SmartClient 6.0

 

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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