Fbs

A common thing to do is to display the version of your app in the GUI. In previous versions of fbs, this was difficult. The reason for this is that the version was stored in (usually) the `base.json` settings file, which is theoretically available when you run from source, but not when running the frozen form of your app.

This release of fbs adds a property called `public_settings` to `ApplicationContext`. It lets you easily access certain settings (such as `version`) from your application. For an example, please see [the associated documentation](https://build-system.fman.io/manual/#public_settings).

Let `f` and `h` be Python functions and `g` be a function of Qt. If

f() -> g() -> h()

(where "`->`" means "calls"), and an exception occurs in `h()`, then the
traceback does not contain `f`. This can make debugging very difficult.

This version of fbs adds a custom `excepthook` that adds the missing
traceback entries. You can change it by overwriting the
`cached_property` `ApplicationContext.excepthook`.

The code below can be used to reproduce the `f() -> g() -> h()`
problem. It opens a window with a button. When you click it, an error
occurs whose traceback does not include `f()`.

The problem described here is not specific to PyQt5 - It occurs for
PySide2 as well. To see this, replace `PyQt5` by `PySide2` below.

from PyQt5.QtWidgets import *
from PyQt5.QtCore import Qt

class Window(QWidget):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
btn = QPushButton('Click me', self)
btn.clicked.connect(self.f)
def f(self, _):
self.inputMethodQuery(Qt.ImAnchorPosition)
def inputMethodQuery(self, query):
if query == Qt.ImAnchorPosition:
Make Qt call inputMethodQuery(ImCursorPosition).
This is our "g()":
return super().inputMethodQuery(query) "g()"
self.h()
def h(self):
raise Exception()

app = QApplication([])
window = Window()
window.show()
app.exec_()

See 67.

* Slightly improved the output you see from several fbs commands.
* `fbs freeze` now gives a more helpful hint when `msvcr110.dll` can't be found on Windows. See 63.

It bumps the version and runs `clean`, `freeze`, ..., `upload`.