Servoy 7.x.x Documentation
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  • Improved visual feedback while resizing/moving elements using the keyboard 
  • When placing fields through the "Place field..." button in the Toolbar of the Form Editor, the fields are placed in the order in which the dataproviders were selected in the "Select Data Providers" dialog 
  • Better placement of horizontally placed fields through the "Place field..." button in the Toolbar of the Form Editor 
  • Added option to toggle the display of the Rulers (default: on)
  • Added option to toggle the display of "Page break" lines (default: off)
  • Added the drawing of the Form border
  • Offset the Form inside the editor viewport, for drawing the Form Border
  • Visual feedback of Forms being transparent
  • Added "Snapping mode" shortcut on the toolbar to quickly toggle the Alignment mechanism to use:
    • None
    • Grid
    • Alignment (default)
  • Added "Toggle Feedback options" shortcut on the Toolbar to toggle the Form Editor feedback preferences:
    • Show anchoring feedback (default = true)
    • Show alignment feedback (default = true)
    • Show same size indicators (default = true)
    • Show Grid (default = false)
  • Added support for quick pan of viewport using SpaceBar+MouseDown+MouseMove (allows for quick scrolling the viewport if the Form is larger than the Form Editor area)
  • Added forced lasso select for layered elements through Shift modifier when starting the select using the mouse 
  • Form part height can be set by double-clicking the part label 
  • Form parts can be resized using the keyboard
  • When resizing form parts using the mouse, if the Control modifier is pressed while the resize takes place, anchored elements also are resized
  • Form (parts) can be resized using the mouse by dragging their edges 
  • While hovering over the Form part label, a vertical resize cursor is shown 
  • Added location & size feedback in the status bar of Servoy Developer for the selected element 
  • Added "Revert Form" option to Context menu of the Form Editor, to undo all changes since the last Save at once
  • Added "Preferences" option in the Context menu of the Form Editor
  • When pressing the Tab key while focus is on an element in the Form Editor, the next element in the tab sequence is focused
  • The preferred size of beans is used when placing beans on a Form  

Still to be done: 

  • Make it possible to drag Forms from the Solution Explorer directly onto existing Tabpanels/TablessPanels/SplitPanels in the Form Editor 
  • Make it possible to do a two dimensional form (part) resize
  • Size feedback in the status bar for Form and Form parts
Script Editor

To be described

Still to be done

  • Investigate if the "Paste to JavaScript console" option in the Context menu of the Script Editor can be removed or made to work
  • Investigate if the "Run as ..." and "Debug as ..." options in the Context menu of the Script Editor can be removed or made to work

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  • Syntax coloring
  • Code Completion, based on supported CSS subset that Servoy supports
  • Outline view for the StyleSheet
  • Properties view for the selected StyleClass
  • Font & Color chooser available in main toolbar area
Solution Explorer

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view
  • Activate a Solution by double-clicking the node for the solution to activate under the "All solutions" node 
  • More contrast between enabled and disabled nodes (for example when editing Calculations)
  • Different icons under the "All solutions" node for solutions of type module or solution, with special decorators for Web Client or Smart Client only
  • Warning & Error decorators on the Icons of each node if there are any builder markers (Errors and/or Warnings) on the object the Node represents or on any of it's children 

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Properties view
  • 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
Profiler View
  • Hidden from the Servoy Design perspective to improve the initial experience
  • Made customized column width 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
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

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Conditional formatting (including row coloring in grids)

Inheritance model

The Inheritance model of Servoy has been enhanced to allow:

  • Overriding all inherited Form properties
  • Overriding all properties of inherited elements
  • Overriding all properties of inherited Form parts

Misc.

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 method showWarningDialog(...) can now be used in combination with the Web Client and present the user with the native browser "alert" dialog. Note that the dialog will only be show to the user after the method is finished.

DBTree(Table)View beans

  • Drag 'n' Drop support
  • CSS Styling Support

PDF plugin

  • Added support for working with XFA forms

PDF Output plugin

  • The PDF output plugin is now registered as Printer, to allow printing to PDF from the Print Preview in the Smart Client

Misc.

  • The preferred size of Beans is now honored when placing beans onto a form in the Form Editor 
  • 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.
Misc.
  • 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)

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