New Features of ZK 8.6.0

Author
Hawk Chen, Engineer, Potix Corporation

Date
2018

Version
ZK 8.6.0

Introduction

Rich and reusable components are the main reason that people adopt ZK. In 8.6 release, we focus on making components more powerful, we create several new components for multimedia and enhance some components to support more features.

Highlighted features:

• 8 new components
• Compact theme

Download and Demo

Highlighted Features

Refresh Theme without Change - Compact Theme

• Available for ZK:
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The new default theme iceblue is great. But we also hear from some users' voice, we now build a compact theme to let you refresh your application's looking without modification.

Please check them at Theme Demo

Multi-Screen Layout - Goldenlayout

GoldenLayout is a layout container which layouts panels as docker type. You can drag a panel to dock at 4 regions (north, east, south, west) or to stack on another panel. This component is suitable for building a workspace like interface.

Video Player

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Sign Here, Please

Signature supports singature pad on the desktop and mobile browsers. Developers can setup pen size, pen color, and background color etc. Users can undo, save and clear their signatres.

Display and Scan a Barcode

• Available for ZK:
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Ios Style Switch and Toggle

Checkbox supports 2 new molds:

Ios Style Switch

Toggle

Check Component Reference.

3 States Checkbox

Checkbox supports intermediate states:

Page Navigation Helper

Other Enhancements

Guide Users with a Pop-up Menuitem

• Available for ZK:
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If you want to guide new users to click a menuitem or open a menupopup for them, ZK provide a method to pop up the menuitem in front of users.

menu.getMenupopup().setActive(i);

Improved Rendering Speed

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Summary

ZK is made by Java developers for Java developers; continue bringing technology innovations to enterprise Java web development has always been our top priority. ZK 8.5 provides a great balance between the required server-side simplicity, security, and integrity and the client-side usability, look, and feel.
Join us this fall and harvest Javascript from Java roots!

ZK grows with you. Feel free to share with us your feedback or suggestion.

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