AutoIt v3.3.15.5 Beta

[Jon]

No problem. JP was creating alpha versions with all fixes that he did whilst I was absent, but I've been possibly overly risk averse in adding all those changes to the main code. I've been looking at the patches and doing a gut reaction on:

• Totally, that fixes something in an obvious way
• Ok, let me think about that...hmm... yep looks good
• This will take me more than 10 minutes to think about....no

Only the first 2 are getting implemented. It's just down to the lack of time I have for testing - no reflection on the proposed changes

[mLipok]

  On 2/27/2022 at 6:32 PM, Jon said:

If this version is stable then I'd be looking to release it this week. Just want to get something out there as there are loadsa fixes in it.  Can worry about "improvements" at another time.

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To be sure, for any case..... I put here an current issue which probably should be reviewed before release.

https://www.autoitscript.com/trac/autoit/ticket/2696#comment:5

Edited March 4, 2022 by mLipok

[matwachich]

Hello,

Any idea about https://www.autoitscript.com/trac/autoit/ticket/3767 ? Will/can it be implemented?

What do devs think about it?

[Jos]

  On 3/4/2022 at 9:25 AM, matwachich said:

What do devs think about it?

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Don't think it will make it any clearer, actually more confusing for the average user.  

[Musashi]

I am aware, that any additional requests, especially in the final phase of a project, can be disturbing, if not annoying.

Would it nonetheless be possible to take a glimpse at Ticket3794 ? Some users from the German forum are waiting eagerly for a fix .

[mLipok]

@Jon since we are close to the official release, I would like to ask you to specify what to do next with the functionalities marked as Experimental.

I mean:

• maps
• Volatile
• ObjCreateInterface
• and never documented:  Create COM objects from modules without any demand on user to register anything.

In my experience, most of these functionalities are used daily in many projects and have had no problems with them for many years.

From my point of view the exception is Maps which I think are rather rarely used and the testing process is insufficient.

btw.
Even @LarsJ start discussion here:

 

 

[jchd]

  On 3/4/2022 at 11:08 AM, mLipok said:

From my point of view the exception is Maps which I think are rather rarely used and the testing process is insufficient.

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Don't you mean the reverse? Maps are working fine.

[mLipok]

What I mean by this is that I haven't had the opportunity to use Maps, and I didn't know a lot of projects based on them either.
The only project I actively participated in was:

 

Volatile - are older than Maps and as far as I rememeber used in few projects that was working fine (even tested by me)

ObjCreateInterface  - @LarsJ topic which I already mention before.

and never documented:  Create COM objects from modules without any demand on user to register anything which I use it from May 2014, and all the years on hundreds if not even thousands of PCs, different operating systems, different DLL libraries (COM objects), without any problems with AutoIt. I use it with Chilkat, QuickPDF, DPDFViewer, XZIP.

Edited March 4, 2022 by mLipok

[jchd]

  On 3/4/2022 at 12:34 PM, mLipok said:

I haven't had the opportunity to use Maps

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That's your personal experience. I for one routinely use Maps to store all AutoIt dataypes and access them in all possible ways. AFAIK current Map implementation hasn't been reported as faulty in any way for long time.

[mLipok]

  On 3/4/2022 at 11:08 AM, mLipok said:

In my experience, most of these functionalities are used daily in many projects and have had no problems with them for many years.

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For this reason I state that it was my experience.

Maybe my poor English skills was hit me again ?

Edit:
Also I said that this is my point of view: 

  On 3/4/2022 at 11:08 AM, mLipok said:

From my point of view the exception is Maps which I think are rather rarely used and the testing process is insufficient.

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Edited March 4, 2022 by mLipok

[mLipok]

  On 3/4/2022 at 11:24 AM, jchd said:

Don't you mean the reverse? Maps are working fine.

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Do you mean that Maps are also well tested and they deservs to be switched from Experimental to Stable ?

[jchd]

I strongly believe Map datatype is mature enough to enter AutoIt release thru the main door!

[Jon]

I'm leaving it in the release but still with the experimental tag.  I struggle to remember the nature of the bug with them...

[Jon]

  On 3/4/2022 at 11:06 AM, Musashi said:

I am aware, that any additional requests, especially in the final phase of a project, can be disturbing, if not annoying.

Would it nonetheless be possible to take a glimpse at Ticket3794 ? Some users from the German forum are waiting eagerly for a fix .

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Hmm, JP did a fix for that but it looks like it has a bug in it so I need to rethink. If I can fix it tomorrow I'll give it a go.

[mLipok]

  On 3/4/2022 at 5:41 PM, Jon said:

I'm leaving it in the release but still with the experimental tag.  I struggle to remember the nature of the bug with them...

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Good step forward. Better to have "Experimental in StableVersion" then "Experimental in Beta". More people will start using this feature. 
Anyway as you said some time ago "maybe anyone can break them".

[MarsDE]

Hello There,

I think the following behaviour is a memory leak (v2.0 because i posted another memory leak some years ago):

; Map Memory Leak v2

Global $Map[], $Map2[], $Timer = TimerInit()

While TimerDiff($Timer) < 10000 ; RAM usage will be around 120 MB after 10s
    For $i = 0 To 9999 Step 1

        $Map = $Map2
        ; $Map is now a copy of the empty map $Map2

        $Map.x = $Map
        ; Creates the field "x" inside of $Map, it is initialized with a copy of $Map (current state)

        $Map = 0
        ; $Map is deleted. This should also remove the copy of $Map inside $Map.x, but i think
        ; the copy is not deleted.

    Next
    Sleep(10) ; To keep things slow.
WEnd

Reproduce instructions:
- Taskmanager -> Details (to see every process)
- Run Script in 3.3.15.0 Beta
- Observe the used process memory going up to about 120MB before the script terminates.

regards
M

[jguinch]

What about the end of life of Internet Explorer ? 

From June 15, 2022, Internet Explorer will disappear from Windows 10 through Windows Updates - only for currently supported versions except LTSC version.

Has anyone been able to test the AutoIt fonctions related to Internet Explorer with Windows 11?
It seems that some functions will no longer work, maybe it would be wise to identify them and add a comment in the help file ?

 

Edited March 4, 2022 by jguinch

[Jon]

  On 3/4/2022 at 7:35 PM, MarsDE said:

Hello There,

I think the following behaviour is a memory leak (v2.0 because i posted another memory leak some years ago):

; Map Memory Leak v2

Global $Map[], $Map2[], $Timer = TimerInit()

While TimerDiff($Timer) < 10000 ; RAM usage will be around 120 MB after 10s
    For $i = 0 To 9999 Step 1

        $Map = $Map2
        ; $Map is now a copy of the empty map $Map2

        $Map.x = $Map
        ; Creates the field "x" inside of $Map, it is initialized with a copy of $Map (current state)

        $Map = 0
        ; $Map is deleted. This should also remove the copy of $Map inside $Map.x, but i think
        ; the copy is not deleted.

    Next
    Sleep(10) ; To keep things slow.
WEnd

Reproduce instructions:
- Taskmanager -> Details (to see every process)
- Run Script in 3.3.15.0 Beta
- Observe the used process memory going up to about 120MB before the script terminates.

regards
M

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Yes I think the bugs were all related to things like this maps inside maps, arrays inside arrays, etc.  But I also think they were unfixable due to a fundamental design flaw (in arrays as well)  😕

[Andrey_A_A]

В новой бета версии 3.3.15.5 возникла странная проблема в функции StringRegExp
Тестовый файл http://tc-image.3dn.ru/Files/Autoit/0/sisinfo.zip
Не разбивает список в массив - пока буду откатываться обратно...

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In the new beta version 3.3.15.5 there was a strange problem in the StringRegexp function
Test file http://tc-image.3dn.ru/files/autoit/0/sisinfo.zip.
Does not split a list in an array - while I will roll back ...

[autoit]
#include <Array.au3>
$sFile='D:\sisinfo.txt'
$sText=FileRead($sFile)
$aRet=StringRegExp($sText,'(?m)^([^\r\n]?.*)',3) ; split into an array
_ArrayDisplay($aRet,'Массив $aRet')
[/autoit]

%7B___base_url___%7D/applications/sslimageproxy/interface/image.php?url=http://tc-image.3dn.ru/Image/autoit/0/autoit_beta55.png

[MarsDE]

There are multiple ways to produce memory leaks. I think the following worked in previous Betas but does not work now:

; Map Memory Leak v3

$Timer = TimerInit()
While TimerDiff($Timer) < 10000
    For $i = 0 To 5999 Step 1
        a()
    Next
    Sleep(10)
WEnd

Func a()
    Local $Map[]
    $Map.x = 5
EndFunc

M