edeveloper V10.1 Service Pack 3 Release Notes

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1 Release Notes W e are proud to introduce. is an improved and updated version of the edeveloper V10.1 release. Read the information in this document to find out more about this latest edeveloper version. For more information about previous edeveloper releases, see the PastReleaseNotes.pdf file provided with this installation. 1

2 General Information General Information Installing Service Pack When you install edeveloper 10.1 SP3 using the installation wizard s Upgrade option, the wizard automatically replaces the files that were modified since your previously-installed version. What s New in edeveloper V10 edeveloper V10 is abundant with new features. You can explore the newly added features by reading the What s New in edeveloper 10 guide. edeveloper V10 Downloads Make sure you visit our edeveloper V10 Web page from which you will be able to download various documents covering the new version. edeveloper V10 Samples Package The Samples package demonstrates the new features added to this Service Pack. You can download the updated Samples package at the following link: Samples package. Introductory Online Demonstrations We invite you to the edeveloper Web page where you can view and download a collection of recordings that illustrate the many improvements and new features of edeveloper V10.1. Click the following link: edeveloper V10. Frequently Asked Questions We have collected frequently asked questions and provided answers to these questions at the following link: edeveloper V10 FAQ. Migrating from edeveloper V9.4 to edeveloper V10.1 Migrating a V9.4 application to V10.1 is fast and easy. edeveloper provides an assortment of wizards to easily migrate your application, INI settings, and interface builder data. Under the Migration subfolder of the product as seen in the Start menu of your desktop, you will find a shortcut to each of the available conversion wizards. We recommend reading the Migration chapter in the edeveloper V10.1 Help before migrating your 9.4 applications. 2

3 General Information Bundled Products edeveloper V10.1 comes with the following bundled products: Limited version of DB2 Express limited to 3 months CVSNT VC server Jalindi Igloo VC client Downloadable Databases You can connect your edeveloper V10.1 application to any of the following downloadable express version databases. Make sure that the corresponding edeveloper V10.1 database gateway is included as part of the edeveloper V10.1 installation. Oracle Database 10g Express Edition Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition MySQL 5.0 Licensing Mechanism edeveloper licenses are available at your local distributor. If you wish to purchase a license or to obtain an evaluation license please contact your local distributor. Read about the edeveloper V10.1 licensing mechanism at the following link: Licensing. edeveloper V10 Certification For information about the various platforms on which edeveloper V10 has been certified for operation by Magic Software Enterprises refer to the Certification.pdf file provided with this installation. DDF Maker Wizard Creating Data Dictionary Files (DDFs) is now available using a user-friendly wizard that is incorporated in the product using the Tools Infrastructure. Steven G. Blank, an esteemed member of the edeveloper community, contributed the DDF Maker wizard. 3

4 New Features, Feature Enhancements and Behavior Changes New Features, Feature Enhancements and Behavior Changes PushOk CVS Plug-in Since edeveloper V10.1 SP2c, edeveloper supports another Version Control client to facilitate the Studio s Version Control functionality. You can connect to the already bundled CVS NT Version Control server using a Version Control client called PushOk. The PushOk Version Control client is a very affordable and efficient client. Follow the instructions below to acquire, evaluate or purchase, and configure your environment to start using the PushOk Version Control client. 1. When installing edeveloper, select the CVS Client component. 2. Download the PushOk CVS plug-in using the following links: Product page for the PushOk CVS SCC plug-in: Download page for the PushOk CVS SCC plug-in: Download link for the PushOk CVS SCC ver plug-in: 3. Install the plug-in. 4. Verify that the registry setting HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SourceCodeControlProvider\ProviderReg Key is SOFTWARE\PushOk Software\CVSSCCNT Note: This value should exist in: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SourceCodeControlProvider\InstalledSCC Providers under the PushOk CVSSCC NT key. Browser Client Aliases The Browser Client default script and cache aliases were changed to edevscripts and edevbccache respectively. The edeveloper Installation wizard was enhanced with the ability to change those aliases during the installation. This feature is available in the custom installation only. V9 Migration UI The V9 Migration UI was enhanced with the ability to migrate partial sections of an application, such as range of programs. 4

5 New Features, Feature Enhancements and Behavior Changes PDF Support edeveloper now supports printing directly into a PDF file, thus eliminating the need of additional configurations or local printer driver installations. This ability was added to the properties of the Graphic Printer I/O Device. The PDF mode of the graphical printer device can be dynamically set via an expression, enabling you to switch from regular printing to PDF generation at runtime. In addition, for every PDF document you produce with edeveloper, you can implement security policies at various levels of password protection, such as printing, copying, or annotating. The PDF support in this version has a few known issues that will be fixed in future versions. They are as follows: Sometimes, text values larger than the control's size is shown outsize the control. Multiline Edit control data is not properly displayed when the form's expand mode is set to Multipage. The PDF security option 'Document Open Password' only works when also setting the same password in the 'Change Permissions Password' field. Hebrew text is displayed inverted in the created PDF file. Security File Enhancements A new utility called MgUsrDmp.exe will now be installed in the edeveloper folder. This utility allows you to export the edeveloper security file into an XML file, thus enabling you to easily access and query user information. Note that in order to run this utility, you will need to supply the Supervisor password used in the security file. String Extraction Utility A new utility was introduced to enable you to extract all the text phrases from your project into an XML file. This utility will help you when you need to translate multi-lingual applications. Note that this utility can be executed from both the Tools menu and as a component. The cabinet and interface files for the component can be found under the add_on\stringextractor folder located in the engine directory. 5

6 New Features, Feature Enhancements and Behavior Changes CVS Login Up until this service pack, the Operating System username was used to connect to the CVS Server. This caused problems when working with a CVS server that required another username for login. A new special setting called SpecialCVSLogin was introduced to allow you to enter another username that will be used for connecting to the CVS server. This functionality should not be used to allow different users to work with the same working folder. Each of the users should still have their own working folder. Report Generator A new option was added to the Report Generator edeveloper component that will allow you to disable the use of the Report Generator, and thus provide you with the previous Print Data wizard functionality. This can be done by calling the Settings program from the Report Generator component, and passing True to the 3rd argument (Disable report generator). LDAP Enhancements Logon LDAP logon was enhanced and it is now possible to use the user@domain convention in addition to specifying the user DN (Distinguished Name). To use the enhancement, the LDAP connection string should be specified using the following format: $USER$@domain This feature can be used with LDAP servers that support binding using the user@domain convention. Forcing English Logon A new special setting called SpecialENGLogon was introduced to control the language displayed in the Logon screen. This is useful when the Logon should be done in English, but edeveloper runs in a different language. Control s Auto-Size The control s height produced after using the edeveloper Command palette s Fit Size option was not large enough to display the last pictures of long letters in specific fonts. A new special setting called SpecialEditIncreasedHeight was introduced to solve this issue by producing controls that are one pixel higher than before. 6

7 New Features, Feature Enhancements and Behavior Changes Windows Management The SetWindowFocus() function was enhanced to allow setting the focus even on windows that belong to non-edeveloper programs. Return Value from SQL Server Stored Procedure edeveloper now supports receiving the return value from MSSQL stored procedures. This can be done by writing? = in the DSQL statement (i.e. EXEC? = proc_name ), and a virtual variable in the return code of the SQL Command window. Return Result Set from SQL Server Stored Procedure edeveloper now lets you control which result set will be returned from MSSQL stored procedures. This can be done by adding /*=== ROWSET=xx ===*/ (where xx is the requested number) to the DSQL statement. Specifying a non-existing rowset number will return an error message. Using Cursor for DSQL Statements in SQL Server Stored Procedure edeveloper now supports using a cursor for DSQL statements that return a result set. This can be done via adding /*===CURSOR=Y ===*/ to the DSQL statement. DB2 Stored Procedures edeveloper now supports DB2 stored procedures with Select statements, IN/OUT parameters, or both. When using the APG button, the virtuals created will first represent the OUT/INOUT parameters and then the result columns of any existing Select statements. DB2 The UDB supported and bundled in edeveloper was updated to UDB version 9. Logging Filtering The Browser Activity filter in the logging options, which is used to show the browser activity, was renamed to Client Activity. 7

8 New Features, Feature Enhancements and Behavior Changes Web Services Backward Compatibility edeveloper V10 includes enhanced Web Services framework. For backwards compatibility regarding Web Services provided by edeveloper, V10 was enhanced to support receiving Web Service calls from clients defined using WSDL generated in edeveloper version 9. Special Settings PDF The information from the special settings document was added to the Help file and will no longer be available in a separate file. This will eliminate the need to search for special settings in a separate document. Mastering edeveloper The Mastering edeveloper PDF was enhanced with three more chapters regarding the Browser, Broker, and Source Management. 8

9 Fixed Problems Form Editor Fit to size (QCR # ) The lower pixel of some specific fonts was cut when using the edeveloper Command palette s Fit Size option. A new special setting called SpecialEditIncreasedHeight was added to solve this issue. Programs Repository Hebrew Version (QCR # ) The "Last update" field in the Program repository was indented to the left. Date Hebrew Version (QCR # ) The Hebrew date was not calculated correctly. Task Execution Nested Subform (QCR # ) In a nested subform scenario, the second subform's task was executed twice. Controls Tree Control (QCR # ) Creating a new node (F4) and then cancelling the creation (Ctrl+F2) moved the focus to the next node (i.e next record) instead of the previous one. Date Hebrew Version (QCR # ) The month part of the date was translated to Hebrew, which did not occur in previous versions. Welcome Screen Project Name (QCR # ) The Project name field on the Welcome screen did not display the full project name. Subform Refresh (QCR # ) edeveloper crashed when the Refresh for a subform was done from the Record Prefix of the parent task. Table Navigation Icons (QCR # ) The table navigation icons did not appear properly in some cases. 9

10 XML Mixed Content (QCR # ) Garbage data was added to XML files containing mixed content text data when adding new records to the XML files. Requester Hebrew Version (QCR # ) In RTL (Hebrew) applications, the output of text-based forms to the requester was done in a Logical form. A new special setting called SpecialLogToVisInIO was added to force output of text in Visual form. Row Highlight Hebrew Version (QCR # ) A redundant scrollbar appeared when using the Frame option in the Row Highlight Style property in the Hebrew version and widening one of the columns. Variable Field Hebrew Version (QCR # ) The Variable field of the Update operation enabled writing Hebrew characters. Control s Alignment Hebrew Version (QCR # ) The Control's alignment was always to the left if the control had an expression on its format. Functions VarDBName() (QCR # ) The VarDBName() function returned a blank result for a column name if the virtual variable was defined as part of the SQL statement. Pervasive Get Definition (QCR # ) edeveloper showed an Undefined SQL type when performing Get Definition on a table with a UNIQUEIDENTIFIER data type field. Logical Units Variable Change (QCR # ) The CHG_PRV_XX parameter in the Variable Change logical unit did not show the correct previous value of the variables if the task was in Create mode. 10

11 Placement Button Control (QCR # ) The Placement property did not work properly for a Push Button control when it was linked to a Group control. Subform Size (QCR # ) The Subform size was changed and a scroll bar appeared in some cases when the Ctrl+Down Arrow was pressed. Date Fields Index (QCR # ) Updating a Date field that was used in a multi-segment index caused an error when the Center Screen in Online and Reposition after Modify environment settings were set to No. V9 Converter Variable References (QCR # ) edeveloper lost the references to the variables defined in the Main Program when converting a single program from V9 to V10. External Log Error Lines (QCR # ) Entries were written to the external log files even when all the logging filters were set to No. AS/400 Get Definition (QCR # ) A redundant confirmation message appeared when performing Get Definition on an ISAM table, which was created from AS/400 and contained a Date field. Version Control Checked Out Objects (QCR # ) The checked out objects of other users could not be seen when using CVS with a large project. License edeveloper Xpress (QCR # ) edeveloper returned the license limitation message when using different Xpress Studio licenses on two different machines in the LAN. Controls Combo Box (QCR # ) The Combo Box control did not display the correct value when navigating it and pressing F2 + Esc key sequence. 11

12 Browser Client Copy Text (QCR # ) The Ctrl+C and Ctrl+Insert options did not work for Browser Client programs running in Query mode. Functions DVal() (QCR # ) The DVal() function failed to return the correct value when the month passed to it contained only one digit, such as 13/6/2006. Oracle Get Definition (QCR # ) An error was returned when performing a Get Definition on an Oracle table with synonyms. Functions EditSet() (QCR # ) The Editset() function sometimes returned incorrect results when numeric values were involved. Login User Name (QCR # ) Performing INIGet('[MAGIC_ENV]USER') did not return any value in a program, when logged-in with any user after starting the edeveloper Studio and executing a program. Functions VarSet() (QCR # ) The edeveloper runtime engine crashed when using the VarSet() function in a component application. DB2 Get Definition (QCR # ) edeveloper did not write the field size in the datatype after performing a Get Definition on a DB2 table. Code Page Chinese (QCR # ) The external code page setting did not set the code page correctly for the Chinese language (code page 936). Subform SDI (QCR # ) Scrollbars were added to an SDI window when the Display Toolbar was set to No. 12

13 Controls Push Button (QCR # ) A Push Button control with the Button Style set to Hypertext showed an overlapped window when it was set with the transparent color. Functions DDEPoke() (QCR # ) The DDEPoke( ) function did not work properly in some cases. Task Editor Remark Color (QCR # ) The Remark operation color in the Data View Editor was different than the one used in the Logic Editor. Empty Dataview Subform (QCR # ) An Event handler defined in the main form was executed twice when a Subform with an Empty Dataview was used, even though the handler scope was Task. MSSQL DateTime (QCR # ) edeveloper crashed when updating a date field that was part of Datetime and had a 00/00/00 value. Link Inner Join DB2/400 (QCR # ) Performing a Link Inner Join operation on a DB2/400 database returned wrong values when tabbing into a subform. Controls Table Control (QCR # ) edeveloper displayed repeating rows in a table after executing the View Refresh internal event and scrolling through records when the Preload View task property was set to Yes and the Locking Strategy task property was set to Immediate. Functions Cipher() (QCR # ) No result was returned from the Cipher() function when using the RC4 and RC5 encryption methods. Subform Transparent Color (QCR # ) The data in an Edit field got corrupted when the Edit field was set with the transparent color and was used in a subform. 13

14 ODBC Access Database (QCR # ) edeveloper crashed when running APG on an Access ODBC database. Web Service Logical Names (QCR # ) A Web service failed to retrieve the WSDL if the endpoint was set using a logical name. MSSQL Blob (QCR # ) edeveloper crashed when inserting an object to a Blob field with an OLE or Image display type and leaving the record. DSQL Sort (QCR # ) edeveloper crashed when a View Refresh was done after sorting the data by clicking on the column header of a DSQL task. Expression Editor Program List (QCR # ) edeveloper crashed when exiting the Expression Editor after activating CTRL+7 to get the Program repository and zooming to the Argument repository. AS/400 Unicode (QCR # ) A Unicode field of over 127 characters was not created properly on the AS/400 when building the table from edeveloper. Print Preview Parking (QCR # ) The Next Field event that was raised after calling a task set with "Print Preview" did not work. MSSQL Memory Leak (QCR # ) Updating a record in an MSSQL table using a simple batch program in a loop caused a memory leak. Functions FormStateClear() (QCR # ) When having a parent and child on one splitter window and both forms have a Form State Identifier, clearing the state of the child using the FormStateClear function caused a corruption. 14

15 V9 Converter Flow Mode (QCR # ) The wrong value was inserted for Call Program properties when the value for the flow mode was After. Forms Colors (QCR # ) When a form with an expression and length was resized at runtime it did not display the appropriate colors of the controls used in the form. CRR Stored Procedure (QCR # ) The composite generator failed to generate a component for an MSSQL stored procedure when the MSSQL instance had a backslash in it. MSSQL Date() (QCR # ) edeveloper returned an error when a virtual variable that was initialized with the Date() function was used in a DB WHERE clause. Functions DDEGet() (QCR # ) The DDEGet() function did not work properly in some cases. Task Properties Confirm Update (QCR # ) The task was terminated when running a task in Create mode with the Confirm Update task property set to Yes and clicking No in the Confirmation box. V9 Converter Link Validate (QCR # ) When converting a single program from V9 to V10, edeveloper lost the references to variables defined after a Link Query operation with the Validate option. Browser Client Euro Sign (QCR # ) The Euro sign entered from a browser was not stored properly in the database. Requester Opening Window (QCR # ) Internet Explorer stopped responding ( hanged ) after sending a request and receiving error 156 on another newly opened window. 15

16 DB2 Stored Procedure (QCR # ) edeveloper failed to run any DB2 stored procedures that returned an OUT or INOUT parameter. Functions VarIndex() (QCR # ) Executing the VarIndex() function in a component program returned wrong values when the variable referenced in the VarIndex() function was not found in either the component program or the host program. Get Definition Comments (QCR # ) edeveloper crashed when performing a Get Definition (F9) on a table with internal comments (F12). AS/400 Open Query (QCR # ) A program with an Open Query ended abnormally with the message 'Error executing Open Query File command'. Web Services SOAP Headers (QCR # ) The reference to variables defined in the SOAP Headers property in the Invoke Web S operation was lost. Subform Phantom task (QCR # ) edeveloper sometimes crashed when a Phantom task included a subform. Web Services Null Value (QCR # ) Sending the null value for a date type while consuming the Web service through Systinet, returned an error. Web Services IP Address (QCR # ) The remote IP Address was not retrieved when edeveloper was used as a Web service provider. Forms SDI (QCR # ) A redundant line was displayed on SDI forms. 16

17 I/O Definition Memory Leak (QCR # ) Outputting data from several tasks to an I/O file, which was opened by one of the tasks using the I/O name, caused a memory leak. Controls Hebrew Version (QCR # ) Controls in a table were not displayed properly after moving one of the columns and its controls. Forms SDI (QCR # ) The edges of the screen had a transparent BG when an SDI form that had a model attached to it was opened. ODBC Informix (QCR # ) An incorrect date was displayed when using the APG to fetch records from a table defined in a specific format. DSQL Error Handling (QCR # ) A Direct SQL program was closed with no error messages when the database or server was not available. Pervasive Updating Records (QCR # ) In Pervasive databases, edeveloper did not show an error message when updating a record that was being updated by another user and the table s Identify Modified Row property was set to As Table in the program. VC Open From Server (QCR # ) An error message was not displayed when opening an existing project from the server. ActiveX Blob Variable (QCR # ) edeveloper failed to return a result when a Blob variable was passed to a COM object as a parameter, and the Trim( ) function was not applied on the Blob variable. Functions PPD() (QCR # ) The PPD() function returned an empty value when reading the information stored in a HASP device. 17

18 Subform Value Display (QCR # ) The values of fields in the child task's subform window were not displayed when the fields were revisited after being parked in the parent task's field. Export/Import Model Reference (QCR # ) The reference to a model from a component that was assigned to a parameter in a user event was lost when performing Export and then Import of a project. Models Source Table Reference (QCR # ) The reference of a table from the Source Table property of a GUI Display List Box model or GUI Display Combo Box model was lost if the same model was also used in another table and the other table was added to the Data repository above the referred table. Subform Confirm Update (QCR # ) Changes made in a parent task were saved when a Subform control was used even if selecting No when asked to confirm the update. Subform Create Mode (QCR # ) The subform remained in Create mode (no records) even after adding records in the subform, going to the parent and back to the subform. XML Schema Parser (QCR # ) Error messages written from the schema parser ignored logical names used in the external error filename. Studio Network Connection (QCR # ) edeveloper crashed when the connection to the broker was lost due to a network disconnection. MSSQL Range (QCR # ) Range was not working properly on Date and Time fields when only the To range was given on a Time field which was part of a DateTime field. 18

19 MSSQL Unique Identifier (QCR # ) An error message appeared when inserting a record into an MSSQL table that had a uniqueidentifier field as part of the index. MSSQL Get Definition (QCR # ) Performing a Get Definition on a table with a foreign key referring to another table, failed to create the foreign key and zeroed the Foreign Key field. Functions DataviewToXML() (QCR # ) An incorrect schema was generated when the dataview contained numeric fields with a decimal point in their picture. MSSQL Blob (QCR # ) An error was returned when updating a record in a table that had a Blob field with a Unicode content type as part of a multiple segment index. DB2/400 Date (QCR # ) The 01/01/0001 value was inserted into a Date field when the [MAGIC_DEFAULTS]DefaultDate was set to 00/00/0000. Subform Tab Control (QCR # ) A Tab control that had some tabs with subforms and some without was not properly displayed when navigating through the records. Magic Software Enterprises Ltd provides the information in this document as is and without any warranties, including merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event will Magic Software Enterprises Ltd be liable for any loss of profit, business, use, or data or for indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages of any kind whether based in contract, negligence, or other tort. Magic Software Enterprises Ltd may make changes to this document and the product information at any time without notice and without obligation to update the materials contained in this document. Magic and Magic edeveloper are trademarks of Magic Software Enterprises Ltd.Copyright Magic Software Enterprises, August,