XMetaL XMAX 17.0 Release Notes

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XMetaL XMAX 17.0 Release Notes

Contents

• Introduction
• New features
• Bug fixes and minor enhancements
• Known issues
• Support services

Introduction

XMAX is an ActiveX control version of XMetaL Author that you can use from within
your application to create a familiar word-processing environment for XML
content creation.

XMetaL XMAX is available as either 32-bit or 64-bit native ActiveX control.

New features

• Development, build environments and SDKs upgraded to the most recent versions.

• Passed formal QA tests on the Windows 11 platform.

• Performance improvements for file opening and editing documents containing a large number of elements and images (over 50.000 elements and over 1000 inline images).

• Support High-DPI monitors

  XMetaL now takes the DPI of displays into account and is able to
  natively render their contents on High-DPI monitors.

• Various customers requests and defect fixes are addressed.

APIs

New APIs for:

• interaction with a host applications
• running specific XMAX scripts in synchronous and asynchronous modes
• managing text highlighting in documents

Please refer to the XMetaL Developer documentation (when available) for more information.

XMetaL XMAX 17.0

API	Description
DocumentHost::RunScript	Allows running the XMAX script, assigned to DocumentHost::CustomProperties, with VARIANT-type parameter.
DocumentHost::RunScriptOnIdle	Allows running the XMAX script assigned to DocumentHost::CustomProperties asynchronously after XMAX has entered to an idle state. Optional parameters specify additional delay time and VARIANT-type parameter.
DocumentHost::FireEvent	Allows XMAX script customization firing generic event to host application with name-value pair parameters.
DocumentHost::Selection	Allows XMAX script customization getting Selection object.
Document::GetHighlightedRangeState Document::GetHighlightedRangeType Document::GetHighlightedRangesIDs Document::SetHighlightedRangeType	Additional XMAX APIs facilitate development of document text highlighting customizations.

XMetaL XMAX 16.0

API	Description
DocumentHost::RunMacroOnIdle	Runs the XMAX macro script asynchronously after XMAX has entered to an idle state. Optional parameters specify additional delay time and a VARIANT-type parameter that can be passed to the macro.
DocumentHost::RunAfterProcessDone	Runs the XMAX macro script asynchronously after a specific Windows process was terminated and XMAX has entered to an idle state. Optional parameters specify a VARIANT-type parameter that can be passed to the macro.
DocumentHost::AddFileChangeMacro	Runs the XMAX macro script asynchronously after predefined file(s) were changed and XMAX has entered to an idle state. Optional parameters specify the full file path or pattern and a VARIANT-type parameter that can be passed to the macro. XMetaL provides additional default parameters containing the full path of the file that triggered the event.
DocumentHost::IsFileChangeMacro DocumentHost::RemoveFileChangeMacro DocumentHost::IsProcessRunning DocumentHost::TerminateProcessEx	Additional XMAX APIs allow to maintain a customization based on an asynchronous event.
DocumentHost::FileToString	Returns the contents of the file specified as a string.
DocumentHost::UniqueFileName	Returns a filename, starting with the specified prefix, that is not present in the specified folder.
DocumentHost::FileExists	Returns a boolean indicating whether the specified file exists.
DocumentHost::ReadableFileExists	Indicates whether the file specified exists and is readable.
DocumentHost::WritableFileExists	Indicates whether the file specified exists and is writable.
DocumentHost::WritableDirExists	Indicates whether the folder specified exists and is writable.
DocumentHost::ShowFindDialog	Shows Find and Replace dialog.
DocumentHost::ShowSpellChecker	Show Spell Checking dialog, if it is installed.
DocumentHost::IsSpellCheckerInstalled	Check if the Spell Checker is installed.
DocumentHost::CustomProperties	Returns a NameVariantProperties object for the custom properties of the DocumentHost.

XMetaL XMAX 15.0

API	Description
Document.ZoomPercentage	Property that returns or sets the zoom percentage of a document.

XMetaL XMAX 14.0

API	Description
IXMetaLControlEvents::OnClick	Existing event sink method will now be called whenever a triple-click occurs in Tags On or Normal view modes and is indicated by a clickCount parameter value of 3.
IXMetaLControlEvents::OnDropFiles	New event sink method is called when files are dropped onto the XMAX window and allows overriding the built-in behavior.
DocumentHost::DropFileCount	Property that returns the number of files drag’n’dropped onto the XMAX window. Property is only valid during the On_Drop_Files event macro.
DocumentHost::DropFileName	Property that returns the fullpath filename drag’n’dropped onto the XMAX window for a given index. Property is only valid during the On_Drop_Files event macro.
Find::ExecuteEx	Method adds a new parameter over the old Find.Execute method that causes highlighting all matching occurences in the editing window.

XMetaL XMAX 13.0

API	Description
IXMetaLControl.AddChangedNodeKey	Adds customization-specific changed node lists identified by the given key string.
IXMetaLControl.RemoveChangedNodeKey	Removes customization-specific changed node lists identified by the given key string.
DOMElement.wordCount	XMetaL-specific DOM extension property that returns the number of words including those in all child elements.

XMetaL XMAX 12.0

API	Description
IXMetaLControl.ValidateBeforeExport	Property used to control whether or not XML validation is applied during a document save or export action.

XMetaL XMAX 11.0

API	Description
Selection.InsertTableEx	Method used to insert HTML-like custom table.
Selection.InsertCALSTableEx	Method used to insert CALS-like custom table.
DOMDocumentType.addTableElementMap	Method used to add custom treat-as-table configuration via JSON object description.
Document.TagsOnGraphicalTables	Boolean property to toggle the display of tables between graphical and plain tags rendering in Tags On view.
Document.QueryAttributes	RESERVED.
Document.includeTransclusionEx	RESERVED.
Document.includeTransclusionEx2	RESERVED.

XMetaL XMAX 10.0

API	Description
IXMetaLControl.EnableBidi	Boolean property that controls when XMAX uses the bi-directional text authoring and formatting logic.
Selection.IsMultiCellSelection	Boolean property that returns true if the selection consists of mulitple table cells.
Selection.Cells	Property that returns a DOMNodeList of the table cells under the current selection.
CanElement.DisplayName	String property that returns the nice name configured for an element via CTM file.

XMetaL XMAX 9.0

API	Description
IXMetaLControl.ParserLaxEmptyContent	Boolean property that controls the parsing and validation before for empty content.
Selection.CanSplitTable	Boolean property that returns true if the table under the selection can be split into two for the given direction.
Selection.SplitTable	Method that splits the table into two in the given direction under the current selection.
Selection.CanSplitTableGroup	Boolean property that returns true if the table group under the selection can be split into two for the given direction.
Selection.SplitTableGroup	Method that splits the table group into two in the given direction under the current selection.
Selection.CanMergeTable	Boolean property that returns true if the table under the selection can be merged with the sibling table in the given direction.
Selection.MergeTable	Method that merges table under the selection in the given direction.

XMetaL XMAX 8.0

API	Description
IXMetaLControl.EnableStructureView	Boolean property that controls the display of the Structure View splitter widget for the next document loaded into the control. Default value is false for backward-compatibility.
IXMetaLControl.SVWidth	Positive integer property that is the number of pixels wide to make the Structure View the next time it is shown. Default value Structure View width is 220 pixels.
Document.StructureViewVisible	Boolean property to show or hide the Structure View panel is now legal to use for XMAX.
Document.AddCompareFunc	RESERVED.
Document.RemoveCompareFunc	RESERVED.
Document.CurrentCSS	Default CSS path property for all views.
Document.getElementsByTagNameEx	Method returns either a live, snapshot or forward-iterator-only DOMNodeList containing all the descendant elements of this document that have the name ‘tagname’. The special tagname ‘*’ matches all elements.  The “mode” parameter effects the DOMNodeList behavior as follows below: mode == 0 returns a “snapshot” list; document mutations will not cause list to change though nodes may become invalid. mode == 1 returns a “live” list; document mutations can cause list to change. mode == 2 returns a “forward-iterator-only” list; special case of “snapshot” list whereby calling DOMNodeList::item() method gets next in-sequence item regardless of index parameter value provided.
Document.getNodesByXPathEx	Method returns either a live, snapshot or forward-iterator-only DOMNodeList containing all the nodes of this document that match up with the XPath expression provided.  Setting “mode” parameter to 0 causes a “snapshot” list to be returned.  The “mode” parameter effects the DOMNodeList behavior as follows below: mode == 0 returns a “snapshot” list; document mutations will not cause list to change though nodes may become invalid. mode == 1 returns a “live” list; document mutations can cause list to change. mode == 2 returns a “forward-iterator-only” list; special case of “snapshot” list whereby calling DOMNodeList::item() method gets next in-sequence item regardless of index parameter value provided.
Document.querySelector	RESERVED.
Document.querySelectorAll	RESERVED.
DOMElement.getElementsByTagNameEx	Method returns either a live, snapshot or forward-iterator-only DOMNodeList containing all the descendant elements of this element that have the name ‘tagname’. The special tagname ‘*’ matches all elements.  The “mode” parameter effects the DOMNodeList behavior as follows below: mode == 0 returns a “snapshot” list; document mutations will not cause list to change though nodes may become invalid. mode == 1 returns a “live” list; document mutations can cause list to change. mode == 2 returns a “forward-iterator-only” list; special case of “snapshot” list whereby calling DOMNodeList::item() method gets next in-sequence item regardless of index parameter value provided.
DOMElement.getElementsByTagNameNSEx	Namespace-aware version of the getElementsByTagNameEx API method.
DOMElement.getNodesByXPathEx	Method returns either a live, snapshot or forward-iterator-only DOMNodeList containing all the descendant nodes of this element that match up with the XPath expression provided.  The “mode” parameter effects the DOMNodeList behavior as follows below: mode == 0 returns a “snapshot” list; document mutations will not cause list to change though nodes may become invalid. mode == 1 returns a “live” list; document mutations can cause list to change. mode == 2 returns a “forward-iterator-only” list; special case of “snapshot” list whereby calling DOMNodeList::item() method gets next in-sequence item regardless of index parameter value provided.
DOMElement.querySelector	RESERVED.
DOMElement.querySelectorAll	RESERVED.
InPlaceControl.ProgID	Property returns string of the ProgID for the ActiveX control in-context during OnShouldCreate/OnInitialize/OnSynchronize scripts.

XMetaL XMAX 7.0

API	Description
IXMetaLControl.SaveWithDoctypeDeclaration	When set to NO the doctype declaration is omitted from the saved file. Files that contain a doctype declaration when opened have the doctype declaration stripped from them.
IXMetaLControl.SaveWithSGMLDeclaration	Tells XMAX to whether or not to write out the SGML declaration whenever Save() is called.
IXMetaLControl.NormalizeImagesURLsOnSave	Automatically adjust all Treat As Image source attribute values in relation to the saved document’s file location.
IXMetaLControl.NormalizeXMLBaseURLsOnSave	Automatically adjust all xml:base href attribute.
IXMetaLControl.NormalizeXMLBaseURLsOnSave	Automatically adjust all xi:include href attributes.
IXMetaLControl.NormalizeSystemIdURLsOnSave	Set to true (default): XMAX changes the SYSTEM URL (path to the DTD) in the Doctype Declaration to a path relative to the location of the XML file. Set to false: The path is left unaltered (i.e., the value it was when the XML file was first loaded).
IXMetaLControl.XmlOpenAsWellFormed	Intended to be used in conjunction with <PARAM> Xml startup of XMAX in a webpage to indicate a well-formed open is desired.
IXMetaLControl.EmptyElementGifPath	Image displayed for an empty element in Tags On and Normal views.
IXMetaLControl.MissingImageGifPath	Image displayed when images isn’t found or href is unset while in Tags On and Normal views.
IXMetaLControl.TagsOnViewTagFontName	Typeface used for tag icons.
IXMetaLControl.TagsOnViewTagFontSize	Font size used for tag icons.
IXMetaLControl.TagsOnViewTagBackgroundColor	Background color for tag icons.
IXMetaLControl.TagsOnViewTagColor	Text and outline color for tag icons.
IXMetaLControl.TagsOnViewReducedTagsMode	Show tags without element names inside them.
IXMetaLControl.TagsOnViewShowComments	Show XML comments in Tags On view.
IXMetaLControl.ShowInlineImages	Visibility of tag tips in Tags On view.
IXMetaLControl.TagsOnViewShowTagTips	Visibility of tag tips in Tags On view.
IXMetaLControl.TagsOnViewTagTipsWithFixedAttributes	Visibility of fixed/defaulted attribute values in tag tips in Tags On view.
IXMetaLControl.TagsOnViewGraphicalTables	Hide table markup in Tags On view.
IXMetaLControl.EnableCALSTableAutoLayout	If enabled, ignores width attributes so you can see all of cells content (i.e. columns auto-widen).
IXMetaLControl.DrawGridOnBorderlessTable	Draw a dotted line around table cells when the border value is set to 0.
IXMetaLControl.TrackRevisionsUserName	Name used for change tracking. If no name is specified, the default Windows login user name is used.
IXMetaLControl.PlainTextViewFontName	Font used in Plain Text view.
IXMetaLControl.PlainTextViewFontSize	Size of the font used in Plain Text view.
IXMetaLControl.PlainTextViewAutoIndent	Auto-indent text after typing a carriage-return.
IXMetaLControl.PlainTextViewNoWrapInTags	Do not wrap text inside tags even if exceeding CTM maxlinelength.
IXMetaLControl.PlainTextViewExpandTabsOnSave	Covert all tabs (ASCII 0x08) characters into spaces (ASCII 0x20) upon Save() call.
IXMetaLControl.PlainTextViewShowLineNumbering	Display line numbering in source view on left-hand side.
IXMetaLControl.PlainTextViewTabSize	Width in spaces of a tab character in Plain Text view.
IXMetaLControl.PlainTextViewShowTabs	Display tabs in source view.
IXMetaLControl.PlainTextViewWrapLines	Wrap lines in source view. 0 = Off; 1 = Break within words; 2 = Break between words.
Document.InlineMediaVisible	Visibility of images and OCXReplacements, i.e. Hide/Show Inline Images state.
Document.msgHwnd	Current MSG.hwnd. Only valid to call during On_Application_View_Event.
Document.msgMessage	Current MSG.message. Only valid to call during On_Application_View_Event.
Document.msgWParam	Current MSG.wParam. Only valid to call during On_Application_View_Event.
Document.msgLParam	Current MSG.lParam. Only valid to call during On_Application_View_Event.
Document.msgTime	Current MSG.time. Only valid to call during On_Application_View_Event.
Document.msgX	Current MSG.pt.x. Only valid to call during On_Application_View_Event.
Document.msgY	Current MSG.pt.y. Only valid to call during On_Application_View_Event.
Document.WindowHandle	Document view HWND. Only valid to obtain when in Plain Text, Tags On, and Normal view-modes.
Document.RangeNearestPoint	Return Range object set as if mouse was pressed at the given screen coordinates. If no coordinates provided, current mouse position is used. If no Range, point was outside of window.
Document.BeginMutations	Signal start of a group of document mutations to be treated as a single undo-able action. Only valid for Tags On and Normal view-modes.
Document.EndMutations	Signal end of a group of document mutations to be treated as a single undo-able action. Only valid for Tags On and Normal view-modes.
Document.GetNodeSpellLanguage	Get node’s spelling language.
Document.IsDummyNode	Returns true if the node is a dummy node.
Document.HighlightRange	Highlight a specified range of a document.
Document.SetHighlightedRangeState	Set status properties on a highlighted range.
Document.GetHighlightedRange	Get Highlighted Range by id.
Document.ScrollSelectionToTop	Scrolls selection to top of the view.
Document.ScrollSelectionToBottom	Scrolls selection to bottom of the view.
Selection.screenTop	Return TOP screen coordinate of current selection rect indicated.
Selection.screenLeft	Return LEFT screen coordinate of current selection rect indicated.
Selection.screenBottom	Return BOTTOM screen coordinate of current selection rect indicated.
Selection.screenRight	Return RIGHT screen coordinate of current selection rect indicated.
Selection.IsPointInside	Return true if screen coordinate is within the Range on-screen selection rect.
Selection.SelectNodeContentsAt	Moves this selection to be the content of the specified DOMNode at specified position.
Selection.SelectionLocation	Get/set the selection location in format <node xpath>;<left pos>;<right pos>.
Customizations.ElementPropList	Returns an object for the Element Properties.
ElementProps.Item	Returns an element property item. Index ranges from 0 to Count 1.
ElementProps.Count	Returns the number of element property items.
ElementProp.Name	Returns the element name of the element property.
ElementProp.LongDescription	Returns the long description of the element property.
ElementProp.ShortDescription	Returns the short description of the element property.

Bug fixes and minor enhancements

XMetaL XMAX 14.0

Feature	Description
API	IXMetaLControlEvents::OnDropFiles is a new event sink method that will be called after files are drag’n’dropped onto the XMAX editing window. This method is called before any event macros (i.e. On_Drop_Files) or built-in behavior is executed.
API	The new On_Triple_Click event macro is fired whenever the user triple-clicks in Tags On or Normal view. Similarly, the IXMetaLControlEvents::OnClick event sink is fired with a clickCount parameter value of 3.
API	ActiveDocument.Host.DropFileCount property returns the number of files drop onto the document. This property is for use during the On_Drop_Files event macro.
API	ActiveDocument.Host.DropFileName property returns the fullpath filename drop onto the document for a given index. The property is for use during the On_Drop_Files event macro.
API	Find.ExecuteEx method extends upon the Find.Execute method with an additional parameter to highlight all matching occurences.
API	API calls returning DOMNodeList (e.g. childNodes or getNodesByXpath) could cause an application crash if the list contained DOM text nodes.
Architecture	‘gen’ folder path too long if UNC-based APPDATA folder path configured.
Editing	Triple-clicking within a WYSIWYG view will select the entire containing element including its start and end tags.
Editing	Rendering of “whitespace” characters U+2000 thru U+200D was incorrect.
Editing	Ctrl+C would crash in rare cases while enumerating available clipboard formats.
Editing	Pasting text with content that could be intrepretted as an XML namespace prefix could cause the application crash.
Editing	Clicking the left mouse button always made a selection instead of setting an insertion point if XMAX was running inside Internet Explorer on Win10.
Image support	Images are not displayed after collapsing and expanding the parent element tag.
Table editing	Deleting a column could cause the document to become invalid (due to leftover empty row elements) for table instances with complex morerows setups.
Table editing	Modifying a table’s colspec attributes removes or changes id attributes unexpectedly.
UI	XFT form widgets that cannot accept keyboard focus and have XPath property set would crash.

XMetaL XMAX 13.0

Feature	Description
API	IXMetaLControl.AddChangedNodeKey method adds customization-specific changed node lists identified by the given key string.
API	IXMetaLControl.RemoveChangedNodeKey method removes customization-specific changed node lists identified by the given key string.
API	DOMElement.wordCount property returns the number of words including those in all child elements.
API	ChangedNodes list is incorrect after modifying table properties.
API	Calling the Document.UndoClear method or setting the Document.Saved property after having just typed a few characters would result in a crash.
Architecture	64-bit version could crash after running script on Windows 8/10 systems.
Editing	Editing actions that cause clipboard changes could trigger a GPF.
Editing	Running a macro that inserted markup could cause a GPF.
Image support	SVG image file could not be drag-and-dropped into non-DITA documents and a strange error message would appear.
SGML support	Unable to switch from plain-text if document contains an internal subset.
Table editing	After copy and paste of multiple table rows, document is not consider modified and cannot be saved.
Table editing	After deleting a table header or footer row, the document becomes invalid.
Table editing	Insert row above first row or below last row would not do anything.
Table editing	Switching views after undoing a table editing action could crash.

XMetaL XMAX 12.0

Feature	Description
API	IXMetaLControl.ValidateBeforeExport property allows controlling whether or not XML validation is applied during a document save or export action.
API	Selection.Find.Execute method would crash or do nothing when passed a text string with a length of 249 or more characters.
API	Calling the Document.UndoClear method or setting the Document.Saved property after having just typed a few characters would result in a crash.
Architecture	64-bit version could crash after running script on Windows 8/10 systems.
Architecture	64-bit version could crash after running XFT form on Windows 8/10 systems.
Architecture	Cannot open document if its corresponding DTD or XSD was located in a deeply nested folder structure. The per-user generated folder path XMAX made for writing compiled rules file was longer than Windows would permit.
Architecture	Cannot open document if its corresponding DTD or XSD was located in a deeply nested folder structure AND APPDATA is set to a UNC-based folder path. The per-user generated folder path XMAX made for writing compiled rules file was longer than Windows would permit.
Editing	Deleting text and closing document afterwards causes GPF.
SGML support	SGMLDECL catalog directive ignored and .dcl file extension not recognized.
UI	Some CSS fonts used to style paragraphs/blocks would end up truncating content at the end of paragraphs whenever a Tab character was present.
UI	Change tracking tooltip appears on 2nd screen of dual-monitor system.
UI	Jscript with Unicode text constants for XFT button labels displaying as question marks.
WebDAV support	WeDAV LOCK request failed if MSXML6 installed.
XSD support	Cannot open files that include DTD subset and reference XSD Schema.

XMetaL XMAX 11.0

Feature	Description
API	Document.TagsOnGraphicalTables property added to allow toggling graphical tables display on a per-document basis.
API	ShowTagTips and similar boolean properties set to True at design-time were not working properly. Underlying prop_get implementation was returning a C++ bool value instead of a VARIANT_BOOL value.
API	WritePermittedContainer API failing when used inside ReadOnlyContainer node.
Architecture	Calling LoadFromFile API would crash the x64 version on Windows 8 or newer.
Editing	Rendering is wrong and confusing after deleting part of nested tracked changes.
Editing	Parameter entity in internal subset is dropped.
Editing	Pasting partial element causes a crash or the clipboard locks up.
Editing	Typing <Enter> deletes element to the left of insertion point.
Saving documents	Entity reference removed from internal subset after saving.
Table editing	Follow CALS table spec for @valign attribute on row, thead, tbody, tfoot elements.
Table editing	Deleting table column does not mark document as dirty (modified/changed).

XMetaL XMAX 10.0

Feature	Description
API	Selection.IsMultiCellSelection property returns true if multi-cell table selection.
API	Selection.Cells property returns DOMNodeList for multi-cell table selections.
API	CanElement.DisplayName property returns string of the nice name configured for an element via CTM file.
Editing	Deleting a collapsed tag removes root element instead.
Spell checking	Canadian English spell check should accept “program” and “programs” as correct.
Spell checking	French spell check should treat “aujour’dui” as one word and correctly spelled.
Spell checking	“Resume” function starts from beginning if edits occur inbetween which is not the same behavior as it was in version 4.0.
Table editing	Splitting table that contains multiple footer rows crashes.
Table editing	Splitting an HTML table that does not have <tbody> crashes.
Table editing	Multi-level sort in table does not work as expected.
XSD support	Defaulted attributes not inherited properly.
XSD support	Software would attempt to open URN for included or imported schemas locations. Fallback for URI lookup improved.

XMetaL XMAX 9.0

Feature	Description
API	Add API for joining tables.
API	Add API for splitting tables.
API	Tags On view tag icons displayed completely black if TagBkgdColor and TagColor design-time properties were left unset.
CSS support	Support CSS properties – border-top, border-bottom, border-right, border-left.
Editing	Undoing drag’n’drop or cut/copy and paste actions required doing Undo twice.
Table editing	Inserting element into THEAD in custom CALS table model, then undoing, results in application crash.
Validation	Validation of xs:date or xs:time datatypes could crash due to internal buffer overrun.
Validation	Validator complains about comment inside empty element.
Validation	External parameter entity resolving to wrong location of master DTD instead of parent file.

XMetaL XMAX 8.0

Feature	Description
DTD support	External parameter entity resolved using wrong base location (top-level DTD location used instead of including module base location).
Editing	Typing-allowed test was resulting in the wrong behavior when rules checking was turned off.
Editing	Cannot deselect a selection with a single click in editing area.
Editing	Cannot drag and drop elements to move them around when using XMAX inside IE8 and IE9.
Formatting	Blue diamond image (empty.gif) is not being displayed for empty elements unless EmptyElementGifPath API called.
Formatting	Japanese “full-width space” U+3000 rendered same size as regular space U+0020.
Opening documents	Crash may occur when opening a file with many (> 50) large images.
Spell checking	Switching between Spell Checker and Thesaurus would render “Options” button incorrectly or hang.
Validation	Incorrect XSD validation when “” (empty string) is allowed as enumerated attr value.

XMetaL XMAX 7.0

Feature	Description
Architecture	Documents opened directly into Plain Text view do not trigger per-user settings RLX generation in %appdata% and lead to non-UAC-savvy behavior.
Change tracking	Custom processing instructions are deleted or altered instead of integrating them into a Change Tracking PI.
Editing	Double click word followed by period with no space selects word + period.
Image support	Crash occurred rendering a PNG with “sRGB chunk”.
Saving documents	Document.Saved property was correctly indicating a “dirty” documents.
Saving documents	“Undo past save” feature broke ActiveDocument.Saved API (and UI). System would still prompt user to save.
Spell checking	“Default” spell check user-word-list (UWL) is ignored when custom words added.
Spell checking	Spelling mistakes are flagged for content marked with xml:lang=”zxx”.
Table editing	Modified CALS table model triggers invalid <spanspec> insertion.
Table editing	Inserting a CALS <table> left out required @cols for <tgroup>.
Validation	Document with processing instruction that does not contain a target validates (yet should not).
Validation	Validating document or selection does not catch processing instruction target that contains illegal characters.
WebDAV support	Locking a file on WebDAV server fails if http response body returned has no length specified (i.e. compound response).
XML namespace support	Cannot create new doc or open existing doc because adding default namespace without checking for ancestor namespace declarations.

Known issues

XMAX product activation dialog may be hidden by the web browser window hosting XMAX

When a web application for XMAX is launched, XMAX’s license activation dialog may end up
appearing behind the web browser’s window. This often occurs if Internet Explorer has
displayed its “Allowing blocked content” warning. Use Alt+Tab and/or the mouse to reveal
the XMAX License Activation dialog so you can proceed with activating XMAX.

Document is always opened in read-only mode when using Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS 7.0)

IIS 7.0 is no longer open for anonymous HTTP put operations. Consequently, XMetaL
cannot open files for editing over an Internet connection, which causes files to open as read-only.

For more information, go to
http://www.iis.net/learn/get-started/whats-new-in-iis-7/what39s-new-for-webdav-and-iis-7
and refer to the third bullet point under the “Changes and Known Issues in WebDAV for IIS 7.0” section.

Using background-color or border CSS properties may slow editing

Setting CSS background-color or border for elements that contain large amounts of
content may compromise the performance of the editor. Workaround: use a CSS override
to set ‘border:none’ for the element. See the online Help for information on
overriding base formatting.

Background spell checking updated during periods of inactivity

Background spell checking has been optimized to update during periods of inactivity. Consequently,
if text is entered at a very high rate, the updating of red underline markers on the page may be delayed.

OnContextMenu

The event macro OnContextMenu returns different data, depending on the user context:

When no document is open in the XMAX editor

• Right-clicking returns screen coordinates.
• Pressing Shift+F10 returns the screen coordinates of the top left corner of the
  XMAX editor.
• The application returns the screen coordinates of the top left corner of the
  XMAX editor.

When a document is open in the XMAX editor

• Right-clicking returns screen coordinates of the mouse to the XMAX editor.
• Pressing Shift+F10 returns the screen coordinates of the cursor to the XMAX
  editor.
• The application returns the screen coordinates of the cursor to the XMAX
  editor.

Some properties do not work during debugging

If you are debugging scripts in XMAX from the XMetaL Developer IDE, the property Document.IsValid
does not return reliable results. In addition, the property Selection.IsValid
may take a very long time to return values, or cause your development system to
lock up altogether.

Debugging a customization with an XMAX configuration may cause a memory read problem message

When a customization is configured to use a custom container application written
in VB.NET for XMAX when debugging, an error message reading “The memory could
not be “read”.” is displayed when the custom container application is closed.
This error can be ignored. The error does not occur when the customization is
built.

XMetaL XMAX appears to have focus when it really doesn’t

Sometimes XMetaL XMAX may appear to have focus (colored title bar and flashing
cursor), but in reality does not have focus. In those cases, any input from the
keyboard affects the application that does have focus (e.g., Internet Explorer
if it hosts the XMAX control). In some cases this can cause unpredictable
behavior or even result in a crash and loss of data.

There following workarounds are available, depending on the context:

• If you are working with a document, click anywhere within the XMAX window to
  set focus.
• If you are within the execution of a script, use the SetFocus(); method to set
  focus on the XMAX window.

Support services

For a list of telephone support offerings, online service options, and
support downloads, visit http://xmetal.com/support/.

To contact XMetaL support directly, e-mail us at
[email protected], or
telephone us at one of the numbers listed at
http://xmetal.com/content-about-contact-us/.

 

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