dBASE™ PLUS 10 – Read Me First FAQ

Version Updates:

dBASE™ PLUS 10 - Version 10.3.1 FIXES

Forms / Reports / Form Object issues

Issue #1734
Fixed inserting of template characters when formatting entryfield value when function code “I” – Center is used

Issue #1459
Fixed checking/unchecking menu item when menu is attached to _app.framewin

IDE

Issue #1901
Fixed – Pasting component on scrolled form no longer sets top to a negative value.

Issue #1954
Fixed – components in form in designer change position when moving components below the bottom of the form upwards

Issue #1960
Fixed streaming of report’s superclass into CLASS statement when report is based on a custom report class and user runs report and then switches to design mode

ADO

Issue #1957
using numbered parameters causes invalid subscript reference.

BDE dBASE table issues

Issue #1956
Fixed streaming of datetime query parameter value to stream with curly braces instead of double quotes

dBASE™ PLUS 10 – Version 10.3.0 FIXES

Forms / Reports / Form Object issues

Issue #1923
Fixed – listview in .exe with built in runtime (RTEXE) does not show groups as long as the app.exe.manifest file is included with the app.exe and is making sure to include version 6 common controls. the ListView object on a form will show the groups.

Issue #1935
Fixed Entryfield Function and Picture properties so that when they are modified they invalidate control’s window instead of recreating the window (which was incorrectly changing position of control window when form has been scrolled vertically)

Issue #1930
Fixed setting superclass for report in report designer when reloading designer after editing event handler in source editor

Issue #1921
Fixed disappearing numerals when using a picture setting of ’99’ on an entryfield

IDE

Issue #1931
Fixed typo: “roperty” to “Property” in context menu for Inspector for Field within Table Designer when designing a level 7 dbf file.

Issue #1940
Fixed – Preprocessor setting in Project Explorer doesn’t get compiled.

Issue #1939
Fixed – report streaming code is removing an added object to a report based on a crp – Fixed Report Designer reloading report’s superclass instead of its class after editing event handler in source editor

Issue #1877
Fixed MAV (on Win 10) when reloading Report Designer after editing event handler for Report Component

Issue #1942
Fixed problem causing linkage for new event handler to be lost when closing source editor and switching back to report designer_mediator

Issue #None
Corrected Translation of text string in Spanish version of Source Editor Settings dialog

Issue #1945
Fixed – Add IDE element to Project Explorer to allow user to add preprocessor directives.

dBugger

Issue #1922
Debugger – Fixed ability to edit and use breakpoint expressions

Issue #1922
Fixed Save and Load of Breakpoint settings to and from plusdebug.ini to correctly handle file paths with embedded commas, conditions with embedded commas, and global breakpoints.

Fixed code that updates BreakPoint Dialog’s ListView control after adding, deleting or modifying breakpoints via dialog.
Fixed code that tests (evaluates) breakpoint conditions as they were not getting evaluated

Issue #1916
Fixed – ADO params using the same parameter reference twice does not work.

Issue #1932
Fixed ? command so it correctly retrieves and formats data from a MySQL LongText field

Miscellaneous Function Issues

Issue #1875
Added code to ensure all timers are stopped and released early in dBASE shutdown sequence fixing windows error on program exit.

dBASE™ PLUS 10 – Version 10.2.2 FIXES

ADO Object Issues

Issue #1914
Fixed – get crash in ADO app using rowset.applyfilter()

Issue #1893
Fixed – additional changes to ADOChapter and GridEx to handle changes to adorowset.filter and adorowset.applylocate()

Auto Complete

Issue #1913
Fixed – dComplete – Typing: use tablename order indexname triggers a Database Engine Error

dBASE™ PLUS 10 – Version 10.2.1 FIXES

Forms / Reports / Form Object issues

Issue #1872
Fixed – Navigating to a boolean / logical field in a .exe with built in runtime causes crash

Issue #1904
Fixed – Listbox cursor does not highlight the choice made by typing. Revised Previous Fix for Issue #1893

ADO Object Issues

Issue #1899
Fixed – Data Type Mismatch error using a parameter value greater than 9 digits for numerical data. ADO Parameter value property was not handling 64 bit integer values

IDE

Issue #1903
Fixed – Inspector dropdown is empty for a Grid column editor’s EditorType when running dBASE without a manifest file (and other multiple choice dropdown lists)

Issue #1905
Fixed – Crash in source editor trying to add code to form using multiple other custom files. this also includes a fix to a crash when typing in the command window when certain custom files are in memory.

Issue #1909
Fixed – crash putting qbdemgr.cc and other custom files in memory.

Issue #1910
Fixed – In Command Window, when typing var = new, autocomplete class list may include classes that are not loaded into memory

Miscellaneous Function Issues

Issue #1906
Fixed – STR() is not producing an error when evaluating a string

dBASE™ PLUS 10 – Version 10.2.0 FIXES

Forms / Reports / Form Object issues

Issue #318
Fixed initial display of columnCheckBox when in the leftmost column of a grid so that check boxes are painted in the correct vertical position

Issue #1879
Numerous numeric formating codes do not work in function property
(in Entryfield, SpinBox, Text, ?, and Transform())

Issue #767
Fixed – Picture setting of 99999999 does not allow you to add data to existing data in Entryfield

Issue #1885
Fixed – Rightmost decimal digit dropped when editing numeric data with function set to “($”

IDE

Issue #1854
Fixed code streaming of form.top and form.left when form is moved within the Form Designer using the mouse and form is subclassed from a custom form class.

Issue #1851
Changed text color in debugger tool windows to higher contrast

Issue #1864
Fixed – Navigator Look-In Field – Hotkeys for Cut, Copy, & Paste do not work

Issue #1889
Fixed BUILD FROM so building with embedded runtime works

Issue #1865
Fixed – Source editor tab control does not show list of files that go past the right end of the window.
Now Source Editor will display a down arrow button at the right end of the tab control.
When pressed a popup list of all open Source Editor tabs will display.

In addition, when the Find in Files Output Pane is visible, the same kind of button will appear allowing the user to choose any of the open search result tabs.

Issue #1878
Fixed MAV when pressing Ctrl+P in Source Editor window within dBASE Debugger (plusdebug.exe) or when pressing Print button on Debugger’s toolbar.

Issue #1886
Fixed – When Syntax Highlighting is off commented out code is not italicized.
But, does temporarily show italics right after commenting out code.
Now no italicizing or color changing occurs if Syntax Highlighting is turned off.

Issue #1895
Fixed – Calculated field is not showing in a report in design mode

Issue #1900
Fixed – Application .exe built with embedded runtime contains version info from plusrun.exe.

dComplete

Issue #1858
Fixed crash in Command window doing simple a = or b =

Issue #1881
Fixed – dBASE locks up in Source Editor when typing FOR statement

Issue #1882
Fixed – AutoComplete not listing custom form properties

Issue #1883
Fixed – Autocomplete not loading class from SET PROCEDURE file
(when statement is between CLASS and ENDCLASS)

Issue #1888
Fixed – AutoComplete cannot identify class of array created with curly braces
(a Literal Array)

Data Objects and Functions

Issue #1221
Fixed – ‘Data Type Mismatch’ error checking EMPTY() for *******NaN and *******Inf.
Updated Empty() to return False for *********Nan and *********Inf values.

DBF Table Issues

Issue #692
Fixed – not updating field when attempting to replace a numeric field value with an integer exceeding size that fits to left of decimal point.
Will still trigger a ‘value out of range’

ADO Object Issues

Issue #1893
Fixed – Get crash in ADO app using rowset.filter (and changing filter in a form component’s event handler).

Issue #1490
Fixed – MAV when doing calculation on Firebird numeric data.

Miscellaneous Function Issues

Issue #551
Fixed – Number object’s toString() method is returning Scientific notation when it doesn’t need to

Issue #1026
Fixed – Transform() without 9s in numeric mask adds extra spaces to result

Issue #1491
Fixed – Number class drops decimals after it’s value gets set to 0

Issue #1857
Fixed – Increment operator when used to pre-increment a variable, i.e. result = ++var

New Feature

Added new dBASE Function: SetEnv() – Creates or updates environment variable

The syntax for SetEnv() is:
setenv( <Env.Var expC>, <Value expC>)

where <Env.Var expC> is the name of the environment variable
and <Value expC> is the character string value to assign to it

Returns True if successful, False if unsuccessful

SetEnv() can create a new environment variable or change the value assigned to an environment variable or delete an existing an environment variable.
SetEnv() updates a private copy of the environment variables that are visible to dBASE or to a dBASE application. It does not update the environment for any other process.

Examples:

To create or update an environment variable:
SetEnv(“myAppPath”, “C:\somedir”)

sets environment variable myAppPath to C:\somedir

To delete an existing environment variable, pass an empty string as the second parameter for example:
setenv(“myvar”, “”)

deletes environment variable: myvar

dBASE™ PLUS 10 – Version 10.1.1 FIXES

Forms / Reports / Form Object issues

Issue #1842
Fixed – MAV opening a form containing listboxes

Issue IDE

Issue #1841
In Table Designer – Inspector is not displaying table properties

Issue #1844
dComplete – Lockup typing “Set Procedure To”

Issue #1484
Fixed – regression in REPLACE ALL to update status bar with # of replacements

Issue #1599
Fixed – Shift+Tab in large file takes too long – seems to hang dbase

Issue #1830
Fixed – inspector and other palettes will not show automatically in design when a form is maximized.

Issue #1753
Fixed – Long delay when typing in Source Editor with large file and autocomplete enabled

Issue ADO Object Issues

Issue #1839
Fixed – dBASE crash with ADO (firebird) app in 10.1.0.0 (crash does not happen in 10.0.0.1)

Issue #1784
Fixed – Upgraded streaming engine to support correct streaming of the ADO Parameters array and other arrays that work the same way

Issue #1494
Fixed – passing params to ADOQuery to update/insert a table pads spaces and does not allow blank values. Fixed the pad spaces part – did not fix the allow blank values part as that appears to depend on database server settings

Issue #1843
Fixed – length being streamed out for ADO parameter when it should not.
  Updated ADOParameter class so it only streams out the length property in the following situations:
    For character string:
      For Input or Input/Output
        If length is different from actual parameter value length
          For Output or Return Value:
            Always
          For Other Data Types:
            If length is different from default length for Data Type

And for above cases if parameter is not set to be readonly

Changed adoparameter.value so it streams AFTER other properties except for Length and DecLength

Changed default length for character parameters to 0 instead of 20

Issue #1852
Fixed – Streaming adoQuery parameters with length set – erases .value property

dComplete

Issue #None
Fixed – dComplete – typing: form.adoquery1.rowset. would not bring up option list.

Issue #1836
dComplete – form.rowset.fields[ not showing fields list

Issue #1850
Fixed -‘this.’ and ‘form.’ did not bring up any dComplete (Code completion) for any form objects

dBASE™ PLUS 10 – Version 10.1.0 FIXES

Forms / Reports / Form Object issues

Issue #1769
Fixed – Recursive paints for transparent form components when form.doubleBuffered = true.
Fixed – Image painting is improved so it doesn’t overwrite overlapping transparent components when its behind those components in the z-order
Fixed – painting of ListBox background when ListBox.transparent = true

Issue #1790
Fixed – Transparent Image in Container not painting correctly

Issue #1789
Fixed – Transparent Image does not show overlapped objects behind it

Issue #1793
Fixed – Grid.cellFocusBorderStyle not working reliably

Issue #1769
Fixed – form.doubleBuffered causing high CPU usage

Issue #1761
Fixed – Report rendering issue – getting error 258 Method not available on Object BOOKMARK in db9 and db10

IDE

Issue #1792
Fixed – AutoComplete offering options for parent object when child object not found

Issue #1788
Fixed – Debugger – Missing View menu options for source code window
Also fixed:
Line Numbers are also NOT showing up in the status bar
– making it very difficult to tell the current line number within the debugger

Issue #1787
Fixed – editor tree selection colours are too muted when not focused

Issue #1785
Fixed – Missing image crashes dBASE™ When clicking ‘cancel’ in error dialog.

Issue #1803
Fixed – Watch list doesn’t mark objs as expandable when first added

Issue #1808
Fixed – KEYBOARD Command not working properly in new command window editor

Issue #1809
Fixed – Have cursor stay at last item instead of going to the bottom after a search returns 0 results

Issue #1800
Fixed – Command window input pane not coming back after running small app with menu

Issue #1805
Fixed – icon files containing multiple png images were not supported by the ICON clause of the BUILD command.

Issue #1807
Fixed – get variable undefined trying to copy and paste a grid with defined columns

Issue #1810
Fixed- dbgr locals/watch listings now default to sort-by-name

Issue #1816
Fixed – autocomplete system doesn’t maintain ref-counts – Code Completion ActiveX issue

Issue #1819
Fixed – dBASE™ Crashes trying to use exportdata.wfm in duflp

Issue #1823
Slightly improved behavior of Call Stack window (to resize columns to zero less often) by removing LVS_EX_AUTOSIZECOLUMNS extended style from ListView control used within Call Stack window.

Issue #1822
Fixed – Find in File dialog’s Search In field is overriding user typed folder when it partially matches previous search folder. Fixed same problem with File Types field
Issue #1824
Fixed – Some debugger edit menu shortcut keys did not work: Ctrl+F, Shift+Ctrl+F, Ctrl+G

ADO Object Issues

Issue #1698
Fixed ADO Table Designer: Invalid Argument errors when attempting to enter field definitions

Issue #1784
Fixed parameter issue. designer streams out parameter with wrong value and with signed property for numeric parameter

Issue #1814
Fixed – ADO multiple params with LIKE not working

Issue #1815
Fixed – Adding .sql file with ado connection produces ‘requested properties cannot be supported’ error

Issue #0731
Fixed – criteria generated to use in Find() for adorowset.lookupsql
when performing lookup from code to find display value or the reverse, lookup from display value to find code.
Limited criteria to a single comparison as that is all ADO supports in the RecordSet Find method.

Issue #1813
Fixed – Crash in db10 when running app with embedded runtime and ADO connection
ActiveX

Issue #1335
Fixed – ability to run Crystal Reports Report Viewer ActiveX Version 11 from within dBASE™ PLUS (both IDE and Runtime Application)

NEW FEATURES

Forms / Reports / Form Objects

Issue #1769
Added Image.transparent property to enable Image to be handled correctly when doubleBuffered is true

dBASE™ PLUS 10 – Version 10.0.0.1 FIXES

Forms / Reports / Form Object issues

Issue #1750
Fixed – Running Web Wizard a second time produces MAV

IDE issues

Issue #1768
Fixed – Cannot select items inside a rectangle in designer

Issue #1773
Fixed – MAV from autocomplete when typing: “use customer.dbf order ” than backspacing and typing space

Issue #1759
Fixed – Inspector’s right upper drop down arrow was causing a crash.

Issue #1779
Fixed – RadioButton value getting changed when toggling transparent property (or any other property).

Issue #1778 – 1781
Fixed – Designer doesn’t explicitly deselect ctrl before deletion. get ‘Attempt to access released object’ or Crash after deleting gridEx object

Issue #1774
Fixed – Project Explorer: Boom when using non-fancy graphics in Win7

Issue #1762
Fixed – Error when trying to run in Windows Vista
SetThreadErrorMode is enabled w/ WINNT = Vista, but avail only in 7

Issue #1763
Fixed – MAV with ‘clear fields’

Miscellaneous issues

Issue #1757
Fixed – Fixed regression in arithmetic operators: -=, *=, /=, %= that caused data type mismatch or unexpected type errors when left hand side of assignment was an object property

dBASE™ PLUS 10 – Version 10.0 FIXES

Forms / Reports / Form Object issues

Issue #1750
Fixed – running Web Wizard a second time produces MAV

Issue #1614
Fixed – images do not get streamed in HTML report

Issue #527
Fixed – Regression to issue #479 – now Designer is removing params reference.

IDE

Issue #1744
Fixed – corrected datasource parser used to load icons in ListView, TreeView, and NoteBook
Specifying an image resource will now work when specifying the type, for example:
RESOURCE png/#123
RESOURCE ico/myicon somefile.dll

Issue #1681
Fixed – Code Hints cannot distinguish between command, function, method, or class versions of keyword

Issue #1663
Fixed – form event’s ‘this.’ reference does not show properties events etc… for dComplete

Issue #1662
Fixed – doing this.parent.parent on an object in a container or notebook (to end up referencing the form) does not show customer defined form objects in dComplete

Issue #1661
Fixed – Container and notebook objects do not show their sub components in dComplete

Issue #1653
Fixed – form designer removes blank lines

Issue #1650
Fixed – object properties do not show up in for loop for dComplete.

Issue #1596
Fixed – DEO Search not finding search paths. The DEO search uses the current _app.inifile value.

Issue #1583
Fixed – build app to app.exe UAC OFF – still adheres to UAC rules

Issue #1534
Fixed – Often times when adding a new event handler via the inspector the new function is indented incorrectly

Issue #1510
Fixed – MAV when typing “with (” in .wfm in Source Editor

Issue #1501
Fixed – Relax or remove limits in dBASE™ Compiler and/or dBASE™ Object Code file format. Exceeding one or more of these limits currently triggers one of the following errors:
“Too many UDF/PROCEDUREs defined in program”
“Too many symbols in this module”
“Program too big to compile”

Issue #1500
Fixed – file | Print crashes on second attempt to print a form

Issue #1499
Fixed – after copying lines of code in the command window. Cannot run the lines individually because they disappear

Issue #0907
Fixed – ‘bottom of file has been reached’ dialog is missing from search dialog.

Data Objects and Functions

Issue #1685
Fixed – Encountered an improper argument with applyLocate(). Error was due to accessing an array with an index of -1.

Issue #1630
Fixed – tabledef causing gpf. Internally wasn’t handling the eDbNotifyDestroy notification signaling that the database object was about to be destroyed.

Issue #1629
Fixed – MAV trying to set tabledef.tabletype

Issue #1627
Fixed – t=new tabledef(new object()) followed by inspect(t) can cause GPF. Tabledef now increments ref.cnt on parent object during construction and decrement ref.cnt on parent object during destruction.

Issue #1626
Fixed – Releasing a tabledef does not release references to arrays used by it.

Issue #1309
Fixed – Restart (Find / Replace) after hitting the end of a file (f3 multiple times)

Issue #1148
Fixed – if some code exists already in a do while, do until, for , if , case etc.. code completion does not work

Issue #862
Fixed – results for some more large calculations return incorrect value when precision is >15

Issue #771
Fixed – Upgrade application stub (PLUSstub.bin) to build and work under MSVS 2012 build

Issue #700
Fixed – Error: Symbol table space exhausted when compiling large application

DBF Table Issues

Issue #1656
Fixed – changing field type from numeric 10,4 to numeric 10 only removes a full digit

ADO Object Issues

Issue #1665
Fixed – adoDatabase/adoQuery not handling table name with dollar sign

Issue #1636
Fixed – invalid argument for value error with ADOQuery insert statement where parameters that have values wiith @ and other signs produce an invalid argument error

Miscellaneous Function Issues

Issue #1621
Fixed – str() failed to trim the results for some functions. c = str(90, 10, 0, “”) ?ltrim(c)

Issue #1610
Fixed – Missing init for variable within implementation for function procRefCount()

Issue #1503
Fixed – windows version info using os(). OS() function should return “Windows NT version 6.03”

NEW FEATURES

Form / Form Objects

Issue #1675
Fixed – Grid: Give the grid a focus indicator like other controls (radiobuttons, etc.) – New grid property is called ‘cellFocusBorderStyle’ and allows the programmer to
give the current field that has focus a particular style to distinguish it from the other fields.

Issue #1638
Fixed – GridEx: Implement GridEx class based on Ultimate Grid

Issue #1566
Fixed – Shape component now has a SpeedTip property to allow for speed tips.

IDE

Issue #1746
Fixed – new BDE User alias – added a new user BDE Alias called ‘webTemp’ which will point to PATH:C:\Users\[username]\Documents\dBASE\PLUS10\Web\temp

Issue #1600
Fixed – Add BUILD command option to turn off loading of BDE in built application .exe. new BUILD command option BDE OFF
Instead of requiring the use of an .ini file setting,
[DataEngine]
DefaultEngine=None

Issue #1595
Fixed – Resource Handling – added PNG

Issue #1527 to #1529
Fixed – WebWizard.ini file location and function changed. WebWizard ini file can now be found in the users\AppData\Local\dBASE\PLUS10\WebWizardINI directory

Issue #1516
Fixed – add image editor to dBASE™ PLUS. Added FotoGrafix to the root dBASE™ install directory.

dComplete

Issue #1652
Fixed – Upgrade AutoComplete to recognize variables set via the STORE command

Issue #1651
Fixed – Upgrade AutoComplete to recognize properties events or methods for objects defined in another form or custom file

Issue #1649
Fixed – Upgrade AutoComplete to add functions, procedures, and variables found via set procedure/set library/#include to option list when entering expressions

Issue #1644
Fixed – Upgrade AutoComplete to support selecting FORM and THIS from option list

Issue #1643
Fixed – Upgrade AutoComplete to add classes found via set procedure/set library/#include to option list after new

Issue #1147
Fixed – Implemented Scope checking. if the variable is not found as a defined object in the current function/procedure then the first one found in the code (from the top) is used to supply the list.

Issue #1146
Fixed – Implemented field object lists for code completion. If using the command window or with a Form in design mode. When writing code for a database object and drilling down to the field list.

The field list will now show in dComplete.

Issue #1130
Fixed – obj.parent will now show the list of the parents properties, events and methods in dComplete.

Issue #1125
Fixed – Upgraded dComplete to load and search other source files for superclass definitions

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Issue #0318
Fixed initial display of columnCheckBox when in the leftmost column of a grid so that check boxes are painted in the correct vertical position

Issue #0527
Fixed – Regression to issue #479 – now Designer is removing params reference. Issue #0551
Fixed – Number object’s toString() method is returning Scientific notation when it doesn’t need to

Issue #0692
Fixed – not updating field when attempting to replace a numeric field value with an integer exceeding size that fits to left of decimal point.
Will still trigger a ‘value out of range’

Issue #0700
Fixed – Error: Symbol table space exhausted when compiling large application

Issue #1813
Fixed – Crash in db10 when running app with embedded runtime and ADO connection
Issue #0767
Fixed – Picture setting of 99999999 does not allow you to add data to existing data in Entryfield

Issue #0771
Fixed – Upgrade application stub (PLUSstub.bin) to build and work under MSVS 2012 build

Issue #0862
Fixed – results for some more large calculations return incorrect value when precision is >15

Issue #0907
Fixed – ‘bottom of file has been reached’ dialog is missing from search dialog.

Issue #1026
Fixed – Transform() without 9s in numeric mask adds extra spaces to result

Issue #1125
Fixed – Upgraded dComplete to load and search other source files for superclass definitions

Issue #1130
Fixed – obj.parent will now show the list of the parents properties, events and methods in dComplete.

The field list will now show in dComplete.

Issue #1148
Fixed – if some code exists already in a do while, do until, for , if , case etc.. code completion does not work

Issue #1221
Fixed – ‘Data Type Mismatch’ error checking EMPTY() for *******NaN and *******Inf.
Updated Empty() to return False for *********Nan and *********Inf values.

Issue #1309
Fixed – Restart (Find / Replace) after hitting the end of a file (f3 multiple times)

Issue #1335
Fixed – ability to run Crystal Reports Report Viewer ActiveX Version 11 from within dBASE™ PLUS (both IDE and Runtime Application)

Issue #1459
Fixed checking/unchecking menu item when menu is attached to _app.framewin

Issue #1484
Fixed – regression in REPLACE ALL to update status bar with # of replacements

Issue #1490
Fixed – MAV when doing calculation on firebird numeric data.