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Version 8.0.3

 

•	Moved the contents of “Appendix A: The Menu Extension API” to the Smalltalk User’s Guide “Extending Browser Menus” chapterVersion 8.5

•	Code Completion integration into the Smalltalk Browsers, Debuggers and Workspaces

Version 8.5.1

•	Significant number of new features have been added to further enhance the Code Completion experience in VA Smalltalk to include:

•	Revamped Configuration UI

•	Theming Engine

•	Match Highlighting

•	Drag and Drop support

•	Live Filtering

•	Additional Search Algorithms

•	New Completion Types

Version 8.5.2

•	Code completion integration into the Smalltalk Inspectors

Version 8.6

•	Enhanced text editor built off the popular Scintilla editor component

•	Real-time "Color as you type" syntax highlighting engine.

•	Added syntax color highlighting to inspectors and workspaces

•	Hardware-Accelerated font rendering

•	Smart Highlighting

•	Bracket Highlighting

•	Enhanced Breakpoint management

•	Line number support

•	Indicator engine to show errors and warnings

•	Multiple Undo/Redo support

Version 8.6.1

 

•	Real-time Code Analytics (Detect/Report/Repair errors and warnings on-the-fly)

•	Enhanced Refactoring support with new interactive workflows

•	Revamped Editor Theme engine allowing for customization of every visual in the editor

•	New "Action List Calltips" the user can interact with to request specific actions in the editor

•	The editor is now up to 20x faster than in 8.6

•	Smart Auto-Indent keeps multiline comments lined up according to VA Smalltalk convention

•	Margin markers to help locate offscreen bracket matches in the editor

•	The browsers have been enhanced to use primary/secondary match highlighting when browsing implementors/senders/references

•	Code completion Auto-inserts arguments for messages sent to super when the message is the same name as the method it is being invoked in

•	New Accessor completions which allow an easy way to create accessors using code completion

•	StsMultipleSelectorBrowser now sorts results in right hand pane alphabetically (see Chapter 14 Special Browsers)

•	New and updated Option menu entries (see Chapter 9 Options Menu)

•	Added Options->Browse Methods->Referencing Missing Selector