What's New in 6.0<o:p></o:p>
· SmartClient now also available under the LGPLv3! <o:p></o:p>
· Large improvements in grid performance, especially in IE7 <o:p></o:p>
· New Skinning Guide and expanded documentation of skinning-related properties <o:p></o:p>
· Support for loading legacy standalone pages into HTMLFlow components <o:p></o:p>
· Caching improvements for paged datasets <o:p></o:p>
(less server contact, more responsiveness and scalability) <o:p></o:p>
Changes in 6.0
· SmartClient now also available under the LGPLv3!
· HTMLFlow: new evalScriptBlocks feature parses and evaluation include script blocks and included scripts
· ResultSet: user updates are now automatically integrated into paged datasets that have partial cache, without requiring new data from the server. <o:p></o:p>
· SmartClient Server: Removed direct dependency on Xerces parser. As a result, if you are using JDK1.5+, you can omit the xercesImpl.jar and xml-apis.jar from your deployment. SmartClient will then use the native Java parser/serializer (or whatever is configured in your environment) to do its work.
· SmartClient Server: Java DMI methods will now be passed the ServletContext and RequestContext, if they ask for it in the method signature. <o:p></o:p>
· SmartClient Server: Improved Java DMI error reporing. <o:p></o:p>
· Significant improvents in GridRenderer performance in IE7 and lesser improvements in all other browsers. This improves ListGrid, TreeGrid, and CubeGrid rendering performance. <o:p></o:p>
· Fixed edge case with SectionStackHeader drag-resize in some cases resizing the wrong component.
· A remove operation on a clientOnly DataSource that matches no records now no longer returns an error.
· DataSources marked clientOnly: true
that do not specify any testData
, but do specify a testFileName or dataURL will automatically fetch once against the specified URL with no criteria, then work against a local cache from there. This enables another mode of rapid prototyping.
· Large, pervasive improvements in documentation. <o:p></o:p>
· Various Visual Builder improvements. <o:p></o:p>
· Fixed some edge case glitches with animation.
· New APIs: ListGrid/TreeGrid.transferSelectedRecord(), transferSelectedRecords().
· New API: ListGrid.getEditedCell()
· The optional 'data' parameter to History.addHistoryEntry() is now documented.
· Improved HTMLFlow SCRIPT block parse and execute engine to accept all valid script declarations.
· Improved Plugin Bridges integration with Flash, Applets, custom plugins.
· Fixed issue with Reference Docs bookmarkability in some cases.
· Extensive new topic on SmartClient Skinning in the Reference Docs.
· Added extensive links from Reference Docs to Feature Explorer examples
· All bug fixes against previous versions posted in the Addendums have been applied to this build.
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