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 has been 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, image cropper, toggle switch, signature and slider knob.

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 has brought you with a refreshed, ultra modern look and feel. For users upgrading from an older version, Iceblue Compact is now available in 8.6 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, just include the 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 is the compact version of iceblue theme.
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 now 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

In addition to Checked and Unchecked, the Checkbox component now supports indeterminate states.

Checkbox-3states.png


Give Me a Rating

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

The Rating component allows users to click an icon and rate. It also has read-only and disabled states for presenting rated scores.

Rating.gif

Toolbar Accommodates More Buttons

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

When you set overflowPopup="true", a toolbar will display ellipsis (...) on the right. When hovering over the ellipsis, it will display a popup which contains the buttons that weren't able to fit into 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 multi-layout, which displays panels as a docker type. You are able to drag a panel to dock at 4 regions (north, east, south, west) or to stack on another panel. This component is suitable and provides for a workspace-like interface.

Goldenlayout.gif

Slider Knob

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

Set the mold attribute as knob on the Slider component to enable the slider knob. The slider then acts like a knob presenting the values. The knob can be controlled by dragging the wheel, clicking the mouse and entering a value within the center of the textbox.

Knob-slider.gif

Take a photo - Camera

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

You can now include the Camera component in your app to allow users taking snapshots. Note that the camera has to be accessible by the browser.

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 video clip.

Video Player

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

The Video component allows you to play videos in your browser. With this component, you can even build your own youtube or develop an online tutorial.

Video-player.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


Show Your Organization - Organigram

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

This 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

The Signature component supports the signature pad on both the desktop and mobile browser. Developers can select the pen size, color, background, etc; while end users can save, undo, or clear their signatures.

Sinature.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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