MBS Real Studio Plugins New in version 5.2

18th May 2005

• Fixed folderitem.CommentMBS. Now about 100 times faster.
• Removed the EatMouseEvents property from the OverlayWindow class. All overlay windows are now created to ignore clicks unless you activate it again.
• Updated PhysicalMemoryMBS function to report more than 4 GB correct on a Mac.
• Added DarwinTaskInfoMBS class.
• Fixed the Addressbook Picker.
• Added WebBackForwardListMBS, WebHistoryMBS and WebHistoryItemMBS classes.
• Updated DiscRecording stuff to Mac OS X 10.4. Please email me if you miss something.
• Fixed Webkit resize problems with new LiveResize properties.
• Renamed Rendezvous stuff to Bonjour on request by Apple.
• Added QTMovieExporterMBS.EnableHighResolutionAudio for audio above 44100 Hz on QuickTime 7 on Mac OS X. Windows may follow as soon as I get QT 7 for Windows.
• Added QTTrackMBS.TrackClipMask.
• Added WebWindowMBS.IgnoreClicks, WebWindowMBS.HideOnSuspend, WebWindowMBS.HideOnFullScreen and WebWindowMBS.LiveResize.
• Fixed ATSFontFindFromNameMBS and ATSFontFindFromPostScruiptNameMBS.
• Extended the CFObject casting to CFDate, CFTimeZone and CFBundle.
• The function in the plugin to convert a PicHandle to a Realbasic picture on QuickTime had a leak on Windows which should now be fixed.
• Fixed a bug in SetTextPointerLocation in the ATSLayout class.
• Now there is a TrackClipMask property in the QTTrack class.
• Added CoreImage classes and examples.
• Now all CFObjects you get can be casted directly. Supported for CFURL, CFDictionary, CFString, CFNumber, CFCharacterSet, CFBag, CFArray, CFBoolean, CFBinaryData and CFSet.
• Removed several NewCF...MBSHandle() functions as they can be done in Realbasic easily. See FAQ.
• Added WebKitMBS.DrawsBackground property.
• Added example to show on how to use IOPMSchedulePowerEvent on Mac OS X.
• Added IMMissingFunctionExceptionMBS class. This exception is raised whenever you call a function not being present in the loaded IM library. e.g. when you have not loaded the library.
• DelayMBS has now a better time resolution.
• Several bigger changes on the DiscRecording stuff. Now Audio CDs burn better. Some functions/classes removed and other added. Check the example project as some plugin classes are now implemented in Realbasic code.
• Note: ImageMagick plugin leaks in ImageToBlob.
• Note: Some Image Magick functions still leak memory or address space. Feedback to identify this leaks is welcome.
• Fixed some bugs in the Addressbook stuff.
• Added functions to the TiffPictureMBS class for reading/writing tiff images to memory. You can use this to make your own TiffStringToPicture function and your own PictureToTiffString function.
• Fixed special folder functions on Windows to work with umlauts.
• Added CFHostMBS class.
• Fixed a few things on CFSocketMBS class.
• Improved redraws in Webkit display. And the mouse cursor is now handled better.
• Added some events to Navigation Dialogs and now you can use sheets.
• Fixed a bug which made problems with RB6.
• Added PortMidi classes.
• Fixed a few bugs in ImageMagick classes and added new methods. Still there is a dependency on some libraries from the new bundle so it will not work if this libraries are not installed.

New in version 5.1   New in version 5.3

More details in the Release notes.