MBS Real Studio Plugins New in version 4.2

26 August 2004

• DNSNameToAddressMBS and DNSAddressToNameMBS work on Mac OS Classic, Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.
• PNG Library is now version 1.2.6.
• Added new Rendezvous classes.
• Added DNSAddressToNameMBS and DNSNameToAddressMBS for Mac+Windows.
• Added CPMPrintSessionMBS.GetDocumentFormats and CPMPrintSessionMBS.SetDocumentFormat. (needed for CPMPrintSessionMBS.PostScriptBegin to work)
• Added CPMPrintSettingsMBS.SetColorsyncProfileString, CPMPrintSettingsMBS.SetColorsyncProfileFile and CPMPrintSettingsMBS.Data.
• Added CPMPrinterMBS.DescriptionURL.
• Added CoreAudioMBS.AudioUnitSetParameter and CoreAudioMBS.AudioUnitGetParameter.
• Added DNSQueryMBS.RetryTimeout and DNSQueryMBS.RetryCount.
• Added movie.SetActiveSegmentFramesMBS, movie.SetActiveSegmentMBS, movie.GetActiveSegmentFramesMBS and movie.GetActiveSegmentMBS.
• Added QTMovieRateChangedMBS class.
• There was a limit of 50 children in the IORegistry class which is now gone.
• Added SoundRawDataMBS(starttime as double, length as double) as memoryblock.
• The WebKit Control is now supporting being on a tabpanel. If you need this for my other controls, please cry for it.
• Added CFTreeMBS class and removed CFXMLTreeMBS class. The XML methods are in the CFTree class, but please don't call them unless it's a XMLTree!
• ColorPanel works now without the bundle.
• Started replacing functions from the Statusitem.bundle with functions directly inside the plugin.
• Fixed CFXMLTree methods. New parameters: CreateFromData(data as CFBinaryDataMBS, url as CFURLMBS, ParseOptions as integer) and CreateWithDataFromURL(URL as CFURLMBS, ParseOptions as integer).
• Added OpenMovieHandleMBS.
• Added folderitem.OpenAsMovieMBS.
• Added QTGrabberMBS.SoundRecordChunkSize. Unit is seconds.
• Spellchecker works now without the bundle.
• Added some QTSampleDescriptionMBS classes.
• Added IsInfMBS function.
• Fixed CurrentCFAbsoluteTimeMBS.
• Added ProcessMBS.Bundle.
• Webkit and Statusitem are now Mach-O compatible.
• In the class help, the global methods returning objects of this class are listed so you find this methods easier.
• Added some more CoreGraphics classes.
• Added SystemConfiguration classes.
• Added WindowGroupMBS class.
• The Last... properties in the WakeNotifier class are now doubles. The value is the same as in date.totalseconds.
• Added "QTTrackMBS.File(index as integer) as folderitem" and "QTTrackMBS.FileCount as integer" to get the file referenced.
• Added CGSessionMBS class.
• Statusitem image methods will now accept nil to remove the image.
• Fixed a memory leak in the Windows part of the QuickTime Graphics Exporter class.
• Added KillProcess for Windows.
• On Mac OS Classic the Large Binary Stream class regulary failed to detect whether the old or the new APIs are to use. The updated plugin now uses the new APIs and falls back on the old ones if an error is returned.
• EncodingToURLMBS will now encode "/" to "%2F".
• SpellCheck.bundle should not crash if you call functions on Mac OS X 10.2 which are only available on Mac OS X 10.3. e.g. CountWordsInString returns -1 in case the function is not available.
• Fixed big bugs in the SHA1 implementation!
• Fixed the SHA1 class to return correct results and the same on Mac and Windows.
• Fixed some WebKit bugs and added a new class WebURLRequest.
• Fixed a few bugs in the DragItem class and added AddFlavorFileReference method.
• Added OpenDialog class (for multiple selection).
• The Mouseclick event from the Webkit class returns now a boolean to tell whether you handles the click or not.
• Added WebViewMBS.RenderPDF and WebViewMBS.RenderEPS.
• Added QTPictureMovieTrackMBS.depth (Default 32).
• Navigation Dialogs for Mac OS Classic. Added Show Methods for the different dialogs. The ShowDialog and the Create... functions may go away soon.
• Added Navigation Dialog StartLocation property. Works on Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X.
• Note: Navigation Dialog Sheets crash here!? Is it the plugin, RB or the OS?
• ImageCaptureObjectMBS.GetImageThumbnail now returns a picture object instead of a string.
• Added Windows support for folderitem.CountMBS.
• Webkit doesn't complain on Mac OS 9 about missing composite window.
• LittleCMS 1.1.3 powers now the ColorMatching classes.
• Ported a few plugins to Linux: memory, registration, numbers, lookup and jpeg rotation.
• Added SignedInteger64MBS and UnsignedInteger64MBS class.
• Fixed crash in ATSUStyleMBS.Copy.
• Renamed ATSUStyleMBS.Color to ATSUStyleMBS.TextColor.

New in version 4.1   New in version 4.3

More details in the Release notes.