Other B4A v11.20 BETA is available for download

[Erel]

I'm happy to release a new BETA version of B4A: https://www.b4x.com/android/files/beta.exe
Improvements:

• Long hex literal numbers: 0xff00ff00ff00
• New methods: Bit.OrLong / AndLong / XorLong / ShiftLeftLong / ShiftRightLong / NotLong / UnsignedShiftRightLong / ParseLong
• Fix the "incompatible types" warning with the relatively new Json type.
• Json.ToCompactString method.
• Several debugger fixes: crash on startup, missed assignments in some cases, single field objects were not always observable.
• Code editor jumps to a sub when adding an event with the designer, including when the sub already exists.
• Fix issue with compilation of large projects.
• More descriptive errors when a maven artifact is missing, including the artifact origin.
• bundleconfig.json - configuration file that is used when building an AAB package, can be overridden by putting such file in the project folder (you can find the default one in the installation folder).
• SimpleMediaManager (v1.08) is included as an internal library.
• Updated internal libraries: B4XCollections (v1.10), B4XTable (v1.21), B4XPreferencesDialog (v1.75), XUI Views (v2.54), JSON (v1.21), BCTextEngine (v1.92), Core (v11.2), KeyValueStore (v2.31).
• Bug fixes and other minor improvements.

 

[agraham]

Long hex literal numbers: 0xff00ff00ff00

What are the rules the IDE uses to evaluate these? I get the slightly unexpected values below

    Dim l1 As Long = 0xffffffff ' -1
    Dim l2 As Long = 0xffffffffff ' 1099511627775
    Log(l1 & " " & l2)

It looks like an 8 digit value is evaluated as an Int not a Long.

 

[Erel]

This is the expected result.

Up to 8 characters: signed int (this is the same behavior as in previous versions).
8+ characters: signed long

 

[agraham]

This is the expected result.

As long as you know what the rules are!

 

[MikeSW17]

Does this release require any updating of the Required Resources or SDK Tools ?

 

[Erel]

Does this release require any updating of the Required Resources or SDK Tools ?

Nope.

 

[LucaMs]

Every time I am amazed: 2 or 3 seconds to install this version on my very very old laptop

 

[Rubsanpe]

"Fix issue with compilation of large projects." Great. Thank you.

Rubén

 

[chikega]

What, no spaceship operator? <=>

pew pew

 

[LuigiTasca]

I still get "system out of memory" with large projects

 

[agraham]

I still get "system out of memory" with large projects

You will. There is no fix in this version for that. It will require the 64bit version to avoid this on large projects.

 

[Erel]

True. The fix discussed here is related to a "too long path" error during compilation of projects with many modules.

 

[Johan Schoeman]

Please please dont post the Omicron version