W2UI 1.4 Released

July 21, 2014

I am happy to announce the release of W2UI 1.4. This release has many improvements and bug fixes. New 1.4 version is not fully backward compatible with 1.3, however, the migration should be easy as there were only few changes that would break your previous code.

Input Controls

One of the biggest updates in this release is fully refactored input controls, see demos. You can use them stand-alone (more in this post) or within a form. Input controls include:

Numeric
Date & Time
Lists
Multi List
Upload

All these new input controls can be used as field types in w2form, as search field controls or inline editing controls in w2grid.

Route Support

I have added route property in w2sidebar node, w2toolbar item and w2tabs tab. Consider following example in case of a sidebar: Now, clicking on the node, will follow a route with merged dynamic id.

In w2grid and w2form you can use dynamic routes as they pull data from the server

Improved Overlays

Overlays had major improvements. Now overlays will:

open up or down depending on available screen space
allow to have multiple instances at the same time
allow to build context menus
have more options

Form Templates

Form template auto generating is not new, but in this release it has been improved with additional options. You can still provide your own form template or specify how a template should be built. The template for a particular field has changed.

FROM TO which I think is more expressive. Still, the easiest way to generate initial templates by generateHTML

Get all nodes, items, tabs

Now you get quickly find out all nodes in w2sidebar, items in w2toolbar or tabs w2tab by calling get method without arguments. It turned out to be quite useful. Consider the following example that disabled all nodes with one line For a complete list of changes, see change log below.

Change Log

Layout

Added panel.title property
Added panel.maxSize property
Added onResizerClick event

Grid

Added column.hideable property
Added menu property
Added method property
Added parser property
Added recid property
Added reorderColumns property
Added reorderRows property
Added routeData property
Added onContextMenu event
Added onMenuClick event
Added onStateSave event
Added onStateRestore event
Added getCellValue() method
Added nextCell() method
Added prevCell() method
Added nextRow() method
Added prevRow() method
Added refreshRow() method
Added refreshCell() method
Added stateSave() method
Added stateRestore() method
Added stateReset() method
Changed find method
Changed record.style property
Changed record.render property
Changed show.skipRecords property
Deprecated buffered property
Deprecated record.selected property
Renamed markSearchResults => markSearch property
Renamed record.changed => record.changes property
Renamed onSave => onSubmit event
Renamed onSaved => onSave event
Renamed search-login => searchLogic in server post
Removed name from server post

Toolbar

Added routeData property
Added item.route property
Added item.count property
Updated get() method

Sidebar

Added routeData property
Added node.route property
Added find() method
Updated get() method

Tabs

Added routeData property
Added tab.route property
Updated get() method

Form

Added routeData property
Added getChanged() method
Updated fields property
Updated get() method
Updated generateHTML() method

Popup

Added status property

Utils

Added lock() method
Added unlock() method
Added parseRoute() method
Added settings.dataType property
Added settings.currencyPrefix property
Added settings.currencySuffix property
Added settings.currencyPrecision property
Added settings.groupSymbol property
Deprecated settings.currency property
Deprecated settings.float property
Deprecated settings.RESTfull property