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DecSoft (In thread: New App Builder 2021.1)

Hello to all,

Here is a new DecSoft App Builder with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:


2021.1 (09/21/2020)

* This DecSoft App Builder release is a great step into the future, since, like our current generation of DecSoft HTML Compiler (recently published), say goodbye to the venerable WebView based in Internet Explorer and say welcome to the Microsoft Edge WebView2. 

* Due to the usage of the Microsoft Edge WebView2, the internal debugger is no more an external program, that is, the apps are launched now in a dock panel in the IDE, more easy and faster. We continue having the Developer Console at our service anyway.

* By the way, as an user of DecSoft App Builder, maybe you want to take a look at the new generation of our DecSoft HTML Compiler product, which now can perfectly compile and convert modern HTML apps (for example, created by DecSoft App Builder) into standalone executables for both Microsoft Windows 32 and 64 bits. Get more information and download the demo version of DecSoft HTML Compiler in our website!

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DecSoft (In thread: New HTML Compiler 2021.1)

Hello to all,

Here is the first public release of the new generation of DecSoft HTML Compiler. Enjoy it!


2021.1 (09/20/2020)

* After months of hard work we are proud to publish the first public stable release of the new generation of DecSoft HTML Compiler. We hope this journey just begin and we can enhance this product with a lot of future releases.

For current DecSoft HTML Compiler customers, the below post text can be interesting, since compare a bit the previous generation and the new generation of DecSoft HTML Compiler:

 1º Say good bye to the venerable Microsoft Internet Explorer WebView and say welcome to the modern Microsoft Edge WebView2 based in Edge Chromium. The DecSoft HTML Compiler generated apps continue to be running standalone, with the only dependency of the Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime, and, the ability to install it if it's missing in the user's computer and you wanted to do it from the app itself.

2º Say also good bye to previous limitations, for example, in order to make AJAX request to your app's local files, play local audios and local videos, etc. With the new DecSoft HTML Compiler all of these is possible, and, for example, applications created by DecSoft App Builder can perfectly be compiled using the new DecSoft HTML Compiler and run like a charm.

3º Like the current generation of DecSoft App Builder, the new DecSoft HTML Compiler will be offered for both Microsoft Windows 32 and 64 bits. Additionally, the new DecSoft HTML Compiler can compile apps into executables for Microsoft Windows 32 and 64 bits (not only for 32 bits like now): it's even possible to create executables for Microsoft Windows 64 bits from Microsoft Windows 32 bits.

4º The new DecSoft HTML Compiler has been written from the scratch, applying the experience that we get while developing the current DecSoft App Builder. This have lot of beneficts, just to mention some of them, now it's possible to work with various HTML apps at the same time in the program, we can now cancel the compilation of an app, we avoid modal dialogs always that it's possible and many, many more characteristics.

So I am very excited with this new project, because the ability to compile DecSoft App Builder created apps using DecSoft HTML Compiler, because the use of the new Microsoft Edge WebView2 based in Edge Chromium. However, the new DecSoft HTML Compiler wanted to continue offering the features that make to the current DecSoft HTML Compiler a good product:

1º Your app's files are never extrated into the user computer. The generated app's executables (now for both Windows 32 and 64 bits) is the only file that your users needed to run your app, no other dependency is required. You can continue using dozens of different GUI themes in your app's executables. In few words, we wanted to maintain the best that the current DecSoft HTML Compiler can offer right now.

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DecSoft (In thread: New HTML Compiler 2020.6)

Hello to all,

Here is a new DecSoft HTML Compiler with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:


 2020.6 (09/14/2020)
 
  * Add the new Allow contextual menu behaviour option. This option allows to enable the contextual menu in the app's HTML pages. Note that due to the nature of HTML Compiler app's not all the contextual menu items works as expected in the Internet Explorer browser.

DecSoft (In thread: New App Builder 2020.100)

Hello to all,

Here is a new DecSoft App Builder with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:


2020.100 (08/25/2020)

* Fix a bug which causes that we can't place a Visual Plugin control inside a Container control. Also fix a problem when we try to paste a Visual Plugin control inside a Container using the Clipboard. Thanks Desmond for the report!

* This release of the product have other minor internal changes, fixes and enhancements, for example, in the Debugger program.

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DecSoft (In thread: New App Builder 2020.99)

Hello to all,

Here is a new DecSoft App Builder with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:


2020.99 (08/05/2020)

* Move up the default value of the Android Min SDK option from the API level 19 (Android 4.4) to the API level 22 (Android 5.1). This is a requirement in order to be ready to use the latest version of Apache Cordova (10.0.0). Other minor changes, fixes and enhancements has been made on this release too.

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DecSoft (In thread: New App Builder 2020.98)

Hello to all,

Here is a new DecSoft App Builder with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:


2020.98 (08/01/2020)

* Fix a bug in the Welcome Page which causes that the random help topic link which appears every certain interval of time, do not properly update the help topic's URL, causing that, when click in the random help topic link, we always ends in the same help topic location: always the first help topic which has been shown. Other minor changes, fixes and enhancements has been made on this release too.

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DecSoft (In thread: New HTML Compiler 2020.5)

Hello to all,

Here is a new DecSoft HTML Compiler with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:


 2020.5 (07/29/2020)
 
  * Add the new Fullscreen sample, which explore the usage of the new recently added app.external.appEnterFullscreen() function and the app.external.appExitFullscreen() function.
 
  * Add the new function app.external.appEnterFullscreen() and the new function app.external.appExitFullscreen(), which allows to set the app window in fullscreen mode or exit from the fullscreen mode.

DecSoft (In thread: New App Builder 2020.97)

Hello to all,

Here is a new DecSoft App Builder with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:


2020.97 (07/26/2020)

* The app Text Search tool reduces a bit the searching feedback in order to increase very, very much, the search speed, which is now almost instantanlly. The app Text Search tool is faster than never before due to the reduction of certain small feedback (basically "where we are" in the search) that the Text Search tool shown in the past.

* The app functions manager show different popup (contextual) menus for the functions list and the function's arguments list. Additionally the arguments list popup menu, as well the functions manager toolbar, includes now two new elements that allows to move up and down the function's arguments.

* This release of DecSoft App Builder (the IDE, the Debugger and the Command Line Interpreter programs) has been builded using the latest version of Embarcadero Delphi, which is the IDE in which DecSoft App Builder is developed. The latest version of the Embarcadero Delphi's compiler introduces several fixes, changes and enhancements, so we get the benefits of these improvements.

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DecSoft (In thread: New App Builder 2020.96)

Hello to all,

Here is a new DecSoft App Builder with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:


2020.96 (07/24/2020)

* Add a couple of new options in the Cordova -> Android and the Cordova iOS options tabs in order to allows to specify the app's Cordova Android version as well the app's Cordova iOS version. By default these options are empty and this mean that the Batch and Shell files prepared by DecSoft App Builder uses the default Cordova Android / Cordova iOS version. We can specify here the versions to be used, so the generated Batch and Shell files clearly requires such specific versions of Cordova Android  / Cordova iOS in order to be used.

* The Cordova iOS deploy target option is now set to iOS 11.0 by default. This means that we can be ready to use in our apps the WKWebView engine provided by Cordova iOS 6.x. Cordova iOS 6.x, however, requires a minimum deploy target of 11.0. Read more about how to use the WKWebView in the DecSoft support forum.

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DecSoft (In thread: New App Builder 2020.95)

Hello to all,

Here is a new DecSoft App Builder with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:


2020.95 (07/23/2020)

* Just attach the "BackButton" app's event causes a problem when try to use the Android device's back button to move around the app browser's history or just to exit the app (if no browser's history exists). This release fix this problem attaching the "BackButton" app's event only if we write some code to be executed in that event. Thanks Letitia!

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DecSoft (In thread: New App Builder 2020.94)

Hello to all,

Here is a new DecSoft App Builder with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:


2020.94 (07/20/2020)

* Add the BackgroundAudio sample app (number 68) in order to show a way of use the app.PlaySound() method and the returned Audio JavaScript object in order to play a background audio in the app, which is not stopped even if we go to one app's view to another.

* Enhance the app.playSound() method in order to return the instance of the Audio JavaScritp object, so we can use the Audio JavaScript properties, methods and events if needed. Also fix the way in which we inquire to the platform about what kind of audio's format is supported.

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DecSoft (In thread: New App Builder 2020.93)

Hello to all,

Here is a new DecSoft App Builder with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:


2020.93 (07/18/2020)

* Update the CEF4Delphi components, which include the binaries of Chromium  83.0.4103.106 for Microsoft Windows 32 bits and 64 bits. These components and the Chromium binaries are used by the DecSoft App Builder debugger program.

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DecSoft (In thread: WKWebView vs. UIWebView for iOS)

Hello to all,

I hope you are all well. This post is to talk about the convenience to use the WKWebView engine instead of UIWebView engine for Apple iOS. These engines are "the internal browser" (in few words) in which our apps run in iOS. Apple is near to start to rejecting apps to be published in the Apple Store if they continue to use the UIWebView engine, but, this probably is not the most important reason to start to use the WKWebView engine in our apps.

The UIWebView engine works reasonably well, however, the WKWebView engine get our apps working more fluid and in a more consistent way with the modern browsers. One of the DecSoft App Builder platform are the modern browsers, and, what we wanted (always that is possible) is that our code works in modern browsers as well in iOS, Android and other platforms, without any code changes.

How to be ready with the WKWebView engine in our apps? It's quite easy! In your App Options -> Apache Cordova -> Configuration -> Extra XML textarea, place the below XML code, which applies only to the Apple iOS platform:


 <platform name="ios">
  <preference name="WKWebViewOnly" value="true"> 
  <preference name="scheme" value="app">
  <preference name="hostname" value="localhost">
 </platform>

That's all! Save the changes, compile your app with AB and then with XCode, if everything is OK, your app is now using the WKWebView engine instead of the UIWebView engine and you and your app's users can enjoy the enhancements.

P.S. To see the above working, we must compile our app with cordova-ios 6.x (while I write this post using the latest version 6.1.0) and we must set the iOS "Deployment target" to 11.

P.S.2. The described above works in both the previous generation of DecSoft App Builder and also the current generation of the product. Remember, however, that the previous generation of AB is no more available, except for already customers. The current generation of DecSoft App Builder (which you can download from this website) is the recommended for new projects.

DecSoft (In thread: I can't build Release version)

Hello Kim,

Glad to know that you finally get it working! :-)

DecSoft (In thread: New App Builder 2020.92)

Hello to all,

Here is a new DecSoft App Builder with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:


2020.92 (07/10/2020)

* The app sidebar is hidden by default when the user press over the app sidebar overlay. In the same way, the app sidebar is now also hidden when the user swipe left over the app sidebar or the app sidebar overlay. Some other minor changes, fixes and enhancements has been made in this release of the product.

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