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1 June 2007
The new release candidates for OWLNext and OCFNext, owl 6.20rc17, ocf 6.20rc17 and owlbcb 6.20rc17 are available. Changes include several fixes submitted by Frank Rast, Luigi Bianchi, Andrew Bond.
Pre-build libraries for several compilers are available.

29 May 2007
The new release candidates for OWLNext and OCFNext, 6.20rc16, 6.20rc16 are available. Changes include a fix for multiline edit control and a VCL-compatibility change in the makefile.
Pre-build libraries for several compilers are available.

17 May 2007
The new release candidates for OWLNext and OCFNext, 6.20rc15, 6.20rc15 are available. Changes include a fix in TGlyphButton, addition of TOleAutoDll class in OCFNext to allow calling SafeArrayGetVartype() from BC5.02 applications, and several BDS2007 compatibility changes.

2 May 2007
The new release candidates for OWLNext and OCFNext, 6.20rc14, 6.20rc14 are available. Changes include a fix for the loaded MSVC run-time libraries and some Unicode-related fixes for BDS2006/2007.

23 April 2007
The new release candidates for OWLNext and OCFNext, 6.20rc13, 6.20rc13 are available. Changes include:
  • More changes int the Document template and streaming macros to allow building with the new Borland Developer Studio
  • A bug fix in OCF, which did not allow the controller examples from the tutorial to work.

The About page is updated.

16 April 2007
The new release candidates for OWLNext and OCFNext, 6.20rc12, 6.20rc12 are available. Changes include:
  • Changes to allow building with the new Borland Developer Studio
  • Automatic library linking by pragma comment(lib, "owl????.lib") is enabled for C++ Builder 6.0 and latest.
  • New batch build file VCMAKE.BAT by Vidar Hasfjord for VC2003 and VC2005.
  • A fix for an issue with the Printing Dialog called before the main TApplication object is initialized

31 March 2007
The new release candidate for OWLNext, 6.20rc11 is available. Changes include:
The new release candidate for OCFNext, 6.20rc11 is available. Changes include:
  • Changes submitted by Armin Tueting
  • Changes submitted by Mohsen Jahanshahi for compatibility with his Ole GenPro tool
  • As a result from these changes, a problem occured with building OCF Automation application with Borland C++ 5:
    Line AUTOFUNC0 (NewDoc, OpenDoc, TAutoObject<TDrawDocument>, ) causes
    Error: step18.h(42,3):Ambiguity between 'TAutoVal::operator =(void *)' and 'TAutoVal::operator =(TObjectDescriptor)'
    To resolve the problem, I introduced new set of automation macros to be used when the return value is TAutoObject - AUTOFUNC0O, AUTOFUNC1O, etc. The line above can be replaced with:
    AUTOFUNC0O (NewDoc, OpenDoc, TDrawDocument, )
  • This last OCFNext releease still has some issues, not all examples are working perfectly, so don't use it for production builds.

4 March 2007
As you can see, the site has new design. Most of the pages are not yet updated to the new look, and the old site is still available here, but not all internal links may work.
4 March 2007
The new release candidate, 6.20rc10 is available. Changes include:
- The printing module uses by default the new Print Dialog Box. This can be turned off by setting to false the flag UseOldDialog in TPrintDialog::TData structure.
- A fix which prevented diagnostic build from working.
- A fix in TLayoutWindow destructor.

12 June 2006
The new release candidate, 6.20rc9 is available. After version 6.20 is finalized, the work for removing the 16-bit support will begin.
There is also a release candidate for OCFNext, it is versioned 6.20rc9, to be in sync with OWLNext, although there were no OCFNext 6.20rc1-rc6,rc8.

9 March 2006
There is a proposal to remove the 16-bit support in the source code of OWLNext in order to clean the code base and optimize several function calls.
If anyone is still interested in using a 16-bit version of OWLNext, please post to the mailing list



Last updated: 1 June 2007