Beta History

v1.00 (beta build 111/112/Gold) (3/3/06):

Fix: When excluding "Tabs" from printing, controls inside other controls (not directly in the Tab) where "bleeding" and being printed anyway. Workaround was excluding them as well (manually), now it's correctly handled (automatically).

Fix: Shadows problem: when setting "vertical centered" aligment for the report, the vertical part of the shadow was not moved accordingly.

Fix: Entries shadows were not printed if the entry field was empty.

Fix: Text box was taking the wrong height in some cases when the "expand vertically" option was activated.

v1.00 Beta (build 110) (16/1/06):

New: Global option for activate automatic window title. Local override option.

v1.00 Beta (build 109) (8/1/06):

New: Listbox - Now you can choose to print or not the selection bar, and its color.

v1.00 Beta (build 108) (26/12/05):

New: Listbox - allowing to horizontally expand listbox to show complete content of the queue (All columns). Controls on the window to the right of the listbox will move to the right, controls surrounding the listbox will resize.

Imp: Browse Listbox - surrounding box now expand horizontally.

Imp: Browse Listbox - Title background now expand horizontally.

New: "Rescale" internal feature for "Best fit" or "Adjust to report fit" scale selection, for auto adjusting report width or height.

Imp: "Real" and "Manual" scale selection now split the page horizontally as many times as neccessary to make the window fit.

Chg: Listbox - cell background color 1 unit wider to make better continous coloring effect.

Chg: Browse Listbox - surrounding box now fit more tightly to the original position.

Fix: Buttons shouldn't resize when expanding vert. or horizontally.

Fix: Listbox - cell background on empty cells was altering color data; now empty cells with no color are not drawed.

Known problem: Using shadows, the automatic control movement may split a shadow from it parent control (for vertical or horizontal expanding lists).

v1.00 Beta (build 107) (18/12/05):

New: Global option for setting "disable" color on controls (was hard-coded silver). Default Color:Silver.

New: Entry and Text shadow (optional) global and local option; Shadow depth and color selection. Default: Inactive.

New: Button shadow (optional) global and local option; Shadow depth and color selection. Default: Activated, depth 2, color gray.

New: Sheet shadow (optional) (for "above" tabs only) global and local option; Shadow depth and color selection. Default: Activated, depth 3, color gray.

New: Entry and Text box - global and local option for border color (was hard-coded gray). Default Color:Gray.

New: List box - global and local option for border color (was hard-coded gray). Default Color:Gray.

New: List box title background - global and local option color (was hard-coded Silver). Default Color:Silver.

New: Sheet - global and local option for border color (was hard-coded black). Default Color:Black.

New: Button - global and local option for border color (was hard-coded gray). Default Color:Gray.

Chg: Global hot key default set to Pause Key.

v1.00 Beta (build 106) (04/12/05):

Fix: Radio button - was selecting multiple buttons when just a part of the condition was met (ex. "1" and "10" were both selected when value was "1")

v1.00 Beta (build 105) (30/11/05):

New: Now compatible with CPCS report templates and previewer (ABC and Legacy).

Fix: Buttons - "Skip standard" option for buttons was not skipping "help" button.

Regression: Tabs - on some browse-like windows the listbox were printed in a different page than the tabs (missing parent asignation).

v1.00 Beta (build 104) (28/11/05):

New: Full RTF formatted text support for RTF Text control in Clarion 6.x (ABC and Legacy).

New: Embed points just before and after the call to PrintWindow.

v1.00 Beta (build 103) (27/11/05):

New: Listboxes - allowing to vertically expand listbox to show complete content of the queue (valid only for file loaded listboxes). Controls under listbox will move down, controls surrounding listbox will resize.

v1.00 Beta (build 102) (21/11/05):

New: Raw text support for RTF Text control in Clarion 6.x (ABC and Legacy).

Fix: Listboxes controls were not locally excluded even when selected in the local exclude list.

Fix: Checkboxes were not working with custom true/false values (different than default 0/1).

v1.00 Beta (build 101) (19/11/05):

Imp: Now compatible with Power XP-Theme 2.2 beta 8 - Power XP was changing TABs controls into Wizards Sheets, PrintWindow now recognize the situation, detects the presence of the Power XP template and modify the internal settings accordingly.

v1.00 Beta (build 100) (18/11/05):

New: Report - Global and local option for selecting where to print on-window controls; all pages, just the first or just the last.

New: Report - Local option for soft-coding of the report detail band FEQ; Warning: if you are upgrading from previous versions you have to go to the report and manually set the detail band in the local options.

New: Report - TXA source for importing report procedure into new apps.

v1.00 Beta (build 99) (17/11/05):

New: Listbox - Support for group headers.

v1.00 Beta (build 98) (15/11/05):

New: Support for angle

New: Global option to activate code generation warning when find controls without equate (!).

Chg: Entries - proper vertical centering of text between the entry box.

Chg: Background color for some controls separated in a background box for proper vertical centering.

Fix: Regions - invisible ones were printed as phantom boxes.

Fix: Horizontal report split routine was wrongly comparing runtime properties as strings instead of numbers.

v1.00 Beta (build 97) (23/10/05):

New: Report - Support for split-horizontal reports wider than one page on two pages.

New: Listbox - Support for out-of-order columns.

New: Listbox - Support for underlined cells.

New: Regions - Support for colored regions.

v1.00 Beta (build 96) (22/10/05):

New: Report - Support for "vertical centering" in the report.

New: Report - Support for "Best fit" scale in the report. See Report Design (Local Extension) and Scale.

Imp: Proper backgorund output for "empty" controls for greenbar emulation.

Fix: Aligment in string controls were changing control position. The effect was noticeable when background is present. Now support for proper alignment and offset for controls.

Regression: Fix from build 95 on deep parenting determination makes panels not to print on every page on some situations.

Fix: new calls to deep parenting determination to print controls directly or indirectly on the window on every page.

Fix: Example - graphics don't need to be before other controls to be printed correctly.

v1.00 Beta (build 95) (19/10/05):

New: When using "real size" or "manual scale", support for horizontally centering the report.

Imp: Prompts - Support for alignment (centered, right).

Fix: Deep parenting determination ommiting sheets as parent.

v1.00 Beta (build 94) (17/10/05):

Fix: ListBox - ABC - pre-load of queues when printing not-yet selected listboxes was making a compiler error when using not-default class object names. Now support for overriding of BRW name.

v1.00 Beta (build 93) (15/10/05):

New: ListBox - Support for foreground and background color on list cells.

New: ListBox - Support for TREE level on list rows.

New: ListBox - Support for style (font name, font color, background color, font style, font size) on list cells.

New: ListBox - ABC - pre-load of queues when printing not-yet selected listboxes (Not necessary on Legacy).

New: ListBox - Support for row height.

New: Now controls inside any level of nesting parents indirectly on a window which has several tabs will print on every page.

Fix: ListBox - Last vertical line was missing on some lists.

Fix: ListBox - Last row was sometimes printed outside boundaries.

v1.00 Beta (build 92) (14/10/05):

New: Support for Wizard sheets (single sheets without tabs).

Fix: When having a window with a sheet and a single tab and all the controls are on the window instead of the sheet, it should print all in the same page together.

Fix: When having a window with sheet and tabs, and controls on the window, these were printed on every page but if they were inside a group they were skipped. Now controls inside a group on a window with several tabs will print on every page.

v1.00 Beta (build 91) (13/10/05):

Fix: When having a window with a sheet and a single tab and controls on the window instead of the sheet, those controls were skipped from processing.

v1.00 Beta (build 90) (12/10/05):

Fix: An error in the ABC version were preventing a succesfull compilation (local data declaration missing).

v1.00 Beta (build 89) (09/10/05):

Imp: Local Control template (button) now can be used combined with global cascade extension; therefore you can populate the button on a window and use one configuration set with the button, and another with the global hot key.

New: Don't generate code local option

v1.00 Beta (build 88) (08/10/05):

New: General - new global extension to automatically activate the printout on every window with a global hot key. You can use one or the other method.

v1.00 Beta (build 87) (03/10/05):

New: Buttons - support for boxed/not boxed

New: Buttons - support for automatic not-boxed when button is flat.

New: Buttons - support for automatic skipping standard buttons (ok, cancel, help, insert, change, delete, select, close, etc.)

Imp: Skip controls with invalid parent (i.e. parent without equate).

Imp: Skip controls with skipped parent (i.e. parent in no-print list).

Fix: Some images were printed twice

v1.00 Beta (build 86) (03/10/05):

Imp: Pre-proccessing of "image" fields to allow compatibility with 3rd parties like FinalStep.

Imp: Skip controls with negative parent (don't belong to current window).

Chg: Log files renamed to PWLOG...

v1.00 Beta (build 85) (02/10/05):

New: Text - allowing to vertically expand box to show complete content of the field.

New: Layout - option to move and resize controls to make room to vertically expanded fields when needed.

Beta 17 (build 84) (23/09/05):

Fix: Group - upper line on group without text was set too high.

Fix: Listbox - columns with background color were erasing listbox vertical lines.

Beta 17 (build 83) (22/09/05):

Fix: Tab - line only with Tab background colors was assigning wrong color to Tab.

Beta 17 (build 82) (22/09/05):

Fix: Tab - hidden Tabs was printing blank page.

Chg: Tab - now disabled Tabs won't print.

Beta 17 (build 81) (22/09/05):

New: Support for automatic and manual scaling in the report. See Report Design (Local Extension) and Scale.

Beta 17 (build 80) (21/09/05):

Fix: Support for header and footer on every page of the report.

Beta 17 (build 79) (21/09/05):

New: Doc chapters: Summary of features and Warning.

New: DropLists - supported (Emulated)

New: DropCombo - supported (Emulated)

New: File loaded DropLists - supported (Emulated)

New: Combo - supported (Emulated)

New: Sheet - emulated as boxed, just a line or none.

New: Sheet - emulated as box - support for above,left, right and below Tabs.

New: Sheet - emulated as line - support for above,left, right and below Tabs.

New: Sheet - Support for nested sheets (First tab on same page, others on additional pages).

New: Window - multiple Sheets per page.

New: Tab - support for colored background.

New: Tab - new "3 sides" design.

New: Window - don't print base window when Sheet with multiple Tabs is present.

New: Text - boxed.

New: Entries, sstrings - when using a Date picture (@d) without blank the slashes are not show in the window - emulated in the report.

New: General - nested disabled controls up to any level.

New: General - nested hidden controls up to any level.

Imp: Double loop process to change Panel priority to first; Panels on window are transparent, but boxes on printout are not, so they must be printed before other controls.

Imp: Entries - white background when boxed (To use with color backgrounds)

Imp: Checkbox - white background (To use with color backgrounds)

Imp: Textbox - white background (To use with color backgrounds)

Imp: ListBox - don't draw last vertical line (as it is ignored at run-time)

Fix: General - missing order of controls made some controls to dissapear from the report on complex lists.

Fix: ListBox - ignore run-time conditional column color (skip 4 additional LONG in the queue).

Fix: ListBox - set cell text height to single line.

Fix: Option and Groups - printed as Boxes when has no text - ignoring background color.

Beta 16 (04/09/05):

New: Controls not printed if parent is hidden (But not the control)

Imp: ListBox - core code redesigned

New: Run-time linked listboxes - auto name linked queue; exception lists

New: ListBox - Horizontal boundaries; no print when outside boundaries when hor. limit

New: ListBox - support for column size

New: ListBox - support for column picture

New: ListBox - support for column alignment

New: ListBox - support for column right border (vertical line)

New: ListBox - support for header text

New: ListBox - support for header background

New: ListBox - support for header font color

New: ListBox - support for header alignment

New: Buttons - graphic support

New: Buttons - .ico replacement for a defined extension.

New: Buttons - support for Left, center or right placement for graphic and text

Imp: Checkbox - proper text alignment

Imp: Checkbox - fixed sized box and tick

Imp: Checkbox - ignore font size, color and attributes for tick

Imp: Checkbox - proper color (silver) when disabled, assigned to box and tick

New: Checkbox - set to round corners

New: Images - .ico replacement for a defined extension.

Imp: Box - support for round corners

New: Panels - support for background color

New: Global and Local Settings for: paint title background on listbox.

New: Global and Local Settings for: Not print buttons.

Imp: Global and Local Settings redesigned

Beta 15b (30/08/05):

Fix: Mess with export declarations/references on multi-dll apps.

Imp: Included example for multi-dll apps.

Beta 15 (26/08/05):

New: Basic button drawing

New: Basic lists drawing.

New: Window with just one Tab prints on a single page.

New: Lists "limits" (global and local setting).

New: Lists "boxed"; optional (global and local setting).

New: Updated example for graphic primitives.

Imp: Both examples extended.

Imp: Help updated.

Fix: Color border for graphic primitives Box and Ellipse.

Fix: Border thickness for graphic primitives Line, Box and Ellipse.

Fix: ABC example and template revised.

Beta 14:

Support for graphic primitives (LINE, BOX and ELLIPSE).

No-color setting for printing without colors

Global settings (for global defaults)

Local overrides (for override global settings)

Imp: Extended debug information.

New: ABC version.

New: Documentation (PDF, CHM and on-line)

New: ABC and Legacy examples app.

Beta 13:

Fix: Found problem with radio buttons still not selecting the proper option (due to controls order).

Beta 12:

Boxed Tabs.

Support for RTF fields in Clarion 5.5 (converted to plain unformatted text).

Support for local selection of controls not-to-print, recovered.

Initial support for lists.

Control template with internal report, deprecated and removed.

Beta 11:

Support for very complex windows (now up to 200 tabs).

Beta 10:

All major code moved to global procedures.

Dropped support for local selection of controls not-to-print.

Support for multi-dll apps with DET and FM involved.

beta 9:

Tab labels are printed as window captions (with a line below).

Controls on windows (not in tabs) are printed in every page.

Debug option reinstalled.

beta 8:

Debug option removed.

Fix on selected Radio button print.

beta 7:

Support for multi-line prompts

Support for disabled fields

Support for Panels (gray boxed)

Support for background color on controls (when set); the rest of them will be transparent

Template option to draw entries boxes (default False; silver boxed).

Support for Alignment attributes (Right, Left, Center) + Offset.

Radio buttons "selected" draw as concentric circles instead of a full single circle

Debug global option

Note: If you use a "screen" font like "Ms Sans Serif", the report won't print accurately. You should always use a TTF.

Note: In the external report a "page after" should be set in the detail band, otherwise more than one window may fit in one page.

beta 6:

Fix: Report where generating an stack overflow (the program halts or hangs).

beta 5:

Fix: Window's Size and Position saved in .ini where altered by the template

beta 4:

Not printing of Hidden fields

Remove "&" from radio options

Template option to draw groups boxes

Ticks displayed as "x" instead of real "ticks"

Template option to manually select which controls not to print

beta 3:

Remove "&" from prompts and options.

Handling of controls with parents inside the Tab (Any level).

Correct centering of X in checkboxes.

Added specific Support for:

Checkboxes (added the description text)

Strings (A String with fixed data)

SStrings (A field populated as String)

DropList (display internal value)

Option + Radio buttons (circles with black selected)

Added generic Support for all the other types.

beta 2:

Added Support for:

Prompts

Checkboxes (Box and mark)

beta 1:

Added Support for:

Entries

Text boxes