***** 1.33 Release *****

Major unicode fix release!

* MacOS/Linux/Win2K/XP/Vista:

   Full unicode support has been added to the BRL, Pub and MaxGUI modules!

* Win95/98/ME:

   MaxGUI now provides unicode support but requires unicows.dll to run:

   http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=73BA7BD7-ED06-4F0D-80A4-2A7EEAEE17E2&displaylang=en

   You will need to copy the included unicows.dll into your BlitzMax directory to run the MaxIDE under 95/98/ME, as MaxIDE uses MaxGUI.

   Max apps that use MaxGUI will also need unicows.dll to run under Win95/98/ME. Unfortunately, unicows cannot legally be redistributed with apps so
   you will need to notify users in a readme.txt file or similar.

   The BRL and Pub modules DO NOT support unicode under Win95/98/ME and do not require unicows.
 
* MaxIDE now does a quick test to see if it can write to necessary directories when it starts up. This should detect any potential problems with admin/user modes on Vista. Note: If you install Blitzmax to the default "program files" directory on Vista, you will need to use 'run as administrator' to run MaxIDE. Installing BlitzMax elsewhere (for example, good old "c:\") will allow you to run MaxIDE as a non-admin user.

* Several changes to BRL.System and Pub.Stdc - many interfaces that previously used $z and $w params now just use plain Blitz strings. This will hopefully not affect client code in any way!

* AppDir and AppFile detection code moved from BRL.AppStub to BRL.Blitz.

* TChannel Playing() methods in BRL.OpenALAudio and BRL.DirectSoundAudio modified to return False if channel is paused.

* Linux glgraphics window close button now generates EVENT_APPTERMINATE (AppTerminate() in polled mode...) ala Win/Mac instead of just closing/dying.

* Linux glgraphics window size now locked ala Windows, Mac versions.

* Removed exception handling for SIGILL, SIGSEGV, SIGABRT, SIGTERM. These used to get converted to Max style 'Throw's - but only on some platforms and in a quite probably unrecoverable way. Best just to leave these to the OS/debugger to deal with.

superstrict

Global Var1:float = float( "0.35" )
Global Var2:float = float( F1() )

Print "V1: " + Var1
Print "V2: " + Var2

function F1:string()
   return "0.35"
end function