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What's New In Version 3
The latest releases of V3 Jargon Reader contain many new features including:
- Modal dialog boxes
- Video camera support
- Signature capture
- FTP support to get/put a binary file
- Many new system level methods
- Tabpanels and other new components (*)
(*) The new GUI components will require Jargon Writer Version 3.3. This upcoming major new release is a complete rewrite of our cornerstone development tool. While all previous versions of Jargon Writer have been written in Java, this new version is an XML app that runs in a special version of Jargon Reader for Windows. Yes, we are "dog-fooding" our own products!
New features in the first release include:
- Search and replace in the script editor (at last!!)
- "Go to" a specified line number (where the bug is!)
- View, change and save your preferences file
- "Generate 4GL" now creates "stub" include files
What's New In Version 2
While our Version 2 products are in the mature stage of their life cycle (meaning new releases will contain mostly bug fixes), we have added some new features in the most recent releases.
New features in recent releases of V2 Jargon Writer and Jargon ReaderX include:
- New host method "jsi/combobox/addlist.i" to send choices that contain commas
- New "maxChars" attribute on text components to limit input text size
- Allow deselection of individual rows in multi-row table selections
- New options to use SSL encryption on all or selected host tasks
- Math utilities for decimals
- Table column headings as buttons with events
- New features to send large tables as host task parameters
- New host method to add items to a combobox in a table cell
- Provide support for Netscape 6 and 7 in install files.
- Remember which component has focus when a frame is reselected
Clients Making News
Kirchner Corporation, a leading manufacturer of custom diamond jewelry, received the Computerworld Honors Program 21st Century Achievement Award for "Innovation In Manufacturing" at a presentation in Washington, D.C. on June 7th, 2004. The award honors Kirchner's innovative mobile sales-order-processing application, based on Jargon and Progress technology.
New Jargon Clients
Jargon Software welcomes these new clients:
Osprey Retail Systems (ISV)
C.J. Duffey Paper Company
Tips from Tech Support
Are you running V3 apps on Windows 2003 Server? You may find it is much more tightly "buttoned down" than the previous WIndows 2000 and Windows NT servers.
For instance, by default, IIS 6 will not serve ".ini" files, unless you add them to the allowed MIME types. For more details, see the installation docs for client XML apps.
Also, when installing Tunnel Broker on Windows 2003, there are several new or changed steps. See the Tunnel Broker install docs.
Who's This Brian Guy?
If you are contacted by a guy named Brian who says he is from Jargon, don't worry. He's not a spy for the competition, he is our new sales rep, Brian Freehan. Based out of the East Coast, Brian works with Jargon CEO Dick Rubenstein to evangelize our products and expand our user base. Brian is also contacting existing users for references and success stories. Please welcome him to the Jargon family!
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