The unit SDLBase contains a collection of basic declarations used by all other units of the SDL Component Suite - nothing spectacular, just basic stuff. More details can be found in the online help pages.

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What's new:

• Release 12.0   [Dec-12, 2023]
   
  • declaration of TNameStr
  
  
• Release 10.7   [Aug-24, 2020]
   
  • the type declaration TDistMode and the definition of the corresponding IDs DistModeId has been moved from SDL_matrix to SDL_sdlbase
  • new type declaation TPIntArray for integer point arrays
  • the constant array CSVDELIMITERIDS provides now names of CSV delimiters
  
  
• Release 10.6   [Mar-09, 2018]
   
  • declaration of the new types TTriState, TInt3DArray and TDouble4DArray
  • the type declaration TCSVDelimiters has been moved from unit SDL_datatable to SDL_sdlbase
  • the type declaration TZoomPanMode has been moved from the unit SDL_colorscale to SDL_sdlbase
  • the function ResolveCSVDelimiter assigns a CSV delimiter
  
  
• Release 10.5   [Oct-10, 2016]
   
  • the following data types have been declared: TBoolArray, TVariantArray, TStrArray, TBool2DArray, TDouble3DArray, TInt2DArray, TSingleArray
  • the class TCrossHair now supports the method SetPos
  
  
• Release 10.4   [Jun-02, 2015]
   
  • the global variable LastProcStat supports management of process states
  • the type declaration TColoredPoint declares a two dimensional point with additional data attached
  • the type declaration TMouseActMode has been extended
  • the type declaration TDouble2DArray declares two dimensional open array of double precision values
  • the procedure types FeedBackProcType and TFeedbackProc have been changed to pass the state count as a double parameter (instead of an integer value)
  • the new type declaration TDims declares dimension specifiers of matrices
  • the global variable ProcStat is now of type double
  
  
• Release 10.3   [Oct-06, 2014]
   
  • definition of TCrossHMode extended by a small crosshair and a square box
  • TRubberBandEvent renamed to TSelectRectEvent
  • the declaration of TOnRubberBandActionEvent has been moved from SDL_geomap to SDL_sdlbase
  • the type declaration TAxis has been added
  
  
• Release 10.2   [May-30, 2013]
   
  • the Assign method is added to the class TDTLabel
  
  
• Release 10.1   [Oct-29, 2012]
   
  • DrawMarkOnCanvas now maps digit symbols to the codes 200..209
  • the new procedure SetCanvasFontSizeScaled allows to scale the font size on a canvas having a resolution different from screen resolution
  
  
• Release 10.0   [Oct-4, 2011]
   
  • TCrossHMode extended by an additional crosshair type (chBox)
  • the new function FontIsTrueType tests whether a font is a TrueType font
  • new type declarations TIntArray and TOnCheckAbortEvent
  
  
• Release 9.7   [May-31, 2010]
   
  • TDoubleArray declared
  • TRubberBandEvent and TOrientation declared
  • the procedure DrawMarkOnCanvas supports now a few additional symbols
  
  
• Release 9.51   [Dec-01, 2008]
   
  • no changes
  
  
• Release 9.5   [Oct-31, 2008]
   
  • AbortMathProc has been moved from unit MATH2 to SDLBASE
  
  
• Release 9.0   [May-28, 2007]
   
  • type declaration TDecPSep moved from unit SDL_numio to SDL_sdlbase
  
  
• Release 8.5   [Feb-18, 2006]
   
  • class TCustomTextLabel implemented
  • XML Tags for user defined types implemented: xml(TYPEIDENTIFIER)
  • public constants LanguageID, ISO639_2Char, and ISO639_3Char provides names and ISO-codes of languages
  
  
• Release 8.2   [Nov-03, 2004]
   
  • declaration VarType has been changed to TVarKind to avoid conflicts with the unit "variants"
  
  
• Release 8.1   [Aug-29, 2004]
   
  • available for Delphi™ 8 for .NET
  
  
• Release 8.0   [Apr-15, 2004]
   
  • new routines DrawFrame and DrawRectangle
  • buffer types TBuf4096, TBuf16K, TDataBuffer and TBytes declared
  • new array constant HTMLLat1Entities
  • TMouseBoxState has been unified and moved to SDLBASE (was MouseBoxStateType of RChart, and TpcMouseBoxState of POLCHART)
  • TCrossHMode moved from RChart
  • TCrossHair moved from RChart
  • DrawMarkOnCanvas has been unified and moved to SDLBASE (was part of RChart, Rot3d, and PolChart)
  • ftNoScales discarded (was part of TFigType declaration)
  
  
• Release 7.2   [Mar-23, 2003]
   
  • SDLBase is now part of BasePack
  • TColorScheme moved from various units to SDLbase
  • TLanguage defined
  • MonthShort, MonthLong, WeekdayShort, WeekdayLong, NumWords implemented
  
  
• Release 7.0   [Sep-15, 2002]
   
  • SDLBase is now available to the public