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AbsolutePosition property now supported for Graphic Reports

It is now possible to use the AbsolutePosition property with a GraphicReport. There are some items to consider, however, since a virtual form is created each time a graphic report is run, and it is this form that is the ultimate recipient of this property. If any page (band) of the report has this property set, then it will apply for the entire report and for all pages. One thing that it will not do, is to expand the area of the report, it will act to move the contents of the resulting report page up and left, but it will not then make more space available on the page at the bottom. The routines that build the virtual form from the associated bands have not been modified to support this.

Chaining the Me value to another procedure

It is now possible to pass the me value from one procedure to another procedure (to create a type of daisy-chain when intercepting event procedures). Using the syntax:

CALL CHAIN foo()

the Me value should be preserved.

Command Line Option -s

There is a new option for starting Superbase that allows the definition of the window type for the Superbase window. It does not permit any child type to be selected, since it is itself a parent, but any of the other valid styles can be set. To do this, the appropriate hexadecimal value must directly follow (without a space) the -s parameter.

New sort orders

There is now a new DLL calledSBSORT30.DLL that allows specific sort orders to be applied to a file. The new sort orders include Arabic, ASCII, German, Greek, Hebrew, Polish, and SBOriginal (which is the default). The choice of sort order is part of the file, so it must be established at the time the file is created, it cannot be added afterward. See the documentation of FileIndexOrders and FileCreationIndexOrder. Files using this feature will not sort correctly in older versions.

Program Editor Enhancements

There is a new menu item for jumping to a specific line number in the editor. The editor now has its own status bar that also shows the current line number. The process of evaluating the line when a copy/paste operation was done has been changed so that it should be less likely to incorrectly format the code.

Scientific Features added

The scientific features that were added include new objects:

• Matrix objects,

• Vector objects,

• FiniteElmtArray, and FiniteElmtAttribute objects,

• support for Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors.

New methods of the Superbase object including:

• Integrate(),

• Differentiate(),

• Summation(),

• ValueChange(),

• Maximum(),

• Minimum(),

• Product(),

• DistNormal(), and

• DistNormalInverse().

Also, new examples demonstrating the some of the uses of the scientific functions have been included. This should not be confused with the release of Superbase Scientific, which will include the same features but also include a special handbook and a much larger array of examples specifically about the scientific features.

SBP$ and SBP% are now set on each error occurrence

It is now possible to test the value of SBP$ and SBP% after any error, so a global error logging mechanism can now show on exactly which line and in which program file an error has occurred. This feature has saved us hundreds of hours of work on internal projects already during the debugging phase.

Tags() array property

There is now a new type of tag that is an array. This property is not attached to every object, but to those objects where it would make sense, such as dialogs and dialog controls, forms and form controls, windows, menus, and iconbars. This is a volatile property (it is not stored with forms) and is highly versatile. Each element can be of a different scalar data type and you can have up to 2 Gig elements (might be tough on memory though).

TextHeight() and TextWidth()methods have new optional parameters

The TextHeight() andTextWidth() methods of the Form object now also include 2 additional parameters. One for bold and one for italic. The revised syntax is shown below:

TextHeight(<stringexpression>[,fontstring [,bold [,italic]]])

TextWidth(<stringexpression>[,fontstring [,bold [,italic]]])

Where the bold and italicparameters can be either 0 or -1 (false or true) and determine whether the string expression should be evaluated for a normal, bold, italic, or bold and italic font.

Variable indirection now supported in many more places

The special version of variable indirection used by the Superbase query engine ($variable$) is now supported in a larger number of places. This will allow programs to run efficiently without needing to use EXECUTE to ensure filter optimization.

• SELECT WHERE

• CREATE FILE FROM

• REMOVE FROM FILE

• PRINT

• REQUEST 20,24,25

• LABELS

• MERGE

• IMPORT

• EXPORT

XML Import/Export converter

Superbase now includes an import/export converter for XML format.