Xbase 1.1 is out! This update concentrates on the User Interface.

Source List

Xbase 1.1 has a brand new source list. It’s been rewritten to act more like source lists in other applications. Some of the new features are:

• Leopardy Appearance
• Colour Labels
• Inline “Add” Buttons
• Action Menus
• Reorderable items
• Simplified Bottom Bar

Tab Bar

We’ve also rewritten Xbase’s tab bar. Before, we were using PSMTabBarControl which does the job but was feeling a bit limiting. New stuff includes:

• Core Animation - lots and lots of animations
• Even more animations
• It behaves less like a web browser than it did before (that’s a Good Thing™)
• Hover over a tab to preview it
• More helpful “Blank” tab
• Did I mention it has animations?

Inspector

Xbase 1.1 comes with a new inspector. The inspector shows information about items in the database:

• See generic information such as Date Modified, Creator, Type, etc
• See specific information such as Row Count (tables) or Number of Paragraphs (reports)
• Change an item’s Colour Label
• Add notes to the item. These can be anything you want: a description, reminders, tags/search keywords…

Global Console

The global script console means you can now see log messages and errors for scripts not executed in the script editor (scripts run in a form for instance). As a bonus, these log messages are saved to disk so you quit and relaunch Xbase, and they’ll still be there.

• Shows log messages and errors for any script
• Searchable
• Use the filter bar to filter by date or location
• Use the console source list to filter by document
• Persistent

Note: The log file is stored at ~/Library/Application Support/Fileability/Xbase/Console/log.xml should you wish to delete, import, export or change it

Welcome Screen

We’ve made minor improvements to the welcome screen:

• The bottom bar has an updated appearance
• Recent docs list show shows more documents
• Added a button to clear recent documents

That’s it!

Well that’s all for this update. I hope it’s been worth the wait. The next update will be version 1.1.1, which will focus on Import/Export.

You can download Xbase 1.1 here.