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Key: [Opt] = Optimization
     [Fix] = Bug Fix
     [Afx] = Alpha or Beta fix.  Fix for a problem recently introduced.
     [Imp] = Improvement on bug, but problems may still exist
     [New] = New Feature
     [Chg] = Changes Previous Functionality
     [Kis] = Known Issue
     [Wrk] = WorkAround
     [WrB] = WorkAround broken as a result of bug fix.
     [Nlr] = No Longer Reproducible, Reason Unknown.  Usually a consequence of some other fix.
     [Tip] = Insight into the design of a feature, suggests possible uses.
     [Nte] = Note
     [Dep] = Deprecated
     [Pat] = Describes a backwards compatibility issue.
     [Ref] = Major refactoring, functionality should be identical to previous.

5.5.1

[Fix] [Lnx] Debugging: Stopping on breakpoints works in Linux.


5.5.1fc4

[Fix] [Win] GetSaveInfo: Fixed a case where this could be unreliable.
            This also solves a problem where creating a new REAL
            database in the IDE might crash.

[Chg] [All] InternetHeaders: Corrected spelling and name of
            CommaSeparatedValues.

[Fix] [Mac] Listbox: Scrollbars now re-enable properly with listbox.

[Fix] [All] XML: Fix for a crash introduced in 5.5.1fc1.  Also see
            XML Read Me for other recent XML changes.

[Fix] [All] HTTPSocket and HTTPSecureSocket: using in synchronous
            mode no longer returns the same page each time.


5.5.1fc3

[Afx] [Win] GetTextConverter: GetTextConverter now works again for UTF8
            (Feedback ID: nquyinpg)

[Afx] [OSX] MenuItem: Now disable properly for Mach-O applications.
            (Feedback ID: qewyhhqh)

[Chg] [Win] MouseDrag: Event queue no longer piles up from too many
            MouseDrag events.

[Fix] [Win] ODBC Plugin: When trying to connect with an empty
            datasource string, you are now prompted with a ODBC
            selection dialog. (Feedback ID: arxnlyyj)

[Afx] [Win] OLEContainer: Showing property pages more than once now
            works again. (Feedback ID: jmbpibwz)

[Afx] [Lnx] REALBuildPictureFromBuffer: Now works for Linux (Feedback
            ID: jkouvlvi)


5.5.1fc2

[Fix] [OS9] Autocomplete: Autocomplete works properly again in online
            reference, method dialogs etc. (Feedback ID:yraqudlz)

[Afx] [IDE] Code Editor: No longer throws an assertion (on elementType)
            for arrays when we couldn't initially resolve the
            elementType.  You would see this assertion with array
            properties where the type was a custom class.  (Feedback
            ID:ofmxlamj)

[Afx] [OSX] Exceptions in Mach-O: No longer crashing when using an
            exception block with an exception-type specifier.  eg)

            try
              ...
            catch err as NilObjectException
              ...
            end

            no longer causes a crash. (Feedback ID:bppcpiba)

[Fix] [IDE] Find Dialog: no longer has problem on OS X where the
            editfield would get filled with black vertical lines.

[Fix] [Mac] Focus: Lost Focus event now fires when the window loses
            focus.  Broken in 5.5

[Afx] [IDE] Interface Error Dialog: No longer corrupts the interface
            declaration when viewing the un-implemented interface
            methods. (Feedback ID:llkjsjoa)

[Afx] [Car] Properties Window: Auto editing of button captions in the
            window editor now works properly again.

[FIx] [All] REAL Database: comparisons between strings and dates now
            work. (Feedback ID:vrylnrjw)


5.5.1fc1

[Fix] [IDE] Auto Complete: No longer causes crashes with array
            properties that are declared with no bounds information.
            ie) Foobar.mMyProperty() as Intger will no longer cause a
            crash. (Feedback ID:hsshaosp)

[Fix] [IDE] Autocomplete: The autocomplete window now goes away when
            you click to another method or to another window (Feedback
            ID:tcmzycyv)

[Fix] [Mac] Combobox: Drop down list of combobox control now gets the
            focus like it should.

[Fix] [Mac] Combobox: The combobox list goes away as it should when you
            move the parent window

[Fix] [All] Compiler: No longer reports bogus errors about parameter
            incompatibilities when calling AppleScripts without passing
            any parameters. (Feedback ID:uisqkbpw)

[Fix] [IDE] DataSource: No longer crashes the IDE when trying to edit a
            datasource that could be not connected. (Feedback
            ID:ycrbsdsf)

[Fix] [Car] EditField: right-aligned multi-line EditFields with initial
            content now show that content properly (in 5.5, the content
            was hidden until you clicked in the field).

[Fix] [Mac] Focus: Lost Focus event now fires when the window loses
            focus.  Broken in 5.5

[Fix] [Win] FolderItem.GetSaveInfo: GetSaveInfo should now work more
            reliably.

[New] [IDE] Image Support: We no longer require QuickTime for basic
            image support in the Windows IDE when building applications
            for Windows or Linux.  We support loading JPEG and GIF (as
            well as BMP) images without using QuickTime for Win32 and
            Linux applications.  The Windows IDE will still need
            Quicktime to be installed to build Mac applications.

[Fix] [Lnx] Menu: Menu items now enable/disable properly for apps with
            multiple menubars.  This problem occurred if you had code
            in your App.EnableMenuItems event that enabled the menu
            items, only the main window would have its menu items
            enabled, instead of all windows.

[Fix] [Mac] Menu: Top level menus are now enabled by default.  This
            means that modal windows with editcontrols now cut copy and
            paste without manually enabling the Edit menu. (Feedback
            ID:htfrobyx)

[Fix] [IDE] New REAL Database: Creating a new REAL Database and opening
            it in the Windows IDE no longer crashes (this depeneded on
            where you saved your database).

[Fix] [Lnx] OpenAsPicture: Now supports loading 32-bit BMPs, but the
            alpha channel is currently ignored.

[Fix] [Lnx] PopupMenu/ComboBox: DeleteAllRows now works properly
            instead of crashing.

[Fix] [IDE] Properties Window: no longer causes an assertion failure in
            "array.cpp" when you click in the Super property after
            first editing some other property. (Feedback ID:bfftwsaz)

[Fix] [All] REAL Database: Double (i.e. floating-point numeric) columns
            now correctly store values that are negative or have no
            fractional part. (Feedback ID:rlooviot)

5.5fc2

[Fix] [All] Listbox: If headers and/or scrollbars are added (e.g.
            .hasheading = true) to a disabled listbox, the headers
            and/or display in a disabled state.

[Fix] [Mac] Listbox: The headers of the listbox are now drawn disactive
            when appropriate.  This fixes a problem where non-active
            windows on app startup would have a slightly incorrect
            appearance.

[Fix] [All] ODBC Plugin: No longer crashes when calling close.
            (Feedback ID:hceqglgv)

5.5fc1

[Fix] [IDE] Auto Complete: Now functions properly with project items
            (such as a DB dragged into the project, or a picture, etc).
            (Feedback ID:pflurfkq)

[Fix] [All] ContextualMenu: Fixed a leak where we would leak all the
            menu items in a contextual menu. (Feedback ID:dwdrockq)

[Fix] [IDE] Debugger: Debugging a Win32 application no longer causes
            the debugged app to use 100% of the CPU. (Feedback
            ID:ziwnolyp)

[Fix] [IDE] Debugger: Now stops at all breakpoints.  This should fix
            the issue with breakpoints causing the debugger window to
            flash temporarily. (Feedback ID:qneffkiq)

[Fix] [All] Listbox: Changing the font, font size, and or the font
            style in the CellTextPaint event now works properly even
            for Right and Center alignments. (Feedback ID:uegtxcoe)

[Fix] [All] Listbox: The cellkeydown event now fires for characters
            with values higher than 127. (Feedback ID:ttbpkiho)

[Fix] [Mac] Online Reference: editfield no longer appears unresponsive
            after pressing one of the Back, Forward, or Help buttons.
            (Feedback ID:hmrzizik)

[Fix] [All] PostgreSQL Plugin: Closing the database after it's already
            been closed no longer crashes, but please refrain from
            doing this anyway. (Feedback ID:bpvryjcg)

[Fix] [All] TabPanel: Now properly gets the Value property when viewed
            in the debugger. (Feedback ID:upbyurdj)

[Fix] [Win] Threads: No longer cause the Windows debugger to have a nil
            stack trace.  Also fixes quasi-random crashes with threads.
            (Feedback ID:prqyksjw)

5.5b6

[New] [All] Application, ConsoleApplication: Added a new property
            called FolderItem as FolderItem which points to the
            actual executable even if it's inside a bundle.
            (Feedback ID:wvrglcsj)

[Fix] [Mac] ClearFocus: Now calls the lost focus event on controls that
            have lost the focus on Classic Macintosh.  Was already
            working properly for other platforms.

[Fix] [IDE] Debugger: Canceling from the string editor no longer will
            cause the object viewer to display a '-' instead of the
            string in cases when the string editor was invoked from the
            array viewer. (Feedback ID:ajitujmr)

[Fix] [OSX] Full Keyboard Access: Switching tabs will cause any control
            on the old tab to loose the focus, not just editfields,
            listboxes, and canvases

[Opt] [All] REAL Database: queries involving multiple fields of the
            same table are no longer substantially slower than queries
            involving a single field. (Feedback ID:tacqqrra)

[Chg] [IDE] Various IDE Windows: Now use "Parent Window Screen"
            placement instead of Main Screen placement where
            appropriate.

[Chg] [All] XML: In addition to some bug fixes, there was a cleanup of
            the DOM class structure.  Some methods and properties on the
            base XmlNode class have been moved to the appropriate
            subclass.  Also, places where method parameterss accepted
            the generic XmlNode instead of a specific subclass have been
            changed to match.  This may cause some problems compiling
            existing projects, but all are easily fixed with appropriate
            casting or diming variables as a more specific type
            (XmlElement, XmlAttribute, etc... instead of XmlNode). See
            the XML readme for details.

5.5b5

[Fix] [IDE] Debugger: Listbox headers are no longer obscured in 10.3.
            (Feedback ID:kacfmpvf)

[Chg] [Mac] GetFolderItem, new FolderItem: Calling GetFolderItem("") in
            any bundled application (Carbon Mach-O or Carbon PEF) will
            now get you the folder item for the parent of the bundle.

[Fix] [All] ListBox: No longer crashes when setting .TextFont to an
            empty string.

[Fix] [IDE] Loading Projects: No longer throws an un-needed dialog
            warning of corruption when loading external XML items from
            a project. (Feedback ID:zmqaxttb)

[Fix] [IDE] MemoryBlock Viewer: No longer crashes when resizing to very
            small sizes. (Feedback ID:pfvktqwn)

[Fix] [IDE] Window Editor: Copying and pasting custom controls between
            windows retains the proper super information as well as the
            proper width and height. (Feedback ID:lvawealv)


5.5b4

[Fix] [All] Application: No longer throwing an assertion when calling
            Quit from within an Application constructor. (Feedback
            ID:rfxyuzdu)

[Fix] [OSX] Composite Window: Fix embedded controls on composite
            windows (Feedback ID:dnmskrqi)

[New] [All] ConsoleApplication, Application: DoEvents now takes an
            optional integer parameter called "milliseconds" that
            allows you to specify the amount of time you would like the
            currently executing thread to sleep for.  If all threads
            are sleeping, then we yield time back to the system.  This
            allows you to write applications that don't use up 100% of
            the CPU during tight loops.

            Specifying 0 milliseconds causes the next waiting thread to
            execute.  Specifying a value less than 0 will do no sleep.

            ConsoleApplication's default for milliseconds is 10ms.
            Application's default for milliseconds is -1. (Feedback
            ID:mmyweklx, mmuyjdsw)

[Fix] [All] ContextualMenu: No longer crashes when trying to create a
            contextual menu array by using auto instansiation on a
            window. (Feedback ID:mpgngvwu)

[Fix] [Win] EditField: No longer pops up a MsgBox when you try to
            set/get properties that aren't supported (like condensed,
            extended, etc).  This also fixes the message boxes from
            showing up when you view an EditField subclass in the
            Windows IDE debugger.

[Fix] [IDE] Find Dialog: No longer can be obscured by other IDE
            floating palettes (properties window etc.)

[Fix] [Win] FolderItem: Calling new FolderItem or GetFolderItem, etc no
            longer leaks memory (and a handle).  (Feedback ID:hwvrwhcj)

[Chg] [OSX] GetFolderItem, new FolderItem: For Mach-O applications,
            this now returns the folder item for the directory
            containing the bundle instead of a folder item inside of
            the bundle itself.

[Fix] [Mac] Groupbox: If a listbox is on the same window as a group
            box, the groupbox will no longer display a black border
            around its inside. (Feedback ID:djsgzpro)

[Fix] [All] HTTP Socket: Including plus signs in form data now works
            correctly.  Previously they were not encoded correctly and
            would appear as a space on the server. (Feedback
            ID:vjyxisqe)

[Fix] [OSX] LittleArrows: Now continue to fire events reliably on Mac
            OS X. (Feedback ID:gyhoblbk)

[Chg] [IDE] New Project Dialog: The window is now centered left to
            right, to fit with other dialogs in the IDE.

[Fix] [IDE] Project Items: Fixed a crash that would happen when trying
            to load up a project item (by double clicking on it) whose
            super was Application. (Feedback ID:lsjzuyvr)

[Fix] [IDE] Project Window: Dropping a Folder from the system into the
            Project Window no longer strips spaces, underscores or
            other "illegal" characters. (Feedback ID:mioldysr)

[Fix] [IDE] Project Window: When importing a folder full of project
            items as aliases, you no longer need to hold Command+Option
            down until the import is done. (Feedback ID:qqnluxxz)

[New] [All] REAL Database: now optionally supports an escape character
            in string literals.  Use the SET ESCAPE command to choose
            what character to use (for example, "SET ESCAPE p" to use
            the backslash).  Once set, that character will be removed
            from any string literal, and the subsequent character will
            be treated as part of the string data.  To remove the
            escape character, use "SET ESCAPE" by itself.  The default
            is no escape character (per the SQL standard). (Feedback
            ID:arkgwdzw)

[New] [All] RectControl, Window: Added an optional parameter for
            Refresh and RefreshRect, EraseBackground as Boolean.  This
            optional parameter is used to specify whether or not to
            erase the background of the control/window before
            redrawing.  The default is true.

[Fix] [All] ReplaceAll: now works correctly on UTF-16 strings.
            (Feedback ID:tbfddoud)

[Fix] [Win] StyledTextPrinter: Now draws onscreen in the correct
            location (Feedback ID:jlayuhdp)

[Opt] [Lnx] StyledText: Sped up StyledText accessors when they're
            hooked up to an EditField.

[Opt] [All] TCPSocket: Sped up socket receive speeds (about x3) for
            Windows, OS X and Linux.

[Fix] [All] Timers: Now respect the Period property you set initially
            in the IDE. (Feedback ID:rohncnrq)

[Fix] [IDE] Window Editor: When pasting controls, we will rename ones
            with invalid names. (Feedback ID:cjsjixwk)

5.5b3

[Fix] [IDE] Code Editor: can now properly Undo the entry of text that
            contains non-ASCII characters. (Feedback ID:toojpcbf)

[Fix] [IDE] Compiler: Can now implicitly instansiate classes on a
            window if the class has only default parameters in its
            constructor.

[Fix] [OSX] EditField: now scrolls properly on a composite window.
            (Feedback ID:ymvuasuw)

[Fix] [Win] File Types: Can now handle unicode file type names properly.

[Fix] [IDE] Full Keyboard Access: Full keyboard access no longer makes
            the window editor and properties window unusable. (Feedback
            ID:vcffeawg)

[Chg] [All] Listbox: Clicking on an editable cell now moves that cell
            into view (if it's not already in full view). (Feedback
            ID:kqkwcisf)

[Fix] [IDE] New REALdb: Dragging and dropping a new REALdb file to your
            project window now adds it properly.

[Fix] [All] PostgreSQL Plugin: JPEGColumns now work (Feedback
            ID:stwkqwhq)

[Chg] [All] Properties Window: Normally #example when typed into the
            properties window will evaluate to the constant named
            example.  If no constant of that name exists REALbasic will
            now leave the text exactly as-is and will not strip the
            leading # sign.  This is so that the mask property will
            work more intuitively.  For example a U.S. area code is 3
            digits so to make a mask for area code you can enter ###
            instead of ####).  In the extremely rare circumstance that
            you want both an a constant named "example" and a label
            named "#example" you can get the desired behavior by
            creating a new constant called "poundExample" with its
            value set to "#example" and assign that to your label.
            (Feedback ID:uhaplbvb)

[Wrb] [All] Properties Window: You should no longer type "##" in the
            properties window if you intend "#".  Please see the
            Properties Window change for a complete description.

[Fix] [All] Virtual Volumes: No longer leaks memory.


5.5b2

[Fix] [IDE] About Box: No longer displays the 1-pixel white line on the
            right-hand side. (Feedback ID: giiuszne)

[Fix] [All] BinaryStream.Read: Strings read in this way no longer send
            bogus extra data to a Declare via a "CString" parameter.

[Fix] [Mac] ClearFocus: Now works better on systems with "Full Keyboard
            Access" enabled.

[Fix] [IDE] Code Editor: On the Mac, if you hold the shift key down
            while scrolling the mouse wheel, we now scroll the
            horizontal scroll bar instead of the vertical one.  ...you
            learn something new every day....

[Fix] [All] Compiler: Complex if statements in loops no longer leak
            object and string references. (Feedback ID: sxqaknyx)

[Chg] [OSX] Compiler: Default executable format for Carbon is now
            Mach-O rather than PEF.

[Fix] [IDE] Compiler: Fixed a double to integer conversion bug for
            Windows/Linux compiled apps.  See bug report for specifics.
            (Feedback ID: oumqclhf)

[Fix] [IDE] Compiler: No longer allows you to say things like Call
            Interface1 (which would cause an assertion), or Call
            IDoNotExist (Feedback ID: tjaottsa)

[Fix] [IDE] Compiler: No longer throws internal compiler errors when
            you have an interface being implemented by a class which is
            then the super class of a window.  (Feedback ID: kquammic)

[Chg] [All] Compiler: Variants used in an expression now convert
            themselves to the type of the other operand, no matter what
            kind of data they contain, instead of deferring the
            type-conversion decision until runtime. This only affects
            expressions involving a variant operand and an operand of
            some other type, not expressions where both operands are
            variants. This behaviour resembles that used in RB 4.5 and
            earlier. (Feedback ID: qpsccyml)

[New] [OSX] Compiler: When building a Carbon application in Mach-O
            format, the Lib parameter to a Declare statement now
            accepts the name of a system framework in place of a full
            path to the library. If you wrote a declare against
            "CoreMIDI", for example, the compiler would see that the
            Lib string did not contain any path separators, and would
            expand it to
            "/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreMIDI.framework/CoreMIDI".

[Fix] [Mac] Composite Windows: Controls like listboxes and editfields
            no longer draw a white rectangle on composite windows when
            they are supposed to be hidden or invisible. (Feedback ID:
            lycwxrmk, qpuedxmz, nuyuiacs)

[New] [IDE] Constants Dialog: now allows you to specify a constant
            value specific to Mach-O builds. (Feedback ID: bgoevnnk)

[New] [IDE] Debug: In the Windows IDE, you can now press F5 to debug
            your projects.  Ctrl+R still works too.

[Fix] [Mac] Drawer Window: Now honors the min/max width and heights for
            drawers (Feedback ID: vjwovkgf)

[Fix] [OSX] Edit Constant dialog: When editing the value of a color
            constant, the color swatch control no longer draws a
            colored box over the top left corner of the dialog.
            (Feedback ID: cvmmwhph)

[Fix] [IDE] External items: The Windows IDE is now smarter about
            locating and resolving paths of external project items.

[Fix] [Mac] Focus: If full keyboard access is enable on a Mac OS X 10.2
            and earlier system you no longer reset the tabbing
            order by clicking on a control.

[Chg] [All] FolderItem: Calling new FolderItem with a bad path (ie, not
            a valid SaveInfo string, or a malformed path string) will
            now fire an UnsupportedFormatException.

[Fix] [Mac] Listbox: Weird behavior that used to occur when combining
            an Editfield with a hierarchical listbox and had code or
            comments in the cellBackgroundPaint event have been solved.
            (Feedback ID: naeuyrer)

[Fix] [Win] Menu Items: Fixed an issue with re-using menu command IDs
            inappropriately.  This would manifest itself by having the
            wrong Action event fired for a menu item (it would fire the
            Action event for a totally different menu item than the one
            selected).

[Fix] [Win] MenuItem: Remove now removes top-level menu items.
            (Feedback ID: qnvrdtks)

[Fix] [OSX] MessageDialog/MsgBox: Displaying the message "" no longer
            results in a dialog that shows ^0 as its text.

[Chg] [Win] NetworkInterface: Re-wrote the NetworkInterface code so
            that it was more correct.  Note: this means it is possible
            for you to get an interface back that says your IP is
            0.0.0.0.  This will happen when you do not have the
            interface actually enabled (it may be disabled because it's
            not plugged into an ethernet jack, or disabled manually,
            etc).

[Fix] [Mac] PopupMenu: DeleteAllRows and RemoveRow once again remove
            rows from the menu widget instead of just making them
            inaccessible. (Feedback ID: aaaciask)

[Fix] [IDE] Project Manager: No longer loses the default window when
            checking the project out. (Feedback ID: jcdaulad)

[Fix] [IDE] Project Manager: Now closing the progress dialog more
            reliably (Feedback ID: hdiulgpd)

[Fix] [IDE] Project Manager: Now resolves MenuItem supers properly when
            fetching them from the server. (Feedback ID: tlsuztkn)

[New] [All] Readable Interface: Added new functionality to the Readable
            interface as follows:

            EOF() as Boolean  -- returns true when you are at the end
            of the stream

            ReadError() as Boolean -- returns true if there's been a
            read error of any type. (Feedback ID: fskcwhrl)

[Fix] [IDE] ScrollBar, Slider: In the Windows IDE, the ScrollBar and
            Slider now readjusts properly when they are resized from
            horizontal to vertical and vice versa. (Feedback ID:
            tvqlgzsi)

[Fix] [Win] Sound: Playing WAVs files (with OpenAsSound) no longer
            prevents speech from working on older OSes (such as Win98).
            However, this requires that you nil out your sound object
            before you can use the Speak comman. (Feedback ID: misazted)

[Chg] [All] TextInputStream: EOF is no longer a property.  Now it is a
            method that returns a Boolean.  This change was made so the
            TextInputStream could satisfy the Readable interface.

[New] [All] TextInputStream, BinaryStream, Serial, TCPSocket,
            IPCSocket, Stdin: Now have the method ReadError() as
            Boolean to satisfy the Readable interface.  This method
            will return true if there were any errors on the stream.

            Now have the method EOF() as Boolean to satisify the
            Readable interface.  For file streams (including stdin),
            this method will return true if the end of file character
            is found.  For socket and serial streams, this method will
            return true if the object is closed and there is no data
            left to read from the internal buffers.

[New] [All] TextOutputStream, BinaryStream, TCPSocket, IPCSocket,
            Serial, Stdout, Stderr: Now have the method WriteError() as
            Boolean to satisfy the Writeable interface.  This method
            will return true if there were any errors on the stream.

            Now have the Flush() method to satisfy the Writeable
            interface.  For file streams, this will flush the contents
            of the internal buffers to the disk (therefore clearing the
            buffers).  For socket and serial streams, it will .Poll the
            socket one last time, then clear the buffers out.

[New] [All] Virtual Volumes: Virtual volumes now flush their data to
            disk whenever a virtual file is closed.  This helps ensure
            that your data is safely on disk in the event of a crash,
            loss of power, etc. (Feedback ID: frpzbnyk)

[Fix] [All] Window: The menu bars visibility is now set correctly when
            a floating window closes, or the last window closes.
            (Feedback ID: bbebqsxi)

[New] [All] Writeable Interface: Added new functionality to the
            Writeable interface as follows:

            Flush()  -- Flushes the output stream

            WriteError() as Boolean -- returns true if there was an
            error writing to the stream (Feedback ID: fskcwhrl)

5.5b1

[Fix] [IDE] Auto Complete: Now autocompletes global array properties
            correctly. (Feedback ID: zinjexqb)

[Fix] [IDE] Compiler: No longer throwing a failed assertion when trying
            to assign a non-constant to a constant. (Feedback ID:
            urfrrriv)

[New] [OSX] Console Applications: Now support Console Applications on
            OS X (which just makes Mach-O that much more shiny and
            bright).

[Fix] [OSX] Drawer: Drawers can now be resized by their edge.  Note:
            you must have the GrowIcon property set to true at window
            creation time. (Feedback ID: dhagwfel)

[New] [All] Intrinsic Functions: CStr is now VB-compatible.  This means
            it takes a variant and will return the string value of that
            variant.  This function is still international-savvy when
            passed numeric data types. (Feedback ID: orgqwluj)

[New] [All] IPCSocket: Added the IPCSocket class for a cross-platform
            Inter-Process Communication mechanism.  This class works
            much the same as a TCPSocket with a few exceptions.  Please
            see the IPCSocket Read Me included with the download.  Note
            that this feature does not work on Classic machines (even
            in Carbon apps on a Classic machine). (Feedback ID:
            uyijjidk, vbxwutkl)

[Fix] [Mac] Listbox: The hierarchical widget (i.e. disclosure triangle)
            no longer ghosts on composite windows

[Fix] [OSX] Multiline EditFields: The scrollbar in a multiline
            editfield is no longer one pixel too tall. (Feedback ID:
            kylwympl)

[Fix] [IDE] Properties Icons: Now show the proper badge on subsequent
            additions of properties.  For example, adding a second
            property of type FolderItem (where the first one was
            protected and the second was private) will now show two
            icons with different badges. (Feedback ID: firrwxjm)

[New] [All] SOAP: Access to SOAP services has been implemented.  You
            can now call SOAP RPC functions in as little as 2 lines of
            code.  For more information see the ReadMe and example
            project.

[Chg] [IDE] Startup: We now warn you that you are using alpha/beta
            software.   (Feedback ID: dzqiwuce)

[Fix] [All] StaticText: Fixed a crash when closing the parent window in
            the MouseDown event of a StaticText. (Feedback ID: worrkxzi)

[New] [OSX] System: CommandLine now works for Mach-O applications.

[New] [All] System: You can now access environment variables thru
            System.EnvironmentVariable  eg)  MsgBox
            System.EnvironmentVariable( "HOME" ) or
            System.EnvironmentVariable( "HOME" ) = "/Path/To/New/Home"
            (Feedback ID: ebvjigsd)

[Fix] [All] Window: 1. Window Placement is now more fully cross
            platform, it should behave correctly on every platform we
            support.
            2. Much, Much better support for dock avoidance on OS X
            3. Placed windows guaranteed to stay on screen.
            4. Staggered Window Placement and Parent Window Placement
            now work correctly for Floating windows (i.e. they are
            placed relative to other windows in the same layer)

[Fix] [All] Window.FullScreen: Windows that are offscreen and have
            their fullscreen property are now better about finding the
            closest screen.

[Fix] [IDE] XML Projects: Loading XML projects, on the Windows IDE, no
            longer corrupts the icon. (Feedback ID: qkbetdbh)

[New] [All] XML: New XML support features both parsing and creating of
            XML documents, DOM Level 2 support, XPath, XSLT, and full
            namespace support (including validation during creation).
            (Feedback ID: obdujdst)


5.5a12

[Fix] [IDE] Auto Complete: Now autocompleting property arrays
            correctly.  For example: App.myFolderItemArray(0) will now
            autocomplete FolderItem methods and properties. (Feedback
            ID:zsubwyyu)

[Fix] [IDE] Auto Complete: New Events now autocomplete. (Feedback
            ID:tuuoclke)

[Fix] [IDE] Auto Complete: No longer autocompleting everything when you
            type in an intrinsic class name (not an instantiation of
            that intrinsic class).  For example, typing in PushButton.
            will not autocomplete the push button's methods and
            properties.

[Fix] [IDE] Auto Complete: No longer shows private or protected class
            constants when they're not appropriate.  Also fixes bug
            with not showing public methods in a module. (Feedback
            ID:nirmfjip, dnhuqinx)

[Fix] [IDE] Auto Complete: Now completes objects with a local scope
            before completing objects with a wider scope.  For example,
            if you have a property on the window "t as thread" and a
            local variable "t as TextInputStream", we will now complete
            the TextInputStream instead of the thread. (Feedback
            ID:hombmvma)

[Fix] [IDE] Auto Save: REALbasic's autosave feature now works on Mac OS
            X accounts that don't have admin priveledges. (Feedback
            ID:bfkimlra)

[Fix] [Win] Color Picker: No longer swaps the R and B channels when
            initializing the color picker dialog. (Feedback ID:jcztxhqb)

[Fix] [IDE] Compiler: No longer keeps a file locked when converting
            PICTs<->BMPs, this fixes a memory leak while possibly
            fixing the "Cannot load picture item" bug since we may have
            exceeded our file lock limit. (Feedback ID:qfpyllxj)

[Fix] [IDE] Compiler: No longer fails an assertion before reporting an
            error when you declare a ParamArray of arrays (ex:
            ParamArray foo() As Integer, which should just be
            ParamArray foo As Integer). (Feedback ID:qrxwqwhi)

[Fix] [IDE] Compiler: No longer fails to report an error when user
            assigns values to a read-only property defined in a plugin.

[Fix] [IDE] Constants: Localized constants in REALbasic 4.5 projects
            now open correctly in REALbasic 5.5.  (However, it is
            important that once you've saved the project in RB 5, you
            do not open and save it again in 4.5, or non-ASCII
            characters in your constant values may become corrupted.)
            (Feedback ID:gyfdplkx)

[Fix] [IDE] Debugger: No longer waits indefinitely when the app being
            debugged fails to launch; instead it displays an error
            message.  (Feedback ID:neivftjq)

[New] [IDE] Debugger: The local debugger now uses interprocess
            communication when debugging.  This means that local debug
            sessions no longer use a TCPSocket and so will not trigger
            packet filters to complain (happens on Windows for some
            people).  This also speeds up the debugger on Windows by a
            lot.

[Fix] [Win] EnableMenuItems: No longer fires continuously when a key is
            depressed. (Feedback ID:rlzwisku)

[Chg] [IDE] Encrypt Project Item: Now defaults to using v3 and later
            encryption. (Feedback ID:lgtzjzbg)

[Fix] [Win] FolderItem: .Type now functions properly on Windows when
            the type of the file does not match any type defined (i.e.
            it returns an empty string). (Feedback ID:pwsqkvir)

[Fix] [IDE] FolderItemDialog: the result property now is nil if the
            user cancels, even if a previous call resulted in a
            successful folderitem. (Feedback ID:cxjhjtuy)

[Fix] [All] HTTPSocket: HTTPSocket and HTTPSecureSocket no longer
            report an error 49 when trying to call get from within an
            event of the socket. (Feedback ID:cqohmoew)

[New] [All] HTTPSocket: HTTPSocket and HTTPSecureSocket now support
            synchronous access by accepting a return type from Get,
            Post, and GetHeaders.  See ReadMe file for more details.

[Fix] [IDE] Importing Project Items: Now will give you a warning via
            the tips window when importing a project item with an
            illegal name. (Feedback ID:gqptrjnc)

[New] [All] Intrinsic Classes: Added a bunch of class constants to many
            of the intrinsic classes.  For example, you can now use
            SocketCore.LostConnection instead of 102, or
            Serial.Baud9600 instead of 8.

            Note that the suggested use of this feature is to say
            BaseClass.ConstantName so that in the autocompleter, you
            will only see class constants (and it's a visually easy way
            to see what's a class constant in your code).

[New] [All] IPCSocket: Added the IPCSocket class for a cross-platform
            Inter-Process Communication mechanism.  This class works
            much the same as a TCPSocket with a few exceptions.  Please
            see the IPCSocket Read Me included with the download.
            (Feedback ID:uyijjidk, vbxwutkl)

[Fix] [All] Listbox: The listindex of the listbox when the change event
            is fired in response to editing a cell is now correct.
            (Feedback ID:spxjeizd)

[New] [Mac] Listbox/ComboBox: Row selection now uses Panther color
            scheme, and behaves more like other Panther
            listboxes/comboboxes.

[Fix] [Win] MDI: No longer crashes when typing in an editfield.  This
            problem only occurred if no menubar was assigned to the App
            class. (Feedback ID:ujttivpb)

[Chg] [All] Object Destruction: Destructors are now called right away
            when the last reference to an object is removed, even if
            you're already in a destructor for some other object.  Note
            that this means you can cause a stack overflow if your
            destructor triggers other destructors in a deep recursion.
            However, such overflow will not happen due to properties of
            the object being cleaned up automatically.  So, it is
            generally preferable to NOT set properties to nil in your
            destructor, but instead let RB clean them up for you.
            (Feedback ID:kkknwrab)

[Fix] [Win] Picture: No longer crashes when trying to draw a picture
            with a mask if the picture wasn't 32-bit.  Also, we now
            support drawing 24-bit pictures with mask.  Pictures with
            depth lower than 24-bit will ignore the mask when drawing.
            (Feedback ID:aoimrcjt)

[Fix] [Win] Plugins: Loading plugins from a directory that contained
            non ASCII unicode characters now load properly instead
            of crashing.
            (Feedback ID:tlltoohm)

[New] [Lnx] Printing: Hypothetically speaking: printing in Linux works.
             It requires you to have libgnomeprint >= 2.2 and CUPS
            installed.  Also, printing will _ONLY_ work to a PostScript
            printer.  Attempting to print to a non-PostScript printer
            will result in crashes.

[Kis] [Lnx] Printing: There is no PageSetupDialog.  Calling that
            function will result in it returning false with no dialog
            being shown.

[Fix] [IDE] Project: Windows IDE now appends a default extension when
            saving, but only if the filename doesn't already contain an
            extension in it. (Feedback ID:jlxsmeor)

[Fix] [IDE] Project Window: Dragging a folder to the desktop now works
            properly if the folder already exists. (Feedback
            ID:vclpecfb)

[Chg] [IDE] REAL Database: Adding or selecting a REAL Database (via the
            "Add Data Source" submenu) now uses a file dialog instead
            of an edit field.  In addition, your database may be
            located anywhere, and RB will attempt to locate it using
            both relative and absolute path info (as well as alias data
            on MacOS).

[New] [All] REALDatabase: RecordSet.Update now works for the new
            database engine. (Feedback ID:jsyoblao)

[Fix] [IDE] Stability: Fixed a crash which could occur when a class
            property was defined as an array type, where an array
            dimension contained a space between "-" and "1" or
            contained a "+" (e.g. "+5").

[New] [All] TCPSocket: Added a new property BytesLeftToSend as Integer
            that will tell you how many bytes are left in the queue to
            send.  This allows you to make a truly synchronous socket
            without needing to subclass the TCPSocket.

[New] [All] UDPSocket: Added a new property PacketsLeftToSend as
            Integer that will tell you how many packets are left in the
            queue to send.  This allows you to make a truly synchronous
            socket without needing to subclass the UDPSocket.

[Fix] [Mac] UseOldRenderer: No longer periodically fails to switch back
            to Quartz rendering. (Feedback ID:moutwcjy)

[Fix] [Win] Window: No longer fires the Activate event when the window
            is minimized (Feedback ID:lwrljcit)

[Fix] [IDE] Window editor: Controls are now properly hidden in their
            respective pages on a PagePanel/TabPanel (that's embedded
            within another control), when the window editor is
            initially opened. (Feedback ID:aqgiirgv)

5.5a11

[New] [OSX] AddressBook: New classes to access OS X address book.
            See included read me.

[Fix] [OSX] Auto Wait Cursor: The auto wait cursor in OS X (watch
            cursor) no longer appears.  It was previously impossible
            to dispense with the watch cursor in situations such as
            showing a file dialog from an open even at App launch.

[Fix] [IDE] Autocomplete: "Not" now autocompletes, you now have the
            choice of typing a 't' or hitting the tab key. (Feedback
            ID:ggrrjctn)

[New] [Car] Compiler: Carbon applications can now be built in PEF or
            Mach-O format. The "Macintosh Settings" panel of the Build
            Settings dialog lets you choose which format you prefer.
            (Feedback ID:ifnybzhb)

[Kis] [Car] Compiler: Mach-O support is not yet complete.  Among many
            other items internal plugins such as bevelbuttons are
            not yet implemented.  Please refrain from Mach-O specific
            bug reports for now.

[Fix] [IDE] Compiler: No longer crashes when some filesystem errors
            occur while building a Mac OS application.

[Fix] [IDE] Compiler: No longer crashes when you cancel from the Find
            Script dialog during compilation. (Feedback ID: jgtrxjxn)

[Fix] [IDE] Debugger: After running a project in the debugger, RB no
            longer sometimes leaves a ".debug" copy of the application
            next to the project file.

[Fix] [OS9] EditField: Setting Unicode text in a password EditField
            (via EditField.Text) no longer shows plain text. (Feedback
            ID: oooyhgez)

[Fix] [IDE] Exporting Project Items: When dragging a project item to
            the Finder, if the project item would result in a name > 31
            characters, we truncate the file name to be 31 characters
            instead of silently failing to export the item. (Feedback
            ID: drwvabjw)

[New] [All] FolderItem: Can now pass in SaveInfoString information to a
            FolderItem's constructor. (Feedback ID: yinqdkgx)

[Fix] [Win] FolderItem: GetSaveInfo now returns a string of unknown
            encoding instead of a random encoding (typically seen as
            UTF8) (Feedback ID: ploqagpk)

[Fix] [IDE] Method Editor Dialog: Now only greys out the return field
            when you type in the name of the current class (signifying
            a constructor) or "constructor" instead of disabling the
            field when you typed in the name of any class.

[Fix] [Mac] PopupMenu: Removing a row now updates the selection in the
            same way it does on Windows. (Feedback ID: dvhpxyiq)

[Chg] [All] REAL Database: May now be used with a Standard license.
            Note that other databases still require a Pro license.

[Imp] [IDE] TabPanel: Changing the facing of a TabPanel in the Windows
            IDE now updates the TabPanel.  However, there still remains
            a bug with embedded controls within a tabpanel not
            redrawing properly (i.e. a radiobutton embedded within a
            groupbox that's on a tabpanel).  The workaround is to close
            and reopen the window editor. (Feedback ID: ggzzadsb)

5.5a10

[Fix] [Car] Applescript: REALbasic is now more backwards compatible
            with scripted applications that don't support unicode text.
            To send non unicode text make sure its encoding is set the
            the system encoding (e.g. MacRoman) before sending the
            data. (Feedback ID: wmxwxoxn)

[Fix] [All] BevelButton: Event order for binding to datacontrols is now
            more consistent with other controls like the pushbutton.

[Fix] [All] Compiler: Projects with windows containing extremely large
            numbers of plugin controls no longer cause an internal
            compiler error complaining about an excessively large
            function. (Feedback ID: kzpbmghz)

[Fix] [IDE] Debugger: Array viewer no longer displays False for all
            elements of a boolean array. (Feedback ID: qqlkanyg)

[Opt] [Car] EditField: considerably more responsive when typing in very
            large paragraphs.

[Fix] [Car] Editfield: SaveStyledEditfield no longer reverses the mac
            type and creator code on Carbon (Feedback ID: edzjhcjw)

[Fix] [All] Exceptions: An exception object with a message no longer
            leaks the message string.

[Fix] [Mac] Exceptions: No longer leak about 60 bytes (and 1 object)
            per exception.

[New] [Win] FolderItem: OpenAsPicture now loads .jpg files without
            using QuickTime.

[New] [OSX] Full Keyboard Access: REALbasic and REALbasic applications
            are now compatible with and take advantage of "Full
            Keyboard Access" (Feedback ID: kovnnhfv)

[Fix] [Mac] Listbox: The first cell of the listbox no longer toggles
            sizes on first activate.  This problem would only occur if
            the font was "System" and the font size were 12.

[Fix] [IDE] Mac IDE: Changed the order of precedence in which we open
            projects so that files with a .rb extension (regardless of
            type/creator) are opened as RB projects instead of XML
            projects. (Feedback ID: bshiltas)

[Fix] [All] Menus: Menu items no longer default to AutoEnabled
            regardless of the setting in the IDE's menu editor.
            (Feedback ID: blykkujm)

[Kis] [OSX] MessageDialog: To "press" a MessageDialog button using the
            keyboard in full keyboard access mode it is necessary to
            press and hold the space bar.  Pressing the space bar once
            will hilight the button as if pressed but will not dismiss
            the dialog.  NOTE: This problem is a verified Apple bug.

[Imp] [IDE] Metal Windows: Metal Windows no longer leave screen trash
            in the IDE when controls are moved or changed on Panther
            (Mac OS X 10.3).  Because we no longer draw the windows as
            metal in the IDE. (Feedback ID: yuymjdeq)

[Fix] [Win] NthField & CountField: Now work properly with unicode text
            on DBCS machines, such as Japanese. (Feedback ID: esxlnumr)

[Chg] [All] Office Automation: Office automation is now built into
            REALbasic.  i.e. there are now 5 new Office related classes
            in RB, ExcelApplication, PowerPointApplication,
            WordApplication, OfficeObject, and an Office class.  Please
            remove your Office plugins from your plugins folder, as
            those will conflict with RB's built-in ones.  The new
            classes now operate much like VBA's syntax and are 95%
            smaller than the old Office plugins.  Note that these
            classes do not currently work for Mac OS 9.  On OS X, you
            still need to be inside the Office X folder for your
            examples to run.  See the Office Automation Read Me for
            more information.

[New] [Win] OLEObject: Added an optional parameter to the Property
            function.

            Property(name as string, byvalue as boolean)

            If byvalue is true, the property assignment is by value
            (i.e. a copy), otherwise the assignment is by reference
            (i.e. a pointer copy).  In VB an assignment by reference is
            done using the Set command, but since RB doesn't provide
            that feature you will need to use the byvalue parameter
            when you know the assignment should be by reference.  Note
            the change to the overloaded function

            Property(name as string)

            By default, RB will make the assignment by value, upon
            error it will try by reference, but only if the property is
            an object.

[Fix] [Win] OLEObject: Calling Invoke now passes parameters in the
            correct order, instead of reversed. (Feedback ID: khcxwfcn)

[Fix] [Win] OLEObject: Now supports getting/setting pictures

[New] [All] OLEParameter: Added Position as Integer property.  This
            allows you to specify which position (1-based index) that
            you want the parameter ot be passed in.  This is akin to
            named parameters, if you know the position of the parameter
            within the function that you want to call, you can create
            an OLEParameter object, and set its Position property to
            achieve the same effect.  The default value is 0, which
            means no positioning.

[Fix] [All] Plugins: Fixed a crash when loading a plugin that has
            failed to register properly. (Feedback ID: fokeqeiy)

[Fix] [Win] Printing: Can now print to a non-default printer even if
            you set that printer up from the Page Setup dialog (and not
            the Printer dialog).  This should work even when reloaded
            from a setup string. (Feedback ID: ihxnkkbp)

[Fix] [Win] Printing: Fixed a leak when getting any properties from a
            PrinterSetup object. (Feedback ID: meyjrmxh)

[Chg] [IDE] Project: We now defer class resolution until after all
            items have been imported, so that we can properly find the
            correct super for each class. (Feedback ID: owxmblzb)

[Fix] [IDE] Property Declarations: You can now use a constant for array
            declarations within a property again. (Feedback ID: bvibdavx)

[Fix] [IDE] Property Window: You can no longer bring up multiple color
            pickers from the properties window on the Windows IDE.
            (Feedback ID: mxofwgqb)

[Fix] [Win] RadioButton: No longer fires the Action event when focus is
            received, only when the value changes.

[New] [All] REALDatabase: two new methods are provided for updating the
            schema of an existing database.  "GetSchemaData" returns a
            string containing a representation of the current schema;
            "ReplaceSchemaData(newData as String)" replaces the schema
            with the given data.  Both functions will fail if a
            transaction is in progress, and ReplaceSchemaData cannot be
            rolled back.  Use with caution.

[Fix] [Win] Serial: Checking the values of ClearToSend, DataSetReady,
            DataCarrierDetect, and RingIndicator now function properly.

[Fix] [OSX] Serial: Software flow control with XON is now functional
            again. (Feedback ID: zdbmwdrt)

[New] [All] Sound.Clone: This new method on the Sound class returns
            another sound object that represents the sound as the
            original, but that can be played, stopped, and modified (in
            Pan and Volume) independently.  We recommend you always use
            Clone instead of opening the same sound file twice, since
            in some cases Clone will be substantially more efficient.
            (Feedback ID: pnzkaoyh)

[Fix] [Mac] String Drawing: Setting the textSize to 0 when the font is
            not system or smallSystem will no longer cause the string
            to be drawn in system.  This fixes problems with
            graphics.drawstring, editfields, listboxes, and comboboxes.

[Fix] [Win] TCPSocket: LocalAddress should work now.  No, really.
            (Feedback ID: gnssconc)

[Fix] [OSX] ToolbarItem: Calling .Close on a ToolbarItem or a
            StandardToolbarItem now removes it from the toolbar.
            (Feedback ID: qrisqrsd)

[Fix] [OSX] ToolbarItem: REALbasic applications are no longer limited
            to 65535 toolbarItems.

[Fix] [IDE] ToolbarItem: REALbasic apps will no longer crash if you
            click on a toolbaritem that exists on a second window.
            (Feedback ID: wksyieqk)

[Fix] [X.3] ToolbarItems: More than 1 toolbarItem on a composite window
            under Panther no longer increases the content area of the
            window by the height of the toolbar.

[Fix] [Mac] Window: Fixed various window activation problems

[Fix] [All] Window.Control raises an OutOfBoundsException if the
            control index supplied is less than zero or greater than
            the last control's index. (Feedback ID: dxgatazi)

5.5a9

[Fix] [IDE] Autocomplete: Try, Catch, and Finally are now on the
            autocompleter's list of keywords. (Feedback ID: llalenzf)

[Fix] [Mac] ChasingArrows: now draw with proper background when on a
            tab panel.  Also affects PopupArrows and
            DisclosureTriangle, and applies to other parent controls
            (e.g. a GroupBox on OS 10.3) in addition to tab panels.
            (Feedback ID: vkblodsb)

[New] [IDE] Code Browser: now indicates Protected scope with an icon
            badge distinct from that used for Private.

[Imp] [All] ComboBox: Fixed various cosmetic bugs

[New] [All] ComboBox: The text property is now settable.

[Fix] [All] Compiler: No longer nils out objects when you assign them
            to themselves.  ie) s = s (where s is a string, array or
            object) no longer puts nil into s. (Feedback ID: fyolkryo)

[Fix] [All] Compiler: No longer reports an undefined identifier error
            when you attempt to Declare an external function using a
            constant defined in the current class. (Feedback
            ID: fkjgpjzi)

[New] [All] Compiler: REALbasic now offers return type covariance. A
            method can override an inherited method while changing its
            return type to a subclass of the original type, or if the
            original type was an interface, to a class that implements
            the original type. (Feedback ID: fpkjuoio)

[Fix] [IDE] Compiler: When a new method overrides an inherited method,
            but declares a different return type, the compiler now
            reports an error instead of getting confused and doing
            strange things with overloading.

[New] [IDE] Constants: now listed in the code browser with an icon
            badge indicating access scope (Public, Protected, or
            Private).

[Fix] [Win] Date: Setting the Second, Minute or Hour properties to > 60
            or 24 (depending on the property), or < 0 now result in a
            proper date. (Feedback ID: lbijjazv)

[Chg] [IDE] Debugger: Global variables are now displayed inside their
            modules. Instead of clicking the Globals button, click the
            Modules button and select the module's name from its popup.

[New] [IDE] Debugger: Globals window now lists the App and Runtime
            objects, along with all open windows, running threads, and
            connected sockets. (Feedback ID: pbiqojpr)

[New] [IDE] Debugger: The viewer window for the Runtime object can now
            display its contents as well as its properties. (Feedback
            ID: pbiqojpr, wpyfiuix)

[Fix] [IDE] Dialogs: The edit dialog boxes for methods, properties,
            constants, and new events now expand to display multiple
            lines of error message text instead of cutting off after
            the first line.

[Fix] [Win] Drag&Drop: Dropping a FolderItem object no longer crashes.
            This occurred when you assigned a folderitem via
            GetFolderItem or GetOpenFolderItem. (Feedback ID: mefivwlv)

[Fix] [Win] EditField: Paste is now unicode savvy.

[Opt] [Mac] Linker: Built applications will tend to be smaller for many
            projects.

[New] [All] Listbox: We added a CellTag property that holds a variant.
            CellTag(row as integer, column as integer) as variant.
            (Feedback ID: pmxkiton)

[Fix] [Win] MDI: MouseMove event should no longer fire for MDI apps if
            MouseDown event returned true (Feedback ID: umkxgaip)

[Fix] [Win] MDI: Setting the focus of a control in the window's open
            event now works properly for MDI applications.  This was
            already working for SDI applications. (Feedback ID: kyhsyvtj)

[Fix] [Win] Menus: Can now use .Visible.  NOTE: This can not be done
            with a top-level, or submenu item.  If you want to change
            the visibility of those types of menu items, then you must
            use Insert, Append and Remove to modify them. (Feedback
            ID: nsojgdar)

[Fix] [Mac] Menus: It is now possible to disable a menu title (by
            setting its Enabled property to False in an EnableMenuItems
            event, or by turning off its AutoEnable property).

[Fix] [All] Menus: The Enabled property is no longer inconsistent with
            the actual enabled state of a menu or submenu title.

[Fix] [OS9] Modal Dialog: We no longer allow clicks to zoom or resize a
            window in Classic if a modal window is showing.  NOTE:
            Clicks to collapse the window are still allowed.

[New] [All] Networking: Added three new networking classes to make
            networking with RB easier.  Please see the New Networking
            Classes.txt ReadMe for more information about the
            EasyTCPSocket, EasyUDPSocket and AutoDiscovery classes.

[Fix] [All] ODBC Plugin: No longer crashes when you don't connect
            (Feedback ID: hspxuxtd)

[Fix] [Win] ParseDate: No longer returns the present time, which is
            consistent with the Mac implementation. (Feedback
            ID: fmmkwuwb)

[Fix] [Win] Printing: Printer dialog now honors Paper type, color,
            quality, etc settings when they are set up from the Page
            setup dialog. (Feedback ID: vfdmwqrj)

[Fix] [IDE] Project: When dragging multiple files to the project list,
            we now keep track of the cmd-option (or ctrl-shift on
            Windows) state, so that the items are imported as external
            even if you let go of the modifier keys half way through
            processing. (Feedback ID: xsukrwdy)

[Fix] [Car] Sheet Window: Modal windows can now be the parent of sheet
            windows.  The controls on the sheet will now work properly.

[Fix] [Win] Sheet Windows: No longer crashes when closing a sheet
            window. (Feedback ID: jbklidbi)

[Fix] [Win] SocketCore: LocalAddress now gives proper information when
            Windows improperly sets up ethernet card interface
            information. (Feedback ID: oxaxmxpp)

[Fix] [Win] String: Now properly returns the correct encoding base and
            format for UTF-8.  Also fixes getting a UTF-8 codepoint.
            (Feedback ID: ekmsjluo)

[New] [All] StyleRun: Now takes an optional parameter to its
            constructor which allows you to set the text.  ie)
            Dim sr as StyleRun
            sr = new StyleRun( "This is my text" )  (Feedback
            ID: lwqsacdo)

[Fix] [All] UDPSocket: No longer leaking the contents of a read-in
            Datagram object. (Feedback ID: xzmbvcbi)

[Fix] [All] Variant: Comparing two boolean values no longer causes a
            TypeMismatchException. (Feedback ID: rmihuifo)

[New] [All] Window: Added Minimize, Maximize, and Restore events.
            Minimize doesn't get called for classic.

[Fix] [Win] Window: The resized event no longer fires unnecessarily
            when the window is minimized. (Feedback ID: uodmgler)


5.5a8

[Fix] [IDE] Autocomplete: Can now display parameters for methods on the
            HTTPSocket and email classes in the Tips window without
            having to compile the project once first.

[New] [All] ComboBox: Added the ComboBox control for all platforms.

[Kis] [IDE] ComboBox: The icon in the tool palette hasn't been updated

[Kis] [Mac] ComboBox: The RowTag property hasn't been implemented for
            this control yet.

[Kis] [Mac] ComboBox: Various cosmetic issues still exist.

[Fix] [IDE] Compiler: Can now terminate a Try/catch block with End
            instead of End Try.  ie)

            try
              MsgBox "Foobar"
            catch err as RuntimeException
              MsgBox "BarFoo"
            end

[Fix] [All] Compiler: No longer fails an assertion at
            Assignments.cpp:60 (with the message "not
            lhs->IsConstant()") under some error conditions, usually
            involving array assignment.

[New] [IDE] Conditional Compilation: You can now use #ElseIf for
            conditional compilation.  eg)

            #If TargetMacOS
            #ElseIf TargetWin32
            #ElseIf TargetLinux
            #Else
            #EndIf (Feedback ID: hmvqtlfg)

[New] [Lnx] Console Applications: Can now build console applications
            for Linux

[Fix] [IDE] Constants: You can now use module.constant or
            window.constant syntax in the properties window and the
            build settings dialog.  The autocomplete system now
            reflects the scope of the constant and will prefix
            protected constants with their project item name.  Private
            constants can't be used in the properties window or build
            settings dialog.

[Fix] [Win] Contextual Menus: No longer crash when trying to be shown
            on a custom control. (Feedback ID: oliijecy)

[Fix] [Win] Controls: The background color of controls on a placard,
            Oval, RoundRectangle, and Rectangle now match the color of
            its parent, instead of the background color of the window.
            (Feedback ID: txprklsz)

[Fix] [IDE] Debugger: No longer displays trailing garbage characters
            when viewing the string in Windows's IDE debugger.
            (Feedback ID: fcekdtxn)

[New] [Mac] Debugging: built apps now include function names (for use
            with debugging & performance tools) if the checkbox in the
            new "Compiler Options" panel of the Build Settings dialog
            is checked.  Note that this currently works only on Mac
            builds. (Feedback ID: ckaufzdk)

[New] [Mac] Debugging: When running your application under the
            debugger, symbolic traceback information is included with
            the code.  This means that method names will appear in
            crash logs or performance tuning reports, rather than just
            unnamed hex codes. (Feedback ID: ckaufzdk)

[Fix] [Win] Debugging: You can now debug apps in the Windows IDE or
            remote debug them even if you use constant names.

[Fix] [Car] EditField.Password: Changing an EditField to or from
            Password mode now takes effect immediately, rather than
            when the text is next changed; also, setting Password mode
            along with some default text in the IDE now works properly.
            (Feedback ID: qeaajflf, cjbyncwd)

[Fix] [All] EmailSockets: POP3Socket and SMTPSocket now send 'QUIT'
            command to the server when calling Disconnect.

[Fix] [All] EndOfLine: Can now be compared to a string.  ie) if s =
            EndOfLine then is now functional. (Feedback ID: suabelyx)

[Fix] [All] Exceptions: Raising Nil as an exception object is now
            ignored.  Previously it would skip the current exception
            handler and be caught somewhere down the stack. (Feedback
            ID: abfxezcb)

[New] [IDE] External items: When loading a project containing one or more
            external code items which can't be found, the IDE now
            presents a file dialog allowing you to relocate the missing
            items immediately. (Feedback ID: nwfvmzuu)

[Fix] [Win] FolderItem: Delete now works on a directory after using the
            file dialog(s) to access files within that directory.
            (Feedback ID: uzzhcrrt)

[New] [All] HTTPSocket: GetHeaders method has been added to the
            HTTPSocket to only retrieve the page headers.

[Fix] [All] HTTPSocket: Get, Post, and GetHeaders can be called from
            within an event on the HTTPSocket class. (Feedback
            ID: kdcpfhzl)

[New] [All] HTTPSocket: HTTP proxy support has been added to the
            HTTPSocket.  In order to connect via a proxy the
            HTTPProxyAddress and HTTPProxyPort properties must be set.
            (Feedback ID: soyiyadi)

[New] [All] HTTPSocket: HTTPSocket now supports basic authentication.
            Sites that require authentication will fire the
            AuthenticationRequired event.  To authenticate the name and
            password parameters must be set and then return true in the
            event. (Feedback ID: hshrsice)

[New] [All] HTTPSocket: HTTPStatus code is passed to the
            HeadersReceived event. (Feedback ID: nfaffxam)

[Fix] [All] HTTPSocket: New InternetHeaders class added.  HTTPSocket
            provides headers with this class instead of in a
            dictionary.  This allows for multiple headers of the same
            name to be accessed.  For documentation please refer to the
            EmailHeaders class.  Note:  EmailHeaders is now based off
            of the InternetHeaders class. (Feedback ID: wohifzzk)

[Fix] [All] IsNumeric: The IsNumeric function (both the global one, and
            the one on the Variant class) now will tell you if the
            variant contains a string version of a number.  ie)
            IsNumeric( "2" ) now returns true.

[Fix] [IDE] Listbox: Listboxes on composite windows now draw their
            checkboxes and disclosure triangles in the right spot on
            panther and no longer overdraw on both Jaguar and Panther.
            (Feedback ID: zkzduyzc, yrroacmm)

[New] [All] Listbox: When a hierarchical listbox is sorted, all rows
            are now sorted instead of just those at the root level.
            Subitems are sorted within their own groups.

[Fix] [IDE] Menu Editor: Dragging and dropping within a submenu now
            works again.

[Fix] [Win] Menu: Can now set the text of a sub menu on the fly.
            (Feedback ID: slixozrj)

[Fix] [All] Msgbox: No longer leaks the dialog buttons when msgbox is
            called. (Feedback ID: imodaidn)

[Fix] [OSX] Plugin controls: Now refresh when the control is
            invalidated, instead of simply redrawing from the
            system-supplied back buffer. (Feedback ID: emwjqiei)

[Fix] [Win] PopupMenu: Getting an item on non-NT systems now returns
            the proper encoding. (Feedback ID: adodzfvp)

[Fix] [OSX] PopupMenu: Popup menus no longer fail to draw the correct
            selection when living on a composite window in Panther.
            (Feedback ID: hpohsehy)

[Fix] [OSX] PopupMenus: Making a popupmenus width or height negative no
            longer causes a failed assertion on Panther (Mac OS X 10.3)
            (Feedback ID: czuajqxb)

[Fix] [All] POP3Socket: POP3Socket's SendServerCommand method and
            ServerCommandReply event are fixed. (Feedback ID: ydtprjxj)

[Fix] [IDE] Project Manager: Attempting to create a subclass of an
            existing class, while the project interface is not checked
            out, no longer crashes the IDE.

[Fix] [IDE] Project Manager: Now correctly handles fetch or check-out
            of an event that has not previously been implemented,
            instead of reporting an error.

[Fix] [IDE] Project Manager: Now supports visual bindings.

[New] [IDE] Remote Debugging: Should now be functional on Linux
            (Feedback ID: zsytqiux)

[Fix] [OSX] Sheet: Showing a sheet window from within another windows
            open event now first shows the parent window. This prevents
            weird problems, including crashes in Panther (Mac OS X
            10.3), from occuring.      (Feedback ID: uhdqgykd)

[Fix] [All] SMTPSocket: Emails that have attachments now include a
            Mime-Version header.  Some email clients require this to
            correctly parse out the email attachments. (Feedback
            ID: fzwwrxpo)

[Fix] [All] SMTPSocket: Sending email with a group of returns chr(13)
            will keep all of the returns. (Feedback ID: eyllgykv)

[New] [All] SMTPSocket: SMTPSocket now supports 'login' authentication
            type as well as 'plain'.  This increases the authentication
            compatibility with some servers. (Feedback ID: pmhssbfg)

[Fix] [IDE] Sound: WAV sound files are now compiled for Mac apps built
            from the Windows IDE (Feedback ID: chkkgiti)

[New] [All] Styled Text: Created a new set of classes for dealing with
            styled text independent of an edit field.  Currently, the
            styled text class can be used in conjunction with the
            EditField.

            Please see the Styled Text Read Me for more information.
            (Feedback ID: tlntuorf, zbprenea, gwzidoww)

[Fix] [All] TabPanel: Closing the current window from a method which
            calls a method or accesses a property of a tab panel on the
            current window no longer causes an occasional crash.
            (Feedback ID: gmsrxugg)

[Opt] [OSX] Threads: Threads run more smoothly under Mac OS X and no
            longer pause while the user selects a menu item, drags a
            window, resizes a window, or clicks on a control. (Feedback
            ID: jotiuqrm)

[New] [] Variants: The variant type can now take advantage of objects'
            convert-to operators. If an object in a variant implements
            a conversion to some simple type, and you use the variant
            in a context that expects that simple type, the object will
            convert itself instead of raising a TypeMismatchException.
            (Feedback ID: bqvisjqm)

[Opt] [] Variants: Variants use less memory: 8 fewer bytes for simple
            values, 32 fewer for object values.

[Fix] [OSX] Window: REALbasic applications will now prevent an end user
            from closing a window with a sheet attached.  This can be
            done in Panther (Mac OS X 10.3) from the dock.  Allowing
            this lead to crashes.  Instead the window will beep and the
            window will then unminimize, giving the user a chance to
            fix the problem.

[Fix] [Mac] Windows: Now always draw the window frame or title bar in
            the properly active state upon activation.  Previously this
            didn't always happen; especially noticeable in most IDE
            dialogs under MacOS 10.3.


5.5a7

[Fix] [All] Arrays: No longer crashes when you ReDim a multidimensional
            string or object array to no elements (at least one ubound
            is -1), then ReDim it so it has elements again. (Feedback
            ID: nugigdpi)

[Opt] [All] Bitwise: Bitwise is now a module, not a singleton object.
            All of its methods run faster.

[Opt] [IDE] Code Editor: now faster, especially on OS X.

[Fix] [IDE] Compiler: A project no longer fails an assertion in
            runctl.cpp when opening a window or control which has a
            property whose name matches that of an IDE-only property
            but whose type is different. This is an extremely unusual
            situation that might come about if (for example) you had a
            Timer subclass with a "Top" property defined as something
            other than an integer, or a Window with a "Name" property
            that was defined as something other than a string.
            (Feedback ID: uvykiyyx)

[Fix] [IDE] Compiler: Chained type conversions involving conversion
            operators no longer fail to complete the conversion. This
            would happen whenever the result of the conversion operator
            did not exactly match the desired type; if an object's
            conversion operator returned a Double, and you assigned it
            to an Integer, you'd get an unpredictable result instead of
            the integer portion of the returned value. (Feedback
            ID: bppeqtzb)

[Opt] [x86] Compiler: Code built for Windows and Linux runs faster and
            takes up less space; more use of 8-bit displacements, no
            redundant register loads during parameter passing, tighter
            constant loads.

[Fix] [IDE] Compiler: File system error detection and reporting is
            better than it used to when building a Mac app or running a
            project in the debugger on Mac OS. (Feedback ID: jfhxjlxm)

[Opt] [PPC] Compiler: Generates slightly smaller, faster code: no
            longer reloads constants stored in nonvolatile registers
            after a function call, does not reload parameters when the
            value is already in a register, uses immediate-operand
            instruction forms more often.

[Opt] [X86] Compiler: IA-32 code generator produces smaller, faster
            exception handling code. This should significantly reduce
            the sizes of large applications.

[Fix] [All] Compiler: Invoking a module method that uses the Assigns
            keyword no longer causes a compile error. (Feedback
            ID: uxylspny)

[New] [All] Compiler: It is now possible to define multidimensional
            array parameter and return types. Between the parentheses,
            insert one comma for each additional dimension - a
            two-dimensional array parameter would be declared like
            this:

            foo(,) As Integer (Feedback ID: owreuetc)

[New] [Win] Compiler: It is now safe to call external functions using
            Declare even if they use cdecl calling conventions. (You do
            not need to specify "CDecl"; the compiler handles it
            automatically.) (Feedback ID: ewjeaavg)

[Fix] [IDE] Compiler: No longer fails with an internal error message
            when an Apple menu item has a submenu. (Feedback
            ID: ftzwnewj)

[Fix] [IDE] Compiler: Now reports an error when a project built for Mac
            OS uses more than 16 MB of resource data instead of failing
            an assertion in MacOSResources.cpp. (Feedback ID: xlfuttwg)

[Fix] [IDE] Compiler: Now throws a regular error message instead of an
            internal compiler error when you manage to get an item on a
            window with a naming conflict (mostly happens when
            importing old projects). (Feedback ID: bhrvdtau)

[Opt] [IDE] Compiler: Projects which use large, complex menu bars or
            have multiple menu bars build smaller applications than in
            previous versions.

[Fix] [x86] Compiler: Raising an exception in a method that returns a
            value without handling it in the same method, thereby
            allowing the exception to fall back to the caller, no
            longer causes a crash. (Feedback ID: xonrfbng)

[Fix] [IDE] Compiler: There's now an error message when a control has a
            leftover implementation for an event that is no longer
            declared anywhere in its inheritance chain instead of a
            failed assertion in rendersource.cpp. (Feedback ID: ikeljyvp)

[Fix] [IDE] Compiler: When implicit instantiation is impossible because
            a class' constructors all require parameters, or because a
            class' default constructor is Protected or Private, the
            compiler gives a more helpful error message instead of
            failing with an "internal error". (Feedback ID: nrqhgddz,
            ijpvuyql)

[New] [All] Console Applications: REALbasic now supports services.
            Please see the Service Application Read Me for more
            details. (Feedback ID: bbutfcuf)

[Fix] [Mac] Controls: Many controls now support the Carbon Action
            Event.  This means that you can better make use of Full
            Keyboard Access, and in Panther you will be able to speak
            controls.

[New] [Mac] Controls: Now more controls support the handle property on
            the Mac. Specifically Bevelbutton, Separator, ImageWell,
            Placard, DisclosureTriangle, LittleArrows, ChasingArrows,
            and PopupArrow

[Fix] [Mac] DataControl: Now reliably draws the icons on forward/back
            buttons.

[Fix] [All] DecodeBase64 no longer overwrites the end of its buffer in
            certain hard-to-reproduce situations. (Feedback ID: zcmslvmq)

[New] [All] EncodeBase64 has a new second parameter, lineWrap. This
            optional value lets you specify the maximum number of
            characters per line. The default value is 76, which is the
            line length specified by the Base-64 Content Transfer
            Encoding used in MIME. If you specify a maximum line length
            of 0, the function will not insert any linebreaks.

[Fix] [Car] Graphics: String drawing no longer degrades in performance on
            Panther the more drawing is done.

[New] [OSX] Graphics: the UseOldRenderer flag now turns on Quickdraw text
            drawing in OS X.  If you need faster text drawing and are
            unconcerned about modern anti-aliasing consider using this
            option.  As a result of the change shapes also now draw
            more nicely in the window editor.

[Fix] [OSX] Graphics.StringHeight: fixed bug causing this to add one
            extra line height for each paragraph of given text that
            contained at least one non-ASCII character. (Feedback
            ID: mfdzrdxn)

[Fix] [IDE] IDE Extras: the "IDE Extras" folder can now be an alias to
            a folder located elsewhere. (Feedback ID: llvnwvmf)

[Fix] [Mac] MacType and MacCreator: These are no longer converted to
            the system encoding, but to MacRoman instead.  This fixes
            an issue with systems that aren't MacRoman using any
            character above 127.  Also the encoding returned from
            folderItem macType and creator is MacRoman.

[Fix] [All] Menu items with submenus can once again be clonable as part
            of a menuitem array. (Feedback ID: hpmrtoka)

[Fix] [Win] Menu: Calling .Close on a menu item no longer mis-shifts
            items on other menus. (Feedback ID: nqtdefsh)

[Fix] [Mac] Menu: Menu items now disable properly again. (Feedback
            ID: bcvleiwf)

[Fix] [All] Menus: Accessors for menu item arrays no longer refuse to
            accept the index parameter when the menu is attached to a
            window instead of the App object. (Feedback ID: pxlvefcf)

[Fix] [All] Menus: Cloned menu item array elements no longer lose their
            custom superclasses and become subclasses of MenuItem.
            (Feedback ID: fpvuqzml)

[Fix] [All] No longer fails an assertion at runtime if a control's
            Close event calls Quit or otherwise attempts to close its
            own window. (Feedback ID: sxpfgwji)

[Fix] [Win] Printing: Fixed an assertion that would come up on very
            rare printers where the printer would report back no
            resolution information at all.  In that case, we default to
            72 DPI for both horizontal and vertical resolution for that
            printer. (Feedback ID: tgypnkug)

[Fix] [Win] Printing: Fixed an issue where the printed results would be
            shifted down and to the right slightly. (Feedback
            ID: ixzjrddj)

[Fix] [IDE] Project Manager: Class interfaces are now saved and
            restored with Project Manager.

[Fix] [IDE] Project Templates folder: can now be an alias to a folder
            located elsewhere. (Feedback ID: koubpqpq)

[New] [All] REALbasic: Added a new project type for Console Projects.
            This means that REALbasic can now compile a console
            application.  Please note that the only platform currently
            supported is Windows.  Please see the Console RB ReadMe for
            more information (Feedback ID: apcljuji)

[New] [Win] RegistryItem: Added new method KeyType(index as Integer) as
            Integer.  This will return the key type for the key located
            at the index.  Possible values are: Unsupported key = -1,
            REG_SZ and REG_EXPAND_SZ = 0, REG_DWORD = 1, REG_BINARY =
            2, REG_MULTI_SZ = 3 (Feedback ID: icrgqylx)

[New] [Win] RegistryItem: Value() now returns valid information for
            expandable strings, binary and multi-strings.

            In the case of expandable strings, we automatically expand
            the string for you and return it as a string.

            In the case of multi-strings, we pass back a string that is
            chr(0)-delimited.  Please use the split function to get the
            individual parts like this: part = split(regValue,
            chr(0)).

            In the case of a binary value, we return a MemoryBlock to
            you.

            You cannot currently set an expandable string, or a
            multistring.  To set a binary string, please pass in a
            MemoryBlock. (Feedback ID: icrgqylx)

[Fix] [All] Runtime: Stack overflow checker no longer gets confused
            when RB code is called from a non-RB thread, as might be
            the case if you used an RB method as a system callback.

[New] [Mac] Sound: You can now play more than 16 sounds simultaneously
            (in fact, you can play any number, limited only by system
            resources).

[New] [OSX] System: Three new methods have been added to the System
            object to provide support for graphics tablets:

              System.PenType as Integer: returns 0 for a mouse (no
            tablet pen), 1 for the tip end of a pen device, and 2 for
            the eraser end of a pen device.

              System.PenPressure as Double: returns current pen presure
            as a percentage, from 0.0 (not touching) to 100.0 (full
            pressure).

              System.PenButtonPushed(index as Integer) as Boolean:
            returns whether the given button on the tablet pen is
            currently pushed.

            These features currently work only on Mac OS X.

[Fix] [Win] TextEncoding: Converting to or from ISOLatin# now works
            (assuming you have the proper code pages installed).
            (Feedback ID: gmmhbwkr)

[New] [All] TextInputStream, StandardInputStream, TCPSocket,
            BinaryStream, Serial: All now implement a new interface
            called "Readable".  If you implement the new Readable
            interface, you must provide a Read method which follows
            this spec:

            Read( count as Integer, [enc as TextEncoding] ) as String
            (Feedback ID: visdkmwe)

[New] [All] TextOutputStream, StandardOutputStream, TCPSocket,
            BinaryStream, Serial: All now implement a new interface
            called "Writeable".  If you implement the new Writeable
            interface, you must provide a Write method which follows
            this spec:

            Write( data as String ) (Feedback ID: visdkmwe)

[Fix] [Win] Threads: No longer crashes on non NT based systems, such as
            Win98/ME (Feedback ID: qzrvfscq)

[Fix] [All] Timer: No longer fires continuously (up to 60 times per
            second) when within "Period" milliseconds of a certain time
            when the computer has been running for 2^32 milliseconds.

[Fix] [IDE] Window Editor: Now draws the correct icon in the Quicktime
            Movie Controller again.

[Fix] [All] Window.DrawInto: Once again works for most controls; these
            stopped working in REALbasic 5.1.1 or so.  Note that some
            controls (e.g. MoviePlayer, SpriteSurface) still can't be
            usefully drawn outside their window. (Feedback ID: vtggtrec)


5.5a6

[Opt] [All] Arrays: Multidimensional array element access (both get and
            set) is about 4-5 times faster, on average, than in 5.5a5.

[Fix] [Mac] BevelButton: bug causing the icon to sometimes draw at odd
            places in the containing window has been fixed. (Feedback
            ID: mahawzux)

[Opt] [Mac] Compiler: PowerPC code generator produces smaller, faster
            code. This should further reduce built app size for large
            applications.  Large apps will also compile slightly faster.

[New] [All] Compiler: REALbasic now offers array covariance. If "foo"
            is a class, and "bar" is a superclass of foo or an
            interface implemented by foo, then an array of foo can now
            be used anywhere an array of bar is expected. The array
            maintains its original element type, and each insert,
            append, and assignment to an array element is checked to
            make sure that the new value matches the actual element
            type. If the type does not match, the array raises a
            TypeMismatchException. This change restores the array
            parameter passing system available prior to RB 5.1 minus
            its type-safety loophole. (Feedback ID: xomtsstj)

[Nte] [All] Array type conversion only works for one-dimensional arrays.
            This is a semi-arbitrary limitation of the implementation
            and will eventually be corrected.

[New] [IDE] Contextual Menu: Added a new contextual menu that finds the
            declaration of any item that is clicked on in the source
            pane.  If more than one definition for the item exists you
            may need to "Find Again" to find the occurence that you are
            looking for.

[Fix] [All] Exceptions: Exceptions can be handled inside threads again.
            (Feedback ID: miuzenog)

[New] [Mac] FolderItem.OpenAsPicture: Now reads the resolution of PICT
            files opened, instead of always assuming 72 dpi.

[Fix] [Mac] FolderItem.SaveAsPicture: now creates "type 2" PICT files
            with the correct resolution information.  This also affects
            pictures placed on a Clipboard or DragItem, or accessed via
            Picture.Handle. (Feedback ID: zhykupod)

[Fix] [All] InStr: Now properly case insensitive, even with accented
            Roman letters or non-Roman alphabets.  Also fixes some
            spurious matches that were sometimes found when dealing
            with accented letters. (Feedback ID: oiohqbbo)

[Fix] [IDE] Project Manager: Can now use the Windows IDE to log in to
            the a project manager running on the Mac. (Feedback
            ID: jeqhngvp, ivkipvrp, irvbnfza)

[Chg] [IDE] Project Manager: No longer need to enter a port number when
            specifying the address of the Project Manager server.  This
            means it's alright to just type in an IP (or DNS) address
            without the :7325.  We will default to port 7325 if no port
            is specified.

[Fix] [IDE] Properties Window: The font that appears in drop down lists of
            the properties window now matches the rest of the window.

[Chg] [IDE] Properties Window: While the initial text of a statictext,
            editfield etc. is still WYSIWYG in respect to font and
            style, it no longer reflects the size of the final item.
            This change means that the text is never too small to read,
            or too big to force scrolling.

[New] [IDE] Remote Debugger: Added Refresh button to the stub selection
            screen so you can refresh the auto-discovered list of
            remote stubs.

[Fix] [All] Serial Control: Fixed an object leak when assigning a
            serial port to a serial control. (Feedback ID: memglriv)

[Fix] [Win] SocketCore: Getting the LocalAddres property now returns
            correct results when asking for the default interface.  It
            used to return a blank string, or 0.0.0.0 for the IP if you
            had a second interface installed, and the first one the
            system encountered had no active connection. (Feedback
            ID: rbsyemcg)

5.5a5

[New] [All] Array.Shuffle: This new array method shuffles the contents
            of an array of any type and any number of dimensions.
            There is currently a small . (Feedback ID: gigsuinb)

[Fix] [IDE] Autocomplete: Now includes "Pop" and "IndexOf" array
            methods.

[New] [IDE] Build Settings Dialog: You can now use constants to specify
            values in the build dialog wherever there is an editfield.
            This used to work only for the application names and the
            MDI Caption in 5.2.

[Fix] [All] Canvas: Clicking on controls on a canvas no longer trigger
            the MosueDown event twice. (Feedback ID: hlewujiu)

[Fix] [Win] Case functions: Uppercase, Lowercase and Titlecase now
            preserve the encoding of the string passed in. (Feedback
            ID: cxxgowrd)

[Fix] [IDE] Code Browser: Navigation (forward/back) buttons no longer
            fail to activate after adding a new method or property.

[Opt] [IDE] Code Editor: Notes containing long lines no longer get
            progressively slower.

[New] [All] Compiler: A new AddressOf operator lets you get a function
            pointer for any method.  Currently you can only Gloabl
            Methods will work with Declares and you must use the
            "#Pragma StackOverflowChecking False" within the method.
            Example:  mb.Ptr(0) = AddressOf MyCallbackFunction
            (Feedback ID: rfijjmqy)

[New] [IDE] Compiler: Attempting to call an array method on a
            multi-dimensional array now produces a clearer error
            message ("This array method works only for one-dimensional
            arrays").

[Chg] [All] Compiler: Control names can no longer be used as class
            names with IsA and typecasting operations unless they are
            part of a control array.  Both "Is" and "=" will continue
            to work in these cases.

[Fix] [Mac] Compiler: Corrected parameter passing code when a function
            call provides a single-precision parameter followed by one
            or more non-floating point parameters. This affected array
            manipulation and certain plugin calls. (Feedback
            ID: nieajwcu)

[Opt] [All] Compiler: Finished applications are smaller than those
            produced by RB 5.2, especially for projects with many
            controls in windows. Projects may also compile faster.

[Fix] [IDE] Compiler: No longer fails an assertion at
            FunctionCalls.cpp:805 in a complex situation involving a
            syntax error and comparison of a class with a comparison
            operator against Nil. This could have also affected other
            overloaded method calls involving Nil passed as a
            parameter. (Feedback ID: mlsbjlte)

[Opt] [] Compiler: Object instantiation is now a little bit faster for
            most classes.

[Fix] [IDE] Constants: Option-dragging a multi-word constant from one
            editor window to another no longer truncates the constant's
            value after the first space. (Feedback ID: jbcviztu)

[Fix] [All] CountFields: Now returns correct answer for UTF-16 strings,
            even when some of the fields are empty. (Feedback
            ID: shsvlbrp)

[New] [IDE] Debugger: Dictionary viewer window now has a "Contents" tab
            which displays a sortable list of key-value mappings.

[Fix] [OS9] Debugger: Draws source code in the debugger window using a
            white background instead of grey, like the other source
            panes.

[New] [IDE] Debugger: Remote debugger status window displays a progress
            bar while the application is being transferred to the
            target machine.

[New] [IDE] Edit Constant Dialog: Ellipsis buttons let you use the
            "Edit Value" dialog to edit multiline string constant
            values. (Feedback ID: iaxkxoyq, lgclufyn)

[Fix] [] Editfield.format: The editfields format property now applies
            whenever the text changes and the control doesn't have the
            focus, not just when it looses the focus.

[Fix] [] Editfield.Mask: the mask characters ',./:' now query the
            system for the appropriate version of the separator.  So
            for example if your mask contains a ':' a user needs to
            type their default time separator, which may or may not be
            a colon.

[New] [] Editfield:Mask: Now autocompletes the time character, the date
            character, the decimal character, and the thousands
            character

[Fix] [All] FolderItem: LastErrorCode now functional for all FolderItem
            calls, including (but not limited to) rename, move, copy,
            launch and delete.  Previous functionality was missing in
            some cases (such as rename). (Feedback ID: elqpmxxb)

[Chg] [Mac] GameInputDevice: Keyboard device: now returns element names
            of the form <natural name> [key <key code>].  For example,
            the Return key would return its name as "Return [key 24]".
            Note that this applies only to the Mac; the format on
            Windows will differ.

[Fix] [All] Graphics.DrawString: No longer misidentifies some Unicode
            characters (such as U+E00D) as a line break when drawing a
            UTF-16 string. (Feedback ID: vhvwdwhk)

[Fix] [IDE] Listbox: No longer fails an assertion when deleting rows in
            the cellclick event without returning false from the
            function.  (Feedback ID: xhrkogbf)

[Fix] [Mac] MacType and MacCreator: These are no longer converted to
            the system encoding, but to MacRoman instead.  This fixes
            an issue with systems that aren't MacRoman using any
            character above 127.

[Fix] [IDE] Method Editor: No longer blanks out the parameters field
            when you select "Constructor" from the popup menu.
            (Feedback ID: bxfgksml)

[Fix] [IDE] Method Editor: Now can use a default parameter along with
            the extends or assigns keyword (so long as the default
            value is not on the extended or assigned parameter).

            For example, this is legal:
            extends byref i as integer, amt as integer = 1

            While this is still illegal:
            extends byref i as integer = 4 (Feedback ID: uwnllgjr)

[Fix] [IDE] PagePanel: Inserting/Deleting a page now moves subclassed
            controls to the proper page. (Feedback ID: nhinktbw)

[Wrk] [OSX] Picture.Mask: To work around a bug in Mac OS 10.2 or higher
            (in which CoreGraphics drawing to an 8-bit picture comes
            out with the colors inverted), Picture.Mask is now 32 bits
            deep rather than 8.  Note that if you create your own 8-bit
            picture, and draw to it with UseOldRenderer=false, the
            colors will still be inverted on 10.2 or higher (this is
            Apple bug ##3433190). (Feedback ID: ocmbnpxd)

[Fix] [Mac] PopupMenu: Enabling a PopupMenu right after showing a modal
            dialog or sheet now works. (Feedback ID: kznlxpsg)

[Fix] [IDE] Project Manager: No longer asks you twice if you want to
            check out a window's interface if you select "Cancel".
            Also selecting cancel will restore the windows old position.

[Fix] [] Project Manager: REALbasic no longer crashes if you check out
            an item as a result of a drag operation.

[Fix] [IDE] Project Manager: REALbasic will no longer overwrite project
            manager connection information when downloading or updating
            a project

[IDE] [] Project Manager: Some spit and polish for the access control
            UI.

[New] [IDE] Properties: Can now add comments to properties in the IDE.
            (Feedback ID: qyqpkpjy)

[Fix] [All] REAL Database: Attempts to use an IN list comparison
            generates an SQL error (since this syntax is not yet
            supported) rather than returning all records. (Feedback
            ID: njidblic)

[New] [All] REAL Database: Can now be created as a virtual volume even
            within the IDE.

[Fix] [All] REAL Database: Columns of type Double no longer cause a
            table's data to be stored incorrectly.  (This usually
            manifested as being able to store only one record in the
            table.) (Feedback ID: yzsljyhc)

[Fix] [All] REAL Database: Now correctly returns data from column types
            other than integer or text. (Feedback ID: apbaehdu)

[New] [Win] REAL Database: now works on Windows as well.  Also, note
            that the REAL Database is now part of the IDE; you should
            delete any REAL Database plug-ins you may have from
            previous alphas.

[Fix] [Win] RegistryItem: Fixed calling .Item with an index so that it
            returns a folder instead of nil in some cases.

[Fix] [OSX] SaveStyledEditField: SaveStyledEditField no longer corrupts
            the name of file you've chosen to save if the name contains
            characters outside of the MacRoman character set.

[New] [IDE] Scope popup in the Add/Edit Method, Property, and Constant
            dialogs has more descriptive text for each option.

[Opt] [OSX] Strings with color: Sped up strings that use colors (this
            includes EditFields, Listboxes, DrawString, the code
            editor, etc) by roughly 10-15%.

[New] [IDE] The Edit Value dialog (the string editor that comes up when
            you click the ellipsis button in the Properties window) is
            now resizable. (Feedback ID: ummllstd)

[Fix] [All] UDPSocket: Fixed leak of one datagram object on call to
            UDPSocket.Write when using the two parameter version of the
            function.  ie) UDPSocket.Write "127.0.0.1", "Foobar"
            (Feedback ID: ovztroxu)

[Fix] [All] Window: You can now change a windows position and/or size
            in the window's "Moved" or "Resized" events again.  NOTE:
            Although setting the window to its same size or position
            will not fire "Moved" or "Resized" events, you still need
            to be careful not to cause infinite loops here.


5.5a4

[Fix] [Mac] Applescript: Encoding information is not lost when sending
            data into and returning it from Applescripts.  Where
            appropriate data may be converted to Unicode.

[New] [All] Application: Added a new property.  AutoQuit as Boolean.
            If ths property is set to true, then when the last window
            is closed (whether it's by calling Window.Close or click
            the close widget on the window itself), the application
            will terminate.

            This property defaults to true on Windows if the
            application is not MDI, and true on Linux.  Otherwise, it
            defaults to false.

[Fix] [Win] App.OpenDocument: Now properly handles unicode filenames

[Opt] [All] Arrays: Array access should be faster in some situations.

[New] [All] Arrays: New IndexOf method lets you search for a value in a
            one-dimensional array.  The first parameter is the value to
            search for, and its type must match th array's element
            type. The second parameter is an integer which specifies
            the first array element to search. It is optional; if you
            don't specify it, the search begins at the head of the
            array. If the array contains the specified value, IndexOf
            returns its index. If the value can't be found, it return
            -1. If you specify a starting index that is outside the
            array bounds, IndexOf raises an OutOfBoundsException.
            (Feedback ID: txdmmcpp)

[Opt] [All] Arrays: Redim statement is faster than in previous versions
            for arrays containing strings or objects.

[New] [OSX] BevelButton: Added a few new bevel types: Rounded Bevel,
            Round, Large Round, and Disclosure.  These bevel types are
            only native to OS X, and so on other platforms they will
            appear as an ordinary bevel button.  The disclosure button
            will be a toggleabble button on all platforms.

[New] [All] BinaryStream, Text[Input/Output]Stream: Added a new
            property, LastErrorCode as Integer, which reports any file
            IO errors to you.  All errors are currently given as the
            original file system errors.

[Chg] [IDE] Compiler: Gives better error description for type mismatch
            errors.  Now let's you know what we were expecting, and
            what we actually got. (Feedback ID: drvtwomz)

[Fix] [All] Compiler: No longer reports a spurious "must be a string
            constant" error when a Declare statement's Lib name is a
            constant instead of a string literal. (Feedback ID: ivtjzwiw)

[Fix] [IDE] Cut, Copy, Paste, Duplicate Controls: Now remembers that
            controls are part of a control array if you copy them
            across windows

[New] [IDE] Cut, Copy, Paste, Duplicate Controls: When you cut, copy,
            paste or duplicate a control the code is now copied with
            it. (Feedback ID: guemgbmc)

[Fix] [IDE] Debugger: Array viewer no longer fails an assertion when
            you run or step over code which removes more than one item
            from the array. (Feedback ID: rgsfyuos, hfsdshjm)

[Fix] [IDE] Debugger: When an exception occurs, and the debugger
            window's disclosure triangle is closed, the exception
            message will show up in the correct place on the source
            editor instead of attaching itself to the bottom of the
            debugger window.

[Fix] [Mac] Dialogs: You can no longer type underneath modal dialogs.
            This makes it so that you can save again in the Carbon IDE
            running in Classic. (Feedback ID: ccxggbfz)

[New] [All] Editfield: Add the preliminary implementation of a mask
            property.  The mask acts as an input filter.  We use the
            same mask specifiers as VisualBasic but reserve the tilde
            (~) for future use.  Literal values in the mask are
            completed automatically, but must be manually deleted.
            Here is an example of how you would use the mask for a U.S.
            Social Security Number field ###-##-####

[New] [All] Editfield: Added the preliminary implementation of a
            ValidationError event.  This event gets called when users
            enter text that is incompatible with the mask.  Its first
            parameter "invalidText" is the entire invalidText as it
            would have been had the input been allowed.  The second
            parameter "startPosition" is the 1 based position in the
            invalidText where the text first starts to not fit the
            mask.  If nothing is specified for this event a beep will
            occur when users type invalid text.

[New] [All] Editfield: Preliminary implementation of a Format property
            for the editfield.  If specified it will format the
            contents of an editfield when a user leaves the field.
            Fomatting options are the same as are available to our
            format function.

[New] [IDE] Error Window: Pressing "return" in the multiple error list
            window will open the selected error as though you'd
            double-clicked it.

[Fix] [IDE] Export Source: No longer pops up a spurious dialog box when
            you hit cancel.  Also updated the dialog box to be more
            informative and better looking. (Feedback ID: muwjyana)

[Fix] [Win] FolderItem: GetRelative and GetFolderItem no longer
            crashing on some SaveInfo strings. (Feedback ID: mbzepjlf)

[New] [All] Game Input Devices: Added 3 new classes for interfacing
            with input devices (e.g., joysticks or game pads):
            GameInputManager, GameInputDevice and GameInputElement.
            Please see the GameInput ReadMe file for more information.
            (Feedback ID: kedglfmk)

[Fix] [Car] GetFolderItem: GetFolderItem("") now returns the correct
            folder (containing the application) even when the name of
            that folder contains non-ASCII characters. (Feedback
            ID: gvytuijm)

[New] [All] Keyboard: Added new method: KeyName( keyCode as Integer) as
            String.  This method will return the string form of the key
            code passed in. The name will be the character the key
            produces, in most cases; special keys will be named as
            follows: Esc, Tab, CapsLock, Shift, Control, Option, Alt,
            Command, Win, Return, Enter, Space, Fn, Delete, Backspace,
            Help, Insert, Home, PageUp, Del, End, PageDown, F1 through
            F15, PrintScreen, ScrollLock, Pause/Break, Clear, NumLock,
            KP=, KP/, KP*, KP-, KP0 through KP9, Up, Left, Down, and
            Right.

[Fix] [Car] Keyboard: The ShiftKey property of Keyboard now works again
            even if the mouse was being held at the same time.
            (Feedback ID: nzwcepkt)

[Fix] [All] Light3D: can now be changed from directional to point, as
            long as it is attached to only a single Rb3DSpace.  (We do
            not currently support changing the type of a light attached
            to more than one Rb3DSpace.)
             (Feedback ID: cuhwsldf)

[Fix] [IDE] Listboxes with editable cells: Now allow you to cut, copy,
            paste and clear properly from within the IDE. (Feedback
            ID: gdqudlvq)

[Opt] [Mac] Listbox: Listboxes with headers now scroll faster.
            Performance improvements vary depending on type of
            scrolling (1 line, or multiple), and listbox configuration
            (nums rows, num cols, etc), but should roughly equal the
            speed of scrolling with headers turned off.  On a fairly
            complicated iTunes like listbox we saw 1 line at a time
            scrolling improvements of 30%.

[Fix] [Win] Listbox: Now refreshes properly after removing all the rows
            from a listbox when the listbox has been scrolled down.
            (Feedback ID: pjfwvbdb)

[Fix] [All] Listbox: REALbasic no longer crashes if you set the content
            height of a listbox to 0. (Feedback ID: lrmiewwf)

[Fix] [Mac] Metal Windows, Modal Windows: Menubars attached to Metal
            Windows, and Modal Windows now work properly. (Feedback
            ID: muozfooz)

[New] [Win] OLEParameter: Added new class OLEParameter (this can be
            used in OLEObject.Invoke, by assigning an element of an
            array to an OLEParameter variable), with the following
            properties:

            PassByref as Boolean-- specifies whether or not to pass
            this parameter byref (default is false)
            Type as Integer-- specifies the type of the paramter (see
            supported types, the default is 0, which means use whatever
            type the variant value is)
            Value as Variant -- the value for this parameter

            The supported types are currently:
            kNullType -- SQL NULL type
            kSignedCharType - 1 byte signed char
            kUnsignedCharType - 1 byte unsigned char
            kSignedShortType - 2 byte signed short
            kUnsignedShortType - 2 byte unsigned short
            kSignedLongType - 4 byte signed long
            kUnsignedLongType - 4 byte unsigned long
            kSingleType - 4 byte floating point
            kDoubleType - 8 byte floating point
            kSigned64BitType - 8 byte signed number
            kUnsigned64BitType - 8 byte signed number
            kBooleanType - boolean
            kStringType - string

[Fix] [Car] Pictures: No longer corrupt subsequent drawing (especially
            in an EditField) if a picture is converted to a PicHandle
            several times, e.g. by using ResourceFork.AddPicture or
            assigning to Clipboard.Picture. (Feedback ID: flxoohgt)

[Chg] [IDE] Pragmas: Unknown pragmas now give errors.  This prevents
            you from making mistakenly thinking you've used a pragma
            that has been misspelled. (Feedback ID: ljfnlyvi)

[Fix] [IDE] Project Window: Can now export (and make external) items
            that are not selected.  This would happen if you were using
            the contextual menu.

[New] [All] REAL Database: Aggregate functions now support DISTINCT.

[New] [OS9] Serial: All new features added to the serial control class
            in alpha 2 are now functioning on Mac Classic.

[Fix] [IDE] Source Code Editor: Windows IDE only: holding down Ctrl and
            pressing the Right Arrow key now moves the cursor to the
            beginning of the next word (like MS Word, Notepad, TextPad,
            etc) instead of to the end of the current word. (Feedback
            ID: uwfhnztr)

[Chg] [All] Window: CancelClose event now takes a boolean parameter
            called appQuitting to let you know whether this window was
            closed because someone wants to quit the application, or
            whether the window is closing because a user clicked the
            close widget (or said Window.Close). (Feedback ID: dkltydfn)

[New] [IDE] Windows: Added new Window menu items to dock the control
            palette and properties window to the MDI frame window.
            (Feedback ID: ndwhvloe)


5.5a3

[New] [All] Application: Added a new method called DoEvents to allow
            you to yield time back to REALbasic in tight loops.

[New] [Win] BevelButton: New bevel type "No Bevel" added.  On Windows
            XP (themed), this means use the new style bevelbutton
            (which have mouse over effects).  On non-XP, or non-themed
            XP OSes, this is the same as setting the bevel type to
            "Small Bevel" (Feedback ID: zqfeldrz)

[Fix] [All] BevelButton: The Project Manager bevel button in the source
            editor is now visible again.  So is the color bevel button
            in the Constants dialog

[New] [IDE] Code Editor: You can now select all of the code within a
            block, by using the new menu item of that name in the Edit
            Menu.  Performing this operation more than once will
            increase the selection to the previous enclosing block
            until the whole body of the method is selected.

[New] [IDE] Compiler: the compiler now gives a more descriptive error
            message if you forget to add the 'Then' keyword to your if
            statement

[Fix] [Win] ContextualMenu: No longer crashes when popping up a
            contextual menu that was created in code. (Feedback
            ID: txhdudea)

[Fix] [IDE] Controls: No longer crash after deleting their super
            property and then trying to reset it. (Feedback ID: kkbkuplu)

[New] [All] Date: Added two new properties.

            SQLDate as String -- Gets (and sets) the date in SQL format
            (YYYY-MM-DD).

            SQLDateTime as String -- Gets (and sets) the date/time in
            SQL format (YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM-SS)

            When setting the date or date/time and the format is
            incorrect, it will raise an incorrect format exception.
            (Feedback ID: rsuapxfx)

[New] [IDE] Debugger: Debugger can now display the contents of a
            MemoryBlock.

[Fix] [IDE] Debugger: Debugger no longer fails an assertion when you
            click the Value cell for an object property whose value is
            Nil.

[Fix] [IDE] Debugger: Debugger text fields no longer overlap the
            ellipsis button.

[Fix] [IDE] Debugger: Fix the caption width for the Cancel button so
            that it would be the correct size on non-English systems.
            (Feedback ID: nxlvepmf)

[Fix] [IDE] Debugger: Object viewer  windows now show all of an
            object's properties, not just the ones declared in the
            class of the property used to open the viewer window.
            (Feedback ID: hbzzbmkt)

[Fix] [IDE] Debugger: Object viewer windows use stagger positioning
            instead of opening up on top of each other.

[New] [IDE] Debugger: Pictures can now be displayed in the debugger.
            Just click on the picture reference, then click on the
            "Contents" tab in the window that appears.  Note that large
            pictures may take a few moments to appear, and
            single-stepping through code may be slow while a picture
            viewer is open. (Feedback ID: lbadecul)

[Fix] [IDE] Debugger: Pressing the continue button in "The debugger is
            running do you wish to continue dialog", after the debug
            app has quit no longer has ill effects on your RB session.

[Fix] [IDE] Debugger: Variables pane maintains its sorting state while
            stepping through code. (Feedback ID: dbwxqwmn)

[Fix] [IDE] Edit Property dialog: Allows empty array declaration
            syntax: foo() As Type (Feedback ID: mpcltbwi, edehvujd,
            dhkoysvy)

[New] [IDE] Editor: Add/Edit Menu Handler dialog box now has an edit
            field in addition to the popup menu listing menu names.
            This lets you create handlers for menu items created
            dynamically at run time.

[Fix] [All] Email: Email date header now only has one space instead of
            two in order to match RFC guidelines. (Feedback ID: awojveqx)

[Fix] [OSX] Font: the Font function now returns its result in the
            appropriate WorldScript encoding, in case you want to use
            it with some toolbox call (e.g. GetFNum).  You can of
            course convert it to Unicode if you wish.

[Fix] [OSX] Graphics.TextFont: now works even when given a Unicode font
            name, provided it matches one of the names returned from
            the Font function.  This fix affects other parts of the
            product which use fonts as well (e.g.
            EditField.SelTextFont).

[Fix] [All] Light3D: can now be changed from directional to point, as
            long as it is attached to only a single Rb3DSpace.  (We do
            not currently support changing the type of a light attached
            to more than one Rb3DSpace.)
             (Feedback ID: cuhwsldf)

[Fix] [All] Listbox: Editing a cell no longer changes the cell type of
            a cell. (Feedback ID: vomciyaf)

[Opt] [All] Listbox: Listbox cells, with more text than will fit in the
            cell, draw much faster than they used to.

[Fix] [Mac] Listbox: The text color no longer wraps from the last cell
            into the first cells when scrolling.

[Fix] [Mac] Menus: On the Macintosh, you can have no more than 255
            total menus.  We used to give an assertion if we tried to
            make more than 255 menus. Now:

            In the runtime: we raise an OutOfBoundException and set the
            message property.

            In the IDE: we silently fail and do not create the menu.
            (Feedback ID: ahqchoeb)

[New] [IDE] New Project: now presents a dialog allowing you to select a
            project from a "Project Templates" folder as the basis for
            your new project.  If no folder exists then no dialog is
            presented.

[New] [IDE] Online Reference: The mouse cursor now changes to a hand
            over code samples, to help indicate that these are
            draggable.

[Fix] [OSX] Picture: a picture containing vector data (Object2Ds) can
            now be placed on the clipboard or saved to a PICT with
            vector data intact (previously, this failed on OS X).
            (Feedback ID: uumnwlza)

[Fix] [OS9] PopupMenu: No longer draws in a different font after the
            window is deactivated. (Feedback ID: pdfnpxvz, jasrowur)

[Fix] [IDE] Project Files: No longer grow on each save/load cycle under
            certain odd circumstances involving a property definition
            with non-ASCII characters in an encoding misidentified by
            RB.  Also, property definitions are now trimmed to 1K each,
            so if you have a project already in this state, the effect
            is minimized. (Feedback ID: gbnyfqzl)

[Fix] [IDE] Project Manager: Notes now save properly in Project
            Manager.  No longer cause assertions when typing in the
            note editor.

[Fix] [IDE] Project Manager: REALbasic no longer crashes if you close a
            split source editor even when the project manager is
            enabled.

[New] [All] REAL Database: now supports POSITION, SUBSTRING, and TRIM
            with standard SQL/92 syntax and semantics.

[New] [All] REALDatabase: LAST_ROWID('table-name'): this new SQL
            function gives you the _rowid value for the last-added row
            in the indicated table.  This can be useful as the join
            value when adding related records.

[New] [All] REALDatabase: LastRowID(tableName as String) as Integer:
            this new method on the REALDatabase class gives you the
            _rowid value for the last-added record of the indicated
            table.

[New] [All] REALDatabase: now stores and returns strings with their
            encoding intact.  But note that all inserts go through a
            single SQL command, so that if you have a mixture of
            encodings among your fields, the data will probably end up
            inserted as UTF-8.

[New] [All] REALDatabase: now supports CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIME, and
            CURRENT_TIMESTAMP.  (These are guaranteed to return a value
            that's constant within a query, no matter how long that
            query takes to process.)

[Fix] [OSX] Serial: Fixed crash when trying to open a serial control by
            setting it's port to a number directly (not using
            System.SerialPort) and calling .Open on it. (Feedback
            ID: hyanbfgd)

[New] [IDE] Source Pane Splitter: Double clicking on the source pain
            splitter will open a new source pane, or close one already
            open.  This is a shortcut for dragging the splitter.

[New] [All] Speech: Added new 'Speak' method which takes a string (or
            any variant that can be expressed as a string) and uses the
            Macintosh or Windows text to speech engine to speak the
            text.  The speech is asynchronous, allowing normal program
            flow to continue.  Subsequent calls to 'Speak' before the
            first call has completely will queue up and speak after the
            completion of the previous call.  If the optional interrupt
            flag is used and set to true previous speak calls will be
            stopped immediately.  syntax: Speak( phrase as variant,
            interrupt as boolean )

[Kis] [All] Speech: Currently the 'Speak' command doesn't use the same
            markup mechanisms (ways of denoting emphasis, prosody,
            volume etc.) on Mac and Windows.  Do not count on the
            current markup languages as this may change before we ship
            (or after we ship).

[Opt] [Mac] String operations: certain string operations, such as
            adding two strings of different encodings, can now run up
            to 20 times faster on Macs containing the AltiVec unit
            (i.e., those with a G4 processor or higher).

[New] [All] Unhandled Exceptions: The Message Dialog for unhandled
            exceptions is now more descriptive.  It includes the
            exceptions message and error number when available.

[Chg] [All] Variant: Calling Variant.StringValue when the variant holds
            a date now returns a true SQLDateTime string (with zero
            padding).


5.5a2

[Kis] [Win] Can't remote debug from Windows to Macintosh.

[Fix] [Mac] AppleScript: Scripts can accept more than 8 parameters, as
            REALbasic allowed before version 5.0. (Feedback ID: oyuctoeu)

[New] [All] Arrays: Array(...) function returns an array with one
            element for each parameter. If all the parameters have the
            same type, the resulting array will use that type;
            otherwise, the parameters will be converted to their common
            type, or to Variant if they have no common type. (Feedback
            ID: hoteoemu)

[New] [Mac] BevelButton.Icon: Now supports pictures from any source,
            including those created at runtime via NewPicture.
            (Feedback ID: gjlplwbu)

[New] [Mac] BevelButton.Icon: Now supports transparency, either via
            picture.transparent=1, or via picture.mask.  Note that, due
            to a bug in MacOS 10.2.6 and earlier, the transparent areas
            are not completely transparent when the button is
            deactivated or while it is pressed.  We believe this may
            improve in future versions of OS X.
             (Feedback ID: mejjeadx, csvscykd, tnzidyxg)

[Imp] [IDE] Build Settings Dialog: No longer allows you to enter
            incorrectly sized information (like version information
            with a value greater than 255, or a creator code with more
            than four characters, etc). (Feedback ID: attjygjk)

[Fix] [Mac] Canvas: Now clips properly to its width.  Also fixes issues
            with the canvas drawing even though it is invisible.
            (Feedback ID: ddyjhhlj, ejcxxxvf)

[Fix] [Win] Code Editor: No longer displays key strokes when hitting
            the multimedia keys on some Win32 keyboards.

[Fix] [IDE] Code Editor: #if, #else and #endif now auto-indent like
            their if, else and end counterparts.

[New] [All] Compiler: Case statement accepts multiple expressions as a
            comma-delimited list. In addition to a simple expression,
            you can supply a range using the "To" keyword:
            Case 1, 2
            Case 5 To 8
            Case FuncA(x), FuncB(y,z), 9, 10, 11 To 20
            Finally, you can compare the Select value against another
            expression with any relational operator using the "Is"
            keyword:
            Case Is >= 42
            Case Is <> 19 (Feedback ID: zsbwtggh, kdwappik, hjjhiqct,
            oxncgcpp, kghelwct, )

[New] [All] Compiler: Constants defined in classes and windows are now
            available using dot syntax (Window1.SomeConstant).
            (Feedback ID: uhudotal)

[New] [All] Compiler: Constructors can now be named "Constructor".
            Destructors can now be named "Destructor". (Feedback
            ID: oravrpao, yiywvrms, ekztdkmk)

[Fix] [All] Compiler: Extends keyword no longer causes a syntax error
            when used with an array parameter. (Feedback ID: dyknvqvu)

[Fix] [Win] Compiler: Intrinsic type conversions from integer to single
            now work properly when used as parameters to function
            calls.  ie) ThisTakesASingle(45) now works. (Feedback
            ID: kgjwehcm)

[New] [All] Compiler: Modules now offer a "public" scope for methods,
            properties, and constants. This is in between global and
            protected; it allows access by external code, but you must
            use dot syntax with the module's name. If Module1 has a
            public method named Foo, you could call it outside Module1
            by saying Module1.Foo. (Inside Module1, it is in scope, so
            you can just say Foo.)

[New] [All] Compiler: New Dim syntax lets you declare and initialize a
            variable in one line. You can assign an expression to any
            variable by following the datatype with an equals sign and
            the initial value you want:
            Dim x As Integer = 5
            If you have declared more than one variable at once, the
            same initial value will be assigned to all of the
            variables:
            Dim x, y, z As Double = 3.14159
            This syntax works for objects too, but there's an even more
            compact syntax that declares an object variable containing
            a new instance of the class:
            Dim foo As New Dictionary
            If the class' constructor requires parameters, simply
            supply them in parentheses as you would with an ordinary
            call to New:
            Dim bar As New MemoryBlock(512) (Feedback ID: wnnuaywo,
            oygvzkdf, njkukpwp, olwbwfzd)

[New] [All] Compiler: New ParamArray keyword lets you pass an arbitrary
            number of arguments to a method.  Inside its method, a
            parameter declared with ParamArray acts like an array of
            its type, but when you call it you may supply any number of
            values of the parameter's type.

[Fix] [IDE] Compiler: Now complains when you set the QuitMenuItem's
            super to none. (Feedback ID: dwnthfqr)

[Fix] [All] Compiler: Operators no longer ignore method scope. If a
            class' constructor or an overloaded operator method has
            Protected or Private scope, you can no longer invoke it
            outside the class.

[New] [All] Compiler: You can now overload a class' lookup operator
            with a method named Operator_Lookup. This method's first
            parameter must be a string which will receive the name of
            the member sought. The method may have any return type and
            any combination of other parameters.  This applies whenever
            you use the "foo.bar" syntax to look up a member of an
            object and the compiler can't find anything named "bar":
            before it returns an "undefined identifier" error, the
            compiler will try to call a lookup operator,  passing in
            "bar" as the first parameter. Overloading works for the
            lookup operator just as it does for any other method.

[Fix] [IDE] Constant: Constants are no longer leaked in the IDE when a
            user Deletes a module.

[Fix] [IDE] Constants: Option-dropping a constant dragged from another
            module (or some other source of appropriate text) no longer
            fails if the constant value is negative. (Feedback
            ID: nbvazbet)

[Fix] [IDE] Debugger: Can no longer use command keys that should not be
            enabled while the debugger is open. (Feedback ID: jfqgudfo)

[Fix] [IDE] Debugger: Now hides the floating windows (toolbar, color
            palette and properties window) when using the debugger.
            (Feedback ID: sgwvbrfv)

[New] [IDE] Debugger: Object viewers for window instances now contain a
            list of the window's controls. (Feedback ID: gcsqmixk)

[Fix] [IDE] Debugger: Setting or clearing a breakpoint in the debugger
            now updates the source pane in the editor window. (Feedback
            ID: laiaonbq)

[Fix] [Car] EditField.SelTextFont: now returns a string with the
            correct encoding. (Feedback ID: ywrvkcji,ncqoofte)

[Fix] [IDE] Extras Menu: Selecting a folder in the extras menu will now
            open that folder in the Finder (on Mac OS) or Windows
            Explorer (On Windows).  Items within that folder still
            appear as a submenuitem and still can be launched by
            selecting them.

[Fix] [All] FolderItem: Calls to GetFolderItem where the path does not
            exist now return nil.  You can still have non-existant file
            names.  Note that calls to new FolderItem will still return
            a valid FolderItem pointing to the application's directory
            if the path specified is invalid.

[Fix] [Mac] FolderItem.CopyFileTo: A memory leak in
            FolderItem.CopyFileTo has been fixed. (Feedback ID: owcwqfjj)

[Fix] [All] GroupBox: Setting a GroupBox's caption to "" no longer
            crashes. (Feedback ID: yahtiijc)

[Fix] [All] Line: Now redraws properly when moved in code.  No longer
            leaves artifacts. (Feedback ID: woazhujb)

[Fix] [All] Line: Setting visible property no longer leaves artifacts
            on the screen. (Feedback ID: jcustmsh)

[New] [IDE] Linux: Added Linux/x86 target, refer to the Linux READ ME
            file for a brief summary of what works and what doesn't yet.

[Fix] [IDE] Listbox: IDE Listbox rows should no longer disappear at
            random (Feedback ID: uohvfcxo)

[Opt] [All] Listbox: Redraws are slightly faster in some cases.

[Fix] [OS9] Listbox: Strings shortened to fit into a listbox cell no
            longer sometimes display as only an ellipsis, when the cell
            text is in Unicode or some double-byte encoding.  (This
            problem could also be seen in the online reference in the
            Japanese version of the IDE.)

[Fix] [Win] MDI Window: Quit menu item now auto-enabling for MDI
            applications. (Feedback ID: iqseiwca)

[Fix] [Win] OLEObject: Getting/Setting properties that are dates now
            work

[Fix] [Mac] Online Reference: Text wrapping no longer causes some
            paragraphs to get cut off, especially in the Japanese
            version of REALbasic (a bug introduced in RB 5.2).

[New] [IDE] Open Recent: Selecting the Open Recent Hierarchical Menu
            without selecting a particular submenu will now open the
            folder which contains the recent items.  You can use this
            to lock an item so that it stays in the Open Recent Menu.

[Fix] [IDE] Pictures: Name validity is now checked when changing a
            picture name. (Feedback ID: kmhrlnfw)

[Fix] [IDE] Plugins: can now be loaded from an alias called "Plugins"
            in the same folder as the IDE, instead of a real folder of
            the same name. (Feedback ID: cwsaynbf)

[Fix] [IDE] Project Manager: Fixed a crash which could occur when
            updating or downloading a project that included a new event
            handler, but the event handler itself had not yet been
            checked in.

[Fix] [IDE] Project Manager: Fixed bug which caused some properties of
            plugin controls (like the BevelButton.value) to not be
            ignored when fetching from Project Manager.

[Fix] [IDE] Project Manager: REALbasic no longer allows you to move a
            control with the keyboard without checking out the window
            interface.

[Fix] [IDE] Project Manager: REALbasic no longer crashes during a
            compile in cases where it had previously downloaded an
            update from the project manager server and the project
            contained a window/module/class with an array property.

[Fix] [IDE] Project Manager: REALbasic now stores your last project
            manager settings so that you don't have to re-type them
            when downloading a project, or adding a project.

[Fix] [IDE] Project Manager: The progressbar in the download/update
            project progress dialog now starts at the beginning even
            after the second download in that session of REALbasic

[New] [IDE] Project Manager: You can now manage (fetch, check out,
            check in, revert) a project items interface, by contextual
            menu in the IDE

[Fix] [IDE] Project Manager: 'Constants' and 'New Events' can now be
            retrieved from the project manager server

[Fix] [IDE] Project: REALbasic no longer intermittently crashes when
            saving your project

[Chg] [IDE] Property Editor: Now allowed to enter Dim keyword in the
            property editor.  It will automatically strip the Dim from
            the declaration.  Note that this also works when
            option+dragging a selection of code from the code editor.

[Fix] [All] RbScript: A script can now invoke setter methods declared
            with the Assigns keyword on its context object. (Feedback
            ID: qbcvvgyl)

[New] [All] RbScript: Scripts can now see context object properties or
            methods which accept array parameters or return them as
            results. (Feedback ID: rqhdpnll)

[Dep] [All] REALDatabaseOldFormat: Deprecated.  The old-format database
            functionality is retained only to provide a migration path
            to the new database engine.

[Chg] [All] REALDatabase: The database engine formerly known as
            REALDatabase has now been renamed REALDatabaseOldFormat.
            This affects the class name, as well as the global methods
            now called NewREALDatabaseOldFormat and
            OpenREALDatabaseOldFormat.

[New] [Car] REALDatabase: The new REALDatabase engine is now included
            as a plugin and is Carbon only at this time. See the
            attached Read Me for more information.

[New] [IDE] Remote Debugger: Now able to remote debug.  See the
            attached Read Me for more information.

[Chg] [All] Serial: Baud now can take a user-set baud rate.  If the
            value in Baud is less than 50, then it is assumed to be an
            old magic number (like it always has).  If the value is
            greater than or equal to 50, it is assumed to be a baud
            rate.  After calling Reset, you can now check Baud to see
            what baud rate we obtained.

            Note that this new features are currently only available on
            Windows and OS X.

[New] [All] Serial: New Event:
               Error()  -- Gets fired when there is an error with the
            serial control.

            New Properties:
              LastErrorCode as Integer -- This contains the last known
            error with the serial control.  Note that these values
            currently are not mapped to anything.  They are the OS
            errors.  This will most likely change in a future release.
              DataTerminalReady, RequestToSend as Boolean -- Allows you
            to set and query the state of these lines.
              ClearToSend, DataSetReady, DataCarrierDetect,
            RingIndicator as Boolean -- (read-only) Allows you to query
            the state of these lines.

            New Methods:
              SetBreak(), ClearBreak() -- Sets or clears the break
            signal on the control immediately (no need to call Reset).

            Note that these new features are currently only available
            on Windows and OS X.

[Fix] [All] Serial: XmitWait now functions properly on Windows and OS X
            (already worked on Classic).

            CTS now sets CTS hardware flow control properly on Windows
            and OS X (already worked on Classic)

            DTR now sets DTR hardware flow control properly on Windows
            and OS X (already worked on Classic)

            Write now works asyncronously on Windows (already worked on
            OS X and Classic)

[Chg] [Win] Sound: OpenAsSound: WAV files are now played using
            DirectSound.  This allows individual pan/volume settings
            for each sound.  You can also play multiple sounds
            simulatneously.

[Fix] [IDE] Source Editor: When commenting lines REALbasic will no
            longer ask multiple times (once per selected line) if you
            want to stop the debug process or check out the method.
            Pressing 'Cancel' once in this case is sufficient to stop
            the cascade.

[Fix] [Win] Timer: Reset now functions properly on Windows (Feedback
            ID: pgcjoqgj)

[Fix] [Win] UDPSocket: UDPSocket no longer gives an error of 10042 on
            Windows 98 when trying to initially bind the socket.

[Fix] [IDE] Windows: Pressing ctrl+m while in the code editor no longer
            crashes the IDE (Feedback ID: qnmrrszp)

5.5a1

[Fix] [Win] App Launch: No longer quitting the application if there are
            no windows present and we have not entered the main part of
            the application yet. (Feedback ID: mnupnbbc)

[Fix] [Win] Application.OpenDocument: Item parameter now functionally
            identical to the Mac. (Feedback ID: yrivjzpx)

[New] [All] Arrays: Split(source As String, delimiter As String = " ")
            As String(): this new function splits a source string into
            fields, as defined by the given delimiter.  The resulting
            list of fields is returned as a string array.  If the
            delimiter is an empty string, the source is split into
            characters.  Examples:
            Dim s(-1) as String
            s = Split("foo bar baz")
            // now s(0)="foo", s(1)="bar", and s(2)="baz")
            s = Split("this and that and the other", " and ")
            // now s(0)="this", s(1)="that", s(2)="the other"
            s = Split("abc", "")
            // now s(0)="a", s(1)="b", s(2)="c"
            Split may also be used with extension syntax, e.g.:
            source.Split(delimiter)

[New] [All] Arrays: Join(fields() As String, delimiter As String = " ")
            As String: this new function joins a list of fields
            together into one string, connected with the given
            delimiter.  Examples:
            // suppose s(0)="foo", s(1)="bar", and s(2)="baz")
            j = Join(s)
            // now j = "foo bar baz"
            j = Join(s, "---")
            // now j = "foo---bar---baz"
            j = Join(s, "")
            // now j = "foobarbaz"

[New] [All] Arrays: can now be assigned to array variables.

[Fix] [Win] BevelButton: triggering the action event via accelerator
            key press no longer fires the action event twice.

[Fix] [Win] BevelButton: no longer fires the action event if the mouse
            is not over the button when mouse button is released.

[Opt] [All] BinaryStream: read operations from the binary stream no
            longer require double the read amount size to function.

[Fix] [All] BinaryStream: trying to read more data than the file
            contains will now read in the entire contents of the file.
            (Feedback ID: qgsxcnrm)

[Fix] [Mac] Build Settings: Constants in the build dialog now work
            again on the Mac without the need to save and reload the
            project after using them.

[Fix] [Mac] Canvas: controls embedded in a canvas are now clipped more
            reliably by the canvas bounds.

[Fix] [Mac] Clipboard.SetText: now more cautious about handling text of
            undefined encoding (i.e., we no longer assume it's UTF-16
            and store it on the clipboard as 'utxt' data). (Feedback
            ID: wbvfnoiv)

[Fix] [IDE] Code Browser: changes to case (only) of properties or
            methods are now reflected immediately in the code browser
            list. (Feedback ID: bbiijuqk)

[New] [IDE] Code Editor: You can now press option-Return or
            option-Enter in the code editor, to insert a line
            continuation character ("_") followed by a line break.

[Fix] [IDE] Code Editor: Splitter controls in the code editor and
            debugger no longer fail to redraw themselves on window
            activation.

[Fix] [IDE] Code Editor: Clearing all break points now refresh the code
            editor properly. (Feedback ID: vumegijx)

[Opt] [All] Compiler: method calls are a bit faster and slightly
            smaller whenever the method being called has never been
            overridden (which is most of the time).

[New] [All] Compiler: Functions can now return arrays. To indicate that
            a function's return type is an array, add a pair of
            parentheses after the element type. For example, you would
            return an array of integers by entering "Integer()" in the
            Return Type field.

[New] [All] Compiler: now allows constant expressions (e.g.
            "TargetCarbon or TargetWindows", or "RBVersion > 5.0") on
            #if statement expressions. Also, when constant expressions
            are used in regular code, their result is evaluated at
            compile time rather than at run time, making for more
            efficient code. The only exception to this is string
            concatenation, which is always done at run time. (Feedback
            ID: phbmlzad)

[Opt] [All] Compiler: Generated applications are a bit smaller,
            especially for projects that use many controls.

[Chg] [All] Compiler: The ByRef option, which used to be ignored for
            arrays, now has the same meaning as for other data types.
            If you assign a value to an array parameter passed in
            ByRef, you replace the array in the caller's variable.

[Fix] [All] Compiler: now reports an error instead of failing an
            assertion at codegenerator.cpp:464. (Feedback
            ID: hsnhzyiq)

[Fix] [All] Compiler: no longer fails an assertion at
            TypeConversions.cpp:306 when you accidentally try to
            compare or perform arithmetic on an array. (Feedback
            ID: iwccjbyg)

[New] [All] Compiler: New Private scope lets you create non-inheritable
            methods and properties. (Feedback ID: htuclfot)

[Opt] [PPC] Compiler: Function parameter passing is a bit faster.

[Fix] [IDE] Compiler Errors: Enlarged the error message field for
            methods and properties. (Feedback ID: kiddbzqr)

[Opt] [OSX] Composite Windows: Controls underneath opaque controls
            (e.g. Listboxes and Editfields) are no longer drawn on
            composite windows. This may result in a performance
            increase if you are doing things like hiding visible
            controls behind listboxes.

[Fix] [OSX] Composite Windows: The focus ring on Listboxes and
            EditFields is no longer drawn incorrectly when the control
            gets or looses the focus on a composite window.

[Fix] [OSX] Composite Windows: Tabs of TabPanels on composite windows
            are no longer clipped to the tabpanel's previous bounds.
            (Feedback ID: ulsrusey)

[New] [All] Constants: You can now create constants inside a class or
            window. (Feedback ID: qbyxrukl)

[Fix] [Win] Contextual Menus: can now be selected with the right mouse
            button as well as the left (just like the Windows Explorer,
            and other applications will allow). (Feedback ID:
            ihpcpaza)

[New] [IDE] Debugger: string viewer window displays the string's
            encoding. (Feedback ID: evnksmjg)

[New] [IDE] Debugger: lets you edit the values of array elements.

[Chg] [IDE] Debugger: string viewer window preserves the string's
            encoding even if you make changes to the value.

[Fix] [IDE] Debugger: no longer causes the running app to fail
            assertions in runFolderItem.cpp when you view the contents
            of a folderitem subclass from within its constructor.
            (Feedback ID: yubjulwy)

[Fix] [IDE] Debugger: no longer causes a running project to crash when
            you open a control's object viewer from its constructor.
            (Feedback ID: jkcifprs)

[New] [IDE] Debugger: lets you click on a variable to edit its value.
            This also works for object properties that do not use
            custom setters. (Feedback ID: xwqwwwgx, mcuirftz, sdtvxmog,
            ftyhljho, ootyygdg)

[Imp] [Mac] Debugger: Now can view arrays with more than 32k
            elements.

[Fix] [OS9] Debugger: Projects no longer break into MacsBug reporting
            "RelocEntry couldn't resolve:" when you view certain
            objects using the debugger.

[Fix] [IDE] Debugger: properties of intrinsic or plug-in classes which
            use standard getters now show their correct values.
            (Feedback ID: bbcaxixp)

[Fix] [OSX] Editfield: Replacing a field's text with a Unicode
            byte-order mark no longer freezes the application (or IDE).
            (Feedback ID: huaaocua)

[Fix] [OSX] EditField: vertical scrollbar no longer overlaps the shadow
            above the field.

[Fix] [Car] EditField: crash which occurred when a single paragraph
            contained more than 10k or so of text has been fixed.

[Fix] [OS9] EditField.SelText: now returns text in UTF-8 encoding,
            instead of undefined WorldScript encoding.

[Fix] [All] EndOfLine: no longer leaks 23 bytes when used in an
            expression (eg: "this" + EndOfLine). (Feedback ID:
            csmruede)

[Fix] [Mac] FolderItemDialog: Fixed a memory leak.

[New] [Mac] FolderItem.OpenAsSound: now works with any sound format
            known to QuickTime. (Feedback ID: qnqxvpwq, ypsnmulz,
            zofilksw)

[Fix] [All] InStr: fixed a bug that would produce the wrong answer when
            the start parameter is exactly one more than the length of
            the string, the string is in UTF-8, and the character
            you're looking for appears as the last character of the
            string. (Feedback ID: tzpapmrf)

[Fix] [All] InStr: InStr and InStrB work as string methods. The first
            parameter, which is optional, specifies the start position;
            the second is the string to search for. (Feedback
            ID: hnnwoqid)

[Fix] [Win] KeyChain: You should now be able to compile Macintosh
            applications using the Keychain from the Windows IDE.

[Fix] [Mac] KeyChainItem: Fixed a memory leak.

[New] [All] Language: added new Try/End Try block to the language. Any
            exceptions which occur inside the Try block can be caught
            by Catch statements at the end of the block. Catch
            statements use the same syntax as the existing Exception
            statement. A Try block may also end with a Finally
            statement, followed by code which will execute whether an
            exception occurs or the code completes normally. Try blocks
            may be nested; if the Try block does not handle the
            exception, or re-raises it, it will be handled by the next
            outermost Try block, or by the method itself if there are
            no containing Try blocks. (Feedback ID: vuzmwbzn)

[Fix] [IDE] Language Reference: Can now search for items beginning with
            a '#' in the Language Reference. (Feedback ID: jbuxssag)

[New] [IDE] Line Continuation: you can now break a long line into
            multiple lines in the source code editor, by ending each
            line with an underscore character ("_"), optionally
            followed by a comment. For example: result = SomeFunction(
            oneParam, "another param", thirdParam, _ paramNumber4,
            "what a long function call") (Feedback ID: bbonhwof)

[Fix] [All] Listbox: You can now delete rows in the expandRow event of
            a listbox without fear of failed assertions. This isn't
            recommended however, and the listbox behavior in these
            situations will remain undefined. (Feedback
            ID: zglowbji)

[Opt] [All] Listbox: Now is much faster at scrolling and otherwise
            redrawing itself. This results in a 2x and greater speed
            improvement for Vertical and Horizontal Scrolling 1 row at
            a time, scrolling multiple rows has reduced speedup
            benefit. You can also see improvements for many other
            actions that cause a listbox to redraw including: changing
            the text of a cell, deactivating the window, or resizing a
            column. (Feedback ID: kvtstcaf)

[Imp] [OS9] Listbox: Listbox Headers don't draw outside the bounds of
            the listbox as they did in late 5.2.

[Fix] [All] Listbox: EditFields are now constrained to the content area
            of the listbox. This fixes a clipping issue introduced in
            5.2, but also makes them lots easier to use if they stradle
            the edge of the listbox, and generally looks much
            better.

[Fix] [All] Listbox: No longer crashes if you set the scrollPosition to
            a negative number and you didn't have a vertical
            scrollbar.

[Imp] [Mac] Listbox: For Mac OS 8.5 and above the listbox now
            officially supports more than 32k rows. The new limit for
            the amount listbox rows is approximately 2 billion rows
            (2,147,483,648 rows to be precise). {Rollback} The actual
            number of rows supported however will most likely be
            smaller due to memory constraints.

[Nte] [All] Listbox: InvalidateCell: A new method that allows the user
            to inform the listbox to recompute one its cells and redraw
            it from scratch (instead of using a buffered version).
            CellBackgroundPaint and CellTextPaint will fire as well.
            You can invalidate a whole row (InvalidateCell( row, -1 )),
            a whole column (InvalidateCell( -1, column )) or all the
            listbox contents (InvalidateCell( -1, -1 )). This function
            should only be necessary if you are using a custom storage
            mechanism for your listbox data, if on the other hand the
            text of your listbox is stored in the listbox cells the
            listbox will automatically update as needed. NOTE: This
            function doesn't have a terribly high overhead if used
            unnecessarily since If the cell given isn't visible at the
            time you call this function nothing will happen.

[Nte] [All] Listbox: The listbox is still rough around the edges
            because of the optimization changes we've made. Please let
            us know of any problems you run into using the feedback
            system.

[New] [All] MemoryBlock: MemoryBlock class has four new methods:
            Function LeftB (length As Integer) As MemoryBlock
            Function MidB (offset As Integer) As MemoryBlock
            Function MidB (offset As Integer, length As Integer) As
            MemoryBlock
            Function RightB (length As Integer) As MemoryBlock
            These work like the similarly-named string functions, but
            they return a new memoryblock with the specified size using
            the same endianness as the source memoryblock.

[New] [All] MemoryBlock: now has conversion operators to and from
            strings. A MemoryBlock can be used as a string (with
            unknown encoding), and a string can be assigned to a
            MemoryBlock, resulting in a same-length MemoryBlock
            containing a copy of its bytes.

[New] [All] MemoryBlock: new addition operator and comparison operator
            let you treat a MemoryBlock as a binary string. (Feedback
            ID: gffjwvip, tsboealt, snduznah)

[Fix] [Win] Menu: Removing dynamic menu items no longer leaks an object
            handle and crashes. (Feedback ID: exawciro)

[Fix] [IDE] Menu Editor: now produces the same output for command keys
            as the runtime. (Feedback ID: gjfeosil)

[Fix] [Win] MenuItem: Dynamic submenus can now be disabled. (Feedback
            ID: jsfxwyjo)

[Fix] [OS9] Menus: Clicking an Apple menu item in a Carbon app running
            on Mac OS 9 works again. (Feedback ID: kpgpolmy)

[New] [All] MessageDialog: New class for building highly configurable
            message dialogs. You show the dialog using ShowModal(). The
            dialog has the following properties: Message as string,
            Explanation as string, Icon as integer (-1 = no icon, 0 =
            note icon, 1 = warning, 2 = stop, 3 = question (win32 only,
            same as note on Mac), Title (Win32 only), ActionButton,
            CancelButton, and AlternateActionButton. The 3 buttons have
            4 properties each Caption, Visible, Default, and Cancel. To
            use a letter as a shortcut for a button use '&' before. For
            complete details see the READ ME.

[New] [All] MsgBox: Now more compatible with VB (but don't use this
            unless porting, prefer the new MessageDialog class
            instead). A new version of msgBox function exists which
            returns a value of which button was pressed and allows you
            to configure a certain look for the message box (Ok, or
            Ok/Cancel or Abort Retry Ignore etc.) See the MessageDialog
            READ ME for complete details. NOTE: calling msgBox without
            a return value still works.

[New] [IDE] Online Reference: You can now include more than one search
            term. REALbasic will return an intersection of the results.
            This is great if you want to narrow your search
            results.

[Fix] [OS9] PopupMenu: Inserting a blank item into a popup menu no
            longer causes that item and all the ones that follow it to
            be named "temp". (Feedback ID: siaehovy)

[Fix] [Win] Printing: No longer shifting printed area down by the width
            and height of the non-printable area.

[Imp] [Mac] ProgressBars: The value of a ProgressBar is no longer
            limited to 32,767 it now supports values up to the largest
            integer.

[Fix] [IDE] Property Editor: When entering a new property in a class,
            no long shows an 'Integer' icon for the property in the
            code editor if "Integert" was entered. (Feedback
            ID: vtyltrab)

[Fix] [All] RbScript: String functions work as methods now, just as in
            RB itself.

[Fix] [All] RbScript: supports the Sign function. (Feedback
            ID: scfzydqm)

[Fix] [IDE] Resource Files: no longer crash the IDE if they couldn't
            initially be found, and you then use the Relocate
            contextual menu command.

[New] [All] RGBSurface: RGBSurface.FloodFill(x as Integer, y as
            Integer, fillColor as Color): this new method does a "flood
            fill" (sometimes known as a paint bucket) on an RGBSurface.
            The pixel at x,y and all connected pixels of the same color
            are changed to the given fillColor.

[New] [All] RGBSurface.Transform: this new method is used to apply a
            one-to-one pixel transformation to all pixels of an
            RGBSurface. You specify the transformation via either three
            look-up tables (to apply to the red, green, and blue
            channels), or one look-up table (to apply to all three
            channels). The syntax is: RGBSurface.Transform( map() as
            Integer ), or RGBSurface.Transform( redMap() as Integer,
            greenMap() as Integer, blueMap() as Integer ) Each map
            parameter is an array of integers with a UBound of 255. The
            transform works as follows: for each pixel, the pixel value
            (0-255) is used as an index into the map array, and the
            value found there becomes the new value of the pixel. So,
            for example, if you set up a map such that map(i) = 255-i,
            then surf.Transform(map) will invert the image.

[Imp] [Mac] Scrollbar: For Mac OS 8.5 and above the scrollbar now has a
            much larger range. The new range includes approximately 4
            billion steps (-2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647 to be
            precise). The actual number of rows supported however will
            most likely be smaller due to memory constraints.

[New] [All] SocketCore: After calling .Connect (or .Listen in the case
            of a TCPSocket), the Port property will report back the
            actual port you are bound to. (Feedback ID: iibiteig)

[New] [All] SocketCore: Setting .Port to 0 will allow the underlying
            network layer to determine a random port for you when you
            call .Connect (or .Listen in the case of a TCPSocket).
            (Feedback ID: wmnvnawe)

[New] [All] SocketCore: Added the SocketCore.NetworkInterface property
            which accepts a NetworkInterface object from the System
            class. If this property is set to something other than nil,
            the socket will bind to the specified interface (otherwise
            it will bind to any interface). This is also known as
            multihoming support. Note that this feature is only
            available on Mac OS X and Windows (not Mac Classic, or
            Carbon on Classic).

[Chg] [All] SocketCore, ServerSocket: Do not automatically close down
            when dragged onto a window until _after_ the window's close
            event has been called. This allows you to use the socket in
            the Close event of the window.

[New] [All] System: System.NetworkInterfaceCount will return the number
            of network device cards are attached to the system.
            (Feedback ID: ymbxqxch)

[New] [All] System: System.GetNetworkInterface will return a
            NetworkInterface object. This object can be used to query
            the following information from the interface specified:
            MACAddress, IPAddress and SubnetMask. (Feedback
            ID: ifvxhxvl, rgxqaupo)

[Nte] [All] TCPSocket: rewrote the TCPSocket class to use BSD sockets
            on OS X and Windows.

[New] [All] TextInputStream: now has a PositionB property representing
            the file pointer.

[Kis] [All] Threads: Some plugins don't actually use REALYieldToRB()
            and must be updated in order to yield time to other
            threads.

[Kis] [W98] Threads: The new custom thread implementation is not yet
            compatible with Windows 98.

[Chg] [All] Threads: Thread class once again uses the custom threading
            implementation introduced in 5.2b2 (and removed in the
            final candidate versions). This should fix many
            thread-related problems in Windows builds.

[Fix] [Mac] UDPSocket: Fixed a 20 byte leak when writing packets out.
            (Feedback ID: avczuydw)

[Nte] [All] UDPSocket: rewrote the UDPSocket class to use BSD sockets
            on OS X and Windows.

[Chg] [Opt] UserCancelled: the internal checks that support this
            function are now done only once per second, instead of up
            to 60 times per second as was done before. This improves
            the speed of some RB apps, since those checks turn out to
            be quite expersive on some systems.

[Fix] [All] Variants: A type mismatch exception no longer occurs when
            performing variant operations involving a boolean and a
            string. Broken in 5.0. (Feedback ID: iiwtytkk)

[Fix] [Win] Windows IDE: Ctrl+Home/End now bring you to the top/bottom
            of the source code editor page. (Feedback ID: sxtteyup)

[Fix] [All] Window.KeyDown, Canvas.KeyDown: now get a string with known
            encoding, and also support Unicode input. (This already
            worked correctly for EditField.KeyDown.) (Feedback ID:
            csycotop)