| Upgrading / New features of Genero BDL | |
This topic lists features added for the 3.00 GA release of the Genero Business Development Language.
| Overview | Reference |
|---|---|
| The fglmkext command line tool can build your C Extension library. | See fglmkext. |
| New fglcomp warning for invalid NULL usage in expressions like var==NULL. | See Compiler warning -6636. |
| C Extension runtime stack introspection (parameter type and actual string value size in bytes). | See Runtime stack functions. |
| Temporary file name creation with os.Path.makeTempName(). | See os.Path.makeTempName. |
| Attach the debugger to a running program with fgldb -p process-id. | See Attaching to a running program. |
| Improved compilation time (fglcomp and fglform) | See Improved compilation time. |
| Datetime-related utility methods. | See util.Datetime.getCurrentAsUTC, util.Datetime.format, util.Datetime.parse. |
| Date-related utility methods. | See util.Date methods. |
| Interval-related utility methods. | See util.Interval methods. |
| Overview | Reference |
|---|---|
| Autocompletion in text edit fields with the COMPLETER attribute. | See Enabling autocompletion. |
| Centralization of icon definitions with the FGLIMAGEPATH environment variable. | See Providing the image resource, FGLIMAGEPATH, Built-in front-end icons desupport. |
| Defining an action for IMAGE form items (clickable images). | See Defining action views in forms, Defining actions on list columns with images, IMAGE item type. |
| Resizable SCROLLGRID containers (WANTFIXEDPAGESIZE=NO). | See WANTFIXEDPAGESIZE attribute. |
| Detect window resizing or device orientation change with the windowresized predefined action. | See Adapting to viewport changes. |
| Dialog methods to convert the program array row index to the visual index, and the opposite. | See ui.Dialog.arrayToVisualIndex, ui.Dialog.visualToArrayIndex. |
| The ON SORT dialog control block can be used to execute code when the record list is re-ordered by the user. | See List ordering, Populating a DISPLAY ARRAY, ON SORT block, ui.Dialog.getSortKey, ui.Dialog.isSortReverse. |
| ON TIMER trigger in dialogs, to execute a block of code at regular intervals. | See Get program control on a regular (timed) basis. |
| Dynamic dialog creation. | See Implementing dynamic dialogs. |
| Providing application image resources to Web Components with ui.Interface.filenameToURI(). | See Using image resources with the gICAPI web component, ui.Interface.filenameToURI. |
| Binding structured ARRAYs in DISPLAY ARRAY and INPUT ARRAY. | See Structured ARRAYs in list dialogs. |
| Overview | Reference |
|---|---|
| Support for PostgreSQL 9.4. | See Database driver specification (driver). |
| Support for Sybase ASE 16.x. | See Database driver specification (driver). |
| Support for SQL Server 2008, 2012 and 2014 with FreeTDS driver (using FreeTDS 0.95) | See FreeTDS driver supports SQL Server 2008, 2012, 2014. |
| SQL interruption is now supported with MySQL. | See SQL interruption. |
| MySQL VARCHAR(N) can be used when N is greater as 255. | See MySQL VARCHAR size limit. |
| MySQL DATETIME can store fractional seconds. | See MySQL DATETIME fractional seconds. |
| Maria DB support (V5.5 and V10): Use the dbmmys driver. | See MariaDB support. |
| Dynamic cursor built-in class base.SqlHandle. | See The SqlHandle class. |
| Native Oracle NUMBER type (without precision/scale) can be extracted by fgldbsch. | See Oracle DB NUMBER type. |
| Serial emulation based on triggers and sequences with SQL Server 2012 and +. | See SERIAL data types. |
| PostgreSQL connection string option specification in the source parameter. | See Database source specification (source), Prepare the runtime environment - connecting to the database. |
| Overview | Reference |
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| Flushing immediately the response of a web service operation with com.WebServicesEngine.flush. | See com.WebServiceEngine.Flush. |
| Base64 / Hexadecimal / Digest methods using a specific character set for string data. | See security.Base64.FromStringWithCharset, security.Base64.ToStringWithCharset, security.HexBinary.FromStringWithCharset, security.HexBinary.ToStringWithCharset, security.Digest.AddStringDataWithCharset. |
| com.WebServiceEngine option server_readwritetimeout to define a server socket read/write timeout. | See Web Services changes, WebServiceEngine options. |
| IPv6 support for Web Services clients. | See Configure a WS client to use IPv6. |
| Specific APIs for Apple Push Notification Service support. | See The APNS class, com.TCPRequest.setKeepConnection, com.TCPRequest.doDataRequest, com.TCPResponse.getDataResponse, Push notifications. |
| Methods to perform RESTful requests using files on disk. | See com.HTTPServiceRequest.readFileRequest, com.HTTPServiceRequest.sendFileResponse, com.HTTPRequest.doFileRequest, com.HTTPResponse.getFileResponse, com.HTTPPart.getAttachment, com.HTTPPart.CreateAttachment. |
| FGLPROFILE entries to define XML Signature and XML Encrypted data prefix: xml.signature.prefix and xml.encrypted.prefix. | See XML configuration. |
| SOAP fault handling works now when HTTP error 200 is returned by the server. | See SOAP fault handling in client stub. |
| Client stub multipart supports now optional parts. | See Optional multipart handling in client stub |
| Overview | Reference |
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| Starting remote applications from a mobile device with the runOnServer front call. | See Running mobile apps on an application server. |
| Extended feInfo front call options for mobile devices (deviceModel, deviceId, freeStorageSpace, iccid, imei, ppi, windowSize, and so on). | See feInfo. |
| New materialFABType and materialFABActionList style attributes for Window class, to control the FAB button on devices following material design guidelines. | See Floating action button on Android devices. |
| Front call to display a box controlling debug settings on GMA. | See showSettings (Android). |
| Push notification APIs for Google Cloud Messaging (GMA) and Apple Push Notification Service (GMI), with new predefined actions (notificationpushed). | See Push notifications. |
| Command line tools to build mobile apps. | See Building Android apps with Genero, Building iOS apps with Genero. |
| Automatic FGLAPPDIR environment variable (defining the path to the appdir), and automatic FGLDIR environment variable, when executing on mobile devices. | See FGLAPPDIR, FGLDIR, Setting environment variables in FGLPROFILE (mobile). |
| Front calls to take or choose videos on mobile devices. | See chooseVideo, takeVideo front calls. |
| Overview | Reference |
|---|---|
| Stacked form definition in .per files with the new STACK container, for mobile programming. | See Stack-based layout, STACK container. |