UPDATE 2010-03-05

Posted Thu, 2010-03-04 15:29 by heeckhau

Dear Sigasi HDT user,

In this release we worked hard to improve overall usability of Sigasi HDT to enhance your VHDL development experience. The major improvements are autocompletion for records and the severity of problem markers is now configurable.

We implemented a first version of autocomplete for records, which covers 90% of all use cases. You have to save the VHDL file once after you declare a signal, constant or variable of a record type, before you can use autocomplete for it. Autocomplete for records is automatically triggered when you type the '.'.

We also added a preference dialog for changing the severity of problem markers.
This is especially handy if you want to ignore certain linting warnings (such as the warning for deprecated libraries).

Other noteworthy changes:

  • The documentation is now also available online (announcement).
  • Linked resources are now supported in the automatic Makefile generation (ticket:674).
  • Better error message when you use c-style equal "==" and not-equal "!=". This is a typical error for newcomers and developers that have to change language frequently.

  • Bug fix for ticket ticket:708 which resulted in an incorrect unused signal warning.
  • Based on user feedback, the align action now ignores empty and comment lines.
  • Occurrence highlighting is now disabled when an editor contains changes to avoid confusion (ticket:733).
  • Improved occurrence highlighting for aliases (ticket:408)

Let us know what you think about this new release in the comments or on our forum.

The Sigasi team.

P.S.: If you never did an update before, see the FAQ for more information on updates.