Release notes

Table of Contents

• Version 3.6
  • New features
• Version 3.5
  • New features
  • Adaptations
  • Bug fix 3.5.1
• Version 3.4
  • New features
  • Adaptations
  • Bug fix 3.4.0
• Version 3.3
  • New features
  • Adaptations
  • Bug fix 3.3.1
  • Bug fix 3.3.0
• Version 3.2
  • New features
  • Adaptations
  • Bug fix 3.2.1

Release notes for all versions since 3.2.

Version 3.6

New features

• Support of TwinCAT version 3.1.4020.14
• TwinCAT : Support of multitask at TC module level.

Version 3.5

New features

• Delegate family without parameter DelegateVoid
• EventDelegate family without parameter EventDelegateVoid
• ContainerUtils::RetrieveChildrenOfType gives the ability to get all IVisitableContainer's children of a given type.
• Behavior can be added at closing the console windows event. See Console::CloseEvent.

Adaptations

• IList has been adapted to be more useful. IList becomes IMonomorphousList. The IMonomorphousList is now implemented by all monomorphous list in ConceptRT such as SafeList and ConceptStaticList.
• To avoid file name collisions, the file RTTypes.h has been renamed RTTypesConcept.h. No adaptation is required if you have used ConceptRTUtils.h file.

Bug fix 3.5.1

• INtime : Creation of socket will wait the stack initialization. (with a timeout of 2 minutes)

Version 3.4

New features

• BackgroundService and PersistentService are named to improve the diagnostic.
• Thread can be named by SetName.
• Method GetContainerOfType has been added to ConceptElement.
• Helpers FilterFactoryByName and ProvidedComponent had been added.

Adaptations

• ConceptMultipleLink::GetReferences return change type to IReferenceList.
• Automation : ClearError, HasError, GetErrorMessage, Exit, Start, Stop, Suspend methods had been removed from IoTechnologies. These functionalities will be replaced with new features in the future.

Bug fix 3.4.0

• Improvement of timeout management on DynamicInvocationServerUpd::WaitInvocation.
• Improvement of INtime integration : thread naming, management of exception in destructor.

Version 3.3

New features

• Version documentation : New features are documented in order to identify the version since they are available.
• Compatibility with Visual Studio 2015 : Windows API adaptations, INtime 6.1 adaptations.
• Compliance with standards C++ 11 : Deletion of exceptions in destructor.
• Management of exceptions in destructor : RTExceptionUtil::RTExceptionInDestructor() or RTExceptionUtil::NonRTExceptionInDestructor(). The macro RT_DESTRUCTOR_EXCEPTION_HANDLER can be used to facilitate the exception management in desctuctor.
• Macros RT_NON_DETERMINISTIC_CODE and RT_BLOCKING_CODE modified to avoid use of exceptions. Use of the runtime check message event instead.
• Runtime Check allow to listen to an event to retrieve runtime messages.
• Thread::GetName() : Allows to get the name given at the constructor of a thread. See member documentation for more details.
• ValBool() more robust. It now checks all possibilities (if the text are either "True", "true", "1", "False", "false" or "0") and throw an exception if not.
• Automation IOs with field "Value" in the dynamic invocation to help to connect ConceptHMI OcfBinding for display.
• AssemblyInfo allows to identify the version and help to verify if the library is a validated release of ConceptRT library.
• Deprecated features : Warnings will be emitted at compile time and add of new documentation page to resolve the warnings. See deprecated features list.
• Macro RT_DEPRECATED available to notify deprecated features.
• Performant Linked reference list

Adaptations

• Runtime Checks are now well structured in RuntimeCheck namespace.
• Thread utilities are now well structured in ThreadUtils namespace.
• InternalFactory becomes NotAvailableFactory and the macros CONCEPT_DEFINE_FACTORY_INTENAL becomes CONCEPT_DEFINE_FACTORY_NOT_AVAILABLE.
• FormatExceptionThrowLine() has been replaced by FormatSourceFileLine().
• XmlDocument : Close() become Save()

Bug fix 3.3.1

• Solve compilation problem on persistent.
• Automation IOs with field "Value" in read / write on outputs (DynamicInvocation).

Bug fix 3.3.0

• ConceptDataStore::FindFactory() : Made safe in case the factories list hadn't been set. See member documentation for more details.
• Persistent and IStringConvertible incompatibility corrected.
• Variant : Systematically checks if the variant is null before casting it.
• TimeSpan parsing has been made robust to not permitted symbols.
• Automation IoSync count cycle now managed in simulation.

Version 3.2

New features

• New documentation : Contents, howtos, and other information added to help users to get in ConceptRT.
• Documentation of errors : Documentation of errors that can occurs on each functionalities.
• Error numbering : Allows to identify an error source better and to see the troubleshooting. See troubleshooting section.
• Error event : Allows to find the line of code that produce the error.
• TimeMeasurement : Invocable object used to analyse timing (Cycle time, process duration).
• DirectoryIterator allows to find all files in a given directory.
• Delegate::GetDefined() : A method to test the delegate before using it.
• ConceptContainer::FindByName<elementType>(name) allows to filter also with the type. Returned element is direcly in the expected type if found.

Adaptations

• InputOutputSystem, Io, IoMapping and IoTechnologie removed from TwinCAT release.
• ConceptRT on TwinCAT : ConceptRT system needs only the "main" task for registration in TransitionPS.
• Header File RTTime.h removed. Use RTTimeSpan.h and RTTimeMeasurement.h instead. Transparent if ConceptRTUtils.h is included.
• Macro CONCEPTRT_NODEMAXLENGHT becomes CONCEPTRT_NODEMAXLENGTH. (...HT to ...TH)
• Class SHA1DigestAlgorythm becomes SHA1DigestAlgorithm
• DynamicInvocationConsole::OnIdle() becomes protected.
• Service class template arguments changed : template<class ServiceType, Int32 StackSize, ThreadPriority Priority>class Service becomes template<class ServiceType, ThreadPriority Priority = PriorityNormal, Int32 StackSize = DefaultStackSize> class Service
• XmlDocument internal classes changed : XmlNodeContent become XmlElement, XmlNodeContentValue becomes XmlText, XmlNodeContentNodes becomes XmlChildren
• BaseConceptFactory::HasName() becomes BaseConceptFactory::HasId()

Bug fix 3.2.1

• Solve initialization problem on TwinCAT 3.1.4018.16.