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**************** WinBatch+Comiler 2020B (Beta) Release ****************
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WB 2020B Jul 01, 2020 (beta)
DLL 6.20btb First appearing in WB 2020B
Addressed problem that caused the WIL debugger to display a memory error when creating a
WIL Map in a debugging session.
Added support for the ULONG64 data type name in structure descriptor strings passed to the
DllStructAlloc function. The ULONG64 data type represents an unsigned 64-bit integer. Like
other 64-bit data types, ULONG64s must be represented by text strings when passed to the
DllStructPoke function. Likewise, DllStructPeek returns ULONG64 structure members as text
strings.
Fix WIL map assignment statement parsing issue by detecting an undefined WIL Map key when
the key is from an undefined element of an array and the array variable is a pointer to the
array. The WIl parser now generates an error message instead of changing the variable
containing the WIL Map into a variable containing the value on the right-hand side of the
assignment statement.
Addressed problem that caused variant variables of type VT_INT to not be recognized as
integers in relational expressions. This error caused an unexpected "3057: Variable
could not be converted to a valid number" error when a variant value with the variant
type VT_INT appeared in a relational expression.
Fixed issue that caused the Dialog function to return without displaying the dialog or
generating an error when the dialog template contained an invalid dialog background
color descriptor.
Modified the WinBatch Navigator script to use the new ShellExecuteWait function instead of
the RunWait function to prevent launch errors of Roboscripter and other executables on a few
systems.
New functions:
MapKeysGet( m:map, n:return-type[, s:delimiter] )
Returns all the keys stored in a WIL map.
map: a variable containing a WIL map.
return-type: 1 = return an array, 2 = return a delimited list
delimiter: (optional) one character delimiter used when list is returned. Defaults to
a tab character.
MapValuesGet( m:map, n:return-type[, s:delimiter] )
Returns all the values stored in a WIL map.
map: a variable containing a WIL map.
return-type: 1 = return an array, 2 = return a delimited list. Non-convertible values are
skipped in the returned delimited list.
delimiter: (optional) one character delimiter used when a list is returned. Defaults to
a tab character.
ShellExecuteWait(s:program-name, s:params, s:directory, n:display mode, s:operation)
Returns @True when a new process is started and the script calling the function is paused
while the new process is executing. This function is identical to the ShellExecute WIL
function in all other respects. Note that it is possible for the function to successfully
perform the task indicated by the parameters but not pause the script. This can happen when
the indicated task does not start a new process. The function indicates that the script is
not paused by returning immediately with a value of @False.
program-name: the name of the desired .EXE, .COM, .PIF, .BAT, .CMD file or a data file.
params: optional parameters as required by the application.
directory: current working directory (if applicable).
display mode: @NORMAL, @ICON, @ZOOMED, @HIDDEN, @NOACTIVATE, or 0 for the default mode.
operation: operation to perform on the specified file.
Added 3 new REPORTVIEW control request-codes to the DialogControlGet function.
@dcItemcColor (29) - (l) Returns a string containing two color descriptors for a REPORTVIEW
control item's text and background color. Each color descriptor
consists of 3 vertical bar(|) delimited numbers representing the
color's red, green, and blue values. The 2 color descriptors are
separated by a space character delimiter. The function's
"request-value" parameter must contain a string consisting of the
one-based row and column numbers of the control item whose colors are
to be returned. The two numbers representing the row and column must be
delimited by a comma(,).
@dcItemRow (30) - (i) Returns the one-based row number of column 1, the left-most
column, of the REPORTVIEW item whose text matches the text placed in
the function's "request-value" parameter.
Note that if more than one first column item of a control contains
the same value, the "request-value" parameter may need to contain a
tab-delimited list of multiple occurrences of the targeted item's
text.
@dcItemText (31) - (s/l) Returns the text of column 1, the left-most column, of the
REPORTVIEW item whose row number matches the number placed in the
function's "request-value" parameter.
Note that if more than one first column item of a control contains
the same value, the returned text may contain a tab-delimited list
of multiple occurrences of the targeted item's text.
Added a new REPORTVIEW control request-code to the DialogControlSet function.
@dcItemcColor (29) - (l) Sets the text and background colors of a REPORVIEW control item.
The item and colors are indicated by placing a 4 item space character
delimited list in the function's set-info parameter. The list's 4
items consist of the one-based row number, the one-based column number,
a text color descriptor, and a background color descriptors. The color
descriptors can consist of 3 vertical bar(|) delimited numbers or a
single hexadecimal number preceded by the letter "h" representing the
color's red, green, and blue values. Three-row values have special
meaning:
-1 color the indicated column of each odd-numbered row.
-2 color the indicated column of each even-numbered row.
-3 color the indicated column of every row.
One column value has a special meaning:
-1 color all columns of the indicated row.
Enhanced WIL Dialog's REPORTVIEW control to load and display the contents of WIL maps. The
control accepts a WIL map in its template variable and from the DialogControlSet function
when using the @dcContents request-code.
Modified the dialog function and WIL Dialog Editor to accept a single hexadecimal RGB color
value anywhere that a bar (|) delimited RGB color values are used. The hex value must be
preceded by the letter "H" or "h" to be recognized as a valid RGB value. Bar delimited RGB
values are still fully supported.
WinBatch Studio and WinBatch Compiler Lexical Analyzer changes:
Enabled detection of user-defined-procedures redefinition.
Added parameter count checking to user-defined-procedure calls.
Object members for both COM and dotNet object names longer than 30 characters no longer
generate syntax errors.
Address problem the cause the WinBatch Studio breakpoint command to be flag as an unexpected
item.
WinBatch Console:
Corrected problem that prevented errors occurring inside user-defined-procedures from being
displayed at the console command line.
Added new #DefineCommand ... #EndCommand preprocessor statements. Use these two statements
to create a WinBatch Console only user-defined-command. User-defined-commands share scope
rules with user-defined-subroutines but are only callable from WinBatch Console and are
ignored by WinBatch. The other unique feature of UDCs is their syntax. UDCs are both defined
and called without opening and closing parentheses. They also use white space instead of
commas to separate parameters.
JTaylor:
Excellent. Glad to see some more dialog enhancements. Also, I can stop trying to figure out how to get the colors to work via my Extender :)
Appreciate all the good work you continue to do.
Jim
kdmoyers:
Man this is great. Can't wait till I get time to dig in.
On my big reportview program, I may actually take time to swap out the old colored-images trick, which works but is kinda complicated in the code, for colored text/background, which will be 10x cleaner.
Thanks!
td:
Make sure to let us know right away when you find the first bug...
kdmoyers:
...hold my beer
(wink)
-Kirby
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