Re: X# update and VFP support progress

-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Tue, 14 May 2019, at 10:58 AM, Johan Nel wrote: > Hi all X# followers, > > Just an update. With respect to VFP, (VFP members and I) have received > in a private message the ANTLR lexical parser fingerprint for VFP and it > shows very good progress on VFP syntax support. > > Here is the update that was published today on the X# website. > > Progress report May 2019 - Created: 12 May 2019 > > It's time for a quick update about what we have been doing. Here are > some things that we have worked on since the last build: > > * We have started work on the FoxPro dialect and have also added a WITH > block for all dialects > * We have also added support for END keywords for entities that do not > allow this yet, > suchas END PROCEDURE,END METHOD,END ACCESS etc. These keywords > are optional > * We made several changes to improve the VS integration, such as better > type lookup for functions > declaredin namespaces, better supportfor the var keyword, improved > supportfor Xbase++ dialect etc. > X# works fine nowwith VS 2019,except that ourproject templates > are still poorlyvisible on theNew Project dialect. > Microsoft has now promisedto change thatin oneof the upcoming > updates. > * We have made several changes to the runtime. For example dynamic > class > creation for the Xbase++ dialect (ClassCreate() etc) > and for the Xbase++ DataObjectclass. We have also added the > functions that are partof the ASXMLLibrary from Xbase++ > (XMLDocOpen() etc). > * We have also improved several existing functions, such as Round(), > ExecName() and others. > * We have made several changes to the macro compiler, to solve some of > the problems that were reported. > * We have also added support for macro based aliased expressions and > ivar access ( (alias)->&varname, expression:&ivarname etc) > * And last but not least we have worked on the RDD system. Several > small > issues were detected and fixed in the Advantage RDD > and the workon the DBFCDX driver is approaching theend. We > expectto have a fully working DBFCDX rddany day now. > > More news will follow soon. > > Johan Nel > George, South Africa > FOX member: Friends of XSharp > X# Website: https://xsharp.info https://xsharp.info/ > [excessive quoting removed by server]