The Features and Bugs Listed Below
are for the current pre-release build. These
features/fixes will be included in the next official
Version 11 Update. These notes are for users who are
testing the pre-release update.
This is not an official patch, so you should not deploy this update to a production environment.
This pre-release build is our internal, nightly build and it is made available to you for the sole purpose of testing the new features that have been added and the bug fixes that have been made since the last official release. We are making this pre-release available to you so that you can provide us with feedback on whether the changes we are making are working correctly and have not introduced new issues.
If you encounter any type of bug while using this pre-release build, please send information about the bug (including full instructions on how to duplicate the issue, and a test case that we can run on our own machines) to a5v11bugs@alphasoftware.com.
Please do NOT post bug reports concerning the pre-release build on the message board. Alpha Software engineers do NOT routinely monitor the message board and there is a good chance that your posting will be overlooked. Also, since your posting will be referencing unreleased code, it will only serve to confuse other users.
This pre-release build is not intended to be used in a production environment.
You can download the pre-release update using these
links:
http://downloads.alphasoftware.com/a5v11download/private/a5v11_full_patch.exe
http://downloads.alphasoftware.com/a5v11download/private/a5v11_full_DL.exe
http://downloads.alphasoftware.com/a5v11download/private/a5v11_appserver.exe
http://downloads.alphasoftware.com/a5v11download/private/a5v11_appserver_patch.exe
http://downloads.alphasoftware.com/a5v11download/private/a5v11_RTPLUS_patch.exe
Forms - Embedded Browse - Data Entry - Fixed a cosmetic issue with data entry when working with a set that has a one-to-one link off a table that is linked to the parent in a one-to-many link
Reports - Layout Table Reports - Fixed
International character output from layout table report
to to plain text.
Static text that was supposed to show up using the ACP
code page was being shown as UTF8.
Forms - Grand-child lookups used in a popup did not
repopulate - A form that uses a set that references
a table that is later used in a nested lookup did not
refresh because the child lookup was using a aliased
version of the table.
Forms - Embedded Browse - Fixed a bug with an
embedded browse that included a '0' width column. The
result of the bug was that the column after the '0'
width column wrapped to the start of the browse,
resulting a display being overwritten.
Grid and Dialog Component - Postgres - Sequence Fields - ODBC Driver - Fixed an issue using sequence fields.
Grid Component - Cascading Dropdowns - Explicit Filter for Child Dropdown - Fixed a bug where the child dropdown did not display the correct choices after the record was committed.
Tabbed UI - Tree Control - A5W Codeblocks - When you use a tree control to display the buttons for a Tabbed UI, you can now use <%a5 ..%> code blocks in the text for each item on the tree control.
Grid Component - Cascading Dropdown Controls - Explicit Filter for Child Dropdown - Arguments - If you used the option to set an explicit filter for a child dropdownbox (rather than the default, in which Alpha Five automatically computes the filter), and the filter used arguments, the filter did not work for new record rows.
base64Encode() Function - Made a fix to address a memory leak in this function.
Reports - Descending Sorts - Fixed a problem in sorting numeric data that had both positive and negative numbers with decimal places.
UX Component - Map Control - How to Programmatically Resize a Map Control - In this example, assume that the ID of the map control is 'MAP1'.
//get a pointer to the div that contains the map
var ele = $('{dialog.ComponentName}.V.R1.MAP1.CONTROL');
//resize the div
ele.style.width = '600px';
ele.style.height = '600px';
//get a pointer to the map control
var mObj = {dialog.object}.getControl('map1');
//refresh it
mObj.refresh()
NOTE: This build contains a bug in the UX component .chartRefresh() method and in the Tabbed UI (only if the security framework is used). If you update your install by copying newer aex files into the program folder (development and application server), after installing the update, these issues are fixed. Click here to download new aex files. After installing the updated .aex files, the build number should be 3579-4136.
Application Server - SSL - Some users who are using SSL have reported server stability issues. We have found and fixed an issue with OpenSSL - the third party library used by Alpha Five to implement SSL - that we believe will address this issue.
Turning off Drag Scrolling - Some machines
support both touch events and a mouse. On these machines
certain controls (such as the edit-combo) will not have
a vertical scrollbar because it is assumed that the user
will use a touch gesture to scroll the list. However,
you might want to turn off touch (i.e. drag) scrolling
and force the user to use the mouse to scroll content.
This can be done by executing the following Javascript
command.
A5.u.drag.useDragScrolling = 'never';
A convenient place to execute this Javascript (if your
components are run from a Tabbed UI) is in the
'Javascript to run on startup' property of the Tabbed
UI.
If your components are not run from a Tabbed UI, you
could add a <script> tag to the page that loads the
component. You must execute the Javascript before the
component has loaded.
For example:
<script>
A5.u.drag.useDragScrolling = 'never';
</script>
AlphaDAO - Access - Fixed an issue with inserting data into binary fields.
Grid Component - Fixed an issue with passing argument values to a Grid.
Web Server - Maximum Number of Sessions Error in Xbasic Error Log - One user has reported that occasionally the App Server stops responding and the Xbasic Error logs shows that there are too many sessions. We have not been able to duplicate this situation in our own testing, but this build has a change that we are hopeful will address this issue. Because we have not been able to duplicate the issue ourselves, we can't say with certainty that the issue is addressed.
Web Server - A5_NormalizeDate() Function - Some users have reported that the Xbasic Error Log for the Application server has entries showing that A5_NormalizeDate() is taking a lot resources. While we have not been able to reproduce the situation, we have added protection to the A5_NormalizeDate() function so that it cannot be called in an infinite recursive loop.
Dialog Component - Server Side Actions - Send Email - In the message body, you can now insert field placeholders that will not be html encoded when the field is merged into the template. When you define the message body, you define a template (which is HTML) and then you use placeholders (like {field1}, {field2}, etc.), in the template to indicate where fields on the component should be merged into the template. If the field on the component has HTML text in it, then you can use the {NoHTMLEncode_field} placeholder.
AlphaDAO - Getting Schema Information - When
two (or more) tables have the same name, but a different
schema, the result of SQL::Connection::GetTableInfo is
unpredictable. It may match any of the tables. All
tables with the same name will likely return the same
definition.
This issue affects all SQL builders and XBasic code
calling SQL::Connection::GetTableInfo.
This is now fixed.
Operations - Export Ascii - Filter Export Data - When exporting data from Alpha Five tables to ascii files, you may want to filter or transform certain characters (such as quotes, single quotes, commas, etc.) in the exported data. A new dialog (displayed when the 'Properties' button in the Export Builder) is clicked) allows you to define various data transformation rules.
Network Optimization - When you create a Network Optimized Workspace, a shadow copy of the web projects folder is now also created. This is done because it is possible to build desktop applications that use web components.
Grid Component - RadioButtons and CheckBox Controls - OnChange Javascript Event - {Grid.rownumber} - The {grid.rownumber} placeholder in the onChange event for Radiobuttons and Checkbox controls in the Grid part was not getting replaced at render time.
Edit-Combo - Progressive Filter - Deleting Characters - When you delete a character in the text you have entered into an edit-combo, all of the previously typed characters are no longer deleted.
HTML Editor - IE10 - Inserting Components - As a result of a breaking change made by Microsoft in IE10, which results in the GetElementUnderCaret() method in IE failing under certain conditions, the ability to insert a Component into an HTML document when in WYSIWYG mode was broken (if IE10 was installed on your computer). A work around for the issue has been found.
Alpha Five Hang when Working in a Component Editor - Some users have reported that under certain circumstances when working with the MDI child windows maximized, Alpha Five would occasionally hang. We have determined that this was caused by some optimization code that was added to compensate for slow video cards. This is old code that is likely not needed by today's modern video cards. A new setting allows you to turn of this optimization in the unlikely event that you encounter this hang problem. Go to View Settings, Preferences, Display, Repaint Optimization.
Edit-Combo - Progressive Filter - Deleting Characters - When you delete a character in the text you have entered into an edit-combo, all of the previously typed characters are no longer deleted.
Grid Component - RadioButtons and CheckBox Controls - OnChange Javascript Event - {Grid.rownumber} - The {grid.rownumber} placeholder in the onChange event for Radiobuttons and Checkbox controls in the Grid part was not getting replaced at render time.