ZK^TM

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ZK 1.1 Release Note

Released on March 20, 2006. [History]

New Features: 1442883, 1443536, 1443541, 1440869, 1447044, 1449724, 1449700, 1450219, 1449680, 1448925, 1447272, 1453874, 1454168 , 1441458, 1441483, 1441873, 1442422
- The forEach attribute to generate components repeatedly.
- Seamless integration with servlet by supporting the name attribute
  in textbox, radiogroup, checkbox, listbox, tree, combobox, datebox,
  intbox, and decimalbox.
- Bandbox and bandpopup are added and used as a customizable combobox.
- Components.getChildren() is live that developers could manipulate
  it directly.
- Listbox.getItems() is live that developers could manipulate it directly.
- EventThreadCleanup to clean up an event processing thread.
- Support the onFocus and onBlur events.
- Close desktop and free memory when an user browses to another page.
- Window.setMode() is added to change window mode easily.
Bug fixes: 1444670, 1444981, 1446385, 1446597, 1449396, 1448883, 1449824, 1450151, 1452049, 1451295, 1452087, 1440481, 1440777, 1441005

62 XUL and 82 HTML off-the-shelf components.
- Tabbox, grid, listbox, tree, menu, combobox, bandbox, datebox, hbox, vbox, window, slider, audio, image, timer, include, iframe...
- Drag and drop supported by all components.
- Auto-completion for combobox.
- Live data for listbox.
- Validation for any input components.
- Java-ready FCKeditor and Dojo components.
Event-driven, server-centric model
- 20 events are supported: onChange, onScroll, onSelect, onShow, onZIndex...
- All event listeners are handled in Java, either by compiled byte-codes or by BeanShell, up to application developers.
- All events are processed at the server.
ZK User-interface Markup Language (ZUML).
- Rich user inteface could be designed in ZUML without programming.
- Powerful yet intuitive control flow by the if, unless and forEach attribute.
- Scripting in Java (by BeanShell) and EL expressions.
Simple yet flexible threading model.
- Thread-safe component handling.
- True server-side Modal dialog.
- Suspend and resume event listeners freely.