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This document describes the changes made to the GS application.

GS 1.6.1
Improvements and New Features

Internal changes

Own Id: OTP-13551
GS 1.6
Improvements and New Features

Change license text from Erlang Public License to Apache Public License v2

Own Id: OTP-12845
GS 1.5.16
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Application upgrade (appup) files are corrected for the following applications:

asn1, common_test, compiler, crypto, debugger, dialyzer, edoc, eldap, erl_docgen, et, eunit, gs, hipe, inets, observer, odbc, os_mon, otp_mibs, parsetools, percept, public_key, reltool, runtime_tools, ssh, syntax_tools, test_server, tools, typer, webtool, wx, xmerl

A new test utility for testing appup files is added to test_server. This is now used by most applications in OTP.

(Thanks to Tobias Schlager)

Own Id: OTP-11744
GS 1.5.15.2
Improvements and New Features

Where necessary a comment stating encoding has been added to Erlang files. The comment is meant to be removed in Erlang/OTP R17B when UTF-8 becomes the default encoding.

Own Id: OTP-10630
GS 1.5.15.1
Improvements and New Features

The GS applications is now deprecated and will be removed in the R16 release. The following GS-based applications have been superseded by the Observer application and will removed in R16: Appmon, Pman, Tv.

*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

Own Id: OTP-9907
GS 1.5.15
Improvements and New Features

Erlang/OTP can now be built using parallel make if you limit the number of jobs, for instance using 'make -j6' or 'make -j10'. 'make -j' does not work at the moment because of some missing dependencies.

Own Id: OTP-9451

Eliminate use of deprecated regexp module

Own Id: OTP-9810
GS 1.5.14
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Remove misc. compiler warnings

Own Id: OTP-9542
GS 1.5.13
Improvements and New Features

The documentation for GS is updated with the warning that it should not be used in new applications. GS is planned to be deprecated soon and might be removed from the distribution already in the next major release (R15). For graphical applications we recommend the use of WX instead.

Own Id: OTP-8824
GS 1.5.10
Improvements and New Features

Updated the application with new tags for automatic updates of copyright notices.

Own Id: OTP-7851
GS 1.5.12
Improvements and New Features

Warnings due to new autoimported BIFs removed

Own Id: OTP-8674 Aux Id: OTP-8579

GS 1.5.11
Improvements and New Features

The documentation is now built with open source tools (xsltproc and fop) that exists on most platforms. One visible change is that the frames are removed.

Own Id: OTP-8201
GS 1.5.9
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Fixed grid_line crash, which caused tv, debugger and pman crashes. Thanks Jan Jacobs and others.

Own Id: OTP-7242
GS 1.5.8
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Uses wish85 if available and fixed 'gs error: gstk_port_handler: error in input : unknown option "-sta"' error. Thanks Vance Shipley

Own Id: OTP-7115
GS 1.5.7
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Fixed font size and some bugs in the generic file dialog, which is undocumented and mainly intended for internal use (today it is only used by Pman).

The file has been added and the module removed.

Also fixed dialyzer warning in .

Own Id: OTP-6682
GS 1.5.6
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Removed some dead code from and .

Own Id: OTP-6541
GS 1.5.5
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Corrected some bugs in the examples.

Own Id: OTP-5988

Removed from , , , , , , , , , .

Own Id: OTP-6008
Improvements and New Features

Fixed the functions for creating help windows (notify/confirm/request) in the internal module , so that the help window can be centered over its parent window (instead of at a random position).

Own Id: OTP-5987

Eliminated some dead code from , found by Dialyzer.

Own Id: OTP-6045

Upgraded tcl/tk binaries to version 8.4.13

Own Id: OTP-6106
GS 1.5.4
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

The graphic applications now search for HTML documentation in the correct place.

Own Id: OTP-5381