Month: April 2018

Version 1.0.1 has been released.

Posted on by Eric Bishton in Release Notices

Hello again!

[EDIT: We found a significant performance issue in 1.0.1, so we’ve released a 1.0.2 version that fixes it.  Have fun!]

We have released an update to the IntelliJ-Haxe plugin.  This is a small release, mostly to fix some incompatibilities that had crept in — and to support IDEA 2018.1.

I have to apologize to @mayakwd who put a lot of effort into what I simply termed as “refactored imports” in the previous release notes.  As he pointed out, there were a number of important changes that developers will want to be aware of.  (They are now enumerated as the first five entries in the 1.0.0 notes.)

1.0.1 (HaxeFoundation release)

  • Updated change notes for 1.0.0 (enumerated several important import changes).
  • Add Haxe Sdk setup validation.
  • Use SDK classpath as well as sourcepath to find the standard library. (Issue #774)
  • Better error handling when haxelibs are installed incorrectly. (Issue #780)
  • 2017.3 and 2018.1 builds. (Issues #719, #789)
  • Workaround debugger crash. (Issue #792)
  • Fix typo in haxelib metadata parser, which was keeping library sub-tree source directories from being found.

1.0.0 (HaxeFoundation release)

  • Import of static fields/methods.
  • Imports alias hinting support.
  • Proper wildcard import resolution.
  • Import optimizer now works properly.
  • Proper module scoping for resolving.
  • Add $trace to the list of built-ins to recognize.
  • Semantic Annotation: Infer missing function types from code blocks.
  • Semantic Annotation: Support arrow functions.
  • Semantic Annotation: Add local variable type checking.
  • Properly detect function types when used in type parameters (generics).
  • Fix Flash “Run” target to launch the file that the compile process creates.
  • Non-OpenFL projects now use a better algorithm to determine output directories and files.
  • Add source directories to classpath during compiler completions. (More completions, fewer errors.)
  • Use non-haxe-logo version of icons when completions are not provided by the compiler.
  • Compatibility fix for non-IDEA products: stop logging to stderr! (Issue #724)
  • Improved Enum parsing; added generalized algebraic data types support.
  • Add true Map literal support. (No longer parsed as Array.)
  • Added visibility detection rules (e.g. @NoCompletion) regarding language docs.
  • Fixes to error message parsing (no longer account info messages to JetBrains installation directory).
  • Split ‘lime test’ into ‘lime update; lime build’ and ‘lime run’, for Make and Run/Debug tasks.
  • Add folding support:
    • For documentation comments (/** */).
    • For comment regions. (// region Name … // end region) (Issue #529)
    • Braces for classes, methods, etc.
    • For imports and usings.
    • For compiler conditionals (#if, etc.)
  • Fixed a number of NPEs in the ProjectUpdater.
  • Add enums from the current file completion suggestion lists.
  • Fixed the resolution order for imports vs. package. (Issue #741)
  • Fixed inability to resolve enum parameter symbols at case statement. (Issue #351)
  • Dropped support for IDEA versions 14 and 15.
  • Internal: Began refactoring the resolver. New models are introduced.
  • Changed “static variable override” to a weak warning, instead of a regular warning.
  • Imports handling has been refactored.
  • Allow @:meta without parens.
  • Properly parse variable declarations in return statements. (Issue #329)
  • Fixed parsing of ‘throw’ statements within a ternary expression. (Issue #704)
  • Allow all string literal forms as field identifiers in structures. (Issue #662)

Status Report: March 2018

Posted on by Eric Bishton in Status Reports

This month I got the release out that I had been promising for a couple of months. We decided to change the numbering to 1.x from the previous 0.x release numbering for two reasons: One, we’ve broken backward compatibility with any pre-Java8 products — IDEA 15.x and earlier; the second is that the product has been past the minimum viable product stage for a few years now, and there is no reason to continue to make people think that it’s not ready for prime time. That’s not to say that the product is full-featured, or that we’re done by any means.

The folks over at FlowPlay are seeing some performance issues with the new release.  Firstly, a high-CPU usage on macOS, which I haven’t been able to duplicate yet.  Secondly, overall slowdown when typing, with the engineers being able to type several characters ahead of what is displayed on the Windows platform.  I have spent some time on the issue and have some leads on the Windows side, but what I have found is inconsistent.  I’ll keep looking.  In the mean time, if others are seeing the issue, let us know what your setup is (e.g. platform, versions, etc.).

I believe that Flash Debugging is working properly now, but I need you folks to test it and let me know if it’s working for you. The last public release has all of my changes addressing the issue. I can reliably start the AIR debugger *as long as* the debugger is associated with .SWF files at the OS level. Another way to think about it is that simply typing the .SWF name on the command line should launch the app in the AIR player. If it does, then OpenFL — and IDEA for non-OpenFL setups — can run the application; if it does not, then neither can and the AIR debugger must be associated with the .SWF file extension.

What I did this month for my sponsors:
– Flash debugging fixes:
o Projects now use a better algorithm to find and start the built .SWF files.
o Unified calculations of run target names.
– Map Initializers
o Parse map initializers as their own entity instead of treating them like arrays.
o Add new rules for type checking of map initializers. (Removed error annotations.)
– CPU Over-use resolution (incomplete)
o Found Java8 issue on Windows.

Other things I worked on:
– Add local variable type checking (for error annotations).
– Improve array type checking.
– Support arrow functions when evaluating types.
– Infer function typing from code blocks.
– Add $trace() to the list of built-in functions to recognize.
– Made a release.

Community Contributions (mostly @mayakwd):
– Use class paths as sources for the standard lib.
– Validate SDK entries
– Help from @mayakwd finding and fixing an NPE when using “dev” versions of haxelibs.

Next Month:
– Duplicate and fix the CPU over-use issue on macOS.
– 1.0.1 Point release!
– IDEA 2017.3 and 2018.1 support and bugs fixed.
– More work toward parsing and syncing project files, leading to the automatic managing of compiler conditional definitions.

Have a great month!
-Eric