What's New ?

Features with a date in the future are either done, in progress, or in beta stage. In either case their appearance means that they are slated for release on the date mentioned. Contact us if you have any questions about these or would like to test them out before their release date.

July 31, 2008 (build 12245)

New and Improved

•	Exporting holidays to Excel now takes into account Holiday Names Variations.

•	The entire worldwide public holidays database has been reviewed,as it is every year, in addition to the constant monitoring that we do to identify changes during the year.

•	Added a module to calculate dates according to the Tibetan calendar, which allows for a precise prediction of the Tsagaan Sar (White Moon, or Mongolian New Year) public holiday in Mongolia.

Fixed and Corrected

•	Fixed a bug that would prevent the releasing of a scanned template lock file, if a user name was more than 6 characters long (should never happen ... in principle).

•	Fixed a bug which would lead to an infinite loop in QuarkXPress when trying to resize a textbox that is placed at an angle that is not 0, 90, 180, or 270 degrees, with the BOXFIT token (Grandluxe, 4-july-2008).

June 30, 2008 (build 12241)

New and Improved

•	Q++Studio (both ANSI and Unicode versions) is now compatible with QuarkXPress version 8 (which will be available to the general public on August 1st, 2008).

•	Tested with version 7 of the ArabicXT Xtension. This Xtension, from Layout Software, allows you to type Arabic text into the Passport version of QuarkXPress.

Fixed and Corrected

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Fixed a bug in the calculation of the beginning of the Muslim months in Egypt, which would surface when the Moon was revolving at its slowest angular speed (ie. at maximum distance from the Earth) at the same time as the New Moon would occur. This only impacted the date of the 2011 Eid al Fitr public holiday in Egypt (Filofax, 10-june-2008).

•	(Unicode) The nightly backup manager was creating duplicate backup copies. This is now fixed.

•	(Unicode) The What's New? window (displaying information of this topic) was not appearing, the first time that Q++ was launched after an update. This is now fixed.

•	(Unicode) Added code to workaround a Windows XP bug that, in some cases sent the wrong Japanese characters when using Windows' standard Japanese IME text-entry editor (Mark's, 30-may-2008).

May 31, 2008 (build 12221)

New and Improved

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(Unicode) The automated Unicode backup program now also looks for QuarkXPress templates to backup in the QppShare folder used by the ANSI version of Q++ Studio. This is important for users who migrated from the ANSI to the Unicode version of Q++ Studio, and gets rid of the now spurious message 175180.

•	Added an option to show all Japanese Rukoyu days, as well as the more common 3 days only.

•	It is now possible to specify additional Xtensions that are to be loaded with the Q++ internal version of QuarkXPress.

•	(Unicode) Q++ now alerts you if you are using a GridTemplate scanned with the non-Unicode version of Q++. This only affects users who used the non-Unicode version of Q++ with QuarkXPress version 7 or 8, before moving over to the Unicode version of Q++.

•	(Unicode) The Nexus Database Server is now launched automatically, at startup, if it is not running yet.

•	Added Holiday Name Filter token modifiers which now make it possible to add a modifier to holidays tokens to specify that only certain parts of the holiday name should be used. This is useful, for example, if the name of a holiday includes its translation into many different languages.

Fixed and Corrected

•	Fixed a minor user interface bug whereby the name of some user-defined colors would be displayed as Red, Green or Blue, if you had deleted red green or blue from the default list of colors of your QuarkXPress system. (Mark's, 30-may-2008).

•	Fixed a bug in the Script Preview that would occur if more than 36 signatures were defined, and increased the maximum number of signatures to 72. (RUHO, 29-may-2008).

•	(Unicode) Fixed a bug in the updater whereby the desktop shortcut created to launch Q++ Studio was not pointing to the correct starting folder.

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(Unicode) Fixed a bug, introduced in the April 25 update, which no longer imported scanned templates using QuarkXPress versions 7 and 8 as Unicode. The effect of this bug was limited to the few tokens with accents, such as [â] and [fâ] which were not recognized as such anymore. After installing this update, you will need to rescan any template that shows this problem. (Tai Shing, 24-may-2008).

•	(Unicode) Fixed a bug which generated an error message when trying to open the Times of the Day property editor (Tai Shing, 15-may-2008).

•	Fixed the text displayed by message 178690, which would refer to the wrong color, and not contain details of the problem encountered (Letts, 16-may-2008).

•	Fixed a bug whereby an error in the call to a macro function would generate an error message that referred to the wrong line of code (trying to create a StringList that already exists).

•	Fixed a bug whereby the user interface of the Moon and Sun Options dialog would not let users specify "no symbol" to represent any of the Moon phases. A blank space was always inserted if no symbol was specified. (Letts, 12-may-2008).

•	Fixed a bug whereby odd date values would be used if none of the tokens anywhere in a GridTemplate had any DayValue (Ultra-Litho, 12-may-2008).

•	Unicode) Fixed a bug in the Unicode version of the macros compiler, which appeared if some of the quoted text in the macro contained parentheses or any kind of braces or brackets.

•	Fixed a user interface glitch in the Holidays Manager, whereby it was possible to modify a holiday name and abbreviation, even if the holiday was not in edit mode.

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(Unicode) Fixed a user interface glitch in the Holidays Manager, whereby individual holidays would be displayed using the default Arial Unicode MS font, which is fine for most cases, but not when the holidays use a specific font (such as the ones previously used to display Unicode languages using Ansi fonts).

April 30, 2008 (build 12157)

New and Improved

•	A new minicalendar option, $$=@ format, allows you to specify that, for one-line minicalendars, the day names should used the same formatting as the day numbers.

•	(Unicode) The installation programs for the Unicode version of Q++ Studio are now available.

•	Public holidays based on the Vietnamese calendar can now be programmed into Q++ Studio.

•	To speedup scanning and generating, Q++ now automatically disables unnecessary Xtensions of the internal version of QuarkXPress used to scan and generate.

•	Improved the speed of scanning by about 30-40% depending on the grids being scanned.

•	Improved most token processing messages so that if the token in question is the result of the conversion of another token (for example GenTokens and MonthHeaders) then the error message mentions both the token that caused the message, and the original token from which it came.

Fixed and Corrected

•	Fixed a minor bug whereby synchronizing the internal QuarkXPress, version 7, could cause an older version of the Q++ xtension to be restored (Mark's and Edica).

•	(Unicode) Fixed a minor user interface bug in the Macros Debugger, whereby the keywords of the current line being debugged would appear with a white background, making them hard to read.

•	(Unicode) Fixed a bug whereby new scripts would be saved in the wrong folder (Tai Shing, 14-apr-2008).

•	Fixed a very minor user interface bug whereby the number of the page currently being scanned would be incorrect (Simancas, 31-mar-2008).

Earlier Release Notes

Earlier release notes are available for 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000 and 1999.

Topic 151700 updated on 22-Jul-08
Topic URL: http://www.qppsupport.net/webhelp/index.html?whatsnew.htm