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Re: REALbasic 5a6 available

To: REALbasic Betas <realbasic-betas at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
Subject: Re: REALbasic 5a6 available
From: "Joseph J. Strout" <joe at realsoftware dot com>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 19:01:54 -0800
At 7:09 PM -0500 11/27/02, Kevin Ballard wrote:

[Fix] (Mac) Control captions: now respect the encoding of the caption
            string in most cases, including all built-in controls such
            as PushButtons, GroupBoxes, etc. (but not including
            BevelButtons).

So this means we can now use non-ASCII characters? (I have no idea if you could before, BTW)

Yes, this should now work fine on OS X. Classic MacOS support for this won't appear till the next alpha (and even then it'll only work for the set of characters which are supported by the system encoding).

[Opt] (Mac) New compiler: now "bakes in" string literals like the old
            compiler did, instead of reconstructing them at runtime;
            this is faster

I'm not quite sure what this means, but it's probably good!

Let me take a stab - it keeps a fully-built string object for string literals in the application, rather than just the string literal itself that it builds a string object around. Is this right, or just a totally wild guess?

That's right.

[New] (Mac) Uppercase, Lowercase, TitleCase, Trim, RTrim, LTrim,
            Replace, ReplaceAll: now encoding-savvy and in particular,
            work correctly for UTF-8 and UTF-16.  (UCS-4 support is
            still weak.)

Yay

This one should have been marked (Car) -- doesn't currently work in classic builds.

Well, this looks like a very great release! Keep up the excellent work!

Thanks for the feedback!

Cheers,
- Joe

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