Version 11.00 PxPlus/PxBasic

The following is a list of major enhancements and new features that have been included in this release.
(click here to view information on the prior Version 10.20 FP2)

• Added support to extract and generate JSON data using the DIM LOAD directive
• Improved SSL interface to better support PCI Compliance through the use of protocol and cipher restrictions in the INI
• New Event handling interface added to the language
• A reconnect feature was added to the Simple Client Server interface
• Crash tracking/reporting for Windows that records internal information onto a log file, should a GPF or other windows failure occur
• Modified PDF driver to allow for margin of zero and increased maximum font size
• Added the ability to disable Trace window entries for system library programs
• Added support for Embedded IO program to direct file access by File name
• Enhanced the SSL interface to allow non-Secure connections to switch to Secure mode using the SETDEV (n) SET "SECURE" TO "<certfile>"
• Added new -CPL and -LST command options to access program compiler/lister
• Added support to open and output to *STDERR*
• Provided the ability to have multiple RESOURCELIB entries (semi-colon separated)
  
• Graphical Controls:

  -	Enhanced the GRID and LISTVIEW controls to have a 'LockBottom property to define the number of rows at the bottom that should be excluded from Sorting
  -	GRID has been enhanced to skip zero height lines when scrolling up/down
  -	Improved GRID display by removing excess header 'gray' region
  -	A new drawing tool BUTTON type has been added to the system (OPT="#")
  -	Images on BUTTONS are now scaled to fit the button size
  -	Improved rendering of Transparent buttons to minimize flicker

• Added SETDEV (fileno) SET "option" TO "value" to simplify the setting of channel options
• To free a record currently locked you can use the new EXTRACT RELEASE (n) directive
• A FLUSH (fileno) directive has been added to flush all internal buffers for a file and, depending on the OS, to force data to be written to disk
• The following four (4) SETTRACE directive options were added with Version 11:

  -	SETTRACE DISABLE in an object definition to prevent tracing
  -	SETTRACE SHOW enables and shows the trace window
  -	SETTRACE HIDE minimizes the trace window
  -	SETTRACE CLEAR clears the trace window contents.

• A new DIM(LIST ..) function has been added to generate JSON from an associative array
• The HSH( ) function has a new hash type of -1 which returns the SHA-1 value for the string
• The number of active Error History events will be returned using the TCB(130) function
• The TSK( ) function has been enhanced to provide a list of active Event handlers

• Added new Option mnemonic keywords to control the colour of frames and standard alternating background colours:
  

  For Frames
  -	'OPTION'("FrameDarkClr", colour$ )	Defines the dark lower-right borders of frame
  -	'OPTION'("FrameLiteClr", colour$ )	Defines the light upper-left borders of frame
  -	'OPTION'("FrameTextClr", colour$ )	Defines the colour of the frame header text
  For LISTVIEW, LIST_BOX and GRIDs
  -	'OPTION'("StdRowHilight1", colour$ )	Defines the primary alternating background colour
  -	'OPTION'("StdRowHilight2", colour$ )	Defines the secondary alternating background colour
  NOTE: All the above are also available to read using the FIN function

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• Auto Chart functionality added to system for GRIDS and LIST_BOXS via the Popup_menu
• Created a new %NOMADS object to hold new Nomads based parameters and settings
• Added SVN commit button to toolbar to commit panels after saving
• Provided new 'Sizer Control' and Rocker Button' attributes to button definition
• Enhanced the Folder control to allow for the inclusion of images and the specification of text alignment
• Added a new Query+ query processor to the system to provide more consistent query displays
• Synchro-Lock support was added as an attribute to Nomads panels
• Image definition was expanded to include support for Gray scale conversion
• Added support for CTRL-SHIFT-RCLICK to bring up panel/program editor popup menu
• BackHiLight1, BackHiLight2 were added to GRID preset properties
• Added Events to Nomads for panel load/unload and sign on/off
• Improved Calendar look and feel including ability to double click a date to select it
• Added support for substring and expressions definition in Query filter definitions
• Implemented Embedded panel control on File Maintenance Layout tab
• Multi-line controls were enhanced to provide for transparent backgrounds

• iNomads has been enhanced to handle most non-Nomads applications
• Added *plus/inomads/geolocate routine to provide location services to applications
• Enabled bar code scanning for Android devices with *plus/inomads/scanner
• Improved support for *win/color to return colors when using iNomads
• Added Events to iNomads for panel load/unload and sign on/off
• Enhanced logic for touch screen to emulate right mouse click and function keys
• Added support for image rotation, grayscale, invert and crop

• Supplied a new "REGISTER" command line utility to initiate online registration of software
• Added a new "ERRORS" command line utility to display error history
• The EZWEB server was modified to copy/initialize the iNomads base line configuration if needed
• Added two new methods (Added loadImageFile(f$) and saveImageFile(f$)) to the eSignature interface
• Simple Client server host program was enhanced to add a new ";Shutdown" entry point to shut down the host process
• Added support for INLINE option to the PDF based viewer utility
• Progress bar utility (*PROGBAR) was upgraded to allow inclusion of an image

• Resolve memory allocation problem with UTF8 data conversion and CVS function
• Improved the speed of the MOD function when dealing with large integers
• Corrected problem with OnTipCtl processing not firing consistently
• Fixed problem with DELETE key on Auto Complete data with prefixes
• Corrected memory allocation problem when defined ADO files with > 16 keys
• Removed DEP protection flag from EXE to resolve problem with external COM modules
• Resolved a problem with the GRID FIND directive not properly handling translation tables
• Added a new Error #119 - Demo license when hitting the 5000 record limit
• Resolved problem with compiling/listing IF statements when using ++n or --n
• Fixed an issue with eSignature so that 'value$ will properly return null if no strokes made or image loaded
• Added ERR= clause to DIM(Find...) function to avoid error 11 when there's no data in ConvertData utility
• Fixed error 11 that occurred when all fields were blank in GUI View file (ufv.w) utility
• Fixed bad recovery from load error when passworded program load cancelled in *IT editor
• Added test for '+v' to top of pathinfo program in version control system.
• Added ERR= clause to Version Control system logic to prevent error 26 in pathinfo program
• Corrected Windx.utl spawn logic to properly exit if not running WindX
• Fixed security logic in GET_FILE_BOX emulator
• Corrected logic to allow for passing key number to use and key size to *NEXTSEQ
• Fixed issue involving opening a report using RW with simple path and prefix in effect
• Added -bkg to resolve an issue with the application server incorrectly counting user licenses
• Fixed Version Control issue where changing the menubar on a panel caused a panel with the work key to be added to the source directory
• Corrected omission of logic to copy report files to source directory for the Version Control system
• Fixed text mode Web configuration utility to work on normal text mode devices (not just WINDX)
• Added timeout when trying to get doc info after navigating to HTML file to avoid hung processes
• Views library default font setting did not have the ampersand set for underline
• Fixed issue where calculated field grid got locked if library fields were selected in the report designer
• Corrected problem with cd command working from drive root
• Added error handling and reporting in case data file used for autocomplete is not accessible
• Addressed a potential error 47 when parsing and auto-complete data file key
• Fixed html header info to append request to load rGraph rather than replace all headers
• Disabled update button for files with no field separator as update is not supported in the GUI file update utility
• Addressed error 10 that occurred after updating the file password in the data file passwording utility
• Change to make MSGBOX consistent with new Windows interfaces in handling of TIM=
• Correction for Content Length and CGI interface on IIS/APACHE
• Corrected logic to support non-PxPlus based FIB formats in *NEXTSEQ
• Fixed data file conversion utility to detect external key in text-to-binary conversion
• Fixed issue updating a new directory after refusing to update to new architecture with Version Control system
• Resolved problem when putting double quotes in chart titles
• Fixed issue where setting 'Initially Disabled' for a non-native chart could cause an infinite loop
• Added logic to display type of EFF file in directory view utility (*UDV)
• Fixed issue with spaces in pathnames when generating batch and SQLite command files with Version Control system
• iNomads

  -	Fixed problem with TXID being too big on command line
  -	Increased width and height size for template definition
  -	Added _STS_TBL$ and _GRP_NAME$ emulation for compatibility with Nomads
  -	Added missing attributes for Grid
  -	Added support for RADIO_BUTTON REMOVE directive
  -	Fixed handling of security in iNomads fields
  -	Fixed Trigger logic within iNomads when handling concurrent panels
  -	Fixed folder preserve logic to properly preserve control values
  -	Corrected EOM processing to match Nomads
  -	Added logic to preserve ERR state around commands
  -	Resolved problem with user CTLS not working correctly when using Folders
  -	Fixed GRID right alignment to replace spaces on right with &NBSP
  -	Added Colour query for HTML and linked into template designer
  -	Fixed time out logic on disconnect
  -	Corrected handling of format mask of 00#
  -	Fixed problem with Exit URL not properly transferring on some browsers
  -	Improved handling of bitmaps of folder tabs to properly handle font alignment.
  -	Fixed UTF8 conversion logic for Ajax input
  -	Fixed problem with resizing concurrent windows (corrected z index for size image)
  -	Corrections for properly rendering the & and other HTML escape characters.
  -	Addressed issue where Google Ccharts were not displayed in the IE9 browser
  -	Added support for OnLoadCtl for List Boxes and the GRID

• Nomads

  -	Added 'visible property to extended controls in Nomads
  -	Fixed issue with Nomads Designer where the screen library channel was closed when testing a panel that accessed a concurrent window in a different library.
  -	Query - Save and reinstitute column sort when hiding/showing columns
  -	Corrected Winproc error display to make it easier to track down problems
  -	Fixed an error 14 that occurs when pressing the SQL Keydef button when no providex.kdf exists
  -	Fixed typo in the File Maintenance generator that resulted in an incorrect calculation of the window height
  -	Changed reference to column 3 from field to MID() formula to avoid error 47 on missing dates in DDF Query/Dictionary maintenance
  -	Added logic in *winpnl to assure location of panel (column, line) are integers which could cause errors during redisplay of panel
  -	Added new functions *wingrp (and *obj/nomads) to get information about group definitions which differ between iNomads and Nomads
  -	Resolved problem in file maintenance that occurred when clearing numeric keys
  -	Addressed issue where incorrect directory and prefix could be displayed when an error occurred opening a NOMADS panel

• Added HTTP_EXTRAHEADERS$ and allowed for raw data to be sent using *plus/apache/pxp_cgi
• Fixed Linux/Unix command line for spawning tasks from Simple CS
• Fix for Program Load menu option from command line (invalid strip of current directory)
• Fixed issue where suppressing a menu item in a subordinate level caused other items/groups following it in that level to be suppressed as well.
• Added logic to display a message when a unique key is not available to CVS Import utility
• Changed Nomads default for Query to standard Query for base licence (Query+ for the rest)
• Fixed possible infinite loop when unexpected error wrapped up query
• Exclude external db's from using load-on-demand logic
• Addressed issue where return value of a manual query caused a syntax error in *winlist
• Corrected problem with *IT and workspaces which could cause an error 55
• Addressed issue that prevented column width set to 0 when column width in format definition was defined as an expression in Nomads
• Corrected Profile export/import functions that were using wrong screen library
• Addressed issue with duplicate hotkeys for '&Save column settings' and '&Show chart' by changing to 'Sho&W chart'

• Corrected memory addressing problem that would occur when accessing a *MEMORY* file
• Updated internal version numbers to indicate version 11 on system utilities
• Adjusted Query popup menu hotkey
• Fixed an issue where query buttons on numeric multi-lines were drawn as resizing buttons
• Resolved a problem where the default program was set incorrectly after resizing when a folder panel included an embedded panel
• Adjusted the font size for prompts and column titles in the standard query
• Fixed the value being passed to file maintenance in Query+
• Added support for the '!K' key parameter to *MEMORY* files
• Resolved problem caused by mixing direct list box loading and load-on-demand
• Added functionality to breakpoint logic to control the scope of expression evaluation
• Corrected problem in *web/merge with ?XA option
• Resolved problem with WindX auto-download error status code
• Updated Package list for add-on products used by activation system
• Resolved problem with font support in iNomads for input fields
• Corrected problem with eSignature and WayFarer activations
• Removed 255 byte field length limit from *WINLIST

• Addressed issue of small record size on old panel libraries by increasing the record size to 4000 on libraries with smaller record size
• Sped up the display of Query+ queries with no filters or selection criteria by hiding the list box during initialization
• Corrected problem in DUMP directive which caused system failure when dumping templated variables in prior stack levels
• Fixed issue with numeric fields being set as string fields in CSV import utility
• Added error message display to eSignature capture routines if using IE browser version < 9
• Modified return value for ENV(-1) and the About PxPlus display to include WayFarer bundle detection