Release notes for MBS Xojo Plugins 20.1 - 10th March 2020

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

• Added AVRouteDetectorMBS class to detect whether Airplay is available.
• Added AVRoutePickerViewControlMBS control to pick Airplay route.
• Added BCryptMBS module.
• Added ChromiumBrowserMBS.RegisterExtension function.
• Added DateComponentsToTime, TimeToDateComponents and Now methods to JavaScriptEngineMBS class.
• Added dateFromComponents, componentsInTimeZone, dateByAddingComponents to NSCalendarMBS class.
• Added EvaluateMT and CallFunctionMT methods to JavaScriptEngineMBS class.
• Added ExifOrientation property for JPEGImporterMBS class.
• Added ExifThumbnail function to GM16ImageMBS and GMImageMBS class.
• Added ExifThumbnail property to JPEGImporterMBS class.
• Added explicit constructors for PortAudioStreamMBS and PortAudioStreamBufferedMBS class.
• Added FontMap function for GMImageMBS class.
• Added GlobalMemoryBlock property and MemoryBlocks dictionary to JavaScriptEngineMBS class.
• Added HighVelocity and LowVelocity properties to MidiThruConnectionParamsMBS class.
• Added isValidDateInCalendar and isValidDate for NSDateComponentsMBS class.
• Added JavaScriptDateComponentsMBS class.
• Added kWinChannelMask* constants to PortAudioStreamParametersMBS class.
• Added Looping property to MFPMediaPlayerMBS class.
• Added LTCMBS and related classes to encode/decode timecode.
• Added Navigate method for IEWebBrowserMBS class to pass headers and POST data with loading URL.
• Added NSImageMBS.imageWithTintColor method.
• Added ObjectCount and StringCount properties to JavaScriptEngineMBS class.
• Added Read and Write methods and ReadAvailable and WriteAvailable properties to PortAudioStreamBaseMBS class and removed them from PortAudioStreamMBS class.
• Added SkipMode parameter to constructors for FileListMBS class to skip over files/folders and hidden items.
• Added Windows file dialog classes: WinFileDialogMBS, WinFileDialogExceptionMBS, WinFileTypeMBS, WinShellItemMBS, WinFileSaveDialogMBS, WinFileOpenDialogMBS, WinShellItemArrayMBS.
• Added WKPreferencesMBS, WKWebViewConfigurationMBS and WKHTTPCookieStoreMBS classes.
• Changed 64-bit plugins to not register on versions before 2015 to plugin loading quicker for older versions.
• Changed AbsolutePathMBS (and AbsolutePath) to return directory path with double colon.
• Changed IORegistryMBS module to be console safe.
• Changed MidiThruConnectionMBS and related classes to be console safe.
• Changed ShowAddress method in MKMapViewMBS to use the region size to zoom.
• Changed WinBringProcessToTop method in RemoteControlMBS module to activate first window.
• Checked plugins for Windows XP compatibility. All load except the built-in CubeSQL library.
• Deprecated all methods in ChromiumBrowserMBS, which are not supported in CEF3.
• Disabled a warning from our own check code about data size of SQLDatabaseMBS class.
• Disabled alive check for SQLite in SQLConnectionMBS/SQLDatabaseMBS class and added ping option to disable it.
• Documentation now includes references to Xojo Developer Magazine articles in html and PDF.
• Fixed a bug in ShellMBS class when running applications on Windows with empty ApplicationName.
• Fixed a problem with recursive templates for ExtractPageText and ExtractPageTextRect functions in DynaPDFMBS class.
• Fixed a problem with returning dates in Xojo which affects XLBookMBS.UnpackDate function and others.
• Fixed BacktraceMBS to work again in console and web projects.
• Fixed buffer overrun in BytesToKey function in CipherMBS class.
• Fixed bug when reading parameters for MidiThruConnectionMBS class.
• Fixed bugs for ChromiumCookieManagerMBS class.
• Fixed ConvertUnicodeToCharacterDecompositionMBS function not working for all characters.
• Fixed crash in NSCursorMBS.currentSystemCursor when used in a thread.
• Fixed FileListMBS to not report logical file sizes correctly for newer Mac implementation.
• Fixed LDAPMBS class to load LDAP framework earlier.
• Fixed problem with RemoteControlMBS WinBringProcessToTop method showing hidden windows.
• Fixed NameFieldStringValue in NSSavePanelMBS to properly set with empty text.
• Fixed problem with DynaPDF's graphics class integration on Windows 64-bit when running Xojo report to PDF.
• Improved JavaScriptEngineMBS to accept Memoryblocks passed as buffers to JavaScript. JavaScript code can work on memoryblock and later you pass it back to Xojo.
• Removed CW8021XProfileMBS and CWWirelessProfileMBS classes which were deprecated by Apple years ago.
• Updated NSDateComponentsMBS class to have debugger visible properties.
• Updated CURL to version 7.69.0.
• Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.37.107.
• Updated SQLAPI to version 5.0.5.
• Updated SQLite to version 3.31.0.
• Upgraded Chromium support for Windows to include newer version in Xojo 2019r3.
• Upgraded ChromiumWebPluginInfoMBS class for CEF3.

New in version 20.0   New in version 20.2

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