I was curious to have an overview of the changes (visible by a normal user
:-) between 3.2.0 and the current SVN version in interpreter-3.x. For that,
I wrote a small script which walks through the subclasses from .Object, and
prints informations about each visited class (I had to bypass the bug of
.Class~subClasses in 3.2.0, done by taking the classes from .ENVIRONMENT and
deriving the subclasses information from .Object~superClasses...). Here is a
summary of the differences :
Alarm :
The private methods "!startTimer" and "!stopTimer" are now guarded.
Buffer :
This is a new class. See mail From: Rick McGuire - 2007-12-20 14:21
"[Oorexx-devel] Two new classes in trunk".
Superclasses : Object
No methods.
StreamClass :
New private method "line_arrayIn".
The public method "say" is now guarded.
Method :
The public methods "interface" and "setInterface" have been removed.
New public method "package". See mail From: Rick McGuire - 2008-02-11 16:13
"[Oorexx-devel] [DISCUSS] Exposing the "source" object".
Monitor :
The public method "unknown" is now guarded.
MutableBuffer :
The public methods "request" and "uninit" have been removed.
New public method "makeArray".
OLEVariant :
New public method "!VARIANTPOINTER_".
New public method "!VARIANTPOINTER_=".
Package :
This is a new class. See mail From: Rick McGuire - 2008-02-11 16:13
"[Oorexx-devel] [DISCUSS] Exposing the "source" object".
SuperClasses : Object
Public methods : ADDCLASS, ADDPACKAGE, ADDPUBLICCLASS, ADDPUBLICROUTINE,
ADDROUTINE, CLASSES, DEFINEDMETHODS, FINDCLASS, FINDROUTINE,
IMPORTEDCLASSES, IMPORTEDPACKAGES, LOADPACKAGE, NAME, PUBLICCLASSES,
PUBLICROUTINES, ROUTINES, SETSECURITYMANAGER, SOURCE, SOURCELINE, SOURCESIZE
Pointer :
This is a new class. See mail From: Rick McGuire - 2007-12-20 14:21
"[Oorexx-devel] Two new classes in trunk".
SuperClasses : Object
Public methods : "=", "=="
RexxContext :
This is a new class. See mail From: Rick McGuire - 2008-07-18 16:41
"[Oorexx-devel] The context class".
SuperClasses : Object
Public methods : ARGS, CONDITION, COPY, DIGITS, EXECUTABLE, FORM, FUZZ, NEW,
PACKAGE, VARIABLES
Routine :
This is a new class. See mail From: Rick McGuire - 2008-02-11 16:13
"[Oorexx-devel] [DISCUSS] Exposing the "source" object".
SuperClasses : Object
Public methods : CALL, CALLWITH, PACKAGE, SETSECURITYMANAGER, SOURCE
WeakReference :
This is a new class. Maybe related to the mail From: David Ruggles -
2007-11-05 14:48 "[Oorexx-devel] Rexx.img and WeakReference".
See also this mail From: Rick McGuire - 2007-11-05 14:2 Re: [Oorexx-devel]
"Where does the "subclasses" method come from?" because there is an
explanation of the reason why of WeakReference.
SuperClasses : Object
Public methods : VALUE
server :
Not documented ? I see the variable .LOCALSERVER which is an instance of the
class "server".
The public methods CALL_PROGRAM, CALL_STRING, RUN_PROGRAM, SAVE_RESULT have
been removed.
A final word about user extensions :
The functions exported by my library rexusr.dll were not loaded (or at
least not found) by ooRexx-3.x. They were declared the "classic" way :
if RxFuncQuery("UsrLoadFuncs") <> 0 then do
call RxFuncAdd "UsrLoadFuncs", "rexxusr.dll", "UsrLoadFuncs"
call UsrLoadFuncs
end
After having modified the implementation of this libray to follow the
changes made in rexutils, it was correctly loaded this way :
::requires "RexxUsr" library
Does it mean that the extensions like RexxXML, rxcurses, etc... which are
loaded by RxFuncAdd will have to be adapted and recompiled to work with
ooRexx-3.x ?
Jean Louis
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