Release notes for MBS Xojo Plugins 21.1 - 9th March 2021

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

• Added BiggerNumberMBS to have 2560 bit floating point number for even bigger range and precision. 512 bit exponent and 2048 bit fraction.
• Added DuckDatabaseMBS class for DuckDB database engine, a fast column based database engine.
• Added NSDataDetectorMBS and NSRegularExpressionMBS classes for macOS and iOS.
• Added NSNetServiceMBS and NSNetServiceBrowserMBS classes for macOS and iOS.
• Added 30 new trigonometry functions for BigNumberMBS class.
• Added AllObjectsOfClassMBS global method.
• Added BeginTransaction, Commit, and Rollback methods for DuckConnectionMBS class.
• Added BuildRowSetMBS global function.
• Added CNPhoneNumberMBS.CNLabelPhoneNumberAppleWatch function.
• Added CocoaMouseDown, CocoaMouseDrag and CocoaMouseUp events to PDFViewControlMBS control to handle low level mouse events.
• Added Constructor for handle to UNNotificationMBS, UNNotificationContentMBS, NSToolbarItemMBS and NSToolbarMBS.
• Added DirectShowAMVideoControlMBS class.
• Added Edit/Update support for RecordSet for SQLDatabaseMBS class.
• Added emojis to the documentation to clearer show what items are supported for each platform.
• Added Error, ErrorMessage and ErrorCode properties to SQLDatabaseMBS for iOS.
• Added extra line to CURL debug log to indicate the version of MBS Plugin, CURL library used and what OS is used. See DebugData property in CURLSMBS class.
• Added FindPin method to DirectShowCaptureGraphBuilderMBS class
• Added FindTableName function to SQLGlobalsMBS class.
• Added GetStreamConfig function for DirectShowCaptureGraphBuilderMBS class to accept GUID to identify the pin category.
• Added HTMLText or PlainText methods to WebView2ControlMBS class.
• Added ImageIndex and ImageHandle properties to DynaPDFImageMBS class.
• Added IncludeDataInDebugMessages for FMConnectionMBS class.
• Added iOSPictureMBS module with methods and delegates to export video or image to camera roll.
• Added IsASCIIText function to RegExMBS class.
• Added IsNull function to JSONMBS class.
• Added isObject, isArray, isNumber, and isBoolean to JSONMBS class.
• Added kcfIgnoreICCProfile and kptConvertPage to DynaPDFMBS class.
• Added MemoryStatisticsMBS class.
• Added more constructors to WindowsGraphicsDeviceContextMBS class for picture, window and control.
• Added NormInvMBS function.
• Added PDFAppearanceCharacteristicsMBS class.
• Added ReadFromPkcs7 function for X509MBS class.
• Added ResolutionUnit constants to JPEGExporterMBS class.
• Added runOnce method to NSRunLoopMBS class.
• Added SetLogEventMask and IsLoggingEnabled shared methods to GMImageMBS class.
• Added SQLSelectAsRowSetMT and SQLSelectAsRowSet methods to SQLConnectionMBS class.
• Added UnInitialize method to SQLGlobalsMBS class.
• Added WindowsShellExecuteAsAdminMBS function.
• Changed Constructor for PDFBorderMBS to be public.
• Changed MaxTotalConnections in CURLSMultiMBS class to 4 as default. Avoids excessive connection counts unless you change it.
• Deprecated SetLicenseKey function for DynaPDFMBS class. Please use SetLicenseKeyGlobal instead.
• DynaPDF works with ZUGFeRD 2.1.1.
• Fixed a crash in IDE on Big Sur with NSTokenFieldControlMBS on the layout.
• Fixed a problem with a crash in CURL with SFTP with empty password or username.
• Fixed an issue with LZ4MBS decompression failing.
• Fixed an issue with OpenDialogMBS class not returning folderitems properly for alias files.
• Fixed bug in Reverse method in StringHandleMBS class.
• Fixed control drawing in the IDE for iOS controls.
• Fixed issue for iOS where Transporter complains about __INFO_PLIST segment in plugin library.
• Fixed issue with Graphics.TextHeight for DynaPDFMBS class.
• Fixed issue with MoveFirst with RecordSet in our SQL Plugin when used with PostgreSQL.
• Fixed possible crash in CheckUTF8MBS function.
• Fixed problem in DynaPDFMBS class with graphics, where we reset font to default one on nextpage call.
• Fixed problem in QLPreviewPanelMBS, broken in version 21.0.
• Fixed problem with dictionary processing on iOS.
• Fixed problem with DynaPDFMBS where an empty password was not passed as nil in OpenImportFile.
• Fixed problem with GetProfileInfo method and name property in LCMS2ProfileMBS class.
• Fixed problem with NSCollectionViewMBS raising events while closing and causing crashes.
• Fixed thumbnailSize property for PDFThumbnailViewMBS class.
• Improved DeclareCallBackMBS class to handle asynchronously dispatch on Windows and Linux.
• Improved NSCollectionViewControlMBS and rewrote parts of NSCollectionView Test example.
• Improved performance a lot of repeated calls to Execute method in RegEXMBS class to find matches.
• Improved text conversion performance internally for getting text as UTF16 or UTF32. This is used in all plugin parts and speeds up XLSheetMBS and DynaPDFMBS classes a lot!
• Optimizes JSONMBS.Convert to quicker loop over Xojo arrays.
• Updated CURL library to version 7.75.
• Updated DukTape library for JavaScriptEngineMBS class to version 2.6.
• Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.49.139.
• Updated dyncall library to version 1.2.
• Updated InstallDragImageMBS to support newer API and work in Xojo 2020 or newer.
• Updated LCMS to version 2.12.
• Updated LibXL to version 3.9.4.
• Updated LibXML to version 2.9.10.
• Updated LibXSLT to version 1.1.34.
• Updated NSOrthographyMBS, NSLinguisticTaggerMBS, NSLinguisticValueMBS and NSTextCheckingResultMBS for iOS.
• Updated openssl library to version 1.1.1i.
• Updated Rockey4ND library to newer version.
• Updated SQLAPI to version 5.1.4b5.
• Updated to Xcode 12.4.
• Upgraded DirectShowGUIDMBS class with more methods and properties.
• Upgraded PDFKit classes to current macOS SDK adding over 200 additional methods and properties.

New in version 21.0   New in version 21.2

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