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APL+Win Objects 6.0 New Features 
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See also: Complete Help File First APL+Win Objects 6.0 now includes a complete HTML (.CHM) Help File including the detailed description of all APL+Win Objects, and of all their Properties and Methods. This Help File can be called directly from APL+Win, using the Help function:
This opens the Help File and directly displays help on the specified Object or Property/Method:  New TEditFile5 and TEditDir5 objects The new TEditFile5 and TEditDir5 control objects may be used in APL+Winforms each time you need a control for entering a file name or directory name. They both include an Edit (TEdit5) control and a Button (TButton5) control. The user may either directly enter a file or directory name or can click the button to select an existing file or directory name using standard dialog boxes. Example:
New TOWCSpread5 object The new TOWCSpread5 object can be very useful as an alternative to the APL+Win Grid when you need to embed a grid with calculation capabilities (formulas) within a form in your application. TOWCSpread5 use the Microsoft OWC (Office Web Components) Spreadsheet object. Example:
New TTLI5 object The TTLI5 object is extremely useful when you develop APL+Win applications for Microsoft Office, i.e. when you want to make use of Excel, Word, Outlook, Powerpoint or Access in your applications. It is able to return a list of all the Microsoft Office ActiveX Constants ond of their decimal values.
New TFindReplace5 object The TFindReplace5 object is useful each time you need a modeless dialog in one of your applications to search for or replace character strings. It can work on a document displayed in an Edit (TEdit5) or RichEdit (TRichEdit5) control or work on all files contained in a given directory. You can even for example use the TFindReplace5 object, disconnected from any application, to simply replace a character string by another in all files contained in a given directory. Example:
New TGUID5 object The TGUID5 object creates a unique GUID string under program control. A Globally Unique Identifier or GUID is a pseudo-random number used in software applications. Each generated GUID is "statistically guaranteed" to be unique. This is based on the simple principle that the total number of unique keys ( or ) is so large that the possibility of the same number being generated twice is virtually zero. GUIDs may be used for:
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Other new objects: TAPLDraw5, TMath5, TWebSiteNet5 TAPLDraw5 includes methods for batch converting files and creating Images for Imagelists. It also contains methods for displaying Metafiles in your applications. The TMath5 object contains a few mathematical properties and methods. TWebSiteNet5 is a VB.Net code generator. It can generate a complete ASPX page displaying a form to insert a new record in a given database table ot updating a givne record in a database table. More than 100 new Properties and Methods About 30 different objects have been enhanced in APL+Win Objects 6 with more than 100 new properties and methods. The following only describes some of the most important new features added to APL+Win Objects 6.0. The TADO5 object now includes an Insert and an Update method to batch insert or update a matrix of records in any relational database. TADO5 is now capable of performing transactions due to its new BeginTrans, CommitTrans and RollbackTrans methods. The new PrimaryKeys TADO5 method can also now list all Primary Keys in a relational database. TAbale5 has 2 new methods: ZipWithPassword and UnzipWithPassword, which allow you to zip/unzip a set of file, password protecting the zip file, under program control. The TAboutBox5 object now has a new web property allowing to display an hyperlink to your Web Site with a hand cursor when the mouse hovers the link.  The TDates5 object has got 2 new methods: DateTimeExcelDConvert which translates Excel dates to YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format and Short2LongDate which converts a date in ddd d mmm yyyy format to dddd d mmmm yyyy format i.e.:
A lot of new features have been added to TExcel5:
Example:
The TFileMenu5 object is now able to easily handle MRUs (Most Recently Used files) thanks to the mrus and maxmrus propertie, to the AddToMrus and ResetMrus methods and to the mMRU_onClick event. The TGrid5 object now has a Print method to easily print the content of the entire grid The THTML5 object which helps generate HTML code from APL, now includesthe following new methods:
With the TNetwork5 object, you can now find the first no yet mapped drive letter on your system with the FirstDrive method; you can programmatically map a new network drive with MapNetworkDrive, get a list of all used or mapped drives on your system with GetLogicalDrives and kwno which kind of drives they are with GetDriveTypes (1=not used, 2=removable, 3=fixed, 4=remote, 5=cdrom or6=ramdisk). The TObject5 object has a large number of new properties and methods among which:
There are also new methods and properties in TPowerpoint5: you can install hyperlinks in slides with the hyperlink property, load and run a Powerpoint Presentation from APL with the LoadAndRun method, remove bullets from list in slides with the RemoveBullets method. The TRichEdit5 object has been enhanced with the syntaxcolor property and the SyntaxColor method to automatically syntax color HTML code: a new text property has been aded. The TScheduler5 object has been extended with the following methods:
TStatus5 has a new GetField method to retrieve the content of a status field. TTipForm5 which is able to display multicolumn grid tooltips with shadow, has got properties to display images (image, imagefile and imagewidth) and a new ShowOffSet method to display the tooltip at a given distance of the current cursor position. Example:
The TTree5 object has now got methods to help move nodes in the tree under program control (MoveUp, MoveDown, MoveLeft, MoveRight): these are used for example in CHM Builder v1.2 for interactively restructuring the Help File table of contents. Other new methods like NodeIds, NodeDepths and NodeIdDepths return information about the current tree nodes. The new Children method returns all children of a given node, recursively. Rewritten objects The TAccess5 (9 properties, 27 methods) and TWord5 (25 properties, 94 methods) objects have been entirely rewritten. They allow you to pilot Access and Word from your APL applications. Bug fixes APL+Win Objects 6 includes all bug fixes signaled by customers since version 5. |
