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Servoy Developer

Still to be done in Servoy Developer

Currently the following things are still to be done:

• Redesign the Welcome page
• Redesign the iServoy page
• Provide option to turn off the display of the iServoy page on launch of Servoy Developer when a Servoy Developer license has been registered.

First Launch Experience

• Servoy Developer will launch maximized on first launch

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In order to take full advantage of the new refactoring features in Servoy 6, it is vital to resolve the markers by providing the required information through JSDoc. However, through the preferences, the warnings can also be ignored (they are just warnings, which not necessarily indicate errors in code!), but the usefulness of the refactoring functionality will diminish as code refactors will not be complete.

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• Fixed expand/collapse behavior when saving the Script Editor after adding new variables or functions
• Made it possible to collapse/expand the multi-line content of variables (multi-line Strings, XML, Functions and Objects)
• Added support for putting comments in script files (.js files) outside functions and outside JSDoc tags linked to variables and functions. Note that the comments are lost in the following scenario's:
  • When using Servoy Repository for team development: The Servoy Repository stores individual variables and functions, so anything else in the .js file is lost. Solution: use SVN instead which is file-based
  • When exporting the Solution to a .servoy file: just like the Servoy Repository, the .servoy export format only contains the individual variables and functions. When the .servoy file is used to move a Solution from development into test/Q&A/production, there should be no issue loosing the comments. However, if the .servoy export is going to be used to transport the source into another workspace/development environment, the loss of the extra information could be unwanted. In this case the solution would be:
    1. Share sourcecode between different developers by allowing (anonymous) checkout from the source repository used (for example SVN). 
    2. Use the native Eclipse Archive file export/import functionality to export and later import an entire Eclipse project (a.k.a. Servoy Solution) 
• Fixed indentation of code when pasting code into the Script editor
• Fixed indentation of code when moving code using the "Move Sample" and "Move Code" buttons in the Solution Explorer view
• Prevented Typing info to get inserted by "Move Code"
• Show Parameter Hints after "Move Code" 
• Improved JSDoc tooltip hover behavior over functions: moving the mouse from the function to the tooltip doesn't hide the tooltip, but instead gives it focus
• Removed the "Paste to JavaScript console" option in the Context menu of the Script Editor
• Hidden non-functional menu items "Open Type Hierarchy" and "Quick Type Hierarchy" from the context menu of the Script Editor
• Added Eclipse Spelling support inside the Script Editor on comments (singleline comments, multiline comments and JSDoc comments): See Window > Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors > Spelling
• Save Actions for the JavaScript Editor: allows automatic triggering of formatting JavaScript sourcecode when the editor is saved. Currently, the Save actions can only be accessed through the Properties of a Solution: Accessible through the context menu or keyboard shortcut Alt-Enter on the Active solution node of Module nodes in the Solution Explorer. See  JavaScript > Save Actions
• Removed the non-functioning "Run As" and "Debug As" menu items from the context menu 

Still to be done

• Investigate if the "Run as ..." and "Debug as ..." options in the Context menu of the Script Editor can be removed or made to work
• Bring back support for the old way to type a foundset or records to belong to a certain database and table
• Introduce the option to suppress individual markers
• Properly enable/disable the Refactor options based on the context and selection  

Search support

JavaScript source code only

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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
• Added Servoy Admin page shortcut in the Help menu of Servoy Developer
• Added option to show the firstForm of the solution that is being activated (see Window > Preferences > Servoy > Form Editor) 
• First form created in a Solution is automatically set as the Main form in the Solution properties

• Wiki Markup
  Improved output to console of Javascript objects: \{name: someValue} instead of \[object Object\]

• Added predefined update url for JSDoc plugin (https://www.servoyforge.net/projects/jsdoc)
• Updated Servoy Developer to Eclipse Helios (3.6)
  • Option to export/import Preferences via generic export/import mechanism 
• Reduced memory footprint of solutions in Servoy Developer by about 40% 
• Added command line Solution Exporter (more info will follow)
• Added JUnit testclass for running JSUnit tests contained in a solution within the JUnit framework (more info will follow)
• 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 Copy action in columns rows in Table Editor, to quickly get the column name into the clipboard
• 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
• Included the FoxPro DBF JDBC driver into the distrubution
• Added ability to to also externalize hard-coded Strings inside JavaScript code (See Externalize Messages dialog)
• Moved all Database Server management into Servoy Developer and disabled the functionality on the Servoy Admin page when running Servoy Developer
• Removed option to turn off Enhanced Security from the UI. enhanced Security is now the default mode. Can only be turned on by manually adding the relevant property to the servoy.properties file (see #Deployment )  
• Images in the Media library are now opened with the Viewer which is registered for the image type. By default this will be the Image viewer Servoy supplies, but can now be overruled by the user, for example by installing another Image Viewer plugin, for example the QuickImage plugin for Eclipse: [http://psnet.nu/eclipse/|http://psnet.nu/eclipse/]
• Table Editor: support Control-Click to deselect the selected row and hide the Column Details
• Database Server Editor: Highlighted the JDBC Driver ClassName if it cannot be resolved, meaning that the specified class cannot be found in the available JDBC Drivers
• Added more options to synchronize I18N keys between the workspace and database in Servoy Developer
  • Read from DB: Option to sync the keys in the workspace (target) with the keys in the I18N table in the database (source)
  • Write to DB:  Option to sync the keys in the I18N table (target) in the database with the keys in the workspace (source)
  • Both option provide the option to remove keys that are in the target, but not in the source
  • Both options are available through the context menu of the Resources > I18N files node of the Solution Explorer

Still to be done
* The Externalize Messages dialog will undergo a redesign to make it more intuitive
* Finalize MarketPlace integration

Solution development

Behavior changes

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• Public Java API has been extended to make it possible to hook into the DND model of Servoy. These new features have been incorporated into the DBTreeView & DBTreeTableView bean. 

Still to be done

• Implement the new DND API in the TreeView bean (https://www.servoyforge.net/projects/servoy-treeview)

Solution Model

• Added API to interact with existing Calculations or create new Calculations:
  Calculations added through the SolutionModel at runtime automatically become stored calculations if created with the same name as one of the dataproviders in the datasource on which the calculation is created
• Added API to interact with existing Beans and add new Beans to Forms:
  In order to add new beans to a Form using the Solution Model, the full class name of the bean is required. The bean vendor needs to supply this.
• Added factory methods to create the border, font and pageformat strings required in the solutionModel
• Added method on all objects to retrieve the object's UUID

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