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1 < IBX Change Log  version      (1.3-0) Tue, 14 Jul 2015 16:32:40 +0100
1 > IBX Change Log  version                   (2.0.3) tba, 24 Feb 2017 12:17:53 +0000
2 >
3 > 1. IBCustomDataset: Minor change of PChar to PByte for compatibility with fbintf
4 >   changes.
5 >
6 > 2. IBCustomDataset: Fixed use of incorrect datasize in TIBStringField.SetAsString.
7 >   Bug could result in truncated multi-byte character set values.
8 >
9 > 3. Changes consequential on moving fbintf character set utility functions from
10 >   IFirebirdAPI to IAttachment.
11 >
12 > 4. Avoid "Object is nil" error when opening a database with DefaultSystemCodePage = true
13 >
14 > 5. IBLookupComboEditBox: avoid race condition when autocompleting text that occasionally
15 >   results in autocomplete ignoring prefix text.
16 >
17 > 6. IBLookupComboEditBox: Ensure that cursor is not reset to start of text when
18 >   entering a new name into the text box.
19 >
20 > IBX Change Log  version                   (2.0-2) Fri, 24 Feb 2017 12:17:53 +0000
21 >
22 > 1. TIBDatabase.CreateDatabase: extract full DB Name from SQL using reg ex in order to
23 >   include remote system name.
24 >
25 > 2. TIBExtract: No longer include comment header and COMMIT statement for empty
26 >   tables when data included in output.
27 >
28 > 3. Profiling: IBSQL now has conditional compilation flags to enable query performance
29 >   and timing information to be written to stdout. This may be used to locate
30 >   performance bottlenecks.
31 >
32 > 4. SQLParser: only call "OnChanging" event handler when value is different.
33 >
34 > 5. IBDynamicGrid: Update handling of navigation keys for a TDateEdit
35 >
36 > 6. IBCustomDataset: Set internalunprepared flag when transaction ends. This ensures
37 >   that BindFields is called when the query is next activated. Avoids FieldName
38 >   not found error.
39 >
40 > IBX Change Log  version                  (2.0-1) Mon, 09 Jan 2017 15:31:49 +0000
41 >
42 > 1. TIBEvents: Fix uninitialised variable that could result in lost events.
43 >
44 > 2. TIBExtract: Added support for FB3 "USAGE" privilege.
45 >
46 > 3. TIBExtract: data formatted as Charset set "octets" is now output using
47 >   hexadecimal notation.
48 >
49 > 4. TIBExtract: Binary Blobs and array data can now be embedded in INSERT statements
50 >   using a simple XML format.
51 >
52 > 5. TIBExtract: extract of individual Triggers and Stored Procedures can now include
53 >   grants to these objects.
54 >
55 > 6. TIBExtract: Stored Procedures and Views output in dependency order to avoid
56 >   dependency problems restoring complex databases.
57 >
58 > 7. TIBXScript: This component has been restructured to allow for the processing of
59 >   embedded XML in INSERT statements and to support interactive sources in addition
60 >   to non-interactive data sources such as files.
61 >
62 > 8. TIBXScript: CREATE DATABASE, DROP DATABASE, CONNECT statements are now supported.
63 >
64 > 9. TIBXScript: ISQL compatiable Set statements are now supported:
65 >   SET SQL DIALECT
66 >   SET TERM
67 >   SET AUTODDL
68 >   SET BAIL
69 >   SET ECHO
70 >   SET COUNT
71 >   SET STATS
72 >   SET NAMES <character set>
73 >
74 > 10. IBVersion unit added to hold current IBX Version Number information.
75 >
76 > 11. TIBExtract: Use character rather than byte length for VarChar procedure arguments.,
77 >    and domain definitions.
78 >
79 > 12. TIBExtract: Triggers now use SQL2003 syntax and database and transaction triggers
80 >    fully supported.
81 >
82 > 13. TIBExtract: when a database dump includes data, the generator values are now also set.
83 >
84 > 14: IBSQLEdit: Unit LCLPlatformDef added to uses clauses for lazarus 1.7 and later.
85 >
86 > IBX Change Log  version     (2.0-0) Tue, 06 Dec 2016 10:33:44 +0000
87 >
88 > See also doc/IBX4LazarusGuide.pdf for important information on
89 > upgrading to IBX2.
90 >
91 > 1. Size property of TIBStringField is now the width in characters of the field
92 >   and not the byte length. This applies only to multi-byte character sets such
93 >   as UTF8. The original approach aligned with TStringField. However, the TStringField
94 >   code is not recognised as a bug and hence this change to align the behaviour.
95 >   The TStringField change is expected in fpc 3.2.0.
96 >
97 > 2. A new property AutoFieldSize: boolean has been added to TIBStringField. When
98 >   true (default) then Size property value saved in the lfm is ignored. Size is
99 >   always set from the dynamic information read from the database. It is unclear
100 >   why anyone would want to override this and set Size to false.
101 >
102 > 3. ibxscript: should now handle correctly a Case..End statement within a procedure
103 >   block.
104 >
105 > 4. IBDatabase: new property - CreateIfNotExists. If true and database does not
106 >   exist when an attempt is made to connect to it (run time only) then an attempt
107 >   is made to create the database.
108 >
109 > 5. IBDatabase: new event - OnCreateDatabase. This event is called after a database
110 >   has been successfully created as a result of a call to CreateDatabase or when
111 >   creating a database after it was found not to exist.
112 >
113 > 6.  DBControlGrid: a race condition could result in the wrong row image being
114 >    written to the cache. This has been avoided by a trip round the message
115 >    loop before rendering the row image.
116 >
117 > 7.  DBControlGrid: It is strongly recommended not to open the source DataSet for
118 >    a DBControlGrid during a Form's "OnShow" event handler. Under GTK2 this is
119 >    known to risk corrupt rendering of row images when the control is first
120 >    displayed. If necessary use "Application.QueueAsyncCall" to delay opening
121 >    of the dataset (see DBControlGrid examples) until the Form's Window has been created.
122 >
123 > 8.  DBControlGrid & IBDynamicGrid: Navigation keys should now work correctly with
124 >    a TDateEdit control located on an editor panel.
125 >
126 > 9.  TIBExtract: brought up-to-date plus many bug fixes.
127 >
128 > 10. DBControlGrid: Removed memory leak when updating rows.
129 >
130 > 11. TIBCMLocalDBSupport: fixed invalid free on upgrade.
131 >
132 > IBX Change Log  version                                           (1.4-3) Thu, 22 Sep 2016 18:10:15 +0100
133 >
134 > 1. IBCustomDataset: When calling SetCodePage, no longer request transliteration
135 >   when target codepage is CP_NONE. This is a workaround for
136 >   http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=30622.
137 >
138 > 2. DBLog option removed from TIBStatisticalService - not supported by server
139 >   since Firebird 1.5.
140 >
141 > 3. ibxscript: An error is no longer generated for "on commit preserve rows" or
142 >   similar.
143 >
144 > 4. IBCodePage: updated mapping between codepages and character id.
145 >
146 > 5. ftWideString and ftWideMemo withdrawn. There is no UTF16 character set in
147 >   Firebird. Character sets with a char width of two are not UTF16.
148 >
149 > 6. Strings received from the database are now always transliterated into UTF8
150 >   regardless of the database character set or connection character set. This
151 >   is for compatibility with the LCL.
152 >
153 > IBX Change Log  version  (1.4-2) Thu, 22 Sep 2016 15:25:27 +0100
154 >
155 > 1. IBBlob: Defer reading of blob until read method called. This avoids having to
156 >   read in an entire blob just to get the size of the blob. General performance
157 >   improvement when opening datasets containing blobs.
158 >
159 > 2. Clearing a  Blob now sets the corresponding field's modified flag.
160 >
161 > 3. IBLookupCombo: When not performing auto-complete, original query sort order
162 >   is now used.
163 >
164 > 4. IBDynamicGrid: Add OnSelectEditor event. Allows editor panel to be dynamically
165 >   determined.
166 >
167 > 5. IBDynamicGrid: Recompute column widths after dataset closed and re-opened.
168 >
169 > 6. IBLookupCombo: LazUTF8 added to uses clause to avoid compilation problems post
170 >   lazarus 1.6.0
171 >
172 > 7. IBControls. Removed "runtime" from list of paths to avoid "multiple packages"
173 >   compilation error.
174 >
175 > IBX Change Log  version                                 (1.4-1) Tue, 17 May 2016 09:14:51 +0100
176 >
177 > 1. No character set specified for connection: when a text blob is retrieved, the
178 >  character set is determined by looking up the native character set using then
179 >  Firebird API. Otherwise a text mode blob is assumed to have the same character
180 >  set as the connection.
181 >
182 > 2. TIBGUIInterface: this is an internal interface. Minor type changes to allow
183 >   for Login Dialog returing a change to the database path.
184 >
185 > 3. Design Time Database and Server login Dialogs now allow the Database Name/Server Name
186 >   to be changed from that given in the TIBDatabase/TIBServer component and for the
187 >   entered value to be saved on a project specific basis (design time only).
188 >
189 > 4. IBDynamicGrid: TDBLookupCellEditor now compares its DataFieldName with the
190 >   column fieldname. If they are the same then it is acts as a look up for the KeyValue
191 >   Otherwise, it sets the column text to the selected ListField Value.
192 >
193 > 5. IBDynamicGrid: Only visible columns are now taken into account When recalculating
194 >   column width.
195 >
196 > 6. IBLookupComboEditBox: Fix error with autocomplete query when a RelationName is given
197 >   and a case insensitive search is requested.
198 >
199 > 7. IBDynamicGrid: No longer ignores notifications removing Column Totals controls
200 >   or column ListSource.
201 >
202 > 8. IBQuery: no longer performs unnecessary refresh of SQL Text (and hence avoids an
203 >   unprepare) when closing and the text has not changed.
204 >
205 > 9. IBSQL: Base the cursor name on a GUID instead of a hexstr version of the class pointer.
206 >   Less likely to cause a cursor re-use error on Windows.
207 >
208 > 10.SV5IPC: include workaround for OSX. FPC 3.0.0 has broken ipc module for darwin.
209 >   Expected to be fixed in 3.0.2. Hence workaround only applies to 3.0.0.
210 >
211 > 11. TIBTreeView: Guard against nil destination on record changed
212 >
213 > 12. AnsiString Code page support: TIBStringField.AsString and TIBMemoField.AsString now return a
214 >    string type with the code page set to reflect the returned field encoding after
215 >    Firebird driver transliteration, if any.  FPC 3.0.0 onwards only. Behaviour unchanged for
216 >    earlier versions.
217 >
218 > 13. AnsiString Code page support: Assigning to TIBStringField.AsString and TIBMemoField.AsString
219 >    will now result in transliteration to the code page specified for the Firebird driver
220 >    if the assigned string has a different code page. FPC 3.0.0 onwards only.
221 >
222 > 14. TIBDatabase: new property UseDefaultSystemCodePage. When set any lc_ctype parameter
223 >    is ignored and the lc_ctype value, when the database is opened, is set to align with
224 >    the DefaultSystemCodePage (FPC 3.0.0 onwards). Normally, this is what you want and should ensure
225 >    platform independence. Note: this applies to FPC 3.0.0 and earlier versions. Pre FPC
226 >    3.0.0, when this property is true, the lc_ctype is UTF8 except under windows when
227 >    the GETACP is used to determine the Windows code page.
228 >
229 > 15. TIBDatabase: new property DefaultCharSetName. This is the Firebird character set
230 >    name used as the lc_ctype when the database was opened. Only valid while the
231 >    Database is connected.
232 >
233 > 16. TIBDatabase: new property DefaultCodePage (FPC >=3.0.0 only). This is the codepage
234 >    id that corresponds to the DefaultCharSetName.
235 >
236 > IBX Change Log  version                          (1.4-0) Mon, 15 Feb 2016 14:44:24 +0000
237 >
238 > 1. Unix: If Firebird Embedded Server shared object is loaded and a local database
239 >   path is given and database attach fails due to access permission issues on the
240 >   temp directory or security database, then the attach is retried with "localhost:"
241 >   prefixing the databasename. This should avoid problems when the database has to
242 >   be accessed by a local (e.g. classic) server and libfbembed is used.
243 >
244 > 2. Windows: revised search order for Firebird DLL:
245 >     i.   The Firebird Embedded Server in the application Directory.
246 >     ii.  If the FIREBIRD environment variable is set then the directory this
247 >          points to is searched for the FB Client DLL and then then underlying
248 >          "bin" directory.
249 >     iii. Registry Key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Firebird Project\Firebird Server\Instances
250 >          is used to locate the Firebird installation directory and the underlying
251 >          "bin" directory is searched for the FB Client DLL.
252 >     iv.  The Default installation directories C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_2_x
253 >          are searched for the FB Client DLL.
254 >     v.   The PATH Environment variable is used to search for the FB Client DLL.
255 >     vi.  Finally the  PATH Environment variable is used to search for IBASE.DLL.
256 >
257 > 3. New Component: TIBXScript. This is an ISQL compatible SQL script execution engine.
258 >   See doc/readme.scriptengine and example applications.
259 >
260 > 4. New Component: TIBlocalDBSupport. This is a TIBDatabase support component intended to
261 >   simplify the use of the embedded firebird server on both Linux and Windows platforms.
262 >   See dpc/readme.localdatabase and example applications.
263 >
264 > 5. IBDynamicGrid: Reordering on column header click should now also work for
265 >   dynamic columns.
266 >
267 > 6. ISQLMonitor: (Windows only). Mutex added to TMultilockGate to avoid race condition
268 >   between incrementing/decrementing the lock count and signalling the event.
269 >
270 > IBX Change Log  version           (1.3-2) Tue, 26 Jan 2016 14:39:54 +0000
271 >
272 > 1.3.2 was never formally released and only made available as beta copies.
273 >
274 > 1. DBControlGrid,IBDynamicGrid: Ignore down arrow and up arrow in TCustomMemo
275 >
276 > 2. IBDynamicGrid: Now deals correctly with a single column grid which has no indicator and autosize column
277 >
278 > 3. IBLookupComboEditBox: reset timer on each key press - avoids timer going off too early
279 >
280 > 4. IBDynamicGrid: Call event OnUpdateSortOrder even when aliasname not found in dataset
281 >   i.e. when it is a calculated field
282 >
283 > 5. IBDynamicGrid: Fix problem selecting a different row when expanded row at end of grid.
284 >   This problem was due to a race condition between recalculating row heights and
285 >   determining which row was selected by the mouse click. The row height calculation
286 >   is now deferred by an extra trip round the message loop allowing the row to
287 >   be always calculated on the current grid layout rather than risking it being
288 >   calculated on the grid layout after the expanded row has been shrunk.
289 >
290 > 6. IBLookupComboEditBox: avoid race condition between cm_killfocus and cm_exit on
291 >   Windows.
292 >
293 > 7. TIBStringField: Now has two new public properties: CharacterSetName: string and CharacterSetSize: integer;
294 >   These properties allow the (Firebird) character set name for the field and the max number of bytes per character
295 >   to be determined at runtime. See doc/readme.charactersets.html.
296 >
297 > 8. TIBWideStringField: This is a new field type with the same additional public properties as above and subclassed from
298 >   TWideStringField. This field type is used with the character size reported by Firebird is two. See doc/readme.charactersets.html.
299 >
300 > 9. TIBMemoField and TIBWideMemoField: new field types with the same additional public properties as above and subclassed from
301 >   TMemoField and TWideMemoField respectively. These field types are used with Blob subtype 1 and a characterset size of
302 >   1, 3 or 4 (TIBMemoField) or 2 (TIBWideMemoField). See doc/readme.charactersets.html.
303 >
304 >   Both also have a new published property "DisplayTextAsClassName". If false (default) the displaytext is generated
305 >   from the blob text by truncating the string to the displaywidth (in characters not bytes). A displaywidth of zero
306 >   implies no truncation.
307 >
308 > 10. IBLookupComboEditBox: Force autocomplete when EditingDone called and timer active.
309 >
310 > 11. IBDynamicGrid: Call DataSet.Append when entering edit mode and dataset empty and not in insert state
311 >   (avoids "Not in Edit Mode" error).
312 >
313 > 12. IBDynamicGrid: Correctly resize grid when one column width plus indicator.
314 >
315 > 13. IBDynamicGrid: Ensure Editor Panel has focus when shown - avoids Windows API calling
316 >    DBGrid.DoExit on subsequent mouse click (e.g. on child control such as a tabbed page control.
317 >
318 > 14. IBDynamicGrid: ignore up, down tab and return when editorpanel open and focus in a TCustomGrid descendent.
319 >
320 > 15. DBControlGrid: Stop flashing grid when dataset closed and then re-opened while DisabledControls
321 >
322 > 16. IBQuery: Bug fixed that prevented SQL being set programmatically once the Parser had been invoked.
323 >
324 > 17. IBCustomDataSet: On close, parser is now freed and Select SQL reverts to value before DataSet Opened.
325 >
326 > IBX Change Log  version        (1.3-1) Sat, 18 Jul 2015 13:30:50 +0100
327  
328   1.   OnCloseUp Event Handler added to TDBLookupProperties
329  
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338   5.   IBLookupComboEditBox: Ensure that KeyValue is set correctly when full text
339       keyed in i.e. when autocomplete not performed
340  
341 < 6.   Cleanup of "Uses" clauses and console mode support. IBX should now support
342 <     console mode applications with all LCL required functions centralised in the
343 <     IBDialogs unit. As long as "IBDialogs" is not included in your project, IBX
344 <     should compile and link with a console mode program. See consolemode example
345 <     for further guidence. DO NOT add the ibexpress package to a console mode
346 <     application or the IDE will automatically assume that you application is
347 <     GUI based. Instead, you should include the ibexpressconsolemode package.
341 > 6.   Cleanup of "Uses" clauses and add console mode support. IBX should now support
342 >     console mode applications with all LCL required functions (builtin dialogs and
343 >     cursor management) centralised in the  IBDialogs unit. As long as "IBDialogs" is
344 >     not included in your project, IBX should compile and link with a console mode program.
345 >     See consolemode example and its "readme"for further guidence. DO NOT add the ibexpress package to a
346 >     console mode application or the IDE will automatically assume that your
347 >     application is GUI based. Instead, you should include the ibexpressconsolemode package.
348  
349       IMPORTANT NOTE: IBDialogs must be included in GUI applications in order
350       to use the built in dialogs and cursor management. IBDialogs is
351 <     included by default if "ibexpress" is in your project source "uses" clause.
351 >     included by default if "ibexpress" is in your project source's "uses" clause.
352       This should be the case for all projects created through the IDE. This is why
353       you do not want to add the ibexpress package to console mode applications. The
354       ibexpressconsolemode package has been created to allow console mode programs
355       to avoid adding LCL dependencies when using IBX, while still having the
356       unit search paths set up correctly.
357  
358 +     Existing users should check to ensure that the "ibexpress" unit is included in
359 +     each project's source file (*.lpr).
360 +
361       You may find that in order for the IDE to recognise that ibexpressconsolemode
362       exists, you have to first open the package in the IDE and then close it. This
363       adds it to the most recently accessed packages list. To make it permanently
364       available, add the package name to lazarus' staticpackages.inc file.
365  
366 <     Under Windows, the TISQLMonitor OnSQL Event Handler may require a new call to
39 <         Application.ProcessMessages in order to display an event journal correctly. See
40 <         example. This was previously called by TISQLMonitor itself but removed to avoid
41 <         a GUI dependency.
42 <
43 <         Thansk to Julio Jiménez for suggesting support of console mode.
366 >         Thanks to Julio Jiménez for suggesting support of console mode.
367  
368   7.   SQL Parser can now accept quoted strings that include new lines
369  
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380          not be automatically recognised.
381  
382   11. Improve generation of random cursor names in TIBSQL - avoid risk of "cursor
383 <    already open" errors due to random numbers being identical.
383 >    already open" errors due to random numbers used for the cursor name being identical.
384  
385   12. IBTable: corrected error that could result in an "Index out of bounds" error
386      when opening the table and the Primary Key is the last or only column in the
387      table. Thanks to Rick Hoover for the fix.
388  
389 < IBX Change Log  version                                                              (1.2-4) Sat, 09 May 2015 12:38:29 +0100
389 > 13. Fix TIBDatabase initialisation of lc_ctype under unix. Set to "UTF8" instead
390 >    of "UTF-8", and update list of available database character sets. Existing
391 >    users should check the current lc_ctype setting in their applications.
392 >
393 > IBX Change Log  version  (1.2-4) Sat, 09 May 2015 12:38:29 +0100
394  
395   1.  Firebird Services: avoid List Index error when opening a service with an
396      empty Params property.
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417      in order to remove the property value from the lfm.
418  
419  
420 < IBX Change Log  version                                                          (1.2-3) Tue, 14 Apr 2015 14:11:17 +0100
420 > IBX Change Log  version (1.2-3) Tue, 14 Apr 2015 14:11:17 +0100
421  
422   1.  TIBStoredProc. Prepare now called by ParamByName to avoid need to always
423      call Prepare before setting parameter values.
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502      and password should be omitted and the unix file permissions are used to grant
503      access.
504  
505 < IBX Change Log  version                                                    (1.2-2) Sat, 14 Mar 2015 11:35:04 +0000
505 > IBX Change Log  version  (1.2-2) Sat, 14 Mar 2015 11:35:04 +0000
506  
507   1.  A new IBControl - TDBControlGrid has been added. TDBControlGrid a lookalike
508      rather than a clone for the Delphi TDBCrtlGrid. TDBControlGrid is a single column grid
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524   4. Experimental support for the Firebird 3 SQL_BOOLEAN type has been added while still
525     using the legacy Firebird API. Thanks to Gabor Boros for helping to test this feature.
526  
527 < IBX Change Log  version                                                   (1.2-1) Fri, 13 Mar 2015 11:14:15 +0000
527 > IBX Change Log  version      (1.2-1) Fri, 13 Mar 2015 11:14:15 +0000
528  
529   Development version only.
530  
531 < IBX Change Log  version                                      (1.2-0) Thu, 26 Feb 2015 10:34:04 +0000
531 > IBX Change Log  version   (1.2-0) Thu, 26 Feb 2015 10:34:04 +0000
532  
533   1. An internal select SQL Parser is now available for TIBCustomDataset descendents.
534     This is typically used during an "OnBeforeOpen" event handler to manipulate the
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588   8. Three new examples illustrate the use of the new IB Controls
589  
590  
591 < IBX Change Log  version                      (1.1-0) Mon, 07 Jul 2014 14:01:07 +0100
591 > IBX Change Log  version  (1.1-0) Mon, 07 Jul 2014 14:01:07 +0100
592  
593   1. TIBXSQLVAR code clean up and optimisation to improve client side "prepare" and parameter
594     setting performance. See "readme.field+param.names in the doc folder.(Thanks to

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