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DebugView replacement?

9/14/2018

We use Sysinternals's DebugView for years and years now. Works great! Only.. It's latest version date's back to December 3, 2012. That's a loooong time, even for us! 😅
We also had some features we'd like to see in DebugView but aren't. So, what replacements are there for DebugView? Well, one I found very useful and is STILL in development is DebugView++. You can find it open sourced on GIT here: github.com/CobaltFusion/DebugViewPP
Works great, even on a remote computer together with original DebugView's Remote Client mode. 👍

New xHarbour Builder RELEASE

7/5/2018

A new release of xHarbour Builder for Windows is available for download for all users with an active Upgrade and Service Subscription.
This is what's new:

Fixed designer resize connectors
Added StatusStrip control
Fixed form designer initial 10px position
Fixed VXH startup RTE comparing /BUILD parameter
Removed obsolete property GDIScaling since it's now forced in VH.
Fixed control background transparency.
Fixed TabControl painting problems
Fixed Picture control background painting.
Added API SetGraphicsMode.
Modified background painting to match HDPI standards
Changed HDPI background drawing for all controls and forms.
Added FUNCTION GetSystemDPI()
Fixed PictureBox control initial title painting.
Fixed multiple-transparency and LinkLabels and FreeImage.
Fixed HDPI transparency for: Button, CheckBox, Drawing, Edit, FreeImage, GroupBox, Label, LinkLabel, ListBox, Picture, TabControl, Window
Fixed INCREMENTAL build problem.
Fixed size HDPI problems.
Added Form:GetDC and ReleaseDC methods
Fixed memory leak in JumpList.
Added DataGrid event OnRowFont.
Fixed GroupBox drawing and adjusted Drawing size.
Fixed ToolStrip HDPI extra line bug.
Fixed selected COM objects not saving or restoring in Toolbox
Fixed FolderTree not setting up custom folders correctly
Fixed ToolStrip HDPI drawing first item
Fixed ActiveX to not to stop loading project if the object doesn't exist but show the default OS' window
Disabled ActiveX error handling due to GPF destroying the handle.
Fixed ::Params array pointer difference with xHarbour.
Fixed UTF conversion problems.
Fixed DataGrid OnCellFont and Label SetText
Fixed Label Caption property.
Fixed disabled tab and selected/disabled tab text color.
Fixed MDIClient background now handled by the Window class.

New beta Build ready for download

6/23/2018

One more BETA build. Its available for download from your personal xHarbour.com download page. Thanks for testing!

New beta builds available for download

6/19/2018

New BETA builds for xHarbour Builder for Windows are available from your personal download page.
These new builds have many fixes done in Visual xHarbour. We hope this is the last BETA release before going to a full release. Please TEST this beta build and let us know what's still to fix before going to a new release build.

Thank you all for your continuous support! 😁

What's new on VXH for latest BETA's

5/26/2018

Fixed unresolved externals using debugger
Fixed rte loading OS properties
Fixed RTE assigning a DataSource to an EditBox control.
Added API FreeeImageClone
Fixed xhbZip Harbour wrappers
Fixed return values and extra LF in AdsFuncX.c
Fixed Zip wrapper to create the zip on ZipCreate.
Removed obsolete ProgressBar code stopping animation.
Fixed Project build not stopping on error
Fixed RTE editing MemoryTables
Fixed execution of Application:bError and return from error message
Added DataTable destructor to monitor unclosed tables
Fixed DataGrid RTE using mouse wheel on empty grid
Added missing MemoryTable:Put()
Fixed ZipCreate to set WholePath
Fixed Splash and MessageWait to kill themselves on error dialog
Added support for TaskBar callback.
Fixed RTE opening project
Fixed DataTable RTE clearing relationships when closing tables.
Removed ZipCreate mimics and created new class Zip!
Fixed libs positions building Harbour apps
Created class Zip()
Added Zip.prg with new Zip class based on ZipNew (xHarbour)
Fixed RTE in DataGrid with empty MemoryTable
Fixed debug VIEW command to allow hashes inside arrays
Added Function ISAPP64() to detect if current process is a 64 or 32 bit executable
Fixed resource manifest to save for both 32 and 64 bits
Fixed Project:Make() to use new IsApp64() to determine which folder to run cl.exe from.
Fixed all registry queries for 32 and 64 bit builds
Fixed DataGrid RTE on empty Data
Added support for batch build:
/BUILD = Builds the project in batch mode
/CLEAN = clean build
Fixed batch process to show a progress indicator
Fixed Advantage NewInstance to receive a SQL expression and return a SQL table
Added DataGrid AutoEdit with double click
Fixed MessageWait not refreshing correctly
Fixed TabControl not painting correctly using arrow keys
Fixed vh project files to use generated files in its own directory
Fixed bug adding Resources where it would always show an alert that the file is not in the resources folder.
Fxed GPF in VXH
Fixed GPF trap in IsWow64Process
Fixed advantage:Save misplaced ELSE
Fixed OpenFileDialog RTE trap when filter is empty
Added DataTable internal aData to SavePos/RestPos.
Apped property Application:SmoothFonts default .T. if this property is unchecked, the quality of each independent font can be set in the Quality property
Fixed Proof font quality
Fixed theme error
Fixed default value for NIL System:TypeCast
Fixed DataGrid random RTE
Made MessageWait top most.
Fixed a DataGrid problem where the last column was not docking correctly.
Fixed potential problem adding libs from folders with spaces.
Fixed Object tree not sorting form names correctly and also fixed re-sorting when renaming forms.
Fixed Header Items RTE not setting image index correctly.
Fixed ToolStripButton excessive padding.
Fixed RTE Saving AS.
Fixed DataTable:Save() to use direct API for unlocking and committing.
Added ToolStripButton:Visible property
Fixed ACTIVEX dispatch RTE when invalid progID is passed
Fixed bug adding LIB
Fixed sorting Object TreeView
Fixed GPF getting MDI active window
Fixed ToolBar ImageIndex position
Fixed Header OnClick execution
Fixed. Neither ToolBar nor CoolMenu should have the Border option. If somebody wants it, put it inside a panel
Fixed invalid WebBrowser:Center property which is only a Form property
Fixed external images parser
Added API IsZommed
Fixed MemoryDataTable causing error using default driver
Fixed event declaration problem
Fixed BackColor failing to paint without having a BackgroundImage
Fixed Label transparency failing because of the above problem
Added API IsUserAdmin()
Fixed AnchrColumn set to 0 was misbehaving as proportional columns
Fixed GPF opening instances of a form
Fixed hotkey problems
Fixed BackgroundImage not showing on some windows
Fixed editor GPF removing external sources
Fixed memory leak cleaning up object pointers
Fixed GPF closing MDI windows
Fixed GetClassName API to return NIL if not found
Fixed ProgresBar Bug to accept more than 65535 positions
Fixed MenuItem's Text property not changing at runtime
Fixed GetClassName to return empty string if invalid
Fixed bug in usage of "ToolStripFlags"
Fixed potential GPF returning active MDIChild
Fixed changing menuitem text to refresh the menu bar if needed
Fixed StatusBar default text value
Fixed wrong parameter in AdsDDAddTable
Fixed ToolButton size setting a separator
Added InPlace COM target type!
Fixed action execution and toolbar hotimage rte
Fixed RTE in default HotImageLists
Fixed a RTE in ToolStrip and resource type when building DLLs
Fixed OnLoad to fire with InPlaceCOM projects
Fixed IDE form initial position
Fixed ToolStrip background RTE
Added support for multiple day highlighting in DateTimePicker
Added support for bolded date array
Adding support for JumpLists
Fixed EditBox problem with FloatCalendar
Fixed Opacity to not to work in design mode
Fixed ToolStrip painting problems.

New BETA builds

5/14/2018

Latest BETA builds for xHarbour Builder are available from your personal download page. It has latest VXH, SQLRDD and xHB.exe build with latest xHarbour.org sources. We are working on a WhatsNew.txt but we wanted you to have latest builds ASAP. So, here they are! 😉

xHarbour Builder September release

9/4/2017

These changes will be included in upcoming xHarbour Builder Sept2017 release:

2017-08-27 00:33 UTC+0200 Enrico Maria Giordano <e.m.giordano@emagsoftware.it>
* contrib/tipssl/client.prg
! reverted change on method Read(), replaced back InetRecvAll() with InetRecv() (many thanks to ostap.romanenko@gmail.com)

2017-08-24 10:22 UTC+0200 Enrico Maria Giordano <e.m.giordano@emagsoftware.it>
* source/tip/client.prg
* contrib/tipssl/client.prg
! reinstated bChunked variable in Read() method (many thanks to ostap.romanenko@gmail.com)
* source/tip/ftpcln.prg
! added bChunked DATA (many thanks to ostap.romanenko@gmail.com)

2017-08-21 23:43 UTC+0200 Enrico Maria Giordano <e.m.giordano@emagsoftware.it>
* contrib/tipssl/inetssl.c
! fixed function s_inetRecvInternal(), assignment of iLen was missing (many thanks to ostap.romanenko@gmail.com)
* contrib/tipssl/client.prg
! fixed method Read(), replace InetRecv() with InetRecvAll() (many thanks to ostap.romanenko@gmail.com)

2017-08-20 14:20 UTC+0200 Enrico Maria Giordano <e.m.giordano@emagsoftware.it>
* source/tip/httpcln.prg
* contrib/tipssl/httpcln.prg
! fixed method ReadHeaders() increasing buffer to 10000 (many thanks to ostap.romanenko@gmail.com)

2017-08-14 17:04 UTC+0100 Patrick Mast <patrick.mast@xharbour.com>
* bin/bld_vc.bat
+ Added support for Visual Studio 2017 Community edition

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8/12/2017

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xHarbour Builder Aug2017 release:

8/8/2017

These changes will be included in upcoming xHarbour Builder Aug2017 release:

2017-08-01 09:53 UTC+0200 Enrico Maria Giordano <e.m.giordano@emagsoftware.it>
* source/tip/client.prg
* contrib/tipssl/client.prg
! commented out unexistent bChunked variable in Read() method (many thanks to Michael)

2017-07-25 02:40 UTC-0600 Ron Pinkas <ron.pinkas/at/xharbour.com>
* make_vc.bat
+ Added auto detect/setup for MS VS 2017 (more generic approach using vswhere.exe was avoided because it would require wider scope changes than I was ready to perform.
* Fixed minor typo

2017-06-28 23:22 UTC+0200 Enrico Maria Giordano <e.m.giordano@emagsoftware.it>
* source/rtl/tbrowse.prg
! fixed method SetRowPos() (many thanks to Jose Claudio)

2017-05-13 19:00 UTC-0300 Luiz Rafael Culik <luiz@xharbour.com.br>
* source/rtl/hbxml.c
! fix to allow dot in xml tag name. fix provided by Grzegorz Wojnarowski

New xHarbour Builder and VXH 2017 build 500

5/9/2017

Fixed ComboBox ImageIndex initial value
Fixed ComboBox SelectionHeight not being set correctly
Fixed Label flickering
Added Member property to access controls as properties instead of waiting for error trapping
Fixed TabControl painting problem changing tabs
Fixed ToolStrip flickering
Fixed RadioButtons to have only one property to set/get check state, "Checked" this replaces GetState(), old Checked and InitialState
Fixed problem in advantage class that was testing for field content = "M" instead of field type ="M"
Fixed potential RTE opening a table that has no XML file attached to it
Moved AND/OR radio buttons to the LayoutFilter custom control to have more dynamic options
Fixed loading layoutSettings to recreate the table of filter statements word by word since we now have mixed up AND/OR conditions
Fixed radio AND/OR radio buttons to hide when they are the LAST filter statement
Fixed adding filter statements [+] to only allow ADDING it from the last statement
Fixed saving layout fixed index to not add AND/OR at the end of the index line
Fixed deleting index statements to prepare radio buttons and [+] symbol accordingly
Fixed initial flicker caused by showing the MDI container before docking the MDI client
Fixed memory leak closing projects
Added controls PROPERTY AddToChildren INIT .T. which setting to .F. prevents the control from being added to the Parent:Children array
Fixed ToolStrip painting problem
Fixed an icon painting bug in EditBox that was causing the border to get overpainted.
Added Label: TitleLine (numeric line thickness) that draws a line after the Label when not AutoSize is set
Changed tooltips to assign object on demand only
Fixed background painting problems
Fixed system options bug in Cancel button and font comboboxes
Added debug support to view Hash
Made toolbox visible to prevent delays painting it when opening project
Fixed RTE selecting tooltip property
Changed all instances of Font:Weight to Font:Bold
Fixed property manager to comply with new font object
Fixed memory leak closing project no destroying fonts
Fixed __GetMessageFont() to return oFont object instead of handle
Removed DatePick redundant caption processing
Changes all instances of ::Font:Height to ::Font:PointSize
Reworked Font() class to have a more standard and lighter set of properties.
Optimised Font object to reuse font handles already available instead of constantly creating new ones. Backwards compatibility in place
Removed instances of classing ivar __IsInstance
Fixed Splash and MessageWait to use new font class
Fixed RTE hovering StatusbarPanels
Changed all instances of Escapement to Orientation
Fixed Application:Exit() to simply POST closing the main form since we're still executing the button's OnClick event and it hasn't returned from it yet so we cannot kill the app yet but ask the OS to do it promptly.
Added internal API (DO NOT USE) VXH_STOP() this process flags the main procedure to exit and prevent callback procedure GPF
Fixed Form:Close() to do the same as Application:Exit() and not force closing the app but let the OS decide and force ending the main loop by calling VXH_STOP() in case other modeless windows are still in memory
VXH_STOP() allows the main loop to exit even if GetMessage() is still working for other lingering forms
Fixed DataGrid painting to be faster by processing it in OnEraseBkGnd instead of OnPaint
Fixed ToolStripButton BeginGroup painting problem by moving it from the ToolStrip to the button itself since the separator belongs to the button not to the toolstrip deleting them would cause artefacts painting on the toolbar. Fixed painting to be faster by processing it in OnEraseBkGnd instead of OnPaint
Fixed design mode RTE deleting component
Fixed ErrorSys to call VXH_STOP() instead of PostQuitMessage()
Redesigned CheckBox control painting process to be flicker free, renamed RightAlign to RightButton
Redesigned RadioButton now inheriting directly from CheckBox
Optimised DataGrid for faster and flicker free display
Removed unnecessary events from EditBox
Optimised Panels for faster display
Fixed TabPage display problem while changing tabs
Fixed TabStrip display and redrawing issues
Fixed CheckBox and RadioBox display and focus rectangle position and size
Fixed DataGrid flicker scrolling horizontally and fixed Update() and OnSize() display refresh
Added BC for old InitialState property
Added CheckBox METHOD Click()
Fixed MDIChild:Close()
Added RadioButton METHOD Check()
Fixed cleaning up applications after a RTE or GPF
Fixed DataGrid OnSave to pass the column triggering the event as Sender
Fixed RadioButton:AutoSize to inherit from CheckBox
Added TabControl:Composited property: This property makes the pages draw in double buffer producing a pure flicker free display bitmap like. This is a test that might become a Form property as well
Fixed page display override switching tabs in TabControl where the hiding page would still paint while the new page is showing. This problem showed on EditBoxes
Fixed CoolBar, CoolMenu and ToolBar background display problems
Fixed ActiveX (especially WebBrowser) event handler to not to force focus since other controls are in range too
Fixed scroll redrawing in datagrid
Added Composited option to individual pages in TabControl
Fixed RTE generating aliases bases on filename
Fixed ToolStrip painting problems
Fixed DataGrid display on empty grids
Fixed DataGrid scroll update when parent is not double buffered
Fixed MenuItem setting Text to send only the text to the item
Fixed TabControl to not to flicker switching between single and double buffered pages
Fixed ToolStrip bug drawing button separator
Added METHOD IsComposited() to determine if the control's parent or any of its ancestors
have the WS_EX_COMPOSITED (double buffer painting) style.
Fixed DataGrid redraw bug selecting visible columns
Fixed resizing MDIChild to update children correctly
Added TabControl:Redraw(), fixed class style to avoid redraws and fixed initial stroll position bug
Optimised column creation in Datagrid
Fixed more DataGrid display issues that increased speed when resizing
Fixed MDIChild display when maximising and restoring
Optimised datagrid showing large tables
Fixed DataGrid flicker bug regenerating dc already created
Fixed DataGrid:Redraw() to accept rectangle to redraw
Fixed TabControl flicker changing tabs
Fixed TabStrip painting bug where the right side of the selected tab would delay redrawing.
Optimised TabStrip/TabControl painting
Added C/asm code to draw TabPages
Added ToolStripItems:Alignment R/L to enable users to put buttons to the right most side of the bar
Fixed MenuItem text to allow translation
Added METHOD Form:OnPreInit() VIRTUAL (not event) this method triggers when the form is initialising.
Fixed some accelerators overrides
Fixed GPF trap in Advantage CreateTable()
Fixed ListBox:GetTopIndex() to not to pass a line number
Fixed OnParentDrawItem event to be fired from the right form
Added support for executing event pointers
Made first page Composited so there is a better drawing when switching pages after loading a project
Fixed new form RTE
Fixed flicker throughout VXH by replacing all instances of InvalidateRect with ::InvalidateRect() which tests for the existence and visibility of the window handle and prevents false drawing. This also increases both loading and runtime speed of all projects including VXH itself. Previous problem can be seen loading a large project would cause other apps to flicker to because of the invalid handles behing invalidated
Fixed speed problems creating and loading checkboxes
Fixed random RTE adding items to a ListBox
Fixed flicker and speed issues on all controls changing borders
Fixed FreeImage load time issue
Fixed Label:Redraw() to erase the background and not to touch the frame
Fixed Label autosize property to test for valid handle
Fixed ListBox AddString() to validate window handle
Fixed MaskEdit to create the window handle before creating the default text height which is done using a valid handle
Fixed TabControl to speed up and smooth the process of switching tabs
Fixed bug in ContextStrip where left and right arrows would cause RTE and selecting an item with TooltipText would kill the context menu
Added API GetLastInput(). This function returns the milliseconds since the last user interaction being via mouse, keyboard or touch screen. Any of the lasts will reset it

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