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Servoy Developer

Still to be done in Servoy Developer

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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 \[object Object\]

• Added predefined update url for JSDoc plugin (https://www.servoyforge.net/projects/jsdoc)
• Updated Servoy Developer to Eclipse Helios (3.6)
• Reduced memory footprint of solutions in Servoy Developer by about 40% 
• 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)

Solution development

Behavior changes

• 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
• 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.
• When asking for elements and/or parts of forms that extend other forms, the inherited elements/parts are also returned in Servoy 6, whereas prior to Servoy 6, only the non-inherited elements would be returned and the (hierargy of) super forms(s) had to be inspected. 
• When using labels with labelFor link to other elements in TableViews to control the TableView header rendering, the first lable will now determine the height of the header 

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

Solution Model

Client Design mode

Scripting API

Web Client specific

• Support added to Icons on Tabs of a tabPanel
• Support added for .replaceSelectedText(...) on fields
• Support added for rollOverImageMedia
• Partial Dialogs plugin support (see #Plugins & Beans) 
• Added support for editable HTMLArea
• Performance improvement of the Web Client due to compression enabling by default
• Moved all styling of Tabpanels to the servoy_default_webclient_stylesheet.css 
• Moved default form background-color into servoy_default_webclient_stylesheet.css 

Plugins & Beans

New OpenID plugin: Web Client only plugin to 

Dialogs plugin

• 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 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

Still to be done

• Refactor the factory method for border to dedicated function per type of border, instead of one overloaded method 

Client Design mode

Scripting API

Web Client specific

• Support added to Icons on Tabs of a Tabpanel
• Support added for percentage values when setting the divider position of Splitpanes (values between 0 and 1 are considered percentage values e.g. 0.5 means 50%)
• Support added for .replaceSelectedText(...) on fields
• Support added for rollOverImageMedia
• Support for "media:///...." in HTML inside tooltips
• Support for "media:///...." for the "scr" attribute of Script and Style tags included in non-editable HTMLArea's and HTML contained in the text property of Labels
• Support for HTML on nodes of the DBTree(Table)View beans
• Partial Dialogs plugin support (see #Plugins & Beans) 
• Added support for editable HTMLArea
• Added anchoring support for non-Servoy-aware beans 
• Performance improvement of the Web Client due to compression enabling by default
• Moved all styling of Tabpanels to the servoy_default_webclient_stylesheet.css 
• Moved default form background-color into servoy_default_webclient_stylesheet.css 
• Upgraded several used libraries:

• • Upgraded to jQuery 1.5
  • Upgraded to YUI 2.8.2r1

Plugins & Beans

New OpenID plugin: Web Client only plugin to 

Dialogs plugin

• 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
• Support for HTML as text for nodes of the tree in Web Client

PDF plugin

• Added support for working with XFA forms

PDF Output plugin

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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
• Upgraded several used libraries:
  • Upgraded to jQuery 1.5
  • Upgraded to YUI 2.8.2r1
• Added ability to use separators in ValueLists

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 

Public Java API

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• relations, mapping on integer columns
• Added ability to use separators in ValueLists

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 

Public Java API

Misc.

• Upgrades several libraries (.jar files)
  • metadataextractor.jar update to version 2.4.0b1
  • quartz.jar update to 1.8.3
  • 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
• Included several new libraries (.jar files)
  • openid4java.jar (version ???)
  • guice.jar (version 2.0)