MBS Xojo Plug-ins for Mac21.1

Added

• BiggerNumberMBS to have 2560 bit floating point number for even bigger range and precision. 512 bit exponent and 2048 bit fraction.
• DuckDatabaseMBS class for DuckDB database engine, a fast column based database engine.
• NSDataDetectorMBS and NSRegularExpressionMBS classes for macOS and iOS.
• NSNetServiceMBS and NSNetServiceBrowserMBS classes for macOS and iOS.
• 30 new trigonometry functions for BigNumberMBS class.
• AllObjectsOfClassMBS global method.
• BeginTransaction, Commit, and Rollback methods for DuckConnectionMBS class.
• BuildRowSetMBS global function.
• CNPhoneNumberMBS.CNLabelPhoneNumberAppleWatch function.
• CocoaMouseDown, CocoaMouseDrag and CocoaMouseUp events to PDFViewControlMBS control to handle low level mouse events.
• Constructor for handle to UNNotificationMBS, UNNotificationContentMBS, NSToolbarItemMBS and NSToolbarMBS.
• DirectShowAMVideoControlMBS class.
• Edit/Update support for RecordSet for SQLDatabaseMBS class.
• Emojis to the documentation to clearer show what items are supported for each platform.
• Error, ErrorMessage and ErrorCode properties to SQLDatabaseMBS for iOS.
• Extra line to CURL debug log to indicate the version of MBS Plugin, CURL library used and what OS is used. See DebugData property in CURLSMBS class.
• FindPin method to DirectShowCaptureGraphBuilderMBS class
• FindTableName function to SQLGlobalsMBS class.
• GetStreamConfig function for DirectShowCaptureGraphBuilderMBS class to accept GUID to identify the pin category.
• HTMLText or PlainText methods to WebView2ControlMBS class.
• ImageIndex and ImageHandle properties to DynaPDFImageMBS class.
• IncludeDataInDebugMessages for FMConnectionMBS class.
• IOSPictureMBS module with methods and delegates to export video or image to camera roll.
• IsASCIIText function to RegExMBS class.
• IsNull function to JSONMBS class.
• IsObject, isArray, isNumber, and isBoolean to JSONMBS class.
• KcfIgnoreICCProfile and kptConvertPage to DynaPDFMBS class.
• MemoryStatisticsMBS class.
• More constructors to WindowsGraphicsDeviceContextMBS class for picture, window and control.
• NormInvMBS function.
• PDFAppearanceCharacteristicsMBS class.
• ReadFromPkcs7 function for X509MBS class.
• ResolutionUnit constants to JPEGExporterMBS class.
• RunOnce method to NSRunLoopMBS class.
• SetLogEventMask and IsLoggingEnabled shared methods to GMImageMBS class.
• SQLSelectAsRowSetMT and SQLSelectAsRowSet methods to SQLConnectionMBS class.
• UnInitialize method to SQLGlobalsMBS class.
• WindowsShellExecuteAsAdminMBS function.

Changed

• Constructor for PDFBorderMBS to be public.
• MaxTotalConnections in CURLSMultiMBS class to 4 as default. Avoids excessive connection counts unless you change it.

Fixed

• A crash in IDE on Big Sur with NSTokenFieldControlMBS on the layout.
• A problem with a crash in CURL with SFTP with empty password or username.
• An issue with LZ4MBS decompression failing.
• An issue with OpenDialogMBS class not returning folderitems properly for alias files.
• Bug in Reverse method in StringHandleMBS class.
• Control drawing in the IDE for iOS controls.
• Issue for iOS where Transporter complains about __INFO_PLIST segment in plugin library.
• Issue with Graphics.TextHeight for DynaPDFMBS class.
• Issue with MoveFirst with RecordSet in our SQL Plugin when used with PostgreSQL.
• Possible crash in CheckUTF8MBS function.
• Problem in DynaPDFMBS class with graphics, where we reset font to default one on nextpage call.
• Problem in QLPreviewPanelMBS, broken in version 21.0.
• Problem with dictionary processing on iOS.
• Problem with DynaPDFMBS where an empty password was not passed as nil in OpenImportFile.
• Problem with GetProfileInfo method and name property in LCMS2ProfileMBS class.
• Problem with NSCollectionViewMBS raising events while closing and causing crashes.
• ThumbnailSize property for PDFThumbnailViewMBS class.

Improved

• DeclareCallBackMBS class to handle asynchronously dispatch on Windows and Linux.
• NSCollectionViewControlMBS and rewrote parts of NSCollectionView Test example.
• Performance a lot of repeated calls to Execute method in RegEXMBS class to find matches.
• Text conversion performance internally for getting text as UTF16 or UTF32. This is used in all plugin parts and speeds up XLSheetMBS and DynaPDFMBS classes a lot!

Optimizes

• JSONMBS.Convert to quicker loop over Xojo arrays.

Updated

• CURL library to version 7.75.
• DukTape library for JavaScriptEngineMBS class to version 2.6.
• DynaPDF to version 4.0.49.139.
• Dyncall library to version 1.2.
• InstallDragImageMBS to support newer API and work in Xojo 2020 or newer.
• LCMS to version 2.12.
• LibXL to version 3.9.4.
• LibXML to version 2.9.10.
• LibXSLT to version 1.1.34.
• NSOrthographyMBS, NSLinguisticTaggerMBS, NSLinguisticValueMBS and NSTextCheckingResultMBS for iOS.
• Openssl library to version 1.1.1i.
• Rockey4ND library to newer version.
• SQLAPI to version 5.1.4b5.
• To Xcode 12.4.
• Upgraded DirectShowGUIDMBS class with more methods and properties.
• Upgraded PDFKit classes to current macOS SDK adding over 200 additional methods and properties.

Other Improvements:

• Deprecated SetLicenseKey function for DynaPDFMBS class. Please use SetLicenseKeyGlobal instead.
• DynaPDF works with ZUGFeRD 2.1.1.