Dear Xbase++ developer,

  We are happy to announce that any Subscription customer
  of Alaska Software can download the latest release of
  Visual Xbase++ 2.0 (2.0.235) PreRelease for free via
  the Electronic Software Delivery (ESD) service of Alaska
  Research & Development.


Following is a list of Changes for Visual Xbase++ 2.0 PreRelease,
Revision 2.0.235 [ARD, 01|09|2004]
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Module          Issue                                         Status
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Debugger        Default breakpoint log message lost        Corrected
                 after project reload
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                 Carriage Return and Linefeed chars. in     Corrected
                 variable values cause incorrect
                 display in variable list
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                 New debugging session may be begun even       Corrected
                 though last (re-) build of the target
                 failed. This is incorrect in that it may
                 cause the debugger to work on sources
                 that are out-dated.
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Online Help     Requesting online help (F1) or             Corrected
                 selecting "Help" buttons causes
                 "Missing [MAP] Section" (help file
                 corrupt) error
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                 Help windows are always opened with        Corrected
                 default dimensions
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IntelliHelp     Erronuous interaction between              Corrected
                 IntelliHelp + debugger tooltips after
                 multi-line tooltip was displayed
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IntelliCode     If the IDE is closed and restarted         Corrected
                 later, user-defined templates defined
                 during the previous session are
                 restored only if the Editor Options
                 dialog is opened and then closed with
                 "Ok"
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                 "Keywords in uppercase" option may     Option is now
                 flag sources that contain keywords in  now disabled
                 lowercase as being modified            by default
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Project Manager Host application info entered in           Corrected
                 Run -> Parameters dialog is not stored
                 into the project file (i.e. has no
                 effect)
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                 Parameters entered in Run -> Parameters    Corrected
                 dialog are not stored into the project
                 file (i.e. have no effect)
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                 DLL's referenced via #pragma LIBRARY()     Corrected
                 are not listed correctly in Project
                 Manager
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                 Value of OBJ_DIR in project file is
                 prepended to the object files in the       Corrected
                 autodepend section
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                 Build commands not successfully        (New Feature)
                 completed cause aural warning
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                 Build commands inform user if target   (New Feature)
                 files cannot be opened for writing
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                 Opening project file that has inline       Corrected
                 comments may corrupt the project
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                 IDE hangs when building projects that       Corrected
                 contain an "OBJ_DIR" specification that
                 points to a folder on a drive that is
                 inaccessible
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Editor          OEM font info specified in Tools ->        Corrected
                 Editor Options has no effect
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         Editor option "OEM Sources Options"   (Behaviour Refined)
                 inoperational
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                 Access violations occur when entering       Corrected
                 characters in OEM mode (Win9x only)


  With best regards,
  Alaska Research & Development