Release notes for MBS Xojo Plugins 21.2 - 18th May 2021

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

• Added 17 new examples to show new features in ChartDirector 7.
• Added addLineLayer methods for CDPolarChartMBS class taking DateTime array.
• Added Archive and Unarchive methods to CKRecordMBS and CKServerChangeTokenMBS classes.
• Added AVCaptureMetadataOutputMBS class for iOS.
• Added CDDataAcceleratorMBS, CDMultiPagePDFMBS and CDDiscreteHeatMapLayerMBS classes.
• Added CDViewPortControlBaseMBS class and new RealTime ViewPort example for ChartDirector.
• Added ChangeFontEx function to DynaPDFMBS class.
• Added classes for spell checking on Windows: WinSpellingErrorMBS, WinSpellCheckerOptionDescriptionMBS and WinSpellCheckerMBS.
• Added code to use ICU libraries for SQLite. See new properties on InternalSQLiteLibraryMBS module.
• Added constants to AVFoundationMBS class.
• Added constructor for string to SQLDateTimeMBS class.
• Added ContainerControl List example.
• Added CopyCellValue method to XLSheetMBS class.
• Added explicit destructors for lots of CloudKit classes to explicit cleanup event handlers.
• Added GetInfoReferer, OptionDOHSSLVerifyStatus, OptionDOHSSLVerifyHost, OptionDOHSSLVerifyPeer to CURLSMBS class.
• Added GetInputReport and VersionString methods to HIDAPIDeviceMBS class.
• Added InitModules method for JavaScriptEngineMBS class.
• Added kcoDefaultNormalize, kcoDefaultPDFA1, kcoDefaultPDFA2, kcoDefaultPDFA3 constants for use with CheckConformance function to DynaPDFMBS class.
• Added keychain example for iOS.
• Added kSnapshot constants for SQLDatabaseMBS and SQLConnectionMBS classes.
• Added more key getters for NSURLMBS class.
• Added more methods to NSToolbarItemMBS and NSToolbarMBS classes.
• Added more NSVisualEffect* constants for NSVisualEffectViewMBS class.
• Added more properties for NSSharingServiceMBS class.
• Added new constructor for CKContainerMBS class to create a copy with your subclass.
• Added new constructor for CKDatabaseMBS class to create a copy with your subclass.
• Added new NSImageScale constants to NSImageViewMBS and NSImageCellMBS classes.
• Added newer constructor to NSKeyedArchiverMBS class to allow secure coding.
• Added optional ContentTypeMethod as parameter for AddAttachment in CURLEmailMBS class.
• Added RabbitMQ plugin wrapping the RabbitMQ message broker.
• Added scaleTo method for CIImageMBS class.
• Added SkipParagraphs parameter for StyledText.RTFDataMBS to speed up conversion.
• Added TypoAscender and TypoLeading properties to DynaPDFFontMetricsMBS class.
• Added userDidAcceptCloudKitShareWithMetadata event for NSApplicationDelegateMBS class.
• Added WinMouseClick taking integer parameters to RemoteControlMBS module and deprecated the boolean variants.
• Added workaround for error 561 in BarcodeGeneratorMBS class. We lower ECC level now if text doesn't fit otherwise.
• Changed CURL classes to not print password for SFTP transfer in debug log. Left overs from debug session in 21.1 betas.
• Changed DrawRotatedTextMBS, MeasureRotatedTextMBS and DrawCGPDFDocumentMBS methods to use newer API to get the CGContextRef for drawing.
• Changed functions returning CVImageBufferMBS to return CVPixelBufferMBS if the image buffer contains pixels.
• Changed iOS Simulator plugin parts to be universal.
• Changed parser in JSONMBS to be accept leading zeros on numbers.
• Changes NSAttributedStringMBS and NSColorMBS classes to not reference macOS only function selectors.
• Enabled math and geopoly functions for internal SQLite library. see InternalSQLiteLibraryMBS
• Fixed a bug with string handling for MBS Xojo SQL Plugin on Windows.
• Fixed a memory leak in FileListMBS class for Windows.
• Fixed a problem in CURL with OptionSSLKeyBlob in CURLSMBS not working correctly.
• Fixed a problem with CKModifyRecordsOperationMBS not receiving events.
• Fixed a problem with TrueItem() function in FileListMBS not working right for alias files.
• Fixed an issue with Linux and PortMidiMBS class.
• Fixed an issue with Optimize method in DynaPDFMBS class complaining about no open output file.
• Fixed ArchiveWriterMBS class to do AES256 encryption on Windows.
• Fixed bug in SKReceiptRefreshRequestMBS class destructor.
• Fixed error handling in JavaScriptEngineMBS class, broken in v21.1.
• Fixed issue with CKFetchRecordZoneChangesOperationMBS class with dictionary conversion.
• Fixed issue with CloudKit events for CKFetchRecordZoneChangesOperationMBS and other classes.
• Fixed NSCollectionViewControlMBS to work on macOS versions before 10.13.
• Fixed problem in UDPSocketMBS class with stack overflow exception if you happen to call poll within DataAvailable event.
• Fixed problem with NSAutoreleasePool problem with App Store.
• Fixed problems in WindowsQOSMBS class.
• Fixed scaling issue with CDViewPortManagerMBS passing port size.
• Fixed scaling issue with setTickDensity method in CDAxisMBS.
• Fixed ShellMBS and WindowsProcessMBS classes for Windows to allow PowerShell.exe to run.
• Implemented MacMousePositionX and MacMousePositionY functions for RemoteControlMBS module for macOS 64-bit.
• Patched SQLAPI to parse timestamps with fraction better.
• Removed WriteAsync for HIDAPIDeviceMBS class.
• Renamed composite functions in GMImageMBS to compositeAt and compositeXY.
• Rewrote DeclareCallBackMBS with a thread safe queue for asynchron mode.
• Updated ChartDirector to version 7.
• Updated CURL library to version 7.76.1.
• Updated DLL linking for Windows to direct link functions requiring Windows 7.
• Updated DNS functions for Windows.
• Updated DuckDB to version 0.25.
  Please note that the binary format for files is not compatible with older version. Please export and import into new database.
• Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.52.146.
• Updated HIDAPI library to version 0.10.1.
• Updated LibJPEG-Turbo to version 2.1.0.
• Updated Linux 64-bit build machine to Ubuntu 18.04. Plugin still compatible to Ubuntu 16 and CentOS 7.7.
• Updated NSPrintOperationMBS.printOperationWithView for WebKit 2.
• Updated PortAudio to version 19.7.0
• Updated SQLAPI to version 5.1.4 with new DuckDB support.
• Updated zxing library to get a few newer bug fixes.

New in version 21.1   New in version 21.3

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