Nov. 5, 2021

New builds of version 3.21 of Simply Fortran are now available on the Download page for all platforms. The new builds fix some reported bugs related to debugging and new projects, and additional features have been added to Windows distributions.

An issue with the debugging related to launch arguments has been corrected. Launch arguments were not being passed to the underlying debugging engine at all as a result of some behind-the-scenes changes introduced in version 3.20, and...

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Oct. 29, 2021

Multiple users reported that Simply Fortran 3.21 was not working on the latest macOS release. Specifically, on macOS 12 Monterey, Simply Fortran would appear only as a title bar with a window filled with black; the development environment did not appear to work. The issue was traced to an upstream bug in the GTK+ libraries related to bad drawing coordinates that only manifested itself on the latest macOS release.

We've released new builds on our Download page that should fix...

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Oct. 13, 2021

Approximatrix is happy to announce the availability of Simply Fortran version 3.21 for all supported platforms. The latest release introduces numerous bug fixes and feature additions.

On modern releases of supported operating systems, Simply Fortran can now open a terminal embedded within the development environment as a tab. In the View menu, the Open New Terminal option will open a command prompt or shell in a tab. This new feature requires an up-to-date version of Windows 10 or...

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Aug. 23, 2021

New builds of Simply Fortran 3.20 are now available for macOS that should allow printing from the integrated development environment. Our build system was not properly deploying the necessary printing backends when packaging the application for distribution.

This improvement does have some caveats, however. Printing to a file can be problematic on modern macOS versions because macOS security may deny access to writing output files to certain locations. ...

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