conzept 16-Version 5.8.11

Version 5.8.11 is available for download as of today. The version includes the following expansions:

conzept 16 on Linux

• At least kernel version 3.x and version 2.17 of the GNU C library (glibc) are required for operation on Linux. Kernel 2.x is no longer supported.

All components

• Changes to the properties vpYear, vpMonth and vpDay
  The properties vpYear, vpMonth and vpDay of the data types date and caltime have been changed so that when a component is set, the other components are adjusted if they have invalid content. This ensures that a valid date is always created. This change was already made in version 5.8.10.
• Updating root certificates
  The collection of root certificates (ca-bundle.crt) has been updated to Mozilla Firefox version 65.0.
• Updating the OpenSSL library
  The OpenSSL library used has been updated to version 1.1.1a (November 20, 2018). This version supports TLS 1.3 and contains bug and security fixes.
• Updating the PDF library
  The PDF library has been updated to version 4.0.25.69. The new
  version contains important bug fixes.

conzept 16-Server

• License file (c16.lic)
  To operate the conzept 16 server 5.8.11, the license version 5.8.11 is required. The license file must be updated for this. If the option “Automatic update of the license file” is activated on the server, a manual update is not necessary.
• Reserve users for required background services
  A certain number of users can be reserved via the web administration of the conzept 16 server using the setting “Number of reserved users”. This ensures that a sufficient number of licensed users are reserved for conzept 16 clients other than Standard and Advanced (SOA task, DLL, ODBC, PHP interface, etc.). If the number of reserved users is equal to or greater than the number of licensed users, a user is still available for Standard and Advanced clients.
• User logout
  The logout of a user via the standard client or via function UserClear() is recorded in the database log with the entry “Forced user logoff <Benutzername> (<Rechnername>)”.
• Log entry “Invalid tree root” for temporary trees
  The message “Invalid tree root” is no longer logged for temporary trees. Instead, from conzept 16 client version 5.8.11, error _rFailed is returned for the respective function and _rNoRec for older clients.

conzept 16-SOA-Task

• New setting “alert_mail_port”
  The setting “alert_mail_port” in the configuration file of the SOA task can be used to set an alternative port for connecting to an SMTP server.
• Creating minidump files
  The generation of minidumps can be activated for the SOA task in extended mode (c16_proc_extended = Y). This is done via the entries “AppLogOptions” and “AppLogPath” in the configuration file. In the SOA task without graphical extension, the entries are ignored as minidump files are already created here.

conzept 16-Print processor

• Creating minidump files
  The generation of minidumps can be activated for the print processor. This is done via the entries “AppLogOptions” and “AppLogPath” in the configuration file.

conzept 16-Programming interface

• Extended programming interface for Visual Studio 2005 and newer
  The programming interface was missing in the extended version for Visual Studio. The import library is available in the “\API\lib\c16_pgxe.mvc” file.

conzept 16-Advanced client

• New argument “/c16theme” when starting the client
  When starting a design tool, one of the standard themes (“OfficeBlue” / “OfficeDark”) can now also be specified with the argument c16theme. If Windows is running under high contrast, the argument is ignored. When starting the design tools from the Designer, the currently selected theme is automatically used.

conzept 16-Designer

• Setting breakpoints in the editor
  The editor’s context menu for setting and removing breakpoints now appears in the line number and folding column in addition to the bookmark and breakpoints column.
• Enter Return with automatic bracketing
  If an opening round bracket is added in the editor, the editor remembers the current line. If you press Enter before leaving this line and the last character of the line is a round closing bracket, the cursor is placed after this bracket. If the key combination “Strg+Eingabe” is pressed, a line break is inserted at the current position instead and the new line is remembered for the input.
• Open procedures with collapsed function blocks
  In the editor settings, the setting “Close folding points when opening documents” can be used to define whether the folding points should be closed when a document is opened. All points are open by default. If the cursor was within a function before the Designer was closed, the function block in which the cursor is located is always opened.
• Shortcut keys for switching between read/write mode
  The keyboard shortcut “Ctrl+Shift+W” has been added for changing the editing mode of documents in the Editor, dialogs and print objects in the Designer.
• Display documentation
  Due to a Windows update, the content of CHM help files can no longer be displayed if they are started on a network drive. When running the conzept 16 client from a network drive, the documentation is automatically copied to “%AppData%\conzept 16\” and displayed from there.
• Support of the Windows “High contrast” scheme
  The development environment now supports the Windows “High
  contrast” setting. Designer and Debugger check the setting at startup and adapt accordingly.

Processing

• Triggering a runtime error in the TextWrite() function
If the limit for internal texts and procedures of approx. 119 MB is exceeded when using TextWrite(), the text was previously overwritten. Runtime error _ErrLimitExceeded is now triggered. The document is saved up to the point before the limit is reached.

• For commands SckConnect(), SckStartTls() and MailOpen(), an encrypted connection can be established using “Server Name Indication” (SNI) by specifying option _SckTlsSNI.

conzept 16-Blog