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The new (VW 7.2.1 and OST 6.9.1) Non-Commercial downloads are now available for download. If you have already registered, there's no need to do so again; just follow the link that was sent to you in email, and you'll be offered the up to date downloads. What's new in this release? - the current release is primarily a maintenance release. There will be a major release this fall.

VW 7.2.1 Fixes from 7.2

• Advanced Tools
• 46996 MetaNumerics classes #printOn: should send #asString to UserMessages
• Base Image
• 46729 UHE because of nil argument in BlockClosure>>uiEventNowFor:
• 46852 Memory Shrinking issue
• 46900 InflateStream is missing a couple of methods.
• 46933 menu pragma causes a compiler warning
• 46940 Move convenience methods such as trimBlanks from String to CharacterArray
• 46978 Issues with the Home Directory settings dialog.
• 46995 GenericException>>mustBeHandled raises ControlInterrupt prior to returning false
• 47079 MNU: #removeComponent: while starting the image saved with Parcels
• 47105 Change Set adds only one matching class/instance selector to an existing parcel
• 47131 Changes>>override list for a Parcel: DNU sending #name to a String
• 47156 change sets hang on to parcel instances.
• 47206 Update TimeZone comments for use of TimeZone null
• 47242 Browse versions walkback when parcel has no source file
• 47256 DebuggerService>>#scheduleMessage: should coerce potential user messages
• 47302 SmallInteger>>asDouble omits the primitive...
• 47313 In Debugger, textHasChanged value does not update properly
• 47338 Refactor #addEntiretyOfClass: to re-use existing methods
• 47541 Wrong documentation for sizesAtStartUp:
• DLLCC
• 47441 New DotNETConnect version for integration
• EXDI
• 46824 DB exceptions hierarchy tweaking for backward compatibility.
• 47107 ConnectionDialog expects an exception to be a class, not an instance
• 47120 Unix EXDI Bug
• Goodies
• 46859 New Version of GHStoreEnhance (with reknown functionality) available
• 46861 Wiki which can co-exist with Web Toolkit made available
• 46997 Update ObjectExplorer overrides for 7.2
• 47168 update RBCodeHighlighting goodie to 1.18
• 47429 New version of GHSpeedUpUserMessages made available
• 47430 New version of GHSpeedUpXMLParser made available
• 47433 New Version of GHTools made available
• 47507 STAMP: MNU #addressString on letter view/creation
• GUI
• 43875 B:Dialog damage holes
• 46355 flyByHelp inactive in new user-placed window
• 46367 FlyByHelp does not work on disabled views
• 46419 Enh: making >>defaultPrintConverter more consistent
• 46552 One click to a cell activates entry callbacks upon Dataset cell navigation
• 46623 non standard menu behavior on windows
• 46677 Windows unresponsive to keyboard or mouse if dialog host is closed
• 46810 Menu bar keyboard navigation interference by mouse cursor on Windows
• 46811 menu selection bug on long menus
• 46829 Group box border becomes blue when disabled in the Windows XP Look
• 46835 Exception on image startup - Message not understood: #sensor
• 46847 E:Possibly allow pattern paints with Motif L&F
• 46851 Can't select Dataset column in Mac UIPainter canvas
• 46885 UIPainter - Editing widgets in a group box rearranges tab order
• 46911 Menu bar open by hot key in Windows look should select first menu item (like VW 3.0)
• 46966 Fly-by help doesn't always reappear on some unix platforms.
• 46972 Probable race condition with multi-proc UI
• 46973 UHE when copying widget
• 46985 UHE: Mnu: #newExceptionFrom: when indexing unknown paint for a palette
• 46987 Icon of active window is not transparent where it should be
• 46989 In Windows L&F, pop-up menus opened near the right or bottom edge of the screen open in the wrong place
• 47006 Dialog TreeViews ignore text emphasis settings
• 47014 Selecting window from VisualLauncher->Window menu should always raise the window
• 47020 B:Startup image with DoubleBuffering does not open all windows
• 47026 B:DNU NullWindowManger processOutstandingEvents
• 47028 B:Bad setting of DevicePaint in MacOSXWidgetPolicy
• 47029 EnterEvent gets lost when exiting menu
• 47039 UI actions performed prematurely while attempting to update display
• 47043 Windows LookPolicy submenus open or close uncharacteristically with mouse action
• 47091 GeneralSelectionTableView methods should anticipate selectionStyle outside of #element, #row, or #column
• 47158 B:ResizingSplitterController>>exitEvent: calls enterEvent:
• 47163 Transcript>>show: garbles input from multiple processes at like priority
• 47165 Progress bar should use a system color
• 47182 Too many window updates after opening
• 47197 Introduce a bug into e.g. browsing queries and one looses the launcher...
• 47218 WindowManager class>>purgeDeadWindows modifies its registry while iterating over it
• 47223 OS X look facelift
• 47224 Use platform-faithful combo box buttons for Mac OS X
• 47230 TreeModel>>refreshRoot fails to update expansion icons for unexpanded nodes
• 47233 Pop-up Menu selector dispatching invokes editor callbacks whereas Blocks don't
• 47250 [OSX] Use Panther-like menu item separators
• 47252 B:JPEG Image Reader doesn't do Images correctly
• 47254 Use of pluggable adaptors along with aspect adaptors raises MNU #subject
• 47274 Event name typo in SelectionView<
• 47280 Implement MultiSelectionInTree>>selectionDo: for multiple selections
• 47282 [mar04.3]PNGImageReader and ArborGIFImageReader incorrectly access their argument
• 47283 Label mnemonics fail to move focus to a subcanvas
• 47290 Becomes Cursor normal during Cursor>>showWhile: if cursor enters another widget
• 47292 Combo Box behavior in Windows XP is not correct
• 47310 Pollock Preview for 7.2.1
• 47321 ApplicationModel>>wrapperAt: does not protect, when the builder isNil.
• 47332 closed launcher still hanging around
• 47367 Mouse wheel doesn't suspend fly-by-help
• 47385 MNU: #<< entering catalog symbol to label in GUIPainter
• 47394 MNU: #specClass to SelectionDragModeTracker during UIPainter drag
• 47427 Marking a Subcanvas "Initially Invisible/Initially Disable" doesn't work
• 47448 Remove unused instance variable from WindowManager
• 47457 Opening interface for UISpecification classes throws exception MNU: #openWithSpec:
• 47463 E: Add wait for keypress, mouse press to WindowManager
• 47488 Inconsistent use of 'converterClass'
• 47491 Dataset cell entry accepted w/o callbacks or focus change upon menu bar selection
• 47530 Mac OSX Dataset row selector buttons display with MNU:#container
• 47531 Add to toggle multiselection lists, trees, and datasets
• 47540 Alignment in InputFields and Home/End-keys (Pos1/Ende Tasten) position bad the input cursor in aligned input fields
• I18n
• 46857 Unicode support on Windows broken since oct03.4
• 47200 Release does not contain newest version of Unicode for Windows parcels
• Installation
• 47377 installer and packaging changes
• 47473 Fix installMac for limbo NC
• Lens
• 46527 [Glorp] Faster replication
• Net Clients
• 46160 Change target FTP server for FTPTests
• 46815 Add flush for Net clients write socket streams
• 46905 FtpURL does not properly decode password
• 46909 UHE on Net.URI encode: 'hi%'
• 46945 FtpURL broken, #directoryContents and #construct:
• 47053 FTP URLs with characters encoded to %hex equivalents do not work
• 47333 HttpClient doesn't update the port number when url is moved
• 47471 Integrate some 7.3 AR's to 7.2.1
• ODBC Connect
• 45059 ODBCEXDI doesn't allow multiple result sets
• 47345 ODBC EXDI does not support PLSQL binding
• Oracle Connect
• 46579 Raising exception for stored procedure created successfully, but with compilation errors
• 46762 OracleError missing parseErrorOffset.
• 46871 Problem when binding arrays have different size in array binding.
• 47141 Oracle External Authentication does not work in VW.
• 47232 Speed up for Oracle 8 EXDI
• 47271 Crash because of allocation failure in OracleEXDI
• 47273 In OracleEXDI 'nullable' returns an integer, in ODBC it returns a BOOL
• 47378 [vw7.2] DNU in oracle exception handler
• Releasing
• 46862 Need more accurate error messages from the install script.
• 47428 visualworks.ini is outdated
• 47515 fix DotNETConnect file names
• 47542 fix build script for StreamWritingExtensions and remove parcelName property from PackingListTool
• Runtime Packager
• 46849 Emergency notifier doesn't open properly when dialog is in focus
• 47413 RuntimePackager should keep AbstractSystemEventInterest
• Security
• 47235 [Hashes] hashes itermittently generate wrong digests
• StORE
• 46178 Walkback when comparing system version of PundleLoadedChange which isn't in current database
• 46287 compute leafItems just once in PackageDifferences>>loadFromDBWithin:
• 46803 Remove Browse packages and Browse Classes View launcher picks form Store
• 46832 #updates:fromParcel:relink: should send properties instead of pundle to #relink:
• 47072 File out of bundle from browser does not capture bundle structure.
• 47152 BundleModel>>#structure: should use #expandMacrosWith:with: instead #expandMacros
• Tools
• 46895 UHE in RBSUnitExtensions when a test and non-test classes are selected
• 46896 UHE in class finder when clicking down arrow
• 46899 Tune #optimizedSelectors in RBParser
• 46936 No autocompletion in class creation/find dialogs
• 46946 No Class>New menu in a browser spawned on a package
• 46948 [RB] Misspelled method name ParseTreeSearcher>>recusivelySearchInContext
• 47022 [VW 7.2] Exception when selecting a shared var containg a window
• 47051 FormatterConfigurationTool should automatically enable applying the changes to all browsers
• 47085 Add page access method to SettingsManager
• 47145 Explainer doesn't always explain selector in browser
• 47146 Remove max size limit from the launcher
• 47147 Change window max size default
• 47159 Ctrl+E to call the explainer in Trippy conflicts with eval pane
• 47161 Make #markedAsSystemClass clearing a user setting
• 47174 [FB] FileBrowser loses text changes on directory selection
• 47183 Minimize RefactoringBrowser window updates on opening
• 47196 Cannot browse implementors of * because its interpreted only as a pettern
• 47202 typo in FormatterConfigurationTool>>#postOpenWith: dialog messages
• 47204 BrowserNavigator>>#pundleMenu has two items with missing catalogs
• 47212 Walkback while dropping methods into class without any protocols
• 47213 Auto-flush in Transcript
• 47239 RE: [VW7.2] [BUG] #abortDebuggingFor:
• 47249 [MiniChanges] Allow change set creation from change set list
• 47269 copyStack in PDP broken by I18N
• 47272 Package search auto-completes too much
• 47365 PDPMsgRcvdInstrumenter>>initializeBreakpointLeadString needs to send #asString
• 47387 PDP's CompiledMethod>>printNameOn:inClass: needs asString when printing unbound methods
• 47404 PDPInstrumenter>>initializeIvar needs to send #asString
• 47539 PC not set correctly when removing multiple CodeProbes at the end of a method
• Wave Developer
• 47036 Regression:Wave subcanvases not built if client is nil
• 47334 WaveUIPainterTools doesn't unload cleanly
• 47383 VisualWave looks up some menu items by label, not key
• Wave Server
• 46864 clarify server names in UI
• 46878 walkback in #receiveEntityOver:
• 46942 port: not understood from server console
• 47066 #shouldUseWebToolkitResolving is called, but not implemented in VisualWave
• 47076 CGI gateway Crashes under win 2003 and XP
• 47347 Server Memory policy does not properly use defaults
• 47402 Improve web server extreme low-memory handling.
• 47486 Tighten up exception handling in ISAPI DLL
• Web Services
• 47185 xsi:nil="true" should return a nil ( undeclared object) instance
• 47326 Building header marshaler from an element with complex contents
• 47379 Release notes 7.2.1: WS added support for nil attribute
• 47381 Changed default for XMLObjectMarshalingManager useInlineType caused a fault response
• 47396 Soap Header was not created for doc/lit style
• 47412 AR for case 362190, UTF-16LE encoding and more
• 47456 AR for case 362190 Error resetting superclass
• 47480 XMLTypesParser doesn't process attribute with restriction
• 47509 The inline type was not set for simple types
• WebToolKit
• 45638 smarter caching of missing servlet
• 45850 Make Session>>at:ifPresent: support zero or 1 arguments
• 45978 ifAbsent: forms for any*Value... methods in Request
• 46060 wave developer/server/web toolkit partitioning errors
• 46435 error handler in tag processing can mask user-level dNU:'s
• 46439 Mutual exclusion on session and application
• 46440 consistent accessing protocol for sesions and requests
• 46442 PageModel>>application should be eagerly initialized
• 46491 comments for new settings classes in wave/wtk
• 46515 validate to avoid recursive logical names
• 46765 Semantics changes for attributeAt:, beanNamed:ifPresent:
• 46833 Move SimpleFileUploadServlet into the base wtk
• 46886 Server console session display doesn't work for wtk requests
• 46988 [WTK] Body tag body evaluation issues
• 46990 [VWAS] Server Console seems broken on MacOS
• 47095 don't set cache control headers for static content
• 47100 Internationalize tutorial URLs
• 47198 Request>>attributes doesn't include parent attributes
• 47287 WTK adds #encoding method to internal streams, breaks XML
• 47319 add convenience protocol to servlets for accessing application, webSite
• 47331 Fix Response expiry header semantics
• 47368 Remove "Built with Cincom Smalltalk" trailer

Those are the VW fixes. I'll post a list of the OST changes shortly