Transact v0.2.2: what's new
Current release is v0.2.2
Author: Benoît GILON
New middleware layer
At first and mainly a new middleware: now the Transact engine behaves like a WIMP task too.
This means that a new client mstub object module is provided, the interface has only marginaly evolved from previous v0.2.1 (only the sp_clinit call interface has evolved).
New Sample client application (for easy testing of the Transact engine features)
- It is based, for its GUI interface, on the Acorn Toolbox library and graphic objects;
- It is based, for its communication with the engine, upon the client library, obviously.
New (minor) service provided
It allows a client application to know wether a file is currently accessed by the engine, and if this is the case, to know the current length of the file as known to the current session. This new service will also be of some use when time comes to design a compatible ANSI C file access library.
To be done before the official release of v0.2.2 (current release is only a pre-beta release, but works anyway through with some glitches and short comings):
- Better SaveAs boxes screen positionning in the client application;
- Compound requests support both by the WIMP client and proxy programs;
- Improved reliability of the client library;
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