MBS Real Studio Plugins New in version 6.5

19th December 2006

• Note: QTSoundOutputMBS class requires that single values are in big endian format.
• LCMS 1.16 final included.
• Added some more properties and functions to the CMProfileMBS class.
• Updated example code to CoreAudioPlayerMBS included with the help files. Thanks to Robert Woodhead for the bug fixing.
• Removed CMCreateLinearizationDeviceLinkCMYKMBS and CMCreateLinearizationDeviceLinkGrayMBS.
• Added CocoaStatusitemMBS.CreateMenuRight which tries to get the statusitem as far as possible to the right side of the menubar.
• Added CocoaStatusitemMBS.sendActionOn
• Added CocoaStatusitemMBS.DoubleAction which fires if two actions happen very fast: a DoubleClick.
• Reworked CocoaStatusitemMBS event handlers.
• Changed CMCreateTransformMBS so now Intent defaults to 0 and flags defaults to cmsFLAGS_NOTPRECALC.
• Replaced CMCreateLinearizationDeviceLinkGrayMBS, CMCreateLinearizationDeviceLinkRGBMBS and CMCreateLinearizationDeviceLinkCMYKMBS with CMCreateLinearizationDeviceLinkMBS and optional parameters.
• Most stuff in LCMS is now marked as being console safe. Picture functions of course not.
• Removed one of the PostScriptCRD function in CMProfileMBS. The other has now flags optional.
• Updated LCMS to 1.16 final candidate.
• Added RBZ Library version 1.0 project.
• Added CMCreateLinearizationDeviceLinkGrayMBS function.
• Robert Woodhead fixed a few bugs in the TimeCodeTest project so it now works better for 29.97 fps.
• Added WindowTransitionStarted and WindowTransitionCompleted events to CarbonWindowsEventsMBS class.
• The MIDISysexSendRequestMBS class is now thread safe and should no longer crash your application.
• Added some more LCMS functions and changed a few lcms function names to have MBS inside.
• Fixed a bug in CocoaMenuItemMBS class to initialize when being used for other things like Webkit context menu.
• Added PictureReaderMBS class.
• Added PictureEditorMBS class.
• Added PictureWriterMBS class.
• Window.CGContextMBS now tries the new API and than falls back to the old API.
• Fixed picture.bitmapmbs on Windows to use newer API which does not have the bug with shifting the bitmap for a few pixels.
• Worked on the AppleFileSharing functions. Some stuff like URL Parsing is no longer in the framework on Intel Macs, but listing and mounting volumes works.
• Fixed bugs on URLAccess plugin. (Fixed crash on Intel Macs)
• Fixed TransitionWindow functions and renamed to TransitionWindowMBS.
• The CocoaImageMBS class has a memory leak with RB 2006r4, but not with RB 2006r3!
• Fixed bug in AFP functions so they work now on Mach-O.
• Added XMPSnipMBS and XMPScannerMBS class.
• Added TransitionWindow functions for Mac OS X.
• Added JPEGImporterMarkerMBS class and functions.
• Added MinimumPixelHeight, MinimumPixelWidth, MaximumPixelWidth, SetSize and MaximumPixelHeight to the CocoaImageMBS class. So you can draw all pixels ignoring the resolution.
• Added CMBuildParametricGammaMBS.
• Fixed PDFLibLiteMBS.AddBookmark and PDFLibMBS.AddBookmark.
• Added CMBuildParametricGammaMBS(nEntries as integer, type as integer, mem as memoryblock) as CMGammaMBS
• Added CMGammaMBS.CopyData as memoryblock.
• Added CocoaImageMBS class.
• Added new RegisterMBSPlugin method with 4 parameters.
• Added new registration method with additional parameter. You can still use your existing 2006 serial or new 2006 ones.
• Added IMImageMBS.LittleEndian property.
• Fixed folderitem.Comment functions to get and set comments for bundles. So you can set comments of applications on Mac OS X now.
• The ImageMagick universal library I use has WORDS_BIGENDIAN=1 on Intel Macs, so I changed the plugin.
• Fixed Picture.Rotate on Windows to no longer swap images.
• Fixed crashes in picture functions. e.g. PictureMatrixMBS class.
• Changed Windows Picture code be a litte bit faster.
• Added Picture.ScrollMBS, Picture.ScrollHorizontalMBS and Picture.ScrollVerticalMBS.
• Fixed Application.IsBundleMBS to work on Intel Macs.

New in version 6.4   New in version 7.0

More details in the Release notes.