ZK 6.5.1 release notes
Released on December 05, 2012.
ZK 6.5.1 concentrates on fixing bugs and introducing a few new features including a default command for MVVM, page visibility with HTML 5 API and others.
ZK 6.5 series focuses on taking developers to achieve real device transparency in one codebase and component set, exploring the area of combined desktop & tablet UI and touch experiences.
Introducing responsive design and responsive components to always fit your device screen resolution and tablet-specific user interaction methods such as swiping and device orientation detection which are done automatically to save developers time, effort and to increase massive productivity.
Getting Simpler and Richer
- Please see New Features for more details
- To read about the philisophy behind ZK 6.5, please visit this blog
Feature Updates
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120+ off-the-shelf Ajax components
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Tabbox, grid, listbox, tree, menu, combobox, bandbox, datebox, chart,
hbox, vbox, window, slider, paging, audio, image, timer, include, iframe...
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Drag-and-drop supported by all components, such that users can drag
components and drop them to any other or particular set of components.
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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.
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Customizable sorting of listbox, grid and children of any component
with 100% Java codes (
java.lang.Comparator ).
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Auto-completion for combobox.
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Load on demand with writing Java codes.
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Live data for listbox.
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Grids, listboxes and trees with sizable columns.
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All components are cloneable and serializable.
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Validation and formatting for any input components, such as regular
expression and
$#,##0 .
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100% Java API of Google Maps,
CKeditor,
and Timeline components.
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Event-driven, server-centric model
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Ajax requests, application notification, and server push are all managed as events
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Event Queue shields developers from the complexity of Ajax and server push, such as multi-thread programming
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All events are processed at the server. No hurdle to communicate between clients
and servers.
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All events are synchronized. No racing condition to worry about.
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ZK User-interface Markup Language (ZUML).
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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.
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Scripting in EL expressions and your favorite scripting languages,
include but not limited to Java,
JavaScript,
Ruby and Groovy.
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Hot changes and updates without restarting your Web applications.
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Annotations that allow a page to access database with zero Java codes.
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Browser history management.
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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.
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Simple yet boundless component model.
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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
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Macro components. Develope full-featured new component
by using other ZUML pages.
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Inheritable customization. Developing a new component by extending
existent components.
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Seamlessly and easily to encapsulate pure-client components as ZK
components with 100% Java API.
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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.
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Simple yet flexible threading model.
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Thread-safe component handling.
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True server-side Modal dialog.
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Suspend and resume event listeners freely.
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100% Customizable User-Interface factory.
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Loading ZUML pages not only from Web contents but also any repository
such as database.
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Customizing the features of sessions, desktops and pages.

What's New
- New Features Tracker
- ZK-1248: Sub menu should not overlap its parent in menupopup.
- ZK-1351: Messagebox with no button
- ZK-1397: DefaultTreeNode support empty children mean leaf node
- ZK-1416: Support default Command and GlobalCommand handling
- ZK-1465: Comet server push support HTML5 page-visibility API to reduce the server loading.
- ZK-1474: Add onVisibilityChange event based on HTML5 page-visibility API
- Bugs fixed
- ZK-1117: some wrong behavior in spinner and double spinner
- ZK-1150: nbsp gets added to menuitem label in Firefox
- ZK-1187: Setting an sClass on a selected tab results in tab losing z-tab-seld class
- ZK-1192: SelectorComposer ConcurrentModificationException in GAE
- ZK-1213: Calendar and datebox showing the wrong day number
- ZK-1215: Mouseless selection not working properly in datebox and calendar
- ZK-1217: Groupbox calculate a wrong hight after the groupbox be hide then show
- ZK-1218: Doublebox says "not a number" when significant length extends beyond 15
- ZK-1220: Instant textbox doesn't preserve the focus at position
- ZK-1226: Problem With Parent of the Menupopup in Fullscreen
- ZK-1234: Odd and Even background color not working on grid within a panel within another grid
- ZK-1257: Filedownload.save(media, filename); is not returning as expected
- ZK-1259: zul with hashmap not load key from a fx
- ZK-1284: Grid/Listbox header and content horizontal synchronization in IE browser.
- ZK-1295: setDisabled( false ) + setFocus() does not work on previously disabled buttons
- ZK-1297: Listbox has wrong height when using "rows" and auxhead
- ZK-1308: WireVariable does not wire a superclass field if a field with the same name is declared in a subclass
- ZK-1309: Modal window loses it's modality in certain situation
- ZK-1324: Trendy button doesn't change it's style properly when loosing focus
- ZK-1336: Liferay 6.1 + JBoss 7.1 + ZK 6 : Cannot encode relative URLs
- ZK-1337: Liferay 6.1 + JBoss 7.1 + ZK 6 : RenderHttpServletRequest & RenderHttpServletResponse don't respect STRICT_SERVLET_COMPLIANCE
- ZK-1341: Datebox in zh_TW locale with 'Long + Medium' format failed to assign correct value
- ZK-1345: ZK MessageLoader doesn't load customize MessageLoader
- ZK-1348: First child tree node can't unfold sometimes
- ZK-1349: If Cell style is specified, it overrides any previous component style setting
- ZK-1350: Listbox multiple choice demo example does not work
- ZK-1353: Datebox not work in Hebrew
- ZK-1354: ZK generated page cannot pass W3C validator while checking as XHTML 1.0 Transitional
- ZK-1356: Spinner doesn't update it's value in ipad
- ZK-1357: Popupmenu doesn't show up when listening to onClick
- ZK-1358: When I try to show a window with doOverlapped, doModal or doHighlighted my window don't appears
- ZK-1366: When binding Radio's "selectedItem" with a non-String object, zk throws ClassCastException
- ZK-1368: the right edge of the textboxes split over to a new line when you specify a percentage width and set the mold to rounded
- ZK-1370: org.zkoss.zul.Datebox.setDisplayedTimeZones(List dtzones) NPE if emptied
- ZK-1372: zk.stackUp not work with Firefox
- ZK-1373: Doublebox should not allow the typing of non-numeric characteres achieved by alt-combinations such as @,# and �
- ZK-1374: Unclosed BufferedReader for org.zkoss.util.media.ContentTypes
- ZK-1377: Focus lost when tapping & change title value insides a window
- ZK-1380: Forward uri can't be "zk/*" on Tomcat 7
- ZK-1381: Show busy on panel with borderlayout is not working
- ZK-1383: The value of Map.Entry returned from ListModelMap.getElementAt() don't support Serializable
- ZK-1386: Server failed to load scrollview.css.dsp while using zk6.5 ee and setting theme to sapphire
- ZK-1391: When a window is invisible at first, its top (or left) attribute takes no effect even we turn the window to be visible.
- ZK-1400: Focus issue when Listbox in select mold after invalidate
- ZK-1402: Borderlayout inside a window may not display properly on tablets
- ZK-1403: Combobutton has a missing image icon when displayed on tablets
- ZK-1404: Combining hbox/vbox/splitter may cause problems on tablets
- ZK-1406: BorderLayout IPad2 rotating, North area size.
- ZK-1407: Combobox focus style is lost after item selection
- ZK-1413: ConcurrentModificationException in SelectorComposer when tomcat 6 startup
- ZK-1418: Selectbox: Changing selection after changing a new model
- ZK-1419: Constraint hover text is confusing
- ZK-1420: textbox can't be load on android 2.x
- ZK-1424: Treeitem with a lot of childrens takes too long to open
- ZK-1425: Setting visible false on Listheader doesn't hide corresponding listfooter
- ZK-1427: toolbarbutton with autodisable active upload function not work at second click
- ZK-1428: Wrong order for item removed from ListModelList model
- ZK-1430: Listbox in Bandpopup of a Bandbox is not size correctly - "rows" is ignored.
- ZK-1431: Some components block loading while being included by another page with defer mode
- ZK-1433: InputElement width not set when component is built by macro
- ZK-1434: When use native tag to render row's cells, it doesn't works fine with zkmax.jar
- ZK-1437: javascript error when use include with auto mode
- ZK-1438: Composer doesn't be released when using @Subscribe
- ZK-1441: Accordion Tabbox after rapid clicking on tabs start displaying content at fixed wrong hight.
- ZK-1442: ZK Bind command doesn't work with cluster env
- ZK-1446: get NotSerializableException when using @Subscribe in tomcat cluster env.
- ZK-1448: Scrollable Menubar does not show left/right arrows on mobile devices
- ZK-1452: Unknown stub error
- ZK-1458: Right click on iPad does not work if there are both double click event handler and right click event handler
- ZK-1462: Portalchildren and Renderdeferer cause a Javascript error
- ZK-1463: Button is disabled and clickable if windows is from visible=false to true
- ZK-1464: Console has Exception log when change src of include if bind to a textbox
- ZK-1467: Resizable panels inside portallayout loses resizability after move
- ZK-1468: Value doesn't be reload if it binds to @ref and in include
- ZK-1469: argument type mismatch when try to get @ScopeParam with @ref value
- ZK-1470: Horizontal scroll disappear with element frozen
- ZK-1472: Cannot bind to include arg
- ZK-1480: zkmax bandbox issue
- ZK-1483: Scollbar issue with Listbox when items are selected
- ZK-1488: UUID implementation change cause the context popup not work correctly
- ZK-1490: Invoke north.getSize API cause JS error
- ZK-1491: Tag template is not valid by zul.xsd
- ZK-1492: Wrong model selection in onChange of combobox
- ZK-1497: org.zkoss.bind.impl.BinderImpl cause ConcurrentModificationException
- ZK-1498: The "import Classes" directive doesn't work for zscript
- ZK-1499: When Panel contains Caption, it dose not display icon in tablets.
- ZK-1500: Change Panel button settings during maximize event will cause Panel not resize properly.
- ZK-1501: Grid Footer cannot scroll horizontally in tablets.
- ZK-1505: "Processing..." progress bar not appears in 6.5.1
- ZK-1511: &Progressbox not show with long operation
- Package re-arrangement: ZK CKEditor is no longer shipped within the binary package. Download from here

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