Difference between revisions of "BlackBox 1.7 Press Release"
Josef templ (talk | contribs) m (serial comma removed) |
Josef templ (talk | contribs) |
||
| Line 18: | Line 18: | ||
BlackBox Component Builder is an innovative IDE (integrated development environment) | BlackBox Component Builder is an innovative IDE (integrated development environment) | ||
originally developed by Oberon microsystems of Zurich, Switzerland. | originally developed by Oberon microsystems of Zurich, Switzerland. Written in Component Pascal, a member of the Pascal/Modula-2/Oberon family of languages, it features efficient compilation and modern software engineering concepts such as garbage collection, strong typing, object orientation and reflection. BlackBox Component Builder is unique in that it allows program execution within the IDE itself; without starting an external operating system process. This provides for very efficient compile-load-execute cycles, comparable with scripting languages. It also enables simple interfacing to built-in IDE components. | ||
BlackBox is module based; a module is the unit of compilation and loading. Modules are used for implementing commands, background actions, libraries, graphical components and persistent documents. All module interfaces are fully described in the included help system, which also includes many tutorials. | BlackBox is module based; a module is the unit of compilation and loading. Modules are used for implementing commands, background actions, libraries, graphical components and persistent documents. All module interfaces are fully described in the included help system, which also includes many tutorials. | ||
Revision as of 13:37, 20 September 2016
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CONTACT: BlackBox Framework Chair
Organization: BlackBox Framework Center
Email Address: chair@blackboxframework.org
Website URL: http://blackboxframework.org/
BlackBox Component Builder 1.7 Released
International, 2016-09-16 - The BlackBox Framework Center is pleased to announce the release of BlackBox Component Builder version 1.7 for Windows and Linux/wine. A detailed change list is available from http://blackboxframework.org/stable/blackbox-1.7-changes.html.
Release 1.7 contains fixes for all known issues since 2013, when BlackBox Component Builder was handed over to the community. It also contains significant enhancements such as Unicode support for identifiers in the Component Pascal language, better localization support and automatic recompilation of a set of subsystems. The new release can be downloaded from http://blackboxframework.org/.
BlackBox Component Builder is an innovative IDE (integrated development environment) originally developed by Oberon microsystems of Zurich, Switzerland. Written in Component Pascal, a member of the Pascal/Modula-2/Oberon family of languages, it features efficient compilation and modern software engineering concepts such as garbage collection, strong typing, object orientation and reflection. BlackBox Component Builder is unique in that it allows program execution within the IDE itself; without starting an external operating system process. This provides for very efficient compile-load-execute cycles, comparable with scripting languages. It also enables simple interfacing to built-in IDE components. BlackBox is module based; a module is the unit of compilation and loading. Modules are used for implementing commands, background actions, libraries, graphical components and persistent documents. All module interfaces are fully described in the included help system, which also includes many tutorials.
ABOUT BlackBox Framework Center
The BlackBox Framework Center is an international community of volunteers dedicated to maintaining and improving the BlackBox Component Builder. It operates blackboxframework.org, a BlackBox source code repository, an automated build engine, an issue tracker, center and community forums and a wiki. Current executive members are from the US, the UK, Germany, Austria, Russia, China and Australia. The BlackBox Framework Center was formed in 2013 and started its work on version 1.7 in 2014. For more information, see http://forum.blackboxframework.org/.
- END -