Version 0.1.006 (released December 26th, 2012)

This release includes support for customization of Action menu items, procedure metadata, and the ability to call a subroutine inside a procedure.

In previous versions of Panorama, Action menu items could be customized by adding special suffixes to procedure names. This feature has been removed, and it is now possible to customize menu items using the setprocedureoptions statement. (In the future, there will also be a user interface to set these options.) In addition to being able to set the command key equivalent, visibility and style, you can now set the menu font, size, color, menu key modifier keys, indentation and checkmarks.

When a database is converted from Panorama 6, any special suffixes in procedure names are removed and converted to the new system. This can result in call statements breaking. For example, this call statement:

    call "New Invoice/1"

will have to be manually changed to:

    call "New Invoice"

The setprocedureoptions statement can also be used to perform other operations on procedures, including renaming, deleting, moving to a new position, and setting up a tag value.

The new callwithin statement allows you to put multiple subroutines into a procedure, and call each one individually. This should make it possible in some cases to dramatically reduce the number of procedures needed for a database, since many subroutines can be combined into one procedure. There is also a new farcall statement and callwithin( function.

Because of the new menu color options, all color related functions and statements are implemented. Note that colors are still binary values, but are no longer 6 bytes (the length is not constant, but is over 100 bytes!). Colors now include opacity (alpha channel), though it remains to be seen if this will be supported in Panorama form objects. See Colors for more information about using colors in Panorama.

Brand new features implemented in this release (features that were not included in Panorama 6):

- alpha( -- The alpha( function extracts the alpha (opacity) from a color.
- callwithin( -- The callwithin( function allows a "mini-procedure" to be called as a subroutine within a formula and return a result.
- callwithin -- The callwithin statement allows a procedure to call a mini-procedure within a separate procedure within the current database as a subroutine.
- farcallwithin -- The farcallwithin statement allows a procedure to call a mini-procedure within a separate procedure in a different database as a subroutine.
- info("procedurename") -- The info("procedurename") function returns the name of the currently running procedure.
- setprocedureoptions -- The setprocedureoptions statement modifies one or more properties of a procedure (source code, Action menu options, etc.).

Features implemented in this release that work differently than they did in Panorama 6.

- Colors -- Using colors in Panorama formulas and procedures.
- colorwheel -- The colorwheel statement allows the user to pick a color using the operating systems standard color picker dialog
- getprocedureoption( -- The getprocedureoption( function returns information about a procedure.
- hsb( -- The hsb( function creates a color by combining hue, saturation, and brightness components. See Colors.
- rgb( -- The rgb( function creates a color by combining red, green, and blue primary colors. See Colors.

Features implemented in this release that work exactly the same as they did in Panorama 6.

- blue( -- The blue( function extracts the blue intensity from a color.
- brightness( -- The brightness( function extracts the brightness from a color.
- green( -- The green( function extracts the green intensity from a color.
- hue( -- The hue( function extracts the hue from a color.
- info("proceduredatabase") -- The info("proceduredatabase") function returns the name of the database that contains the currently running procedure.
- red( -- The red( function extracts the red intensity from a color.
- saturation( -- The saturation( function extracts the saturation from a color.

ALL features that were added or changed in this release:

- blue( -- The blue( function extracts the blue intensity from a color.
- brightness( -- The brightness( function extracts the brightness from a color.
- colorwheel -- The colorwheel statement allows the user to pick a color using the operating systems standard color picker dialog
- info("proceduredatabase") -- The info("proceduredatabase") function returns the name of the database that contains the currently running procedure.
- info("procedurename") -- The info("procedurename") function returns the name of the currently running procedure.

See Also

- Version 0.1.001 (released July 7th, 2012) -- Summary of Version 0.1.001 (released 7/7/2012)
- Version 0.1.002 (released August 12th, 2012) -- Summary of Version 0.1.002 (released 8/12/2012)
- Version 0.1.003 (released December 2nd, 2012) -- Summary of Version 0.1.003 (released 12/2/2012)
- Version 0.1.004 (released December 10th, 2012) -- Summary of Version 0.1.004 (released 12/10/2012)
- Version 0.1.005 (released December 21st, 2012) -- Summary of Version 0.1.005 (released 12/21/2012)
- Version 0.1.007 (released May 1st, 2013) -- Summary of Version 0.1.007 (released 5/1/2013)
- Version 0.1.008 (released May 22nd, 2013) -- Summary of Version 0.1.008 (released 5/22/2013)
- Version 0.1.009 (released July 9th, 2013) -- Summary of Version 0.1.009 (released 7/9/2013)
- Version 0.1.010 (released October 14th, 2013) -- Summary of Version 0.1.010 (released 10/14/2013)
- Version 0.1.011 (released December 6th, 2013) -- Summary of Version 0.1.011 (released 12/6/2013)
- Version 0.1.012 (released August 29th, 2015) -- Summary of Version 0.1.012 (released 8/29/2015)
- Version 0.1.013 (released September 6th, 2015) -- Summary of Version 0.1.013 (released 9/6/2015)
- Version 0.1.014 (released September 14th, 2015) -- Summary of Version 0.1.014 (released 9/14/2015)
- Version 0.1.015 (released September 29th, 2015) -- Summary of Version 0.1.015 (released 9/29/2015)
- Version 0.1.016 (released October 12th, 2015) -- Summary of Version 0.1.016 (released 10/12/2015)
- Version 0.1.017 (released November 11th, 2015) -- Summary of Version 0.1.017 (released 11/11/2015)
- Version 0.1.018 (released December 7th, 2015) -- Summary of Version 0.1.018 (released 12/7/2015)
- Version 0.1.019 (released January 28th, 2016) -- Summary of Version 0.1.019 (released 1/28/2016)
- Version 0.1.020 (released February 15th, 2016) -- Summary of Version 0.1.020 (released 2/15/2016)
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