Release notes for MBS Xojo Plugins 24.2 - 14th May 2024

See also the documentation on new items and Announcement in Blog.

• Added classes for printing on iOS: UIPrintPaperMBS, UIPrintInteractionControllerMBS, UIPrintInfoMBS, UIPrinterPickerControllerMBS and UIPrinterMBS.
• Added Merge function to JSONMBS class.
• Added XLConditionalFormattingMBS and XLConditionalFormatMBS classes.
• Added AddArrayMBS methods to SortMBS module.
• Added AddMBS, CopyMBS, EqualsMBS, SortMBS and SumMBS extends methods to arrays.
• Added AllowRotation parameter for QLPreviewControllerMBS class constructor to allow more rotation than the parent view.
• Added Close method to WindowsDeviceInformationPairingMBS class to explicitly close it.
• Added Current property to NWPathMonitorMBS class.
• Added deprecation marks to CURLNMBS and related classes.
• Added Flatten method to GMImageMBS class to remove alpha channel from image.
• Added handling of MiterLimit property for using graphics class in DynaPDF.
• Added isFlipped event to NSViewControlMBS class to control flipping.
• Added keepAllSheets parameter for LoadPartially methods in XLBookMBS class.
• Added LogScaleFactor property to WindowsDisplayMBS class.
• Added LogX, LogHeight, LogWidth and LogY properties to WindowsDisplayMBS class.
• Added MFMailComposeViewControllerMBS class to let user write an email message.
• Added MFMessageComposeViewControllerMBS class to let user write a text message.
• Added more methods and properties for MongoDB to our MongoDatabaseMBS, MongoClientMBS and MongoURIMBS class.
• Added more methods and properties to NSPathControlMBS class.
• Added NextPage(width, height) support for graphics class in DynaPDF.
• Added NSPathControlItemMBS class.
• Added Operator_Compare method to XLFontMBS and XLFormatMBS classes.
• Added PictureTypeSVG constant for XLBookMBS class.
• Added popover show/close events to PHPickerViewControllerMBS class for macOS.
• Added QLThumbnailGenerationRequestMBS, QLThumbnailGeneratorMBS and QLThumbnailRepresentationMBS classes.
• Added respondsToSelector to CanvasGesturesMBS class, so the system can query which events you implemented.
• Added touchesMatchingPhase, coalescedTouchesForTouch and predictedTouchesForTouch methods to NSEventMBS class.
• Added view appears/disappears events to PHPickerViewControllerMBS class for iOS and macOS.
• Added XWindowID property to GTKWindowMBS class.
• Build CURLSMBS class with openssl, SecureChannel for Windows and SecureTransport for macOS, so you can decide which one to use.
• Built curl with our Apple IDN implementation for CURL. see commit.
• Changed PageGraphics on DynaPDFMBS class to only set coordinate system to top-down when you query PageGraphics or when NextPage is called.
• Changed plugin download to have local html documentation be a separate download.
• Fixed a bug with SetLineDashPattern event in DynaPDFParseInterfaceMBS class, where the dash array was nil instead of providing the values.
• Fixed a couple of incorrect flags set for various properties and methods.
• Fixed a possible buffer overrun in WindowsPlayerMBS class.
• Fixed a problem with LoadLibrary failing on Windows for ScintillaControlMBS control.
• Fixed a problem with translate method in Graphics class when used with DynaPDF.
• Fixed an issue with copy constructor in WindowsDeviceInformationPairingMBS class not retaining the device object.
• Fixed issue with text incorrectly placed with DynaPDFMBS class using graphics object when using rotation.
• Fixed possible crash in WebView2ControlMBS control in initialization code (broken in 24.1).
• Fixed problem passing limit and offset in GetRecords functions in FMDataMBS class.
• Improved effectiveAppearance and appearance methods in NSAppearanceMBS class to allow passing NSMenuMBS, NSMenuItemMBS, MenuItem or DesktopMenuItem objects.
• Improved error reporting for LoadLibrary method on Windows for ScintillaControlMBS control.
• Improved PhidgetMBS classes to prevent crashes with disconnected devices.
• Improved progress reporting for CURLSMBS class.
• Improved ReplaceTag and Substitute functions in WordFileMBS class to remove control characters from replacement text to avoid creating broken word files.
• Improved thread safety for DynaPDFMBS class with graphics class.
• Improved thread safety for JSContextMBS class.
• Improved thread safety for SQLConnectionMBS class.
• Improved ToHTML method in JSONMBS class to use CSS for right alignment.
• Improved WebView2ControlMBS to pick temp folder for user data folder if you don't set userDataFolder property.
• Improved WindowsDisplayMBS class to better query per screen DPI values.
• Improved writeToString method in XMLSerializerMBS class to return string marked UTF-8 instead of UTF-16.
• Improved XLFontMBS and XLFormatMBS handling for our XL Plugin to cache the objects and reuse them.
• Removed a few deprecated methods in CWInterfaceMBS class, which Apple removed and so they stopped working years ago.
• Updated CURL to version 8.7.1.
• Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.87.250.
• Updated LibXL to version 4.3.0.
• Updated SQLAPI to version 5.3.1.
• Updated SQLite to version 3.45.3.
• Updated to Xcode 15.3.
• Upgraded properties in NSPathComponentCellMBS class to be debugger visible.

New in version 24.1   New in version 24.3

Release notes of all versions: Release notes and Announcement in Blog.