What's New in v4.5

• New user interface replacing the horizontal tabs with vertical tab lists, resembling the Windows 10 experience. Each menu area has been reviewed to further simplify the end user experience.

  

• New option to theme the whole interface by incorporating your corporate colours and logo.

  

• Use of asynchronous processes for delivering a better, more responsive experience for the end user

• Customise product name through the Title option in the Configuration file

  

• Icon for displaying pop-up with technical system information

  

The layout of the Script Designer has been completely redesigned.

• Unified toolbar with actions and controls
• Dedicated properties panel with real-time update and easy switch to advanced properties
• Option to upgrade scripts from older Infinity versions

(Infinity v4.4)

(Infinity v4.5)

• New preview area in Style Editor

  

New interface built on BlocklyBlockly is a library from Google for building beginner-friendly block-based programming languages. library and rendered in a browser.

• 2D blocks built using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) which enables smooth movement, transformation and scaling of the blocks.

• Can handle hundreds of blocks without degrading performance
• Ability to zoom in and out when building larger functions

• Individual blocks or groups of blocks can be disabled

  

• Ability to collapse and expand blocks to simplify working on large routines

  (Expanded block)

  (Collapsed block)

• New ‘Backpack’ area acting as a clipboard for copying and pasting commands between functions
• New Supported Events functionality. Now each control has its own "canvas", onto which you can define a function for multiple events the control can raise.

• New "Events" command group containing blocks that represent the events raised by Infinity Scripts, Screen and Controls. When those events are triggered their attached functions are executed.

  

  

• New “Groups” command group that it groups commands in blocks that can be easily moved or reused:
  • (CODEBLOCK): Allows grouping a section of commands together
  • (BLOCKFUNCTION): Defines a function "outside" of any events
• (Actions/SHOWMESSAGEBOX): Shows a dialog to the user with a number of options
• (Conditions/TRYCATCH): Contains a block of code so errors can be handled by the catch section by displaying a meaningful message
• (Conditions/IFTHEN): When calling an external DLL this condition will check the variable [SCRIPT_DLLRESULT] and if it gives an error a message will be displayed
• (RAISEERROR): Raises an error message to the script

• Modular Condition commands that can grow or shrink to different forms according to the function requirements
• (Functions/MESSAGEBOX): The command has been moved from the 'Actions' to the 'Functions' group

Variables have been renamed to Constants and contain a new 'General' section with the following blocks:

• : A String entry field
• : A value entry field. The engine will try and determine its type based on where it is used.
• : A numeric entry field
• : A date picker field
• : A date and time picker field
• : A True/False Boolean picker field
• : A colour picker control
• : Returns an empty string
• : Returns a Boolean to indicate whether or not all required fields have been set

• Use of datatype + conversion on an input file

• Clean up fields directly on the input file

• New table showing the imported fields in the ‘Source’ tab

  

• New ‘Mapping’ tab for managing the mapping of the imported data to the target table

  

• New Active flag to Access Levels

• New result tab displaying the result of data archiving

  

• New ‘Default’ parameter value available

• New ‘Mode’ drop-down list for selecting between FTP, FTPES, FTPS and SFTP
• New ‘Server fingerprint’ parameter for SFTP

• New ‘Rebuild SPs’ advanced option for tables with encrypted fields

• New template grouping