Contents:

• 2006-06-21: JDLG 1.3.0.0 060621 1017
• 2006-06-09: JDLG 1.3.0.0 060609 1359
• 2006-03-16: JDLG 1.3.0.0 060316 1220
• 2006-03-15: JDLG 1.3.0.0 060315 1324
• 2006-02-27: JDLG 1.3.0.0 060227 1339
• 2006-02-10: JDLG 1.3.0.0 060210 1043
• 2006-01-18: JDLG 1.3.0.0 060120 1502
• 2006-01-18: JDLG 1.3.0.0 060118 1811
• 2006-01-17: JDLG 1.3.0.0 060117 1530
• 2006-01-17: JDLG 1.3.0.0 060117 1309
• 2006-01-06: JDLG 1.3.0.0 060106 1654
• 2005-12-30: JDLG 1.3.0.0 051230 1737
• 2005-12-23: JDLG 1.3.0.0 051223 1057
• 2005-12-16: JDLG 1.3.0.0 051216 1409
• 2005-12-13: JDLG 1.3.0.0 051213 1145
• 2005-12-12: JDLG 1.3.0.0 051212 1740
• 2005-12-09: JDLG 1.3.0.0 051209 1912
• 2005-11-16: JDLG 1.3.0.0 051116 1634
• 2005-11-15: JDLG 1.3.0.0 051115 1704
• 2005-11-11: JDLG 1.3.0.0 051111 1200
• 2005-11-10: JDLG 1.3.0.0 051110 1524
• 2005-07-15: JDLG 1.3.0.0 050715 1404
• 2005-05-23: JDLG 1.3.0.0 050523 1030
• 2004-08-30: JDLG 1.3.0.0 040830 1211
• 2004-08-24: JDLG 1.3.0.0 040824 1612
• 2004-08-23: JDLG 1.3.0.0 040823 1708
• 2004-08-16: JDLG 1.3.0.0 040816 1533

2006-06-21: JDLG 1.3.0.0 060621 1017

• JDLG ignores any numeric color values used with the .fgc and .bgc attributes. However, the implementation was slightly changed so that the values are now stored internally so that DLG GET returns the values previously set.

2006-06-09: JDLG 1.3.0.0 060609 1359

• The toplevel .first and .next attributes (for eample: DLG GET ".first",A$) caused JDLG to hang if there was no dialog present.

2006-03-16: JDLG 1.3.0.0 060316 1220

• The PopText delln attribute did not work as expected (#3035).

2006-03-15: JDLG 1.3.0.0 060315 1324

• The System.beep attribute was added (#3037). DLG SET "System.beep",0 issues a system-defined beep. The provided value (0 in this example) currently does not have any meaning. We recommend to use 0 to reserve any nonzero value for future enhancements.

• The System.sound attribute was added. It expects an URL argument referring to a sound file to be played. This allows to customize an application's acoustical user notification.

  The supported sound file formats are: AIFF, ALAW, MIDI (type 1 and 2), ULAW and WAV.

  For example:

  DLG SET "System.sound","http://mattsbits.com/2001humanerror.wav"
  

2006-02-27: JDLG 1.3.0.0 060227 1339

• A non-editable EditText could be modified through the undo, cut, paste and delete operations of the EditText context menu (#3016).

• Modifying the ListBox content caused an immediate redraw. This could have a performance impact if multiple lines were inserted, added, modified or deleted.

  This problem was introduced with the previous JDLG 1.3.0.0 060210 1043 release to fix the wrong vactiveline behavior.

• The ListBox hlines and vlines attributes did not work if only one of these attributes was set (i.e., hlines set to 1 but vlines set to 0 or vice-versa).

• The POPUP BOX returned zero if the [X] close box of the POPUP BOX window was clicked (#2928). The close box is now disabled so that this no longer happens.

• Pressing a function key could issue a NullPointerException.

2006-02-10: JDLG 1.3.0.0 060210 1043

• DLG DEL did not always delete all objects contained in a dialog (#2876). These objects were no longer visible but could still be accessed with DLG GET and DLG SET. Also, if a dialog with the same name was afterwards created, these objects either showed up unexpectedly or their attributes were merged with objects of the same id.

• Setting the sensitive attribute of a container object affected all child objects so that their sensitive status could change (#2879, #2970). In addition, setting a TabBox insensitive caused the first tab to become selected.

• In a TabBox, if a tab was set insensitive it could still be selected with the associated accelerator key (#2992).

• Setting the ListBox vactiveline attribute did not always work as expected.

• Setting the ListBox hlines and vlines attributes did not always work as expected.

• Setting the ListBoxHeader title attribute did not always work as expected.

• The HtmlView.visible attribute had no effect (#2699).

• The ListBox.spacing attribute unfortunately has side effects that cannot be solved at the moment ((a) it affects the width of the ListBoxHeader, (b) it causes a gap in the highlighting of the active line). As this affects the visual appearance of the ListBox we advise against using the ListBox.spacing attribute. It is still functional but now considered undocumented and unsupported (#2983).

2006-01-18: JDLG 1.3.0.0 060120 1502

New functionality:

• The new ListBox modelorder, vieworder and vactiveline attributes were added.

Fixed problems:

• Although setting the StaticText textpos attribute worked it issued a 667 error code in Eloquence.

• ListBoxHeader objects did not honor the fontface, fontsize and fontstyle attributes.

2006-01-18: JDLG 1.3.0.0 060118 1811

• The Dialog logoicon attribute did not work anymore. This problem was introduced with the previous JDLG 1.3.0.0 060117 1309 release.

• The StaticText textpos attribute did not work anymore. This problem was introduced with the previous JDLG 1.3.0.0 060117 1309 release.

• The ListBox bgcolor and fgcolor are now correctly reset if set to an empty string.

• After DLG SET ListBox.clear the sortable state of a ListBox column was reset. This affected the sortsequence attribute (and consequently the status attribute as well).

2006-01-17: JDLG 1.3.0.0 060117 1530

• The width and height attributes did not work anymore. This problem was introduced with the previous JDLG 1.3.0.0 060117 1309 release.

2006-01-17: JDLG 1.3.0.0 060117 1309

New functionality:

• The new ListBox bgcolor2 and fgcolor2 attributes were added.

Fixed problems:

• ListBoxHeader objects did not honor the fgcolor and bgcolor attributes.

• The ListBox columnorder and sortsequence attributes (and consequently the status attribute as well) did not always work as expected (#2971).

2006-01-06: JDLG 1.3.0.0 060106 1654

New functionality:

• The new ListBoxHeader.vline attribute was added (#2954).

Fixed problems:

• If empty columns were specified when setting ListBox add, ins and line the first empty column was removed if a superfluous column separator was present at the end of the DLG SET argument.

2005-12-30: JDLG 1.3.0.0 051230 1737

New functionality:

• The new ListBox.rowheight attribute allows to specify the minimum row height. This is useful in combination with HTML content.

• The new ListBox.spacing attribute allows to specify an additional horizontal cell spacing in pixel units.

Fixed problems:

• Setting the ListBox.status attribute for a nonmatching number of columns could cause JDLG to hang due to an internal ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.

2005-12-23: JDLG 1.3.0.0 051223 1057

• If the selected line in a ListBox was modified the selection (highlighting) disappeared.

• DLG GET ListBox.columns now returns 0 if a ListBox does not contain any ListBoxHeader objects.

• Setting both the ListBox columnorder and sortsequence attributes did not work as expected because the sortsequence was implicitly reset when the columnorder was set.

• DLG SET ListBox.sortsequence no longer resets the horizontal scroll position when the sort sequence of a column is changed which is currently scrolled outside the ListBox view.

• Setting the ListBox.sortsequence attribute in a DLG file now works as expected. Please note that in a ListBox definition the sortsequence attribute must be defined after the definition of the ListBoxHeader objects.

2005-12-16: JDLG 1.3.0.0 051216 1409

• Setting the ComboBox.content attribute had no effect (#2880).

• Setting the columnorder immediately after loading the dialog (i.e., before any DLG DRAW or DLG DO was executed) did not work as expected. If the ! character was used to hide a column the referred column was not always hidden.

• The ListBoxHeader.autowidth calculation still did not always calculate a sufficient width. The resulting width could be too narrow.

2005-12-13: JDLG 1.3.0.0 051213 1145

New functionality:

• The new System.clipboard attribute allows to exchange string values with the system clipboard. This enables a program using JDLG to copy/paste string data to/from other applications.

Fixed problems:

• The ListBox.fontface attribute was not inherited from a ListBox model.

• The ListBoxHeader.autowidth attribute had no effect if defined in a dialog file. The documentation has been updated to describe the autowidth functionality in detail.

2005-12-12: JDLG 1.3.0.0 051212 1740

• Specifying a ListBox font (.fontface, .fontsize, .fontstyle attributes) did not result in the expected behavior: The font was not displayed, deriving a font from a model did not work and all ListBox objects shared the same font.

• Using the ListBoxHeader.resizable attribute could cause JDLG to hang due to an internal ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.

• Depending on the font size being used, the ListBoxHeader.autowidth attribute did not correctly calculate the column width. The resulting width could be too narrow.

2005-12-09: JDLG 1.3.0.0 051209 1912

New functionality:

• The ListBox implementation is now feature complete.

  Please refer to the separate ListBox documentation for a complete attribute reference including examples.

  Any feedback on this new ListBox implementation is highly appreciated. Please mail your suggestions or problem reports to support@marxmeier.com.

• The new RDLG protocol has been implemented which enables JDLG to be used in a NAT (network address translation) environment.

  To activate the RDLG protocol, a session's protocol parameter is set to "rdlg" in the session configuration file:

  SESSIONNAME.protocol = rdlg
  

  The previous implementation of the DLG protocol requires that a remote eloqcore process can connect the JDLG, with either the DLG SET ".driver" statement or the -dlg command line option.

  If the PC running JDLG connects from a network behind a NAT router this does not work because from the perspective of the eloqsd process the PC is invisible.

  The new RDLG protocol passes the existing eloqsd connection to the eloqcore process which in turn uses it for the DLG protocol.

  Please note: This requires Eloquence B.07.10 on the remote server side. The Eloquence B.07.10 eloqsd and eloqcore binaries support the new RDLG protocol.

Fixed problems:

• The Application.ipaddress, Application.dnsname, System.ipaddress and System.dnsname attributes returned the remote addres and host name instead of the local address and host name.

• Creating a dialog named System or Application caused JDLG to hang (#2683).

2005-11-16: JDLG 1.3.0.0 051116 1634

• The ListBox.line, PopText.line, PopText.text and EditText.line attributes did not work when used without an index, i.e. to get/set the current line (#2909). This problem was introduced in the last release (051115 1704).

• DLG SET ListBoxHeader.title did not immediately update the column header (#2272).

• The new Application.ipaddress and Application.dnsname attributes return the local ip address and host name used in the session's DLG network connection.

  The System.ipaddress and System.dnsname attributes are now deprecated and should no longer be used. For backwards compatibility, they return the local ip address and host name used in the DLG network connection of the most recent session (i.e., the session which was most recently started).

2005-11-15: JDLG 1.3.0.0 051115 1704

• For backwards compatibility reasons, DLG SET ListBox.activeline,0 does no longer affect ListBox.cy (#2883).

2005-11-11: JDLG 1.3.0.0 051111 1200

• DLG SET TabBox.selectedtab could cause JDLG to abort with a NullPointerException (#2871).

2005-11-10: JDLG 1.3.0.0 051110 1524

• DLG SET ListBox.line incremented the .cy position (#2865).

• DLG SET TabBox.selectedtab did not work if an object in a tab different from the tab which was selected had the focus (#2871).

2005-07-15: JDLG 1.3.0.0 050715 1404

• When using nested TabBoxes, a wrong rule could be triggered. This was caused by Java Swing which intermediately set the focus to the first control outside the topmost TabBox. JDLG noticed this focus gain and triggered the control's rule the next time DLG DO was invoked which likely led to wrong application behavior.

• The ListBox attributes .add, .delln, .ins, .line and .topitem did not behave correctly when the content was sorted.

• DLG GET did not work with ListBoxHeader attributes.

• If multiple applications are active, an internal race condition could cause two or more dialogs to struggle for the topmost display position.

• JDLG could abort with a NullPointerException when an undefined object was addressed with DLG GET (#2768).

• JDLG could abort with a NullPointerException when a wrong data type was used with DLG SET (e.g.: DLG SET "EditText.content",0) (#2720)

• The eloquence.config.errorlog configuration has been introduced to log any Java exceptions and runtime errors into a file. Previously, JDLG had to run in a terminal/console, otherwise the Java standard error output was not output.

• In a session configuration file, if the session name contained HTML code this code became visible in the progess indicator when the session was started.

• In a session configuration file, the $host macro is now replaced with the local address of the established eloqsd connection. This avoids that on systems with multiple network interfaces the IP address of the wrong interface is choosen (#2764).

2005-05-23: JDLG 1.3.0.0 050523 1030

New functionality:

• The EditText and ComboBox objects now support Undo with the standardized keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Z or Meta+Z).

• The EditText and ComboBox objects now have a configurable clipboard context menu which is activated with the right mouse button. It offers the common edit functions Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete and Select All.

  The menu text can be configured in the JDLG configuration file with:

  eloquence.config.clipboardcontextmenu = value
  

  Possible values are:

  • List of menu items, separated with the pipe character '|'. The accelerator character of each item is prefixed as usual with the '&' ampersand character.

    Exactly six items should be provided in the following order:

    &Undo|Cu&t|&Copy|&Paste|&Delete|Select &All
    

    For example, the following configures a German clipboard context menu (must be put in a single line):

    eloquence.config.clipboardcontextmenu =
     Rü&ckgängig|&Ausschneiden|&Kopieren|Ein&fügen|&Löschen|Alles &markieren
    

  • off

    Disables the clipboard context menu:

    eloquence.config.clipboardcontextmenu = off
    

  If eloquence.config.clipboardcontextmenu is not specified, the default value '&Undo|Cu&t|&Copy|&Paste|&Delete|Select &All' is used.

• In the session start menu, a session's start process is now visualized with an indeterminate progress indicator. This indicator remains active either until the first DLG DO or DLG DRAW is executed or until an error is encountered.

  If the started application silently aborts (i.e. never connects to JDLG) the start progress indicator times out after 30 seconds.

• A session can be given the autostart status so that it will be started automatically when JDLG is started:

  SESSIONNAME.autostart = yes (or true or on or 1)
  

  If multiple sessions have the .autostart attribute set they will all be started simultaneously when JDLG is started.

• JDLG can now be configured so that it automatically terminates when the last session has ended:

  eloquence.config.exitonlastsession = yes (or true or on or 1)
  

  This is especially useful in combination with the session autostart feature. In addition, the JDLG window can be set to iconified state so that JDLG will stay 'in background':

  eloquence.config.syswin = iconified
  

• The caching of the session login credentials can now be disabled:

  eloquence.config.sessionlogincache = off (or false or no or 0)
  

  If this is set, JDLG does not cache the login credentials so that each time a session is started, the user must login again.

• The new .path attribute can be used to resolve the absolute path of an object. This is especially useful in combination with wildcard path specifications, for example:

  DLG GET "test.*.whereisit.path",Buf$
  

  would return:

  test.tb.tab1.whereisit
  

  Please note that in combination with a wildcard path, DLG GET only addresses the first object it finds, even if the wildcard specification would match multiple objects in a dialog.

Fixed problems:

• All known focus problems have been fixed, especially with TabBox and ComboBox objects. The focus was not always set correctly. DLG DRAW could have the side effect that it affected the focus.

• All previous JDLG 1.2 ListBox attributes are now functional in the new JDLG 1.3 ListBox. In particular, the .content, .delln, .ins, .length and .topitem attributes now work as expected.

• The Listbox width is now correctly calculated. Previously, the vertical scroll bar was not always taken into account so that a horizontal scroll bar was sometimes displayed after a Listbox was filled for the first time.

• On a multicolumn Listbox, the titles order could be wrong after a column was moved.

• Java version 1.5 and above is now correctly recognized. However, please note that JDLG has not entirely been tested against Java version 1.5.

• EditText and ComboBox rules were not always triggered when accelerator keys were used. The ComboBox keyboard navigation and rule handling did not always work as expected (#2618).

• When the up/down keys were used to select a PopText entry, each key stroke triggered the PopText rule (#2507). The current version fixes this problem if JDLG is run under Java 1.4 or newer.

• With .resizepolicy = scale, a rounding error could occur which could cause a wrong font size to be calculated (#2273).

2004-08-30: JDLG 1.3.0.0 040830 1211

• JDLG could abort with an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when certain Unicode punctation characters were input (#2020). This was already fixed in version 1.2.0.9 but had to be re-integrated into the current version.

2004-08-24: JDLG 1.3.0.0 040824 1612

• On a multicolumn ListBox, DLG GET ".line[n]" did only return the first column. This was a side effect introduced with JDLG 1.3.0.0 040823 1708.

• DLG DRAW caused the addressed dialog to come into foreground. If another dialog was executing DLG DO at the same time it lost its keyboard focus (#2444).

2004-08-23: JDLG 1.3.0.0 040823 1708

• DLG SET ".add" on a ListBox did not add multiple lines at once when newline-separated text was passed. This worked correctly in JDLG 1.2 and has now been fixed in JDLG 1.3 for ListBox, PopText and ComboBox objects (#2440).

• For DLGSRV compatibility, the PopText .text attribute has been introduced which is an alias for the .line attribute and behaves identically (#2438).

• DLG GET ".line[n]" on a PopText did not indicate whether a line exists or not. This has been fixed. Error 660 (invalid value) is now returned whenever a nonexisting line is addressed (#2436).

• CheckBoxes and RadioButtons did not always display the complete text if their width was automatically calculated based on the text width (#1516, #2153).

• The .ruleoverride = 0 attribute did not always work as expected due to a race condition (#2435).

2004-08-16: JDLG 1.3.0.0 040816 1533

• If the width of a StaticText, PushButton, CheckBox or RadioButton is 0, DLG SET ".text" sets it to the width of the text. The new width is now based on the underlying font, ensuring that the entire text is visible. Previously, the new width was calculated based on the character raster which caused the text to be clipped if a font was used which was wider than the raster width. Also, the CheckBoxes and RadioButtons were often wider than necessary (#1516, #2153).

• The .line[n] ComboBox attribute has been introduced. It allows to set or change a particular combobox line. Previously, only the .add attribute was available to append new lines (#1690).

• The .editable ComboBox attribute has been introduced.

• If the wildcard '*' was used in DLG SET as last path component to set the content (as in DLG SET "MainDialog.*.content",""), StaticText objects were affected as well (#2389).

• DLG SET ".activeline",1 on an empty PopText caused the session to become unresponsive due to an OutOfBoundsException (#2408).

• If DLG SET ".async",1 was used during DLG LOAD, JDLG could silently abort due to an incomplete network receive (#2413).

• DLG GET ".content" on a ComboBox could return an empty string unless the ENTER key was pressed in the combobox edittext (#2417).