News

• October 21 2008: Version 1.2.3
  • Launch ocamldebug from the project's root directory [Dmitry Bely]
  • Script file support for debugger [Dmitry Bely]
  • Additional make options [Dmitry Bely]
  • Fixed exception when make target list is empty [Dmitry Bely]
  • Corrected spell-checking of ocamldoc comments
  • Restored special tab completions which had stopped working because of a bug
  • Fixed regression : errors not highlighted in toplevel under Windows
• July 20 2008: Version 1.2.2
  • Support for ocamldebug under Windows, patch submitted by Dmitry Bely
  • Can separate run file and debugged file (patch from forum member khooyp)
  • Redirected messages to the console and handled uncaught exceptions (patch from forum member khooyp)
  • Suppressed removal of spaces before commas and semicolons inside comments and strings
• April 21 2008: Version 1.2.1
  • Remote debugging support, patch submitted by Jonathan Knowles
  • Updated documentation for debugging under Windows and remote debugging
• April 20 2008: Version 1.2.0
  • Code formatter rewrite : better formatting and more parameters
  • Integrated a patch for OMake support contributed by Dmitry Bely
  • Interface files are now parsed with a real parser, instead of the old fuzzy one
  • Use parsed ml files in completion when there is no corresponding mli file
  • Replaced linked external resources by uses of the new Eclipse File System API to open workspace-external files in editors. This means no more ".DebuggerSourceLookup" and ".HyperlinksLinkedFiles", which should also fix incompatibility with eclipsedarcs.
  • Can now create custom toplevels (Run As > Ocaml Toplevel)
  • Commenting and uncommenting of code blocks in the editor (protected and not protected)
  • Replaced Unix newlines by platform newlines
  • Added 'insert spaces instead of tabulations' option for the O'Caml editor
  • Hyperlink on open directive opens a ".ml" file when there is no ".mli" file
  • Added conversion from tabs to spaces
  • Spell checking of comments and documentation comments
  • Project paths are now also contributed from referenced projects
  • When a folder is added or removed in an ocaml project, this project's paths are automatically changed accordingly
  • Option to override ocamlbuild tools paths
  • Improved O'Caml paths preference page
  • Replaced build "N°" by corresponding Unicode character (as suggested by Ben Liblit)
  • Removed unnecessary protection tokenization of ocamlbuild paths, which caused problems
  • Removed the underscore from colorized punctuation characters
  • User setting for disabling automatic completion
  • Changed a regular expression which was causing stack overflows on big inputs
  • In the toplevel, Ctrl+Enter always evaluates the expression, even when it is not terminated with ";;". This is useful to answer input queries, or when using a different syntax (revised syntax uses a single ";" for example).
  • Changed the terminal type for toplevel, so that it doesn't try to send formatting characters
  • The debugger is now passed the paths defined for the project
  • Optimized an often used function
  • Keep leading and trailing newlines as-is when formatting a selection
  • Ctrl+Clicking on "B" in "module A = B" now opens B.mli or B.ml
  • Simplified synchronization in Ocamlbuild builder and makefile builder
  • Opening a module's/interface's counterpart now works on external resources
  • Fixed a layout issue in project paths properties page
  • Removed a check that prevented using the Cygwin version of ocamldebug on Windows
  • And many other small improvements and bug fixes
• October 14 2007: Added video tutorials
• August 21 2007: Version 1.1.1
  • New menu action for switching between interface and implementation
  • Support for camlp4 preprocessing
• I will be away from August 4 to August 18
• August 02 2007: Version 1.1.0
  • Added support for ocamlbuild projects (reset the O'Caml perspective to get the project shortcut)
  • Type annotations are searched first in ml folder, then in _build + ml folder
  • Big change in Ocaml Browser: now you can add new locations (right-click on tree), and the loading and parsing is done lazily (when you expand a node)
  • Fixed yet another bug with hyperlinks
  • Fixed a bug in the lexer (with line labels)
  • Fixed another bug in the lexer with the '"' character inside comments
  • Added separate color preferences for 'let','in' and 'fun','function' keywords
  • Added optional syntax coloring of punctuation
  • Corrected a bug in the paths preference page on Windows
  • Added '*.obj' and '_build' in the list of navigator filters
  • Hid some resources from versioning system (*.cmo, *.annot, ...). If you ever need to commit these resources, see "Window > Preferences > Team > Ignored Resources".
  • Updated the online manual to explain new possibilities with the newer version.
• July 29 2007: Update 1.0.8
  • Now, completion gives elements found in other modules even if there is no associated mli
  • Corrected a rare bug with syntax-coloring of ocamldoc comments
  • Now, a different (red) icon appears in completion results for modules that couldn't be parsed
  • Changed the 'let in' icon in the outline: now, the (+) icon only appears when the definition is at toplevel
  • The integrated lexer now supports linenum directives
  • Added an outline for ocamlyacc files (showing non-terminals)
  • Fixed a bug with non-rec definitions that would act as rec in hyperlinks
  • Corrected some bugs with the 'unnest let in definitions' option in outline
• July 27 2007: Update 1.0.7
  • Completion, hyperlinks, and the module browser are now based on the new parser (major refactoring)
  • Drastic speed-up of hyperlinks which open other modules
  • Tweaked the 'unnest in' option, and corrected a bug which caused definitions to appear out of order.
  • Split the outline preference page into two pages, because it was too long.
  • Fixed a bug with definitions that appeared several times in the outline when the code was not syntactically correct.
  • Fixed a bug with syntax coloring of ocamldoc comments
  • If the debugger doesn't want to exit after clicking on "terminate", a second click on the "terminate" button will kill it, together with the debugged process
  • Added an option (for the editor) to automatically add the closing double-quote
  • "Convert revised syntax to standard syntax" and "Format with camlp4" actions now display the potential error message
  • Definitions cache now uses soft references
  • Added an option to not display 'and' definitions in blue in the outline
• July 25 2007: Update 1.0.6
  • hyperlinks now find renamed modules in current module
  • hyperlinks now work correctly with definitions like: "let a = 2;; let a = a in let a = a in a;;"
  • modified the paths preference page to make it more intuitive
  • added an option to "unnest" "let in" definitions (activated by default)
  • added "while" and "begin end" templates
  • improved outline speed
• July 24 2007: Update 1.0.5
  • fixed a bug that caused the debugger to get stuck when the executable being debugged was killed
  • completion box now automatically closes after typing a space
  • added a facility to change all the paths at once in the paths preference page
  • added an option to always expand some elements in the outline (modules, classes)
  • added an option (both in the preferences and in the outline toolbar) to always fully expand the outline
  • fixed a bug in the parser with complex patterns in 'let in' expressions
  • added editing support for ml4 files (but no parser and no outline)
• July 23 2007: Update 1.0.4
  • Fixed a bug with hyperlinks that happened when a definition had the same name as one in Pervasives
  • Completion proposals can now look in linked resources (patch submitted by Gregory)
  • Syntax coloring now works correctly with comments inside strings inside comments and ocamldoc comments (strings must be terminated inside comments in Ocaml)
  • "unexpected end of line" syntax error now appears at the end of the file instead of the beginning
  • changed the formatter so that it doesn't add a space before a colon, since that can cause naming labels to become incorrect ("~a:1" became "~a : 1")
  • added a preference page for the formatter
  • added a preference page for filtering the contents of the outline
  • added a preference page for the debugger
  • updated OcamlMakefile (generic makefile) to the latest version
  • added "/bin" (on a Unix system, if it exists) and the Ocaml library path to the makefile paths of a new makefile project
  • fixed a bug that caused the whole interface to freeze while the outline was being rebuilt
• July 22 2007: Update 1.0.3
  • This update fixes (hopefully!) the Java 1.5 compatibility problems. The previous version still wasn't compatible with Java 1.5 due to a bug (feature?) in the Eclipse plug-in build system: the plug-in was always built using the general settings instead of the project-specific ones.
  • The plug-in is no longer unpacked on install, since the bug which prevented loading of icons from the jar on Windows has been fixed.
• July 22 2007: A forum has been created to discuss OcaIDE.
• July 21 2007: Update 1.0.2
  • Plug-in is compiled with Java 1.5 compatibility options again (I forgot it in 1.0.1, sorry!). This should fix "Bad version number in .class file" errors.
  • Toplevel process now inherits parent environment
  • Fixed a bug in "Load in Toplevel" action under Windows
• July 14 2007: I will be in holidays from July 15 to July 21
• July 14 2007: Update (1.0.1): (see the install page for information on how to update)
  • fixed some bugs
  • added a compatibility option (in the preferences) to disable Unicode characters which can cause problems on some systems (namely Windows...)
  • added options to enable or disable displaying of types in the outline, editor popups, and editor's status bar.
  • modified the install to unpack the plug-in's jar after installation, because Windows couldn't find some image resources in the jar file (although this worked on other systems)
  • changed the generated "makefile" file in Makefile Projects to "Makefile" (capitalized)
• July 13 2007: First public release (version 1.0.0)