JNIWrapper Announcements

JNIWrapper 3.8.1 Release Notes

Kazmin — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:09:32 GMT

New Features and Improvements:

Added support of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard platform;
Added implementations of low level keyboard (Hook.KEYBOARD_LL) and mouse (Hook.MOUSE_LL) hooks. These new hooks can be used on 64-bit Windows systems instead of KEYBOARD and MOUSE hooks in order to solve deadlock issues. (WinPack);
Added support of synchronous / asynchronous modes for Hooks in 32-bit and 64-bit JNIWrapper libraries (JNIWrapper and WinPack).

JNIWrapper 3.8 Release Notes

Kazmin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:57:36 GMT

New Features and Improvements:

From now on JNIWrapper is using the SLF4J Logging Facade that allowing the end user to plug in the desired logging framework at deployment time
Added OSGI manifest for JNIWrapper library
Added new Pointer.getParameterClass() method that returns a parameter type
Added new constructor to Pointer.OutOnly class that allows to specify a parameter type, like in Pointer class
Added new constructor to OpenSaveFileDialog class that allows to pass a parent Wnd (WinPack)
Added new getBuild() and getRevision() methods to the FileInformation class (WinPack)
Added constructors that allows to pass owner's window handle as Wnd parameter to SelectFolderDialog class (WinPack)
Added the wrapper for GetAncestor API function to Wnd class (WinPack)
Added the ability to access Win32 registry on x64 OS and vice versa (WinPack)
Added wrappers for GUITHREADINFO structure and GetGUIThreadInfo function (WinPack)

Resolved Issues:

NPE in DefaultLibraryLoader.findLibrary() method which occurs in Eclipse environment (platforms: All)
Problem with launching MacPack demo application
Several UI issues in Codegen application
NPE in SelectFolderDialog(String rootFolder, String caption) constructor of SelectFolderDialog class (WinPack)
Problem with handling RegistryKeyType.MULTI_SZ with (null) entry (WinPack)
Removed memory leak in DDE functionality (WinPack)
Updated Wnd.FindWindowEx method that didn't correctly handle null value for the className parameter (WinPack)
Updated Icon.loadFromStream() method, so now it can correctly recognize invalid/broken streams (WinPack)
"IndexOutOfBoundsException" and "java.lang.RuntimeException: Resource not found" issues in Icon.load() method (WinPack)
Exception in Bitmap.toImage for 16bit color depth (WinPack)

JNIWrapper 3.7.3 Release Notes

Kazmin — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:47:16 GMT

Fixes:

JNIWrapper correctly loads native libraries when search path contains Unicode symbols (Platforms: All)
Corrected calculation of structures size (Platforms: Win, Mac, Linux)
JAWT library is correctly loaded when program starts under JRE (Platforms: Linux)
Bitmap.toImage() correctly works in the 8-bit graphic mode under Windows XP SP2 (WinPack)
Bitmap.toImage() works without throwing the ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in both 32 and 16 bit color quality when using DIBitmap (WinPack)
JavaDoc now contains description for all classes, methods and parameters (WinPack)

JNIWrapper 3.7.2 Release Notes

Kazmin — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:23:04 GMT

New Features and Improvements:

Added getWorkingDirectory and setWorkingDirectory methods to ShellLink object (WinPack)
Added support for ExpandEnvironmentStrings function (WinPack)
Added CBT Hook implementation (WinPack)
Added OSGI manifest for WinPack (WinPack)
Added new LowLevelKeyboardHook and LowLevelMouseHook wrappers and samples for them (WinPack)
Added ability to check that a logged on user has got administrative rights (WinPack)

Fixes:

Fixed the issues with calculating members offset in complex aligned structures (platforms: All)
Now the Processor Name is shown correctly for new CPUs (WinPack)
Resolved memory leaks in RegistryKey.exists() method (WinPack)
Removed the handle leak in SystemVariables class (WinPack)
Fixed the issue in OFNStructure that occurred in case of multiselection in OpenSaveDialog (WinPack)
Methods get and containsKey in the class RegistryKeyValues are caseinsensitive now (WinPack)
Fixed the "ordering" issue in the RegistryKeyValues that sometimes causes changing of the types, for example EXPAND_SZ instead of SZ (WinPack)
Fixed the firing events in RegistryKey class (WinPack)
Resolved the issue with 16-bit graphic mode in Bitmap.toImage() (WinPack)

JNIWrapper 3.7.1 Release Notes

Kazmin — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:58:40 GMT

Improvements:

Improved finding and loading of native libraries by DefaultLibraryLoader (platforms: All)
Signed all JARs with new official signature (platforms: All)
Added ability to print out the license diagnostic information using -Dteamdev.license.info=true VM parameter (platforms: All)

Fixes:

Fixed issues with incorrect calculation of alignment in Structure class (platforms: All)
Fixed the problem with Codegen-linux.sh file (platforms: Linux)
Fixed the issue with open/save dialogs what it hangs under some JVM versions (WinPack)
Fixed the issue with getting the memory info on 32-bit OSes with more than 2Gb memory installed and under 64-bit OSes. The MemoryStatus class is marked as deprecated and the MemoryInfo class is introduced instead of it (WinPack).

Documentation:

Updated JNIWrapper Programmer's Guide with the latest information (platforms: All)

JNIWrapper 3.7 Release Notes

IgorShvydkoy — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:25:47 GMT

New Features:

Added support for MacOS X Intel 64 bit.

Improvements:

Improved ProcessorInfo class in order to determine new AMD and Intel processors correctly.

Fixes:

Added several missing Javadocs for API (platforms: All)
Misc improvements in the documentation (platforms: All)
Fixed the issue with incorrect offset calculation in filling end of the string when setting new value. (platforms: All)
Fixed the issue when NativeResourceCollector doesn't start if it's already stopped. (platforms: All)
Fixed the issues with watching file modifications from MacOS applications. (platforms: Mac OS X)
Added several missing constants in the com.jniwrapper.win32.process.Process.PriorityClass (platforms: Windows 32 bit)
Fixed issue with starting of MacPack Demo application (platforms: Mac OS X) .

JNIWrapper for Solaris UltraSPARC

IgorShvydkoy — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:26:45 GMT

New Features:

Added support for Solaris UltraSPARC (32-bit) platform.

JNIWrapper for IBM AIX Release Notes

IgorShvydkoy — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:27:30 GMT

New Features:

Added support for IBM AIX platform.

JNIWrapper 3.6.1 Release Notes

IgorShvydkoy — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:29:47 GMT

New Features:

Added support for Solaris x86 and x86-64 platforms.

Fixes:

Fixed incorrect optimization while reading a Pointer's referenced object. (Platforms: All)
Fixed the problem with reading of referenced objects from Pointer.OutOnly in callbacks. (Platforms: All)
Added the ability to load a native library, whose path is specified in an application class path; Now it's possible just to add the folder (where the native library resides) to the -cp VM parameter. (Platforms: All)

JNIWrapper 3.6 Release Notes

IgorShvydkoy — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:30:57 GMT

Fixes:

Fixed the problem with void return values in functions and callbacks (Platforms: x86)
Fixed the cause of java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException under Windows 2000 Professional (Platforms: Windows 2000 Professional)
Fixed JVM crash, when a callback without any parameters is invoked (Platforms: All)
Fixed the problem with loading of native libraries from JAR files (Platforms: All)
Fixed the problem in NativeResourceCollector when it does not release all native resources on shutdown (Platforms: All)
Codegen: Fixed incorrect generation of array size in the constructor for custom array parameters.

Improvements:

Improved error diagnostics. More information is now provided when native libraries loading fails. (Platforms: All)
Improved mechanism of searching and loading native libraries (Platforms: All)
Completed basic JNIWrapperInfo implementation providing information about JNIWrapper at run-time (Platforms: All)

Other:

Tested for compatibility with Java 6
JavaDocs improvements.

JNIWrapper 3.5 Release Notes

IgorShvydkoy — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:31:42 GMT

Fixes:

Fixed the problem which occuring when JNIWrapper is used to call libraries with SSE2 support; (Platforms: Mac OS X);
Fixed problems with calling some Windows API functions, such as CreateProcess and CreateThread. (Platforms: Windows 64-bit);

JNIWrapper 3.4 Release Notes

IgorShvydkoy — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:31:25 GMT

Fixes:

Fixed callback dispose method (Platforms: Windows, x86).
Fixed problem in implementation of Callback (Platforms: Mac OS X 10.4, G5).
Fixed problem with calculating the alignment of a Structure that ends with BitFields member(s) (Platforms: all).
Fixed incorrect byte order problem in WideStringArray class (Platforms: Mac OS X).

JNIWrapper 3.3 Release Notes

IgorShvydkoy — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:32:17 GMT

New Features:

Added support for Windows 64-bit platform.

Improvements:

Generator: added .clone() method generation for Structures.
Added clone() method implementation to some structures in JNIWrapper, WinPack and other products where needed.

Fixes:

Copy constructor of Structure class is deprecated and replaced with new initFrom() method.

JNIWrapper 3.2 Release Notes

IgorShvydkoy — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:33:11 GMT

New Features:

Added support for Mac OS X Intel platform.
Added support for JAWT for Linux platform.

Improvements:

Improved error diagnosis while loading native libraries (Platforms: Windows).
Added new DefaultLibraryLoader.prependPath() method that allows adding a new library path to the beginning of the search path.
Improved mechanism of extracting native libraries from JAR files.
Documentation: Several updates in JNIWrapper Programmer's Guide
Added new CallbackWithFillExternalArraySample sample that demonstrates writing the bulk of data to a given address.

Fixes:

Fixed the problem with loading libraries (on localized Windows) from the folders that contain Unicode characters (Platforms: All).
Fixed the problem in callbacks, when a callback has more than 3 parameters (Platforms: All).
Fixed the problem with incorrect default calling convention for callbacks (Platforms: Linux).
Fixed the problem with a callback when using int64 types (Platforms: Mac).
Codegen: Parsing error on Enum with extra comma.
Codegen: Fixed the problem with output numeric format.

JNIWrapper 3.1 Release Notes

IgorShvydkoy — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:34:58 GMT

Changes since version 3.0:

Added the ability to run JNIWrapper on 64-bit x86 platforms in 32-bit mode.
Updated AnsiString/WideString JavaDoc.
Numerous improvements in the CodeGen application: char* is generated to AnsiString, not Primitive array; mapping for uchar type, etc.

Fixes:

Fixed the problem with Callback under MacOS X.
Multiple bugfixes in the CodeGen application.