MBS Real Studio Plugins 13.1 - 7th May 2013

• Added NikonCamera plugin.
• Added 16bit mode for TiffPictureMBS.WriteGray.
• Added a new InsertRecord method to SQLDatabaseMBS. It uses prepared statements to make escaping more save.
• Added CALayerMBS and CATransactionMBS classes.
• Added CDArrayMBS.aggregateValues returning double array.
• Added CGBitmapContextMBS.CreateImage, CGBitmapContextMBS.CreateWithPicture and CGBitmapContextMBS.Create.
• Added CGColorMBS convenience functions.
• Added CGContextMBS.Constructor, CGContextMBS.contextWithCGContext and CGContextMBS.contextWithCGraf.
• Added CIContextMBS.Constructor taking picture as destination. Also added CGContext and Picture properties and Destructor and Flush methods.
• Added CIImageMBS.autoAdjustmentFilters and related methods.
• Added constructor to DirectorySizeMBS class to set RecursionLimit to -1.
• Added copy methods to most PDFKit classes to clone objects.
• Added CustomNSToolbarMBS.allowsSizeMode event to disable small toolbar icons.
• Added Data, DataPtr, PixelDepth and RowBytes to GWorldMBS class.
• Added drag events to custom cocoa control classes.
• Added DynaPDF multi page table examples.
• Added HIViewMBS.available which returns true only on Cocoa target, but not on Cocoa.
• Added IKImageBrowserCellMBS, IKImageBrowserItemMBS and IKImageBrowserViewMBS classes.
• Added InfoForAliasData and InfoForSaveInfo to AliasInfoMBS class.
• Added JavaInputStreamMBS class.
• Added JavaResultSetMBS getAsciiStream, getUnicodeStream and getBinaryStream methods to JavaResultSetMBS class.
• Added MacAliasMBS.AliasInfo, MacAliasMBS.PathString, MacAliasMBS.TargetName and MacAliasMBS.VolumeName.
• Added MD5DigestMBS.HMAC and SHA256MBS.HMAC functions.
• Added more CALayerMBS methods.
• Added more CGImageSourceMBS property names.
• Added more drag and drop things for Cocoa: NSPasteboardItemMBS, NSPasteboardItemDataProviderMBS, NSDraggingImageComponentMBS and NSDraggingItemMBS classes and a few methods.
• Added more NSLayoutManagerMBS functions.
• Added more NSViewMBS.layer functions.
• Added more tag parameters to various events in GameKit and CustomNSSharingServiceMBS.
• Added MT execute methods to RegExMBS class.
• Added MT functions for NSImageMBS compression: JPEGRepresentationWithCompressionFactorMT, BMPRepresentationMT, PNGRepresentationMT, GIFRepresentationMT and JPEGRepresentationMT.
• Added new CIFilterMBS subclasses: CIFilterDepthOfFieldMBS, CIFilterDrosteMBS, CIFilterHighlightShadowAdjustMBS, CIFilterHistogramDisplayFilterMBS, CIFilterPageCurlWithShadowTransitionMBS, CIFilterStraightenFilterMBS, CIFilterStretchCropMBS, CIFilterTemperatureAndTintMBS, CIFilterToneCurveMBS and CIFilterVibranceMBS.
• Added new convenience RegexMBS methods and default parameters.
• Added new events to CustomNSToolbarMBS for events in CustomNSToolbarItemMBS so they can be forwarded there.
• Added new KeychainMBS and KeychainItemMBS classes and a new KeychainManagerMBS module.
• Added new methods for MacUSBNotificationMBS.
• Added new methods to InformixMBS class.
• Added new MT functions to CIImageMBS and NSImageMBS to load thread friendly.
• Added new NSEventMBS methods: hasPreciseScrollingDeltas, isDirectionInvertedFromDevice, scrollingDeltaX and scrollingDeltaY.
• Added new parameter to DrawRotatedTextMBS in order to workaround text position problems on Mac for printing.
• Added new private constructors.
• Added new properties to SQLErrorExceptionMBS class so you get easier the reason of the error.
• Added NSApplicationMBS.startDictation and NSApplicationMBS.stopDictation.
• Added NSDraggingInfoMBS and NSDraggingSessionMBS classes.
• Added NSFilePresenterMBS.primaryPresentedItemURL and NSFileCoordinatorMBS.itemAtURLwillMoveToURL.
• Added NSKeyValueObserverMBS class.
• Added NSMenuItemMBS.ActionSelector to see what method is called by menu item.
• Added NSMenuItemMBS.validateMenuItem for customized menus in NSSearchField.
• Added NSMenuMBS.indexOfItemWithSelector and NSMenuMBS.itemWithSelector to find menu items by selector.
• Added NSWindowMBS.toolbarView method.
• Added OptionNoSignal for CURLSMBS/CURLMBS classes.
• Added private constructor to CGContextMBS and CGBitmapContextMBS classes.
• Added QTTrackMBS.BeginMediaEdits and QTTrackMBS.EndMediaEdits.
• Added RawData and DataMemory properties to WindowsMidiInputMBS events.
• Added RegexMBS.MatchLimit and RegExMBS.MatchLimitRecursion property.
• Added scale factor parameter to HTMLViewer.RenderWebsiteImageMBS.
• Added shared methods to NSGraphicsMBS to quicker make graphics context object for targeting views, windows or CGContext.
• Added some helper methods to LCMS2IT8MBS class.
• Added StartDictationMBS method (for Carbon).
• Added TwainImageLayoutMBS class.
• Added WindowsDeviceModeMBS.FromRawData and WindowsDeviceModeMBS.RawData for storing device mode data.
• Added WindowsDiskChangeMBS class.
• Added WMIObjectMBS.GetPropertyStringArray function and GetProperty now handles string arrays.
• Changed BarcodeScannerMBS to work in console/web applications.
• Changed CDArrayMBS.aggregate to return CDArrayMBS object instead of memoryblock.
• Changed code for dictionary conversion to handle QTTimeMBS and QTTimeRangeMBS better.
• Changed CURL FTPPort, CustomRequest and Range options to pass nil to CURL if you pass empty string in order to disable/reset the feature.
• Changed DelayMBS to only call MovieTask if it was called on the main thread.
• Changed KeychainManagerMBS, so query can now use kSecMatchSearchList.
• Changed license key check for DynaPDF. You now can use one DynaPDF license key from us for both FileMaker and Real Studio / Xojo plugin.
• Changed NSWindowMBS.Close to retain if needed to make sure the window is not overreleased.
• Changed some compiler options to have Real Studio exception handling work better with our plugins.
• Deprecated ClipboardMBS. It will not be supported for 64-bit applications.
• Fixed a bug with Java CallStaticBooleanMethod and other methods.
• Fixed a bug with MacUSBMBS class handling packets.
• Fixed a bug with SplitCommaSeparatedValuesMBS going into infinite loop due to bad input data.
• Fixed a couple of memory leaks related to exception handling.
• Fixed a crash with WindowsMidiMBS.InputDevice function.
• Fixed a drawing issue in IDE for Real Studio 2013r1 for some of our controls.
• Fixed a problem with JPEGImporterMBS reading data from string and string was freed too early.
• Fixed bug in acceptsFirstMouse event in custom cocoa control classes.
• Fixed bug in path handling on Windows which caused crash in DirectorySizeMBS class.
• Fixed bug in SQLErrorExceptionMBS class introduced in pr2.
• Fixed bug in SystemControlNameToMIBMBS function.
• Fixed bug with PictureCombineMBS and negative color values.
• Fixed bug with some internal functions broken with pr15 which causes CocoaControlMBS to fail.
• Fixed bug with text handling in plugin with crashes in FreeTextChain function.
• Fixed CCHMacMBS to work with empty strings for key or data.
• Fixed constructors taking handle parameter for QuartzCore classes like CIImageMBS and CIColorMBS.
• Fixed crash with events in NSSpeechSynthesizerMBS when event occurred after the NSSpeechSynthesizerMBS object was destroyed.
• Fixed crashes with JPEG plugin when using on multiple threads at the same time. (eliminated some global variables)
• Fixed Custom*MBS Cocoa views to work again with their events (broken in pr13).
• Fixed CustomNSSearchFieldMBS keyUp event.
• Fixed DNSNameToAddressIPv6MBS, DNSAddressToNameIPv6MBS, DNSNameToAddressMBS and DNSAddressToNameMBS to work on Linux, Mac and Windows with IPv4 and IPv6.
• Fixed drawing bug in ImageMBS control with RS 2013r1.
• Fixed FilemappingMBS class to cleanup better if you reuse same object.
• Fixed GIFPaletteMBS.Count, so you can set to 256 again.
• Fixed IKImageBrowserViewMBS.groupAtIndex event.
• Fixed LookupHostbyAddress and LookupHostbyAddressMT methods in DNSLookupMBS class which were broken in version 13.0.
• Fixed NameWithoutExtensionMBS and NameExtensionMBS to work correctly on files with a name starting with dot.
• Fixed NSSpellCheckerMBS to work again.
• Fixed problem with LoadInternalDLL functions. Still Microsoft does not like it if we load DLLs from memory as the loaded can't apply custom patches then.
• Fixed Reset method in CURLSMBS/CURLMBS class.
• Fixed ResourceForkMBS class.
• Fixed SetVisibleThreadSafeMBS and SetEnabledThreadSafeMBS for being called on main thread on Mac.
• Fixed SHA1MBS.HMAC function to work on longer keys.
• Fixed some functions using Grand Central Dispatch to really not use it on older Mac OS X versions.
• Fixed windows control thread functions like SetVisibleThreadSafeMBS.
• Improved QTFrameExtractorMBS to make it more thread safe.
• Improved windows code on functions like DNSNameToAddressMBS to correctly fall back to older functions on Windows XP.
• Moved AudioChannelLayout*MBS classes to own plugin part AudioChannelLayout.
• Moved to SDK of Real Studio 2013r1b14.
• Plugins are now compiled with Xcode 4.6 on Mac.
• Reduced number of plugin dlls for Windows as we hit some limit with 500+ dlls and RS 2013r1 stopped loading plugins.
• Removed GetInfoAliasName, GetInfoParentName, GetInfoServerName, GetInfoVolumeName and GetInfoZoneName in MacAliasMBS class.
• Removed GetStackTraceMBS function.
• Removed SelectFolderMBS function. Please use SelectFolder function in Real Studio.
• Removed SignedInteger64MBS and UnsignedInteger64MBS classes. Please use native data types in Real Studio.
• Removed WeakRefMBS class. Please use Weakref class built into Real Studio instead.
• Renamed old Keychain classes to have old in name.
• Split SQL plugin internally into SQL and SQLDatabase plugin. So you can use the SQL side without a database server license. (unless Real Software changes rules)
• Switched compiler for Mac Intel targets to clang instead of gcc. Still using gcc for Mac PPC and Linux. Also still using Visual Studio 2008 for Windows.
• The messages of OutOfMemoryExceptions from plugin now have number of bytes included.
• Updated libXL to version 3.4.2
• Updated constructors in several classes. Now raises an exception if called a second time. Constructors should raise exception if you call them twice, a required parameter is wrong or the underlaying class is not available.
• Updated DynaPDF to version 3.0.25.65
• Updated LCMS2 to 2.5 beta from 23nd March 2013 to get some bug fixes.
• Updated MacAliasMBS class to use newer APIs.
• Updated plugins for recent changes in RS 2013r1 plugin handling.
• Updated SQLPreparedStatementMBS to run in console/web projects.
• Updated the Unikey library for Windows to version 5.6.2.
• Verified with static analyzer on Mac that memory management is done well.
• Removed Release Properties form CGFunctionMBS, CGGradientMBS, CGPathMBS and CGShadingMBS classes. CF/CG/NS Objects are always retained by plugin classes.

New in version 13.0   New in version 13.2

Release notes of all versions: Release notes.