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

Having rich and user-friendly components was one of the main reasons that developers love ZK. Now, with the release of the 8.6 version, we aim at creating more integrated and modernernized features that excites your users. You will come across enhanced multimedia and input widgets such as video clips, toggle switch, signature or slider knob, and image cropper.

Expect a better look and feel of different applications with improved efficiency. With Iceblue Compact, you can easily create a refreshed theme without losing the essentials.

Highlights:

  • 10+ New Components
  • Breeze-compatible Compact Theme

ZK 8.6 contains versatile components that is exclusively designed for modern users with improved usability, functions, and features.


Download and Demo







Highlighted Features

Refresh Theme without a Change - Compact Theme

The new default Iceblue theme from 8.5 was great and brought you with a refreshed, ultra modern look and feel. Now, for users upgrading from an older version, Iceblue Compact is available bringing you a same refreshed modern look and feel, along with breeze-compatible font size, paddings, and margins. Yes, this means zero code upgrade!

For theme-pack theme users, all 24 theme pack themes have their corresponding compact theme. To apply a theme, you need to include theme pack jar and specify the compact theme name, for example: 

<library-property>
    <name>org.zkoss.theme.preferred</name>
    <value>iceblue_c</value>
</library-property>
  • Each compact theme is named after the original theme name appended with "_c". For example, iceblue_c.
Compact-theme.png

Please check them out at Theme Demo

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: switch mold and toggle mold.

Ios Style Switch

Checkbox-ios-style-switch.gif

Toggle

Checkbox-toggle.gif

Tri-state Checkbox

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

Checkbox now supports indeterminate 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 mold attribute with knob will enable knob slider. So the slider can act as a normal knob. You can controll by a mouse wheel, dragging, clicking and entering a value to the textbox in the center.

Knob-slider.gif


Video Player

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

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

Video-player.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 Model

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

With the help of NavigationModel and <apply>, we can construct a multi-level page navigation mechanism and navigate among those pages by loading the template.


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


Smile! - Camera

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

Developers can control the Camera component to take a snapshot with the camera that a browser can access.

Camera-snapshot.gif


Record a Clip

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

The Camera component can also record a clip with the camera that a browser can access.


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 diagram upon a TreeModel.

Organigram.gif

Sign Here, Please

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

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.

Sinature.gif


Give Me a Rating

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

The Rating component allows users clicking an icon to give a rate.

Rating.gif


Crop an Uploaded Image

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

This component allows users to crop a selected range of an image. Then a developer can process the selected image further, e.g. show it on the page.

Cropper.gif


Display a Barcode

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

A barcode component is used to generate a barcode at the browser, and decode the barcode at the server side.

Qrcode.png 

 <barcode type="qr" value="https://www.zkoss.org/" height="100px"/>

Code128.png 

 <barcode type="code128" value="https://www.zkoss.org/" height="100px"/>


Scan a Barcode

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

A Barcodescanner component is used to scan and decode the barcode at the client side.

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.





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