MBS Real Studio Plugins New in version 4.3

See also the documentation on new items.

23 December 2004

  • Changed MacCountryCodeMBS to work better. Returns now e.g. "de_DE" (Germany) or "fr" (French outside France). The returned string should now be non "" on more systems, but may return more precised values.
  • Fixed a bug in the Rotate function.
  • Added Java classes for Mac OS X (no GUI!).
  • Added Windows support for FontActivateMBS and FontDeactivateMBS.
  • Improved Rockey class to handle the 2.x driver.
  • Improved performance on Window.SetWindowMask.
  • Added QTPictureMovieTrackMBS.TimeScale. If you want a track without the default 600 timescale units, then set this property before creating the track.
  • The Alias plugin part now marks all strings returned as Binary. (unknown encoding as it's binary data)
  • Improved EncodingToURL and DecodingFromURL. Faster and more encoding safe.
  • Fixed Collection class extension to work again if the collection is empty.
  • Fixed CFMutableArray.AppendArray to copy the correct number of items.
  • LCMS lib does not longer quit the application on a fatal error.
  • Added FolderChangedNotificationMBS.SubscribeByPath and FolderChangedNotificationMBS.Subscribe with flags parameter.
  • Changed CocoaMenuItemMBS.Tag to be a variant.
  • Added PNGpictureMBS.PNGLibVersion.
  • Added Graphics.HandleMBS.
  • Added methods to CGContextMBS class: TextMatrix, SetStrokeColorSpace, SetFillColorSpace, GetTextPosition, GetCTM and ConcatCTM.
  • Added CGColorMBS class.
  • Added IconFamilyMBS.Register function.
  • Added CGPSConverterMBS and CGDataConsumerMBS class.
  • Fixed a bug in movie.SoundRawDataMBS.
  • New Midi Example projects which work for sending and receiving.
  • Changed some names to support REALbasic 6 changes like e.g. MidiObjectMBS.ObjectProperty istead of MidiObjectMBS.Property.
  • Gif reading works on Mac OS X, Windows XP and Linux (Redhat) today.
  • Added some functions for TimeCode and ChapterText in the QuickTime classes.
  • Renamed Connect method in WinDDE class to ConnectToServer.
  • JPEG RGB reading and writing works on Linux. This may have side effects on other picture plugins! (Tiff, JPEG, GIF and LCMS seem to work)
  • Rewritten CoreAudioPlayerMBS class.
  • Moved picture.BlendMBS -> BlendPicturesMBS.
  • Moved picture.TintPictureMBS -> TintPictureMBS.
  • Moved picture.CombinePicturesMBS -> CombinePicturesMBS.

New in version 4.2   New in version 5.0

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