Build 387

The desktop version got left behind a bit. Several features like RowSource haven't made it to the desktop engine when I introduced them to the mobile engine. These issues have now been corrected. The past seven builds were mostly lots of smaller bug fixes .

Build 380

A number of bugs have been fixed in the last builds. When Guineu causes an exception (aka crashes) it writes an exception.txt file with additional information where the crash happened. Now you also have the calling hierarchy of your programs so you can see which line of code caused the problem.

Newly implemented are SET DECIMALS. The ? and ?? commands do not yet completely respect the SET DECIMALS setting, though. SYS(1079), an undocumented function in VFP, is also implemented. SYS(1079) causes a crash for diagnostic purposes, if you want to see what the dialog looks like.

SYS(8013) is the counter part of DATETIME(). You can call it to change the local system time provided you have the permissions to change the time. On Windows Mobile changing the time does not require special privileges as it does on desktop systems. ADIR() now provides the date and time of the last file modification as well as file attribute information. The time respects the current daylight saving settings and like Microsoft Visual FoxPro and Explorer. ADIR() and SYS(8013) can be combined to implement a simple time synchronization between the mobile device and the server.

Build 369

ADEL() is now available, as well.

Build 368

RowSource and RowSourceType are now available for comboboxes and listboxes on mobile devices. Right now the only supported value for RowSourceType is 1 = Values.

Build 365

While there have been only few posts here on the release blog, I've been constantly posting new versions of Guineu over the past few months. I've made many, many bug fixes in this time, but haven't added a lot of new features. Constantly reading blog posts that merely state "There's a new bug fix" doesn't seem very appealing to me, so I rather not posted those.

There've been a few new features in the meantime. DELETE FILE and SAVE TO are now working. SYS(8010) allows FTP transfer albeit for now only in the desktop version. SYS(8011) is a debugging function that produces extensive log information.

SYS(8012) is a brand new function that gives you access to the Software Input Panel (SIP) on mobile devices. That's the writing area you use with the stylus when there's no keyboard attached to the device. I'll update the documentation soon.

Tomorrow morning I'll be presenting in Prague at the conference. Topic of the session is Mobile development with VFP and Guineu.

Updated documentation

I've updated the setup instruction and first steps section on mobile development in the Guineu documentation. Following these steps should now enable you to set up Guineu, the device emulator and create your first form. If you had difficulties to get Guineu running with the previous documentation, please give the new documentation a try.

Build 341

In a number of cases there was an exception when simply opening a table when certain field types were present. The new build fixes this issue.