Frontier 5.0a2 Release Notes

Hiding windows.

Added Hide Window item to the Windows menu.

The root window remembers when it was saved hidden.

Menu editing fixes.

Fixed bug adding an item to a submenu. Add Bookmark works again.

Menu items containing, but not starting with, an open parenthesis are no longer disabled.

About window.

The About window remembers its position and expanded state.

The About window is resizable.

Table windows.

Fixed crashing bug cmd-option-2clicking on a headline icon to zoom the item and close the current window.

Increased the minimum window width and column width for tables.

Editing very large (> 32K) binary objects no longer hangs, but display bugs remain.

WP-Text windows.

WP-Text objects use the width of the printed page as the wrapping area.

The Wrap to Fit Window command works properly. Note: you can't wrap wider than the printed page.

Dragging the thumb to scroll works.

QuickScript window.

When the About window or a file-based window is frontmost, the already-open Quick Script window is recognized.

Outline pasting.

Pasted lines longer than 255 characters are broken at word boundaries, and continue at the same outline level.

Opening old databases.

When opening 4.x database files, the main menubar is installed so you don't appear to be in Beginner mode.

New pageheader macro.

The html suite's pageheader macro is now smarter about what version of Frontier you're running.

The generator meta tag will now report your version and operating system.

Toys.getGifHeightWidth now cross-platform.

The toys.getGifHeightWidth script now works for Windows as well as Mac.

ImageRef macro enhancement.

The html suite's imageRef macro now does not write a graphic file to disk if the file already exists and is not older than the graphic binary stored in the odb.

Glue import and load osax scripts fixed.

The Commercial Developer's suite and the load osax scripts were broken by Frontier's new strictness with addresses. They are now fixed.

External card editing.

MacBird cards can now be edited externally, as with Frontier 4.2.3.

System.compiler.files added to system.misc.paths.

With system.compiler.files added to system.misc.paths, it should be easier to call file-based scripts and work with file-based objects.