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| <p class="head">BIRT Stable Build S20050314</p> |
| <p class="subhead">New & Noteworthy</p> |
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| <h1>Report Designer</h1> |
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| <li>Implemented the extension system with charts. |
| <li>Added JavaScript native objects corresponding to some of the ROM elements. |
| <li>Added a validation framework to handle checks across multiple properties. |
| <li>Drag & drop will insert a new element at the insert position even if the |
| mouse cursor is in the margin area of the designer. |
| <li>Changed the look and feel of margin border. Made it similar to Word. |
| <li>Made the margin area visible if the element is expanded within the content area. |
| <li>Implemented column and row back ground color. |
| <li>Added edit action to the context menu of label item, text item, etc. |
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| <h1>Report Engine</h1> |
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| <li>FOP customization. Now users can customize FOP through a config file |
| birt_fop.xml. They can ask FOP to use additional font when rendering. |
| This addresses a newsgroup question about supporting Chines characters in PDF |
| output. |
| <li>Handling spaces in textual items. Consecutive space characters in HTML input for |
| text items are trimmed, while consecutive space characters entered as plain text are |
| preserved. |
| <li>Migrated to Java 1.4 logging framework as suggested by a user in the |
| newsgroup. The engine now uses Java 1.4 logging framework. |
| <li>Completed simple master page support, including two new properties footerHeight |
| and headerHeight. |
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| <h1>Data Engine</h1> |
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| Tested the following JDBC drivers: |
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| <td>Driver<td>Driver Version<td>Database(es)<td>Driver Name |
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| <td>Jdbc-odbc<td>2.1 |
| <td>ODBC |
| <td>sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver |
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| <td>jTDS <td>0.9 |
| <td>MS SQLServer 8.0, |
| Sybase 12.5 |
| <td>net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver |
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| <td>MySql <td>3.0 |
| <td>MySql |
| <td>com.mysql.jdbcDriver |
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| <td>DB2 <td>2.4 |
| <td>Derby, |
| DB2 7.2 |
| <td>com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2Driver |
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| <td>Oracle <td>9.0.2 |
| <td>Oracle 9.2 |
| <td>oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver |
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| <td>Postgres <td>8.0 |
| <td>Postgres |
| <td>org.postgresql.Driver |
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| <h1>Known Issues</h1> |
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| The following are known issues in this build that will be addressed in an |
| upcoming build. |
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| <li>Charts are not yet fully integrated into the Designer and Engine. |
| <li>This Linux build has known problems; please use this build on Windows. |
| only. |
| <li>BIRT supports non-Latin characters. The design file is encoded in UTF-8. |
| However, BIRT does not include the UTF-8 header characters in this build. If |
| you use an editor that inserts them, BIRT will be unable to open the design. |
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