Suneido October 21, 2007 Release

Miscellaneous

Thanks to Santiago Ottonello you can now run Suneido as a Windows service without any additional software
Dialogs now run in Suneido's own message loop, solving problems with keyboard accelerators while dialogs are open
There is a new RunPiped built-in function that allows you to run another program with pipes connected to its input and output
You can now create database indexes that are forced to lower case to get a sort order that ignores case
The splash screen is now in an external BMP file which you can remove or replace
Book models (table of contents) are now cached for faster startup and navigation
You can use Ctrl+Tab and Shift+Ctrl+Tab to switch tabs within books
Scintilla updated to version 1.74

PDF Support

Thanks to Mauro Giubileo and Claudio Mascioni, you can now output reports to PDF files using the Haru Free PDF Library.

PDF output requires libhpdf.dll (included in the download). If the dll is not available the PDF button will not be shown.

Also notice the changed appearance of the operation selection (ParamsSelectControl) and the pull down arrows on choose lists.

Report Presets

Report Params now have the ability to save and load options.

Note: Params must specify name: or the Presets button will not appear. This name is used to store the presets so it should be unique (e.g. the same as the name of the library record).

Notes

Users can now enter their own comments for each screen.

CLucene Interface

Also thanks to Mauro Giubileo, Suneido now has an interface to CLucene. Currently this is only used in Help books and in the Wiki.

Note: To use the CLucene search you must build the index using Build CLucene Index on the File menu of Book Edit. This will create a directory called "clindex_" $ bookname eg. "clindex_suneidoc". CLucene requires CLucene.dll (included in the download).

LibraryView Improvements

If you mouse over the icon on a tab, the icon will change to a close button that you can click on to close the tab. (Quicker than right clicking and choosing Close.)

If you close a tab by mistake (which you might do until you get used to this feature) you can now re-open a tab from the tab right click context menu.

A more major feature is the code "spell check". This will mark:

variable that are set but never used and parameters that are passed in but not used
variables that are used but are not initialized (or passed in as parameters)

To suppress the warnings about unused parameters you can change the name to "unused" or follow them by /*unused*/

Note: These are "warnings" not errors, they do not stop the code from being compiled or run.

WorkSpace Output and Find Tabs

Header Tooltips

If a column heading is too narrow you can mouse over it to get a tooltip showing the full text. (This is in addition to the tooltips on the actual values within a list view.)

BulletGraph and Sparkline

Again, thanks to Mauro Giubileo we now have bulletgraphs:

and sparklines:

these can be displayed on screens or printed on reports.