Language/Interpreter

• Enhances the browser user interface (BUI)

• Adds the ability to use HTML formatting such as bold, italics, color, and fonts for tooltips within a BUI program

• Adds the ability to place longer help text as a "long cue" in a BBjControl status bar

• Adds support for modern HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript code in a complete web browser for the BBjHtmlView control that relies on JavaFX WebView and is configurable via STBL("!OPTIONS","JAVAFX_HTMLVIEW")

• Implements the BUI BBjScrollBar control

• Adds ability to set the border color of a child window to meet application requirements

• Simplifies conversion from OpenBASIC with the addition of an option to not report !ERROR=47 for substring out of bounds errors on empty array elements (OPENBASIC_ARRAY47)
• Adds new SETOPTS byte 9 bit $20$ to make it easier to read string (plain text) files
• Enables READ RECORD to work without the need for SIZ=
• Enables READ to treat the two-byte Windows line separator $0D0A$ as a single line separator

• Adds new mnemonics for Thoroughbred compatibility

• OVERLAY - Allows temporary display of another character window's contents in the active window similar to the CAPTURE mnemonic, but also overwrites the character window borders and is easily undone

• WINSAVE - Stores a copy of a character window in an archive of inactive windows.  The original window can be deleted, removing it from the CUI display and freeing up its ID number, and then restored from the saved copy

• WINRESTORE - Restores a copy of a character window from an archive of inactive windows. The restored window is displayed on the CUI screen as the active window and responds to input and mnemonics once again

• WINDELETE - Deletes a saved character window from the archive of saved inactive windows. After the saved window has been deleted, it can no longer be restored

• Adds new features for Thoroughbred conversion support

• CVT function emulates Thoroughbred's CVT function

• COMPAT flag enables IF47 emulation for Thoroughbred Basic conversions

• Adds new FILEOPEN() and FILESAVE() mode to fine-tune the behavior when the user selects a file that doesn't exist (fileopen) or already exists (filesave)

• Adds BBjSysGui::setScale(x,y), equivalent to the 'SCALE'(x,y) mnemonic

• Adds BBjSysGui getScaleX() and getScaleY(), previously available in the SYSGUI FIN string

• Adds more user control over the heartbeat between the BBj and Java components that comprise the XCALL server, allowing for these components to recognize a situation where one of these entities is no longer responding

• Adds a new BBjMDI::setBackgroundImage method to allow for placing background images on the MDI desktop

• Extends BBjThinClient User Properties to support HTML Session and Local Storage in BUI

• Adds getScreenImage and getWindowImage methods to return a screen or window as a BBjImage

Development Tools

• Enhances Eclipse BDT plug-ins

• Extended and enhanced the code completion and code assistance functionality in BDT's CodeEditor

• Added a number of user-settable options to configure how BDT builds and executes BBj programs

• Added the ability in BDT to run BBj code as a BUI program in a browser

Database Management

• Adds asynchronous triggers that trigger user-specified BBj programs, in the background to avoid impacting normal file operations, when a monitored file is changed, one for new or changed records and one for deleted records

• Adds a new built-in SPROC called GET_RESULT_SET_DSV that extends the functionality of GET_RESULT_SET_CSV to allow the query to specify a field delimiter as well as a record delimiter, giving users access to files that have field delimiters other than commas (i.e. tabs, etc)

• Adds scalar functions to the SQL engine

• TO_DATE facilitates converting date strings using a customizable format

• TO_TIMESTAMP facilitates converting time strings using a customizable format 

Items in bold are new since 14.01

• Child aliases (conceptually similar to views) are now exported to the BASIS DD like regular tables for use in Barista and SQL (external) queries; the "Display Master Record" function from the query shows the form for the child alias

• Drill-down enhancements

• Drill-down definitions now include fields for a custom program and a Query ID to be invoked in lieu of the standard drill-down

• New field in the custom Query Column allows for stipulating a drill-down ID; query columns with a drill-down display as an italicized hyperlink in the query grid

• Drill-down functionality added to the standard and detail grids in which the drill-down menu item and tool button become active, like in the standard maintenance form

• Menu system enhancements

• Ability to launch programs to run in the browser user interface (BUI)

• Menu option to disallow running an item in BUI

• Command line arguments separated from program (target)

• Company and product ID list edit buttons in menu maintenance

• Optional path to configuration file for BASIC programs

• Open file dialog for target and other fields in menu maintenance

• New fields for working directory and CSS file path

• Help system enhancements

• Ability to access help in single document and BUI modes

• Enabled help for topics dependent on whether a help tag has been assigned to the menu item, form, or control

• Header and detail in the header/detail forms can have their own help tags