Earlier News

2002-07-02

• New Source tarball file available for download.
• New GNU/Linux and Simplex build for Borland C binaries available for download now.

2002-06-16

• Release of Alpha build 40
• Great speed improvements.
• ADS RDD: added support of extended data types, fixed seeking and scoping on date type indexes.
• HbMake enhanced : Now support MuniGUI. Internationalization (Portuguese/English/Spanish) + HbMake with Windows user interface.
• AltD() debugger invoke function fixed behavior.
• DBFNTX functionality is significantly extended over standard Clipper's. Few bugs fixed, internal algorithms improved, what gives much better performance and index quality. Now DBFNTX is fully ready to Beta 1.0 stage.
• DBFCDX more ready
• New enhancements and bug fixes in the debugger.
• Many bug fixes and enhancements.

2002-03-14

• Release of Alpha build 39
• Great speed improvements.
• Harbour persistence (Class HBPersistent) optimized and impressively more faster
• RTL strings management function optimization thanks to new function hb_retclen_buffer() and optimized use for hb_retc( NULL )
• Strings sharing and static's strings implementation.
• DBFNTX basic functionality is ready.
• Added new possibilities in hrb handling.
• __dbSdf() is ready
• Delphi integration started.
• ODBC library for linux.
• Enhancements in hbmake and hbzlib.
• New enhancements and bug fixes in the debugger.
• Many bug fixes and enhancements.

2002-02-20

• Roberto Lopez from Argentina took some ideas and inspiration from HGF (Harbour GUI framework) by Antonio Linares and Alexander Kresin, HWGUI by Alexander Kresin and BCX by Kevin Diggins and build a Mini GUI for Windows for Harbour. You can download the source and samples from here: http://www.geocities.com/harbour_minigui
   

2002-02-07

• A new build of HBZLib, the Harbour ZIP library, is available for download now. See the contribution download page.

2002-02-03

• A new build of HBMake, the Harbour make utility is available for download now. See the contribution download page. Luiz has set up a "How To" web page for HBMake, click here.

2002-01-22

• More documentation files available for Alpha Build 38 on the download page.

2002-01-15

• Release of Alpha build 38
• RDD Scope handling was changed to handle non-character scopes correctly. Numeric scopes now work in RDDADS, but scopes are not yet supported in DBFCDX.
• DBFNTX: Bug fixes + added support for numeric, date and logical indexes. Also added relations support.
• DBFCDX: Many enhancements + bug fixes. Also added relations support.
• New Apollo.lib for SIXNSX database connection via SDE60.DLL
• HBZLib enhancements and fixes.
• On Win32 platforms, Harbour now supports the ability to create and use .DLL files. These .DLL files can be used as pcode storage, Harbour Runtime storage, or both, and if both, can be made callable from other languages that use .DLL's as fully functional standalone modules.
• HBMake enhancements and fixes.
• Platform support for FreeBSD 4.4, which requires installation of the gmake (GNU make) port (instead of using FreeBSD's make).
• New enhancements in the debugger.
• HB_FM_STATISTICS can be turned off by defining HB_FM_STATISTICS_OFF in your make or bat files. Rebuilding Harbour this way yields a faster program,
  but it loses the ability to report on memory usage and leaks.
• ::Super(::oneVar) is fixed, it is correctly interpreted now. Scooping freezed because it was not anymore working after the previous fix.
• bitflags.c has functions to use a Harbour string for storing On/Off bit flags.
• adssetServerType now returns any error numbers + added AdsRefreshRecord, AdsIsTableLocked, AdsIsRecordLocked
• Enhanced HB_IS_OBJECT( PHB_ITEM )
• __ClsAddMsg() case HB_OO_MSG_ONERROR modifed to use hb_parnl( 3 )
• __ClsAddMsg() call, for ON ERROR clause, modified suplied parameters
• HGF (Harbour GUI multiplatform Framework) started.
• Class HBPersistent added to RTL to provide Harbour objects persistence.
• New function __ClsGetProperties() added. Syntax:
  __ClsGetProperties( <nClassHandle> ) --> <aPropertiesNames>
• + added HB_TRACESTRING() which lets prg code trace a string into same trace file/window as C traces
• + added __TRACEPRGCALLS( <lOnOff> ) --> <lOldValue> Turns on | off tracing of PRG-level function and method calls. Dumps symbol name just before it's called.
  This is very useful when debugging GPFs as it will trace all PRG-level calls up until the crash. Uses HB_TRACE so traces are in line with any C-level traces.
• Added new function __VMVARSLEN() --> nStatics. It returns the total amount of used static's variables
• Many bug fixes and enhancements.

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