Frontier 5.0d12 Release Notes

List and record support.

List and record value are fully supported in the Windows version.

Win32 record types support field names up to 255 characters; record keys are not string4 values.

Currently, the list and record datatypes, like filespectype, are not cross-platform.

The file format will have to be updated to accomodate old and new types, Win32 and MacOS data.

The Mac version will have to be updated to understand the new types but will require additional code to convert to and from Apple Event lists.

Ultimately, we'll want to do some performance comparisons between 4.x and 5.0 list handling.

Desktop file handling.

Frontier documents (.fat or .fatp) have the correct icon in the Explorer.

Files no longer get 8.3 names in window titles when 2clicked in the Explorer.

When launched in response to the user opening a file in another folder, Frontier finds Frontier.root in its own folder.

Fixed "Can't find a subtable named Frontier" error on startup when Frontier needs to prompt for a root file.

File object windows.

File objects are once again recognized as their respecitve types by scripts.

[Broken in d11]

Keypad key recognition fixed.

The standard minus key is no longer mistaken for a keypad key. A minus is inserted into text.

Plus, minus, and asterix on the keypad expand, collapse, and expand all respectively.

[Windows version]

Table pasting.

Frontier4.x functionality is restored when the clipboard isn't another table item.

Pasting into a table now creates a new item of the appropriate type.

string.parseHttpArgs verb.

Now supported under Windows

string.urlencode verb.

The '%' character itself is now encoded. [4.x bug]

Fixed swapped comment icons in script outlines.

Expanded is light, unexpanded is dark

[Windows version -- internal release only.]