What was new in v0.8.1b

• Parse some forward declarations of keywords and some known functions, i.e. void exit
• Can now parse defines starting with ( followed by a number
• Fixed CtoFB3's plist to not cause console errors in OS X 10.3

March 7, 2005

• Web site is now XTHML 1.0 Strict with CCS 2.0, except for counter reference on main page

What was new in v0.8.0b

• Standard shortcut for preference menu
• Finder drag and drop fixed and restricted to files with .c, .h, .r, or .cp extensions

What was new in v0.7.9b

• Improved parsing of return statements at end of functions, removed unneeded exit fn statements
• Help tags added to preference window
• Support for input files with long filenames
• Open dialog restricted to files with .c, .h, .r, or .cp extensions
• SInt8, SInt16, SInt32, UInt8, UInt16, UInt32 recognized as native FutureBasic types (for Toolbox conversions)
• CALL_NOT_IN_CARBON translates to "CarbonLib = 0" (for Toolbox conversions)
• Full set of OS X icons

What was new in v0.7.8b

• Enhanced parsing of functions to handle more complex arguments
• Fixed parsing of equations in the argument of the 'which' statement
• Fixed parsing of equations in second argument of 'for' statement
• Adjusted parsing of conditionals (pi.c example now handled)
• Corrections to the parsing of prefix and postfix operators in printf and scanf functions
• Fixed rare serious bug involving // comments and short if statements
• New option: C form for ++ and --, three choices for conversion: keep as is, convert to INC and DEC, or convert to +=1 and -=1
• Fixed parsing of pointer cast operations
• Minor fix for parsing of variable declarations mixed with pointers and regular variables
• Fix for components of structures that have same name but different types
• Fixed toolbox parsing not to carry information from previous toolbox
• Added support for toolbox functions with standard type after extern statement
• New Mac specific type translations: UInt32 -> unsigned long, SInt16 -> short, UInt16 -> unsigned short
• New option: use DIM VARIABLE AS TYPE format, instead of DIM AS TYPE VARIABLE format
• New option: capitalize keywords
• Fixed handling of unnamed unions
• Fixed handling of unions without struct
• Fixed parsing of pointers of unknown types inside unions and structures
• Comment out nonsense "typedef union a a;"
• Fixed handling of #define constants starting with one or more "_"'s
• Fixed translation of #ifndef
• Additional common functions translated: sqr and sqrt
• Fixed handling of blank lines in comments
• Removed preference to mark globals with comment
• Changes to speed up conversion
• Open dialog now permits you to select multiple files to translate
• Appearance manager alerts for the most serious errors
• Slightly better handling of C++ files

What was new in v0.7.7b

• Major rewrite for the parsing of structures and arrays of structures
• Parsing of prefix and postfix operators now handles structures and arrays of structures
• Parsing of indirect operator handles structures and arrays of structures
• Parenthesis and brackets properly set for arrays of structures containing arrays
• Progress window with progress bar and cancel button
• Generalized enum structure parsing, now handles expressions such as (1<<0)
• More enhancements for toolbox conversions (procedures, const, & other fixes)
• New preference to insert comments marking global structures, i.e., variables and defines (default off)
• Removed comments for const, pascal, register, static, and volatile

What was new in v0.7.6b

• Convert calloc, malloc, free, fread, fseek, fwrite, strcat, strcpy functions to equivalent FutureBasic functions
• Convert "~" to "not"
• Partially handle passing of functions, i.e. (*fnt)(), to functions
• Detect unknown types when used to define a pointer, i.e. "unknowntype *newvariable"
• Autodetectation of constants: skip FILE

What was new in v0.7.5b

• Built with Release 7
• Preferences now in proper menu location and saved
• Preference window displays additional help text
• New default preference: C Form of += and -=
• Recognize and ignore Apple specific "pascal" keyword
• Adjusted extern, i.e. toolbox conversions, to produce: "a * b" instead of "b as pointer to a"
• Adjusted output location of some comments
• History notes moved to new History window
• Home, end, page up, and page down keys work in Release Notes & History windows

What was new in v0.7.4b

• Bug fix for crash related to setting fonts
• Fixed font choice for About Box

What was new in v0.7.3b

• Mac OS X native, requires CarbonLib 1.6 for MacOS 9 and before
• Converted to Appearance Runtime
• Release Notes moved to Help Menu
• Find and Copy commands for Release notes
• nonsense typedef's commented out, i.e. typedef struct a a;
• pointer typedef's fixed, i.e. typedef a * aptr;
• nameless enum now handled
• parse "extern A B(..);" into "toolbox fn B(...) = A"

What was new in v0.7.2b

• Major rewrite of parsing of cast operations
• Removed extra parantheses in cast operations including when cast operations are removed
• Fixed an oversight in macro processing, tabs in multiline macros

What was new in v0.7.1b

• Major rewrite of parsing for curly brackets
• Fixed two oversights in macro processing, spaces in arguments and \ continuations
• Fixed handling of defines for constants in parenthesis, i.e. #define a (-1)
• Fixed macro comments replacing internal representation with original arguments
• Removed final dividing line in output FutureBasic code except for full programs
• Fixed two spelling errors

What was new in v0.7.0b

• Complete parsing of cast operations for nonstandard variables types, defined or not
• Autodetection of undefined constants understands pointer casts and cast operations
• Option to insert comments for all cast operations parsed (default on)
• Option to strip all cast operations (default off)
• Fixed parsing of cast operations for the indirect membership operator (->)
• Strips extra parenthesis in macros when around part of an array, i.e. (x)[0]

What was new in v0.6.9b

• Corrected initialization of arrays to start at 0 not 1
• Corrected dimensioning of arrays to account for zeroth array element
• Added option to keep C form of OR (||)
• Removes "float flag", i.e. fn(1.0f)
• Removed "New" menu item
• Auto detection of undefined constants (all capital letters with restrictions)

What was new in v0.6.8b

• Built with FB^3 Release 6
• Increased number of defines handled

What was new in v0.6.7b

• Fixed handling of comments right after the closing } of an if statement
• Fixed parsing of pointer functions, i.e. int *fn(a){...}

What was new in v0.6.6b

• Fixed parsing of multi-argument functions in variable declarations, i.e. "int a=g(b,c);"

What was new in v0.6.5b

• Fixed "Add the C code as comments to the FutureBasic code"
• Fixed rare bug with regular comments
• Minor speed enhancements

What was new in v0.6.4b

• "typedef struct" now handled
• Conditional statement in printf function is now parsed correctly
• Spacing and other fixes for conditional statement parsing
• Minor filename fix when opening "c" files using the menu
• Translation of "*address++ ^= value;" at beginning of a file (outside a function) fixed previous release
• Now beeps when finished processing a file
• exit() function translated