MBS Xojo Plugins 14.2 - 24th June 2014

• Added CoreText clases.
• Added AUPlayerMBS class for playing sound on Mac with pitch, rate, pan, equalizer and other features.
• Added ChromiumBrowserMBS and ChromiumFrameMBS classes.
• Added barcode functions to write SVG/Postscript files.
• Added JoinDataMBS and JoinStringMBS functions.
• Added JPEGExporterMBS.Markers.
• Added back the help menu entry for the IDE.
• Added CalCalendarStoreMBS.calendarWithTitle.
• Added CFMutableAttributedStringMBS class.
• Added CFObjectMBS.NewCFObject.
• Added CFRangeMBS class.
• Added CGContextMBS.SetFont.
• Added CGFontMBS class.
• Added CIImageMBS and CGImageMBS functions to retain/release and query retaincount.
• Added CipherMBS.ProcessFile.
• Added console support for zxingBinaryBitmapMBS.CreateWithPicture.
• Added ContainerControl.NSViewMBS, useful to animate containers.
• Added DaylightName and StandardName properties to TimeZoneMBS class.
• Added DigestMBS.FinalText and DigestMBS.Process.
• Added example for accessing files with secured bookmarks in sandboxed apps.
• Added functions to NetworkInterfaceMBS for interface index (needed for Bonjour).
• Added functions to WinNotificationMBS to listen for any windows message.
• Added gesture events to MapKitViewControlMBS.
• Added HasAlphaChannel property for PictureEditorMBS, PictureReaderMBS and PictureWriterMBS class.
• Added helper functions to convert between NSAttributedStringMBS and CFAttributedStringMBS.
• Added helper functions to convert between NSMutableAttributedStringMBS and CFMutableAttributedStringMBS.
• Added HTMLViewer.IEZoomMBS function.
• Added IKImageBrowserViewControlMBS control.
• Added MaxMBS and MinMBS functions to MemoryBlock class.
• Added more checks and exceptions for LCMS2BitmapMBS picture constructor.
• Added more commands for ServiceManagementMBS module.
• Added more events to NSColorPanelMBS class.
• Added more NSButtonMBS and NSButtonCellMBS properties.
• Added more WebPreferencesMBS properties.
• Added movie.GWorldHandleMBS property.
• Added new CoreAudio functions.
• Added new functions to hash classes to process a whole file multithreaded in background to MD5DigestMBS, SHA1MBS, SHA256MBS and SHA512MBS classes.
• Added NewPictureWriterMBS support for alpha images and for reusing images.
• Added NSAlertMBS class.
• Added NSBitmapImageRepMBS.imageRepWithCGImage function and remove constructor taking CGImage.
• Added NSMenu commands to show a popup menu.
• Added NSServiceProviderMBS class (to handle Mac OS X Services in Cocoa apps).
• Added NSTableViewMBS functions for sort descriptors.
• Added NSXPCConnectionMBS, NSXPCListenerMBS and NSXPCListenerEndpointMBS classes.
• Added Picture.ChangeCustomMBS for three components.
• Added QTTrackMBS.FileAlias function.
• Added recursive parameter for NSViewMBS.subviews.
• Added RenderSamplesMBS support for floating point values.
• Added SetRegistrationMessageMBS.
• Added SQLDatabaseMBS and SQLConnectionMBS Scrollable properties to define if internal command objects are created for scrollable cursors. Default is true.
• Added SQLNumericMBS shared methods to create SQLNumericMBS objects.
• Added SQLNumericMBS.NumericWithCurrency and SQLNumericMBS.CurrencyValue.
• Added stack trace capture functions to SignalHandlerMBS class.
• Added Steganography methods for picture class.
• Added tag parameters for NSFileCoordinatorMBS class.
• Added tag property to CLGeocoderMBS methods and CLGeocodeCompletionHandlerMBS.Completed event.
• Added TesseractMBS.RecognizeMT method for background OCR.
• Added WinNotificationMBS.SendMessage and WinNotificationMBS.SendMessageToWindow.
• Changed Commit/Rollback on SQLDatabaseMBS class to do commit.
• Changed folderitem.IconMBS, IconMaskMBS and IconImageMBS to user newer Cocoa based APIs if possible.
• Changed NSNotificationMBS to have more properties instead of methods.
• Changed our ThreadSafe functions for updating controls to detect if the window of the control was destroyed and not perform the command to avoid crashes.
• Changed properties currentTime and numberOfLoops to be settable in AVAudioPlayerMBS class.
• Changed properties in SQLConnectionMBS and SQLDatabaseMBS to not change error code in debugging, so you can see right error messages in debugger.
• Changed properties on SQLNumericMBS class to be settable.
• Changed SQLCommandMBS.Fields to return dates correctly in the dictionary.
• Deprecated ATS classes. Please move to CoreText.
• Deprecated BarcodeScannerMBS class. Please use newer zxing clases for that.
• Deprecated CURLMBS class. Please move to CURLSMBS.
• Deprecated DNSServiceDiscoveryDomainEnumerationMBS, DNSServiceDiscoveryBrowseMBS, DNSServiceDiscoveryResolveMBS and DNSServiceDiscoveryRegisterMBS. They'll be removed once we go to 64bit. Use DNSServiceBaseMBS and subclasses instead.
• Enabled PictureReaderMBS class for console.
• Fixed a bug in MKPolylineViewMBS class.
• Fixed a bug in NSApplicationDelegateMBS.restoreWindowWithIdentifier event handler.
• Fixed a bug on Windows IconMBS function where icon would just be in top left area of image.
• Fixed a bug with SQL plugin's exception handling and executing SQL commands in background threads (MT methods).
• Fixed a couple of text encoding issues with DynaPDF.
• Fixed a crash with SQLNumericMBS constructor when passing empty string.
• Fixed a problem with TWAIN plugin crashing on HP scanner (especially with a Deskjet 2540 where it now works).
• Fixed an issue with AVAssetWriterInput.appendSampleBuffer causing in exception.
• Fixed an issue with Picture.SobelMBS function.
• Fixed bug in CFBookmarkMBS module with CFURL.
• Fixed bug in CURL's SetOptionHTTPHeader function when passing array with empty strings.
• Fixed bug in ECDHEMBS.PublicKey function (returned more characters than needed).
• Fixed bug in LinuxHIDInterfaceMBS.MatchDevice event.
• Fixed bug in SHA512MBS.HashText.
• Fixed bugs in NSTextContainerMBS class.
• Fixed CGImageMBS.CreateImageWithHandle.
• Fixed crash in DNSServiceBaseMBS destructor.
• Fixed crash with passing empty string to CountOccurancesMBS function.
• Fixed CrashUglyMBS function.
• Fixed CURLMBS OpenMTInputFile functions to handle huge files on Windows better (over 2 GB).
• Fixed DatabaseRecord.BooleanColumn with using SQLDatabaseMBS.InsertRecord method.
• Fixed DynaPDFMBS functions to handle color correct without swapping red and blue: HighlightOnAllPages, HighlightOnCurrentPage, SetFillColor and SetStrokeColor.
• Fixed DynaPDFMBS.GetInBBox function.
• Fixed FormatDateMBS function.
• Fixed memory leak in CIContextMBS constructor taking picture.
• Fixed more than 50 classes to have same data size on all platforms.
• Fixed NSGraphicsMBS.graphicsContextWithNSView to raise NSExceptionMBS objects if they happen.
• Fixed OverlayMBS issue on Cocoa where we got much to much mouse enter/exit events.
• Fixed possible crash with invalid zxingResultMBS object.
• Fixed problem in EncodeToHTMLMBS function.
• Fixed problem with DynaPDFParseInterfaceMBS class.
• Fixed problem with GDI Plus bitmap in PictureMBS and other picture functions.
• Fixed problem with IMExceptionQ8MBS, IMExceptionQ16MBS and IMExceptionQ32MBS classes.
• Fixed problem with MapKitViewControlMBS cleanup.
• Fixed QTImporter so it initialize QuickTime internally and works again on Windows with Xojo 2014r1.
• Fixed several background tasks to execute events on main thread instead of a xojo thread. This should avoid ThreadAccessingUIException.
• For strings with no encoding the plugin will now mark them as ASCII string if the content allows it.
• Improved AuthorizationMBS class.
• Improved CustomNSSharingServiceMBS to use tag with variant instead of integer.
• Improved GameKit plugin, so all tag parameters are now variants.
• Improved internal string access to avoid extra conversion if text encoding is undefined.
• Improved MKOverlayViewMBS.Constructor so it works better.
• Improved NSColorPanelMBS class.
• Improved StringHandleMBS class to avoid crashes in low memory situation. Now raises OutOfMemoryException.
• Marked NavigationDialogMBS, HIViewMBS, MenubarMBS, MenuMBS and StandardAlertMBS classes as deprecated. Those are only for Carbon and should be replaced when you move projects to Cocoa.
• Most deprecated things in plugin now list replacement.
• Moved NSSortDescriptorMBS to CocoaBase plugin to avoid dependencies on Lion plugin.
• Tuned internal functions to convert between NSObject/CFTypeRef to Xojo objects to make CoreText work well.
• Updated adaptor.appendPicture to work with transparency.
• Updated CURL to version 7.36.0
• Updated DynaPDF library to version 3.0.33.95.
• Updated GraphicsMagick to version 1.3.19 for Mac/Linux.
• Updated LCMS2 library to version 2.6 final.
• Updated Nikon plugin for newer SDKs.
• Updated to OpenSSL 1.0.1g.
• Upgraded OS Version query on Mac to work better on Mac OS X 10.10
• Warning: CIImageMBS.RenderPicture leaks on Mac OS X 10.9 currently. Looks like a leak in Apple's code.

New in version 14.1   New in version 14.3

Release notes of all versions: Release notes.