I'll be boarding my plane in a little while. I'm all packed and have my laptop already, and a bunch of brochures printed. I'm looking forward to meeting many of you, and seeing some familar faces again over the next few days. I'm going to be stuck to my booth a lot so won't be able to roam, so be sure to come by and say 'hi!'. I'm @ booth #3, so as you enter the area, it's on the row to your left and the third down along the left (or so my map says, I haven't seen it yet).

    During the conference be sure to check out http://direxions.pvxhost.com/ for regular updates, photos uploaded direct from the conference, and some summaries about the sessions. Did you notice the new logo in the top left - just in time for the conference? Ok, so it looks a lot like the last one, but it's better resolution, and the text is a different font ;-)

    For all my customers that won't be attending Direxions, I want to apologize in advance if I'm unable to get back to you in a timely manner while I'm there. I'm not 100% sure if I'll be connected during the day or not, so may only have email in the evening and I believe my mobile can only make outgoing calls, it can't receive incoming so I'll have to check messages and do my best. I appreciate you understanding in this matter.

    Viva Las Vegas!

    Today Best Software Canada announced the release of version 6.00 of ProvideX! Nth Dimension would like to congratulate them on this great release, and all the exciting new features that have been included.

    Please visit our example code area to find a number of example programs showing off some of the new features, with more to come over the coming weeks after we return from DireXions.

    Here is a partial list of the new features

ProvideX Language:

    - EFF - Enhanced File Format

        - Single file up to 504GB each

        - 64-Bit File structure

        - Increased number of keys and segments 

        - Uses new Shadow Page technique

    - Output directly to PDF

        - Built-in support for Postscript Document Format

    - Program Libraries 

        - Single library file that contains entire sets of 

          ProvideX programs

    - User-customizable message box

    - Major enhancements to Grid and Tree View controls

    - Load-On-Demand for List Boxes and List Views

    - 255-Colour support for the Text Plane

    - Gradient Fills

    - Remote object support through WindX

    - 2 billion character data lengths to WindX

    - Enhanced picture and icon support

    - Printer margin support

    - DSN-less ODBC connections

    - Dynamic loading Oracle OCI interface

    - Dynamic loading SSL for UNIX/Linux

    - Bi-direction pipe support for UNIX/Linux

    - Enhanced debugging

    - 10 million element arrays

    ... and much more.

    

    
NOMADS:

     - Load-On Demand Lists

     - Background Grid and List Box loading

     - Object persistence

     - COM controls

     ... and much more.

    

    
ProvideX Report Writer - New for Version 6

    
ProvideX Web Server

     - Character mode configuration support

     - Logging

     - Virtual paths

     - SSL usage under UNIX/Linux

    

    
ProvideX Application Server

     - Character mode configuration support

     - SSL usage under UNIX/Linux