Silverfrost FTN95: Fortran for Windows version 5.40

We are pleased to announce the release of FTN95 version 5.40. This is available for download now to supported users.

New Features:

• Windows 7 compatibility
• New comment embedded directive STDCALL added for use before an EXTERNAL statement.
• New routine ENABLE_DEALLOCATE@ added to allow DEALLOCATE to be applied after ALLOCATE with SHARENAME.
• New routine DOWNLOAD@ added. This is similar to READ_URL@ but reads into memory.
• Many of the /CHECK features are now available when using /F_STDCALL.
• ClearWin+: %ht now accepts JPEG images.
• ClearWin+: %ht now uses a standard callback COPY_TEXT in order to copy all of the text in the current HTML page to the clipboard.
• ClearWin+: %th now provides an option for Microsoft style context sensitive help.

Outline summary of bugs that have been fixed:

• MODULE user defined type with array initialisation was not written to the MOD file.
• /ALT_KINDS failed in subroutines.
• Regression in Plato: /CLR_VER project option was not working.
• There was a particular failure of INTEGER*8 with /CHECK.
• /CONFIG failed to restore /CHECKMATE setting from config file.
• /CONFIG failed to work under Windows Vista.
• SYSTEM_CLOCK returned incorrect results for very fast processors.
• Regression at 5.20: Type initialiser lead to offset error.
• Regression at 3.40: There was a failure to parse 'i+1' in B(i+1)%C = 0
• Inconsistent pointer block in /CHECK argument.
• ClearWin+: %si icons were not displayed correctly for non-standard DPI settings.
• ClearWin+: %lv did not scroll initial selection into view.

There is an installation issue with the Visual Studio 2008 plug-in. Some machines lack the necessary Microsoft run-time files and this causes the plug-in to not function correctly. New installers have been built and are now live that contain these files.