dBASE Plus release 8

NEW FEATURES

New graphics handling

Updated graphic library support. New Glyfx graphics can be found under the location of: programdata\plus8\media\Glyfx directories

Tool palette Docking, tabbing, and advanced usability features along with new windows management features.

•dJvRichEditX Control – This is a rich edit control with standard editing features.

Built-in ADO support:

ADO Classes

ADO Connection Aliases

New SQL Query Builder

Data Module Designer

High Precision Math

Revised help system

You now have the ability to get to the FAQ, Knowledgebase, and Newsgroups from within the Help interface.

Pre-Registered ActiveX Controls

FIXES (Since dBASE Plus 2.8)

Project Explorer Updates

1 – Support for useUACPaths registry entry for application during installation..

New tab added under INNO called ‘UAC Registry Setting’ which includes three radio buttons.

This gives the user three options with regard to adding registry settings during the installation of their program.

The options are:

1 - Do not create application specific registry setting for useUACPaths. (Allow embedded UAC setting or the runtime engine registry setting for useUACPaths to control UAC support)
2 - Create application specific registry setting with useUACPaths=”Y” on Windows Vista or newer? (this will override the runtime engine registry setting and the embedded UAC setting)
3 - Create application specific registry setting with useUACPaths="N" on Windows Vista or newer?(this will override the runtime engine registry setting and the embedded UAC setting)

These settings are saved in the .prj file under [INNO]

UACRB= (options are 1, 2 or 3 – corresponding to the above images options in order)

2 – support for maintaining path setting for runtime installer executable.

created a property that keeps track of where the Runtime installer executable is and saves it in the .prj folder under INNO as

dBaseRuntimeInstDir=<path and .exe name of runtime installer>

3 – Bypassing the Inno Script Generator all together (unable to make any updates to the program for future releases)

This involves adding new support files under the dBASE/Plus/Runtime and dBASE/Plus/Bin/dBLCore/ProjExp directories.

(see above info on where to extract these files)

When a new script is generated the Inno Setup Compiler will open with the new script. (instead of the INNO Script Generator).

4 - Support for the new Silent install option in Runtime installers starting with b2215

Choosing silent install option when including the runtime installer for b2215 and above will now work

5 – fixed issue where rumtime path was not set correctly during an INNO install

6 – DEO files are now saved in project

7 – supporting table files are now saved dbt, mdx etc… are now saved in project