Version 3

New Documentation in AppStudio 3.0

IDE

1. Mac OS 10.7 and later is now supported.
2. Native IDE support is substantially complete for 17 languages
3. Multiple frameworks can be used in the same project
4. New Preferences screen.
5. Preferences screen now has IDE language picker.
6. About Screen now has a View Log button to view the latest error in the IDE. Cmd-click (Mac) or Ctrl-click (Win) on the button to open the log folder.
7. Error reporting improved.
8. Framework prompt removed from New Project.
9. Framework property removed from project
10. ID of code module can now be changed.
11. Installing on a path with unicode chars (like umlaut) now works.
12. New AppStudio icon
13. New global font property.
14. New HomescreenTitle property (for iOS)
15. New Project dialog rewritten.
16. Open Sample dialog rewritten.
17. Product name changed from NS Basic/App Studio to NSB/AppStudio.
18. Registry keys now support unicode.
19. Project IDs can now have unicode.

Design Screen

1. Major rewrite
2. Clicking in the area outside the Design Screen no longer messes up the cursor.
3. Highlighting of controls works much more consistently.
4. Multiple select dragging works
5. New drag handles on controls
6. New tab at bottom to switch to Code Window.
7. Right click to switch to Code Window

Code Window

1. Allow up to 99999 lines in a file
2. Autocomplete added for localStorage, sessionStorage and location
3. Block comment respects language setting
4. Cyrillic text can now be pasted in
5. Don't autocase .close
6. Find/Replace improved.
7. Fix false syntax error on Try
8. Fix problem with autocase on Replace()
9. JavaScript support improved
10. New tab at bottom to switch to Design Screen
11. Right click to switch to Design Screen
12. Right click to view JavaScript
13. Shortcut pulldown now sorted with case insensitive.
14. The case of control names is autocorrected.
15. Auto complete will not happen in the middle of a string

Deploy

1. PhoneGap: Add missing keyword argument.
2. PhoneGap: Add support for PhoneGap 2.4RC1
3. Recover gracefully if file missing.

Runtime

1. Language: NSB.EULA added.
2. Language: NSB.ShowProgress added.
3. Language: Print made much more useful.
4. Language: Removed NSBFramework global variable.
5. Language: SQLImport() improved.
6. Progress message on loading improved.
7. Runtime: If form does not have onsubmit code, ignore keyboard Go button.
8. Runtime: NSB.Input and NSB.MsgBox no longer leak clicks to underlying buttons.
9. Runtime: NSB.Input and NSB.MsgBox now more responsive on touch screen devices.
10. Runtime: Tweaks to SysInfo(2) and SysInfo(3).

Libraries

1. jQuery: Updated to 1.9.0
2. Library: Add2home updated for iPhone 5.
3. Library: Update iScroll to 4.2.2.

Samples

1. Camera sample enhanced for iOS6.
2. Descriptions updated.
3. Headerbar sample improved.
4. Moved to My Documents/AppStudio Samples. (Win)
5. New BusyIndicator sample.
6. New jqPlot sample.
7. New MinecraftSim sample. Shows off extreme Picturebox.
8. New NSBInput sample.
9. New Orientation sample.
10. New samples: Grid, Tree, Menu, Grid_Northwind, ListBox
11. Northwind sample enhanced to show an update.
12. Old format manifest entries updated.
13. SAP sample updated to use better PGP script.
14. Themeroller sample improved.

ToolBox

1. Add new Orientation control.
2. Added contenteditable property.
3. Adsense: does not display if offline or not on a mobile device.
4. All controls now hide if hidden=true.
5. Controls can have their own clientBoundingRect.
6. Controls from different frameworks can be used in the same project
7. Get rid of _offsetX, _offsetY in toolbox files.
8. Get rid of NSBWidget base control
9. Grid: fix scrolling error
10. HTMLview: fix scrolling error
11. More properties and keywords added.
12. Show 'False' in Property Window if control not hidden.
13. Toolbox reorganzed

jQuery Mobile

1. Button: Groups now work differently (breaking change!)
2. FlipToggle width can be changed.
3. FooterBar no longer gets an error if no click routine is defined.
4. HeaderBar, NavBar and FooterBar no longer get errors if there are spaces in the button name. The value sent to the click event will replace the spaces with "_" characters.
5. List width can be changed.
6. RadioButton can now adjust height, width and font size in IDE.
7. Select: Groups now work differently (breaking change!)
8. Hidden and Readonly properties fixed.
9. Updated to Version 1.3.

iWebKit

1. Default classic button has improved border styling.

jqWidgets

1. Add 11 new themes.
2. Control id can now be changed.
3. Files are loaded from jqWidgets website, not locally.
4. New Calendar control.
5. New Grid control.
6. New ListBox control.
7. New Menu control.
8. New Tree control.
9. New ListBox control
10. New RadialGuage control
11. ToolBox now uses jqWidget icons

Documentation

1. All documentation has been converted into a Wiki. All of the existing Handbook, Language Reference, Technotes and Tutorials have been merged into it.
2. The IDE now points to the correct spot in the Wiki.
3. Wiki can run offline, but search function does not work.

Translator

1. a=Abs(Abs(1)) translates incorrectly.
2. Allow expressions in Select.
3. Case "Narcis" fixed.
4. Case clauses can now have multiple comma separated values.
5. Code indentation improved.
6. Compile: Fix intermittent crash on compile with SQLite.
7. Dim a(10): a(1).test=1 fixed.
8. exp() and atn() fixed.
9. Expression with comma in string could add extra space character.
10. Fix Not in If statements.
11. Fix using function name in SetTimeout.
12. Hour(x) function argument is now used.
13. InStr() and Replace() now handle vbTextCompare properly.
14. IsDate("testing") returned true.
15. Line continuation in comments did not work properly.
16. Problem with DatePart("w") fixed.

Controls

• NSB.ShowProgress
• EULA
• Print
• Orientation
• New Project Dialog
• Open Sample Dialog
• Preferences Dialog
• jqxCalender
• jqxChart
• jqxDragDrop
• jqxGrid
• jqxListBox
• jqxMenu
• jqxSwitchButton
• jqxTabs
• jqxTree
• jQueryMobile1.3