DataFlex 2021 Beta 3 Release Notes

Welcome to DataFlex 2021 Beta 3

The Beta releases are important milestones that signifies 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 so that we could 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 and that 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 and 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 new table with 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, 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
• Class Reference
• Added note that Establish_Find_Direction clears the RowId in the global record buffer.
• Added doc for
• pbAutoFillOnLoad
• SQLStrFileName
• SQLGetDataToUChar
• psAutoComplete
• cSelectFolderDialog
• Updated cSelectionSource methods
• Language Reference
• Added doc for UCharArrayToWString and WStringToUCharArray
• Updated UCharArrayToString and StringToUCharArray
• Change Beta 2 references to Beta 3 where appropriate
• Installer
• Changed Beta 2 references to Beta 3
• Fixed wording
• Uninstall should not leave any files or folders behind - fixed

See Also

What's New in DataFlex 2021