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Highlights

The Servoy 7 release introduced the Servoy Mobile Client. Servoy Mobile brings the Servoy paradigms of easy application development to the mobile arena.

Using Servoy Mobile it is easy to build Mobile Business applications that work offline, seamlessly syncronize data back and forth between the Mobile client and the backend systems and can be deployed both as native application or as webapp

To get started with Servoy Mobile, see the Servoy Mobile documentation

Servoy Developer

Yet to be done:

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

  • Create proper CheatSheets
  • Redesign the Welcome page
  • Redesign the iServoy page
First Launch
  • On first launch, after the Welcome screen the Servoy Design perspective will show with all parts minimized and only the iServoy and the CheatSheet views showing
Servoy Developer UI
  • CVS team support has been removed (can be added again when needed through standard Eclipse update mechanism)
  • Java related features of Eclipse have been hidden from view
  • Toolbars related to Form editing have been inlined into the Form Editor
  • Added Color/font chooser Toolbar
  • Reordered default toolbar positions to achieve a more steady ToolBar when switching between different types of Editors
  • Preferences:
    • Merged "Window > Preferences > Servoy > Team settings" to "Window > Preferences > Team > Servoy Team Provider"
    • Removed "Window > Preferences > Servoy > Services" as they are not relevant within Servoy Developer
  • Hidden several not usefull MenuItems, like File > Convert line Delimiters ....
  • Moved MenuItems from Elements menu under the Actions Menu on the MenuBar
  • Moved the Debug Client Launch MenuItems from the Actions menu to the Run menu
  • Removed custom "New Form" option in the main toolbar and moved the New .... options into the default Eclipse mechanism for "New ..." operations (File > New or New button on toolbar or Alt-Shift-N keyboard shortcut)
  • Removed Classic Search view: Search can be triggered through keyboard shortcuts as well as though buttons in the main toolbar area and the menubar 
  • Renamed "Profiler View" to just "Profiler"
  • Hidden the Profiler view by default
  • Moved Tasks view next to Bookmarks view
  • Improved enabling/disabling of Solution Explorer nodes, menuItems & ToolBar buttons based on the current context
  • Better visual feedback on which nodes are enabled/disabled in the Solution Explorer
  • Cleaned up and aligned the Context menu's of the Form and Method Editors, to show only relevant entries and to follow the same menuitem order
Form Editor
  • Inlined all Form Editing toolbars into the Form Editor.
    Note: through the Form Editor Preferences the toolbars can be show in the main toolbar area again
  • Added a Palette to the Form Editor, for easier element selection and placement
    • Supports Drag 'n' Drop of elements
    • Supports "click select - click place" way of placing elements
    • Supports placing the same element multiple times by holding down the Control-key while dropping/placing 
    • Content of Palette is fully customizable: new drawers can be added or new elements can be added to existing drawers, order of drawers and elements can be altered, drawers and elements can be made visible or hidden
    • Servoy-aware beans automatically show up in a "servoy Beans drawer"  
    • Non-aware Java Swing components are in a separate drawer, hidden by default
    • The display of the Palette is fully customizable 
  • Added context aware snapping guides for easier placement of elements
  • Turned of Grid by default, since the new context aware snapping guides make the grid redundant
  • Added option to remove the Rulers
  • Added the drawing of the Form border
  • Added form offset inside the editor viewport, for drawing the Form Border
  • Added Same Width/Same Height options
    • Available as buttons on the toolbar
    • Available as entries in the context menu of the Form Editor
    • Available as keyboard shortcuts (Shift-W & Shift-H)
  • Added Same Width/Same Height feedback on elements in the Form Editor, based on the selected element
  • Added Feedback shortcut on the Toolbar to toggle the editor feedback options:
    • Show anchoring feedback
    • Show alignment feedback
    • Show same size indicators
    • Show Grid

To be done: 

  • Make it possible to add new Drawers to the Palette
Script Editor
CSS Editor
Miscellaneous 
  • 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) 

Solution development

Public Java API

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