MBS Real Studio Plugins New in version 5.4

See also the documentation on new items.

7th December 2005

  • Process plugin ported to Mach-O. And console enabled.
  • Updated LCMS classes (e.g. CMProfileMBS) to use version 1.1.5 of this nice library.
  • Renamed IMImageMBS.Blur to BlurFactor to avoid name conflict.
  • Added Adler32StringMBS, CRC32StringMBS, CRC32MemoryMBS and Adler32MemoryMBS functions.
  • Added the last missing Tidy stuff. Now with a lot of modules defining all the constants needed.
  • Added PortMidiEventMBS.RawMessage.
  • Fixed OpenDialog class to have the label "File name" in the dialog on Windows instead of "Object name".
  • Ported Eventmonitor, MacOSX and Endian plugin parts to MachO and Linux.
  • Fixed rare CFHostMBS crashes with lookup. Also separated the plugin part from the CFNetwork part. (same fix applied for SCNetworkReachabilityMBS class)
  • Registration dialogs now include the plugin part name at the end.
  • Added some low level Ghostscript functions.
  • Fixed ICStrListMBS class to work on Mac OS X.
  • Fixed a bug in QTMovieExporter.ConvertFile methods with bad file names showed in the dialog.
  • Added MediaSetGraphicsMode and MediaGetGraphicsMode functions to QTTrackMBS.
  • Added Tidy plugin.
  • Added LoadFrameworkFile, LoadDylib, LoadFramework, LoadDLL, LoadCFMLibrary to SoftDeclareMBS class.
  • Added TiffPictureMBS.WriteBW and a better TiffPictureMBS.ReadBW.
  • folderitem.CommentMBS should now work better.
  • Reordered plugins in .rbx files.
  • Ported zlib plugin part to Mach-O and Linux.
  • Fixed DNSQuery plugin for Mach-O.
  • Added dummy constructors to the classes: AliasInfoMBS, CGBitmapContextMBS, CIFilterShapeMBS, FileListMBS, FinderLabelMBS, IconMBS, InternetConfigMBS, OTInternetInterfaceInfoMBS, QTMovieRateChangedMBS, StuffitEngineMBS, StuffitFileMBS, WindowsVolumeInformationMBS and WinLocalizationMBS. They should not be used, but I need them for my automatic plugin testing. Other constructors with parameters are for developing use.
  • Added Lasterror and FreeLibrary on the SoftDeclareMBS class.
  • UnsignedInteger64MBS class now does Stringvalue correct for the large numbers. No sign any more.
  • Fixed a bug with bad DLL names. This resulted in problems using Alias and MacTT plugin parts on Windows IDE.
  • Fixed mouse moving on Windows in the Presskey class.
  • Fixed a memory leak in AddCustomIcon function.
  • Added OpenMovieURLMBS, OpenAsMovieWithFlagsMBS and OpenAsEditableMovieWithFlagsMBS.
  • Rewrote Quoted Printable encodeing/decodeing.
  • Fixed a memory leak in the zip compression class.
  • Added Flush and FlushData methods to TiffPictureMBS class.
  • Added folderitem.OpenAsMovieWithPropertiesMBS and movie.LoadStateMBS.
  • Added OilPaint, Stegano, Wave, Swirl, Stereo, Colorize, Charcoal, Solarize and Implode methods to IMImageMBS and ConsoleIMImageMBS class.
  • Folderitems plugin redesigned. Now much smaller part.
  • Folderitems, String, Declare and Debug plugin part should now work on console applications.
  • All plugins for Mach-O are now compiled with gcc 3.3 to make them work on Mac OS X 10.3. Sad that we loose all the speed improvements on the gcc 4.0 version.
  • Register and Version plugins work on Console applications.
  • ImageMagick now works on console applications. because of some bug in RB we have two plugins. The ConsoleIM classes for all applications includeing the console applications. And the normal IM classes for GUI applications with some more functions.
  • Compiled QTGrabber, QTDataHandler, QTFileTransfer, QTMovie, Resstream, Icon, WinTrans, InternetConfig plugin part for Mach-O and Linux.
  • Added MemoryBlock.ULongEndianMBS, MemoryBlock.Int64StrEndianMBS and MemoryBlock.Int64DoubleEndianMBS.
  • Added IsWindows95MBS, IsWindowsNTMBS and IsWindowsAdminUserMBS.
  • Mach-O Plugins now compiled for Mac OS X 10.2 or newer.
  • Note: CommentMBS does not work on bundles currently. Reason unknown.
  • Added MacPictMBS.ClosePicture to close the current drawing.
  • Added MacPictMBS.DrawpictureIntoGWorld. Is a better way for Windows, but also works on Mac.
  • Removed MacPICTMBS.width and .height properties.
  • Fixed popupmenu menu access so it now works much better.
  • MBS REALbasic QT Plugin: All parts available for all platforms. (in v5.3)
  • MBS REALbasic Win Plugin: All parts available for all platforms. (in v5.3)
  • folderitem.Icon functions now ask OS for small icons on Windows for small icon sizes instead of scaleing large icons too much.

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