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| Welcome to OS X Helix 6.1.6 |
| Helix 6.1.6 Release Notes |
The list of enhancements, fixes, and changes in Helix 6.1.6 is large. Click each section title to show or hide that portion of the Release Notes.
Linked bullet points take you to to technotes describing the change in greater detail. When an R-number is shown at the end of a line, it corresponds to a bug report that can be looked up in techdb.
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| What’s New |
Some of the items noted below need more than a single line to describe. The What’s New page provides details on these new features/enhancements. (Opens a separate page.)
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| Performance Enhancements |
The main focus of Helix 6.1.6 was on improving performance. This sections list performance-related reports that have been specifically addressed.
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| Other Enhancements |
Along with improving performance, this section details enhancements that make working with Helix better.
- Change various textual references from "Visit" to "Connect" as per Gil's new "Helix Connection Services" directive.
- Improved "Save Structure before..." dialog text to reinforce the "Connection Services" brand.
- Changed Client's "Connect" keyboard shortcut from CMD-V to Shift-CMD-C. (Shift key avoids conflict with Apple's use of CMD-C for Copy.)
- The HxDisableVisit preference has been changed to HxDisableConnect
- Force the Client's Why? dialog open (no more than twice) when the Server is sending out "please leave" messages.
- New preferences to control sequence progress dialog. See technote.
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| Bug Fixes |
Many reported bugs have also been specifically addressed. Remember: these bugs are written in the 'negative' form, as though the bug still exists. All of these bugs have been fixed.
Printing
- Printed alignment is wrong for text of radio buttons and checkboxes (R768)
- Record reverts on print when posting on print is involved (R6112)
- Command rectangles containing pictures do not print (R6745)
- Find and Print All: Page Number & Visibility Errors (R6773)
- Printing range is wrong if starting after page 1 and posting (R6867)
Posting
- Field focus lost upon enter if Option 1 post attached (R6635)
- Auto-open posted data initially fails to trigger lookup (R6654)
- Post not working on View when Find First is conditional (R6740/R6772)
- Posting progress bar does not update (R6756)
Sequences
- Putting Helix in background during sequence can clear entry views (R6535)
- Keypress: Enter command in chained sequences stops too soon (R6688)
- Client hangs "forever" processing simple sequence (R6730/R6795)
- Sequence Progress Thermometer disrupts Enter in Background (R6740)
- Default Button becomes Normal after printing (R6833)
- Sequence pauses until key is pressed or mouse is moved/clicked (R6942)
Queries
- Quick Query Term Specifier dialog (used for narrow windows) has no title
- Crashes when attempting quick query on Plain view (R735)
- Power Query - Searchable Items Pop up menu bug (R6690)
- Quick Query of a very narrow window crashes when clicking in the value field (R6742)
- Deleting records on entry view opened from ad hoc query skips records (R6810)
- Find disabled after if quick query is opened/closed (R6839)
Document Management
- Double clicking on document fields does not work (R740)
- Crash on Copy to Volume when Document name contains High ASCII Character (R6700)
- Crash if exporting an existing doc. set to replace (R6747)
- Intel only: Copy to Volume appears to fail for specific documents (R6778)
- Open Copy fails when run two times on the same document (R6853)
- Copy To Volume fails to provide default document name (R6854)
- Copy To Volume fails to ask permission before replacing existing file (R6855)
- PowerPC Only: Externally stored documents can be deleted during export (R6857)
- Reproducible hang when adding a document (R6940)
- Document selection dialog allows multiple selections (R6941)
- Copy from Volume in column view does not show icon preview (R6959)
Miscellaneous
- About screen for Engine and Client opens too often
- Hilighting list selection is aligned incorrectly
- Calculation errors on subforms inside of subforms (R668)
- Intel only: text in Delete confirmation missing, Crashes with subforms (R765)
- Refresh widget is missing (R6103)
- User editable HxAutoConnect preferences ignored (R6616)
- User can only launch apps that were installed while logged in as that user (R6620)
- Client and Engine fail to activate (come to front) when background window is clicked (R6651)
- Forms without fields show no pointing finger when hovering over buttons (R6674)
- Extra long word entry into keyword field crashes all apps (R6703)
- Crash on delete with indexed concatenations (R6704)
- Area under busy indicator is non-responsive to clicks until the busy indicator draws once (R6714)
- Focus lost in inert data rectangle during view update (R6717)
- Subform-based reports view can display wrong record data (R6719)
- Installer fails for non-admin user (R6741)
- R6762/Field deselect is inconsistent (R6805)
- Single dot appears when picture field is undefined (R6788)
- Zoom button does not respond correctly (R6797)
- Page Down (or clicking to advance one page) does not advance a full page (R6749)
- Cursor does not update when leaving a region (R6753)
- Field with vertical scroll jumps to top on switch to editing (R6799)
- Use From tile fails for specific summary calculation (R6812)
- Plain windows no longer increase by one pixel each time they are opened in OS X 10.5.8 or later. (R6828)
- First tabbable field is bypassed on some old views (R6841)
- Undefined picture rectangle ignores the rectangle's background color (R6957)
Client/Server Only
- Delay after entering URL in the "Connect To Server" dialog is too long
- Client disconnect dialogs now use Classic dialog style
- Pressing CMD-V from Open Client tries to Paste (R6357)
- Server hangs or unresponsive if Classic Client has not completed login. (R6538)
- Export Form with Posting crashes Server (R6692)
- Server crashes on logging off an Intel-Universal client via Client Info window (R6767)
- Client Visit during shut down hangs Server (R6785)
- List views do not update on data change from another Client (R6827)
- Client per user setting not honored (R6845)
- Recurring Client crash (various triggers) (R6943)
Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) Only
- Snow Leopard Only: Font Panel opens and closes before you can use it (R6736)
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| Known Problems |
Most of these reports affect only a very small subset of customers. Nonetheless, this is a complete list of problems that have been reported and confirmed in at least one situation.
Interface (Client and Engine) Specific
- Conditional color is lost on subform when entry view has Quick Query (R705)
- Dragging text from source to target fails unless you tab out of the target field (R741)
- Reading Transactions from Logfile does not report modified records (R746)
- Post all can become very slow with thousands of records (R749)
- The Delete Records confirmation dialog is Classic style (R6115)
- Starting Page #... dialog: is Classic style (R6116)
- Disabled Color menu contains the text "Black" (R6125)
- Rectangles do not show frame when placed over background rectangle (R6135)
- Label Rectangles frame color is not supported (R6147)
- Focus highlight missing, or multiple (R6152)
- Pasted graphics in label rectangles can look strange (R6163)
- User Authentication window too narrow (R6197)
- Color (and Other Preferences) customization at collection level needed (R6226)
- Logfile is Missing or Damaged dialog is Classic style (R6232)
- Click and drag selection on selectable lists is not implemented (R6277)
- Logfile recovery dialog appears on second monitor (R6298)
- User Log in dialog does not sort alphabetically (R6302)
- Color shift at different border rectangle depths (R6388)
- Page Setup is not retained between launches (R6405)
- Intel products not compatible with 10.4.x (Tiger) (R6452)
- All document icons are generic (R6482)
- Performance issues with importing/deleting large data sets (R6499)
- Max + 1 and Post All does not update for each record (R6552)
- Styled Text fields do not accept style changes in combo box rects (R6573)
- Conditional Style fails on subform with quick query (R6574)
- Combo box: CR vs LF confusion (R6619)
- Printing in "optional" sequence fails (R6642)
- Lookup referenced via Use-From must be on template that references abacus with Use-From (R6647)
- Clear key does not work with OS X (R6707)
- Power Query window loses focus, can't regain (R6769)
- Scroll wheel fails when scrollable field has focus (R6771)
- Drag 'n' dropped text disappears from "Add to Discussion" (R6774)
- Power Query window doesn't show scroll bars when too tall (R6790)
- Changing an index redraws the list two times (R6840)
- Progress Dialogs Display Prior Dialog Text Before Displaying Current Dialog Text (R6881)
- HxAutoConnect components do not play well together (R6939)
- Apple event: do menu fails with 290 error when it should not (R6947)
Client/Server Specific
- Server with HRFL crashes on launch when volume is greater than 2GB (R675)
- Intel Server does not recognize machine-specifications and more (R677)
- Client crashes when creating a new structure with name greater than 31 characters (R720)
- Client Classic write locks modified record (when replaced via Command W) (R724)
- Accessing Documents on Server can fail (R745)
- Open Why-Message on HelixServer blocks HelixServer (R761)
- "Save Changes before Quitting" window sometimes skipped (Server only) (R6473)
- Server crash during buffer load (R6556)
- intel client does not recognize structure file with long name (R6585)
- Export All w/Delete on Post skips records, repeats some in text file (R6644)
- Server gets bogged down and unresponsive sometimes (R6686)
- Editing Users via Client is not always registered (R6738)
- External documents are not handled properly: Client can not retrieve (R6779)
- Can Helix Server respond to more than one ethernet interface? (R6782)
- Clients can't reconnect after (brief) network outage (R6804)
- Client should not quit just because it can't find the saved server (R6818)
- Text typed into Quick Query box extremely slow on WAN (R6822)
- Edit Username List can only be accessed once per log in (R6868)
- Memory leak when Client is disconnected (R6884)
- Drag and Drop Client Structure on unregistered Client Fails to Connect (R6949)
- Sequence causes server crash when posting thousands of records (R6951)
RADE (Classic) Specific
- In the template Command Shift E is attached two times (R708)
- Clippings menu dims after user mode switch (R6228)
- Command/Text Rect. color alteration UI discrepancy (R6372)
- Deleting a field formerly used in an abacus used by a query damages collection (R6461)
- Unexpected look up failure on modification of target key abacus (R6468)
- Modifying picture > 64K (in label or command rectangle) via dialog corrupts collection (R6512)
- Double nested background rect inside 2 border rects can be troublesome (R6566)
- RADE crash on View/Sort Order with View Setup (R6607)
- Error in Custom Format of Flag Field (R6626)
- Repeating "Why" indicator (R6693)
- Identical structure behaves differently if created from two different routes (R6739)
- Reproducible 36/ error using pasted structure (R6766)
- Reproducible 36xx error after deleting one or two unused icons (R6849)
- Field icons with stray RXFM objects (R6851)
Older Known Problems w/Documentation
- Full Keyboard Access Not Implemented & Tab Field in Sequences
Because Full Keyboard Access is not yet fully implemented, sequences that rely on tab field commands that move through popup menu, checkbox, and radio button fields may fail. When you launch an OS X Helix application, a dialog box warns you if Full Keyboard Access is turned on. See this technote for more information.
Non-text fields (popups, checkboxes, radio buttons) ignore the Allow Tab option, and must be set via mouse click.
- Font Issues
Certain fonts (Helvetica is a prime example) are available in multiple versions (bitmap, TrueType, PostScript, dfont, etc.) and the translation from one to the other can sometimes result in display issue. Make sure you do not have multiple versions of a font installed. (Apple’s Font Book application can show you where duplicates exists.)
- Styled Text and the Font Panel
The current implementation of the font panel in Helix has a number of problems.
- The font panel is modal: you must open the panel, choose your font/size/color, then close the panel to continue editing the record. You can't simply leave it open and edit like you can in other OS X applications.
- You must type some text in the styled text field before opening the font panel. After typing, select the text you want to change, then open the font panel and make your changes.
- The style changes being made are not always seen in the field being edited. Changing the size of the styled text updates both the font and size. Changing the font does not update the field until the font panel is closed, the size is changed, or the color panel is opened.
- Changing the color of styled text updates the color when the color panel is closed.
- After you have set the style of some text, that style is applied to all additional text typed in that field. That style is not retained when tabbing to another styled text field: the default style for that field is used.
- When typing in a new record, the last color that was viewed in each styled text field is retained, but the last font and size are not.
- Some fonts simply do not register when selected. The failing font list varies from computer to computer.
- Fonts with multiple typefaces are not always applied as expected.
- Word Wrap Always On When Text Is Not Left Aligned
If a data rectangle has Word Wrap turned off and Center or Right alignment, the data rectangle appears to be empty.
This problem is caused by a limitation in OS X, so until Apple addresses it, we must work around it.
The workaround: In OS X Helix, a rectangle with Word Wrap turned off and Right or Center alignment respects the alignment and turns Word Wrap on, regardless of the user specification.
Apple claims to have fixed this bug in OS X 10.6, but our testing does not confirms this, so we can not yet reactivate this feature in Helix.
- Popup Menu Resizing Always On (BZ#538)
Popup menus always resize to show the data, overriding the Allow Menu to Resize to Data attribute when it is off.
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| Disabled Features |
Three features available in Classic Helix are disabled in OS X, and will remain so for the indefinite future.
- Work On Document: the Document Management command that enables you to edit internally stored documents and automatically bring them back into Helix is disabled in OS X Helix. The Classic model simply does not work in OS X and we plan on introducing an all-new model when OS X RADE is complete.
- Work On Copy: the Document Management command that enables you to edit externally stored documents and automatically bring updated references back into Helix is disabled in OS X Helix. The Classic model simply does not work in OS X and we plan on introducing an all-new model when OS X RADE is complete.
- Export Ordered: This feature was an ill-advised addition to Helix 5.0 and has not been widely used. We have chosen not to implement this feature in OS X. A new interface, providing greater exporting options, is planned for a future release.
All of these features can be replicated (with extra code) in OS X Helix.
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| Specification Changes |
Outlines many specification changes made during the transition. (Opens a separate page.)
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| Discrepancies |
Outlines many differences in the behavior of the current Classic and OS X Helix products. (Opens a separate page.)
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