Release notes for MBS Xojo Plugins 22.2 - 17th May 2022

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

• Added ZStdMBS class to compress/decompress with ZStandard compression.
• Added new PCRE2 classes and made new RegEx plugin.
• Added more Windows Bluetooth classes.
• Added ConnectionHandle property to SQLite3MBS class.
• Added Copy, Cut, Paste, SelectAll, ClearSelection and Print methods to WebView2ControlMBS control.
• Added DumpToFile and DumpToString methods for InternalSQLiteLibraryMBS class.
• Added more properties for SUAppcastItemMBS class.
• Added more properties for WinUserNotificationMBS class.
• Added new initWithHTML variant to pass document parsing options in NSAttributedStringMBS class.
• Added option for SQLDatabaseMBS and SQLConnectionMBS to enable quotes around automatic generated INSERT statements: db.Option("Quotes") = "yes".
• Added point/rect conversion methods to AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayerMBS class.
• Added possibility to pass DateTime in addition to Date or Xojo.Core.Date for a datetime or timestamp field in SQLPreparedStatementMBS class.
• Added Screenshot function for NSViewMBS class to render view into picture.
• Added SQLiteConnectionHandle method to SQLConnectionMBS and SQLDatabaseMBS classes.
• Added Tags function to WordFileMBS class.
• Added videoZoomFactor property to AVCaptureDeviceMBS class.
• Adjusted how we calculate character spacing for graphics in DynaPDFMBS, so we match better what Xojo does.
• Changed ClearPageGraphics in DynaPDFMBS to clear last font, so next time you draw to graphics, we set it again.
• Changed NSURLSessionTaskMBS.taskDescription property to be settable.
• Corrected declaration of autoresizingMask in CALayerMBS to correctly state as not supported for iOS.
• Deprecated ZXing* classes in favor of ZBarMBS class.
• DynaPDF has been updated and tested to work with ZUGFeRD 2.2 / Factur-X 1.0.06.
• Fixed a problem with auto complete showing in background for ScintillaControlMBS when used on a dialog.
• Fixed a problem with GetFieldEx in DynaPDFMBS for macOS 32-bit with wrong structure alignment.
• Fixed an edge case in MimeEmailMBS class where file name got an extra space in front.
• Fixed memory leak in NSLocaleMBS properties returning NSLocaleNumberMBS and NSLocaleDateMBS objects.
• Fixed problem in GetInPDFVersionEx and GetPDFVersionEx in DynaPDFMBS class not always returning the data.
• Improved exception handling for MBS Xojo SQL Plugin.
• Improved Glyphs, Positions, Advances, and StringIndices to handle NULL buffer situation better in CTRunMBS class.
• Marked HotkeyMBS class as console safe, but it may need a main loop with DoEvents to work.
• Optimized SplitCommaSeparatedValuesMBS to better handle lonely quotes in quoted strings.
• Removed boolean result for HideNotification and ShowNotification methods for WinUserNotificationCenterMBS class.
• Removed installUpdatesIfAvailable for SUUpdaterMBS class. Newer Sparkle framework doesn't have that anymore.
• Removed old UnsanitySmartCrashReporterMBS module.
• Removed UserAgentString, httpHeaders, incrementalData, fetchAppcastFromURL, copyWithoutDeltaUpdates for SUAppcastMBS class.
• Rewrote ScreenshotWindowRectMBS and ScreenshotWindowMBS functions to work again.
• Rewrote Windows User Notifications.
• Split RegEx plugin from Tools plugin and added new PCRE2 classes.
• Updated CURL to version 7.83.1.
• Updated DukTape library for JavaScriptEngineMBS class to version 2.7.
• Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.66.181.
• Updated openssl to version 1.1.1n.
• Updated pcre2 to version 10.40.
• Updated RemoveAccentsMBS function to recognize more characters like ½.
• Updated SQLite to version 3.38.5.
• Updated to Xcode 13.3.1.

New in version 22.1   New in version 22.3

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