Whats new in Visual Objects 2.8
Introduction........................................................................................................................................... 4
Changes in the Visual
Objects Language / Compiler............................................................................... 4
New Language Features.................................................................................................................... 4
Changed Language
Features.............................................................................................................. 5
Removed Language
Features............................................................................................................. 6
New compiler errors......................................................................................................................... 6
Bug Fixes.......................................................................................................................................... 7
Repository changes............................................................................................................................... 8
General changes and Bug
Fixes.......................................................................................................... 9
Source code in external
modules...................................................................................................... 10
Source Code Control...................................................................................................................... 11
New SCC Connect
functionality.................................................................................................. 12
The Visual Objects
Linker........................................................................................................... 13
Changes in the Visual
Objects IDE...................................................................................................... 14
General changes.............................................................................................................................. 14
Project Settings,
Default settings, Options........................................................................................ 14
File Project Settings.................................................................................................................. 14
File Default Settings.................................................................................................................. 15
Tools Options.......................................................................................................................... 15
Enable/Disable compiler
warnings............................................................................................ 15
Path Settings........................................................................................................................... 16
View Options........................................................................................................................... 17
Repository Browser........................................................................................................................ 18
Source Code Editor........................................................................................................................ 19
Debugger........................................................................................................................................ 19
Error Browser................................................................................................................................. 20
Window Editor................................................................................................................................ 20
Menu Editor.................................................................................................................................... 21
DbServer Editor.............................................................................................................................. 21
FieldSpec Editor............................................................................................................................. 22
SQL Editor..................................................................................................................................... 22
Image Editor................................................................................................................................... 22
Report Editor.................................................................................................................................. 22
Automation Server Code
Generator................................................................................................. 22
Setup OLE Control......................................................................................................................... 22
Other Changes in the
IDE................................................................................................................ 22
Changes in the Class
Libraries............................................................................................................. 24
General........................................................................................................................................... 24
Runtime DLL.................................................................................................................................. 24
Nation DLLs................................................................................................................................... 26
OLE Runtime.................................................................................................................................. 26
RDDs......................................................................................................................................... 26
DBFNTX RDD...................................................................................................................... 26
CAVODBF RDD................................................................................................................... 26
DBFMDX.RDD..................................................................................................................... 26
DBFCDX.RDD...................................................................................................................... 26
System Library................................................................................................................................ 27
Windows 32 API Library................................................................................................................ 27
Console Classes.............................................................................................................................. 28
Terminal Lite................................................................................................................................... 28
System Classes............................................................................................................................... 28
RDD Classes.................................................................................................................................. 28
Other changed
functions:.......................................................................................................... 30
SQL Classes................................................................................................................................... 30
GUI Classes.................................................................................................................................... 31
General....................................................................................................................................... 31
Event Classes.............................................................................................................................. 31
__DDImp class........................................................................................................................... 31
__FormFrame Class.................................................................................................................... 31
Accelerator Class........................................................................................................................ 32
Changes.................................................................................................................................. 32
New methods:......................................................................................................................... 32
Application Class........................................................................................................................ 32
AppWindow Class...................................................................................................................... 32
ChildAppWindow Class.............................................................................................................. 32
BaseListBox Class...................................................................................................................... 32
BoundingBox Class..................................................................................................................... 33
Color Class................................................................................................................................. 33
Combobox Class........................................................................................................................ 33
ComboBoxEx Class.................................................................................................................... 33
CombBoxExItem Class............................................................................................................... 34
ComboBoxExEndEditEvent
Class............................................................................................... 34
Control Class.............................................................................................................................. </