BASIS International Ltd. announces the release of BBj® 5.03. While this maintenance release includes well over 200 bug fixes, it also expands the preview of BBj 6.0.

Preview of 6.0 features introduced in this release includes:

Development Tools

• BBj AppBuilder – integrates GUIBuilder functionality with FormBuilder in the BASIS IDE. AppBuilder benefits from the color-coded syntax and code completion capabilities of the IDE while taking advantage of the integration with FormBuilder.

Language/Interpreter

• New caching mechanism – optimally manages saved copies of program and resource files in memory, reducing the amount of time required to run frequently-used programs. The new mechanism drops programs out of the cache when the amount of available memory is low, reducing the possibility of out of memory errors.
• BBj Autorun – adds administrator control of which BBj programs run automatically when BBjServices starts
• BBjMDI – provides shortcut keys known as menu accelerators
• getDefaultForwardMenuAccelerators - returns the default value of getForwardMenuAccelerator
• setDefaultForwardMenuAccelerators - returns the initial value returned by getForwardMenuAccelerator
• getForwardMenuAccelerators - returns a value describing whether the window argument will forward keystrokes to the MDI parent for consideration as menu accelerators
• setForwardMenuAccelerators - configures whether keystrokes are forwarded by the window argument to the MDI parent window for menu accelerator consideration
• BBjProgramInfo – provides programmatic access to information about a program
• getLineCount - returns the number of program lines in a BBjProgramInfo object
• getListing - returns the complete program listing for a BBjProgramInfo object
• getListingVector - returns a BBjVector of strings containing the complete program listing of a BBjProgramInfo object
• getListingForPhysicalLine - returns the listing for a specified physical line of a BBjProgramInfo object
• hasLineNumbers - returns whether the program referenced by a BBjProgramInfo object has line numbers
• Window Move Event – reports that the user moved a window

Review the documentation for these BBj 6.0 preview features by typing BBj 6 in the index tab in the online BASIS documentation or on the product CD at documentation.html. To review the features and enhancements previously introduced in BBj 5.0x, type BBj 5 in the index tab.

Read about the other 6.0 features previewed in earlier maintenance releases in the BBj Readme, Relnotes.

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