Topwiz Software News


  • 03/28/2024 - ZLibwapi Updated to version 1.3.1 of ZLib. No change to PowerBuilder code.

  • 01/26/2024 - Ghostscript Completely revamped with new functions. Now works without Ghostscript being in the system path.

  • 12/04/2023 - PBEditor Updated to version 5.4.0 of Scintilla. Fixed Unicode handling bug in of_GetText.

  • 09/07/2023 - PBEditor Updated to version 5.3.6 of Scintilla.

  • 09/04/2023 - OSVersion Changed to work on Windows 11.

  • 07/28/2023 - WinHttp Changed WinHttpOpen parm to better support proxy servers.

  • 07/01/2023 - PBNISMTP Updated to use the latest third party components.

  • 04/14/2023 - Winsock Fixed a bug in the of_cleanup function.

  • 03/31/2023 - PBEditor Updated to version 5.3.4 of Scintilla.

  • 03/30/2023 - WinHttp Added support for secure protocol TLS 1.3.

  • 11/30/2022 - PSRViewer Updated the function that registers the app with the file extension.

  • 04/15/2022 - ZLibwapi Updated to version 1.2.13 of ZLib. No change to PowerBuilder code.

  • 01/18/2023 - DragFiles New example that allows dragging files from Windows Explorer.

  • 01/16/2023 - Filesys Corrected incorrect data types in call to GetVolumeInformation.

  • 11/30/2022 - RunAndWait Added a function that uses the AssocQueryString API function to return the program assigned to a file extension.

  • 11/23/2022 - OSVersion Added support for Windows 10 Version 22H2.

  • 11/02/2022 - ODBC API Updated the instance constants for data type.

  • 10/18/2022 - PBEditor Updated to the latest version of Scintilla. Fixed a bug in detecting of UTF8 without BOM.

  • 08/18/2022 - PBEditor Updated to detect UTF-8 files without BOM bytes and properly write out Unicode files.

  • 08/02/2022 - PSRViewer There is now a PB 12.6 version with API calls corrected for 64bit.

  • 07/09/2022 - PBEditor Has been upgraded to version 5.2.4 (July 9, 2022) of the Scintilla control library.

  • 06/24/2022 - PBEditor Has been upgraded to version 5.2.3 (May 22, 2022) of the Scintilla control library.

  • 06/23/2022 - ZLibwapi Added of_GetLastError function to be used after errors returned by CreateFile.

  • 06/20/2022 - OSVersion Added support for Windows 11 Version 22H2. Also fixed 64-bit issues.

  • 04/19/2022 - ZLibwapi PowerBuilder code revamped, fixing several issues including incorrect data types.

  • 04/15/2022 - ZLibwapi Updated to version 1.2.12 of ZLib. No change to PowerBuilder code.

  • 04/01/2022 - RunAndWait Complete re-write that adds ability to capture the output from a console application.

  • 01/12/2022 - Winsock Added indirect instance variables to get/set timeouts.

  • 01/14/2021 - OSVersion Added support for Windows 10 21H2 and several Windows Server versions.

  • 01/12/2022 - Winsock Added function of_GetNameInfo that returns HostName for the IP Address.

  • 01/10/2022 - Adapter Fixed bug for MAC Address with zeroes.

  • 11/10/2021 - OSVersion Added support for Windows 11.

  • 09/11/2021 - Winsock Fixed issues with 64bit mode. Added ability to set connect timeout.

  • 09/11/2021 - Winsock Removed EmailPOP3 and EmailSMTP examples.

  • 08/22/2021 - PowerSharp New product for calling PowerBuilder object functions from C#.

  • 08/01/2021 - Canvas Added CorrectAspectRatio option which is useful for TIF faxes.

  • 07/19/2021 - Canvas Added support for PB 2019 and PB 2021. Removed PB 7 - 9.

  • 06/04/2021 - Statbar Display Controls button now shows window class name.

  • 04/30/2021 - OSVersion Updated for the upcoming Windows May 2021 release.

  • 04/13/2021 - RunAndWait Updated datatypes and structure length. Also updated in Bitmap, FTPClient, and Ghostscript.

  • 04/06/2021 - Ghostscript New example shows how to save multiple DataWindows to a single PDF using Ghostscript.

  • 03/16/2021 - LineCount Added counting options to include structural code.

  • 02/17/2021 - OSVersion Added a version of of_getfileversioninfo that takes filename and value name to extract custom version strings.

  • 02/05/2021 - Filesys Changed the of_pbvmname function to work correctly in PB 2019-R3. Also updated DisplayIcon, FTPClient, ImageList, and OSVersion examples with the same fix.

  • 02/05/2021 - Statbar Changed to work correctly in PB 2019-R3.

  • 02/04/2021 - PSRViewer Fixed an abort when clearing most recent files while no file is open.

  • 02/02/2021 - Cryptoapi Added iEncoding instance variable. Now uses machine keyset so can be used in a Windows Service.

  • 01/11/2021 - Outlook Added support for creating a Mail Item.

  • 11/16/2020 - PBNISMTP Updated to use the latest version of the open source SMTP libraries.

  • 10/06/2020 - PBEditor Now includes a PB 12.6 library that supports 64bit.

  • 10/01/2020 - PBSearch I added support for PowerBuilder 2019-R3 as a version choice.

  • 09/25/2020 - OSVersion Added support for Windows 10 October 2020 Update.

  • 08/11/2020 - Filesys Added function of_GetFileOwner which returns the user that created the file.

  • 08/10/2020 - GetFolder Fixed bug that prevented some network shares from showing.

  • 07/30/2020 - PSRViewer I added Excel12 as an Save As choice, fixed issue in PB 2019 with window size restore.

  • 06/04/2020 - Canvas I fixed an abort in 64bit that happened when saving an image.

  • 05/11/2020 - Zlibwapi Fixed an abort in 64bit.

  • 04/18/2020 - WinDaemon A new product that allows you to create windows services from any existing program.

  • 03/23/2020 - OSVersion I fixed a problem where it wasn't getting the correct version of Windows 10.

  • 03/11/2020 - WinHTTP Improved handling of security errors in the SendData function.

  • 03/05/2020 - OSVersion Added support for Windows 10 April 2020 Feature release. BuildNumber instance var is now Dec instead of Uint.

  • 02/26/2020 - TopwizWeb A new product that allows you to create web applications that run in IIS directly from PowerBuilder.

  • 02/26/2020 - Zlibwapi Fixed several instances of incorrect datatypes. ULong and Integer changed to Long.

  • 01/23/2020 - FTPClient Fixed a bug in the window. After deleting a profile, the menu wasn't populating correctly.

  • 12/18/2019 - WinHTTP The GetURL and PostURL functions had the wrong datatype returns which prevented detection of errors by the calling script.

  • 12/03/2019 - EmailSMTP Updated the error handling so that SMTP errors are reported correctly.

  • 11/24/2019 - OSVersion Updated to support Windows 10 November 2019 Update.

  • 11/04/2019 - Bitmap I added support for capturing bitmaps of sheet windows.