Color properties show the HEX value, instead of the RGB value
Color properties can be directly edited. Supported values are Hex values, RGB values and named colors (i.e. black, red etc)
Font properties can be directly edited
When setting a property to an invalid value, an Error dialog pops up, instead of a message in the status bar and a silent revert to the old value
Dataprovider properties that are unresolved now show the dataprovider name that cannot be resolved
StyleName and StyleClass property now have a button to open the StyleSheet/jump to the StyleClass declaration
The Method Selection dialog used to assign methods to Commands and Events has an "OK & Show" button to assign the selected method to the Command/Event and open the assigned method in the Script Editor in one go
Ability to select -none - as dataprovider when editing a dataprovider property
Added option to select standard tags over a relation (where applicable) in the Text property editor
Overrides of inherited property values show -\OVERRIDE - next to the value
Profiler view
Hidden from the Servoy Design perspective to improve the initial experience
Made customized column width settings by the user persistent between session (a3)
Added Query execution timing info to the Profiler view
Reduced the info in the "Source File" column to only show the name of the .js file and the Form name where applicable
New Command Console
To be described...
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Added a Servoy Active Solution Working set: the workset functionality of Eclipse allows to limit the scope of operations like searching or display of builder markers. The Servoy Active Solution workset is a pre-defined workset that contains the Active Solution and all it's modules. The Servoy Active Solution working set can be used in:
Problems view: The contents of the Problems view can be filtered to only show the builder markers for the active solution. Click "View menu" > Configure Contents > Select "Servoy Active Solution Filter"
Searching: In the Search dialog, the scope of the Search can also be restricted to the Servoy Active Solution workset:
Servoy MarketPlace integration
Servoy MarketPlace can be opened in Servoy Developer, through Help > Servoy MarketPlace
When supported by the product in the MarketPlace, the product can by instantly downloaded and installed into Servoy Developer
Added option to show the firstForm of the solution that is being activated (see Window > Preferences > Servoy > Form Editor)
Wiki Markup
Improved output to console of Javascript objects: \{name: someValue} instead of \[object Object\]
Reduced memory footprint of solutions in Servoy Developer by about 40%
Reduced startup time of Servoy Developer by lazy loading not active solutions
Added command line Solution Exporter
Added JUnit testclass for running JSUnit tests contained in a solution within the JUnit framework
Made update of Calculations and Aggregates in the Replace Table action optional
In the Debug Smart Client, a call to application.showUrl(...) will open the URL in a browser within Servoy Developer
In Table Editor, when creating a new column containing the text "email" or "url" in the columnName, automatically set the type to "Text" and the length to resp. 254 or 2048 (based on the specifications for email addresses and urls)
Added "Maximum prepared statements idle" property in Database Server Editor (was already exposed on the Admin page)
Made "Link with Editor" work for Styles, Tables and Database Servers as well
Added "FoxPro DBF" New server template
Still to be done
Include the FoxPro DBF driver in the distribution
Solution development
Behavior changes
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Dedicated SolutionType values for pre and post import hooks, instead of relying on a naming convention
Ability to use a global method as PK generator (a3), through selecting a global method under Auto Enter > Lookup Value on the Column in the Table editor
Added Copy action in columns rows in Table Editor, to quickly get the column name into the clipboard
Support for using variables of type Boolean inside relations, mapping on integer columns
Added ability to use separators in ValueLists
Made "Left Outer Join" the default value for new relations
Deployment
When installing Servoy with the database option unchecked, the installation will now contain the previously missing servoy.properties file
Compression is enabled by default on the Servoy Application Server for serving HTML, CSS and JavaScript files, which improves the performance of the Web Client
Ability to alter the max. allowed idle connections on the Servoy Application Server without restarting
Lazy loading of the datamodel of database server clones, resulting in faster Servoy Application Server startup and no unneeded overhead for database server clones that aren't going to be used
Added ability to specify the user directory for Smart Clients on the Admin page
Ability on the Admin page to set on Solution level if the the solution is to use Anchors in the Web Client or not
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Upgrades several libraries (.jar files)
metadataextractor.jar update updated to version 2.4.0b1
quartz.jar update updated to 1.8.3
Apache HTTP Client updated to 4.0
Eclipse updated to 3.6 (Helios release)
DLTK updated to ???
GEF updated to ???
Hibernate updated to ???
Terracotta updated to ???
jQuery updated to version 1.5
YUI updated to 2.8.2r1
Removed several libraries (.jar files) from the distribution as they are no longer needed
jdbc2_0-stdext.jar: standard as of 1.4
jdbc2_0-stdext.jar
jmx.jar
jndi.jarjmx.jar: standard as of 1.5 jndi.jar: standard as of 1.3