Smart GWT Release Notes
Release Notes for Smart GWT 2.4
GWT 2.1.1 compatible
Added Smart GWT QuickStart Guide
Touch & Mobile support : Support for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices with no code changes required
Offline persistent storage support with seamless integration with DataSource's
- New ultralight ‘Simplicity’ skin that is easily customizable and virtually image free
- Performance improvements across the board with significant IE specific performance enhancements
Several new
Showcase samples under the "New Samples" side nav
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ListGrid
Per field autoFitWidthApproach now supported
Added ListGrid "Auto Fit All" menu option
Support for frozen fields and virtual scrolling with record components
Various fixes related to the display of cell components in a ListGrid
Support for Header Spans when printing
Print support for a ListGrid with more than one frozen fields
Improved support for printing ListGrid's with embedded components
ListGridField's ChangeHandler event is now cancellable
Significant performance optimizations to client side Advanced Filtering
Added support for LinkURLPrefix and LinkURLSuffix on ListGridField
Added support for handling large number of rows in IE 8 non-strict mode
Added ListGrid.getCellHoverComponent() to support ListGrid cell hover components
New ListGrid flag 'autoFitFieldsFillViewport' to enable / disable the autoFitExpandField behavior
Handle a double-click on the ListGrid header menu context button the same as a double click elsewhere on the header button.
This means basically auto-fit on double click over the menu button
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TreeGrid
Added TreeGrid.showOpener property to not show opener icons at all
Fixed TreeGrid.invalidateCache to handle loadDataOnDemand:false trees
Fixed gridSummaries for databound TreeGrids
Fixed TreeGrid.setViewState(..) not re-selecting nodes
Fixed TreeGrid.setSelectionType(MULTIPLE) selection behavior when selectionAppearance is "checkbox"
For a cascade selection, loadOnDemand TreeGrid, push a full selection from parent down to the children upon load
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Calendar
Added support for 24h based Calendars
Calendar fix for issue where two overlapping events less than half an hour in length would be incorrectly rendered
Fixed issue where Calendar.scrollToToday scrolls too far
Handle the user selecting 0 hours (midnight) for the end date and ensuring the date doesn't end up incremented by more than one day
Fixed Calendar issue where events that start and end in the hour starting at 12am caused an error
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DynamicForm
Fix wrapping of multiple Form Item icons in strict mode
Added support for 'setRequired()' on a FormItem at runtime
Exposed broswerSpellCheck property on DynamicForm and FormItem for enabling / disabling native browser spell check feature on text boxes
Added DateItem.defaultDateChooserDate as a way to specify a default to show in the picker without specifying a default value for the item as a whole
Added DynamicForm.getChangedValues() / getOldValues() -- allows you to get at the values remembered by 'rememberValues()'
Added FormItem.canFocus property
Added TextItem.printFullText attribute - if true, expand the text box to fit content
Exposed textMatchStyle on SelectItem explicitly
Fixed a DateItem bug whereby everyone in the eastern hemisphere would get off-by-one errors in dateTime items when picking dates from the chooser
Fix for bug whereby entering dates into a DateTime item when the date crossed the Daylight Savings Time boundary would lead to the hours getting changed on blur
Added support for specifying DateItem.emptyDisplayValue when in text mode
Added support for specifying DateItem.showHintInField when in text mode
Fix IE specific "blinking" of ComboBoxes on initial select
SelectItem with multipleAppearance:"picklist" now supports comma separated formatted output (eg icons)
Fixed issue where tabbing into a DateItem in useTextField:true mode caused the value to be saved as null instead of left to default value
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Other
i18n enhancements
Improved Selenium support
Added support for hover components on any Canvas using Canvas.showHoverComponents and overriding getHoverComponent()
Fixed bug where dates already in UTC would be applied a UTC offset
Release Notes for Smart GWT 2.2
Selenium support
Removed need for setting isomorphicDir variable in host html file
- Support for the prototype pattern where the default attributes of a given Canvas (or subclass) can be user specified by passing a prototypical instance to the static method [Canvas or subclass].setDefaultProperties(Canvas or subclass prototype instance)
Added DateRangeItem, MiniDateRangeItem and Relative Date support to DynamicForm
Javadoc enhancements : Over 200 API's now have relevant Showcase example in the @see links
Several new
Showcase samples under the "New Samples" side nav
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ListGrid
- Performance improvements
- Editable grid related fixes
Added ListGrid.isPartiallySelected(record) API.
Changed the default recordComponentPoolingMode to "viewport"
Enhancements to make grouping / editing / autoSaveEdits:false work better
- Setting canFilter:false on an image field now results in no icon in filterEditor
- With multi-level grouping and groupTitleField set, subgroups now shows indentation
Support for showHintInField for editable ListGrid fields
Make the "select all" checkbox header be disabled only when all rows aren't cached. As soon as all rows become cached, enable it.
- For a user-created field, offer a "Remove [summary|formula] field" context menu item that removes the field (not just hides it)
- Fixed row-numbering when grouped - now skips group-header rows when counting
- Fixes for unnecessary fetches when scrolling to data provided via an ResultSet initialized with a sparse array
- Fixed show/hideField and freeze/unfreezeField with recordComponents
Fix of issue where shorter total column length than overall grid length was causing the rolloverCanvas to be misaligned
- Fixed sorting when grouped
Fix for issue where rollOver styling could get stuck on the first row edited if modal editing was true
Fix for issue where selectionState wasn't properly re-applied after grouping
Fixed recordComponentsByCell bug that misaligned controls on scroll
Fix getSortState() always returned null for the current sort-field
Fix virtualScrolling and recordComponents in the presence of a frozen body
Fix for issue where setViewState was not allowing user-shown fields to get passed as visible to the component.
With checkbox selection and summary rows, summary rows are no longer selectable (no checkbox appear)
Fix issue where checkbox field hover was wrongly appearing for all rows instead of just the checkbox header
Fix issue where collapsing a record that also had a recordComponent would remove the first component embedded on the record
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TreeGrid
Support separateFolders without forcing sorting by title
New attribute sortFoldersBeforeLeaves
New property Tree.indexByLevel causes us to maintain an set of indices of nodes, one for each level of the Tree
New method Tree.getLevelNodes() returns the set of nodes at a particular level of the Tree, or optionally at a particular level below an arbitrary node in the Tree.
Fixed Tree sort normalizer not handling floats correctly
Fixes related to reparenting nodes
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DynamicForm
Support for FormItem cell height
DynamicForm editing of AdvancedCriteria now supported
Fix for validation errors not being displayed properly when a FileItem is included on a form
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Other
i18n enhancements
Multi-property sort support for ResultSet and RecordList
Improved TileView print support
In Safari / Chrome in strict mode we have to use "pointer" rather than "hand" to get the pointy-finger cursor
Fixed Development Mode issue with callbacks having a boolean return value
Fixed timezone bug with dateTime formatting
- Better Transitional Doctype support
Dev Console Enhancements : Ability to capture Selenium scLocator string for last clicked element
Support DataSource.cacheAllData which causes a DataSource to load and cache all available data for a DataSource the first time there is a request to fetch data.
Added DataSource.cacheMaxAge
Allow reordering of ResultSets: implement the methods on ResultSet necessary to allow client-side reorder
Error reporting improvements. JS stack traces are logged for non-IE browsers as well
Release Notes for Smart GWT 2.1
Release Notes for Smart GWT 2.0
- GWT 2.0 support
- New Enterprise Blue theme, and significant improvements to Enterprise Gray Skin. Other skins deprecated and will have replacements in a future release.
- Theme specific collection of standard Window Icons, Picker Icons and Transfer Button icons as part of the core library.
- MS Excel like MultiColumn sort capabilities for ListGrid
- Support for ListGrid row expansions with in built expansion modes like details, editable form, related records as well
as allowing the user to display a custom widget via the override point ListGrid.getExpansionComponent(record)
- Exposed getGridSummary(field) as an override point. This allows you to return an entirely custom summary row value for any field
- Added the following methods to FormItem: setValueFormatter , setEditorValueFormatter and setEditorValueParser. These allow the user to customize the
display and parsing of input in a FormItem.
- Enhancements to DetailViewer and TileGrid so better support working interchangeably with the Records from any other DataBoundComponent
- Disabled state of all components fully supported. Missing media added.
- Various enhancements to support IE8 and Safari strict mode
- Support for "center" Layout alignment setting.
- Added DateTimeItem form field type.
- Support for masking DateItem, DateTimeItem and TimeItem input fields.
- Added Canvas.showClickMask(..) to do an 'auto-dismiss on outside click' type behavior on a component
- Fixed overflow issue with ListGrid.addData() under certain circumstances
- Fixed XSD support regression on Chrome / Safari
- Fixed "Too much recursion" issue with ValuesManager
- Fixed WSDL regression
- Javadoc improvements to link to GWT and JDK Javadoc APIs respectively
- Numerous new samples and improvements to the Showcase demo main page
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Various additional enhancements and bug fixes that were logged in tracker
Release Notes for Smart GWT 1.3
In this release the SmartGwt modules have been slightly refactored so that by default the compile output does not include debug sources, unused resources, developer tools etc.
Some users were getting the wrong impression that the size of the compiled output was the size of their application. Most users are probably using either
com.smartgwt.SmartGwt or com.smartgwt.SmartGwtNoScript and will be unaffected by this refactoring. You will only notice that the compile output is a lot
smaller as it does not include the debug / readable source js files, and the developer console files. The most important change to keep in mind is that in order to use the Developer Console
(ie SC.showConsole() ), you will now need to inherit the following module : <inherits name="com.smartgwt.tools.SmartGwtTools"/>
Users that happen be using com.smartgwt.SmartGwtDebug will need to inherit com.smartgwt.debug.SmartGwtDebug instead.
- Grid Summary support from group and columns
- Masking support for form text fields
- Support for user-defined reusable SimpleTypes for use in DataSources (eg ZipCode type)
- In-field hints support for SelectItem, ComboBoxItem and TextAreaItem
- Support for Finnish locale and other i18n enhancements
- TextAreaItem.getSelectedText() support
- Improved support for use of Smart GWT and MVP pattern
- FilterBuilder fixes
- RPCManager enhancements
- Ability to control order of month day and year selector in DateItem
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Various additional enhancements and bug fixes that were logged in tracker
- New examples including a Grid Summary example in the Smart GWT Showcase (see "New Samples" side nav item in the Showcase)
Release Notes for Smart GWT 1.2
- Significant improvement in integration with core GWT widgets
- Hosted mode performance improvements
- GWT 1.7 support
- Updated Showcase sample to new GWT project structure
- Fully implemented the ResultSet API
- ListGrid performance enhancements
- Full support for Safari 4.0
- I18n enhancements.
- Support for Grid editing with all editors shown
- Auto-loading of dependent XML schema for loadWSDL() and loadXMLSchema()
- Extended WebService APIs to allow simplified input data and allow setting SOAP headers
- Numerous enhancements. See the detailed
API Changes document
- enhancements to RPC Tab in Developer Console (shows component that initiated request, if applicable)
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Around 35 additional enhancements and bug fixes that were logged in tracker
- New examples including a mini-app in the Smart GWT Showcase (see "New Samples" side nav item in the Showcase)
Release Notes for Smart GWT 1.1
- Unified DataBoundComponent interface which is implemented by DynamicForm, ListGrid, TreeGrid, Menu, ColumnTree, TileGrid, DetailViewer and Calendar.
- Consistent representation of a Record which can be used by any DataBoundComponent
- Support for GWT-RPC DataSource with DataBoundComponents
- Various component and skin performance improvements
- Formula and Summary fields: built-in wizards for end users to define formula fields that can compute values using other fields, or summary fields
that can combine other fields with intervening / surrounding text. Available in all DataBoundComponents, easy to persist as preferences
- I18n support with resource bundles from 14 locales
- Significant improvements to Javadocs with tons of documentation on various concepts. (over 30MB on disk)
- API's to save and restore the display and selection state of various components to/from the server
- Automatic databound dragging behaviors: grids and trees will now inspect data relations declared in DataSources and automatically “do the right thing” for a databound drag
- Numerous enhancements. See the detailed
API Changes document
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Over 50 additional enhancements and bug fixes that were logged in tracker
- Several new events and extension points on various components to allow advanced usage
- A helloworld-1.6 starter project for Smart GWT with GWT 1.6
- Several new examples in the Smart GWT Showcase (see "New Samples" side nav item in the Showcase)
Key API's added
DateUtil
- Ability to globally set the Date input and rendered formats across the application
DataBoundComponent
- ability to select / deselect records, fetch / filter data and carry out various other operations on any DataBoundComponent
DataSource and DataSourceField
- ability to specify custom field value extractor logic for a given DataSourceField
- API's to control http caching and result batch size
- DataSourceField.setCanSortClientOnly
Window
- listeners for minimize, maximize, restore and close
Calendar
- support for customizing event edit dialog fields
- event remove listener
Forms
- convenience constructors for various FormItems
- support for customizing form field and title tooltips
- TextItem : support for character casing and entry restrictions (regexp based)
- TextItem : support for hints displayed in-field
- ComboBoxItem : fetchDelay setting
- AutoFitTextAreaItem: autofits to contained text as the user types
Column Tree (Miller Columns)
- added node selected listener
ListGrid
- Grouping modes: built-in and custom grouping modes, such as the ability to group a date column by week, day, month or year
- added header click listener
- added record drop listener
- ability to customize grid groupings by record values and also group title
- support for adding custom formula and summary fields on the fly
- ability to register custom handler to control visibility of a ListGridField
- added ListGridField.setCanFreeze, ListGridField.setCanSort
SectionStack (Accordion)
- added section header click event
TreeGrid
- added folder drop listener
- ability to override getIcon() / getNodeTitle() to allow users to have custom node icon / title logic
Release Notes for Smart GWT 1.0 b2
- GWT 1.6 M1 and M2 support. GWT 1.5.3 continues to be fully supported.
- New lightweight Enterprise Gray skin
- Performance improvements
- various API enhancements and bug fixes
- complete support for WebServices (WSDL)
- Additional Developer Tools (Inspect DOM and monitor RPC calls from hosted mode)
- Portal support and samples
- HTML based Print Preview support. No longer requires JSP.
- Support for auto-arranging and overlapping Calendar events
- Support for checkbox selection for ListGrids
- improved support for users to wire DataSource's with GWT-RPC calls
- Improved javadocs
- Separated additional skins into a smartgwt-skins.jar
- Chrome, Firefox 3.1, and OSX hosted mode support
Release Notes for Smart GWT 1.0 b1
Initial Release
GWT 1.5.3 (or greater) required