EmberPlus Viewer v2.4.0.35

Overview

This version of the Ember+ Viewer is a bugfix and maintenance release for issues discovered and enhancements made since version 2.40.0.30.

Added

• Console window now accepts character c to clear the console content.
• Added first draft of mDNS service discovery for _ember._tcp._local announcements.
• Added copy path to clipboard in tree context menu (right click).

Fixed

• Fixed tree duplicates.

Please note: The tag corresponding to this binary-only release is unrelated as having a valid tag for a release a requirement imposed by GitHub.

EmberPlus Viewer 2.40.0.30

Overview

This version of the Ember+ Viewer is a bugfix and maintenance release for issues discovered and enhancements made since version 2.40.0.24.

Added

• Added a "Show Contents" button for multiline values.
• Ember+ decoder now able to handle non-escaping messages.

Changed

• Adjusted the "Set Value" textbox to accept multi line values and to allow the use of Shift+Enter to insert a new line and Enter to accept the value.

Fixed

• Parameter GetDirectory now uses glow tag "parameter" instead of "node".
• Fixed an issue that despite pressing Enter in the "Set Value" textbox the textbox is still in focus and the "OK" button wouldn't work.

Please note: The tag corresponding to this binary-only release is unrelated as having a valid tag for a release a requirement imposed by GitHub.

Ember+ SDK v1.8.2

Overview

Version 1.8.2 of the Ember+ SDK is a maintenance release that fixes two issues recently discovered in the libember C++ library.

Fixed

• libember: Fixed an incorrect assumption about the length of multibyte encoded values. (#102).
• libember: Fixed a missing null pointer check, before use (#103).

EmberPlus Viewer 2.40.0.24

Overview

This version of the Ember+ Viewer is a bugfix release for major issues discovered since v2.40.0.19.

Added

• Added "Jump To" function to the Targets and Sources on the Matrix.
• Added Shift+Enter new line functionality to string parameters.

Fixed

• Fixed an incorrect computation of the encoded length for integer values (#96).
• Fixed a NullReferenceException when exporting a data model containing a matrix.
• Fixed an issue with end point creation where the textbox values for the host name and port wouldn't get selected upon pressing tab.

Please note: The tag corresponding to this binary-only release is unrelated as having a valid tag for a release a requirement imposed by GitHub.

EmberPlus Viewer 2.40.0.19

Overview

This new version of the Ember+ Viewer supports recent additions to the Ember+ protocol previously unsupported by the version included in the most recent SDK.

Changes

Notable changes since v1.6.2 include:

• Support for templates.
• Parameters reported as being "offline" are now displayed grayed out.
• The set value dialog and function invocation dialog are now support default values.
• Added support for optional function parameters.
• Parameters of type string can now be modified.
• Extended the set value dialog and function invocation dialog to handle multi line text strings.
• Added the ability to copy values to from parameters and nodes to the clipboard with a context menu entry.
• A function can now be recalled with existing function arguments (select an invocation in the invocation history list).
• Added a search function for tree items (the identifier and description fields will be considered).
• Added a sorting function. The tree items will be sorted in ascanding order by number, identifier or description.
• Allow exporting the Ember+ tree as a XML file.
• Identifier and Description sorting functions now using natural sort order.
• Added encoding and decoding support for NaNs.
• The matrix connect command now uses either connect or disconnect as operation type, independent of the matrix type.
• Removed 'Auto GetDirectory' option serialization. As selection this option may cause an excess number of requests, especially with matrices.
• Lots of bugfixes.
• Added encoding and decoding support for NaNs.
• The matrix connect command now uses either connect or disconnect as operation type, independent of the matrix type.
• Removed 'Auto GetDirectory' option serialization. As selecting this option could cause an excess number of requests, especially with matrices.
• Identifier and Description sorting functions now using natural sort order.
• Lots of bugfixes.

Please note: The tag corresponding to this binary-only release is unrelated as having a valid tag for a release a requirement imposed by GitHub.

Ember+ SDK v1.8.0

Overview

Version 1.8.0 of the Ember+ SDK is a feature release that introduces various new features to the GLOW DTD.

• Multiple schema references per node.
• Node templates to reduce redundant traffic.
• Parameters may now have the value null to indicate that no value is present.

Apart from these new features this release also contains numerous fixes and stability improvements.

Please note that that version 1.8.0 is a best effort release to provide a stable reference for all features introduced since the beginning of 2014. Going forward several structural changes will be made to the projects and its libraries:

• The Ember+ protocol will enter a feature frozen maintenance mode meaning there will be no extensions in the foreseeable future as it is now considered feature complete.
• All libraries will be split into separate git repositories. The monolithic repository will be maintained using subtree copies generated by git subrepo.
• All libraries will transition to individual, semantic versioning starting with version 2.0.0.

Apart from these structural changes the current mid-term roadmap foresees transitioning the C++ libraries libs101, libformula and libember to C++17. The C++03 variant will be frozen at version 1.8.0 with the exception of important fixes that may be backported by popular request.

Added

• All: Added CMake build instructions.
• All: Added support for the new GLOW DTD features.
• libember: Added convenience operations front(), pop_front() and pop_back() to ObjectIdentifier.
• libember: Added support for floating point type NaN encoding and decoding.
• libember_slim: Allow building and using libember_slim as a shared library.
• libember_slim: Added callbacks for onOtherPackageReceived, onFirstPackageReceived and onLastPackageReceived. The original callback onPackageReceived still exists, but is not only invoked when an ember packet has been decoded.
• libs101: The encoder and decoder now support the non-escaping variant.

Changed

• TinyEmberPlus: TinyEmberPlus is now built against Qt5.

Fixed

• All: Fixed issues #51, #52 and #54.
• libember: Fixed issues #26, #45 and #48.
• libember: Fixed potential memory leaks during decoding in DomReader.
• libember: Fixed a memory leak caused by ListContainer::eraseImpl() not freeing memory allocated to the erased nodes.
• libember: Fixed StreamBuffer not swapping the maximum size.
• libember_slim: Fixed issue #38.
• EmberLib.Net: Fixed NullReferenceExceptions in error cases.
• libformula: Term::compute() no longer uses global state.

Ember+ SDK v1.6.2

Overview

Version v1.6.2 of the Ember+ SDK is a maintenance release that fixes an
important oversight in version 1.6.0 with regard to the correct spelling of the newly introduced "schemaIdentifiers" attribute.

In addition to this functional change this release increases stability and addresses a few performance problems. All users of the v1.6.0 version are encouraged to update to this release as soon as possible.

Fixes

• Updated DTD version implemented by the various libraries to 2.31 which includes a minor change to the naming of the schemaIdentifier attribute.
  Please note that this requires a small change to client code that uses the accessors, because the spelling has been changed from the singular form "schemaIdentifier" to the plural form "schemaIdentifiers".
• Fixed potential memory leaks during decoding in DomReader.
• Optimized the equality comparison of two type erased iterator instances, yielding a massive performance improvement in typical loop constructs.
• Corrected the signedness of a few temporary variables and integral constants used in the implementation.
• Removed extraneous semicolons that caused compiler warnings on high warning-levels.
• Removed obsolete entries from the Doxygen configuration and corrected wrong output directories in the Doxygen configuration.

Additions

• Added a method called compliesWithSchema which tests whether a schema is part of the schema identifier collection of a node, parameter or matrix.

Ember+ SDK v1.6.0

Overview

Version 1.6.0 of the Ember+ SDK is a feature release that introduces the new Schema extension to the GLOW DTD.

Apart from this new feature this release also contains numerous fixes and stability improvements.

Additions

• Added a Ruby script that converts the premake4 generated VS2012 solution to VS2013 because the automated conversion no longer works reliable strange licensing reasons.
• Added traits to determine the property type from a GLOW type.
• Added libember::ber::ObjectIdentifier::push_back(..) and libember::ber::ObjectIdentifier::push_front(..) to allow building a path iteratively. Changed the underlying container to std::deque<..> in order to support push_front(..).
• Added libember::ber::ObjectIdentifier::back() to access the last element of the OID.
• Added explicit constructor taking an argument of type value_type to some of the enum-wrappers (CommandType, MessageType, Dtd). PackageFlag and Byte already have a non-explicit constructor taking an argument of type value_type.
• Added equality operators for some of the enum-wrapper types.

Fixes

• Fixed issue #13, by changing the visibility of the default constructor of GlowRootElementCollection and setting the root tag in the default constructor.
• Fixed issue #14 by replacing the standard container with a more suitable alternative and storing the stack elements by value.
• Fixed issue #15 by Replacing C++11 specific constructs in libember with their C++03 equivalents and changing the C++ language standard on non-Windows platforms from C++11 to C++03.
• Fixed issue #17, pass (type-erased) iterator by const-reference, because copying it is expensive.
• Fixed macro to generate type-traits, which was causing errors under GCC.
• Fixed GlowTupleItemDescription::type() always returning ParameterType::None.
• Fixed a lot of warnings at high warning levels.
• Fixed errors reported by cppcheck.
• Fixed Simian warnings in various parts of the Ember+ libraries.
• Fixed a broken link in the Ember+ documentation.

Miscellaneous changes

• Declared the step property of the parameter as deprecated.
  The documentation contains a hint that this property may also be removed in future releases of the libraries.
• Declared GlowRootElementCollection::create() as deprecated.
• Corrected target prefix for libember and libember_slim to avoid the double "liblib" prefix on Unix like systems.
• Modified linker options to set RPATH to '.' on Unix like systems.
• Added (currently failing) test for issue #6.

Ember+ SDK v1.4.0

Overview

Version v1.4.0 of the Ember+ SDK is a feature release that introduces provider specified callable functions the GLOW DTD.

Apart from this new feature this release also contains numerous fixes and stability improvements.

Additions

• Added a method to glow::Value to convert it to an instance of ber::Value.
• Added methods hasEnumeration and effectiveParameter method to GlowParameterBase.
• Added the enumeration entry ParameterType::None to indicate that the type is unknown or not present.
• The methods minimum, maximum, value and defaultValue of the class GlowParameterBase now return an instance of Value or MinMax with the parameter type set to None when the requested value is not present.
• Added comparison operators for the ObjectIdentifier class.

Fixes

• Fixed issues #4, #5, #10, #11 and #12.
• Fixed encoding of real numbers that treated the mantiassa as signed.
• Fixed encoding of unsigned ling values that caused the encoded value to contain a leading zero.
• Fixed DomReader not decoding values of type OctetString.
• Fixed wrong GLOW tag of EmberPlus-Glow.MatrixContents.labels.

Ember+ SDK v1.2.0

We're pleased to announce the official availability of version v1.2.0 of the Ember+ SDK!