What's new in Genero Business Development Language, v 2.20

This topic lists features added for the 2.20 release of the Genero Business Development Language.

Table 1. What's new in Genero Business Development Language, Version 2.20
Overview	Reference
The Java™ Interface allows your programs to use the Java library.	See Java Interface.
Support for typical Tree-View widgets with the new TREE container.	See Tree views.
The traditional user interface mode: To simplify migration from Informix^® 4GL or Four Js BDS, you can now run applications in traditional mode to render windows as simple boxes, as in the WTK front-end.	See Traditional GUI mode.
Phantom form fields can be used to define the screen-record or screen-array, but are not used in the LAYOUT section of the form. Phantom fields are especially useful when implementing a TREE container.	See Phantom fields.
Multi-row selection allows end users to highlight several rows in a list of records.	See Syntax of DISPLAY ARRAY instruction.
New TINYINT, BIGINT and BOOLEAN data types.	See TINYINT, BIGINT, BOOLEAN.
Built-in sort works now in INPUT ARRAY.	See The built-in sort of INPUT ARRAY.
New database drivers.	List of new database drivers: dbmsqt3xx for an SQLite 3 library (2.20.01)
New contextMenu action default attribute to allow you to specify whether the menu option is visible in the default context menu. The default value is "yes" - the option is visible whenever the action is visible.	See Action defaults.
Private functions: It is now possible to hide a function (or report) to the other modules with the new PRIVATE keyword.	See Understanding functions.
Automatic source documentation generator.	See Source documentation.
New integratedSearch presentation style attribute for TEXTEDIT fields to enable text search.	See TextEdit style attributes.
FOLDER elements can now use a position style attribute to define the position (top, left, right, bottom) of folder tabs.	See Folder style attributes.
BUTTON form items get a new buttonType attribute to define the rendering of the button.	See Button style attributes.
MENU object created with the popup option can be placed with the position style attribute.	See Menu style attributes.
Window Menu and Action panel decoration can be customized using the new ringMenuDecoration, actionPanelDecoration stye attributes.	See Window style attributes.
The new tabbedContainer, tabbedContainerCloseMethod style attributes can be used to turn on and customize tabbed WCI containers.	See Window style attributes.
TABLE elements can use the new tableType attribute to render data in different ways. The new resizeFillsEmptySpace attribute can be used to define how the last column is resized when the table is resized.	See Table style attributes.
All items with an IMAGE attribute can use the new imageCache attribute to define if the picture can be cached locally on the front-end.	See Common style attributes.
New Front-End Functions getwindowid, feinfo, launchurl.	See Standard front end functions.
MySQL Driver supports TEXT/BYTE data types.	See SQL adaptation guide For Oracle MySQL 5.x.
The fglcomp compiler has been extended with a new option (--timestamp) to write the compilation timestamp to the generated 42m p-code module. If present, the timestamp will be printed when using fglrun -b. Use compilation timestamps only if really needed; every new compiled .42m module will be different, even if the source code has not changed.	See fglcomp.
Front-End protocol compression can now be disabled with a new FGLPROFILE entry. This is especially useful in fast networks to save processor time.	See Front-end protocol compression.
To work around conflicts with the Informix database path specification in DBPATH, you can now use the FGLRESOURCEPATH environment variable to specify search paths for program resource files like forms.	See FGLRESOURCEPATH.
New built-in functions are now available to control the part of the text that is selected in the current field:	See FGL_DIALOG_GETSELECTIONEND(), FGL_DIALOG_SETSELECTION().
New IMAGE attribute in form LAYOUT element: The LAYOUT section of a form definition can now use the IMAGE attribute to define the icon to be used for the parent Window. This is especially useful in a Container-based application, to distinguish child programs inside the WCI container.	See LAYOUT section.
Use the new INFIELD clause in ON ACTION interactive block to automatically enable/disable the action when entering/leaving the specified field.	See Field-specific enabled actions.
New precision math built-in functions for DECIMAL data.	See FGL_DECIMAL_TRUNCATE(), FGL_DECIMAL_SQRT(), FGL_DECIMAL_EXP(), FGL_DECIMAL_LOGN(), FGL_DECIMAL_POWER().
Database user authentication callback function can be used to specify a database user and password when the DATABASE instruction cannot be replaced by CONNECT TO.	See User authentication callback function.
Getting the current active dialog with ui.Dialog.getCurrent().	See ui.Dialog.getCurrent.
The START REPORT instruction now allows to specify the XML SAX Document Handler to process XML output with the TO XML HANDLER clause.	See TO XML HANDLER syntax.
Automatic Code Completion with VIM: If you have Vim 7 installed, you can now use .per and .4gl code completion.	See Source code edition.
Report definition file generation with fglcomp --build-rdd option.	See See fglcomp.
FGLSQLDEBUG output is improved to display and SQL command header with SQL command name and source/line information before executing the underlying ODI driver code. If the driver code crashes or stops the process with an assertion, you can easily identify the last SQL instruction that was executed.	See FGLSQLDEBUG.

Table 2. What's new in Genero Web Services (GWS), Version 2.20
Overview	Reference
The Genero Web Services XML Library has been improved to support the XML-Signature and XML-Encryption specifications defined by the W3C (also known as XML-Security). The library enables 4GL applications to handle public, private, symmetric or hmac keys and X509 certificates in order to sign XML documents or document fragments, and verify a XML signature against a certificate or key. It also enables the applications to encrypt XML nodes using symmetric keys, and decrypt them back using DOM manipulation. Combined with the COM library, any 4GL application can now exchange any XML documents over the Internet in a completely secured manner. The library provides classes for: Manipulating cryptography keys Handling X509 certificates for identification Encrypting and decrypting XML documents, document fragments, or symmetric keys Signing XML documents, document fragments, or any kind of data, and validating them againstXML signatures	See XML security classes.
The Genero Web Services XML library provides APIs to encrypt and decrypt strings with symmetric or RSA public/private keys. These APIs can be used to encrypt/decrypt passwords directly in 4GL applications.	See The Encryption class and fglpass.
The Genero Web Services provides support for the new `BOOLEAN`, `TINYINT` and `BIGINT` data types. You can use these data types when writing your web service or to customize your 4GL records for XML serialization. The fglwsdl tool has been enhanced to generate these new data types automatically when encountered in WSDL files or XML schemas. Note: For compatibility issues, the fglwsdl tool allows code generation without these new data types by using the option '`-legacyTypes`'.	See Attributes to customize XML serialization and fglwsdl.