Release notes for MBS Xojo Plugins 21.0 - 19th January 2021

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

• Added plugins for iOS and Apple Silicon.
• Added NSCollectionViewControlMBS control to use Apple's implementation of a collection view in Xojo.
• Added SCNIOSControlMBS control for iOS, same as SCNControlMBS control for macOS.
• Added MapKitIOSControlMBS control for iOS, same as MapKitViewControlMBS control for macOS.
• Added WKWebViewIOSControlMBS control for iOS, same as WKWebViewControlMBS control for macOS.
• Added AcceptTabs property to WKWebViewControlMBS control.
• Added ClearBitMBS, SetBitMBS, IsBitSetMBS, and GetBitMBS to MemoryBlock class.
• Added Document property to IEWindowMBS class.
• Added ErrorCount and WarningCount to DynaPDFMBS class.
• Added ExecuteScriptSync to WebView2ControlMBS control.
• Added Frames function for IEDocumentMBS and IEWindowMBS classes.
• Added GetTypoLeading method for DynaPDFMBS class.
• Added isiOSAppOnMac property for NSProcessInfoMBS class.
• Added LeadingFactor parameter for ConvertStyledText, WriteStyledText and WriteStyledTextEx in DynaPDFMBS class.
• Added manual rendering functions to AVAudioEngineMBS class.
• Added messageDrainControl and OwnerControl properties to DirectShowVideoWindowMBS class.
• Added more methods to DirectShowPinMBS class.
• Added new AddItem and AddItemAsync methods to KeychainManagerMBS class.
• Added NSBundleExecutableArchitectureARM64 constant for NSBundleMBS and NSWorkspaceMBS classes.
• Added NSCollectionViewMBS and related classes.
• Added NSEdgeInsetsMBS class.
• Added readSelectionFromPasteboard, validRequestor and writeSelectionToPasteboard events for NSServiceProviderMBS class.
• Added ShowWindow flag for WindowsExecuteMBS method.
• Added Style and EffectiveStyle properties to NSTableViewMBS class for macOS 11.
• Added willShowContextualMenu and didCloseContextualMenu events for WKWebViewControlMBS class.
• Added WindowsReportErrorMBS class.
• Changed Append in DynaPDFMBS to close page if one is open.
• Changed daysOfTheWeek in EKRecurrenceRuleMBS class to return array of EKRecurrenceDayOfWeekMBS objects.
• Changed DynaPDFMBS to not raise exception if WriteFText function is cancelled.
• Changed flags for NikonCamera, CanonEOSDigital and Accessibility plugin parts to be desktop only.
• Changed Keychain parameter in AddItemAsyncCompletedMBS event in KeychainManagerMBS class to variant.
• Changed MarkdownDocumentMBS class to use better default flags to output footnotes.
• Changed our Mac controls to not register for frame changed events when loading in the IDE.
• Changed plugin class registration to skip desktop controls for iOS and iOS controls for Windows/Linux where you can't build for iOS.
• Changed SQL Plugin to automatically use CLOB/BLOB type for strings for SQL Server if length is >8000.
• Deprecated AliasInfoMBS and MacAliasMBS classes in favor of CFBookmarkMBS module.
• Deprecated Calendar classes in favor of Events classes.
• Deprecated CompositeIconsMBS and FinderUpdateMBS global functions.
• Deprecated DisAssembleMBS, DisAssembleObjectMethodMBS and GetDisAssembleMBS global functions.
• Deprecated GetHelpTagDelayMBS, SetHelpTagDelayMBS, GetHelpTagDisplayedMBS and SetHelpTagDisplayedMBS functions.
• Deprecated GrowlMBS, GrowlApplicationBridgeMBS, WindowsGrowlMBS class.
• Deprecated HFSUniStr255 and FSRef for FileListMBS class.
• Deprecated IsWindows95MBS and IsWindowsNTMBS functions.
• Deprecated NSUserNotificationActionMBS in favor of UNNotificationActionMBS class.
• Deprecated NSUserNotificationCenterMBS in favor of UNUserNotificationCenterMBS class.
• Deprecated NSUserNotificationMBS in favor of UNNotificationMBS class.
• Deprecated our folder functions in favor of Xojo's SpecialFolder module.
• Deprecated PictureFromXFaceStringMBS, PictureFromXFaceMemoryBlockMBS, PictureFromXFaceMemoryBlockMBS, and XFaceStringFromPictureMBS functions.
• Deprecated ResolutionLibraryPresentMBS global function.
• Deprecated ReturnErrPtrMBS, ReturnOutPtrMBS and ReturnInPtrMBS global functions.
• Deprecated RockeyMBS and Rockey2MBS classes in favor of Rockey4NDMBS class.
• Fixed a memory leak in WordFileMBS class.
• Fixed a problem with WKWebViewControlMBS crashing the IDE when drawing it.
• Fixed AllCookies function in NSHTTPCookieMBS to not freeze app.
• Fixed an issue with SQL plugin connect to MySQL when server doesn't know utf8mb4 text encoding.
• Fixed ChartDirector to not need Visual Studio 2019 runtime libraries.
• Fixed CMap loading problem with DynaPDFMBS class on macOS and Linux.
• Fixed events for MacUSBNotificationMBS class, broken in 20.5.
• Fixed flags for dozens of classes to correctly mark methods as console/desktop targets.
• Fixed issue with loading plugins on Windows in the Xojo IDE.
• Fixed LCMS2MBS.Version function to return .
• Fixed problem with NSPrintOperationMBS class when destructor is not called on main thread.
• Fixed problem with ReadCurrentFile function in UnZipMBS class not setting LastError property correctly.
• Fixed problem with WordFile functions and some Word documents with older encodings.
• Fixed version check for macOS Is* functions in SystemInformationMBS module for Big Sur.
• Fixed WebView2, WindowsHTMLViewer, WindowsStore and XMP plugins to not need Visual Studio 2019 runtime libraries.
• Fixed WebView2ControlMBS so that ExecuteScriptCompleted can fire even if you don't use AddScriptToExecuteOnDocumentCreatedCompleted event.
• Improved DynaPDF functions to take pictures and if needed pick the best representation.
• Improved FileMappingMBS class to do >2 GB big shared memory views on 64-bit systems.
• Optimized HTMLToPlainText function in MimeEmailMBS class to add new line after pre element and to skip space runs.
• Reduced usage of deprecated SDK functions.
• Updated SQLite library to version 3.34.0.
• Updated curl to version 7.74.0.
• Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.46.132.
• Updated SQLAPI to version 5.1.3.
• Updated to Xcode 12.3.
• When querying PageGraphics in DynaPDFMBS, we now make sure a font is set to have TextWidth used internally find a font if you don't set one.

New in version 20.5   New in version 21.1

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