- 15 May 2009
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Updated the links page
- 7 May 2009
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There are new OWLNext examples on Mohsen's OWL site
Found a post about compiling OWLNext with Visual C++ 2008
- 29 April 2009
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A new patch 6.21.8 for the OWLNext development version 6.21 is ready.
This patch implements the new naming scheme for OCFNext for Borland/CodeGear C++
Installation: The patch should be applicable to OWLNext 6.20-6.20.9.
Do not replace 6.20 sources, make a copy, as 6.21.8 is not yet a stable version and should not be used for production.
Prebuild libraries: The following prebuild library sets are available for download:
The next version, 6.21.9, will implement the new naming scheme for OCFNext for Visual C++, which will be the final step of the transition to the new library naming.
- 7 November 2008
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A new patch 6.21.7 for the OWLNext development version 6.21 is ready.
This patch implements the new naming scheme for Visual C++, as 6.21.6 implemented it for Borland/CodeGear C++
Installation: The patch should be applicable to OWLNext 6.20-6.20.9.
Do not replace 6.20 sources, make a copy, as 6.21.7 is not yet a stable version and should not be used for production.
Prebuild libraries will be uploaded next week
- 23 October 2008
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A combination of travelling, working on-site and project deadlines prevented me from supporting OWLNext in the past few months. Now I'm back and I am currently working on the 6.21.7 development version - new naming convention makefiles for Microsoft Visual C++.
Meanwhile, CodeGear have changed the address of their forums, read the announcement
here. The new address is
news://forums.codegear.com,
the group about OWL is embarcadero.public.cpp.owl and to post messages,
a free account is needed. Archives of the newsgroup can be searched with
Google Groups.
- 28 May 2008
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Added a link to Mohsen's OWL site
- 27 May 2008
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The new patch 6.20.9 for the official 6.20 release is ready. It contains:
- A fix for OCF Server crash, proposed by Mark Hatsell in this thread.
- Also from the same thread, a change in the definition of TRegTemplateList::EnabledFlags. It was defined as
_TCHAR* which is not correct, as it contains flags, not character data. Now is changed to int8
to avoid confusion, and in OWLNext 6.21 these flags may be redesigned to use enumeration instead.
- A fix for the usage of uxtheme.h when compiling with C++ Builder 6.
- A fix in TDC::SelectObject(const TBitmap& bitmap), submitted by Robert Newland.
- Fixes for the bugs
Crash with dockable control bars and
TListWindow::GetSelIndexes returns 1 too many.
- Small fix in the makefile for Borland compilers, where several modules were linked twice in the DLLs.
- 26 May 2008
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Finished the OWL compatibility article
- 20 May 2008
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Removed the debug libraries from the prebuild libraries, as they were too large.
- 16 May 2008
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Added an article with detailed information about the new naming scheme.
Added an article with information about the OWL compatibility modes (not finished).
- 14 May 2008
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A new patch 6.21.6 for the OWLNext development version 6.21 is ready.
This is the first version which implements the new naming scheme
(for Borland/CodeGear C++ only, Visual C++ will follow soon in 6.21.7). Also OCFNext with the new naming scheme
will follow in 6.21.8.
Installation: The patch should be applicable to OWLNext 6.20-6.20.8. Do not replace 6.20 sources, make a copy,
as 6.21.6 is not yet a stable version and should not be used for production.
Prebuild libraries: The following prebuild library sets are available for download:
Every file contains the following libraries:
- owl-62106-b?-s.lib
- Nodebug single-thread static library
- owl-62106-b?-si.lib, owl-62106-b?-s.dll
- Nodebug single-thread import library and DLL
- owl-62106-b?-t.lib
- Nodebug multi-thread static library
- owl-62106-b?-ti.lib, owl-62106-b?-t.dll
- Nodebug multi-thread import library and DLL
Building: The owl621.6.zip file contains sample batch files used to build the libraries.
The paths in these files should be changed to the actual ones on your machine.
Important: do not use paths containing spaces, use the 8.3 conforming path instead, for example
use
"C:\Progra~1\CodeGear\RADStu~1\5.0"
instead of
"C:\Program Files\CodeGear\RAD Studio\5.0"
Usage: For all compilers the #pragma comment(lib, NAME) statements are used to ensure
that the correct library is linked.
Note for Borland C++ 5.02 users: The Target Expert adds library references with hardcoded names to the project.
You will have to manualy remove them, or you can download the dummy libraries in owlw.zip
and bids.zip and extract them in the library folder.
- 10 April 2008
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Hotfixed the patch 6.20.8.
Uploaded a small article about OWL Static Library Sectioning.
- 8 April 2008
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The new patch 6.20.8 for the official 6.20 release is ready.
It contains the modifications by Mark Hatsell to allow Unicode filenames
to be used with the ifpstream/ofpstream stream classes and another Unicode-related fix in ocreg.cpp.
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