The last build for 2005 includes
a number of new and exciting features. If you are looking to
expand your business overseas or to add support for extended
character sets through DBCS and/or UNICODE, the new features in
PxPlus will allow you to expand your business worldwide. In
addition, new in this build is true numeric key support allowing
you to access and maintain your data files in proper numeric
sequence with a minimum of application effort. No more worrying
about how to format your numeric based keys -- the system takes
care of it automatically.
We have also added a number of
long awaited features for developers such as an UNDO and REDO
feature in the graphical editor.
The following new +PxPlus
Exclusive features
were added to PxPlus with Build 9159
(click here to view information on the prior build
--9111)
General |
- PxPlus build 9159
supports DBCS and UNICODE data to allow access to
the wide range of extended character sets such as
Chinese and Japanese.
- Numeric keys are now
supported for keyed files allowing the system to
automatically sort and provide access to your
data using a numeric value as the key. This
allows files to be indexed by numeric values such
as sales to date, price or other such numeric
values. See the KEYED Directive on numeric keys.
- A new 'ONESHOT' option has been added to
TCP connections to allow server side processing
where once a connection is received; the
listening port is relinquished allowing other
processes to share the listening port.
- In order to simplify
access to files on workstations, the [LCL] Pathname
Prefix has been added. When running under
Windx or JavX, it will be replaced with [WDX],
otherwise if running locally it will be ignored.
- The Windows based
PVX Plus activation system has been modified to
provide direct access to the old-style 16/17
character activation key registration utility.
- A new '[GLOBALS]'
section has been added to the system INI file,
which allows you to specify any global variables
you want initialized.
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Directives |
SYSTEM_HELP PRINT
"filename"
SYSTEM_HELP EDIT "filename"
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Functions |
- All the KEY
functions have been enhanced to return a right
justified string containing the value of numeric
keys.
- The ARG function has
been enhanced to allow an application to set ARG(
) values using the DEF ARG Directive.
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Mnemonics |
- Two new mnemonics
were added to save and restore the current
attributes for a screen or printer. The 'SA' Mnemonic will save current
attributes and the 'RA' Mnemonic will restore them.
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Parameters |
- The 'BX' system
parameter has been enhanced to ignore the
specification of a KEY= clause for files without
external keys when issuing a WRITE.
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Properties |
- BUTTON, CHECK_BOX,
and RADIO_BUTTONS have had a new 'Cursor property added. This allows the
user to control which cursor will be used when
the mouse is over the control while it is active.
- Handling of formats
for MULTI_LINES was improved. Now a format of the
style "00000#" (leading zeroes with a
#) will not to suppress the leading zeroes when
returning values to the program.
- The 'BackColour
property has been corrected for use in Tree
view controls. On prior releases, it did not
function properly.
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Utilities |
- The graphical editor
*IT has been enhanced with a new
UNDO/REDO feature that will
track the last 200 changes.
- The *E
text editor has been modified to provide direct
access to the language help files using of the
right mouse click.
- Added a SetDefaultPrinter(
printer$ ) method to the
*obj/winapi object class. This method allows the
user to set the default printer.
- Improved file name
wildcard processing to accept leading as well as
trailing asterisks for Windx based GET_FILE_BOX
processing.
- The Thoroughbred
conversion tools have been enhanced to
include utilities to convert the FINPUT directive
and to provide processing for the IPLINPUT and
TERIMINAL files. In addition, the TBDIO interface
now supports the EXTRACT directive.
- A PxPlus simplified
Client Server interface has been included in the
"*plus\cs" directory to provide both a
easy to use telnet like interface called tinynet
along with an alternative for standard
NtSlave/NTHost interfaces.
- Added 'cd' and 'ls'
command line utilities to provide a simple change
directory and list directory functions
respectively.
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