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Still to be done in Servoy Developer

In this second alpha, Currently the following things are still to be done:

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• If a font in html_area is expressed in "pt" instead of "px" -> it will get smaller.
• Non-modal Dialogs in WC rendered inside the main window, instead of as new browser windows due to JSWindow implementation, allowing multiple modal and non modal in the same window
• In Smart Clients running under Java 6, Modal Dialogs (JSWindow of type MODAL_DIALOG and the dialogs displayed using the dialogs plugin)will be modal for their parent window (hierargy). This means that when having multiple windows (JSWindow of type WINDOW) open, a Modal dialog opened in one window will only block that window, not the other Windows. This aligns the behavior with the Web Client behavior. Unfortunately, the ability to set the scope of dialog modality in only possible from Java 6 onwards. When running Smart Clients on Java 5 modal dialogs will block all windows.   
• application.getTimeStamp() in the Web client will return the timestamp based on the timezone of the Client and the time of the Server: Before it would just return the timestamp based on the time and timezone of the server.
• In the solutionModel when asking for a specific element on a form, if the element is not on the form, the super scope will be inspected and return the element if the element in inherited. For the plural getElements() type of functions, an optional paramter has been added to include the inherited elements in the return value or not.
• controller.recreateUI() will keep the existing x and y scrollPosition of the form being recreated.
• When adding a tableFilter on a column that already has a tablefilter on it, the newly applied filter will not override the existign filter, but the new filter will be appended, so both the existing and newly added tableFilter are in effect. To implement the old behavior, the TableFilters need to be created with a name and then when applying a new TableFilter the old one needs to be removed through scripting. 
• When using labels with labelFor link to other elements in TableViews to control the TableView header rendering, the first label will now determine the height of the header 
• The client that gets started as Authenticator during the login process isn't consuming a license any more 
• Enhanced Security is now the default mode. The UI in Servoy Developer and in the Application Server to disable it has been removed. It is only possible to disable Enhance Security through setting the relevant property in the servoy.properties file: "servoy.application_server.enhancedSecurity=false"
• plugins.rawSQL.executeStoredProcedure() now returns the last resultset retunred by the stored procedure, instead of the first
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• Added rollOverImageMedia support in TableViews 
• Improved Sorting indicator on Grid columns behavior: the Sorting indicator is now always shown if a FoundSet is sorted and automatically follows the actual foundset sort. Columns that display a dataprovider on which the foundset is sorted get the sorting indicator. This means that if the Foundset is sorted on dataproviders that are not linked to columns, there will be no sorting indicator. Also when the foundset is sorted in-memory, there will be no sorting indicators 
• Added multi-column sort behavior on grids (TableView's and Portals): by Shift-clicking a column header, the foundset sort is extended with a sort on the  dataprovider of the clicked column.
• Right-click support on Tableview headers through label linked to field using labelFor relation
• Support for number length formatting on number fields
• Support to hide the Form title from the Title bar in the Smart Client or the Tab name of the browser in case of the Web Client, by specifying "none" as value for the forms titleText property 
• Added support for displaying HTML contained in the titleText property of non-editable HTMLArea's. Useful to show (multiple) href links in the UI. Same functionality was already available through Labels, but on Labels the entire label acts as click-able area (showing a HAND cursor), whereas when done with an HTMLArea only the links are click-able. The "displayTags" property on the HTMLArea needs to be set to true in order to process the titleText property.
• Added encapsulation support on Forms: the ability to mark Forms as Private, Module Private and/or to prevent access to the Form's elements, controller, foundset and/or dataproviders
• Improved support for separators within Combobox dropdowns:
  • Better styling
  • Non-selectable
  • Web Client support
• Added support for single RadioButtons:
  • Fields of type Radio with a ValueList attached containing only 1 value now render a single RadioButton
  • Multiple single Radio button type of fields can act as a RadioButton group, by sharing the same dataprovider
• Added option to control the automatic dropdown behavior of Comboboxes on focus gained through the APP_UI_PROPERTY.COMBOBOX_SHOW_POPUP_ON_FOCUS_GAIN property. Note that this property only affects the Smart Client, as this behavior is not controllable in browsers)

Still to be done

• Finalize Form encapsulation support

Drag 'n' Drop

• Added a custom Drag 'n' Drop event type JSDNDEvent with additional API:
  • dataMimetype property
  • getDragResult(): gives the result of the DND operation (DRAGNDROP.MOVE/DRAGNDROP.COPY/DRAGNDROP.NONE). Only relevant if the event type is JSDNDEvent.ONDRAGEND
  • getRecord(): gives the record on which the event occurred
• Added onDragEnd event to forms and portals: This event gets fired on the form on which the DND operation started (the form on which the onDrag event fired), regardless if a drop occurred or not
• Fix: onDragOver doesn't fire anymore for elements that are layered below other elements
• Fix: all DND related events don't fire anymore on disabled elements/forms

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• The preferred size of Beans is now honored when placing beans onto a form in the Form Editor 
• Added anchoring support for non-servoy-aware beans in the Web Client
• Added setting on the Admin page to store the StyleClass name set on an element as a UIProperty on the element. The setting on the Admin page, "servoy.smartclient.componentStyleClassDelegatePropertyKey" allows to specify the name for the UIProperty. This information can then be read and used by, for example, Look and Feels.
• For Beans that supply an Icon through a BeanInfo class, the Icon is now used in the display of the bean in the Form Editor Palette

• Wiki Markup

  Support for multi-value property editors on beans (see Servoy 6 Public Java API for more details:&nbsp;<span style="color: #d3620d">[</span><span style="color: #d3620d"><a href="http://www.servoy.com/docs/public-api/6xx/com/servoy/j2db/dataui/PropertyEditorHint.html">http://www.servoy.com/docs/public-api/6xx/com/servoy/j2db/dataui/PropertyEditorHint.html</a></span>\|http://www.servoy.com/docs/public-api/6xx/com/servoy/j2db/dataui/PropertyEditorHint.html\]&nbsp;and&nbsp;\[http://www.servoy.com/docs/public-api/6xx/com/servoy/j2db/dataui/PropertyEditorOption.html\|http://www.servoy.com/docs/public-api/6xx/com/servoy/j2db/dataui/PropertyEditorOption.html\]

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Miscellaneous

• 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, through selecting a global method under Auto Enter > Lookup Value on the Column in the Table editor
• 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
• Ability to use global variables of type Boolean in Relations. Can map to integer columns containing 0 or 1 in the database
• Support i18n filter fallbacks for i18n.setI18NMessagesFilter (see samplecode)
• Support to mark functions through the JSDoc @AllowToRunInFind tag to be executed as event handlers while in FindMode:
  Previously methods attached to event handlers would only execute in FindMode if the contained the code the execute a search (controller.search() or foundset.search()). As of Servoy 6 any method that contains the @AllowToRunInFind tag in it's JSDoc will be executed in FindMode when attached to an event. Note that there are limitations to what is possible in scritping while in FindMode and that certain behavior is not well defined. More information on this will follow.
• Support to mark variables and functions as private through JSdoc using the @deprecated JSDoc tag
• Support for dependent ValueLists when in FindMode
• Added extra parameter to globals method ValueList that indicated if the FoundSet is in FindMode  
• Optimized databaseManager.recalculate() to only trigger the recalculation of stored calculations
• Added weeknumber to Date Field calendar popup in Smart Client, to bring it inline with the Web Client

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