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BeeBase V1.2 has just been released. New features in this release include:

• New functions MEMOHEAD and MEMOTAIL for obtaining the first and last nth lines of a memo text.
• New functions GETCLIP and SETCLIP for accessing the clipboard.
• Support of virtual memo fields.
• Use a calendar popup for date fields in the AskMulti dialog.
• Updated BeeBase to use Qt 6.8.3 on Windows and MacOS, and Qt6 on Linux when available.
• On MacOSX and Linux a filename starting with "T:" is automatically replaced with "/tmp".
• New project setting "Max lines per SFWList row" for MorphOS for multi-line rows in virtual list fields.
• Swedish translation including user manual and web pages.
• Lots of other bug fixes.... read more

BeeBase V1.1 has just been released. New features in this release include:

• BeeBase now uses Qt 6.7.2 on Windows and MacOS.
• Universal binary (x86_64 and arm64) for MacOS.
• New BeeBase homepage by Stéphane Aulery.
• Corrected icons for Amiga.
• Optional MorphOS binary using MorphOS bultin sqlite.library.
• Several other small fixes.

Steffen Gutmann, 28.08.2024

We have renamed MUIbase to BeeBase. This is the first version of BeeBase which is functionally identical to MUIbase V4.5.

**New features since MUIbase V4.5
**

• BeeBase V1.0 is mostly identical to MUIbase V4.5. It's just a new name for the same software.
• Added Italian translation by Samir Hawamdeh.
• Fixed installation script for Amiga OS 4.

Steffen Gutmann, 07.08.2022

MUIbase V4.5 has just been released. New features in this release include:

• New trigger function for virtual list fields for supporting drag and drop of URLs (e.g. filenames).
• New sort-drop trigger function for virtual list fields when sorting items using drag and drop.
• New programming function MOVEREC for moving a record to a new position in its table. This is useful, e.g. for the new sort-drop trigger function.
• New programming functions GETREC and SETREC for obtaining and setting the record reference of a value.
• New programming functions for lists, REPLACENTH, MOVENTH, and REMOVENTH, which are useful for changing the value of the n-th element in a list, moving it to a new position, or removing it.
• New demo project FileList.bss which shows how to store external filenames in a Memo field and making them accessible in a virtual list. The project also showcases the new drag and drop functions for adding external files and for sorting the files.
• Menu item 'Open project' creates a new project instead of re-using the current one.
• ASKOPTIONS uses now check boxes for selecting rows on all platforms.
• The Windows distribution uses now x64 binaries.
• The Amiga distribution now also contains binaries for AROS (i386 and x86_64).
• Several bug fixes.... read more

MUIbase V4.4 has just been released. New features in this release include:

• Date fields can have an optional calendar pop-up button for selecting a date more comfortably.
• A virtual list field can optionally control the table from which the list is generated from in a select-from-where query. This allows to change the currently displayed record in the table according to the selected row in the list.
• When a virtual list field is printed or exported to PDF, multi-line entries in the list are now supported correctly.
• MUIbase project files can now be opened directly with a double click on all platforms.
• Several bug fixes.

Steffen Gutmann, 06.11.2021

MUIbase V4.3 has just been released. New features in this release include:

• Projects are now saved in the SQLite3 format. Existing projects are converted automatically when loading a project.

• Labels for database objects have their own font settings in the structure editor.

• Improved performance (loading of records, select-from-queries with a condition on a reference record).

• Changes can be logged to an external file, and applied to a backup copy of a project.

• Several bug fixes.... read more

MUIbase V4.2 has just been released. New features in this release include:

o New menu item for exporting entire project to SQLite3. This includes the
database structure and all user tables.

o Added an optional header and footer to the PDF export dialog.

o Renamed 'Attribute' to 'Field'. In most translations the columns of a table
were already referred to as fields. This is also more consistent with other
database systems.... read more

MUIbase V4.1 has just been released. New features in this release include:

o Improved time for reloading projects by storing a version number for each
record.

o New demo project Main.mb by Harold Kinds.

o Allow PRINT and PRINTF in functions that do not allow side effects. This is
useful when debugging such functions.

o Support drag n'drop in the structure editor in Qt on Windows, Mac and Linux.

o Updated MUIbase for Windows to Qt 5.11.3, and for Mac to Qt 5.10.1.... read more

MUIbase V3.4 and V4.0 have just been released. New features in this release include:

o MUIbase V4.0 for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux now uses Qt 5.x. A GTK version
is still available as MUIbase V3.4 but it is likely that the GTK version
will be discontinued in the future.

o Select-from-where results can now list multi-line entries. On Windows, Mac
OSX and Linux the full contents of a multi-line text are shown. On Amiga,
only the first line of a multi-line text is displayed.... read more

MUIbase V3.3 has just been released. New features in this release include:

o Remember the print settings in the preferences.

o When a new project needs to be saved in order to continue, let the user
save a project instead of showing an error message that a project name
has to be set.

o Warn user when changing choice labels in the structure editor when there
are existing records. Changing the choice labels does not update the label
indices stored in records. Also warn about duplicate and empty labels.... read more

MUIbase V3.2 has just been released. New features in this release include:

o When a project has been changed, a '*' used to be prepended to the window
title. This has been replaced by prepending the text 'Changed' instead.
In addition, if a project has been locked by another MUIbase instance, the
window title is now prepended with 'Locked'. Finally, if there is a newer
version of the project on disk, the window title is prepended with 'Old'.... read more

MUIbase V3.1 has just been released. New features in this release include:

o Shared access to a project from multiple instances of MUIbase running on
the same or different computers.

o New programming function PREPARECHANGE for obtaining a change lock on
a project.

o New programing functions FIELD and FIELDS for string parsing.

o New constant for programming: TMPDIR holds the name of a system-dependent
temporary directory.... read more

MUIbase V3.0 has just been released. New features in this release include:

o Optional logging of changes (adding, deleting and changing of records)
into a system log table.

o The counting of changes can now be disabled for a complete table
including the table's attributes.

o New dialog editor for table display objects.

o Panels are now part of the table display object.

o Possibility of defining record descriptions which are used when logging
changes and when listing records in list view popups.... read more

MUIbase V 2.11 has just been released. New features in this release include:

o New feature allowing to export the contents of a select-from-where
query as an ASCII file.

o Allow to export as PDF (Mac OS X, Linux and MorphOS) and print
(Windows, Mac OS X and Linux) the contents of a select-from-where
query.

o Several bug fixes.

Steffen Gutmann, 28.01.2012

MUIbase V 2.10 has just been released. New features in this release include:

o New function SETBGPEN for setting the background color of attributes.

o Several new pre-defined constants PEN_* useful for SETBGPEN.

o New function 'mainWindowTitle' for computing the title of the main window.

o Drag and drop of a record from a virtual list onto a reference attribute
for setting the reference to the dropped record.... read more

MUIbase V 2.9 has just been released. New features in this release include:

o Support Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5, ppc and intel.

o Option to overwrite existing records when importing data.

o New functions for programming: POW, SQRT, EXP and LOG.

o Quick search in reference field opens and searches in popup list.

o Sorting of virtual lists by clicking into a column header.

o Improved integration for MorphOS (install script, MUI)... read more

MUIbase V2.8 has been released for Linux, Windows and Amiga. New features since V2.7 are:

o Window buttons always open windows (rather than open/close windows) on all systems.

o Include Check.mb (project for unit testing) in the binary distribution.

o New images for welcome window, about dialog, window title and window buttons (thanks to Christoph and Sebastian Pölzl).

o New PNG and Glow icon set (thanks to and Pascal Marcelin).... read more

In the 04/2009 newletter of the Colmar EXPO, the innovation awards of 2008 are documented on page 3. Read the originial article on http://www.colmar-multimedia.com/upload/images/1/newsletter_0409.pdf

The following is an English translation of the part relevant to MUIbase (by Alexandre Balaban):

RMS Communication from Val-d’Illiez (Switzerland), who were present at the booth "Alternative Computing" held by "AmigaOS and MorphOS" distributor RELEC (www.relec.ch), draw attention to their development of a new ERP-like management software highlighting:... read more

MUIbase V2.7 has been released for Linux, Windows and Amiga. New features since V2.6 are:

o Implemented quick search for user functions popups.

o Merged settings for updating virtual attributes ('On different record'
and 'On dependent change') into one setting 'Auto update'.

o New 'Enabled' setting for attributes and window buttons:
'Always enabled' 'Disabled in initial', and 'Compute enabled'
with optional compute function.... read more

Colmar, October 26th, 2008. Christoph Poelzl from RMS Communications won the Trophées de l'innovation (innovation award) at the Colmar Multimédia l'Expo with his Enterprise resource planning (ERP) application. His solution is based on MUIbase and contains an address database, products, raw materials, purchasing, projects, accounting and a billing system. His database has been developed together with the author of MUIbase using Linux and MorphOS systems showing the ability of MUIbase of being multi-platform.

MUIbase V2.6 has been released for Linux, Windows and Amiga. New features since V2.5 are:

o User and admin mode with password option for entering admin mode.

o New functions for the programming of user access control:
GETADMINMODE, SETADMINMODE, ADMINPASSWORD and SHA1SUM.

o New sample database "Users.mb" for demonstrating user access control.

o Allow optional title headers and multi-column format for functions
ASKCHOICE, ASKCHOICESTR and ASKOPTIONS.... read more

MUIbase V2.5 has been released for Linux, Windows and Amiga. New features since V2.4 are:

o More options for reference popups: set of records can be computed
by a trigger function, initial and current record are optional,
layout using multi-column list.

o Labels of a string list pop-up can be computed by a trigger function.

o Option to treat pathnames relative to directory of project.

o Option "advance on enter" for jumping to next string field or staying
in current one.... read more

MUIbase V2.4 has been released for Linux, Windows and Amiga. New features since V2.3 are:

o Improved default display settings for new reference fields and windows.

o Added project program as a dependency for virtual attributes.

o Improved French documentation.

o Several bug fixes including one that caused memory corruption.

Steffen Gutmann, 20.02.2008

MUIbase V2.3 has been released for Linux, Windows and Amiga. New features since V2.2 are:

o Fully open source (GPL) including Linux and Windows versions.

o AmigaOS4 version by Alexandre Balaban.

o MorphOS version by Ilkka Lehtoranta.

o French translation of documentation by Alexandre Balaban.

o UTF-8 support. MUIbase project files are stored using UTF-8 encoding.
This requires the "codesets.library" to be installed on the system.... read more

MUIbase V2.2 for Amiga has been released. New features since V2.1 are:

o GlowIcon set by Pascal Marcelin.

o French catalog translation by Alexandre Balaban.

o New formats HH:MM:SS, MM:SS, and HH:MM for
displaying and entering of time values.

o Support of time values larger than 23:59:59.

Steffen Gutmann, 03.03.2007