ECN-WB932 AcuBench improvements

Type of Change: Enhancement

Product: AcuBench

Module: acubench.exe

New Version: 10.0.0

Machines Affected: Windows

Known Versions Affected: All prior versions

Description of enhancement

There have been many improvements to AcuBench. Some of these were required due to upgrades to third-party components; others were done by request.

• When in the Tools > Customize dialog box, you can now press F1 to access context-sensitive help on customizing your AcuBench toolbars.
• The ACUCOBOL keyword list, available from Tools > Options > Code Editor > Keyword, now contains a complete list of ACUCOBOL-GT reserved words.
• In previous releases, when a read-only file was opened in the editor, you could edit the file and save, as long as you saved with a different file name.

  In the current release, when a read-only file is opened and you first attempt to edit it, a message is displayed asking you to confirm the edit of a read-only file. If you answer No, the file remains read-only, and only when you close and reopen the file do you receive this message again if you attempt to edit it. If you answer Yes, you are able to modify the file, and if you have sufficient permissions (i.e. to change the read-only permission), you can save the file with its original file name (the read-only permission is re-applied after it is saved). if you do not have sufficient permissions, you must save the file with a different file name.

• When editing an ANSI format file, any text that begins in the IDENTIFICATION area stays in that area, unless that is not possible without losing data. This is not configurable.
• Some conversion .dll files have been removed from the current installation. If you are upgrading from AcuBench 4.3 or earlier, you will need to request a temporary version of AcuBench 9.2, so that you can upgrade your project files, after which you can use AcuBench 10.0 with your projects.
• On Windows, The ACUCOBOL-GT sample programs and COPY files are now located at %PUBLIC%\Documents\Micro Focus\extend x.x.x\sample (although, there is still a copy of these files at their previous location - the extend installation directory). If your project files use the COPYPATH environment variable to specify the previous location (using %acudir%), the variable will be automatically modified to use the new location (%sampledir%) when they are loaded for the first time.