Frontier 5.0d19 Release Notes

• Problems with file-based objects fixed.
• File-based objects were broken in the last release.
• They now work again.
• Sys.os and sys.machine verbs.
• Returned values now have compiler constants:
• • machinePPC
  • machine68K
  • machineX86
  • osMacOS
  • osWin95
  • osWinNT
• Like the built in direction constants, these identifiers are now keywords in the language.
• CGI Framework updated; now server-agnostic.
• Frontier has changed the way it handles incoming Apple events.
• Event parameters can now be in any order. More or fewer parameters
• can be sent to Frontier: Frontier will field it cleanly.
• As a result, the CGI Framework's CGI sdoc handler now supports
• any server: WebSTAR, Quid Pro Quo, NetPresenz, MS-PWS, etc.
• Also: due to the below change to the appleEvent verb, we now easily support running two server
• applications (same or different) on one machine.
• AppleEvent verbs understand 'psn ' binary values.
• You might get a psn value as the result of getEventSender.
• You can now use a psn as the appID parameter to appleEvent, complexEvent, etc.
• Window.xxx verbs.
• Added window.getFile verb:
• Returns the empty string for odb windows other than the root window.
• Window.close _does_ close file-based windows, including the root.
• Scripts should test window.getFile to see whether closing a window will close a file.
• Window verbs don't include the path to the compiler.files table for file-based object windows.
• File Menu tweaks.
• In the File menu, the Save item toggles to Save Database when the frontmost window belongs to the odb.
• In Expert mode, Save Database is enabled when no windows are open, as long as a database is open.
• In Beginner mode, when no windows are open the menu says "Save" and is dimmed.
• Bug fixes.
• ParentOf returns the empty string for file-based object windows.
• Fixed bug where saving an Untitled object would fail to update the system.compiler.files table accordingly, causing various failures.
• Updated the menu sharing application icon fix to be insensitive to processor speed.
• Fixed several [4.x] bugs targeting, editing menubar objects from scripts.
• Fixed external editing (cmd-E) bug.
• Fixed bug that would cause a crash when quitting.
• Fixed string.processHtmlMacros bug, spurious 's' after <hr size=2 width =100%> when processing hyphens to create a hroizontal rule.
• Another string.processHtmlMacros bug fix: URLs inside parentheses are now expanded properly.
• Fixed problem remembering font changes in the About window.
• Table editing.
• Refined the column width adjustment logic when resizing table windows.
• When opening empty table, new item #1 is selected in edit mode.
• The runtime stack table is closed when the script being debugged exits.
• Zoom value when user 2clicks in the value column.
• Fat Pages use less memory.
• We were copying the page source at fatPages.getPageAtts.
• Now you can optionally pass the address instead,
• as fatPages.getFileData does.
• (There may be some more work to do with the Fat Pages suite
• in regards to memory.)
• Cleaned up outline keyboard navigation.
• cmd-up/down goes to the first, last headline at the current level.
• cmd-left-right goes to the first, last headline in the outline, ignoring level.
• option-left goes to the parent, option-right goes to the subhead, if expanded.
• option-up/down do the same thing as normal up/down.
• cmd-option-right expands, dives into subheads; cmd-option-left surfaces, collapses.
• cmd-option-up/down perform similar, reciprocal expand/collapse combined with cursor movement.
• Note: What if the dive/surface worked with just the option key, not cmd-option?
• That would take away the ability to move directly to the parent without collapsing. Would people miss this?
• Right now, option-left is the only option-arrow that adds value over naked arrow keys, so option is pretty much wasted.
• User.initials menu copied to user.menus.customMenu.
• If a user.initials menu in your main menubar exists and is
• no longer virginal, it is automatically copied to the
• new location, user.menus.customMenu, and removed
• from system.misc.menubar.
• Otherwise, the default user.menus.customMenu is used.
• (A backup copy of system.misc.menubar is now at
• scratchpad.oldMenubar.)
• SuperStress now logs errors.
• Instead of stopping when it reaches an error,
• SuperStress now logs all errors to an outline and
• continues to run.
• Table menu Get Info works.
• The Get Info command was returning a "Can't coerce
• value to address" error, but now it's fixed.