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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
  • 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 label will now determine the height of the header 

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  • Added rollOverImageMedia support in TableViews 
  • 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.
  • 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

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  • 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
  • Link tags contained in non-editable HTMLArea's are now inserted into the HEAD part of the Markup
  • Support for HTML on nodes of the DBTree(Table)View beans
  • Support for separators within ComboBox dropdown
  • 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 
  • Ability to control the HTML of the "Loading..." indicator by specifying an i18n key with the following name: servoy.general.loading
  • Upgraded several used libraries:
    • Upgraded to jQuery 1.5
    • Upgraded to YUI 2.8.2r1
  • Support for retrieving browser-side variables in JavaScript callbacks inside non-editable HTMLArea's by using a prefix
    Code Block
    <html>
<body>
<button onclick="javascript:globals.myCallBackMethod(browser:browserSideVariableName1, browser:browserSideVariableName1)">test</button>
</body>
</html>

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  • Drag 'n' Drop support
  • CSS Styling Support
  • Support for HTML as text for nodes of the tree in Web Client
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PDF plugin

  • Added support for working with XFA 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

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  • 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 ClientAbility 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 usedAdded ability to specify the user directory for Smart Clients on the Admin
  • page Enhanced Security is now the default mode, can only be disabled by manually setting the relevant property in the servoy.properties file: "servoy.application_server.enhancedSecurity=false"

Admin page

  • Ability to alter the max. allowed idle connections on the Servoy Application Server without restarting
  • 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 
  • Added a grid-like Database Server overview on the Servoy Admin page for better overview of the status of all Database Server connections
  • Enhanced Security is now the default mode, can only be disabled by manually setting the relevant property in the servoy.properties file: "servoy.application_server.enhancedSecurity=false"

Public Java API

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  • , with links to get to the details of a specific Database Server
  • Added Solution import option to auto update Servoy Sequences after import 
  • Added Database Server name to the Performance Data page of the Admin page
  • Added log entry when clearing the log on the Server Log page of the Admin page
  • Moved the link to import Solutions to the top of the Solutions page on the Admin page
  • Improved type tagging of queries in the Performance Data page on the Admin page. For example, FoundSet queries are now properly tagged as FoundSet queries.

Public Java API

  • Added API to hook into Servoy's Drag 'n' Drop mechanism
  • Added API to interact with Servoy StyleSheets

Miscellaneous

  • Upgrades several libraries (.jar files)
    • metadataextractor.jar updated to version 2.4.0b1
    • quartz.jar updated to 1.8.3
    • Apache HTTP Client updated to 4.0
    • 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
    • Tomcat upgraded to 6.0.32
  • 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)