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1 IBX Change Log version (2.0-2) Fri, 24 Feb 2017 12:17:53 +0000
2
3 1. TIBDatabase.CreateDatabase: extract full DB Name from SQL using reg ex in order to
4 include remote system name.
5
6 2. TIBExtract: No longer include comment header and COMMIT statement for empty
7 tables when data included in output.
8
9 3. Profiling: IBSQL now has conditional compilation flags to enable query performance
10 and timing information to be written to stdout. This may be used to locate
11 performance bottlenecks.
12
13 4. SQLParser: only call "OnChanging" event handler when value is different.
14
15 5. IBDynamicGrid: Update handling of navigation keys for a TDateEdit
16
17 6. IBCustomDataset: Set internalunprepared flag when transaction ends. This ensures
18 that BindFields is called when the query is next activated. Avoids FieldName
19 not found error.
20
21 IBX Change Log version (2.0-1) Mon, 09 Jan 2017 15:31:49 +0000
22
23 1. TIBEvents: Fix uninitialised variable that could result in lost events.
24
25 2. TIBExtract: Added support for FB3 "USAGE" privilege.
26
27 3. TIBExtract: data formatted as Charset set "octets" is now output using
28 hexadecimal notation.
29
30 4. TIBExtract: Binary Blobs and array data can now be embedded in INSERT statements
31 using a simple XML format.
32
33 5. TIBExtract: extract of individual Triggers and Stored Procedures can now include
34 grants to these objects.
35
36 6. TIBExtract: Stored Procedures and Views output in dependency order to avoid
37 dependency problems restoring complex databases.
38
39 7. TIBXScript: This component has been restructured to allow for the processing of
40 embedded XML in INSERT statements and to support interactive sources in addition
41 to non-interactive data sources such as files.
42
43 8. TIBXScript: CREATE DATABASE, DROP DATABASE, CONNECT statements are now supported.
44
45 9. TIBXScript: ISQL compatiable Set statements are now supported:
46 SET SQL DIALECT
47 SET TERM
48 SET AUTODDL
49 SET BAIL
50 SET ECHO
51 SET COUNT
52 SET STATS
53 SET NAMES <character set>
54
55 10. IBVersion unit added to hold current IBX Version Number information.
56
57 11. TIBExtract: Use character rather than byte length for VarChar procedure arguments.,
58 and domain definitions.
59
60 12. TIBExtract: Triggers now use SQL2003 syntax and database and transaction triggers
61 fully supported.
62
63 13. TIBExtract: when a database dump includes data, the generator values are now also set.
64
65 14: IBSQLEdit: Unit LCLPlatformDef added to uses clauses for lazarus 1.7 and later.
66
67 IBX Change Log version (2.0-0) Tue, 06 Dec 2016 10:33:44 +0000
68
69 See also doc/IBX4LazarusGuide.pdf for important information on
70 upgrading to IBX2.
71
72 1. Size property of TIBStringField is now the width in characters of the field
73 and not the byte length. This applies only to multi-byte character sets such
74 as UTF8. The original approach aligned with TStringField. However, the TStringField
75 code is not recognised as a bug and hence this change to align the behaviour.
76 The TStringField change is expected in fpc 3.2.0.
77
78 2. A new property AutoFieldSize: boolean has been added to TIBStringField. When
79 true (default) then Size property value saved in the lfm is ignored. Size is
80 always set from the dynamic information read from the database. It is unclear
81 why anyone would want to override this and set Size to false.
82
83 3. ibxscript: should now handle correctly a Case..End statement within a procedure
84 block.
85
86 4. IBDatabase: new property - CreateIfNotExists. If true and database does not
87 exist when an attempt is made to connect to it (run time only) then an attempt
88 is made to create the database.
89
90 5. IBDatabase: new event - OnCreateDatabase. This event is called after a database
91 has been successfully created as a result of a call to CreateDatabase or when
92 creating a database after it was found not to exist.
93
94 6. DBControlGrid: a race condition could result in the wrong row image being
95 written to the cache. This has been avoided by a trip round the message
96 loop before rendering the row image.
97
98 7. DBControlGrid: It is strongly recommended not to open the source DataSet for
99 a DBControlGrid during a Form's "OnShow" event handler. Under GTK2 this is
100 known to risk corrupt rendering of row images when the control is first
101 displayed. If necessary use "Application.QueueAsyncCall" to delay opening
102 of the dataset (see DBControlGrid examples) until the Form's Window has been created.
103
104 8. DBControlGrid & IBDynamicGrid: Navigation keys should now work correctly with
105 a TDateEdit control located on an editor panel.
106
107 9. TIBExtract: brought up-to-date plus many bug fixes.
108
109 10. DBControlGrid: Removed memory leak when updating rows.
110
111 11. TIBCMLocalDBSupport: fixed invalid free on upgrade.
112
113 IBX Change Log version (1.4-3) Thu, 22 Sep 2016 18:10:15 +0100
114
115 1. IBCustomDataset: When calling SetCodePage, no longer request transliteration
116 when target codepage is CP_NONE. This is a workaround for
117 http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=30622.
118
119 2. DBLog option removed from TIBStatisticalService - not supported by server
120 since Firebird 1.5.
121
122 3. ibxscript: An error is no longer generated for "on commit preserve rows" or
123 similar.
124
125 4. IBCodePage: updated mapping between codepages and character id.
126
127 5. ftWideString and ftWideMemo withdrawn. There is no UTF16 character set in
128 Firebird. Character sets with a char width of two are not UTF16.
129
130 6. Strings received from the database are now always transliterated into UTF8
131 regardless of the database character set or connection character set. This
132 is for compatibility with the LCL.
133
134 IBX Change Log version (1.4-2) Thu, 22 Sep 2016 15:25:27 +0100
135
136 1. IBBlob: Defer reading of blob until read method called. This avoids having to
137 read in an entire blob just to get the size of the blob. General performance
138 improvement when opening datasets containing blobs.
139
140 2. Clearing a Blob now sets the corresponding field's modified flag.
141
142 3. IBLookupCombo: When not performing auto-complete, original query sort order
143 is now used.
144
145 4. IBDynamicGrid: Add OnSelectEditor event. Allows editor panel to be dynamically
146 determined.
147
148 5. IBDynamicGrid: Recompute column widths after dataset closed and re-opened.
149
150 6. IBLookupCombo: LazUTF8 added to uses clause to avoid compilation problems post
151 lazarus 1.6.0
152
153 7. IBControls. Removed "runtime" from list of paths to avoid "multiple packages"
154 compilation error.
155
156 IBX Change Log version (1.4-1) Tue, 17 May 2016 09:14:51 +0100
157
158 1. No character set specified for connection: when a text blob is retrieved, the
159 character set is determined by looking up the native character set using then
160 Firebird API. Otherwise a text mode blob is assumed to have the same character
161 set as the connection.
162
163 2. TIBGUIInterface: this is an internal interface. Minor type changes to allow
164 for Login Dialog returing a change to the database path.
165
166 3. Design Time Database and Server login Dialogs now allow the Database Name/Server Name
167 to be changed from that given in the TIBDatabase/TIBServer component and for the
168 entered value to be saved on a project specific basis (design time only).
169
170 4. IBDynamicGrid: TDBLookupCellEditor now compares its DataFieldName with the
171 column fieldname. If they are the same then it is acts as a look up for the KeyValue
172 Otherwise, it sets the column text to the selected ListField Value.
173
174 5. IBDynamicGrid: Only visible columns are now taken into account When recalculating
175 column width.
176
177 6. IBLookupComboEditBox: Fix error with autocomplete query when a RelationName is given
178 and a case insensitive search is requested.
179
180 7. IBDynamicGrid: No longer ignores notifications removing Column Totals controls
181 or column ListSource.
182
183 8. IBQuery: no longer performs unnecessary refresh of SQL Text (and hence avoids an
184 unprepare) when closing and the text has not changed.
185
186 9. IBSQL: Base the cursor name on a GUID instead of a hexstr version of the class pointer.
187 Less likely to cause a cursor re-use error on Windows.
188
189 10.SV5IPC: include workaround for OSX. FPC 3.0.0 has broken ipc module for darwin.
190 Expected to be fixed in 3.0.2. Hence workaround only applies to 3.0.0.
191
192 11. TIBTreeView: Guard against nil destination on record changed
193
194 12. AnsiString Code page support: TIBStringField.AsString and TIBMemoField.AsString now return a
195 string type with the code page set to reflect the returned field encoding after
196 Firebird driver transliteration, if any. FPC 3.0.0 onwards only. Behaviour unchanged for
197 earlier versions.
198
199 13. AnsiString Code page support: Assigning to TIBStringField.AsString and TIBMemoField.AsString
200 will now result in transliteration to the code page specified for the Firebird driver
201 if the assigned string has a different code page. FPC 3.0.0 onwards only.
202
203 14. TIBDatabase: new property UseDefaultSystemCodePage. When set any lc_ctype parameter
204 is ignored and the lc_ctype value, when the database is opened, is set to align with
205 the DefaultSystemCodePage (FPC 3.0.0 onwards). Normally, this is what you want and should ensure
206 platform independence. Note: this applies to FPC 3.0.0 and earlier versions. Pre FPC
207 3.0.0, when this property is true, the lc_ctype is UTF8 except under windows when
208 the GETACP is used to determine the Windows code page.
209
210 15. TIBDatabase: new property DefaultCharSetName. This is the Firebird character set
211 name used as the lc_ctype when the database was opened. Only valid while the
212 Database is connected.
213
214 16. TIBDatabase: new property DefaultCodePage (FPC >=3.0.0 only). This is the codepage
215 id that corresponds to the DefaultCharSetName.
216
217 IBX Change Log version (1.4-0) Mon, 15 Feb 2016 14:44:24 +0000
218
219 1. Unix: If Firebird Embedded Server shared object is loaded and a local database
220 path is given and database attach fails due to access permission issues on the
221 temp directory or security database, then the attach is retried with "localhost:"
222 prefixing the databasename. This should avoid problems when the database has to
223 be accessed by a local (e.g. classic) server and libfbembed is used.
224
225 2. Windows: revised search order for Firebird DLL:
226 i. The Firebird Embedded Server in the application Directory.
227 ii. If the FIREBIRD environment variable is set then the directory this
228 points to is searched for the FB Client DLL and then then underlying
229 "bin" directory.
230 iii. Registry Key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Firebird Project\Firebird Server\Instances
231 is used to locate the Firebird installation directory and the underlying
232 "bin" directory is searched for the FB Client DLL.
233 iv. The Default installation directories C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_2_x
234 are searched for the FB Client DLL.
235 v. The PATH Environment variable is used to search for the FB Client DLL.
236 vi. Finally the PATH Environment variable is used to search for IBASE.DLL.
237
238 3. New Component: TIBXScript. This is an ISQL compatible SQL script execution engine.
239 See doc/readme.scriptengine and example applications.
240
241 4. New Component: TIBlocalDBSupport. This is a TIBDatabase support component intended to
242 simplify the use of the embedded firebird server on both Linux and Windows platforms.
243 See dpc/readme.localdatabase and example applications.
244
245 5. IBDynamicGrid: Reordering on column header click should now also work for
246 dynamic columns.
247
248 6. ISQLMonitor: (Windows only). Mutex added to TMultilockGate to avoid race condition
249 between incrementing/decrementing the lock count and signalling the event.
250
251 IBX Change Log version (1.3-2) Tue, 26 Jan 2016 14:39:54 +0000
252
253 1.3.2 was never formally released and only made available as beta copies.
254
255 1. DBControlGrid,IBDynamicGrid: Ignore down arrow and up arrow in TCustomMemo
256
257 2. IBDynamicGrid: Now deals correctly with a single column grid which has no indicator and autosize column
258
259 3. IBLookupComboEditBox: reset timer on each key press - avoids timer going off too early
260
261 4. IBDynamicGrid: Call event OnUpdateSortOrder even when aliasname not found in dataset
262 i.e. when it is a calculated field
263
264 5. IBDynamicGrid: Fix problem selecting a different row when expanded row at end of grid.
265 This problem was due to a race condition between recalculating row heights and
266 determining which row was selected by the mouse click. The row height calculation
267 is now deferred by an extra trip round the message loop allowing the row to
268 be always calculated on the current grid layout rather than risking it being
269 calculated on the grid layout after the expanded row has been shrunk.
270
271 6. IBLookupComboEditBox: avoid race condition between cm_killfocus and cm_exit on
272 Windows.
273
274 7. TIBStringField: Now has two new public properties: CharacterSetName: string and CharacterSetSize: integer;
275 These properties allow the (Firebird) character set name for the field and the max number of bytes per character
276 to be determined at runtime. See doc/readme.charactersets.html.
277
278 8. TIBWideStringField: This is a new field type with the same additional public properties as above and subclassed from
279 TWideStringField. This field type is used with the character size reported by Firebird is two. See doc/readme.charactersets.html.
280
281 9. TIBMemoField and TIBWideMemoField: new field types with the same additional public properties as above and subclassed from
282 TMemoField and TWideMemoField respectively. These field types are used with Blob subtype 1 and a characterset size of
283 1, 3 or 4 (TIBMemoField) or 2 (TIBWideMemoField). See doc/readme.charactersets.html.
284
285 Both also have a new published property "DisplayTextAsClassName". If false (default) the displaytext is generated
286 from the blob text by truncating the string to the displaywidth (in characters not bytes). A displaywidth of zero
287 implies no truncation.
288
289 10. IBLookupComboEditBox: Force autocomplete when EditingDone called and timer active.
290
291 11. IBDynamicGrid: Call DataSet.Append when entering edit mode and dataset empty and not in insert state
292 (avoids "Not in Edit Mode" error).
293
294 12. IBDynamicGrid: Correctly resize grid when one column width plus indicator.
295
296 13. IBDynamicGrid: Ensure Editor Panel has focus when shown - avoids Windows API calling
297 DBGrid.DoExit on subsequent mouse click (e.g. on child control such as a tabbed page control.
298
299 14. IBDynamicGrid: ignore up, down tab and return when editorpanel open and focus in a TCustomGrid descendent.
300
301 15. DBControlGrid: Stop flashing grid when dataset closed and then re-opened while DisabledControls
302
303 16. IBQuery: Bug fixed that prevented SQL being set programmatically once the Parser had been invoked.
304
305 17. IBCustomDataSet: On close, parser is now freed and Select SQL reverts to value before DataSet Opened.
306
307 IBX Change Log version (1.3-1) Sat, 18 Jul 2015 13:30:50 +0100
308
309 1. OnCloseUp Event Handler added to TDBLookupProperties
310
311 2. IBDynamicGrid: Call to OnEditorPanelHide is now last editor hide action - avoids
312 problem with row size when exception is called.
313
314 3. IBLookupComboEditBox: Force pending autocomplete on combobox exit.
315
316 4. IBDynamicGrid and DBControlGrid: Keyhandler now ignores up, down, escape and return keys if
317 in a TCustomComboBox and ignores return key if in a TCustomMemo
318
319 5. IBLookupComboEditBox: Ensure that KeyValue is set correctly when full text
320 keyed in i.e. when autocomplete not performed
321
322 6. Cleanup of "Uses" clauses and add console mode support. IBX should now support
323 console mode applications with all LCL required functions (builtin dialogs and
324 cursor management) centralised in the IBDialogs unit. As long as "IBDialogs" is
325 not included in your project, IBX should compile and link with a console mode program.
326 See consolemode example and its "readme"for further guidence. DO NOT add the ibexpress package to a
327 console mode application or the IDE will automatically assume that your
328 application is GUI based. Instead, you should include the ibexpressconsolemode package.
329
330 IMPORTANT NOTE: IBDialogs must be included in GUI applications in order
331 to use the built in dialogs and cursor management. IBDialogs is
332 included by default if "ibexpress" is in your project source's "uses" clause.
333 This should be the case for all projects created through the IDE. This is why
334 you do not want to add the ibexpress package to console mode applications. The
335 ibexpressconsolemode package has been created to allow console mode programs
336 to avoid adding LCL dependencies when using IBX, while still having the
337 unit search paths set up correctly.
338
339 Existing users should check to ensure that the "ibexpress" unit is included in
340 each project's source file (*.lpr).
341
342 You may find that in order for the IDE to recognise that ibexpressconsolemode
343 exists, you have to first open the package in the IDE and then close it. This
344 adds it to the most recently accessed packages list. To make it permanently
345 available, add the package name to lazarus' staticpackages.inc file.
346
347 Thanks to Julio Jiménez for suggesting support of console mode.
348
349 7. SQL Parser can now accept quoted strings that include new lines
350
351 8. IBDynamicGrid: Lookup Cell Editor - the cursor is now positioned at end
352 of text on start of edit. This is particularly useful when tabbing to a
353 column and then inserting text.
354
355 9. New Examples provided for IB Services and ISQLMonitor.
356
357 10. Fix error when writing to blob streams that recorded only the last buffer
358 write in the blob stream. In most cases, this did not cause a problem as the
359 IB Blob Stream is written in a single write. However, with the TDBImage, write
360 of a graphic type prefix was lost which caused a problem when the image could
361 not be automatically recognised.
362
363 11. Improve generation of random cursor names in TIBSQL - avoid risk of "cursor
364 already open" errors due to random numbers used for the cursor name being identical.
365
366 12. IBTable: corrected error that could result in an "Index out of bounds" error
367 when opening the table and the Primary Key is the last or only column in the
368 table. Thanks to Rick Hoover for the fix.
369
370 13. Fix TIBDatabase initialisation of lc_ctype under unix. Set to "UTF8" instead
371 of "UTF-8", and update list of available database character sets. Existing
372 users should check the current lc_ctype setting in their applications.
373
374 IBX Change Log version (1.2-4) Sat, 09 May 2015 12:38:29 +0100
375
376 1. Firebird Services: avoid List Index error when opening a service with an
377 empty Params property.
378
379 2. IBControls: Fix problem with new link mechanism introduced in 1.2.3.
380 Link now set up in Loaded method - avoids occasional failure to apply
381 SQL markup on initial open.
382
383 3. "Employees" example performance improvements when scrolling.
384
385 4. DBControlGrid: Correctly handle edit panel removal when panel is child control of a
386 TFrame. Force recaching of selected frame to avoid GTK race (results in a
387 random image cached).
388
389 5. DBControlGrid: Should now react to changes in panel height at run time.
390
391 6. IBDynamicGrid: Redraws rows below on panel editor hide - avoids blank space at end of grid
392 even when further rows exist.
393
394 7. DBControlGrid: DefaultRowHeight is no longer a published property as it should
395 always be derived from panel height and setting this property can cause confusion.
396 Note for existing projects: to avoid a missing property error at run time,
397 each form using the DBControlGrid must be opened, updated and saved in the IDE
398 in order to remove the property value from the lfm.
399
400
401 IBX Change Log version (1.2-3) Tue, 14 Apr 2015 14:11:17 +0100
402
403 1. TIBStoredProc. Prepare now called by ParamByName to avoid need to always
404 call Prepare before setting parameter values.
405
406 2. Error message on ParamByName (all cases) not found now includes name of missing parameter.
407
408 3. Code tidyup and more robust handling of dsql information result vector.
409
410 4. Support for centralised handling of transaction status changes. TIBTransaction
411 has been given additional events "AfterEdit", "AfterInsert", "AfterDelete", "AfterPost"
412 and "AfterExecQuery". The first three are called after the same event is called
413 for an IBCustomDataSet descendent using the Transaction. The fourth is called
414 after a call to TIBSQL.ExecQuery, again using this transaction. These new events
415 enable monitoring of transaction status changes for a given transaction to be
416 handled in a single place. For example, when a change to the dataset occurs
417 an indicator can be set that shows the user that in order to save changes,
418 the transaction should be committed. Rather than doing this per dataset, this
419 can now be done per transaction.
420
421 5. TDataSet.CheckBrowseMode automatically posts changes to the current row when
422 the dataset is scrolled. However, any changes to the current row are, by default,
423 discarded when the dataset is closed. TIBDataSet, TIBQuery and TIBTable now
424 have a new property "DataSetCloseAction" that adds automatic posting of changes
425 on dataset close. If this property is set to dcDiscardChanges (default) then the
426 behaviour is unchanged from previous versions. if the value is set to dcSaveChanges
427 then IBX will attempt to post any unsaved changes before the dataset is closed
428 (and after the BeforeClose event handler is called). The exception is when the
429 dataset is being closed as a result of a transaction rollback. In this case,
430 no action is taken and any unsaved changes are discarded. This avoids both
431 unnecessary overhead and the risk that a validation error may occur in the Post
432 raising an exception and thereby preventing a rollback.
433
434 6. String Field sizes and Display Widths should now be correct for multi-byte character sets.
435 In earlier versions, the Display Width was set to the maximum byte width rather than the character
436 width. Display Widths are now corrected by dividing by the max byte width per character.
437 For UTF8 character sets, the byte width is four and hence the Display Width will be
438 the byte width divided by 4. The byte width of each character set is determined
439 dynamically when the database connection is estabished from the RDB$CHARACTER_SETS
440 system table. (see also http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=27766).
441
442 7. SQLParser will now correctly parse SQL Text which contains ':' within quoted string.
443
444 8. IBLookupComboEditBox: List should now always be restored to full list when the
445 control loses focus. Default Key press default interval reduced to 200ms.
446
447 9. DBControlGrid: Ensure that selection is changed to newly appended row, even
448 when dataset rows are less than visible rows.
449
450 10. IBDynamicGrid: Editor Panel is not shown on indicator click if Datasource
451 does not exist or DataSet is empty. More responsive on dataset open. New event
452 OnRestorePosition. Column sort disabled if no header row.
453
454 11. IBTreeView: improved handling of response to "Add Node". Avoid scrolling dataset
455 while dataset state is dsInsert. Avoids posting errors.
456
457 12. IBControls: New mechanism for distributing UpdateSQL and UpdateParams events. This is to
458 avoid conflict with DisableControls/EnableControls with Master/Detail linked tables.
459
460 13. IBLookupComboEditBox: Now avoids SQL Errors when combo box text contains single quotes.
461
462 14. TIBDataSet and TIBQuery: new Event - OnValidatePost. This event has been introduced
463 to solve a specific problem. That is when the dataset cursor is moved (e.g. by
464 a grid mouse click and the current row is being edited or inserted. In this case, TDataset
465 always "posts" the current record regardless or whether or not it may be more appropriate
466 to cancel any changes; the post occurs before the "BeforeScroll" event fires due to the way the
467 "MoveBy" function is implemented by TDataSet. The OnValidatePost event is called
468 as the first action of the "Post" method and allows the handler to convert the Post
469 into a Cancel if that is the appropriate action on moving to a different row. This is
470 achieved by returning with "CancelPost" argument set to true. Note that an exception could be
471 raised here, but it may still be more appropriate to validate a post and signal
472 a problem in the "BeforePost" event handler. See readme.automaticposts.xhtml)
473
474 15. On Unix derived systems, the Firebird library name can now be given as a colon
475 separated list. Each library name on the list is tried in turn, in left to right
476 order with the first found being used as the firebird library. By default, on Linux,
477 the library name list is 'libfbembed.so.2.5:libfbembed.so.2.1:libfbclient.so.2'. This can be
478 overidden by the FBLIB environment variable or the OnGetLibraryName function.
479
480 Note: when using the libfbembed.so, if you prefix the database name with "localhost:"
481 then it will still attempt to access the database via the Firebird Server and will
482 require a username and password. If only the pathname is given, then the username
483 and password should be omitted and the unix file permissions are used to grant
484 access.
485
486 IBX Change Log version (1.2-2) Sat, 14 Mar 2015 11:35:04 +0000
487
488 1. A new IBControl - TDBControlGrid has been added. TDBControlGrid a lookalike
489 rather than a clone for the Delphi TDBCrtlGrid. TDBControlGrid is a single column grid
490 that replicates a TWinControl - typically a TPanel or a TFrame in each row. Each row
491 corresponds to a row of the linked DataSource. Any data aware control on the
492 replicated (e.g.) TPanel will then appear to have the appropriate value for the row.
493
494 2. As suggested by Julio Jiménez, a new property "SQLHourGlass" has been added to TIBDatabase.
495 When set to false (default true), the Hour Glass cursor is supcpressed and no cursor change
496 takes place during database access. This may be useful when there are performance issues with
497 the change of cursor. Setting the property to false suppresses the change of cursor.
498
499 3. As suggested by Julio Jiménez, a new property "AutoCommit" has been added to TIBDataSet, TIBQuery
500 and TIBTable. When set to acCommitRetaining (Default: acDisabled), a call is made to
501 Transaction.CommitRetaining immediately after every Post or Delete. This has the effect of
502 making all changes permanent immediately rather than when the transaction is explicitly
503 committed.
504
505 4. Experimental support for the Firebird 3 SQL_BOOLEAN type has been added while still
506 using the legacy Firebird API. Thanks to Gabor Boros for helping to test this feature.
507
508 IBX Change Log version (1.2-1) Fri, 13 Mar 2015 11:14:15 +0000
509
510 Development version only.
511
512 IBX Change Log version (1.2-0) Thu, 26 Feb 2015 10:34:04 +0000
513
514 1. An internal select SQL Parser is now available for TIBCustomDataset descendents.
515 This is typically used during an "OnBeforeOpen" event handler to manipulate the
516 "Where" and "Having" clauses to implement user specified filters of arbitrary
517 complexity.
518
519 2. A new Component Palette entry "Firebird Data Controls" is now available. This has
520 three new data aware controls dependent on IBX and which make use of the SQL Parser.
521 These are:
522
523 - TIBLookupComboEditBox
524 - TIBDynamicGrid
525 - TIBTreeview
526
527 TIBLookupComboEditBox is a TDBLookupComboBox descendent that implements "autocomplete"
528 of typed in text and "autoinsert" of new entries. Autocomplete uses SQL manipulation
529 to revise the available list and restrict it to items that are prefixed by the
530 typed text (either case sensitive or case insensitive). Autoinsert allows a
531 newly typed entry to be added to the list dataset and included in the available
532 list items.
533
534 TIBDynamicGrid is a TDBGrid descendent that provides for:
535 - automatic resizing of selected columns to fill the available row length
536 - automatic positioning and sizing of a "totals" control, typically at the
537 column footer, on a per column basis.
538 - DataSet resorting on header row click, sorting the dataset by the selected column.
539 A second click on the same header cell reversed the sort order.
540 - Support for a "Panel Editor". That is on clicking the indicator column, the row
541 is automatically expanded and a panel superimposed on it. The panel can have any
542 number of child controls, typically data aware controls with the same datasource
543 as the grid allowing for editing of additional fields and more complex editors.
544 - Reselection of the same row following resorting.
545 - A new cell editor that provides the same functionality as TIBLookupComboEditBox.
546 Its properties are specified on a per column basis and allows for one or more
547 columns to have their values selected from a list provided by a dataset.
548 Autocomplete and autoinsert are also available. The existing picklist editor
549 is unaffected by the extension.
550
551 TIBTreeView is a data aware TCustomTreeView.
552
553 3. When getting a field value using FieldByName.AsVariant, an SQL_INT64 with a
554 zero scale will no longer return an error. An Int64 will be returned instead.
555
556 4. TIBTransaction now has events for Before and After Transaction End and a new function
557 "GetEndAction" allowing the EndAction to be accessed by these event handlers.
558
559 5. TIBQuery can now handle correctly queries which contain the same keyword parameter
560 repeated multiple times.
561
562 6. TIBUpdateSQL will no longer return an error when "RowsAffected" is <> 1. This error
563 check used to get in the way of using Stored Procedures, and "Update or Insert"
564 statements.
565
566 7. Insert, Modify and Delete property Editors now support Query Generation from
567 Stored Procedures.
568
569 8. Three new examples illustrate the use of the new IB Controls
570
571
572 IBX Change Log version (1.1-0) Mon, 07 Jul 2014 14:01:07 +0100
573
574 1. TIBXSQLVAR code clean up and optimisation to improve client side "prepare" and parameter
575 setting performance. See "readme.field+param.names in the doc folder.(Thanks to
576 Gabor Boros for reporting this problem and for testing the improvements).
577
578 2. IBX can now support dialect 3 quoted column names that contain spaces and which differ only in their case.
579 See readme.field+param.names in the doc folder.
580
581 3. IBX SQL Editors will now automatically add double quotes around column names when the database
582 dialect is "3" and the column name contains spaces or is a Firebird 2.5 SQL Reserved Word.
583
584 4. Param Type LargeInt now supported in TIBQuery and TIBStoredProc
585
586 5. TIBSQL.ExecQuery retry on failure removed to avoid problems with "at most once"
587 actions.
588
589 6. TIBTransaction.SetDefaultDatabase uses SetObjectProp instead of mis-using SetOrdProp (with
590 thanks to Yuriy Kopnin for pointing this out).
591
592 7. GenerateParamName is now a published property of TIBSQL, TIBQuery and TIBDataSet.
593
594 8. varWord, varShortInt and varInt64 added to TIBXSQLVAR.SetAsVariant and hence now available as variant types
595 for both fields and parameter setting.
596
597 9. Changes to the Select SQL in an IBCustomDataset descendent should now be
598 visible in the Fields Editor immediately afterwards - rather than only after cycling the "active" property.
599
600 10. TIBSQL SQL editor will operate correctly and not report an SQL syntax error on SQL test,
601 when DSQL ('?') parameter placeholders are used and the TIBSQL.GenerateParamNames property is set to true.
602
603 11. TIBTable now has a property editor for "MasterFields"
604
605 12. SQL Property Editors now include a checkbox "Allow DSQL Placeholder". This corresponds to the
606 GenerateParamNames property and should be set when using DSQL (i.e. '?') style parameters.
607
608 13. The IBTransaction editor now has a radio button ("Unspecified") which is set when the combination
609 of settings is unrecognised. Selecting this radio button has no effect on the settings.
610
611
612 IBX Change Log version (1.0-5) Sat, 28 Dec 2013 19:22:23 +0000
613
614 1. TBookmark change conditional compile changed to >= 2.7.0 to match revised availability of change.
615
616 IBX Change Log version (1.0-4) Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:56:13 +0000
617
618 1. In a TIBCustomDataset descendent, a generator now only sets the value when
619 it is null. This allows for alternative user defined setting of the generator
620
621 Many thanks to Julio Jiménez for this fix
622
623 2. An Error Dialog is now displayed in the Lazarus IDE if IBX cannot find the Firebird Library
624 and suggests that the user may have forgotten to install it.
625
626 IBX Change Log version (1.0-3) Thu, 22 Nov 2012 22:53:39 +0000
627
628 1. Conditional compilation used to limit registration of TIntegerField to
629 Lazarus versions less than 1.1
630
631 2. When a database connection is created, character set is now by default set
632 to UTF8 (Unix) or to the current Windows code page (Windows) if in the range
633 1250 to 1254.
634
635
636 IBX Change Log version (1.0-2) Tue, 09 Oct 2012 09:10:30 +0100
637
638 1. TBookmark change conditional compile changed to > 2.6.2 to match expected availability of change.
639
640
641 IBX Change Log version (1.0-1) Sun, 05 Aug 2012 20:00:04 +0100
642
643 1. In IBCustomDataset. Changed CurBookmark from string to TBookmark for compiler versions > 2.6.0
644 Necessary because of TBookmark type and TDataSet.Bookmark property change in fpc 2.7.1
645
646 2. IBX now registers TIntegerField as a "No Icon" component. This may be removed if the fpc DB
647 package is changed to do this (which it should do).
648
649 IBX Change Log version (1.0-0) Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:43:00 +0100
650
651 1. Add "if active then active := false" to TIBCustomDataset destructor. (Avoid error on database close).
652
653 2. Make use of $STATIC conditional in IBSQLMonitor (Needed for FPC 2.6.0 compliance)
654
655 3. Database Property Editor: Character Set drop down box now uses "OnChange" rather than "OnCloseUp" to react to changes
656
657 4. Property editors should now correctly resize.
658
659 5. In IBDatabaseEdit.TestClick, the LoginPrompt is now set to the state of the LoginPrompt Checkbox
660 (restored original functionality)
661
662 6. Under OSX, if IBX fails to load libfbclient.dylib, it will now try and load the firebird
663 library using the absolute path /Library/Frameworks/Firebird.framework/Firebird.