MBS Real Studio Plugins New in version 2.5

See also the documentation on new items.

16. Juni 2002

  • Added Folderitem.Volumeinformation and VolumeInformation class.
  • Removed SIOUX stuff from plugins to make them smaller. (from 4.6 MB to 4.1 MB :-)
  • Added ResolveAlias and Folderitem.AsAlias.
  • Added Window.IsIconic, Window.IsZoomed, Window.HasMaximizeBox and Window.HasMinimizeBox for windows on Windows.
  • Added PhysicalFileDataLength, LogicalFileDataLength, PhysicalFileResLength, LogicalFileResLength, PhysicalFileTotalLength and LogicalFileTotalLength functions to folderitem class.
  • Added Networkavailable function.
  • Added QuickTimePoll and Movie.Poll for better movie performance.
  • Added Screenshot functions.
  • Added Folderitem.AFPusername for Mac OS Classic
  • Added Windows Support for LargeBinaryStream.
  • Added RamStream and ResStream class, extended LargeBinaryStream Class.
  • Added MouseMove in the presskey class for Classic. (Carbon worked allready).
  • Added classes for Apple File Sharing Client: AFPURL and AFPVolumes
  • Added lot's of Endian Functions. Also Endian methods for the memoryblock class.
  • Added HTMLViewer Control with pagerequest class.
  • Renamed Window.Flush to Window.UpdateNow to match RB 4.5 names. The function is not available from the plugin on RB 4.5 so you'll use the RB function and not the one from the plugin.
  • Fixed bug in Resolution plugin which gave ResolutionCount=0 for all displays.
  • Added LibraryFolder, ColorSyncFolder, ColorSyncCMMFolder, ColorSyncScriptingFolder, PrintersFolder, SpeechFolder, CarbonLibraryFolder, DocumentationFolder, DeveloperDocsFolder, DeveloperHelpFolder, CachedDataFolder, FrameworksFolder, ClassicDesktopFolder, DeveloperFolder, SystemSoundsFolder, ComponentsFolder, QuickTimeComponentsFolder, CoreServicesFolder, KernelExtensionsFolder, InstallerReceiptsFolder, FindByContentPluginsFolder and UsersFolder.
  • Added Presskey.MouseClick.
  • Added Window.InWindowMenu and Menubar.CreateStandardWindowMenu.
  • Gamma Fading now works on Windows.
  • Added CosH, SinH, TanH, ACosH, ASinH, ATanH, IsFinite and IsNAN.
  • Added folderitem.comment and folderitem.colorcode.
  • Added StandardAlert Class
  • Added Menu and Menubar Class
  • Added RegistryFileType Class
  • Added Window.Smoothresize
  • Added Delay.
  • Added ShowCursor, HideCursor and ObscureCursor.
  • Added FlashMenuBar.
  • Added EncodeBase64 and DecodeBase64.
  • Added App.TotalMemory, App.Freememory and App.LaunchTime.
  • Added NewMemoryBlockFromPtr
  • Added picture.makeHBITMAP
  • Added picture.DataHandle and picture.DataType
  • Added folderitem.OpenAsPNG
  • Added folderitem.OpenAsTiff (works partly only)
  • Added app.BundleFolder, app.BundleResourceFolder, app.BundleResourceFolderItem, app.RegisterHelpBook and app.IsBundle.
  • Added SetVolume and GetVolume.
  • Added Folderitem.Permissions.
  • Improved stability on Mac OS 8.6
  • Added Window.modified, Windows.HasCloseBox, Window.HasHorizontalZoomButton, Window.HasVerticalZoomButton, Window.HasCollapseBox, Window.IsResizeable, Window.HasNoShadow, Window.HasToolbarButton, Window.HasSideTitlebar, Window.CanLiveResize.
  • Added HideAllFloatingWindows, ShowAllFloatingWindows and AreFloatingWindowsVisible.
  • Added Window.RemoveWindowProxyIcon, Window.WindowProxyIconFile and Window.SetWindowProxyIcon.
  • Added classes for platform independend color matching: CMProfile, CMBitmap, CMTransform and many utility functions.
  • Improved speed on picture.invert for Windows.
  • Added QTFileTransfer control.
  • Fixed some memory leaks on Win32 functions with folderitems.

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