What's New - v5.0¶
The changes in version 5.0 can be divided into:
Studio and OCX¶
- Maximum Image Size
- Exclude page footer in calculation
- Change the vertical alignment
- ODBC tables/views now divided into schemas
- Overlay next section
- Wrap text option
- Print on alternate pages
- PDF/A support
- Save on Preview
- Redesigned keyboard interface
- SQL Statement
- New chart types
- Label Reports
- Print section over multiple pages
- Allow move/resize of locked fields via keyboard
- Fixed error when deleting all horizontal guidelines
- Fixed problem with Undo not working correctly
- Fixed problems with moving horizontal guidelines
- Moving guidelines now checks for negative size/position of objects
- When printing all pages, the selected tray is not respected if no tray was selected in the report
- Horizontal/Vertical position and Width/Height fields in the 'Field properties' dialog are incorrectly rounded down
- Mask fields are incorrectly initialized in the 'Field properties' dialog when using a Custom number or Currency mask
- Information message if the selected printer bin is not supported by the printer
- Fixed problem with 'Hide section' not working
- Stored procedures did not appear in the list when using an ODBC datasource
- Background color of boxes do not show in the designer
- Fixed problems with explorer panes appearing in the top-left corner
- 'Function name' combo was not initialized in the 'Library function' (ELF) dialog
- Current connection in Database Expert did not show schemas for ODBC connection
- Varchar(max) fields did not show any data when running the report
- Left & Right arrow keys did not work when field was (partially) outside the page borders
- Fixed problems with field masks not working
- Increased the maximum image size in RDS tables
- Fixed problem with size of docking panes in RDS sample dialog
- Fixed problem with explorers not always working
- HDE 4296 - A sub-report inside a blank section with the option 'Hide blank section' set would not show the sub-report
- HDE 4295 - Field Heading labels would not be included when creating sub-reports using the wizard – even if the option was selected
- HDE 4294 - Fields in the details section of a sub-report created with the wizard would be placed on top of each other
- HDE 4277 - 'Stack overflow' error when running a report with summaries on a large number of records
- HDE 4262 - Fixed error when editing a function from the Field Explorer; after changing the name of the function, an error 98 was triggered
- HDE 4260 - When printing a report, the background color of a section was printed in the wrong position - export and preview worked correctly
- HDE 4237 - Fixed problem with RDS sample data dialog not showing the first sample record
- HDE 4162 - A group name based on a function does not display contents
- HDE 4095 - Rename of a function using the field explorer can duplicate the function name
- HDE 4089 - Export to PDF and RTF of a box with the border set to 'none' does display box borders
- HDE 3890 - Alignment does not work when one of the objects is locked - using the 'Allow move/resize of locked fields via keyboard' option enables alignment of locked objects
- HDE 3284 - Bottom pixel was clipped when exporting to PDF - low quality
- HDE 3284 - 0.5 point lines and boxes did not appear in HTML export; other non-integer line thickness would be rounded down to the nearest integer