News: 1.1.05.00 - October 8, 2011

Added Client coordinate mode.

Added object output mode for RegExMatch and RegEx callouts.

Added super-global declarations, which avoid the need to repeat global declarations.

Breaking change: Class declarations such as Class c now create a super-global variable instead of an ordinary global.

Added more detail to unhandled exception error dialogs.

Changed Gui +Owner to work even after the GUI is created.

Changed instance var declarations in class definitions to avoid leaving empty key-value pairs in the class object.

Changed #Include to use standard error message formatting when it fails (more detail; also respects ErrorStdOut).

Changed Throw to throw an Exception object by default when its parameter is omitted.

Changed format of runtime error messages slightly to improve consistency and code size.

Modified PCRE to use UTF-16 for input on Unicode builds, for performance.

Upgraded PCRE to 8.13.

Fixed thread not exiting as intended when an assignment in an expression fails.

Fixed #MaxMem preventing assignments to variables which don't require expansion.

Fixed inability of Try/Catch to catch COM errors.

Fixed GuiControlGet incorrectly treating parameter #2 as invalid in some cases.

Fixed input vars being resolved too soon, allowing them to be invalidated by an expression later on the same line.

Fixed RegEx callouts not causing matching to abort when an exception is thrown.

Fixed DllCall setting ErrorLevel to -4 when it should be -3.

Fixed While appearing twice in ListLines for its first iteration.

Fixed Try/Catch to allow If/Loop/For/While with no enclosing block.

Fixed enumerator object not being released when Until is used to break a For-loop.

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