RB2006r3 has more to it than just some fancy visual overhauls.
- MenuItems can now have icons associated with them.
- You can use non-printable characters for menu item shortcuts.
- You are no longer required to have Ctrl in the menu item shortcut (so, for instance, you can have F1 instead of being forced to use Ctrl+F1).
- A Currency data type
- SpecialFolder got a much-needed new addition to get the CurrentWorkingDirectory
And that's just framework stuff. Now, granted, the vast majority of the changes for this release were centered around the user experience within the IDE. So there is tons of new functionatlity in that regard. But that makes it easy to overlook the framework and language features that were added as well.
Since we can have menuitems with icons - where are the icons for the RB IDE??
Seriously, this is the best release so far...
~joe
What Currency data type?
dim c As currency
still gives compile error "There is no class with that name"
Hmm.. I could have sworn Currency was in there, but you're right, it's not included. Sorry about the confusion with that one!
Any word on the new and improved Socket classes?
It would be really nice to be able to do REST (more reliable than SOAP) calls over an SSL connection through a password-protected proxy server.
Currency was removed in one of the later fcs. Even I know that :)
The menu modifier thing doesn't work on OS X. Entering "s" for Key, unchecking MenuModifier, and running produces a menu item with shortcut of cmd-S. Entering "space" works correctly (IDE shows ). I suppose this is yet another attempt by Aaron to sabotage RB on OS X? :-)
I don't see a report for this, but if someone verifies that there isn't one (I've been known to miss things) then I'll submit one.
Hmm.. I'm not certain the Cmd-less shortcuts applies on OS X. Isn't that against the HIG? ;-)
You should file a report though.
Nifty. Unfortunately, the keys are not localized on Windows. So even in German, you get "Ctrl+LeftArrow". Aren't there symbols for these on Windows.
There aren't symbols for them, but you bring up a good point. The text that's displayed may need to be localizeable. Out of curiosity, what do other Win32 apps do in German that have non-printables? Like Internet Explorer, for instance. Do they have the non-printables localized?