MBS Real Studio Plugins 12.1 - 21th March 2012

• Added new plugin for Canon EOS Digital camera SDK.
• Added new plugin for DirectShow (for video recording on Windows)
• Added BlockSmoothing and FancyUpsampling properties to JPEGImporterMBS class.
• Added CFPreferencesMBS.CopyDictionary function to copy all preference data of an application.
• Added CGColorSpace parameter to NSImage functions CopyPicture and CopyPictureWithMask.
• Added CollectionIndex parameter to LoadFont method in DynaPDFMBS class.
• Added colorspace parameter to CGPictureContextMBS Constructor.
• Added constructor to CIColorMBS, CIContextMBS, CIFilterMBS, CIFilterShapeMBS, CIImageMBS and CIVectorMBS for taking Ptr value.
• Added CRC16MBS function.
• Added CustomNSScrollerMBS class.
• Added description and print methods to NSAppleEventDescriptorMBS, NSPredicateMBS and NSNotificationMBS classes.
• Added DirectShowBindContextMBS, DirectShowPropertyBagMBS and a few more DirectShowMonikerMBS methods.
• Added DllMain entry point for DLLs for better compatibility.
• Added DoubleToInt64MBS and Int64ToDoubleMBS functions.
• Added examples for iCloud and Push Notifications.
• Added FieldFont, FieldName, IEditFont, IFieldFont, ToolTip and Value properties to DynaPDFFieldExMBS class.
• Added folderitem.isApplicationMBS function.
• Added functions WinApplyDevModeMBS, WindowsGraphicsInfoMBS, WinEndPageMBS and WinStartPageMBS to Graphics class.
• Added HTMLViewer.IEPrintPreviewMBS.
• Added JavaDatabaseMBS connect method.
• Added Lasterror property to WIADeviceManager1MBS and WIADeviceManager2MBS class.
• Added LCMS2GamutBoundaryDescriptionMBS class.
• Added LinuxSysInfoMBS class.
• Added LoadFontEx and PageLink3 methods to DynaPDFMBS class.
• Added more exceptions for BlowfishMBS class so you get exceptions on bad parameters instead of crashes.
• Added more NSFileManagerMBS methods.
• Added more NSFontMBS methods.
• Added more WindowsPrinterMBS methods.
• Added Names and Lines function to EnvironmentMBS class.
• Added new LCMS2StageSamplerMBS class and methods to LCMS2StageMBS class.
• Added new properties to WindowsPageFormatMBS class for Windows Vista and newer.
• Added NSControlMBS.SetStringValue method.
• Added NSFontDescriptorMBS class.
• Added NSGraphicsMBS.ScaleCoordinates and NSGraphicsMBS.TranslateCoordinates methods.
• Added NSGraphicsMBS.strokeLine method.
• Added NSLayoutManagerMBS class to control a few more textview options.
• Added NSSegmentedControlMBS class.
• Added NSWindowMBS.standardWindowButton method.
• Added PDFPageMBS.Draw method.
• Added Picture.hashMBS function.
• Added plugin version information to dylibs and DLLs inside plugins.
• Added PortAudioMBS.DisableHostAPI function.
• Added Priority, WinGetPriorityClass and WinSetPriorityClass to ProcessMBS class.
• Added private constructors to PortAudioDeviceInfoMBS, PortAudioHostApiInfoMBS, PortAudioHostErrorInfoMBS and PortAudioStreamInfoMBS classes.
• Added QuartzFilterViewMBS constructors.
• Added return value to CDFinanceChartMBS.addPlotAreaTitle or CDPolarLayerMBS.addCustomDataLabel methods.
• Added ScreenIndex parameter to Movie.BeginFullScreenMBS function.
• Added signatures for Mac dylibs in the plugins.
• Added signatures for Windows DLLs in the plugins.
• Added some more exceptions for Java classes in case you use object with nil handles.
• Added WindowsGraphicsInfoMBS class.
• Added WindowsPageSetupDialogMBS class.
• Added WindowsPrintDialogMBS class.
• Added WindowsPrinterInfoMBS class.
• Added WindowsPrinterJobMBS class.
• Added WinNotificationMBS class to send messages from one windows application to another.
• Added XLBookMBS.SetKeyGlobal method.
• Updated DynaPDF to version 3.0.15.34.
• Updated LibXl to version 3.2.3
• Updated Phidgets library to the December release.
• Changed Carbon Print Plugin, CGContextMBS.BeginTransparencyLayerWithRect method, QDPictMBS and CGPSConverterMBS classes to use dictionary/array/string instead CFDictionaryMBS, CFURLMBS, CFArrayMBS and CFStringMBS.
• Changed CIColorMBS.Component to a function giving double values.
• Changed DynaPDFMBS destructor to call FreePDF always to avoid memory leak if developer forgets to call it.
• Changed encryption plugin parts so they are no longer detected as being virus infected by some virus scanners.
• Changed FontActivateMBS and FontDeactivateMBS functions on folderitem classes to use newer APIs on Mac OS X 10.5 for future compatibility.
• Changed Java plugin so we can use several VMs. Also most classes are now JavaObjectMBS subclasses and we added a few more methods.
• Changed JPEG memory handling. Instead of static memory buffer for string output, it now grows dynamically.
• Changed NSViewMBS.Handle from Integer to Ptr.
• Changed Tiff plugin by moving some special function in own plugin parts. This saves a few 100 KB app size for most users.
• Fixed a couple of bugs and crashes with CAPlayThroughMBS.
• Fixed a crash with CreateDevice function in both WIADeviceManager1MBS and WIADeviceManager2MBS classes.
• Fixed a few bugs in EnvironmentMBS class.
• Fixed a few things for future compatibility.
• Fixed a leak with HTMLViewer.IERunJavaScriptMBS, where we leaked a html window reference.
• Fixed bug in GetWindowsErrorMessageMBS function.
• Fixed bug in Linux string handling where plugin functions returning UTF16 did not set the text encoding. This affects a lot of plugins, especially the XL Plugin where this was reported.
• Fixed bug in PictureMBS.CopyMask which also affected CopyPictureWithMask and DebugPicture.
• Fixed bug in WindowsPrinterMBS.GetForm function.
• Fixed bug with WindowsPrinterMBS.DocumentProperties.
• Fixed bug with XLBookMBS.AddPicture with taking folderitem.
• Fixed Cocoa initialization for Carbon targets to only create NSAutoreleasePool when there is no existing one instead of always creating one.
• Fixed internal NSDictionary to Dictionary conversion to work better with non string keys.
• Fixed MailFrom option in CURLMBS and CURLSMBS.
• Fixed memory leak with folderitem icon functions on Windows: IconMBS, IconImageMBS and IconMaskMBS.
• Fixed NSAppleScriptMBS.properties to include all property names and not miss the last one.
• Fixed PDFPageMBS.characterBoundsAtIndex to now return a NSRectMBS.
• Fixed picture editing functions to clear picture cache.
• Fixed plugins so the precompiling is triggered less often.
• Fixed PNGReaderMBS constructor so it works if you compile app on Intel machine and copy to PPC Mac.
• Improved DirectorySizeMBS to use FSRef alone (and no longer FSSpec and FSRef) on Mac.
• Improved LinuxUSBDeviceDescriptionMBS to show vendor name, product name and serial number more often. (still needs permissions to access devices!)
• Improved memory handling for Java which fixes some memory leaks.
• Note: Over time all Handle properties will move from integer to Ptr in preparation for 64 bit support.
• Prepared Windows htmlviewer extensions for compatibility to Real Studio 2012r1.
• Removed JPEGImporterMBS.UseTempMemory property.
• Rewrote DynaPDFFieldExMBS class.
• Split MacOSXCF plugin into MacOSXCF and MacOSXCG. Due to some changes, they have no dependencies.
• Split WindowsPrinterMBS class and created WindowsPrinterInfoMBS class. WindowsPrinterMBS is now the class for an open printer. This way we avoid to open a connection for each operation and simply open it once with OpenPrinter method.

New in version 12.0   New in version 12.2

Release notes of all versions: Release notes.