Dear valued Xbase++ user,
dear Technology Partner,
dear beta participant,

 Thank you very much for your patience. We are proud to
 announce the release of a new beta drop of Xbase++ 1.9.

 Compared to the last beta drop a lot has changed, namely
 the support of visual ActiveX components was added. Also,
 many fixes have been applied to the existing ActiveX
 automation support.

 Furthermore, this beta drop introduces owner-drawing
 to XbasePARTS. Owner-drawing enables the average
 Xbase++ developer by using the Xbase++ GRA????
 functions to draw Menues, XbpListbox, XbpComboBox
 and XbpPushbutton.

 Inside the Xbase++ runtime a lot more has changed. First
 of all, the garbage collector and memory packer have been
 enhanced for increased performance. Second, the XbasePART
 concept was refined to allow GUI controls to be created
 on any Xbase++ thread. Also, the first steps have been
 made to have the XbasePARTS available in PRG-Code on
 the language-level. Have a look at source\sys\xbparts.prg for
 that.

 We would like to encourage all beta testers to concentrate
 on the visual ActiveX and gui aspects with this beta. Report
 all of your findings to beta@alaska-software.com

 To download this latest beta drop please use the following
 link http://www.alaska-software.com/beta19 with the username
 and password you have received to download your Prof.
 Subscription, Foundation Subscription or Xbase++ 1.82
 content. In case you have lost your authentification data please
 send email to esd@alaska-software.com with HELP in the
 subject line. The ESD system will then guide you through
 the process.

 Initially, we planned to release Build# 315 with this
 beta. However, due to the timeframe and the fact that we
 wanted to give you something before or at Christmas, we
 decided to release Build# 314 as the next beta drop.

 We are currently working on the known issues of Build #314
 and will release the next beta drop based on Build #315 or
 higher. Furthermore, we plan to have add-on packages
 such as the ADS DatabaseEngine, XbTools III, ODBC
 DatabaseEngine and other packages available with the
 next beta drop. These add-on packages are not available
 for Build #314.

 Thank you very much for you patience and have a wonderful
 and peaceful Christmas.

 Regards
 Your Xbase++ development team