A large part of the .DominoFramework involves extending the base LotusScript classes provided by Notes such as NotesDatabase, NotesDocumentCollection, and NotesDocument. Extensions that I would hope one day may be included as part of that next great release of Notes. You know the one, the one where IBM show their renewed support for Notes client development and the LotusScript programming language!
To keep track of all the features already available within LotuScript I have started compiling a history of the LotusScript language. It is proving to be an interesting exercise. The last Notes release I got excited about (as a Notes client developer) was 6.0. And now I can see why... That release contained 9 new LotusScript statements, 40 new LotusScript classes, and 181 new properties/methods for existing classes. Pretty impressive really, and shows the priority, focus, and direction IRIS (RIP) was providing for LotusScript at the time. Note: Much of the work started with the 6.0 release (DXL, InViewEdit, NotesRichText, CSS for forms/pages, Document Locking) has still never been finished off 6 years later. For those of you that may be interested, I have listed these language extensions below. (Hence this will is a lengthy blog, but tomorrow's blog should be much smaller when I list the new LotusScript features coming in Notes 8.5).
New LotusScript Statements (9)
* Boolean datatype
* CBool function
* Byte datatype
* CByte fundtion
* Implode function
* Join function
* Replace function
* Split function
* StrToken function
New Classes (40)
* NotesAdministrationProcess
* NotesColorObject
* NotesDOMAttributeNode
* NotesDOMCDATASectionNode
* NotesDOMCharacterDataNode
* NotesDOMCommentNode
* NotesDOMDocumentFragmentNode
* NotesDOMDocumentNode
* NotesDOMDocumentTypeNode
* NotesDOMElementNode
* NotesDOMEntityNode
* NotesDOMEntityReferenceNode
* NotesDOMNamedNodeMap
* NotesDOMNode
* NotesDOMNodeList
* NotesDOMNotationNode
* NotesDOMParser
* NotesDOMProcessingInstructionNode
* NotesDOMTextNode
* NotesDOMXMLDeclNode
* NotesDXLExporter
* NotesDXLImporter
* NotesMIMEHeader
* NotesNoteCollection
* NotesReplicationEntry
* NotesRichTextDocLink
* NotesRichTextNavigator
* NotesRichTextRange
* NotesRichTextSection
* NotesRichTextTable
* NotesSAXAttributeList
* NotesSAXException
* NotesSAXParser
* NotesStream
* NotesUIScheduler
* NotesXMLProcessor
* NotesXSLTransformer
New Methods/Properties (181)
* NotesACL.AdministrationServer
* NotesACL.iSadminNames
* NotesACL.IsAdminReaderAuthor
* NotesACL.IsExtendedAccess
* NotesACLEnry.CanReplicateOrCopyDocuments
* NotesAgent.IsActivatable
* NotesAgent.HttpURL
* NotesAgent.Lock
* NotesAgent.LockProvisional
* NotesAgent.LockHolders
* NotesAgent.NotesURL
* NotesAgent.OnBehalfOf
* NotesAgent.Unlock
* NotesDatabase.ACLActivityLog
* NotesDatabase.FileFormat
* NotesDatabase.FTIndexFrequency
* NotesDatabase.IsClusterReplication
* NotesDatabase.IsConfigurationDirectory
* NotesDatabase.IsCurrentAccessPublicReader
* NotesDatabase.IsCurrentAccessPublicWriter
* NotesDatabase.IsDesignLockingEnabled
* NotesDatabase.IsDocumentLockingEnabled
* NotesDatabase.IsInMultiDbIndexing
* NotesDatabase.IsInService
* NotesDatabase.IsLink
* NotesDatabase.IsPendingDelete
* NotesDatabase.LastFixup
* NotesDatabase.LimitRevisions
* NotesDatabase.LimitUpdatedBy
* NotesDatabase.ListInDbCatalog
* NotesDatabase.SizeWarning
* NotesDatabase.Type
* NotesDatabase.UndeleteExpireTime
* NotesDatabas
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