• Oxygene Delphi Compatibility: Legacy Preprocessor: Support SizeOf(pointer)
• Oxygene Delphi Compatibility: Pointers to functions implicitly convert to untyped Pointer in DCM mode
• Oxygene Delphi Compatibility: Support $MESSAGE directive (and ignore the $WARNINGS and HINTS directives)
• Oxygene Delphi Compatibility: support (field: @func) const init syntax in DCM
• Oxygene Delphi Compatibility: Support self-referential typed constants (@ConstName.Field in own initializer)
• Oxygene Delphi Compatibility: Tweaks for generic and non-generic types of the same name
• Oxygene: packed is back as a normal keyword (used often).
• Oxygene: bad reformat
• Oxygene: parser fixes for Delphi compatibility
• Templates: New Android Tabs-based App added
• VS: Internal error when evaluating "x.Where(b-> b = 'a')"

Fire & Water

• E27599: Show hints in jumpbar drop-down list
• E27581: Water: CTRL+D window is sometimes too small (regression)
• E27576: Water: missings in jumpbar
• E27578: Water: show full file path via hint
• E27488: Water: when Water is in maximize state, an auto-hidden taskbar cannot be shown
• Auto-fix is applied several times for files in shared project
• CodeBot: Analysis for selection didn’t use proper line numbers
• CodeBot: Minor tweaks for issues identified by Codex
• CodeBot: new replaceSymbol function
• CodeBot: re-format code inserted by CodeBot
• CodeBot: run some editor-AI in the background and not the main chat
• CodeBot: Some internal cleanup & better prompt for file analysys
• Context menu cleanup.
• Context menu option to open “Intermediate Folder”
• Context menu “Copy Path" on References only copied the name
• Debugger console: thread frame
• Debugger console: option to collapse single-letter commands (efg tfl for thread frame list)
• Debugger: handle/highlight which thread is “current” dynamically, based on the current stack frame
• Editor: experimental keyword for Oxygene (DCM only)
• Editor: packed should be a regular keyword, not DCM
• Editor: Allow CC popup to grow further to the left, when invoking CC near the right edge
• Editor: CC error messages parsed badly when the filename/path contained parentheses
• Editor: CC: types from unused namespaces showed the namespace twice
• Editor: Color fix for Strings in white theme
• Editor: Detect DelphiCompatibility for highlighting if file has no active target but the setting is set project-wide
• Editor: highlight current type too, if available
• Editor: NRE proofing for the current block detection code
• Editor: Regression: cannot copy message popup with Cmd-C
• Editor: Shortcuts/menus to copy current type/block/member
• Exception logging proofing
• Extended Option-Cmd-Up/Down message navigation to build log
• Fire: CC popup is one pixel too small, causing scrolling/jitter
• Fire: Menu cleanup
• Fire: Restructured the Debug menu to match previous changes to Water
• Fire: Show message navigation commands in the menu (Water already did). Also added proper validation to them
• Generate Code from .RODL could hang in some cases
• Hide "empty" folders in the project tree, if all their files are in other virtual folders (regression: don't hide empty folders that didn't have virtual files
• If a project/target has more than one output, show the “Reveal Output _Folder" menu, instead of disabling it
• Island/Delphi: allow specifying just "Delphi" w/o number to target the latest available version
• Logging for Certificate filtering (for Jeremy ;)
• Made the per-target target “Manage References" sheet easier to get to in multi-target projects, if the current node is associated with one of the targets
• NRE fix in desiredDefaultArchitectureForConfiguration
• Project Settings: Crash regression for Toffee/iOS
• Project Settings: Don't show unsupported architectures in picker for Island/Delphi (i.e. Windows/arm64 for Delphi 12 and below)
• Project Settings: Don't use unsupported local device architecture as the default/desired architecture for Island/Delphi
• Project Settings: Settings tweaks/cleanjup for Delphi Compatibility
• Project Settings: Sort architectures properly and consistently (best first)
• Regression: Island/Android defaulted to wrong (local computer) architecture
• RO/DA: Connect button should enable as soon as a valid URL is typed
• RO/DA: Don't generate _Invk for .remoteRODL files, even if the project uses Server.dll
• RO/DA: Don't generate ServerAccess file when using local RODL file
• RO/DA: Fix the Connect button and Browse dialog in Connect To Remoting SDK Server
• RO/DA: Newly generated _Intf files were (sometimes?) creating an implicit Target
• Show nested types in the types tree
• The type member dropdown was not always sorted consistently
• Water: allow filter/search in Exceptions Manager
• Water: avoid Internal exception when the webview for Codebot was accessed before being fully initialized
• Water: can't open .elements/.sln if it was specified w/o full path in the command line
• Water: CodeCompletion message "no match" has the wrong size
• Water: CTRL+D window is sometimes too small
• Water: don’t capture image for exception sheet, as that hangs (sometimes?)
• Water: Dropdown list for project creation style fixed
• Water: Fixed a duplicate separator in the Target context menu
• Water: hide "Open in Service Builder" button for .remoteRODL files
• Water: Improved color for tree view disclosure triangles
• Water: NRE closing/switching to another project while the current project is debugging
• Water: Problems with syntax highlight in XML files
• Water: show full file path in treeview hint
• Water: some missing icons in the jumpbar

EBuild

• Android: bundletool updated to 18.3
• Delphi Project Import: avoid empty architecture in settings
• Delphi Project Import: reference Vcl or Fmx automatically if needed
• Delphi Project Import: Set better default uses prefixes for Windows
• Delphi Project Import: Set generic "Delphi" SDK version to always use latest
• Delphi Project Import: Support for Windows/arm64
• Delphi Project Import: Tweaks; enable Island/Delphi mode only for supported platforms
• Expose OutputFolder to FinalOutput.xml
• Ignore "empty" architectures resulting from a leading or trailing semicolon in the setting
• Island/Delphi: Allow specifying just "Delphi" w/o number to target the latest available version
• Island/Delphi: More clear errors when trying to build for a platform not supported for Delphi
• Island/Delphi: Support for importing Windows/arm64
• Island/Delphi: support for importing Windows/arm64 if present (wip, disabled)
• Island: fixes for renamed debug symbol cache files in macOS 26.4
• Provide IntermediateFolder in FinalOutput.xml
• Set UseLegacyPreprocessor to true when importing Delphi & Lazarus projects
• Sort supported architectures properly and consistently (worst to best/newest)

Island DelphiSupport

• DelphiExtended80: Added ToString method and updated Exponent, Fraction, and Sign properties for improved clarity.
• Implicit casts from integers, floats and TDateTime to Extended
• Keywords: change 'packed' (Delphi compatibility keyword) to '[Packed]' attribute
• Made all Extended casts implicit
• Operators for concatenating char+string
• Support for Windows/arm64

Elements RTL

• Add a constructor withCapacity to the Queue class
• Use CallingConvention attribute instead of stdcall directive

Island RTL

• Don't optimize Island RTL for Windows, until we fix the index out of range issue
• IslandRTL: change 'packed' keyword to '[Packed]' attribute (packed is DCM-only)