MBS Real Studio Plugins New in version 2.7

See also the documentation on new items.

22. Oktober 2002

  • Added NewColorPicture and NewGrayPicture.
  • I can't test the QuickTime Grabber plugin part for Windows, but a customer wrote me an email that it works.
  • Improved help. New list of classes/controls, a html file for each class or control. Lot's of errors corrected.
  • From b1 to b2 some plugins get much smaller!
    Mac Classic Plugin got from 20K in version 2.6 down to 5K in version 2.7 and Memoryblock Plugin from 39K to 9K. In total lost 300 KB from the plugins between b1 and b2.
  • Added Window.ScreenshotWindow to make Screenshots of a Windows' content on Mac OS X.
  • Added App.ProcessTime for Mac OS X.
  • Added classses JPEGExporter and JPEGImporter.
  • Renamed all classes! You need to change your applications to habe a MBS as a suffix on every class name.
  • Divided CF Plugin: IORegistry, Addressbook and SpellCheck are now their own plugins.
  • Changed Registration: Call RegisterMBSPlugin with name="Demo" and serial=0 to avoid the unregistered dialog for the first minute.
  • Fixed bug in Addressbook which made a lot of crashes.
  • Added Permissions.SetPermissions
  • Added offline help search. (works with iCab and uses Javascript)
  • Added QuickTime Sequence Grabber classes.
  • Added serveral new CoreGraphics classes including PDF read and write for Mac OS X.
  • Improved folderitem.unixpath to work better on non existing files.
  • Added function to convert string to a URL encoded string and back: EncodingToURL and DecodingToURL.
  • Added function to convert string from a HTML encoded string: DecodingToHTML.
  • Added MacErrorString function.
  • Added process.MacProcessSerial and process.killprocess function.
  • Added EnableBalloonHelp and IsBalloonHelpOn for Mac OS Classic.
  • Improved PictureToJPEGString to support 24bit pictures on Windows.
  • Changed Picture.Bitmap to support converting 24bit picture on Windows to 32bit ones.
  • Added app.LookupHelpBookAnchor, app.GotoHelpBookPage, app.GotoMainHelpBookTOC and app.SearchHelpBook.
  • Added ClearArc, InvertArc, InvertRect, InvertOval, ClearOval, InvertRoundRect and ClearRoundRect to the graphics class.
  • Added Window.MakeTransparent and Window.CGContext for transparent windows.
  • Note: The dock Tile functions now use CGImage objects.
  • Added CGImage and CGContext classes for CoreGraphics support.
  • CustomWindow class disabled as it should no longer be usefull.
  • Saved around 2 MB of download size with example project without icons. If you need icons, just open the icon dialog in REALbasic and click on the "Default" button.
  • Improved EncodeBase64 and DecodeBase64. (should be working better and no longer crash on big data)
  • Added unicode helping functions: UnicodeString, UnicodeStringConcat and NativeString.
  • Added function to convert string to a HTML encoded string: EncodingToHTML. This function is used for the HTML help.
  • Added WindowsConsole class.
  • Added Icon.Huge1BitData, Icon.Large1BitData and Icon.Small1BitData
  • Added TabPanel.TabCount and TabPanel.MacSetTabEnabled.
  • Added System.ExitWindows
  • Added Graphics.Paintdesktop
  • Added Process.SetWindowsService to remove applications from the windows force quit list.
  • Added Internet Config classes.
  • Fixed icon class to not return garbage icons.
  • Added BundleLocalizedString to application class.
  • Changed the Addressbook stuff. Constants are now properties of the AddressBook class. This saves around 2.5 KB of plugin size and makes the AutoComplete feature of REALbasic much better.
  • Added CocoaSpellChecking Class.
  • Added CountOfLoginItems, RemoveLoginItemAtIndex and LoginItemPropertyAtIndex functions.
  • Added MSSearch class for multiple string search.
  • Added CPU Ticks counting (CPU usage) to DarwinVMStatistic.
  • Added WindowsVolumeInformation class.
  • Added IsEjectableVolume, IsCompressedFile, IsEncryptedFile and CompressedFileLength to folderitem class.
  • Fixed Icon classes icon parts to work on Classic.
  • Fixed FolderItem.isOnRemoteVolume to work on Mac OS X.
  • Fixed AskDisplay function to work again on two screen systems.
  • Added CustomWindow.Transparency property.

New in version 2.6   New in version 2.8

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