What's New

June 19/2008

I’m in the middle of adding the finishing touches on some new features, but then again, that seems to be a perpetual state for me, so it’s time to cut a release and get it out what we’ll call 4.0.4.

New Features

Report DataWindow to Variables converts a data set definition to a series of PowerScript variable declarations. This will help create custom classes that can be used to retrieve or set entire rows of values in a single dot notation operation, improving performance and memory consumption.

Enhancements

The Browser button from the DataWindow Find Results not only jumps to the script, but selects the text of the first match
Click-sort functionality on grids now appends columns to the sort specification for Ctrl-click
Print functionality added to Tools
Synchronize DataWindow Data Sets enhanced

Option to produce grid listing all changes
Option to produce grid uniquely listing changes by column
Handles arguments in SQL better

Browse RMB: Copy Prototype on a DataWindow now copies the Retrieve() function prototype with the DataWindow's retrieval arguments
Inheritance Report now lists the standard classes' hierarchy
User interface switched to a Unicode font
Compare:

App compare has an improved memory footprint
Compare has better performance when comparing matching objects
Objects from PBNative source repositories have $$HEX... values converted to be compared with PBL-based objects
When comparing folders to PBLs, a better job is done matching objects when duplicate objects exist in one or both apps

Lists / Containers: Now reports comments, as does the microhelp on the Browse page when a PBL is selected

Fixes

Lists / View / Show / Attributes wasn't resolving when asked
Lists / View / Show / <several options>

crashes occured when no records met the criteria to display information

Synchronize DataWindow Data Sets

Reports more information when a change occurs, including DB column
Handles arguments in SELECT clause
Reports a difference in column counts (usually caused by SELECT *)

Lists / Show / Attributes.... used to drop filtered items
Solved a problem when PP hung when Resolve level is set to Controls and DW Controls
A bug reading export folders caused crashes when reading PBNative source control repositories
ANSI PBLs (PB9 and previous) were being locked after PBL Peeper shut down
PBL list sometimes excluded versions of PowerBuilder that were actually found on the machine
Dialogs like the selection window are now centered over the frame, instead of over the entire primary frame. The former behaviour was confusing in dual monitor situations and when the frame was off to one side.
Some reports weren't being linked to the source via the Browse button.
Find / Output Type was being errantly shown as disabled when DW Output was selected.
File/Folder treeview was only sorting on file name, not extension.
PBLs/Text didn't search subdirectories for a non-wildcard file spec in some cases
When multiple lines were pasted into Find to create multiple items, blank lines created blank items

Jan 2/2008

A few bugs reported; a few bugs fixed. 4.0.3 may help you, especially if you like rich text output to your finds. (I’ve become a fan of DataWindow output and how it links to the Browse page, but to each his own.)

Fixes

Fixed retrieval of dot-notated DataWindow attributes in Lists / View / Show... / Attributes
Find was crashing with rich text output
Find was errantly reporting nothing found when reporting objects only
Fix when dealing with proxies
Fix autosize width of reporting DataWindows collapsing width to zero
Handles resolve of DataWindow objects better
SQL formatting improvement (double parens preceding subselects in WHERE clauses)
Synchronize DataWindow Data Sets processor

Better captures and reports error cases
Handles SQL with no FROM clause
Handle SQL with a GROUP BY clause
Changes to handle arguments in SELECT clause pending

Dec 4/2007

It never fails. After every major release, a major problem turns up. Doesn't matter how much I test. This time, it's the installer. In the 4.0.0 release, only the icons you select to install to your desktop are installed to the Start menu. By default, that leaves out the option without the current app loaded. Oops.

Still, we haven't been standing still. I think the feature I use most in 4.0.0 is the Find RMB options in the Browse tab, and I've added to those. The DB Column Usage report got torn apart, so it's got a major performance boost, plus some SQL parsing enhancements that will affect several areas of functionality. (As with 4.0.0, I'm leaving the bug fixes list to the ReadMe in the installation.)

Later that day... Speaking of Murphy’s Law, not only did the 4.0.1 build I posted neglect to show the proper version, but it was missing an object that caused the Browse page to crash when RMBing the code (my favourite new feature, only tested under the IDE). Grab the 4.0.2 version if you got stuck with this turkey.