CPro.Execute – new function to execute any expression in the ‘locale’ of a form. Allows asynchronous running of functions which need to refer to locals on a form.

For example (assume “vv” is local to the form on which bb is a button) ...

   bb CPro.Execute 'vv„¼120' 
  +bb CPro.Execute '+/vv'  © result is shy 
7260

CPro.ExecuteNR – as above but does not return a result. Use this to run non-result-returning expressions.

CPro.ExecExpr – called by the above. Also used to run parsed menu expressions.
CPro.MenuHandler – changed to run the above
CPro.AddMenu – simplified and speeded up by using the above.

CPro.Do – now looks for grouped names in the parent control, not the locale.

SF – adds ‘Set’ method as for generic ST (StatusBar) class.

Uploaded to Web site as 1.1f 11th Feb

SUB – should have the same GotFocus behaviour as a form, otherwise tabbing around a form with several regions loses one ‘tab’ in visiting the subform. Adds the same handler as is on the FM (see Class.StartFocus).

FM,TSF – onFocus handler now calls Class.StartFocus as above.

AFT – preserves text on a change to the droplist.

ACDS 16th Feb 1998

AN – adds ‘Wrapping’ property (default 1) to allow horizontal scrolling of long lines (wrapping=0).

AFT – back to the early prototype which makes the droplist by hand when the user requests it. Otherwise we must set up the ‘Items’ in advance which can really slow the ‘Refresh’ for a big reference list. The grid-child remains as a dropedit-combo as there is no way of making an edit-btn pair in a grid cell.

AFN – new class. Numeric variant of the above for lookup in integer lists. Works best with lists where all the numbers have the same n digits.

TAB – adds the other possible alignments (‘Bottom’ looks good).

Web upload as 1.1g – ACDS 24th Feb 1998

Class.FM.Sleep – calls new function CPro.DeQueueState to check if the form is dequeued – only kills the DQ if so. New element in ctl structure records this. Updated by CPro.DeQueue if valid.

GDP 24th Feb 1998

Designer now generates help contexts from the 1st 3 chars of the class tag. Help file changed to CPRO.HLP as they might still want Causeway shareware.

PB – tooltip added (designtime only)

AFT/AFN – dropdown was positioned incorrectly if the object was on a subform.

SF/AN – Disable/Enable fixed (‘Active’ not supported on SF)

FM – SetIcon makes the icon as a child of the form so it is destroyed correctly.

HSEP/VSEP/PL – Disable/Enable fixed (‘Active’ not supported on RECT)

ACDS 3rd March 1998

PS – new ‘Where’ function to report posn/size in Pixels. Also Refresh fixed – the ‘pagenumber’ property did not work.

FM – PC moved from Refresh to first ‘Show’ as it never happened if there were no runtime properties on the form.

CH – failed if no chart specification provided – fixed! ‘styletab – centre-aligned text added as a label style

CPro.Append – allows extra controls to be added on the fly to an existing parent. Common code with Make mostly collected into subfns.

Designer – ensures pasted controls stay within target form (Designer.Build). Also adds ‘Drill’ buttons to propwatcher for strings and stringlist types. Quit now to exits correctly even if there are open CueCards!

ACDS 14th March 1998

TR – ‘Checked’ property added to enable multiselect. Icons defined by Initialise in Class.TR from icon definitions saved in the class.

TSF – requires its own ‘Enable/Disable’ as you cannot disable a font!

Designer – now supports properties of type ‘colour’ with the Windows color dialogue. EAT grid backed down to text fields. See KnownBugs for the reason. Hooks to help file included on the main dialogues. Save and SaveAs added – use Ctrl+S and Ctrl+A or you can ShiftClick/CtrlClick the ‘End’ button.

FM – Show now checks result of Class.StartFocus and queues to itself if no fields are available. Allows the same function to be used in the TSF and in the SUB.

NOSE – ‘Dirty New Nose’ problem fixed. Also adds two new methods to allow the application to specify the confirmation prompts.

MRU – allows change to inifile section name. Also defaults other data correctly and does not crash if nothing is given.

AC/TL – Accelerator property (design-time) added.

VC – greys out buttons selectively when the index is at the start or end of the allowed range.

ACDS 21st March 1998 (special birthday edition)

Designer – ParseSpec puts executed default property values in extra column and the designer is tolerant of both the old and the new wider property matrix.

Designer.Build checks ‘styletab to get the right font for the form in design mode.

GDP 24th March 1998

Copied to internet as 1.2 (for the ParseSpec change)