What's new in InstrumentLab .NET 8.0.0.0
Feb 25, 2021
- Added Visual Studio 2019 support
- Redesigned Visual C++ support
- Added Byte and Char visual live bindings
- Significantly improved loading execution, and editing speed
- Significantly improved JSON support
- Improved IGDIPlus rendering performance
- Modified to use interface class function methods instead of constructors
- Redesigned pin path collection to significantly improve the speed
- Redesigned to set pin and properties owner fields on creation
- Improved pin information caching
- CreateLock replaced by Create with Lock parameter
- Improved FMX Design Time support
- Improved FMX support
New in InstrumentLab .NET 7.8.2.271 (Aug 9, 2020)
- Added Linux support
- Added iOS support
- Added RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo support
- Improved MAC, and Android compatibility
- Improved overlay window design for the LED and GlassPanel components
- Added TILTimeSource.tsAuto support
- Added Text Crop and DisplayPixels properties for the DisplayMatrix
- Added OnTextChanged to TULLabel
- Improved bindings API
- Pins converted to use the new Mitov.Runtime serialization
- Added OWRequiredPinAttribute support
- Added TOWIntToCardinalFormatConverter and TOWCardinalToIntegerFormatConverter
- Added TOWRealToRealComplexFormatConverter
- Added TOWRealListStatePin and TOWIntegerListStatePin
- Added Execute Process
- Added Command Line parsing and Process Execute
- Added option to disable the design time extentions
- Added Socket Binding
- Redesigned JSON Serialization
- Added TPeriodicThread
- Added initial Dynamic Type Info implementation
- Added GetIndexedSubProperty in the RTTI
- Added GetType for TObject in the RTTI
- Added support for both object and class in TMethodInfo.Invoke in the RTTI
- Enchanced Query functionality
- Added IPairCollection
- IArrayWriter renamed to ISequentialWriter
- IArrayReader renamed to ISequentialReader
- Improved Serialization Readers
- Added Reserialize
- Improved design time property editors support
- Added option to replace property collection items while keeping all compatible settings
- Added filtering for property collections
- Added support for categorized list property selection
- Added TreeView filtering support
- Updated to use the latest Delphi language features
New in InstrumentLab .NET 7.8.0.0 (Sep 6, 2016)
- Added RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin support
- Removed the old .NET 2.0 Assemblies
- Added Visual Live Binding property editors
- Added Reset to Default property editors
- Added Enum property editors
- Added Class events property editors
- Added Multi-Event property editors
- Added Make/Split Structure components
New in InstrumentLab .NET 7.6.0.0 (Apr 22, 2015)
- Added TTLGenericFilter
- Added more visual live binding types
- Significantly improved property Delphi editors
- Added option to Reset the peaks in the Spectrum
- Added ability to set segments of segment displays from Cardinal - unsigned integer
New in InstrumentLab .NET 7.5.1 (Dec 23, 2014)
- Improved .NET support
- Enchanced OpenWire Editor
- Added more visual live bindings
New in InstrumentLab .NET 7.5 (Nov 25, 2014)
- Includes the free Mitov.Runtime
- Added XE7 support
New in InstrumentLab .NET 7.0 (Nov 25, 2014)
- XE5 and XE6 support
- Significantly enhanced OpenWire Editor
- Improved Property and component editors
- Improved FireMonkey support
- Performance improvements
- Added TLPProcessingManager component
- Added TTLSynchronize component
- Added support for DB signal data binding
- Added a number of new data bindings
- Added support for VCL DB Components visual live binding
New in InstrumentLab .NET 6.0 (Jun 17, 2013)
- Added support for Delphi / C++ Builder / RAD Studio XE4
- The OpenWire Editor and Visual Live Binding are now included in the install
- Added TTLStopWatch component
- Added TTLCounter component
- Added TTLThreadEvent component
- Added TTLFrequencyMeter component
- Added TSLAverageValue component
- Improved Firemonkey support
- Significantly improved threading model and performance
- Significant code reduction due to upgrade to the latest language features such as generics, anonymous methods, and attributes
- New design time API and functionality
- Better integration with the OpenWire Editor including inplace editors in the OpenWire view
- Discontinued support for Delphi and C++ Builder versions older than XE2 due to the lack of support for the latest language features in them
- Improved .NET memory management
- Improved .NET design time integration
- Improved OpenWire Editor .NET integration
New in InstrumentLab .NET 5.0.3.1 (Oct 22, 2012)
- Fixed a bug when populating existing buffers in .NET generic filters
New in InstrumentLab .NET 5.0.3 (Oct 15, 2012)
- Added support for Delphi / C++ Builder / RAD Studio XE3
- Added support for Visual Studio 2012
- Improved Firemonkey support
New in InstrumentLab .NET 5.0.2 (Oct 15, 2012)
- Added FireMonkey support.
- Added 64 bit support for VCL, FireMonkey, and .NET
- All .NET assemblies are now managed assemblies.
- The .NET assemblies are reduced by half combining low level and high level assemblies, and simplifying deployment.
- All .NET assemblies now contain the necessary 32 and 64 bit BPLs and DLLs internally simplifying the deployment.
- The .NET Visual C++ redistributables are no longer needed.
- Added InstumentLab animations.
- Added InstumentLab Analog Instrument center position.
- Significantly improved InstrumentLab Analog Instruments rendering performance.
- Spectrum, MatrixDisplay, Thermometer, and all Segment displays now can be rotated.
New in InstrumentLab .NET 5.0.1 (Oct 15, 2012)
- The managed assemblies are now rewritten in C# for better .NET 4.0 compatibility.
- Added support for .NET 4.0 and .NET 3.5 “Client Profile”.
- Significantly improved .NET type converters.
- Significantly optimized component loading performance in .NET.
- Major improvements in the .NET property editors.
- Small improvements in the Unicode support for VC++.
- Improved VisualStudio 2010 .NET support.
- .NET assemblies have been renamed to better match the Microsoft guidelines.
- Added .NET 4.0 assemblies.
New in InstrumentLab .NET 5.0 (Oct 15, 2012)
- Added Delphi XE and XE2 support.
- Added control hands to the gauges.
- Added optional user input for the video layers.
- Significantly improved multithreading model adapted for multicore systems, with advanced relaxed interlocking, and with optional per-component, dedicated threads
New in InstrumentLab .NET 4.5 (May 8, 2010)
- Added Visual Studio 2010 support.
- Added TSLGenericRealMatrix component.
- Added SLGenericRealValue and TSLGenericRealValueGen components.
- Added mouse controlled gauge hands.
- Improved multithreading locks.
- Improved RAD Studio 2010 buffer debugger visualizes
New in InstrumentLab .NET 4.3.1 (Jan 16, 2010)
- Updated install.
- Improved RAD Studio 2010 buffer debugger visualizes.