Release notes for MBS Xojo Plugins 19.0 - 22nd January 2019

See also the documentation on new items and Announcement in Blog.

• Added ArchiveReadDiskMBS and ArchiveWriteDiskMBS classes to adding files to archives.
• Added more methods to ArchiveWriterMBS, ArchiveReaderMBS and ArchiverMBS classes.
• Added more clases for MapKit, so the framework is now completely covered in the plugin.
• Added addBoundaryTimeObserverForTime and addLoopTimeObserver methods to AVPlayerMBS class.
• Added autoOrient, extent, formatExpression, Quiet, repage and resize methods to GMImageMBS class.
• Added AVVideoCodecTypeAppleProRes422, AVVideoCodecTypeAppleProRes4444, AVVideoCodecTypeH264, AVVideoCodecTypeHEVC, and AVVideoCodecTypeJPEG functions to AVFoundationMBS class.
• Added CFDateMBS convert and constructor methods.
• Added CURLSMBS.FormClear method.
• Added DirectDraw support to DynaPDFRasterizerMBS class.
• Added Equals, FindValueInArray and FindValueInObjectArray methods to JSONMBS class.
• Added fillArea and limitPixels flags for GMGeometryMBS class.
• Added index parameter for IORegistryMBS.PerformanceStatistics function.
• Added JasperLibVersion, TIFFLibVersion and ZLibVersion to GMImageMBS class.
• Added links to blog articles from help.
• Added more for internal SQLite3 library load for SQLAPI.
• Added more methods to NSURLCacheMBS class.
• Added new mode to get CURLSFileInfoMBS objects for directory listing with MLSD option.
• Added nil check of saveRequest parameter for CNContactStoreMBS.executeSaveRequest function.
• Added NSCachedURLResponseMBS class.
• Added option to render with alpha and output with alpha channel to Xojo pictures for DynaPDFRasterizerMBS class.
• Added option to SQLPreparedStatementMBS class and other variant functions to accept folderitem to stream from file to blob field.
• Added ProgressChanged and TitleChanged events to WKWebViewControlMBS control.
• Added properties to DynaPDFRasterizerMBS to inspect state.
• Added ReadEXIF for PNGReaderMBS class.
• Added ReadFileMBS and WriteFileMBS functions for folderItem class.
• Added ReplaceLineEndingsMBS function for yielding and speed.
• Added RotateCoords parameter for DynaPDFMBS.RotateTemplate function.
• Added SetEXIF for PNGWriterMBS class.
• Added SortByFileName method to FileListMBS class.
• Added standard constructor to NSTextContainerMBS, NSMutableAttributedStringMBS and NSAttributedStringMBS.
• Added VLCMediaPlayerMBS.CopyCGImage to return the CGImageMBS object for current image.
• Added WindowsSerialPortsMBS.QueryComDevices function.
• Added workaround for CURL IMAP change. UID URLs changed to MAILINDEX automatically.
• Added XLCopyOptionsMBS class to specify copy options for MBS Xojo XL Plugin.
• Changed 80 properties in GMImageMBS class to be debugger visible.
• Changed a few SQL functions to copy options from connection to command, which before not all functions did.
• Changed behavior for CURLSMBS class to only write data in debug log file, if DebugWithData property is set.
• Changed conversion from CFDate to Xojo date and back to use current time zone instead of always UTC.
• Changed default SQL options for connecting to FileMaker via ODBC so it works out of the box.
• Changed DynaPDFMBS.Optimize to use in memory flag by default unless you change it.
• Changed DynaPDFRasterizerMBS to pre-fill picture in white or black for the flags.
• Changed ICDeviceBrowserMBS destructor to call stop for you automatically.
• Changed Linux compile to include function names for stack traces.
• Changed VLCMediaPlayerMBS.CopyPicture to always return picture.
• Changed VLCMediaPlayerMBS.VideoSetCallback to always prepare for CGImage creation on MacOS and CGContext is now optional.
• Disabled GraphicsMagick signal handlers.
• Enabled SQLITE_ENABLE_API_ARMOR for SQLite to help reduce crashes with wrong API calls to SQLite.
• Fixed a bug in Oracle initialization for Linux for SQL Plugin.
• Fixed a problem with MySQL DLL loading.
• Fixed bug with binding empty values on encrypted CubeSQL connection.
• Fixed bug with edge case in SplitCommaSeparatedValuesMBS function.
• Fixed bug with inline email text decoding and an extra space character sometimes.
• Fixed crash in SKProductsRequestMBS destructor.
• Fixed crash in SQL Plugin when using unnamed fields in SQLite recordsets.
• Fixed memory leak in CGImageMetadataMBS class.
• Fixed memory leak with initializing NSMutableAttributedStringMBS class.
• Fixed NSAttributedStringMBS methods to return NSTextContainerMBS if called on NSTextContainerMBS class.
• Fixed problem with CURL where output would still be written even if OptionNoBody is set to true.
• Fixed problem with drawing OverlayMBS in 64-bit on MacOS 10.14 Mojave.
• Fixed problem with text data type handling for variants in plugin functions, e.g. for SQLDatabaseMBS.UpdateRecord method.
• Fixed problem with text encoding with Oracle databases for SQL Plugin.
• Fixed year for CURLSFileInfoMBS being off by one sometimes.
• Improved DynaPDF Graphics examples for better image quality.
• Manually applied CURL fix: vauth/oauth2: Fix OAUTHBEARER token generation #3377 (for Mac)
• Removed AlternateTitleMBS and ExposeHiddenMBS, GrowBoxTransparentMBS, TransitionWindowMBS, UpdateDockWindowMBS, WindowMoveToActiveSpaceMBS, and WindowVisibleInAllSpacesMBS from window class. (Carbon 32-bit only).
• Removed Application.IsBundleMBS function.
• Removed Carbon ColorSync, View, Drag & Drop, Menu, Font, ATS and related classes (Carbon 32-bit only).
• Removed descriptorWithFSRef and FSRefValue from NSAppleEventDescriptorMBS in favor of FileURL methods.
• Removed DisableAquaPrefMenuMBS and EnableAquaPrefMenuMBS (Carbon 32-bit only).
• Removed folderitem.GetFileAttributeMBS function.
• Removed GrowIconMBS class.
• Removed helpbook functions: RegisterHelpBookMBS, LookupHelpBookAnchorMBS, GotoHelpBookPageMBS, GotoMainHelpBookTOCMBS and SearchHelpBookMBS.
• Removed IconFamilyMBS class and related global methods.
• Removed IntegerToTextHashMapIteratorMBS, IntegerToTextHashMapMBS, IntegerToTextOrderedMapIteratorMBS, IntegerToTextOrderedMapMBS, TextHashSetIteratorMBS, TextHashSetMBS, TextOrderedSetIteratorMBS, TextOrderedSetMBS, TextToTextHashMapIteratorMBS, TextToTextHashMapMBS, TextToTextOrderedMapIteratorMBS, TextToTextOrderedMapMBS, TextToVariantHashMapIteratorMBS, TextToVariantHashMapMBS, TextToVariantOrderedMapIteratorMBS and TextToVariantOrderedMapMBS classes.
• Removed more Carbon window functions: AreFloatingWindowsVisibleMBS, AsyncDragMBS, CanLiveResizeMBS, CollapseAllWindowsMBS, GetWindowBoundsMBS, HasFullZoomButtonMBS, HasHorizontalZoomButtonMBS, HasRoundBottomBarCornersMBS, HasSideTitlebarMBS, HasVerticalZoomButtonMBS, HideAllFloatingWindowsMBS, HideOnFullScreenMBS, HideOnSuspendMBS, InWindowMenuMBS, IsOpaqueForEventsMBS, MetalNoContentSeparatorMBS, SetContentBorderThicknessMBS, SetWindowBoundsMBS, SetWindowProxyIconMBS, ShowAllFloatingWindowsMBS, TexturedSquareCornersMBS and WindowDoesNotCycleMBS.
• Removed NavigationDialogMBS, NavigationDialogOptionsMBS, NavigationDialogResultMBS, NavigationTypeListMBS and NavigationTypeMBS classes.
• Removed QuickDraw related picture support.
• Rewrote FileListMBS for Mac to get better speed on APFS.
• Rewrote MapKit classes to use only Apple Map and get more features from it.
• The MBS Plugin for Real Studio will be build on demand only.
• Updated CURL to version 7.63.0.
• Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.25.72.
• Updated freetype to version 2.9.1.
• Updated GraphicsMagick library to version 1.3.31.
• Updated iconv to version 1.15.
• Updated libarchive to version 3.3.3.
• Updated libexpat to version 2.2.6.
• Updated OpenSSL to version 1.1.1a.
• Updated png library to version 1.6.36.
• Updated regex library to version 8.42.
• Updated SQLAPI to version 4.2.4.
• Updated SQLite version 3.26.0.
• Updated VLCInstanceMBS to initialize properly.
• Updated Unikey SDK to version 6.8.2.
• Upgraded UTTypeMBS.UTI to newer API.

New in version 18.5   New in version 19.1

Release notes of all versions: Release notes and Announcement in Blog.