New Features of ZK 8.6.0

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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:
  • http://www.zkoss.org/product/zkhttp://www.zkoss.org/whyzk/zkeeVersion ce-pe-ee.png

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.

Compact-theme.png

Please check them at Theme Demo


Video Player

  • Available for ZK:
  • http://www.zkoss.org/product/zkhttp://www.zkoss.org/whyzk/zkeeVersion ce-pe-ee.png
Video-player.gif

With this component, you can build your own youtube or a online school.

Ios Style Switch and Toggle

  • Available for ZK:
  • http://www.zkoss.org/product/zkhttp://www.zkoss.org/whyzk/zkeeVersion ce-pe-ee.png

Checkbox supports 2 new molds:

Ios Style Switch

Checkbox-ios-style-switch.gif

Toggle

Checkbox-toggle.gif

Check Component Reference.

3 States Checkbox

  • Available for ZK:
  • http://www.zkoss.org/product/zkhttp://www.zkoss.org/whyzk/zkeeVersion ce-pe-ee.png

Checkbox supports intermediate states:

Checkbox-3states.png


Knob-like Slider

  • Available for ZK:
  • http://www.zkoss.org/product/zkhttp://www.zkoss.org/whyzk/zkeeVersion ce-pe-ee.png

Set the mold attribute with knob will enable knob slider. So the slider can act as a normal knob. You can controll by wheel, drag, click and enter a value to the textbox in the center.

Knob-slider.gif


Toolbar Accommodates More Buttons

  • Available for ZK:
  • http://www.zkoss.org/product/zkhttp://www.zkoss.org/whyzk/zkeeVersion ce-pe-ee.png

When overflowPopup="true", a toolbar will have a ... symbol that shows a popup which contains those buttons weren't able to fit in the toolbar.

Toolbar-overflowPopup.gif


Page Navigation Helper

  • Available for ZK:
  • http://www.zkoss.org/product/zkhttp://www.zkoss.org/whyzk/zkeeVersion ce-pe-ee.png

Multi-Screen Layout - Goldenlayout

  • Available for ZK:
  • http://www.zkoss.org/product/zkhttp://www.zkoss.org/whyzk/zkeeVersion ee.png

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.

Goldenlayout.gif


Take a Photo - Camera

  • Available for ZK:
  • http://www.zkoss.org/product/zkhttp://www.zkoss.org/whyzk/zkeeVersion ee.png
Camera-snapshot.gif

Record a Clip

  • Available for ZK:
  • http://www.zkoss.org/product/zkhttp://www.zkoss.org/whyzk/zkeeVersion ee.png


Show Your Organization - Organigram

  • Available for ZK:
  • http://www.zkoss.org/product/zkhttp://www.zkoss.org/whyzk/zkeeVersion ee.png

The component can render a organizational chart upon a TreeModel.

Organigram.gif

Sign Here, Please

  • Available for ZK:
  • http://www.zkoss.org/product/zkhttp://www.zkoss.org/whyzk/zkeeVersion ee.png
Sinature.gif

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.

Give Me a Rating

  • Available for ZK:
  • http://www.zkoss.org/product/zkhttp://www.zkoss.org/whyzk/zkeeVersion ee.png
Rating.gif


Crop an Uploaded Image

  • Available for ZK:
  • http://www.zkoss.org/product/zkhttp://www.zkoss.org/whyzk/zkeeVersion ee.png
Cropper.gif

Display and Scan a Barcode

  • Available for ZK:
  • http://www.zkoss.org/product/zkhttp://www.zkoss.org/whyzk/zkeeVersion ee.png
Barcode scanner.gif



Other Enhancements


Guide Users with a Pop-up Menuitem

  • Available for ZK:
  • http://www.zkoss.org/product/zkhttp://www.zkoss.org/whyzk/zkeeVersion ce-pe-ee.png

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.

Menuitem-setactive.gif
menu.getMenupopup().setActive(i);

Web Fragment

  • Available for ZK:
  • http://www.zkoss.org/product/zkhttp://www.zkoss.org/whyzk/zkeeVersion ce-pe-ee.png

We now separate ZK web fragment support into another artifact, so that you can decide to include it or not according to your requirement.


Improved Rendering Speed

We improve the rendering speed when opening a tree node and a model change of a chosenbox.

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!




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