RBC Release Notes: order by version desc

This content on this page was updated 17-May-2010 Calif time

All notes on this page apply to Rubicon Pro for Delphi, published by HREF Tools Corp.

3.064

The namespace for the ucCharSet unit has been simplified to omit the year-month and only include the company- and product- name, e.g. HREFTools.Rubicon.ucCharSet.

The unit, rbTrial.pas, which is not needed by registered customers, no longer ships to registered customers.

Delphi 7 to Delphi 2007 support confirmed ok.

• Only users of the evaluation and lite edition must build Rubicon projects with packages.
• Add Rubicon\Source\D07 to your project search path if you are compiling without a Unicode version of Delphi, i.e. D07 to D12.

3.063

Minor fix to rbdemos\ttable\ExParseU.pas and source\rbUtils.pas, relating to the usage of ExtractWordEx given the new charset techniques from v3.062.

3.062

Minor fix to TtpCharSet.SetTpCharSet in ucCharSet.pas. The symptom was that searching for short words, such as 'as', yielded 0 results even when the short word was in the Words table.

3.061

CharInSet calls have been replaced with calls to new class in new unit, ucCharSet, in order to support WideChar delimiters.

Indexing speed in Unicode Delphi has been increased significantly.

In order to keep support for Delphi 7 and Delphi 2007 a while longer, we are shipping Source\D07\Character.pas which enables those compilers to succeed. (Character.pas was introduced with the Unicode edition of Delphi.) Character.pas will be updated when required. The major problem is that the symbol tables in Delphi 2009-2011 are stored in application resources, but in Delphi 7 these resources are not present. Rubicon core works with Char data and in Delphi 7 those must be AnsiChar. All comparison functions will work with AnsiChar only, but not with WideChar symbols. Bottom line: if you need support for Unicode symbols, please do not try to get it from Delphi 7 or 2007; upgrade your copy of Delphi.

Bug fix: composite and UniCode symbols were not accounted for by SysUtils.UpperCase; Rubicon now calls ToUpper in Character.pas and that works.

3.060

Rubicon - Phrase search leading to lock-up in D2009: fixed in rbLogic.pas, function TCompiler.ProcessPhrase. Also fixed bug with Uppercase.

3.059

You can control the field order now; it corresponds to rbMatchMaker.FieldNames.

3.058

Upon TableName change, rbTextDOALink reconnects to the table (Oracle bridge). Also, on TableName or DataSet change the Reset method is called automatically (all bridges).

DataSet.Active is set to False is set in Reset method.

The following (simpler) code now works:

  rbCache1.Reset;
  rbSearch1.Reset;
  rbMatchMaker1.Reset;

  rbTextDOALink1.TableName := 'DOA_TEST_TEXT';
  rbWordsDOALink1.TableName := 'DOA_TEST_WORDS';

3.057

Units rbDS and rbBase modified such that blobs containing a mixture of text and binary data are indexed.

3.056

Installer no longer exits when user selects a bridge that is unavailable for a particular compiler.

dccDPK.bat no longer tries to compile bridges that are unavailable for a particular compiler.

Internally, two key documents are now generated from a single spreadsheet, to avoid typos: bridges.xml and information that the installer uses to know which bridges are available.

All compiler/database bridge combinations have been reviewed. RAD Studio 2010 support is as complete as possible now.

C++Builder install runs automatically.

3.055

NexusDB 3.01 bridge packages added for C++Builder 2010

dccUtilities.bat improved for C++Builder 2010

3.054

C++Builder 2009 and 2010: removed rbTrial unit from DPK for registered customers.

Hunt4Packages utility updated to support C++Builder 2009 and 2010.

3.053

Fixed bugs in rbdisqlite unit that caused incorrect indexing and wrong TrbCustomTextDISQLLink.GotoLocation behavior.

Modified units: rbdisqlite.pas and exsrchu.pas (from the DISQLite3 demo)

Known issue: does not install into trial version of Delphi

Known issue: manual install required for use with C++Builder

v3.052

New bridge: FIBPlus

DBISAM v4.29 now supported by default (was 4.28); both bridges.xml and the DPK files have been changed to reflect this new library number for DBISAM. DBISAM package added for Delphi 2010.

Minimum word-field length changed from 5 to 14; the default length remains 20.

Additional Pascal source files included in free edition: rbDOA, rbSDacBridge, rbFibP, rbCDS. (rbSDac renamed rbSDacBridge to avoid conflict with unit of same name in ReportBuilder.)

SDac demo files improved

DISQLite3 packages added for Delphi 2010.

Minor improvements to the user manual.

v3.051

The BAT file for compiling the ADOVerify utility now includes enough library names to compile with a FREE edition of Rubicon.

v3.050

Includes ElevateDB packages for Delphi 2010.

v3.049

New bridge: SDAC

v3.048

Free/Lite/Evaluation version was missing some source files for people using third-party bridges. For example, for Absolute Database, the following files are included: rbRegAbs.pas, rbAbs.pas, and the .r32 file with the component icons.

For bridges that you do not select during installation, the above .pas and .r32 files are deleted to simplify the directory contents a little for you.

v3.047

ADO: added support for additional datatype, ftWideMemo, in unit rbDS.pas

v3.046

New bridge: Absolute Database

v3.045

Major improvement: support for Chinese and other lingvos whose words use characters above #255. The main changes were in slExpression. Delphi 2009 and 2010 have Unicode strings and chars support. Nonetheless, all string processing functions (like Uppercase, CharInSet and so on) truncate Unicode strings and chars to Ansi strings and chars. Also "set of char" has max length 255 elements and cannot be used for Unicode-strings handling. The CharInSet-function had been frequently used in slExpression search logic. We changed the code to use our own CharInSet-mechanism. This will help Chinese and any lingvo which has symbol codes greater than 255.

To be clear: earlier versions of Rubicon 3 used Unicode strings but did not support Chinese and most other lingvos. Many thanks to the customer who brought this to our attention.

We are still working on this issue... it appears that some but not all Unicode/Chinese issues have been resolved ... trying to reproduce issue using Chinese database, with ADO.

v3.044

Syntax fix in Oracle DPK for Delphi 7

Minor change in rbMake.pas, moving 2 fields from Private to Protected

v3.043

Syntax fix in bridges.xml

v3.042

New icons for all bridge components

Delphi 2010 packages added for Nexus and UniDAC

Known issue with bridges.xml; obtain latest copy of that file here - bridges.xml and save to your rubicon\utils folder

v3.041

Better C++Builder support within RAD Studio.

v3.039

New bridge: ElevateDB -- with demos

Slightly updated user manual

v3.038

New bridge: ElevateDB -- without demos

v3.037

Demos included for DISQLite3.

Supports Delphi 2010 and C++Builder 2010

v3.036

New property named AboutLicense displays information about your license. This should be helpful to evaluation and lite users who want to know what the exact limitations are.

v3.035

Easier for beginners.... during install, all demo cfg files are modified so that they will compile with packages for your Delphi compiler.

Lite and evaluation licenses supported. Find free setup program here and obtain license here.

RubiconFree package designed to be compatible with other products from HREFTools (so you can install more than one into the Delphi IDE). Specifically what this means is that the units in that package have a unique namespace, HREFTools.Rubicon.rel200908.

Lite word-count limit changed from 500 to 1500 words.

v3.034

DISQLite3 bridge added.

NexusDB: v3.0.1 is the default bridge now; for other variations, run AdjustBridgeDPKs. Details are in the manual.

Setup program is code-signed (by HREF Tools Corp.) which implies that the file should be easier to download and run on Vista.

v3.033

Setup looks in all plausible locations to find your database bridge packages (e.g. Nexus, DBISAM, etc.) and should get the moresrcdir setting exactly right in the custom dccdpk BAT file .... so that you do not need to edit it at all after installation.

LIKE searches improved.

v3.032

rbLogic, rbUtils units improved regarding wildcard searches.

New utility: Packages\Hunt4Packages.exe helps you quickly search all plausible locations for a package. Can be used to assist with installation of ANY Delphi component package, including Rubicon. The classic error that this assists with is: Fatal: required package ___ not found.

Installer adds source\inc path to Delphi Library Search path, in addition to source.

Installer omits trailing slash when writing moresrcdir= into your customized dccdpk BAT file. However the Installer only finds packages (e.g. NexusDB packages) when the DCP and BPL files are in the same folder. That will work better in the next round.

Setup remembers your choice for DOA and DISQLite3 bridges ( it had reversed them! ).

Not available as free trial.

v3.031

rbSearch and rbUtils units improved for wildcard searching.

No compiler warning for TrbSearch.Create(self);

Icon file for IBObjects added (rbIBO.r32).

v3.030

Icon files for DBISAM and Nexus found; you should now have rbDBISAM.r32 and rbNX.r32 in the Source folder after installing.

Minor changes for Interbase Objects; not yet passing all tests for Delphi 2009.

v3.029

The dccdpk.bat files created during Setup no longer include lines to compile unselected bridges. For example, if you do not choose to install the ADO bridge, the BAT file omits lines for compiling ADO packages.

AdjustBridgeDPKs utility uses a larger font!

Setup no longer overwrites an existing bridges.xml file (which saves variations such as Nexus V2 for AdjustBridgeDPKs).

No source shipped for AdjustBridgeDPKs (as it does not compile without several of our other components).

v3.028

DBISAM support added

IBO status: beta 4.9.4 not passing our tests yet

If you make changes to bridges.xml to support a vendor variation, please send those to us so that we can build that in as an automatic choice going forward.

v3.027

Generation of BAT file for compiling the utilities fixed (issue in setup program).

v3.026

Icons added for all Rubicon Utilities (*.ico).

v3.025

Rubicon v3.025 includes the third edition of the new AdjustBridgeDPKs utility, which assists with the process of making minor changes to a set of Rubicon packages such that they work with differently-named libraries from a given vendor.

v3.024

UniDAC fully supported.

v3.008

Files for C++Builder are included in v3.008.