The Following Enhancements and
Features have been introduced in HanDBase v4.0
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Security Features:
- Encryption Password Caching - When you open a
database, the
password you entered is optionally remembered and then used for
subsequent saves/closes of the database. This reduces chance of user
entering a wrong password when re-encrypting and is also far more
convenient to use.
- Auto Close Feature - Optionally set program to
auto close all
open databases when there is no activity for some time. When used with
the Encryption Password Caching option, this means any encrypted
databases would also be reencrypted and then closed.
- 128 bit encryption - Now encrypts with 128 bit Safer-SK encryption for
increased security and tamper proofing.
- Second prompt when
setting password - Now when you have the password prompt set to
hide the password, it will confirm your password before accepting.
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Synchronization Improvements:
- Memory Card Databases syncing - Support for syncing databases stored in
memory cards within HanDBase Conduit.
- Microsoft Vista support - for syncing with Vista's Mobile Device
Center
Interface
Improvements:
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Palm
OS:
- Category support - for databases stored on
memory cards.
- Scroll Bar in List
View - for faster navigation of large databases
- Improved 5-way/One
Handed Navigation - most all screens including forms can be
navigated with one hand.
- Filter floating dates
- When filtering on dates, you can now filter on a date that is based
off the current date, like 'This Month', 'Next X days', or 'Today' and
hence see only the records that match based on the current date.
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Windows
Mobile Pocket PC:
- 5 way select support- Most key screens in
HanDBase now support the 5 way navigator on Windows Mobile 5 and
Windows Mobile 6.
- Windows Mobile 5/6 menu optional support- Show
menu items using the newer soft key style or choose the traditional
toolbar format via the preferences.
- Tap and Hold functionality - tap and hold for
common commands for records and databases in the List view and Choose
Database screens.
- Choose DB screen key search database list - it
automatically scrolls to the databases beginning with the letter you
write.
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- Font size setting preference for List View -
In the Preferences screen, you adjust the font size of the list view
text.
- Beam Receive Revamp on PPC - to take better
advantage of sending
files using Infrared or Bluetooth from the device itself and handling
import of these received files.
- Don't Show this Again option - optionally
don't show the successful saved database dialog.
- Enhanced keyboard support - The enter key
should behave as a select in most screens.
- Filter floating dates
- When filtering on dates, you can now filter on a date that is based
off the current date, like 'This Month', 'Next X days', or 'Today' and
hence see only the records that match based on the current date.
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Windows
Mobile Smartphones:
- Forms Support
- ability to edit records in your database using custom designed forms
designed on your desktop or some other PDA/Smartphone platforms.
- Filter floating dates
- When filtering on dates, you can now filter on a date that is based
off the current date, like 'This Month', 'Next X days', or 'Today' and
hence see only the records that match based on the current date.
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Symbian
S60 (Series 60) Smartphones:
- Create
and Edit Databases - You can
now create and edit database properties right on the S60 device!
- Filter floating dates
- When filtering on dates, you can now filter on a date that is based
off the current date, like 'This Month', 'Next X days', or 'Today' and
hence see only the records that match based on the current date.
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Windows Desktop:
- Updated UI - the user interface was updated to look
fresh and be more intuitive to use.
- Opening Welcome screen - quick select choice to open existing
dbs, new ones, recent ones, etc.
- Database Explorer - window bar for showing quick list of
dbs for users with button for 'More' that jumps to the more
- Right click options - for records in list view (copy, move,
delete, encrypt, etc) like Pocket PC tap and hold
- Conduit Options
integration - jump to conduit and
sync exchange settings right from HanDBase Desktop
- Newsletter integration - stay up to date on HanDBase related
updates/releases/news directly from within the HanDBase Desktop.
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- Check for Updates - automatically and manually check for
newer versions available for your HanDBase related products from the
HanDBase Desktop.
- Mapping of fields - for CSV import of data in different
format than database
- Copy Record(s) to
clipboard - ability to copy
a record or records' printable values to the clipboard to paste into
other documents or programs.
- Report Printing on
Windows
Desktop - Ability to print custom
HTML style reports (similar to those used by the HanDBase Reporter
Add-on) from the desktop.
- Filter floating dates
- When filtering on dates, you can now filter on a date that is based
off the current date, like 'This Month', 'Next X days', or 'Today' and
hence see only the records that match based on the current date.
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Windows Desktop Form
Designer:
- Forms browser list
toolbar - that makes it easy to
jump between forms for a database.
- Mouse direct resizing
of controls - drag the borders of
a control to resize it.
- Select Item Toolbar - Select item dialog is now available as
an optionally visible toolbar.
- Place new items on
screen when form is clicked -
rather than guess at a location for a new form, you can now select this
by clicking on the form to place your controls.
- Startup Wizard- When you open a database, a wizard shows
options to launch the Forms Creation Wizard, or to Create and Edit
Forms Manually
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Mac OS X Desktop:
- Searching support - ability to search all or certain fields
in database records
- Sorting support - sort databases based on certain field
values.
- Views selection
- choose a pre-defined named view of your data which would filter,
sort, and reorder the fields based on the criteria defined in the view.
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Performance
Improvements:
- Improved Caching of DBs
- for great performance gains on Windows Mobile Pocket PC, Smartphone,
S60, and Windows Desktop when using relationships, DB Popup fields, and
link/linked fields.
- Optimized DB Load/Open times -
Windows Mobile Classic/Professional (PocketPC) and Windows Mobile
Standard (Smartphone) now open databases an order of magnitude faster
than in previous versions due to extreme optimizations in the program.
Custom
Forms Support Improvements:
- Jump directly to a form in a
related db - you can select a
button to jump to a specific form of a related database as opposed to
always going to the list view.
- New Button Actions available:
Cancel button, Edit Popup List, Show Popup List, Cut, Copy, Paste,
Select All, Copy Record to Text, Backspace, and Set Focus to a control
on the form
- Picture Button control
- show jpg or bmp graphics directly on the form. These can be used for
company logos, graphical buttons, diagrams, etc. The image path can be
hard coded or dependant on the value of a field.
- Conditional Show/Hide of
form controls
- specify a field in which the value of that field determines whether
the control is shown or hidden. Great for conditional branching, color
coding values depending on ranges, and even making values be required
before allowing a record save.
- Tab/creation order for form
controls- specify the tab order
for form controls.
- Desktop Wizard to create
forms
- select the fields, style and a few simple options and let the desktop
forms designer create a starting set of forms for you. Makes creating
ready to use forms a snap and yet still completely customizable to your
specific desires and needs.
- Copy Form capability between
databases - when designing forms
you can now copy a form from one database to another.
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Cross Compatibility
Enhancements:
- Tabs look and feel - Make tab controls on form look the same
on desktop, Pocket PC, and Smartphone as it does on Palm
- Control Alignment
- tabs, shapes, buttons, etc, should all line up properly between
platforms despite slight differences in controls on different platforms
- Platform scaling option-
adjust the scaling of each platform that supports forms (Desktop, Palm
OS, Windows Mobile Pocket PC, and Windows Mobile Smartphone)
independently. Take a form that was designed for a resolution on one
platform and scale it to best fit on another platform with a different
resolution.
- Device Preview Mode on
desktop forms designer
- You can quickly switch the preview platform to better Preview what a
form is going to look like with the different resolution and scaling of
another platform.
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...And a myriad of bug fixes and other functionality improvements!
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