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In this release, in which we focused on Developer Productivity and First Experience, these are the main new features:

First Experience:

• Cleaned up the User Interface of Servoy Developer
• New design for the Welcome screen that is displayed on first launch after installation
• New Start Page when opening Servoy Developer with the latest news & useful links
• Completely overhauled All-in-One installer

Tools for the Developer in Servoy Developer:

• Brand new Form Designer
• Brand new CSS Editor
• Completely new JavaScript build system, based on extended JSDoc support
• JavaScript Refactoring support

Extensions & updated to the Solution Design feature set:

• TableView row styling through CSS StyleSheets
• Conditional styling of Forms & Elements through a new onRender event
• New Windowing API
• Extended Inheritance model
• Improved Drag 'n Drop event model

Deployment Features:

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The Servoy 6.1 release focuses on the following area's:

• Extending the capabilities to create compelling User Interfaces
• Web Client compatibility 
• Developing large-scale Solutions
• Ease of deployment 

User Interface enhancements

Servoy 6.1 introduces several new UI widgets and extended styling capabilities 

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UI Widgets

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• Listbox: A ListBox is similar to a Combobox, but instead of having a dropdown to display all the possible values, it has a multi-line UI where displaying the possible values. The ListBox is availble in two variations: Single and MultiSelect
• Accordion Pane: The AccordionPane is similar to a TabPanel, in that it contains multiple Forms, of which only one can be shown at the time.
• Spinner field
• Popup Form

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Styling options

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• CSS3 border-radius
• CSS3 gradients
• CSS3 RGBA colors (semi-transparent colors)
• CSS background-image
• TableView & Portal header styling through CSS
• TableView & Portal odd/even/selected row border styling through CSS
• Form Part StyleClass support
• Undecorated JSWindows
• Support for Smart Client Look & Feels to decorate the window chrome

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Web Client compatibility

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• ListView: The ListView mode for forms is now fully supported in the Web Client 
• Title Border: The TitleBorder is fully supported on Forms, Panels, Labels and Border Panel shape
• Shapes: The Shape widgets (Horizontal/Vertical Line, Circle, Rounded Rectangle and Border Panel) are now fully supported in the Web Client

Programming API

• Multiple TopLevel scopes
• Entity scopes 
• Formatting on Labels
• QueryBuilder API
• Folder support in the Media library

Deployment

• Support for installing the Servoy Application Server on any compliant Java Application Server, like JBoss, WebSphere, GlassFish etc. using WAR files: Servoy Developer 6.1 features the ability to export an entire Servoy Application Server plus a selections of plugins, beans, lafs and drivers as a so-called WAR file, which can be deployed to any compliant Java Application Server 
• MetaData Export & sync facilities
• JMX Application Server monitoring
• Extended SQL Performance data on Servoy Admin page
• Support for updating to a specific buildnumber

Developer productivity

• Browser selection when launching a Debug Web Client