What's New

DataBOSS II.6 Features & Improvements:

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• New, improved dialog box look and feel for the DataBOSS development environment (IDE).
• Improved, Borland-style dialogs and 3D style edit controlsfive star hotel in Hamburg in applications without special add-ons or programming.
• Toolbar and edit-locking options ERROR MSGcan be chosen from the IDE.
• Table backgrounds and labels can be formatted from within the IDE.
• Combo-boxes can be made editable as well as non-editable.
• Custom toolbars can be designed from within the IDE. A library of toolbar bitmaps is included. Custom toolbars can call any action you have in your menu and includes mouse-over help.
• dBase compatible "NDX" indexes can be implemented in your applications.
• Record find (search) tables can be customized from within the IDE to show selected fields with more descriptive column labels.
• Improved record searching.
• Enter key advances to the next field in grid tables the same as in window forms.
• Applications open maximized automatically.
• Improved WINIMPEX import/export utility.
• Revised DataBOSS II.₆ electronic Basic Manual included.

Previous DataBOSS II.5 Features & Improvements:

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• The Enter key now moves the user to the next field (instead of adding a new record like before). This user-friendly feature makes typing in forms more intuitive. ('Shift+Enter' of course reverses this movement.)
• Pressing the Enter key in a memo field now inserts a new paragraph (i.e., carriage return and line feed) as expected when entering multiline data.
• Editinghotel rooms Balatonfured is now "locked" when a window form is opened and unlocked by 'Ctrl+E' (relocked by 'Ctrl+L'). You can add a special "Edit.../Lock..." toggle button to your form, and you also can easily switch the editing default for your project if you like.
• 'Ctrl+S' has been added as the keyboard shortcut for saving the changes to the current record. Users have come to expect this in most Windows applications.
• The Toolbar has been updated, made smaller, and now provides visual feedback and mouse-over help. It's also easier to change or disable the Toolbar altogether for your project so you can reclaim more screen real estate.
• An "Undo" function has been added to the Toolbar so current changes can be easily reversed by the user.
• Buttons can be linked easily to any of the Toolbar functions (so you can eliminate the Toolbar and use only those functions you need on each form). Buttons also can display visual mouse-over user feedback.
• Real 'OK' and 'Cancel' functions can be attached to buttons which avoid the extra "Do you want to save?" prompt. This eliminates unecessary user keystrokes.
• All functions, including additional date and range-handling functions, are pre-written and included for your use.
• Memo fields can now be included in queries making it possible to search for words or phrases in these fields--with improved "lower-case-insensitivity".
• Query searches can now use longer strings and saved names.
• Compiled applications can be opened to a pre-determined position and size on the screen which you can easily change for each application.

Version 2.01 Features:

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• Completely extensible with custom-written C++ functions.
• Windows 95 and NT support.
• End-user applications are multi-user network ready.
• Formattable browse (grid) tables.
• TrueType font support in edit controls.
• Improved query-by-example.
• Remote data file synchronization.
• Caller ID capability.
• Support for use of bitmap databases.
• Static bitmaps useable on forms.
• Edit fields formatted as you type.
• Database import/export utility.
• Combo boxes for pull-down lists.
• Record limitation for creating demo versions of your application.
• dBaseIII file format.
• Has full support for MDI windows.
• Has direct access to Win API functions.