A-Shell 7.0 Release Notes

1765.9.2

Fix

Compiler edit 1048: structure-type function parameters with default values were triggering spurious compiler syntax errors.

1765.9.3

Fix

Xcall JSON: opcode 1 was generating a segmentation fault under Debian 12 and possibly other 64 bit platforms.

1765.8

Fix

XTREE: ListX fields were not working properly in conjunction with the cformat P code. The fields were displaying the ListX code rather than the description, except when the | character was used. Also, sorting such a column was resulting in the editing-disabled attribute migrating.

1765.7

EIR

Refinement to the blink support (see 1763.0) to fix a side effect where GUI objects on the same screen as a blinking text field would flicker.

1765.6.1

Fix

Compiler edit 1047:

1765.6.1

EIR

LIBXL 4.5.0 library update. The update provides a mixture of bug fixes and new features waiting to be exploited later.

1765.5

EIR

XTREE refinement: vertical scroll mechanism (see 1765.3) now supports the mouse wheel.

1765.4.1

Fix

Eliminate bogus complaint in ashlog file about -z switch.

1765.4.2

EIR

Minor refinements to the tracing logic related to JOBTBL access.

1765.3

EIR

XTREE: fix problems with the vertical scroll sync mechanism (see 1765.0). Scroll syncing is now automatically bidirectional. The first scrolling operation on the 'master' tree automatically links the 'slave' tree back to the 'master', unless it was already linked to a third tree.

1765.2.1

Fix

(Windows and ATE) Fine tuning of JOBTBL.SYS-related logic to close some loopholes that were allowing various kinds of inter-job conflicts to occur under conditions of high stress such as rapid launches, active CGI servers, etc.

1765.2.1

EIR

Add time of last access to the JOBTBL.SYS to the job table record to provide a better way (especially under Windows) to detect jobs that have exited without clearing their job table entries. LIT commands that access the job table should be updated, particularly SYSTAT and SEND. Also, although probably not critical, you should update JOBTBL.SDF and JOBTBL.MAP from the BitBucket repository and recompile any programs using using MX_READJCB / MX_WRITEJCB.

1765.2.3

EIR

SYSTAT.LIT 3.2(187) now displays the time since the last JOBTBL.SYS access, next to the logged-in time in /W mode. Times much larger than one minute are indicators of a problem.

1765.1

EIR

TCPX / TLS refinement (LINUX): check for the libashtls.so file in the directory where the ashell executable was loaded from. Feature added in 1762.0 failed to handle this particular case.

1765.0.1

EIR

XTREE enhancement: image columns can now be 'sorted'. Since there's no natural order to images, this operation only serves to group the same images together.

1765.0.2

EIR

XTREE enhancement: the PopupMenu $SRCHxxx functions now include searching the label column in a Property Sheet.

1765.0.3

New

XTREE enhancement: Add ability to sync vertical scrolling.

1765.0.4

Fix

XTREE: the context menu search column function was actually searching all columns in the case where the menu was invoked by right clicking on the column header rather than a cell in the column.

1765.0.5

Fix

XTREE: PNG and 32 bit BMP images were failing to show up in the tree when neither the XTF_VARY or ImgSiz discrete option specified.