Steve committed the upcoming Windows port to out github repository
it’s still work in progress so you can’t physically target it as part of the build system although we hope to move
this port out relatively quickly. This should be more doable thanks to the iKVM route
& the work from Fabricio both of which saved a lot of the effort in this port.
You can take a look at this port if you are Windows inclined and let us know what you think.
IntelliJ IDEA Update
So far the plugin rewrite went more smoothly than our worst fear. We did have to issue an update to a regression
that caused the wrong UI to load sometime for the designer/settings panel/gui builder. If you are using version
3.3.1 at this time you are up to date.
One thing we neglected to mention in the announcement is that you need Java 8 or the plugin won’t even show up.
We only tested on IntelliJ 16 so please try to use that version with Java 8.
Enum Values
One of the long time ParparVM issues has been
the usage of enums in iOS. Enum compilation triggers some reflection code under the hood to support capabilities
such as values() and those just didn’t translate into C code properly.
Steve took on that issue and now code such as this:
for(MyEnum e : MyEnum.values()) {
...
}Should work just fine for iOS compilation too.
ContactsManager Refresh
We added a bit of a hack to solve an iOS issue with contacts based on a request from an enterprise developer.
It seems that in iOS when you have a list of contacts and you minimize the application to add a new contact,
the list won’t be refreshed even if you re-invoke getAllContacts().
iOS caches the data for the contacts and we need to explicitly refresh the list using
ContactsManager.refresh()
which you can call in the start() method in case the app is being restored. This method won’t do anything
in other platforms but if you need it then it’s pretty valuable.
