MBS Real Studio Plugins New in version 6.0

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25th January 2006

  • HASP plugin part works now on MachO.
  • Libs plugin part is now completely ported to MachO and Linux.
  • Rewritten PortAudio plugin. Now with Linux support and only one set of classes to make it easer. QuickTime on Classic and CarbonPEF, CoreAudio on CarbonMachO and DirectSound on Windows.
  • Dropped PluginMBS class.
  • IOWarrior is now updated and does MachO, Classic and Windows. CarbonPEF is no longer supported by the plugins. If you need more functionality please email me.
  • Fixed crash in addressbook constants.
  • Added FileListMBS.SortByModificationDate and FileListMBS.SortByCreationDate.
  • Added QTRegisterAccessKeyMBS and QTUnregisterAccessKeyMBS.
  • Added TiffPictureMBS.CombineTiffCMYKtoRGB, TiffPictureMBS.CombineTiffCMYKtoCMYK and CombineBitCMYKtoRGB.
  • Added MidiPortMBS.SetCallback and MidiPlaybackMBS.Callback to connect MidiPort with MidiPlayback directly.
  • Fixed crashes with CoreAudio plugin part on MachO.
  • Removed folderitem.IconFromTCMBS method. Use IconMBS class instead.
  • Alias and MacTT plugin parts now support console applications.
  • Added Movie.SetHintsDeinterlaceFieldsMBS and Movie.SetHintsSingleFieldMBS methods.
  • MultiStringSearch class is no longer part of the plugin collection. You can do this in REALbasic yourself easy and encoding safe.
  • Added LaunchServicesDefaultRoleHandlerForContentTypeMBS, LaunchServicesAllRoleHandlersForContentTypeMBS and LaunchServicesSetDefaultRoleHandlerForContentTypeMBS.
  • QTFileTransferMBS redone behind the interface. Now you can use it in parallel. e.g. run three downloads concurrent.
  • QTFileTransferMBS is now a class. Should work before. You still can drop this class on a window and use it as a control.
  • Added BitClearMBS and BitCountMBS functions.
  • Fixed crash in macho Cocoa plugin part.
  • Renamed DynamicPDFLibMBS/DynamicPDILibMBS to PDFLibMBS and StaticPDFLibMBS to PDFLibLiteMBS. Dropped StaticPDILibMBS.
  • Added all the new PDFLib 6 API calls. Including BeginDocumentEvents which lets you create PDFs in memory.
  • PDFLib plugins are now console safe.
  • Added static pdflib lite libraries for macho and linux targets.
  • Mac OS X part is now console safe.
  • BlendPicturesMBS will no longer do an overflow on pixel values.
  • Fixed MachO plugins to load files again (JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF and others).
  • Fixed some strange bug where JPEG files are read/written wrong.
  • StaticPDFLibMBS class links to PDFLib Lite 6.0.2. (The open source version)
  • DynamicPDFLibMBS class links on runtime to PDFLib Lite in versions 5.0.0, 5.0.2, 5.0.3, 5.1.0 or 6.0.2. You need to buy a license from pdflib to use this class.
  • StaticPDILibMBS class links to PDFLib+PDI 6.0.2. You need a license for this and I may drop this class as I think the external DLL stuff may be better for you to provide updates?
  • DynamicPDILibMBS class links on runtime to PDFLib+PDI in versions 5.0.0, 5.0.2, 5.0.3, 5.1.0 or 6.0.2. You need to buy a license from pdflib to use this class.
  • pdflib 6.0.2 integrated.

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