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/--- Beta release (5) Clarion 9.1 --- Mar 10  ----- Fixes/Changes/Features--/

Note: The 9.1 release requires a one-time rebuild of all Binaries (DLL and LIB)

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9.1 alpha 5 - 10789
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CHANGE: If a second initialization of the FM or RM is found the Assert now shows the table name (circular dct references in relations)
FEATURE: The ODBC interface to TPS files now works from Clarion programs regardless of which version of Clarion the Clarion program was built with.
FEATURE: (All SQL drivers):  NULL(datefield) and NULL(timefield) now return TRUE if they are part of a DATE/TIME group and the corresponding column on the server is NULL
FEATURE: Added Import and Export commands options to the Resource Editor Addin (to and from .res files)
FEATURE: Added option in the minimized popup menu of the AppBrokerService Manager to Restart the service instead to having to stop/restart it.
FEATURE: Before compiling all the files were saved but the project, now the project is also saved before compiling
FEATURE: EQUATES.CLW: new standard EQUATEs for special time values 
FEATURE: IP Driver added support to a new predefined table option to be able to define multiple servers in the owner with out modifying the table original information.
FEATURE: New built-in signature for dragging texts from external programs: '~TEXT' NB: The program must either have no manifest or have manifest with the privilege level set to "asInvoker" to allow dragging from the Explorer in W8
FEATURE: Use new pragmas define(date0) and define(time0) to control DATE->LONG and TIME->LONG conversions
FEATURE: When closing the Solution if any Project was modified and not saved the user will get a Message asking to save
FIX: Caret ghosts could be visible after clicking to ENTRY-like control
FIX: Merging of project can happen simultaneously but not for the same project
FIX: Removing a library from the project didn't mark the project as modified
FIX: Some files types when deleted from the project were not selecting its previous node in the project tree.
FIX: Some files were able to be added twice to the project. (Files with no extension and dots in its name)
FIX: The TS ODBC interface now works with System.Data.Odbc with ULONG, USHORT and BYTE fields and with ADO with BYTE fields.
FIX: The output project name could not have a '.' in its name - caused the CW Task to fail
FIX: The record picture of a field was not imported into the dct when importing from a Clarion 2.1 data file
FEATURE: OLE-based implementation of dragging from the Windows File Explorer. NB: The program must either have no manifest or have manifest with the privilege level set to "asInvoker" to allow dragging from the Explorer in Win8
PTSS 40574: WORKAROUND: The Windows GDI layer can cause an exception on simultaneous calls to SelectObject for metafile DCs from several simultaneous threads
PTSS 40592: Cursor muddy in Entry Fields 

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9.1 alpha 4 - 10741
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NEW: Added the Structure Designer to the Source File Context Menu
CHANGE:  At present TIME(0) is converted to 0 when converting to LONG.  To change this behaviour so that TIME(0) is converted to midnight (1) you can now set SYSTEM{PROP:TimeConversionPreservesZero} = TRUE.
CHANGE: An invalid file structure error didn't show the expected errorcode 47 and error() text
CHANGE: Trap exception generated when the DCT is not a valid DCT version
CHANGE: Use theme/system defined font in MESSAGE if fixed-pitch flag is not set
CHANGE: When a node in a tree is deleted (like in the Solution Explorer) now the previous file is selected.
FIX 40499: GROUP of time data control not disabled on clearing the Auto-Format check box
FIX 40501: Text of column headers included prefix of field
FIX 40502: Incorrect parameter of BIND in the Mass Update dialog
FIX 40514,40515: Resizing of some dialogs in TopScan worked incorrectly
FIX 50525: Lockup if date/time pattern contained more than one element
FIX: Comments in PRJ file could be parsed incorrectly
FIX: DROPID() could return unexpected empty string
FIX: Duplicated Day Of Week String in ABUTIL.INC and ABUTILUI.INC 
FIX: Exception in the CLW compiler if function is declared with like it is a member implementing an interface method while class has no the IMPLEMENTS attribute
FIX: First Day Of Week functionality was not working on every calendar class
FIX: If the solution refernced an invalid or non-existing project, the post generation action was failing without a message
FIX: The GENERATED flag could be set to external modules
PTSS 40552: Setting of PROP:Alrt and PROP:Key without an index (i.e. dest{PROP:Alrt} = key  instead of correctly as dest{PROP:Alrt,n} = key) did not alert
PTSS 40565: Changing position of scrollable area by setting the PROP:HScrollPos or PROP:VScrollPos property



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9.1 alpha 3 - 10677
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FIX: New scrolling/panning code was not firing all required events for mouse wheel/panning on a page-loaded Browse
FIX: Setting PROP:Selected to listbox could cause unwanted scrolling if new selected row is in view
FIX: The GENERATED flag could be lost in the project stored to the .APP
FIX:  Builds did not work if you used the /ConfigDir switch and the version settings were changed from the default values
FIX:  Build from a separate process did not work if the ConfigDir ended in a \
CHANGE:  The MSBuild tasks CW, CWClear and Redirection now have an extra ConfigDir parameter which is set via the $ConfigDir property.  This parameter informs the task where to find the ClarionProperties.xml file to get settings
CHANGE: Template options global: Added ProcessorArchitecture and Language to the OCX manifest dependency settings
ALPHA FIX: The 9.1 ALPHA release TPS driver CREATEd TPS files which couldn't be opened by older Clarion versions

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9.1 alpha 2 - 10655
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FEATURE: Added Dependent Assemblies (i.e. COM dlls) to the list of shipping files
FEATURE: Templates: Added support for specifying dependent COM DLL in the manifest (for Registration free COM)
FEATURE: Updated installers based on latest SetupBuilder release (4301)
FEATURE: Added some comments to the Dependency Assemblies dialog

FIX: Sometimes the first time the file driver list was accessed in the IDE the list was empty
FIX: HIDE for controls/menu items in cloned toolbars/menus on child MDI windows behaved as if DISABLE was called
FIX: IDE: If an omittable parameter in the parameter list is entered without specifying its data type, the angle brackets could be dropped
FIX: Possible lockup on destroying a control from the frame toolbar if that control was modified in a MDI child window


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9.1 alpha 1 - 10638
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 FEATURE:: Support of Touch input
 FEATURE:: Support registration-free activation of COM objects from side-by-side assemblies
 FEATURE: Added support for routines in DCT triggers code.NOTE: Restrictions: the routines name should not start with the word "routine" (will make the code generate incorrectly). After the first routine is found the rest of the code of will be treated as routine code and output in column 1 after the RETURN of the method
 FEATURE:: Added two new methods to the resize class to know when resizing starts and finishes: WindowResizeBegin and WindowResizeEnd
 FEATURE:: Before building if the process CCC.EXE is found running the IDE will try to stop it, if is successful it will add a message in the Error List (Message) This was added to stop the error on building related to the Catalyst Control Center Utility (aka CCC.EXE)
 FEATURE:: Files for custom handling of touch input in programs; CWTOUCH.CLW, CWTOUCH.INC, CWTOUCHDEF.INC
 FEATURE:: JSON: Added an example that show how to serialize and deserialize a QUEUE to/from json
 FEATURE:: JSON: Added methods to the JSON Class to parse the Json results
 FEATURE:: JSON: Allow to use a PICTURE to format numbers in the ToJSON groups and queue and to DEFORMAT the numbers with @BOOL support
 FEATURE:: JSON: class Added methods to the JSON class to parse the json string and retrieve the names , values (simple or arrays) of a json pair
 FEATURE:: JSON: class Added methods to the JSON class to deserialize GROUPs and QUEUEs
 FEATURE:: Option setting to set the length of the Clarion code Editor line before adding a &|Tools-Options-TextEditor-Clarion Specific Options NOTE: for now this only apply to the hand coded Windows (Ctrl+D), not the App windows
 FEATURE:: QuickXMLParser added Trace method that is called every time the parser executes an interface method. (use OutPutDebugString)
 FEATURE:: Send Email and Send SMS functions added to ClaRunExt
 FEATURE:: Setting to enable to automatically kill the process (App's Exe) before doing a build (only available on EE) Options-General-Project and Solutions-"Kill Process before build"
 FEATURE:: Show info about address in the call stack in form <module name>:<offset> if module has no debug info or address can't be resolved
 
CHANGE: Extend sizes of variables used to hold a procedure's prototype and parameter list
CHANGE: ABC Browse Class, method ReplaceSort is now virtual
CHANGE: ABC: Added support to the WindowExtenderClass to check if a processes other than the current one is running and be able to bring them to the front
CHANGE: ABC: Added support for Only one Instance of the procedure when the procedure is declared in a DLL
CHANGE: Added support to the GENERATEDClass module and SourceClass procedure template to generate generic members
CHANGE: Additional functions of the i64 family
CHANGE: Default vale for the DCT QuickView is Advanced before it was Simple
CHANGE: Default value to Require Dictionary is set to false
CHANGE: Fields of type reference-to-typed-GROUP are allowed now in structures
CHANGE: ICSharpCode.SharpDevelop.Gui.FormLocationHelper is deprecated, please use ICSharpCode.Core.FormPositionService.Instance instead.
CHANGE: IListControl new method GetSelectedItem
CHANGE: If the selection of the derived from column creates an error now the error is displayed in the error pad
CHANGE: Improve the Parser Thread start/stop process
CHANGE: Old default properties were not matching the name of the properties files used by the IDE.
CHANGE: Old files named SharpDevelop-teplates.xml was renamed to CodeSnippets.xml to easily identify it with the options it store
CHANGE: Set message text for constraint type run-time errors; 401: "Stack overflow", 402: "Null pointer de-reference", 404: "Arithmetic overflow", 405: "Value out of range", 406: "No return from function", 407: "No matching case label", 408: "Division by zero", 409: "Index out of range"
CHANGE: Solution Explorer (Clarion Project), when an item from the solution like a Icon, CLW, etc.  is removed the previous item is now selected instead of going to the parent node
CHANGE: Support Windows 8.1 in the MANIFEST command for the linker
CHANGE: SystemString class: Format method is renamed to FormatString
CHANGE: The font for the TopSpeed ODBC driver dialogs has been changed to be consistent with the rest of the product
CHANGE: Update ClaTalk template to use the ClaRunExtClass
CHANGE: Updated the IPEXEC parameter parser to use equates for the states (faster than strings)
CHANGE: When Controls in the DCT are created (WINDOW/REPORT field representations) the Parser was re-reading the EQUATES.CLW and BUILTINS.CLW files from disk, now it caches those files after the first read. NOTE: If a user is modifying those files the changes will not be reflected until the IDE is re-started. NOTE2: If the user is using multiple EQUATES.CLW or BUILTINS.CLW files from multiple .Red files only the first one used will be processed for the DCT Control creation and Code Completion.

FIX: Procedure parameters could be imported wrong from a partial TXA (TXA having no [APPLICATION] section)
FIX: AppBrokerServiceManager was not showing the correct icon when the service was stopped
FIX: Clicking on the cancel button during DCT conversion or other Dct process was not stopping the process but just closing the window dialog
FIX: Code Completion was differentiating between upper case and lower case file name extension.
FIX: DCT: Sometimes when the Column contained invalid data, selecting a new columns could cause a null exception based on the invalid data
FIX: DCT: When any validation error happen on a derived column and the child is selected, the error was not displayed
FIX: DCT: when converting the DCT and an expected error happen, the error were only added to the Pad but not displayed in a Message()
FIX: Fix typo in the Icon viewer
FIX: GET(file,key) did not work with the SQLite driver if the key components where not the first fields in the record structure
FIX: Generator did not generate &REPORT fields correctly
FIX: Horizontal scrolling by touch in LIST controls did not work
FIX: If an invalid shortcut was found at startup the IDE would shut down
FIX: If there was an error in a redirection macro in an included redirection file, then the dialog displaying the error message indicated that the problem was in the top level redirection file rather than in the included redirection file.
FIX: Incorrect text was displayed in the Toolbar Build Solution and Rebuild Solution buttons
FIX: PNG images with an alpha channel would not 'stretch'
FIX: Position of scrollable WINDOW or IMAGE control could be calculated incorrectly on scrolling or on changing the PROP:XOrigin or PROP:YOrigin properties
FIX: Possible memory leaks if LIST control uses styles
FIX: REGION, PROMPT, RADIO controls were not using the correct Color Editor in the Window Designed for some color properties
FIX: REPORT Format Section Dialogs were not using the correct color dialog
FIX: REPORT parts were not using the correct Color Dialog for the color properties
FIX: Reference assignments of NULL to variables of type &GROUP or &GroupType produced unwanted statics
FIX: Separator was spelled incorrectly in the TopSpeed ODBC driver configuration dialog.
FIX: Setting PROP:HScroll and PROP:VScroll to TRUE for an IMAGE control caused displaying of scrollbar even if its real size is not enough to fill the control rectangle
FIX: Shortcut editor allowed for invalid shortcuts to be added to the IDE
FIX: Size of fields for Justification and Place Over in the DCT were too small
FIX: Some IDE dialogs were not re-displaying and positioned properly after were displayed in a secondary display that was unplugged
FIX: Sometimes the Close All Documents command will not close all the open Documents.
FIX: Sometimes the Code Completion will not work if a , is used in the last position of a line
FIX: The DCT Editor allow to create a field derived from other field that could create a recursive list of parents
FIX: The build system could use the wrong redirection file if there were multiple projects in a solution and those projects were in different folders and there was a clarion90.red file in each of those folders
FIX: The first time you did a generate in the IDE the creation of the exp file might not work properly
FIX: The redirection system was not parsing the %THISDIR% macro correctly when doing a build
FIX: TopSpeed driver would leak memory if you used the TableList SEND command
FIX: Topscan: Default text of the column header could be built incorrectly
FIX: Topscan: Incorrect column picture could break displaying of data
FIX: Topscan: Possible assert failure on the browsing file for the first time
FIX: Unexpected errors could occur on compile/link time if the name of a File View object clashes with the name of some user declared object
FIX: Upgrading of pre-C7 apps could lose the generated flag from project items
FIX: When a severe error happens during generation of the App sometimes the Build process would start but it could not be stopped, leaving the IDE in an state that needed shutdown
FIX: When accessing Btrieve files that had a PDECIMAL field in them that was a key component of a key with the OPT attribute, if you did a binary level compare (eg SavedRecord = Record), this would sometimes fail. DOCUMENTATION:  Update the Btrieve docs to document the NULLPDECIMALS = ON|OFF driver string.  
FIX: When there is a template that was missing the generation from the application pad could generate an exception and shutdown the IDE
FIX: When there is a template that was missing the generation of the App from the Application Pad could generate an exception and shutdown the IDE
FIX: You could create a local variable of type REPORT via the data pad.  The data pad now restricts you to creating variables of type &REPORT

PTSS 34503: IPDVR - IPEXEC function parameters can not contain a ‘)’.
PTSS 40060: EDITOR HANGS - with specific sequence of lines removed, (code folding could not identify the parent)
PTSS 40093: - JSON Class ToJSON() returns a badly formatted JSON string
PTSS 40205: Clarion Chain Report Previewer zoom was not working over the image
PTSS 40233: TopSpeed 5.0 driver Prompt Screen issues 
PTSS 40267: Missing references after the import of the Clarion 6.3 app  
PTSS 40342: AbSql.clw: renamed label TextFile to SV_SqlScriptFile to avoid clashing with common user labels
PTSS 40406: REPORT reference goes haywire 
PTSS 40487: TXA import thrashes Parameters Entry 
REGRESSION:  Adding a file to a project that could not be found via redirection added only the file name rather than the relative path to the file