IMPORTANT: This article contains information about modifying the registry. Before you modify the registry, make sure to back it up and make sure that you understand how to restore the registry if a problem occurs. For information about how to back up, restore, and edit the registry, click the following link to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;256986

It is possible to disable UGi menu items by placing some items in the Windows Registry.

This example disables the “Preferences” menu:

1. Create the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Transoft \ UGi \ Connections \ Default \ Menus
2. Add a String value called “Preferences“
3. Set the value to “0” (zero, without quotes)

As you may well be aware, Microsoft have done some big changes in Vista.  One of these is called “Registry Virtualization”.  What this does is block any application not running as Administrator from using the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE part of the registry.  This is where global entries to the system are kept and also where U/BL stores it’s environment.  But instead of just blocking access to it, it pretends to the application that it can write there, but in reality, it is writing somewhere else.   This can pose a problem for UBL Server in Control Panel.  It may look to you like the environment is completely correct, but UBL keeps coming up in demonstration mode and you can not stop the server.  What is happening is that the environment you are looking at is being stored in a location hidden away that will never be picked up by UBL.    The solution for this is to run UBL Server as Administrator.

When you first install UBL on Vista and bring up the UBL Server from control panel, it may ask you afterwards if the application worked correctly.  You should answer “no” at this point and allow it to be installed as a “legacy control panel application”.  If you did say “yes”, then you can still get it to work but you must run it as Administrator.  To do this, right-click on the icon and “Run as Administrator”.  If you do not get this option, keep the SHIFT key pressed and try right-clicking again.

You must also use U/Gi 5.10 or above with Vista for it to function correctly.

U/BL Release 5.10 is now available to download from the FTP site. As well as several bug fixes, this release contains the following enhancements:

• Fix “Terminal line (xxx) not found in BBTTYS” on Vista
• SETGUIOPT 63 – display images in Print Pass Thru
• Search facility added to UBLMON
• Sort on columns added to Windows UBLMON
• Additional modes for GUIX 82
• GETWOTYPE – Retrieve the type of the Windows object
• SETFOCUS message for Windows Objects
• BBLOGONTIMEOUT
• BBSHLIBTRACE
• Increase ADDMENU limit

Please see the release notice for more details.  The Unixware release of U/BL will be uploaded to the FTP site in a couple of weeks time.

UBLStudio Release 5.10 is now available in the UBL510 FTP release area.  It contains the following enhancements:

• Allow BBPROGS and BBSOURCE to be outside project root
• Run Current Form toolbar button
• Easier way to position controls
• Scrolling Immediate Window
• Bitmap Buttons
• SetFocus event on controls
• Support for larger programs

The new version of UBLStudio / TDS uses new installer technology, so you will need to uninstall your old TDS after installing the new one.

Please contact support for your FTP login and password.

A new release of U/BL is currently in development.  Release date is expected in the first quater of 2009.

The release will contain:

U/BL:

• UBLMON order on columns and “search” facility
• Job table to display shared procedure name
• Support ENTER on BUTTON command
• Fix “Terminal line (xxx) not found in BBTTYS” on Vista
• New command GETWOTYPE to find out type of windows object command
• New GUIX 82 option to run shell commands like launching default browser

U/BL Studio:

• Greater flexibility to make UBLStudio projects fit with your existing BBROOT, BBPROGS, BBSOURCE structure
• Improvements in reliability
• Specify coordinates of windows object manually for easier alignment
• Scrolling “immediate” window to allow easier debugging
• Specify bitmap buttons in a form
• JPEG/GIF support

If you are having problems setting up U/BL users on domains (including the message, “the user is not in the necessary group” when logging into U/Gi), try following these steps:

• Make sure that there is a UBL_USERS group on the UBL server machine. Also, add the users from the domain into this group using “manage” on the UBL server machine
• Make sure that there is a UBL_USERS group on the domain controller. The group must have “security group” set to “global” instead of “domain local”. Also, on the domain controller, add the relevant users to the UBL_USERS group (if not already there).
• On the UBL server machine, bring up control panel -> administrative tools -> local security policy. Add the domain UBL_USERS group to “Allow log on locally” or “Log on locally” (whichever text the machine uses)
• Reboot the local UBL server machine (must reboot the machine after making security changes)

U/BL Release 5.06 is now available to download from the FTP site. As well as several bug fixes, this release contains the following enhancements:

• Support for GIF and JPEG image types
• SETGUIOPT 61 – set ReadOnly on EDITBOXes
• SETGUIOPT 62 – draw background images
• New KEEP_ASPECT_RATIO option to GUIX 85
• New BOX styles and changes to SETGUIOPT 20
• Reverse attribute kept when displaying image
• U/Gi background colors
• UBLNTNETMAP
• More HOTKEYs
• More Windows
• SYS(50) – return Windows in use
• Changing Time Zones
• Microsoft Vista support
• Improvements to U/Gi MACTION
• BBFSIGN
• BBDELBRK
• BBASCPRECISION
• Dragable Windows in U/BL
• SuperDOS commands available without BBEXTENSION

See the U/BL Release Notice for details.

A problem has been discovered where U/BL fails to start up when running on dumb terminals connected via serial ports on Microsoft Vista.  It gets as far as logging on, but the U/BL screen is never reached.  The problem is a result of increased security on Vista.  This has been fixed in the latest U/BL.

The fix will be available in U/BL 5.06 to be released this month.

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