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We are pleased to announce the release of FTN95 version 6.00. This is available for download now to supported users.


New Features:

• Support for Visual Studio 2010
  
• Support for .NET 4.0
  
• A new compiler option /NO_TRUNCATE has been added.
  
• ClearWin+: A new option [mouse_hover] has been added to %ib
  
• ClearWin+: The standard callback COPY has now been implemented for %cw
  
• ClearWin+: The local font given by %fn is now applied to %pb
  
• ClearWin+: New library routines have been added to make it easier to use %eb[user_colours]
  
• ClearWin+: Check boxes in %lv can now be set and reset under program control
  
• ClearWin+: Mouse wheel messages are now available with %gr[full_mouse_input]
  
• ClearWin+: GET_MULTIPLE_FILENAMES@ has been made available
  

Outline summary of bugs that have been fixed:

• A specific test for character equality was failing with /FULL_UNDEF
  
• There was a failure to flag a compilation error when a DO loop end control value is not a scalar.
  
• The logical test in a WHERE statement was not failing as it should when there is a rank miss-match.
  
• There was a false comment about a derived type not being used.
  
• There was a failure to flag a compilation error when a certain array expression is a assigned to a scalar.
  
• The FTN95 intrinsic LS could not be overloaded within a user MODULE.
  
• A certain usage of ALLOCATE failed when applying /CHECK.
  
• A certain function call in which an array section was passed did not return a value.
  
• There was a false warning about "use without an initial value" for an array section in a READ statement.
  
• There was a false runtime error when an array section was passed as an argument and the array has varying size.
  
• An array assignment involving a member of a member of a user type failed to compile.
  
• There was a false warning about an array member of a user type being redefined.
  
• There was a Missing error report when SIZE is called for an assumed-size array.
  
• The TRANSFER intrinsic was failing when passing a character variable and using /FULL_UNDEF.
  
• FILL@ gave an internal compiler failure when only two arguments are supplied.
  
• A certain piece of code using a vector subscript and INTEGER*2 was failing.
  
• FILE8@ returned the file size modulo 4GB
  
• ClearWin+: Two problems with the %eb horizontal scrollbar have been fixed