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Table of Contents Table of Contents ABOUT THIS MANUAL ......................................................... 10 SOFTWARE SUPPORT AND COMPATIBILITY ................................. 11 Serial Numbers and Licensing ............................................ 11 Library and Datafile Conversion .......................................... 11 macOS Support and Version Check .................................... 11 Renaming OS X to macOS ................................................. 12 Sync Server ........................................................................ 12 Java 8 ................................................................................. 12 Web Services ...................................................................... 12 OpenSSL ............................................................................ 13 Welcome and New Users .................................................... 13 CPU type: sys(110) ............................................................. 13 External Components .......................................................... 13 Picture Formats ................................................................... 13 FileOps Functions ............................................................... 13 VCS Branching ................................................................... 13 Mac Touch Bar .................................................................... 14 Windows Path names ......................................................... 14 PDF Font Mapping .............................................................. 14 WHAT’S NEW IN OMNIS STUDIO 8.1.7 ............................... 15 LOCALIZATION ......................................................................... 15 Changing System menu items (macOS) ............................. 15 JAVASCRIPT COMPONENTS ...................................................... 15 JavaScript Component Templates ...................................... 15 OMNIS PROGRAMMING ............................................................. 15 Maximum Number of Methods ............................................ 15 WHAT’S NEW IN OMNIS STUDIO 8.1.6 ............................... 16 OBROWSER ............................................................................. 16 JavaScript Client Bridge ...................................................... 16 HTML Controls & Dates ...................................................... 16 oBrowser & localStorage on macOS ................................... 16 JAVASCRIPT COMPONENTS ...................................................... 16 Control Classnames ............................................................ 16 JAVASCRIPT REMOTE FORMS ................................................... 19 evLayoutChanged & pBreakpoint ........................................ 19 LIBRARIES ............................................................................... 19 Library Conversion .............................................................. 19 HEADLESS SERVER .................................................................. 19 Running as a Service .......................................................... 19 SQL PROGRAMMING ................................................................ 20 OmnisSQL & National Fields ............................................... 20 DEPLOYMENT .......................................................................... 20 App Server Licensing .......................................................... 20 WHAT’S NEW IN OMNIS STUDIO 8.1.5 ............................... 21 SQL PROGRAMMING ................................................................ 21 $definelistorrow method ...................................................... 21 $usescale ............................................................................ 21 WINDOW PROGRAMMING .......................................................... 21 Edge Float Properties in Subclasses ................................... 21 3 Table of Contents JAVASCRIPT COMPONENTS ...................................................... 21 Labels and Date variables ................................................... 21 WINDOW COMPONENTS ........................................................... 22 Toolbar button text on macOS ............................................ 22 FUNCTIONS ............................................................................. 22 sys(237) .............................................................................. 22 WHAT’S NEW IN OMNIS STUDIO 8.1.4 ............................... 23 OW3 HTTP WORKERS ............................................................ 23 WebSocket Server Support ................................................. 23 WINDOWS CLASSES ................................................................. 25 Drag and Drop .................................................................... 25 THEMES .................................................................................. 26 Appearance Theme............................................................. 26 WHAT’S NEW IN OMNIS STUDIO 8.1.3 ............................... 27 JAVASCRIPT COMPONENTS ...................................................... 27 Rich Text Editor .................................................................. 27 OW3 WORKER OBJECTS .......................................................... 28 FTP Directory List ............................................................... 28 WINDOW COMPONENTS ........................................................... 28 HTML Controls .................................................................... 28 WHAT’S NEW IN OMNIS STUDIO 8.1.2 ............................... 29 JSON COMPONENTS ............................................................... 29 Read-only Properties .......................................................... 29 WINDOW CLASSES ................................................................... 29 Diacritical Characters .......................................................... 29 WHAT’S NEW IN OMNIS STUDIO 8.1.1 ............................... 31 OW3 WEB WORKER OBJECTS .................................................. 31 JSON CONTROL EDITOR .......................................................... 31 SQL QUERY BUILDER .............................................................. 31 CMND+. KEYPRESS ON MACOS ................................................. 31 WHAT’S NEW IN OMNIS STUDIO 8.1 .................................. 32 EXPORTING LIBRARIES TO JSON .............................................. 34 Exporting Libraries .............................................................. 34 Importing Libraries .............................................................. 35 Directory and JSON File Structure .....................................