ADO…

Issue #1985
Fixed – Seconds value does not show with ADO connections for DateTime values

Issue #1451
Fixed – handle ado table names with ‘$’ character in the table name.

IDE…

Issue #2982
Fixed – MAV’s starting dBASE when Command Window and Navigator are not opened at startup

Issue #None
Partially Fixed – Improved painting of frameWin border when focus moves to another application’s window and current application theme is one of the Office3 themes

Issue #2343
Fixed – AutoComplete – if a database is open, entering CLOSE DATABASE in command window brings up a list of databases and produces an error

Issue #2915
Fixed – Default File Types for Find In File dialog always resets to first option

Issue #2919
Fixed – Menu Designer – Added ability to click on menubar to make menubar current object within Inspector

Issue #2931
Fixed – Navigator – Change so Look In: setting is written to .ini file with each change to the path and database before closing dBASE.

Issue #2848
Fixed – File | Recent Files and File | Recent Projects are not read from the plus.ini file

Issue #2893
Fixed – App hangs at compile time (due to too many methods within a class). Fixed how ENDCLASS statement is handled by compiler so that it correctly handles an arbitrary number of methods within a dBASE class

FORM / FORM OBJECTS…

Issue #2828
Fixed – When closing form that was opened using readModal(), re-enable parent window before destroying form’s window in order to prevent non-dBASE window from displaying on top during the close process

Issue #2839
Fixed – Surfaced onGesture events for grid class

Issue #2836
Fixed- grid.column.editorcontrol – mouse events do not work

Issue #2858
Fixed – no mechanism to refresh menu items after deletion. Added method: reload() to class menubar and class popup to update an active menu with changes.
NOTE: when adding or re-adding menu items the new item will be put at the end of the list of menus. If you need to show the added menu item in the middle somewhere then all menu items after must be regenerated.

Issue #2880
Fixed – Crash when selecting Menu items in built .exe

Issue #2920
Fixed – Strange behavior with selecting menu items. Sub menu keeps expanding and contracting

Issue #2852
Fixed – RecentProjects are not added to the ini file and existing lists get garbled

MATH FUNCTIONS…

Issue #2506
Fixed – Modified Round() function, internally, to use the current SET PRECISION setting when checking if value to round should be rounded up or down due to its least significant digits being greater than or equal to half the next most significant digit.

RUNTIME…

Issue #2841
Fixed – .exe built with runtime .. then codesigned throws “0x01” error

MISCELLANEOUS…

Issue #2842
Fixed – Checking for and firing ON KEY and Escape key press while running a loop. NOTE: _app.executeMessages() is NOT needed in this loop …
for x = 1 to 100000
?x
ON KEY LABEL Ctrl+F10 Msgbox(“still in it”)
endfor
ON KEY

– See Help for more info on this new class

There is a sample included in the ‘Samples’ folder called ‘rArray.wfm’

– Added method SetFocus() to class RichEdit

– Add properties to control floating of menubar (floating, isFloating, allowFloat)

– Added method: reload() to class menubar and class popup to update an active menu with changes. NOTE: when adding or re-adding menu items the new item will be put at the end of the list of menus. If you need to show the added menu item in the middle somewhere then all menu items after must be regenerated.

– Added method: reload() to class menubar and class popup to update an active menu with changes. NOTE: when adding or re-adding menu items the new item will be put at the end of the list of menus. If you need to show the added menu item in the middle somewhere then all menu items after must be regenerated.

– Toolbar – Properties Dialog additions – New Buttons added to toolbar for many property dialogs including Desktop Properties , Command window properties, Navigator Properties etc…

– Recent Files / Recent Projects – Expanded Recent Files and Recent Projects to allow more entries for each. Now supports up to 25 Recent Files and 24 Recent Projects. Must be set via Properties | Desktop Properties | ‘Application’ tab | under ‘File Menu’

– Source Editor – Added “Dark” Color Presets to Source Editor Properties – Color Tab

– Source Editor – Added Zoom In and Zoom Out to View Menu and Toolbar for Source Editor menu options Zoom In and Zoom Out. Also “Ctrl+” and “Ctrl-” key labels

– Source Editor – Added “Copy Full File Path” option to context (right click menu)

– Source Editor – Edit | Bookmarks menu. Bookmarks currently work within current editor session (not yet saved across sessions) You can also use a left click in the Left Most margin of the source editor. In order to do this – The View | Margin option must be checked (to show the margin used for bookmarks) in order to be able to use the mouse to click on it.
When View | Margin is checked, bookmarks display with purple circles in the margin.
When View | Margin is unchecked, bookmarks display by changing the lines background to purple

Bookmark options are:
Toggle Bookmark
First Bookmark
Next Bookmark
Previous Bookmark
Last Bookmark
Clear all bookmarks

– Source Editor – Edit | Surround Menu – Added support for Surrounding block of text.
Most block code is added. Also added Surround menu option to Source Editor’s context (Right Click) menu

Surround options are:
Delimiters..
do..
if..
for..
try..
with / endwith
class / endclass
function / return
procedure / return

When a Surround suboption is selected the chosen surround text is inserted into the source file at the start and end of selected text. If no text is already selected, the surround text is simply inserted at the cursor.

– Source Editor – Added additional menu options to the Source Editor’s context menu:

Convert
To UpperCase
To LowerCase
To Initial Capitals
To DOS Text
To Windows Text

Comment Lines
Uncomment Lines
Toggle Comment Lines

Increase Indent
Decrease Indent

Surround options

Bookmark options

– Menu Additions – Added Motifs (None, Light and Dark) options to dBASE View Menu. This is a new global setting to set the current dBASE Look and Feel.
It is a single setting that groups together an Application Theme, Source Editor Color Presets, and additional color settings for the main dBASE IDE (Command Window Output Pane, Navigator, Source Editor Treeview and Find in Files Output windows).

NOTE: settings made in the plus.ini file for colors in the source editor treeview ([BriefEditor]) and the command window results pane ([CommandWindow]) will override these defaults. (See below)

Command Window…

– Command Window – Added Zoom In and Zoom Out to Command Window toolbar and View Menu. When Zoom In or Zoom Out is selected for the Command Window, both the Input andOutput Panes are zoomed

– Command Window – Added ‘Clear Results’ option to Menu and toolbar. (NOTE: this is also included when the Navigator has focus)

Find in Files…

– Find in Files – Search string is now displayed in a tab when doing a ‘Find in files’ search.

– Find in Files – dialog is now resizeable

– Find in Files – result windows color scheme and font now matches source editor’s color and font Controls

INI – New settings (Includes modifications to Source Editor, Command Window, Palettes etc.)…

– Added .ini setting to save current Motif
[Desktop]
Motif=[Motif Number]

where Motif Number can be:
0 = None
1 = Light
2 = Dark

Fonts settings added to plus.ini file. Set font size and font name for Inspector, menus, status bar, MDI Tabs, Component Palette, and Field Palette via .ini setting. Example:
[Desktop]
MenuFontName=Times New Roman
MenuFontSize=15

If you specify just one of these settings the other one will stay set to the default.

The default MenuFontName is “Segoe UI”
The default MenuFontSize is 11 points

Added ability to set colors for Source Editor’s Treeview from the current Source Editor instance. Also added .ini file settings that can be used to override default colors and font setting. Example:

[BriefEditor]
TreeViewFont=Segoe UI,12
TreeViewTextColor=Blue
TreeViewBackColor=LightBlue

Added ability to set colors for Command Window Output Pane. Output Pane’s colors will now match Input Pane’s colors unless overridden by new .ini file settings. Example:

[CommandWindow]
ResultsPaneFont=Courier New, 13
ResultsTextColor=Purple
ResultsBackColor=LightGrey

More default font settings under new Plus.ini section [DefaultFont]
For the Navigator a new setting called ‘Application’
For Control Defaults (like Text, TextLabel, Pushbutton etc. object) FontName and FontSize a new setting called ‘Controls’.
These are set when you add a new control to a form or Report. Example:
[DefaultFont]
Application=Times New Roman, 13
Controls=Times New Roman, 12

– Add new property to Application object to indicate what the current runtime environment is.Added new property _app.runtimeType (readonly). This is set during dBASE startup to one of the following values:

0 = dBASE IDE (plus.exe)
1 = Regular dBASE Runtime (plusrun.exe)
2 = Embedded dBASE Runtime in application .exe

General limits and specification

General BDE™ Limits

Paradox® Limits

dBASE® Limits