Another Magik Blog

Pedro Miranda has started a new blog...

dedicated to Smallworld magik, it will be mainly a place to post assorted bits of useful code, targeting developers....and information regarding SW.

You can find it at http://magikbites.blogspot.com/

Dialog Designer v1.6 now available

Graham Garlick over at iFactor Consulting has uploaded v1.6 of the open source Dialog Designer. You can get the latest version from the SourceForge Magik Components community or from a zip file at iFactor Consulting.

Here are the release notes:

• added outlookbar widget
• support progress_bar pane type in statusbar
• support dropdown image button groups within a toolbar
• click on rendered menubar or statusbar to jump to its editing tab

OLE_Controller Monitor

Have you ever written Magik functionality that uses OLE/COM and wondered if you are sending :release_object() to all the ole_controller objects? Wonder no longer. Have a look at the ole_controller_monitor class I created recently.

This class allows you to start/stop/reset monitoring on the ole_controller class and report to you how many un-released ole_controller objects still exist in your monitored environment.

This is a great help in cleaning up OLE-based reports (eg., Excel, Visio, Word) and preventing the eventual OLE/memory-related errors that force a user to restart their Magik session.

API and steps to use the class are included in the file header.