FootRunner Release History

Current Version: 14.0.1

Version 14.0.1

• Resolved license error presented when executing FRGold commands on some Windows systems.

Version 14.0.0

• Updated to run with 4D v14 in Windows and Macintosh.
• Resolved error when where FRGold treats the "//" in URLs as a 4D comment; both old-style ( ` ) and new-style ( // ) comments can be included in text variables now.
• Dropped support for 4D v11.

Version 13.0.0

• Updated to run with 4D v13 in Windows and Macintosh.

Version 12.1.1

• Resolved error when attempting to run plugin on Mac OS 10.5.x

Version 12.1.0

• Enabled support for Windows based 4D Servers running 64-bit
• Fixed memory leak

Version 12.0.0

• First official public release of FootRunner for 4D v11. Certified compatible with 4D v11.6, v12.0.
• Rewritten to support 4D v11.5 plugin API changes.
• Memory Management rewritten.
• Simplified command set.
• Support for calling FootRunner scripts from within FootRunner scripts.
• Supporting 4D code methods provided to supplement eliminated plugin commands.
• Removed FRDocument2Text command
• Removed FRHTMLFile2BLOB command
• Removed FRRunDocument command.
• Removed FRSave command.
• Removed FRSendHTMLFile command.
• Removed FRText2Document command.
• Dropped support for Mac OS 10.4 "Tiger".

Updated commands:

• FRRunText -- new parameter to indicate calling an FR script from within an FR script
• FRRunTextRaw -- new parameter to indicate calling an FR script from within an FR script
• FRAppendChecksum
• FRRemoveChecksum

Obsolete commands removed: (use methods from sample database instead)

• FRDocument2Text
• FRHTMLFile2BLOB
• FRRunDocument
• FRSave
• FRSendHTMLFile
• FRText2Document

Version 11.3.1 (public beta)

• fix crash when executing under Windows Server 2003
• bug fix on PowerPC-based Macs

Version 11.3.0 (public beta)

• bug fix in PA_SetVariable

Version 11.0.1 (public beta)

• numerous bug fixes

Version 11.0.0 (public beta)

• Updated for 4D v11 SQL; FootRunner version 5.0.x will not be compatible with 4D v11 SQL.
• Unicode support.
• Rewrote the checksum; checksums from FootRunner version 5 are no longer compatible.
• Parameter support extended from a previous maximum of 9 parameters to a new maximum of 15 parameters that may be passed to FootRunner scipts.
• Removed support for pre-tokenized scripts. All scripts when executed are tokenized at runtime and cannot be pre-tokenized.

New or updated commands:

• FRRunDocument -- updated with new checksum
• FRRunText -- updated with new checksum
• FRRunTextRaw -- new command; same as FRRunText without checksum
• FRSave -- updated with new checksum
• FRText2Document -- updated with new checksum
• FRDocument2Text -- updated with new checksum
• FRAppendChecksum -- updated with new checksum
• FRRemoveChecksum -- updated with new checksum
• FRSendHTMLFile -- updated with new checksum
• FRHTMLFile2BLOB -- updated with new checksum

Obsolete commands removed:

• FRClipCheck -- use Get text from clipboard + FRAppendChecksum instead.
• FRRun -- use FRRunDocument instead.
• FRRunToken
• FRSaveText -- use FRText2Document instead.
• FRTextCheck -- use FRAppendChecksum instead.
• FRTokenize
• FRUnCheck -- use FRRemoveChecksum instead.

Version 5.0.4

• Certified compatible with 4D 2004.
• Handled tabs contained in method code copied from Method Editor to clipboard in 4D 2003.4.
• Bug fixes.

Version 5.0.3

• Crashing bug fixed.

Version5.0.2

• Parsing bug fix.

Version5.0.1

• $var bug fix.
• Parsing bug fix.

Version 5.0.0

• Added ability to pass "parameters" to FootRunner scripts via FRRunDocument, FRRunText.
• Added support for local variables to scripts (not including $pointers or $arrays).
• Parameters and local variables not supported if FR scripts are called via FR scripts (nested scripts).

New or updated commands:

• FRText2Document -- new command; same as FRSaveText
• FRRunDocument -- new command; same as FRRun, support for up to 9 parameters in FR script
• FRRunText -- support for up to 9 parameters in FR script
• FRAppendChecksum -- new command; same as FRTextCheck
• FRRemoveChecksum -- new command; same as FRUnCheck
• FRHTMLFile2BLOB -- new command; support for up to 9 parameters in FR script
• FRSendHTMLFile -- new command; support for up to 9 parameters in FR script

Legacy commands that may be removed in future versions:

• FRSave
• FRTokenize
• FRRunToken
• FRClipCheck

Obsolete commands removed:

• FileList
• FootPrefsFolder
• Get4Dvers
• GetTicks