2020r1.1 Release Notes

(September 28, 2020)

This release has important improvements to Xojo 2020r1.

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Release Notes

Bug Fixes (44 cases)

Case	Area	Description
61797		WebTimers created in code work again.
61613	Crashes & Assertions » Failed Assertion	Windows: Loading URLs before the WebKit based HTMLViewer was initialized potentially caused failed assertions in REALstring.cpp because code was not being safely executed in the main UI thread, but now it is.
61272	Framework » All	ServerSocket: remove unused SocketRequested event.
61384	Framework » All	Fixed an assertion in REALstring.cpp that could occur when converting a string from one encoding to another depending on what active thread is doing the conversion.
61636	Framework » All	Boolean values are now returned correctly when Iterating rows in a RowSet.
61805	Framework » All	Double.IsNotANumber was incorrectly implemented as Double.IsInfinite and vice versa, this is now fixed.
61370	Framework » Web	WebSegmentedControl.Pressed event now fires on every click when SelectionStyle = None.
61395	Framework » Web	WebToolbar buttons and titles which contain elements that are html encoded now render properly at runtime.
61430	Framework » Web	WebCheckbox caption is now correctly encoded.
61476	Framework » Web	Fixed a potential NilObjectException when calling WebDialog.Close.
61486	Framework » Web	WebPage.Title is now property encoded.
61489	Framework » Web	WebViews whose display type is set to Flex now obey the value of their Visible property.
61496	Framework » Web	WebButton indicator colors can be set back to Default at runtime again.
61497	Framework » Web	UpdateBrowser sends control changes to the browser immediately again.
61509	Framework » Web	WebTextField.LostFocus events now fire if the control is last in the tab order.
61531	Framework » Web	Style values which are empty or end with a semicolon no longer cause javascript errors at runtime.
61565	Framework » Web	WebTextField (and subclasses thereof) properly encode text again.
61576	Framework » Web	WebSDKControl.BrowserCompatibility no longer breaks into a blank debugger window if the requested item doesn't exist.
61583	Framework » Web	WebToolbarItems of type Menu no longer have two icons and they are now the correct size.
61589	Framework » Web	Web apps no longer completely lock up in TCPSocket.Flush when the CPU is otherwise starved by a tight loop.
61608	Framework » Web	Setting a WebSegmentedButton's title to an empty string works now.
61622	Framework » Web	WebListbox.LastAddedRowIndex is now correct after calling AddRowAt.
61624	Framework » Web	WebListbox.CellValueAt now pulls from the correct row after rows have been inserted before the selected row.
61625	Framework » Web	Weblistbox rows are now added in the correct order.
61629	Framework » Web	Rows inserted with WebListbox.AddRowAt are now added at the correct location in the backing data.
61632	Framework » Web	WebMenuItems.Icons are now WebPictures instead of just plain Pictures.
61654	Framework » Web	Fixed a bug which caused WebListbox.SelectedRowIndex to be relative to the most recently loaded block of data instead of the entire list of items.
61662	Framework » Web	WebSDK controls no longer send the same JavaScript and CSS files to the same browser multiple times.
61668	Framework » Web	WebSegmentedButton titles can now be set in code.
61685	Framework » Web	WebDialog.Dismissed is no longer when it was never shown.
61688	Framework » Web	WebListbox headers set at runtime are no longer invisible.
61704	Framework » Web	Calling MessageBox in a Web project with an empty string no longer raises an OutOfBoundsException.
61728	Framework » Web	Setting the value of a WebTextField at runtime no longer HTML-encodes the value.
61732	Framework » Web	The WebComboBox value when the control is first created is correct again.
61746	Framework » Web	Having HandleURL implemented, and not returning True or setting the status to something other than 404 when the URL passed in is an empty string no longer raises an OutOfBoundsException in App.UnhandledException.
61784	Framework » Web	WebTextFields of type Telephone now show the correct keyboard on iOS.
61786	Framework » Web	WebComboBox.RemoveAllRows works now.
61794	Framework » Web	WebTimer.Enabled now works for WebTimers whose Location is set to Server.
61804	Framework » Windows	URLConnection: populated request error exception's ErrorNumber with a more meaningful value.
61752	Framework » macOS	HTMLViewer: floating-point values received by a Javascript request (via executeInXojo) no longer truncates the fractional part.
61796	IDE » Language Reference	Linux IDE: using the Local Language Reference no longer strictly requires libwebkitgtk-3 to be installed.
61618	IDE » Layout Editor	The default event for WebDatePicker is now set to ValueChanged.
61407	IDE » Updater	Prerelease update dialog now takes users to the correct place on the new forum.
61484	IDE » Web 2.0 Project Converter	When converting binary or xml web 1.0 projects, the initial value of PopupMenus are now retained.

Changes (6 cases)

Case	Area	Description
61463	Framework » Web	WebSearchField.ValueChanged now fires whenever the text changes. The new Pressed event fires when the user presses the Enter/Return key or clicks the search or cancel buttons.
61478	Framework » Web	WebSessionContexts now throw an UnsupportedOperationException if you try to create one within another Session.
61491	Framework » Web	WebToolbarItems with icons now disable the icons when the item itself is disabled.
61584	Framework » Web	The deprecated WebFile.OnDownloaded delegate has been removed.
61778	Framework » Web	The UpdateBrowser methods on WebSDKControl and WebSDKUIControl have been deprecated and replaced with UpdateControl(sendImmediately as Boolean = False) to cut down on unnecessary traffic when multiple things change in an SDK control.
61473	Framework » macOS	Added a patch in System.Version so macOS 10.16 will be reported as 11.0 even on apps running under rosetta 2.

New Items (6 cases)

Case	Area	Description
60101	Framework » Web	WebLabel now has a Pressed event.
61502	Framework » Web	WebToolbarItem now has a Visible property.
61503	Framework » Web	WebToolbar now has an ItemWithTag method to make it easier to modify its contents at runtime.
61573	Framework » Web	WebSession now has ClientWidth and ClientHeight properties which are populated before the session Opening event fires so better decisions can be made about which layouts to use. Both of these values are updates when the WebSession.Resized and WebSession.OrientationChanged events fire.
61644	Framework » Web	Added WebListBoxRowData.Tag property and updated RowTagAt to allow retrieving this data at runtime.
61646	Framework » Web	WebImageViewer and WebCanvas now have a Pressed event which pass the X and Y coordinate of where the user clicked or touched the control.

Docs and Examples (8 cases)

Case	Area	Description
61516	Examples	Updated SQLiteExample to make better use of API 2.0.
61588	Examples	Updated WebSimpleSendEmail example for Web 2.0.
61312	Language Reference » Documentation	The DeleteEntireFolder example in the FolderItem.Remove page of the Language Reference has been updated to API 2.0.
61447	Language Reference » Documentation	The example code for WebSessionContext now uses an iterator instead.
61459	Language Reference » Documentation	The WebFileUploader.UploadError event now is properly documented to reflect that a RuntimeException is passed to it rather than a status code and message.
61564	Language Reference » Documentation	Updated code in WebApplication.HandleURL Notes to use Web 2.0 commands.
61591	Language Reference » Documentation	WebListBoxRowData has been documented.
61708	Language Reference » Documentation	ListBox.AllColumns and ListBox.AllRows are now documented both on the ListBox page and on various methods where they can be used.