Subscription Content Volume-2/2001

Products or technologies not listed in this document but on previous subscription pages are a part of this subscription delivery as well.

Foundation subscription

Xbase++ 1.6
New image file formats! The XbpBitmap class is capable of processing/displaying JPEG, GIF and PNG graphic file formats. You can use the Xbase++ graphics-engine to create JPEG pictures and publish them in the internet using the WAA.

Reflection API to inspect objects and classes! Object oriented programming and the creation of dynamic classes becomes easier and easier. You can inspect the details of classes, its member variables and methods with this new reflection API.

Enhanced color management for GUI programming! The RGB color management is enhanced. Define your own color palette for your application window and have all embedded controls inherit this palette.

Other enhancements! Mouse Wheel Support, User-Defined Clipboard formats Exchange your own data structures via the clipboard, New low-level file extensions like FSize() and FAttr(). Single-bit operations on numeric values are now supported!

And of course bug fixes!

Web Application Adaptor 1.6
To increase developers' turn-around cycles, we have built a mode into WAA that detects if a package DLL was refreshed. This allows for "XCOPY deployment" of package DLLs without the need to shut down the WAA.

Specific trace modes help a developer to monitor what's going on in complex Web applications during client/server communication.

To enable Mobile Commerce, full WAP/WML support is added, including sample applications demonstrating how to integrate mobile phones with your existing WAA solutions.

Profiler for Xbase++
The Xbase++ Profiler is proven to be a great tool. Some of our customers have reported speed increase in various areas by 5 times or more after analysis and rework of their code using this tool. To increase productivity further we added the following features:

Results can now be printed, saved to a text file or copied to the clipboard.

A new preference dialog speeds up the result views by pre-configuring your views.

Two new advanced trace modes are available: Configurable flush mode, which can be combined with the trace file packet mode. Using these techniques, you can access the trace data while the application is still running, and you may transfer the trace data in packets, e.g. via e-mail. Rebuild and analyze them in any place in the world!

Baumbart - NewsReader for Xbase++
Baumbart supports offline reading. We include the current contents of all Xbase++ / Alaska Software newsgroups. The Professional Subscription includes source code of Baumbart as well.

Professional subscription

This subscription level includes all of the above plus:

ODBC SQL Database Engine 1.0 Release
With the release of the SQL DatabaseEngine you can safely access MS Excel spreadsheets, MS Access databases, MS SQL Server, Oracle or any other SQL DBMS. The only requirement is a ODBC driver installed. Even DB2 on AS-400 is supported to integrate your Xbase++ solution into the midrange world. A introductionary article about this exciting technology can be found in our File Library-> Documents-> Xbase++ meets SQL.

The DatabaseEngine comes with MIDEX a middleware explorer specifically designed to help you in setting up ODBC Drivers, generate connection strings or validate your setup. MIDEX is planned to support ADS Management and WAA Remote-Management functionality in future releases.

ADS Database Engine 1.6
The ADSDBE received PDR fixes and is now supporting the new Advantage Database Server V 5.7 as well as previous versions.

AS INET V1.0 internet protocol library
ASINET V1.0, the Alaska Software Internet library. This library includes functions and classes to support the majority of important internet protocols, like TCP/IP, POP3, SMTP, HTTP or FTP. Now you can transfer files using the internet, exchange e-mails or write your own WWW server. Sample applications are included. The library is royality free - so you get $500 or more value with only one component of the Professional Subscription.

XbpSplitbar() and Source code
New Graphical-User-Interface components, XbpSlider() and XbpSplitbar(). These classes help to organize a single window using various resizable areas. Source code is included to give you a idea how to develop your own visual components/parts.

HTML Reflection Framework 1.0 preview update
The HRF library received bug fixes and considerable performance enhancements.

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