Opencobolide

Starting from this version, **OpenCobolIDE has entered in maintainance mode**. **No new features will be accepted, only bug fixes**.

The next major version of OpenCobolIDE will be [HackEdit](https://github.com/HackEdit/hackedit) , _a brand new project that will replace OCIDE when it is ready, currently in alpha..._

New features:
- New margins mode: you can now configure up to 4 different margins.
- New way to handle MSVC based compilers, including 64 bit support
- Add more command line options to ocide: --compile, --conf, --runtime-env, --cobc-runtime-env
- Add option to save/load preferences.
- Allow to drag & drop paths to the preferences line edits.
- Allow to drag & drop files in the main window to open them in a new editor.
- Add ability to copy runtime dlls to the output directory [Windows].
- Add ability to run a program that requires to set some environment variables.
- Add option to show compiler and runtime configuration.
- Add buttons preferences and about to the home page.
- Add "clean" and "rebuild" actions to the toolbar/menu.
- Add std=nonen, std=cobol2014 and std=acu
- Add a status bar button to forcibly enable/disable the linter (background
checks), overriding the Show errors setting from the Editor preferences.
- Add option to synchronise navigation pane with the editor
- Add option to go up in the filesystem treeview
- Add ability jump to previous/next cursor position (Ctrl+Alt+Z and Ctrl+Alt+Y)
- Add option to send bug report via email
- Improve github bug report, login to github is now done from OCIDE itself
- Update dbpre integration to work with dbpre 0.4
- Allow to use Shift+Enter from the search/replace panel to search backwards

Fixed bugs:
- Fix broken icon theme selection on GNU/Linux and use more icons from theme
- Use KDE specific build icons
- Fix "failed to decode compiler output with encoding cp1252 with external compilation"
- Fix "log pane (Issues tab): Line breaks from cobc & gcc are not translated correctly"
- Fix various bugs with environment variables and compiler settings
- Fix a few issues related to save as (title not updated after save as,...)
- Fix using extra quotes in compiler flags not working
- Fix using windows paths style in preferences (backslash instead of slash)
- Fix various unhandled exceptions reported by users
- Fix a few issues with file system view (warn user if using a UNC path,
fix bugs when opening a file that is located at the root of a drive)
- Fix read only property of some fields in the about dialog or the main window (log, compiler output,...)
- Fix cobc warnings treated as errors
- Fix compiler settings not restore if user press Cancel
- Fix a few issues with the offset calculator and some specific types

Fix bugs 250 and 216.

Fixed bugs:
- 244, 245, 246, 243, 240, 239, 237

Fixed bugs:
- fix 233, 232, 228, 223, 222, 217, 216, 195, 172, 141 and 230

OpenCobolIDE 4.7 Release Candidate.
- 22 [new features or improvements](https://github.com/OpenCobolIDE/OpenCobolIDE/issues?q=label%3AEnhancement+milestone%3A4.7+is%3Aclosed)
- 29 [fixed bugs](https://github.com/OpenCobolIDE/OpenCobolIDE/issues?q=label%3ABug+milestone%3A4.7+is%3Aclosed)

First preview build of v4.7.

New features:
- add a new tab to the about dialog to show more info about cobc and cobcrun 215
- new way to handle msvc based compilers see 188
- ability to use Shift+Enter to search previous occurence (when the focus is in the search widget, otherwise one
could already use Shift+F3) 176
- ability to jump to previous/next cursor position 141
- sync navigation panel with cursor position 172 (the issue is not closed yet as there is at the moment no way to turn this feature off)

Fixed bugs:
- Runtime dlls not copied next to the compiled executable 226
- Filepath in window title and filename in editor tab don't change after SAVE-AS 217

|
|

**WARNING**: if you would like to run it using the below source package, you will need to install all **pyqode** packages from **git checkout** using their **dev branch**!