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ZK 5.0.6 release notes

Released on February 24, 2011.

ZK 5.0.6 is a maintenance release introducing new features such as custom SEO content renderer, a new interactive tree model, and additional built in UI effects on widgets.

Getting Simpler and Richer

  • Please see the New Features for more information!
  • If you would like to upgrade from an older version the upgrade notes are available here!

Feature Updates

  • 120+ off-the-shelf Ajax components
    • Tabbox, grid, listbox, tree, menu, combobox, bandbox, datebox, chart, hbox, vbox, window, slider, paging, audio, image, timer, include, iframe...
    • Drag-and-drop supported by all components, such that users can drag components and drop them to any other or particular set of components.
    • Context menus and customizable tooltips supported by all components, such that a menu or any popup appears when user click, right-click or move the mouse over a component.
    • Customizable sorting of listbox, grid and children of any component with 100% Java codes (java.lang.Comparator).
    • Auto-completion for combobox.
    • Load on demand with writing Java codes.
    • Live data for listbox.
    • Grids, listboxes and trees with sizable columns.
    • All components are cloneable and serializable.
    • Validation and formatting for any input components, such as regular expression and $#,##0.
    • 100% Java API of Google Maps, CKeditor, and Timeline components.
  • Event-driven, server-centric model
    • Ajax requests, application notification, and server push are all managed as events
    • Event Queue shields developers from the complexity of Ajax and server push, such as multi-thread programming
    • All events are processed at the server. No hurdle to communicate between clients and servers.
    • All events are synchronized. No racing condition to worry about.
  • ZK User-interface Markup Language (ZUML).
    • Rich user interface could be designed in ZUML as simple as authoring HTML pages.
    • Powerful yet intuitive control flow by the if, unless and forEach attribute.
    • Scripting in EL expressions and your favorite scripting languages, include but not limited to Java, JavaScript, Ruby and Groovy.
    • Hot changes and updates without restarting your Web applications.
    • Annotations that allow a page to access database with zero Java codes.
  • Browser history management.
    • Add states to browser's back button history. Then, users can bookmark and use the back and forward button to navigate different states of the same ZK desktop.
  • Simple yet boundless component model.
    • POJO components supporting interfaces and clustering. Easy to instantiate and manipulate directly with pure Java, or injected and managed by an AOP framework, such as Spring
    • Macro components. Develope full-featured new component by using other ZUML pages.
    • Inheritable customization. Developing a new component by extending existent components.
    • Seamlessly and easily to encapsulate pure-client components as ZK components with 100% Java API.
    • Customizing components with pre-compiled Java classes, or by scripting in your favorite scripting languages, include but not limited to Java, JavaScript, Ruby and Groovy. The choice is yours.
  • Simple yet flexible threading model.
    • Thread-safe component handling.
    • True server-side Modal dialog.
    • Suspend and resume event listeners freely.
  • 100% Customizable User-Interface factory.
    • Loading ZUML pages not only from Web contents but also any repository such as database.
    • Customizing the features of sessions, desktops and pages.

What's New

  • New Features Tracker
    • 3143403: A way to customize the effect of showing/hiding a widget
    • 3175503: A way to specify the application's name in zk.xml
    • 3138362: Add a Doublespinner comopnent to support double value
    • 3159644: Message translated to Slovak. Thank Ondrej Jombik for his contribution
    • 3148425: GroupsModelArray shall handle tabular data better
    • 3166334: Provide a way to intercept document-level key events
    • 2957665: Round mold for Textbox, Decimalbox, Intbox, Longbox and Doublebox
    • 3105037: Show the locale format in error messages
    • 3148523: Simplify TreeModel (to be the same as Swing's TreeModel)
    • 3152268: TreeModel: provide an implementation that is mutable
    • 3169396: Tree supports sorting
    • 3115054: A way not to use Thread for Event Queue+Server Push
    • 3116100: Progressmeter has animation effect
    • 3118161: When desktop destroyed, better to force cleanup if timeout
    • 3139008: Add Vietnamese language
    • 3158054: Optimize UiVisualizer for hug number of updates
    • 3161425: Panel's border and framable shall be merged into one
    • 2866506: Data Binding shall support GroupsModel with Listbox/Grid
    • 3175481: A way to ignore the wiring of zscript and xel globally
    • 3166312: A way to know detail of a long exec blocking others
    • 3175487: Datebox should fire onChange when select date via Calendar
    • 3177275: Listheader should override hflex when sized by end user
    • 3179707: Support hflex="min" + span
    • 3184415: Grid/Listbox/Tree shall allow to span a specific column
    • 3186996: Listbox/tree's nonselectableTags supports "*" to disable all
    • 3187996: A way to generate custom SEO content
  • Bugs fixed
    • 3102812: Using databinding with onCreate event, target is null
    • 3109358: Recycle uuid causes image's URI caching in browser
    • 3117370: Tree ROD fail
    • 3117384: renderdefer fails in tree on IE and Chrome
    • 3122159: onChange shall fire immediately for datebox if select a date
    • 3131983: EL's param shall not Map if zscript used
    • 3131173: Tree checkmark/multiple issue
    • 3131458: The column setSortDirection fail with breeze theme
    • 3134159: Progressmeter animation error
    • 3136243: Bug within JQuery 1.4.3, please upgrade to 1.4.4
    • 3136453: H/Vlayout inheritance
    • 3136963: doAfterCompose invoke twice when the zul include by setSrc
    • 3142509: SelectedIndex fails when listbox(select) contain listhead
    • 3142583: include dynamic property doesn't work
    • 3132167: In IE6, hflex="min" miscalculate the combobox's width
    • 3141549: Hlayout not handle hflex well (onSize not fired if empty)
    • 3109311: listbox sizedByContent cause javascript
    • 3106676: Datebox allows selection of past days when no empty, no past
    • 3126388: Flahschart could not work with type stackcolumn
    • 3141610: Unavailable to change Menubar scrolling
    • 3118324: Possible bug in Grid with Frozen + Footer + horizontal scroll
    • 3150160: listheader hflex="min" give 0 column width
    • 3118444: IE 6 Menu popup have wired point
    • 3152311: The between constraint of datebox cause infinite loop
    • 3154189: The file upload cause NoSuchMethodError with JDK 1.4
    • 3153941: Decimalbox didn't compatible with jre / jdk 1.4.x
    • 3154168: Doublespinner didn't compatible with jre / jdk 1.4.x
    • 3156026: H/Vlayout sync size busy
    • 3159604: The font of the button in the caption become smaller
    • 3160695: The x/y Axis label of GanttChart was in wrong position
    • 3152754: Include#setVisible() has issue with invalidate()
    • 3162238: Include fails when set source to null dynamically
    • 3151694: decimalbox input 25- cause exception
    • 3164504: Hflex will not recalculate when the colum without label
    • 3164514: Jasperreport does not close JDBC connection after doReport()
    • 3158641: Implementing IdSpace not enough; Client-side shall handle it
    • 3085855: Children of Treeitem shown when Treeitem is not visible
    • 3132161: Datebox getValue returning date+time
    • 3165081: Splitter as first or last child fails when dragged
    • 3155985: timer doesn't stop and restart
    • 3147518: Memory leak with IE 7 and dynamic Grid Updates
    • 3109926: Splitter javascript error in IE8
    • 3147909: Listbox of select mold fails inside draggable component (Webkit)
    • 3165056: Textbox in popup didn't trigger onblur with Firefox 3.6.x
    • 3165646: Right-click shouldn't deselect the one that is selected
    • 3161667: Doublebox formatting/rounding bug for near-zero value
    • 3165164: onSelect event is not fired when a tab is closed
    • 3132199: use hflex="min" in hlayout and div, cause wrong UI
    • 3105728: Incorrect Datebox formatting with no year input
    • 3105860: Portallayout fails to set Panel's ZIndex on 2nd maximization
    • 3166404: The hidden column in a frozen grid will appear
    • 3166399: Crawlable feature isn't working when the cnt is in include
    • 3165195: Strange dotted line on Menuitem
    • 3166478: Portallayout maximize panel, panel behind will sticking out
    • 3157031: V/Hlayout with h/vflex calculate wrong value
    • 3081580: Toolbarbutton with upload and disabled not work
    • 3166875: Failed to invalidate an included page
    • 3166909: Javascript error if put a listhead inside a listbox(select)
    • 3162596: mesg.TRY_AGAIN not translated in zk.jar
    • 3167027: Cannot append a treerow in a treeitem
    • 3141977: Navigating paging grid with native elem in it causes error (EE only)
    • 3159848: Closing error box does not update InputElement value (ZK 5 part)
    • 3168509: Datebox sets wrong date when going from 12/31 to 1/1 next yr
    • 3106514: sizedByContent with not visible columns
    • 3166874: Clicking on Toolbarbutton in Caption does not blur textbox
    • 3147199: ZUL schema not allow tablelayout used in div
    • 3107026: Button can't be clicked if locale is TR in IE8
    • 3512678: Panel does not resize when its Toolbar toggles visibility
    • 3169411: Cannot show custom error message in Spinner
    • 3172791: trendy button don't pick up style
    • 3172785: None-embedded window shall not affect flex size of its parent component
    • 3166485: Height of listbox sync error
    • 3175558: Use zkplus JpaUtil can not close default EntityManger
    • 3170417: Paging in Tree is broken
    • 3176990: Liferay fail to work because wrong zk.wpd url link
    • 3147926: Auto-fitting bug
    • 3177013: Grid fail shrink/expand, sizedByContent="true", span="true"
    • 3175465: Paging tree doesn't render the close node
    • 3176345: Splitter's icon doesn't work for mouse-over style on IE6/7/8
    • 3177128: Chrome Only. Incorrect scrollbar size
    • 3115825: toolbarbutton onClick not fired using 5.0.5 with Liferay
    • 3176297: Row's mouse-over style keeps changing in IE6/8
    • 3177265: listbox/grid hflex="min" does not work
    • 3161535: grid column align doesn't work with breeze theme in IE 7
    • 3178065: Menuitem onClick is incorrectly blocked in zkmax
    • 3178359: Combobox's popup is positioned wrong in vertical tabbox
    • 3147382: confirmClose message under timeout scenario
    • 3180189: Sizing on Listbox/Grid with hflex="min" causes expanding
    • 3094720: Last child of Hlayout/Vlayout should have no right/bottom padding
    • 3180824: Listbox, mold="select", multiple rows
    • 3181881: Listbox/Grid sizedByContent="true" cannot resize column
    • 3182114: Listbox/Grid columns hflex="1" not correct with hflex="min"
    • 2987511: Class extends Map can miss calling Getters in DataBinding
    • 3183172: hflex="min" on Grid/Listbox/Tree cause js error
    • 3183182: Inconsistent behavior on Grid/Listbox/Tree with hflex="min"
    • 3183228: Grid/Listbox/Tree has wrong sizing when header sizable=true
    • 3183691: Send response to client cannot found the widget
    • 3184673: Separator in Hlayout on IE6 looks strange
    • 3184756: A window with a scroll menubar render a wrong sibling
    • 3185508: Internal event listener of tree/grid/... not seralized
    • 3187231: include is not work when using '~.' & defer without params
    • 3184369: Hflex doesn't work with native html table on IE 8
    • 1968615: Data binding problem in listfooter inside a nested listbox
    • 3189142: Combobox popup width is wrong. IE7 only
    • 3189758: Date constraint parsing gives wrong result with end of today
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