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

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