MBS Real Studio Plugins New in version 2.6

See also the documentation on new items.

6. September 2002

  • Added WindowsSystemTray class.
  • Added KeyChain classes.
  • Added HexString function.
  • Added constructors to Icon Class to remove use of GetFileIcon which has a conflict with another plugin.
  • Added WakeNotifier class
  • Added PacketSocket class
  • Added Addressbook classes (for Mac OS X 10.2).
  • All things should now have a valid encoding.
  • RB 4.5.1fc2 fixed a big picture bug on Windows. I verified that the following plugin functions should work correctly with Windows and RB 4.5.1fc2: PictureToJPEGString, JPEGStringToPicture, folderitem.OpenAsJPEG, picture.rotation, picture.mirror, folderitem.saveasjpeg, picturetoString, stringtoPicture, Screenshot.
  • Added Icon class.
  • Added Finderlabel class.
  • Added URLAccess classes.
  • Added SoftDeclare class. (e.g. call MachO Framework functions)
  • Renamed folderitem.ColorCode to folderitem.FinderLabel.
  • Added several fonts classes to list all font families.
  • Added functions to active and deactivate fonts.
  • Added functions to change the application dock tile image.
  • Improved SaveAsJpeg, PictureToJPEG and PictureToString for RB 4.5 and Windows.
  • Improved system.username to really work on every Mac.
  • Shortpath and Longpath now work on Windows NT 4.
  • Added a WindowsShortCut class.
  • Fixed a bug in Largebinarystream on Mac OS Classic.
  • Added Rotation and Mirror to picture class.
  • Added Scroll to graphics class.
  • Added some more special folders included create functions. (now over 120 folders)
  • Redesigned catsearch object (faster, smaller, easier to handle).
  • Added IORegistry classes.
  • Added CoreFoundation classes and functions (around 200 items)
  • Removed debug tables from PPC Plugins and saved 200 KB.
  • Process.Visible doesn't crash any more if you don't have CarbonLib 1.5 installed.
  • Add themes pages to the help.
  • Added DDE classes.
  • Added DarwinVMStatistics class.
  • Added WindowsVMStatistics class.
  • Added new Colorsync Stuff.
  • Renamed QTFileTransfer control to MBSQTFileTransfer to avoid conflicts with other plugins.
  • Renamed HTMLViewer control to MBSHTMLViewer to avoid conflicts with other plugins.
  • Added PictureToBinaryString and BinaryStringToPicture to store pictures uncompressed into a string.
  • Added palette class and help functions.
  • Removed ScreenshotEnabled, because the RB IDE is not handling it good. Also it was Classic only and didn't work with third party software.
  • Fixed bug in app.applicationfile.
  • Fixed bug in folderitem.colorcode.
  • Fixed bug in Registry -> DeleteKeyValue.
  • Added MacSCSIFindDevice class.
  • Added GetStringEncoding and SetStringEncoding methods.
  • Added Window.hasborder.
  • Fixed Nameregistry class to work on Classic inside a Carbon application.
  • Added GetDoubleClickInterval function.
  • Added new G4 chips to system.cpuname.
  • Added Mac OS X support for system.MACAddress (Ethernet Hardware Address).
  • Added Window.WinMenuHandle.

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