What's new in FiveWin 2.0 FiveWin 2.0
* New: Fivewin 2.0 consolidates an extensive Fivewin new documentation, including all functional classes, commands and undocumented functions (more than 150 functions) which provides you a full control over the Fivewin inner architecture.
* Enhancement: The comand SET MULTIPLE ON now works on Windows 95/98 and Windows NT
* New: 32 bits RAS API support: See samples \Ras32\... Many thanks to Jeff Davis
* New: FiveODBC RDD. Access ODBC tables as any other DBF file. Sample:
USE CLIENTS VIA "ODBC"
* New: Class for Windows register management (32 bits)
* Enhancement: Fivewin 2.0 is completally compatible with all the Blinker 5.1 features. Please review Blinker 5.1 documentation
* New: Class TImage for JPEGs, PCX, GIF graphics support. Have a look at SAMPLES\TestImg.prg.
* Enhancement: New DATA on TReport class ::lPageTotal to indicate if page totals should be printed.
* Enhancement: New DATA on TReport class ::bStartRecord which is evaluated before any record is processed
* Enhancement: ToolTips now support multiple text lines, separed by a CRLF. i.e.: ... TOOLTIP "First line" + CRLF + "Second line".
* Enhancement: Folders Alt+key for a label (static control) will take focus to next available control.
* Enhancement: Bitmaps and tooltips on the msgbar of the windows: Don't miss this cool new enhancement. Review SAMPLES\TestmBar.prg and you will see how nice messagebars look with bitmaps on it. Many thanks to Ramón Avendaño for his excellent cooperation. FiveWin and FiveWin++ supported!
* Enhancement: Class TPrinter and Class TReport now detect if there is an installed printer, to avoid generating an error.
* New: Class TSplitter: Many thanks to Ramon Avendaño for his excellent contribution. Have a look at SAMPLES\TestSpl...
* New: Classes for FTP Internet client via Wininet.dll (Microsoft API)
* New: Class for SMTP Internet outgoing E-mail support. See SAMPLES\TestSmtp.prg.
* New: Class for POP3 Internet incoming E-mail support.
* New: Classes for holding 'C' alike structures & CA-Clipper structures. 'C' alike structure may be used as a parameter for calling any DLL function. CA-Clipper structures are like CA-Clipper arrays but with the advantage that you can access any of his items by his name:
#include "Exstruc.ch" // DO NOT FORGET THIS!!!
STRUC oStruc
<DIR>
MEMBER cCodBeg, cCodEnd AS CHARACTER SIZE 10
MEMBER nType, nMode AS NUMERIC INIT 1
MEMBER dDatIni, dDatFin AS DATE DEFAULT Date()
</DIR>
END STRUC
* New: Class for MSDOS printing simulation.
* Enhancement: FiveWin Class TBtnBmp (buttonbar buttons) to automatically manage a related popup menu, just as Office does. The syntax is really easy: You create the popup menu as usual, and later specify it when creating the button, using the MENU clause:
MENU oPopup POPUP
<dir>
MENUITEM "This is a test" RESOURCE "help" ;
<dir>
ACTION MsgInfo( "Hello world!" )
</dir>
</dir>
ENDMENU
DEFINE BUTTON OF oBar ACTION ... MENU oPopup
* Enhancement: Fivewin printing preview has now a MODAL clause, when activated the flow of the program stops until the preview window is closed.
PRINTER oPrn PREVIEW MODAL
* Enhancement: FiveWin Printing preview look has been greatly enhanced. Now it has a Microsoft look nice style.
* New: Method EditCol for non-modal editing capabilities on browse windows
* New: Class TWbrowse and TcBrowse enhancement: It supports cell navigation:
oBrw>lCellStyle = .t.
oBrw:Refresh()
* Enhancement: Class TWebServer has been enhanced to support DHTML including files CSS and JS.
* Enhancement: MsgLogo() supports best knows graphic formats files too! (JPG, JIF, GIF, BMP, DIB, RLE, TGA, PCX).
* Enhancement: New buttonbars with Microsoft flat look were not showing properly when placing the buttonbar at the left or right position or when repositioning it to the top or bottom after beeing left, right or float. It is fixed.
* Enhancement: Profile.c module now can easily retrieve all sections from an INI entry, without knowing in advance what it is there. Review SAMPLES\TestIni3.prg
* Enhancement: Class TcBrowse has been enhanced so now you are able to trap keys using bKeyChar event response codeblock.
* Enhancement: Class TGet has been enhanced so now you are able to trap Tab and Enter keystrokes using bChange ( ON CHANGE ) event response codeblock.
* New: Class TIconBar (Outlook bars). Many thanks to Cayetano Gomez for his excellent contribution. Have a look at SAMPLES\TestOut.prg
* Bug fixed: Tooltips were not properly released sometimes when accesing non client areas under DialogBoxes. It is fixed!
* Bug Fixed: Buttons on buttonbars created with DEFINE BUTTON ... RESOURCE ... WHEN ... was not getting shown enabled or disabled acordingly to WHEN clause result. Fixed!
* Bug Fixed: PopupMenus with bitmaps were not beeing properly destroyed so they were consuming resources when exiting. It is fixed!
* Bug Fixed: VALID on right justified GETs were getting evaluated twice.
* Bug Fixed: Dialog boxes with PulldownMenus where not firing controls actions. Fixed.
* Bug Fixed: Help topic from DialogBoxes system '?' button pressing was not working properly. It is ok now.
* Bug Fixed: Class ComboBox with DropDown style: Valid clause fixed! Back |
