Eindelijk is het dan zover, Grafx software maakt nu officieel de volledige featurlist bekend van VO2.8
Belangrijkste wijzigingen zijn de nieuwe Source Code Editor, die niet alleen productiviteit verhogend werkt, maar ook een ende moet maken aan de stabiliteitsproblemen welke door de vorige SCE veroorzaakt werden. Andere ingrijpende veranderingen zijn de sterk verbeterede SCC integratie, gedeeltelijke ondersteuning van Fox 9.0 DBF files, (wel de nieuwe hader info, niet de exotische veldtypen)
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Summary of Changes
- IDE
- Compiler
- Linker
- Repository/Adam
- Source Code Control
- Runtime
- RDDs
- Class Libraries
IDE Changes
- New Source Code Editor
- Repository Browser
- Error Browser
- Ole Automation Code Generator
- Editor
- Debugger
- New Settings dialogs (no more ‘hidden' settings)
- Screen Shot of New Settings Dialog
- Converted Help to CHM format
- Merged several IDE support DLLs
- Several dialogs are now re sizable
- List views in IDE are now sortable and show selected column in different color
- Better handling of multiple monitor systems
New Source Code Editor
- Completely rewritten
- Faster
- New ‘Entity Combo’
- Current token info
- Autotype support
- Brace Matching
- Improved Parameter info & Quick Info
- Improved Intellisense
- Improved Find & ‘Advanced Search’ functionality
- Re indent
- Improved Case Synchronization
- Screen Shot
Repo Browser
- Save/restore column layout
- Printing of Trees & Lists works now
- Removed Unneeded refreshes
- Improved detection of changes in external modules
- Screen Shot
Error Browser
- Changed layout
- Errors can be collapsed
- Error list can be printed
- Error list can be saved to disk
Ole Automation Code Generator
- Code Generator progress
- Different code generation Model
- Screen Shot
Debugger
- Uses new editor to display code
- New functionality
- Fixes for known issues
Tool-Window Editor
- Configurable Lasso behavior
- Configurable Click behavior
- Several fixes
- Saving Window Positions
- Generated code is changed for stricter compiler
Tools-DbServer Editor
- Default RDD is now configurable
- Several Fixes
- Generated code is changed for stricter compiler
Tools-Other Editors
- Fixed several issues
- Generated code is changed for stricter compiler
Compiler
- Fixed several errors
- Added stricter checks
- Optimized code generation
- Added several new warnings/errors
- TEXT .. ENDTEXT was obsolete, and is not supported anymore
- Added __VO__ and __VULCAN__ defines
- Added support for | as _OR operator
- _OR, _AND and _NOT are now allowed in defines
- Enabling/Disabling errors in Settings Dialog
Linker
- More helpful messages when ‘Link failed'
- Fixed several errors
Repository/Adam
- Compiler errors were suppressed for imported entities (_DLL )
- Optimized resource compilation
- Optimized parsing of external modules
- Fixed several errors
- Added new Source Code Scanning API (used in Editor for example)
- Fixed stability issues
Source Code Control
- SCC Settings now in external file
- Added advanced ‘Reconnect' behavior
- Added optional SCC logging
- Added compare for modules that are not checked out
- Added option to see PRG history
- Added support for SCC API version 1.2 and 1.3
Runtime
- Fixed several problems
- Added extra functions to aid in debugging
- __GetAxitStack()
- __SetClassDebug()
- Optimized Work area management code
- Nation modules now contain string tables for all literal strings in Runtime DLLs
- Optimized macro compiler code
RDD's
- Fixed problems in DBFNTX, DBFMDX
- Fixed sorting problems with DBFCDX and accented characters ( such as 'à', 'Þ', 'Š' ) & Windows Collation
- CAVODBF.RDD now opens FoxPro files with ‘extra header information'
OLE Classes
- Better handling of ‘exotic' ActiveX and OLE Server applications
- Better performance
- Fixed keyboard problems and ActiveX controls
- Fixed memory leaks
- Better support for infrequently used data types
GUI Classes
- Accelerator & dynamic keys
- ComboBoxEx
- ComboBoxExItem
- Controls & XP
- Improved Auto Alignment
- Help Display
- CHM
- Context Help (WM_HELP)
- Listview sub item Images
- Split window & SplitView control
- Status bar Icons
- Rich Edit
- Scrollbar
- Tab Control (delayed instantiation of tabs)
- Toolbar (Normal, disabled & hot image lists)
- Tree view
- Window
- Several new event handlers & events
RDD Classes
- The code has been optimized. Classes now perform a LOT faster, because unnecessary work area switching is disabled and because unnecessary error handling is removed
- Errors in ‘notify' handlers are no longer ‘swallowed' by the RDD classes.
- Fixed several problems
SQL Classes
- Optimization (lot of old code was dropped)
- Better support for newer data types (GUID, Wide Chars etc)
Internet Classes
- Incorporate changes made by several VO users to support different mail formats
- Several other changes to SMTP, HTTP etc.
VO Development Team
- Robert van der Hulst
- Paul Piko
- Frans de Wit (macro compiler)
- Sven Ebert (GUI classes & RDD classes)
- Several contributions by other VO users/developers