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DataFlex 2021 Beta 3 Release Notes

Welcome to DataFlex 2021 Beta 3

The Beta releases are important milestones that signify the product is essentially feature complete. During Beta, we continue to improve various features (both old and new), address bugs, and improve the documentation.

Beta 3 Release Notes

Note: We elected to do a quick turnaround between Beta 2 and Beta 3 to address an unintentional O/S-level incompatibility introduced in Beta 2. While this incompatibility only impacted older, unsupported Windows environments (Windows 7, Windows Server 2012, etc.), we wanted to address the situation quickly. We changed to a different Windows API call during activation, which resolved the issue.

Web Framework

  • psPlaceHolder text was truncated in cWebTagsForm - fixed
  • Numeric masks always add a decimal separator, even if there are no decimals - fixed
  • Improved error handling on DownloadUrl
  • The Show More button on the WebTagsForm always shows off screen - fixed

General

  • New functions:
  • UCharArrayToWString
  • WStringToUCharArray
  • Winprint Update_Status truncated value and used wrong encoding - fixed
  • Compiler error when using new cSelectFolderDialog - fixed
  • Uppercase function result is incorrect when a code unit is added - fixed

Connectivity

  • Added a new embedded SQL function: SQLGetDataToUChar
  • Added information on using Aurora
  • Added N prefix to SQLStrLike function
  • Added SQLStrFileName function
  • Creating a new table with a Binary column failed when using PostgreSQL - fixed
  • Creating Server index with PostgreSQL should only create INDEX_NUMBER and INDEX_NAME attributes in the .int file - fixed
  • Performing a Get_Attribute on an invalid driver number results in an access violation - fixed
  • When Default_Use_Dummy_Zero_Date is off, an error in lookup by date is generated - fixed

Studio

  • Added Copy File Name, Copy File Path, and Copy Full File Path to the Workspace Explorer context menu (added to help)
  • The Create New Table dialog no longer sets the default schema to dbo for databases other than MSSQL
  • Selected node in Code Explorer gets progressively darker when using light theme - fixed

DBExport

  • Now supports UTF-8, ANSI, and OEM character encoding options
  • Help was not properly displayed - fixed

Examples

  • All examples use the latest update to the DataFlex Reports 2021 demo library
  • Comments with links to demo simple REST service referenced 19_9 instead of 20 - fixed

OEM / ANSI Wizard

  • Clarified information and corrected typos

Documentation

Installer

  • Changed Beta 2 references to Beta 3
  • Fixed wording
  • Uninstall should not leave any files or folders behind - fixed

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