RELNOTES for BBj

1. OVERVIEW
2. WHAT IS NEW IN THIS RELEASE
3. KNOWN ISSUES
4. SUPPORT

This maintenance release includes a preview of new BBj 7.00 features, giving the BASIS development community an opportunity to see, use, and comment on upcoming features well in advance of the features becoming a permanent part of the product. This allows the development community to participate in the design and implementation process of their development language.

The latest features under development now and fully supported in BBj 7.00 are available for testing in the nightly builds at https://www.basis.com/products/bbj/download.html Sign up to the bbj-developer list for the latest news on the daily progress of the development team.

For a list of what's new in BBj 7.00, type BBj 7 in the index tab online documentation or on the product CD at /documentation/html/index.htm. To review the features and enhancements previously introduced in BBj 6.0x, type BBj 6 in the index tab.

This release addresses over 50 reported bugs. For a list of fixed QA memos, see the file https://www.basis.com/products/bbj/fixes621.txt.

GENERAL FEATURES

6.21

BBj Databound Grid Control
BBj Slider Control
BBj Color Chooser Control
BBj Font Chooser Control
BBj File/Directory Chooser Control
BBj HTML Control
BBj Print Preview Control
BBj Graphical Charts
BBj Spellchecker & interface for editable controls
BBj Spinner & interface for controls
BBjClientFileSystem API
MODE=CLIENT for the FILEOPEN and FILESAVE dialogs
BBjString and BBjNumber Classes
JDBC Connection Pooling
!SAVEPVER Global String Table Entry
-console Command Line Parameter for the BASIS IDE

6.20

_search Utility - supports search and replace
BASIS IDE enhancement - allows user to choose whether to compile the source prior to running the program or debugging it
BBjSlider - provides methods for manipulating a GUI slider control
- BBjSlider::get/setInverted - addresses the orientation
- BBjSlider::get/setPaintTicks/Labels - sets whether to paint ticks/labels
- BBjSlider::get/setMinor/MajorTickSpacing - sets major/minor tick spacing
- BBjSlider::getMin/Maximum - sets minimum/maximum value(s)
- BBjSlider::get/setValue - sets current value(s)
BBjWindow::addHorizontal/VerticalSlider - adds a slider control to the BBjWindow
Division performance improvement - executes typical cases approximately 40 times faster.
Print preview enhancement - adds MODAL= to cause print preview to behave as a modal dialog
Session pinning - ensures that once a program loads into a given session, the contents of that program will not change until the developer explicitly affects a change
- Set pinning using the new BBjConfig::setOptionSetting optionName type SESSION_PINNING
- Toggle pinning using new STBL("!OPTIONS") key SESSION _PINNING

6.011

Delivers a version that uses significantly less memory than previous versions

6.01

Includes over 250 bug fixes

In 6.00

AppBuilder enhancement - introduces ability to compile and execute projects in Visual PRO/5®
BBjGridEvent - provides an interface that allows a program to retrieve the grid (either a BBjStandardGrid or a BBjDataAwareGrid) that was the source of the event
BBjSysGui::get/setRepaintEnabled - provides control and indication of repaints on the client display
BBjTemplatedString - provides the functionality of the traditional templated string used throughout BBj
ESQL (Exclusive SQL) tables - offers true SQL data types, variable length records, dynamic index creation as:
- Column constraint - allows filtering of the data that goes into a particular column
- Computed column - defines columns in a table to be the result of a computation based on other fields in the same table
- Default values - allows database administrators to define defaults for columns that will be used if no values are specified for that column. Default values may be any supported SQL data type or the result of a scalar or custom function
- Identity field - generates unique numeric value automatically
- Row constraint - evaluates multiple columns in the row in order to determine the validity of the entire row
- Unique constraint - prohibits multiple rows from having the same value for the same column
Expanded account management - adds new BBjAdmin methods that include addUser, removeUser, changePassword
FormGen Wizard - allows developers to automatically create customizable data-bound forms based on the contents of a data file or SQL query
Interface MultiSourceEvent - allows a program to retrieve the source of the event cast to a specified type
SQL - introduces new TimestampAdd scalar function thar returns the timestamp calculated by adding various time units (fractional seconds, minutes, days, weeks, years, etc.) to a timestamp value

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