- 28 March 2008
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New version of OleProxyWizard submitted by Armin Tueting, download from
here.
New version OCF Help by Armin Tueting updated on the Documentation page.
- 28 February 2008
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New version of GenPro by Mohsen Jahanshahi updated on the Tools page
New OCF examples by Sebastian Ledesma added to the Examples page
to demonstrate the new XP themes.
- 4 January 2008
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New version of OleProxyWizard submitted by Armin Tueting, download from
here.
Changes include: Vista compatibility, initialize with default values for Author from EXPERT.INI, Company and Copyright and better compatibility for BC5x
- 18 December 2007
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The new patch 6.20.7 for the official 6.20 release is ready.
It contains latest fix by Vidar Hasfjord, and compatibility changes for building with Visual C++ 2008.
- 10 December 2007
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Uploaded installators for OWLExt and
OWLFx by Sebastian Ledesma
- 7 December 2007
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The new patch 6.20.6 for the official 6.20 release is ready.
It contains the latest changes by Frank Rast and Vidar Hasfjord, the suggestion by by Paul Schauble
and some minor OWLFx-related changes.
- 20 November 2007
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Updated two examples, gadgets.zip and xpthemes.zip
to demonstrate the new XP themes.
The new patch 6.21.5 for the development 6.21 branch is ready.
Syncronized with the latest changes from the release patches.
- 16 November 2007
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The new patch 6.20.5 for the official 6.20 release is ready.
The main feature is the addition of
Windows XP Visual Style Gadgets by Vidar Hasfjord. The necessary files to support older compilers are added
in the include\api_upd folder.
Bug fixes:
- Fixes for the EV_WM_POWERBROADCAST and EV_WM_DEVICECHANGE event handlers by Mikko
- Fix for a
problem
with flat buttons in print preview by Vidar Hasfjord
- Fix in TWindow::EvMouseWheel suggested by Dan Notestein
- Fix for and issue
with context menus on a dual-monitor system
Prebuild libraries can be downloaded here
and they can be used to replace the DLLs for dynamically linked OWLNext 6.20 applications without rebuilding.
- 12 September 2007
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The new patch 6.20.4 for the official 6.20 release is ready.
It contains many submissions from Vidar Hasfjord:
Prebuild libraries can be downloaded here
and they can be used to replace the DLLs for dynamically linked OWLNext 6.20 applications without rebuilding.
- 23 August 2007
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The new patch 6.20.3 for the official 6.20 release is ready.
It contains fixes, enabling use of the OWL1,2,5 compatibility builds and
a fix for a problem
with THarbor background in diagnostic build.
Prebuild libraries can be downloaded here
and they can be used to replace the DLLs for dynamically linked OWLNext 6.20 applications without rebuilding.
OWLExt 3.0 library and it's examples are updated to work with C++Builder 2007
and are included in the submission for the upcoming Highlander release.
- 3 August 2007
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Updated version of the OWL Extension Library 3.0
is available at the Projects page.
OWLExt 3.0 is a collection of classes which can used from OWLNext applications:
- TBmpMenu, TCtxHelpFileManager, TDialogToolBox, TToolbarInputDialog, THLinkCtrl, TColorHLS, TColorPicker, TDockableControlBarEx, TGadgetComboBox by Dieter Windau
- TCalcEdit - original code by Steve Carr
- TCalendarEdit, TBrowse, TPopupEdit - original code by Daniel BERMAN
- TDirDialog - original code by Kent Reisdorph
- TNotebook - writen by Borland
- TPickEditLis - original code by Steve Carr
- TTipDialog - written by Yura Bidus
- TExpandableComboBox - original code by by Antony Corbett
- TEditList - original code by Christopher Kohlhoff
- TProgressDlg - original code by by Rich Goldstein
- TEnumWindows, TKeyHook, TMouseHook, TMessageHook - by Don Griffin
- TDoubleValidator, TDialogApp, TMultiFrame, TPictDecorator, TTabWindow, TTimer - from Ted Neward
books
Installation: simply unzip the files in OWLNext root folder.
Build: download the latest version of OWLMaker and use it to build the library for Borland/CodeGear C++ compilers.
Visual Studio makefiles are not yet updated.
Usage: include the desired headers from include\owlext, and make sure that either USE_OWLEXTLIB or USE_OWLEXTDLL is defined.
- 25 July 2007
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The new patch 6.20.2 for the official 6.20 release is ready.
It contains a fix for the crash in VS2005 diagnostic dynamic libraries
and a minor compatibility update for the upcomming version of CodeGear Developer Studio 2007
Prebuild libraries can be downloaded here
and they can be used to replace the DLLs for dynamically linked OWLNext 6.20 applications without rebuilding.
- 20 July 2007
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The first patch for the 6.21 development version is ready. It uses the new versioning scheme and is named 6.21.2
The patch is intended only for 6.20, includes both OWLNext and OCFNext and can be downloaded
here.
In this version the code is cleaned from unsupported platforms like Win16 or OS/2. Read more in the
patch notes.
It contains no new functionalities over 6.20, and is not recommended to be used for production releases.
- 7 July 2007
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Added new version of OleProxyWizard by Armin Tueting to the Tools page
- 30 June 2007
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Added GenPro by Mohsen Jahanshahi to the Tools page
- 26 June 2007
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The first patch for the official 6.20 release is ready. It uses the new versioning scheme and is named 6.20.1
The patch is intended only for 6.20, includes both OWLNext and OCFNext and can be downloaded
here.
The changes include various fixes by Siegfried Rohdewald and a fix for the new printer dialog issue
when a TPrinter object is created before the application main window is created. All the changes are in
source code only and the new DLLs should be fully compatible with applications built with 6.20 release.
Prebuild libraries can be downloaded here
and they can be used to replace the DLLs for dynamically linked OWLNext 6.20 applications without rebuilding.
- 7 June 2007
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Updated the examples page.
Transferred some articles from the old site.
- 6 June 2007
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OWLNext 6.20 release candidate 17 is the version
included on C++ Builder 2007 Partner CD.
It contains both OWLNext and OCFNext libraries and
is marked as the final 6.20 release.
The contents of the partner CD are available here:
http://cc.codegear.com/partners/cppbuilder2007/index.html
Full OWLNext 6.20 installation is available here:
http://cc.codegear.com/partners/cppbuilder2007/owlnext/owlnext/index.html
The source and header files only are available here:
http://cc.codegear.com/Item.aspx?id=24659
Release notes for C++ Builder 2007:
http://dn.codegear.com/article/36575
- 6 June 2007
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Added a page Setting up C++ Builder 2007 to work with OWLNext
Added a page with OWLExpert by Sebastian Ledesma
Updated the OWLMaker page
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