Servoy 7.x.x Documentation
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  • 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
  • Elements marked as invisible are displayed semi-transparent
  • Elements marked as invisible do not generate an "Element in form "...." is outside the bounds of form." builder marker when placed horizontally outside the bounds of the form
  • 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 based on their anchoring settings
  • Form (parts) can be resized using the mouse by dragging their edges 
  • Form and Form Part can be resized in both dimensions at the intersection of the Form's right edge and the form part bottom edge (a3)
  • 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
  • When placing a new Tabpanel through the new Tabpanel button on the toolbar, the Tabpanel is dimensioned to the dimensions of the largest form, also taking into account the Form's border and navigator settings
  • Splitpane elements get a name prefixed with split_ when placed on a form
  • Splitpane elements render like a Splitpane in the Form Editor, instead of like a Tabpanel
  • Tabless panel elements get a name prefixed with tabless_ when placed on a form
  • Tabless panel element renders like a empty container element, instead of like a Tabpanel
  • Visual appearance of elements representing Tabs on a Tabpanel changed to let the element better resemble a tab, especially on transparent Tabpanels 
  • Drag & Dropping a method from the Solution Explorer onto a field in the formEditor sets the method as the field's onAction event handler
  • Improved inline editing of Labels & Buttons in the Form Editor. Proper support added for Control-X/C/V keyboard shortcuts

Still to be done: 

  • Make it possible to drag Forms from the Solution Explorer directly onto existing Tabpanels/TablessPanels/SplitPanels in the Form Editor 
  • Size feedback in the status bar for Form
  • Fix the show/hide/reorder behavior of the Toolbars of the Form Editor
Script Editor

To be fully described

  • Better support for advanced JavaScript code structures
  • Better support for inline Java code

JSDoc Typing info

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    Support for typed Arrays: String\[\] or Array\<String\>
  • Support for typing JSFoundSets and JSRecord to be of a specific datasource: JSFoundset\<datasource\> or JSRecord\<datasource\>

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  • Activate a Solution by double-clicking the node for the solution to activate under the "All solutions" node 
  • Added support to rename the Active Solution (added item in the Context menu of the Active Solution 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
  • Subnodes now ordered alphabetically
  • Automatic expand of the Resources > database Servers node on startup if there are invalid servers

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  • 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
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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  • Added a "Stop" button, to terminate the execution of a running method(stack), without killing the Debug Client:
  • Ability to terminate the execution of a running method(stack) from code by executing the code "eval(!stop_current_script!);"
Build process
  • Added QuickFix to create the unresolved method on builder markers for unresolved methods attached to events and commands 
  • Added "Element in form "...." is outside the bounds of form." builder marker for elements placed below the last Form part. Note: elements placed below the last form part on a form are not instantiated at runtime, thus are not in the elements array or visible on the Form
  • Added builder marker to warn about dataprovider of type text with a small length that are attached to HTMLArea's or RTFArea's, as these type of fields generate more markup in the dataprovider than the user actually sees

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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}&nbsp;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)

Solution development

Behavior changes
  • If a 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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  • Overriding all inherited Form properties
  • Overriding all properties of inherited elements
  • Overriding all properties of inherited Form parts

Misc.

  • Added rollOverImageMedia support in TableViews 
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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  • 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 

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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 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 

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  • 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.

  • 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