CurlVersion 3.0

Product and Language Features

• Package caching
• Occasionally Connected Computing (OCC)
• Faster applet loading
• Full Korean character set support
• Reflection API for Curl programming objects
• Integrated Third Party Documentation
• Applet Localization / Internationalization
• ActiveX control support extended to new datatypes (Windows only)
• Platform-dependent line ending sequence support in TextStream's
• Curl language supports 'never-returns' return type
• Manifest support for more deployment scenarios and localization / internationalization of packages
• DateTimeFormatter class
• NumberParser class

• New RichTextArea control
• Opened the GUI API so that third parties can create their own Box and Layout classes.

• Data Access
• Data driven forms based applets
• Easy ways to explore and interact with corporate data
• Added RecordGrid
• Added data bindings: DataBindingTarget, DataBindingContext, DataBinding, DataBindingValidationFailure, bind macro
• Added record sets. See BasicRecordSet, BasicRecord, DefaultRecordField
• Added a basic database connection. See BasicConnection, BasicConnectedField, BasicConnectedRecordSet, RecordForm for bound controls, validation protocol

• Added halign option to TextDisplay, TextField, PasswordField
• Added SequenceBox.swap-children
• Removed expiration of privileged URL's
• The SimpleParticleSystem is now open (can be subclassed)
• The BaseMenuPane class is now open
• The Display class is now sealed
• RadioButton.radio-value is now a constant field,
• Added ClipFrame class
• Added a default-location parameter to choose-directory. The choose-file proc can now set the file extension.

Visual Layout Editor

• Supports container classes
• Supports elastic dimensions
• Supports data bindings
• Supports database connections
• Many additional components on the palette
• Better integration with the Surge Lab text editor
• Shows a tree view of the layout hierarchy