Visual D 0.50.0-beta1 released

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 05/06/2019 02:57, Amex wrote:
> On Tuesday, 4 June 2019 at 07:45:56 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> new beta2 available:
>> https://github.com/dlang/visuald/releases/tag/v0.50.0-beta2
>>
>>
>> Changes from beta1:
>>
>> * check and report invalid non-empty DMD/LDC installation folders
>> * VC project:
>>   - DMD: fix wrong selections for bounds check options
>>   - LDC: added -mixin option
>>   - added enable -mixin option to autogenerate files according to the
>> compilation model
>>   - new option for -extern-std=c++xx
>> * visualdproj:
>>   - Error List: classify warnings and deprecations according to the
>> respective options
>>   - bugzilla 19930: fix building projects with "&|<>" in directory names
>> * mago: fix conditional breakpoints "not supported"
>>
>> Rainer
>>
>>
>> On 31/05/2019 18:30, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> for the adventurous: I have just released a preliminary version of
>>> Visual D with some new major changes:
>>>
>>> - there is now another installer available that includes DMD and LDC,
>>> so no additional setup steps necessary to get you going
>>>
>>> - now checks for updates for Visual D, DMD and LDC and assists with
>>> downloading and installing
>>>
>>> - experimental: highlight references to the same symbol as the one at
>>> the caret (to be enabled in the editor options)
>>>
>>> - mago debugger extension: better dynamic type handling of classes
>>> and interfaces, show exception message
>>>
>>> Grab it here:
>>> https://github.com/dlang/visuald/releases/tag/v0.50.0-beta1
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Rainer
> 
> 
> I've noticed a weird behavior in Visual D projects. In the file tray(the
> drop down at the upper right of the source code window to find opened
> files) some of the D files have a different icon. One is a large red and
> white D while most others are a small red D.
> 
> The large D's use all lowercase paths while the small D's used mixed
> case(this is not 100% every time though). (for example, I might see the
> file C:\Project\main.d and c:\project\test.d each with a different icon)
> 
> I have had it where the same file was opened with the two different
> versions as if it was different file... changing one then changes the
> other(requiring a reload)... which can be dangerous since it can cause
> loss of changes. This has only happened a few times though and it
> happens when the debugger breaks in to a file and that is open(again,
> rare though).
> 
> I guess it has to do with a direct string compare rather than first
> converting everything to the same case. s1 == s2 vs s1.toLower ==
> s2.toLower.
> 
> It's not a big problem though but you might add it to your list in case
> you come across it while fixing other stuff. One of the key's will be
> the different D icons.
> 
> It seems somewhere in Visual D.
> 

I suspect that might have to do with different case being used in
filenames by the project and the debug information. Not sure if it can
be easily be changed (if it is changed by the compiler), but needs
further investigation...