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Paradigma Software has joined with a group of professional development tool vendors to produce and release Omega Bundle 2011 for the REAL Studio environment. This limited time package contains $3200 worth of tools but available in this set for $399 – over 80% savings.
Continue reading Paradigma Software Participates in Omegabundle 2011 for REAL Studio
In version 4.8 we add one more cool feature to Valentina for Cocoa (V4CC) ADK – Interface Builder plugin!
V4CC Interface Builder Plugin allows you to develop a Cocoa application with embedded V4CC.framework without writing any code to link GUI with a Valentina database. Instead you will use bindings and few Valentina Controllers.
You can read Manual of V4CC IB plugin and learn few tutorial lessons.
NSTableView class has setDataSource method that allows assign a NSTableDataSource instance to be a data source for that table view.
In v4.8 we have to add VCursorDataSource and VTableDataSource classes that are able to do this job — easy display a cursor or a table into a given NSTableView. As easy as a single line of code:
mCursorDataSource = [[VCursorDataSource alloc]
initWithCursor:mCursor view:tvListBox];
Continue reading [V4CC][NEW] DataSource for VCursor and VTable classes.
In v4.8 we adding support of Key Value Coding (KVC) to VCursor and VTable classes.
This is implemented as VCursor (KVC) category with a couple of methods:
@interface VCursor (KVC) // If wrong key is specified then nil is returned. - (id) valueForKey:(NSString *)key; // If wrong key is specified then nothing is changed. - (void) setValue:(id)value forKey:(NSString*)key;
In v4.8 we have implement
a) Enumerators for all V4CC classes where this was possible and
b) for Fields we have provide also FastEnumeration protocol in classes VTable and VCursor, because this is the most often usage case.
Continue reading [V4CC][NEW] Enumerators & FastEnumeration support.
In v4.8 of Valentina for Cocoa we greatly improving support of Cocoa and Obj-C 2.0 features. For this we have add V4CC/sources/cocoa folder, which contains all additional code for this. In such way, we keep very separate standard Valentina ADK API sources and this additional features sources.
Continue reading [V4CC][New] Extended Support of Cocoa and Obj-C Features
Our Valentina Studio project has one Application target and dozen of plugins targets. Plugins are made as bundles.
All these targets build products into the same folder “Debug (Native)” or “Release (Universal)”.
Then Run Scripts do copy plugins into App package and using install_name utility correct install paths for them.
Continue reading OS X Loads DYLIB from App folder ignoring install_path … Oops?
Yesterday I have decide to resolve problem with absolutely not working breakpoints in the XCODE 3.2.3 on OS X 10.6 (may be others also) working with our Valentina Studio project.
In the past we also did have such problems, but not so bad. Breakpoints did work sometimes, in worse case we was able to insert DebugStr(“\p”) into code, and that 100% did stop in the debugger as for app, so fot its plugins and for database engine DYLIBs.
And yesterday I have to see the first time that even DebugStr() do not stops. Wow.
I have spent many hours googling about this problem. And have found few key places.
For this we just have set option GarbageCollection = SUPPORTED for V4CC (32/64) and iV4CC (Dev/Sim) targets. This means that now these frameworks will work in both kinds of apps: GC-enabled and GC-not-enabled.
Note, that internally V4CC still uses retain/release. Also keep in mind that we very recommending to developers manage lifetimes of database objects manually. Just image that you have allow to GarbageCollector manage a VCursor instance. When you think record locks will be released?
I was not entirely surprised to read on the REALbasic NUG that REAL SQL Server would no longer be a REAL Software product but would go back to its original developer, SQLabs. Even with the bundling options available with REALbasic, a database product that cannot differentiate itself cannot survive. Now there is even a special offer for disenfranchised REAL SQL Server users until October 10, 2010. Continue reading REAL SQL Server To Leave REAL; Time to Switch to Valentina
We introduce a new utility method Valentina.CopyCursorToNewTable(), which is able to save you hundreds of lines of advanced code in your ADK-based applications. This method added into major Valentina ADKs.
You can read detailed description of this new method here.
We recently heard that the company that owns VistaDB, a .net focused database system, has closed their office in Florida and looking for ways to sell off their database product. Paradigma Software invites VistaDB developers to give Valentina DB ADK.net a try – along with a 50% discount if purchased before September 1, 2010.
All you have to do if you are a VistaDB user is to order Valentina DB ADK for .net before September 1, 2010, and insert “VistaDB: YOUR SERIAL CODE” into the customer notes field to save 50% – get this ADK for only $99.95.
Starting from 4.8 build you may pass pictures as a binded value to the queries using V4NET ADK.
Assume there is some “not-latin” text (it could be russian or umlauts or something similar). And we have to store it to the Valentina database and then read it back.
We introduce our first 64-bit ADKs for MAC OS X:
It is clear that we cannot make V4RB, V4REV and such to be 64-bits because their IDEs do not support this.
Next our step in this direction, will be introduction of 64 bit ADKs for Windows, VSDK, VNET, …