1.10+ Release Notes Overview

Hub-UI & Operations

Overall

• New Surfer distribution
  The Hub now distributes new surfers in a round-robin fashion among the least busy exe's. When used with query cloning and WebApp.CgiUseAppHandle this change prevent surfers from 'piling up' in the fist instance and will increase throughput and lower the chance of getting timeouts.
  
• UI Standards; Large Fonts; Icons
  All forms in the system were made to look consistent and are now compatible with large fonts. In addition, the word buttons were replaced with 16 color glyphs (better glyphs welcomed here!) which load consistently from resource files
  
• Graphics
  All glyphs and component icons were fitted into window's standard 16 colors and the sizes of the resource files have come down significantly. Btw/Fwiw: delphi will save any 16 color bmp as 256 color in the dfm after you re-open the form. consider loading all your graphics from resource files as well.
  
• Improved WebHub UI elements
  All base forms have been revised with an eye toward following microsoft's examples for leaving more room between and around controls resulting in a much more pleasing look to the eye.
  

Please Note

• Please clean up HREF.INI
  Many of the Hub's checkboxes were renamed for consistency. Please take this as an opportunity to remove all but the [HREF] and [WEBHUB] sections from HREF.INI, then run the Hub and adjust the options on the Options|Startup and Sessions panels. The restorer will now use tPack.ini so that we can pretty much be sure that HREF.INI can move into the registry with the next release.
  

MainForm

• In order to leave room around the mainform's TPageControl we needed to re-parent it. This will cause problems opening your main form should you have derived forms from our templates. These problems are easily fixed and should be no cause for alarm:
  
  Symptom: List Index out of range
  Solution: Open the .dfm of your derived (or copied) main-form and look for "inherited Pagecontrol: TPageControl". Delete that line, and the next line(s) up to and including the matching "end". Press Alt-F12 and you should see your form again.
  

  If you still get the error, you need to add these two customizations for the menus. If you open ht\htfrm\appmain.dfm you will see them and where they go. Paste them in after WebInfo and before the INI file link.

    inherited TrayIcon: TtpTrayIcon
      OnClick = TrayIconClick
      OnMouseDown = TrayIconMouseDown
    end
    inherited SystemPopUp: TtpSystemPopup
      object sysmiSuspend: TMenuItem
        Caption = '&Suspend'
        GroupIndex = 1
        ShortCut = 0
        OnClick = sysmiSuspendClick
      end
    end
  

Panels

• Options Panel:
  Enable Hub and HubApp
  We've given you more choices over the basic operation of the hub and hubapp enabling you to hide them from the runners even though you are running hub.exe. Because of that, we've changed from ToolButtons on the Traffic panel and moved to CheckBoxes on a revised Options|Startup panel. For proper Hub Operations you'll want all the checkboxes in the leftmost column turned on.  
• Connected Panel:
  WebApps: Stopping,Minimize/Restore
  Fixed the WebCommandline component to no longer hang when an app is getting shut-down. In addition, fixed the restore/minimize code to work correctly for non tray applications, e.g. apps built with just the basic components now no longer refuse to minimize after they have been 'brought to front.' Re-activated the Start/Stop WebApps/HubLog checkboxes, meaning that you should no longer need to resort to batch files when starting your webhub environment.
  
• Sessions Panel:
  The Sessions panel now uses the TtpFileChange component to offer display of live session data, on-the fly updating and has a new layout which should make it easier to work with.
  
• All Grid/Property-Editor Panels:
  Eliminated the buttons and switched to a right-click popup menu to let you add/delete/reorder items. Added sort functionality as well.
  
• Pop-Out Panels
  The Hub's Input, Output, Mail and MOTD panels can now 'pop-out' and be viewed even while the hub's minimized. To use simply click in the boundary area when the cursor changes to the drag-cursor.
  

Template Forms

• TfmAppCustomPanel
  We simplified this panel removing the 'helpful', ahem, descriptive labels and the extra toolbar from the form, then adding a TtpDatamodule component and TWebIniLink component to the form. If you've made copies of this form for your own use, then fine, if you derived from it unmodified (which seems very unlikely) then please keep a copy of the original before installing.
  
• TfmAppPanel
  Added simple panel (THIS IS THE ONE TO USE/COPY/INHERIT FROM) with save/restore capability that's ideal to use in your projects.
  
• TfmWebAppMainDB
  Added a copy of TfmWebAppMainForm that contains a ThtDBwebApp component instead of a ThtWebApp component. This should make it a little simpler to begin apps containing database functionality and requiring the Field macro.

Naming conventions

• Api... Shared units for DLL based runners.
• CGi... CGi variable reconciliation code
• Htm... HTML output and utility code
• Ht... HREF utility code and utility classes
• Ipc... Interprocess communications code
• Isa... Isapi units
• Nsa... Nsapi units
• Run... Runner base classes and constants
• Reg... Registration scripts (also used in packages)
• Wdb... Webhub database components
• Web... WebHub components
• wh... WebHub forms and shared panels
• Wpa... WebHub Application property editors
• Wpe... WebHub property editors (list based)
• Wpc... WebHub property editors (collection based)

• hub... WebHub units
• mg... Message Grids
• Wmg... WebHub message grids