Changes to MSBASE V7 Services

Changes on October 5, 1995

reflow.i now can support a source that is not an array. The requirement for reflow to take only from an array became a real pain with V7 and support of the EDITOR widget which more or les killed the need for array based free-form text fields. To use, just specify the number of array elements in the source as 0. The calling/parameter format has not been changed.

prntutil.i QUERY-USER was modified to enforce the printer model requirements even when going out to a file. This also means that all the appropriate sequences are sent to the file as well. This was done because so many people printed things to files and when finally printing those files, complained that they didn't look right.
SYSADM was modified to allow the graphics controls for a printer model to be edited and compiled.
Final support for the line drawing capabilities of a printer in prntutil was completed and tested. Printer models EPSON* and HP* were properly setup with the correct escape sequences.
SYSADM was enhanceed to support a new printer model exporter and importer. These will export/import only the human readable version of the control sequences (as the machine radable ones screw up the import process with control characters) and on import, recompile them.
A standard library of printer models was created that can be easily exported to a site to bring them up to spec.

syncbase.p was modified to not export custom programs, menus, menu-items, or objects (any object which is part of a custom program is NOT exported regardless of the obj-custom status).
SYSADM was modified to set the object.obj-custom flag on objects created as part of the system paths or package data as these are custom to a given install.

Preliminary support for printer based line drawing options has been introduced. While it's very simple at this time, the interface will allow expansion into genuine graphic boxes

obj-perm.i now accepts expressions for the object and/or attribute names instead of only accepting constant text
the menu system will not let you run a program marked as a sub program, regardless of permission state

Support for the new menu.menu-custom, menu-item.item-custom and object.obj-custom were added to SYSADM.
SYSADMs permission lister now has the ability to list only permissions enabled for a group (switchable)
Support for program.prog-sub was added to allow sub-programs to be flagged as such in SYSADM. Also, sub-programs will be identified as such in a program listing
All existing SYSADM listing/print services are working again
All listing/print options will flag customized object/programs/menus with a small '*'
Support for the new group-perm.perm-startdate was added to SYSADMs Group permission editor
Support for the new group-perm.perm-startdate was added to the get-perm.i and obj-perm.i library services
The menu system will now automatically skip over menus where there is only one enabled item (either because there is only one item or because of permission considerations).

The prt-* services were replaced by the much improved prntutil.i service
The sts-* services were replaced by the much improved statutil.i service
listutil.i was added for managing attribute/value pair lists
sfldutil.i was added to aid in detecting field changes/modifications
scodutil.i was added to simplify ID based fields on screen
rfldutil.i was added to support required field processing/enforcement
multtype.i, multutil.i and multwrap.i were added to support multiple choice fields and drop down selection lists for those fields
areautil.i was added to aid in managing multiple areas in a program
reflow.i was modified to support the source not being an array
smnuutil.i was introduced to help manage strip menus
numonly.i was added to simply/enforce numbers only entry in character fields
upercase.i was added to simplify upper case only character fields
the rpt-* services where replaced by the rpt-util.i service
os-util.i was added to help in os file related operations
get-def.i can now take the 'initial' default as an optional 3rd parameter
hideutil.i supports hiding viewing frames in a given region
baselist.p was added to allow simple selection list creation