Release notes for EiffelStudio 5.1

Graphical environment

• Numerous improvements in usability and bug fixes.
• Richer class and cluster creation dialogs.
• Class name completion in the editor (by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Space half-way through the class name).
• Editor now supports drag-and-drop of the selection.
• When debugging a project from EiffelStudio, the current directory will be your project directory. It is a change from previous version where:
  • on Windows, it used to be launched in the W_code subdirectory of your project directory
  • on Unix, it used to be launched from the same directory where estudio (or ebench) was launched.

• EiffelStudio GUI now also available on Unix platforms and Windows 9x/Me

Compiler and .NET

• Click here for more details on compiler improvements and full Eiffel support on .NET

Libraries

EiffelBase

• It is now forbidden to create a BIT_REF or a BIT X object using its creation procedure (before it was accepted but did not work)
• Added make_temporary_name in FILE_NAME
• Made to_c obsolete from class INTEGER_INTERVAL
• Changed semantic of split from class STRING
• Fixed a bug in clear_all from HASH_TABLE that kept a reference to the last found item. Now it does not keep the reference after a call to clear_all .

Vision2

• Support for Vision2 applications on GTK platforms.
• Some changes in the Vision2 library have been made, check here on how to update your code .

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