A-Shell 7.0 Release Notes

1769.1.1

Fix

Windows display bug fix to resolve black screen problem on restore from minimized. This is related to the introduction of support for blink attribute.

1769.1.2

Fix

Runtime bug fix to eliminate spurious error 70 on assignment of a literal string to an uninitialized DYNSTRUCT. The operation may not seem sensical but occurs when a dynstruct parameter is given a default value—typically "" or .NULL—to allow it to be omitted when using named parameters.

A-Shell Release Notes Version 7.0.1769.0 (25 February 2025)

1769.0.1

New

New GDI print directive:

//INCLUDE,file

The directive processes the specified file (DevPPN or native spec) as if it were part of the current file. Similar in concept to the PREFIX= and SUFFIX= printer initialization commands, except this one is embedded in the document.

1769.0.2

New

Add CSV2XL directive MergeCells.

1769.0.3

New

Add CSV2XL directive SetPageBreak.

1769.0.4

New

Add attributes to CSV2XL directive SetPrint.

1769.0.5

New

Add support in CSV2XL for using macros as attribute values.

1769.0.6

New

Add CSV2XL directives SetLaunch and SetAppendSeqno.

1769.0.7

New

Add CSV2XL directives AddTotals, SplitRow, and SplitCol.

1769.0.8

New

Add refinements to the CSV2XL directive AddSheet.

1769.0.9

Fix

GDI printing memory leak: the //XTEXT directive was not releasing all of the memory used by it, leading to gradual increase in overall memory requirements when printing documents with many //XTEXT directives. Note that there remains an issue with running out of font or pen handles after about two thousand //XTEXT calls, requiring an relaunch of A-Shell to reset.

1769.0.10

Fix

Minor bug fix in System Messages dialog: changes to the trace flags in the dialog were not being recognized if the Show System Traces checkbox was unchecked before exiting the dialog.

1769.0.11

Fix

Possible fix to display bug resulting in a blank window after restoring a maximized window from minimized state.