ZK 5.0.3 release notes

Released on June 29, 2010.

ZK 5.0.3 is a maintenance release focusing on fixing some issues and introducing requested features. Requested features included Calendar day rendering along with hflex and vflex improvements.

Getting Simpler and Richer

• Please see the New Features for more information!
• If you would like to upgrade from an older version the upgrade notes are available here!

Feature Updates

• 120+ off-the-shelf Ajax components
  • Tabbox, grid, listbox, tree, menu, combobox, bandbox, datebox, chart, hbox, vbox, window, slider, paging, audio, image, timer, include, iframe...
  • Drag-and-drop supported by all components, such that users can drag components and drop them to any other or particular set of components.
  • 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.
  • Customizable sorting of listbox, grid and children of any component with 100% Java codes (java.lang.Comparator).
  • Auto-completion for combobox.
  • Load on demand with writing Java codes.
  • Live data for listbox.
  • Grids, listboxes and trees with sizable columns.
  • All components are cloneable and serializable.
  • Validation and formatting for any input components, such as regular expression and $#,##0.
  • 100% Java API of Google Maps, CKeditor, and Timeline components.
• Event-driven, server-centric model
  • Ajax requests, application notification, and server push are all managed as events
  • Event Queue shields developers from the complexity of Ajax and server push, such as multi-thread programming
  • All events are processed at the server. No hurdle to communicate between clients and servers.
  • All events are synchronized. No racing condition to worry about.
• ZK User-interface Markup Language (ZUML).
  • 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.
  • Scripting in EL expressions and your favorite scripting languages, include but not limited to Java, JavaScript, Ruby and Groovy.
  • Hot changes and updates without restarting your Web applications.
  • Annotations that allow a page to access database with zero Java codes.
• Browser history management.
  • 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.
• Simple yet boundless component model.
  • 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
  • Macro components. Develope full-featured new component by using other ZUML pages.
  • Inheritable customization. Developing a new component by extending existent components.
  • Seamlessly and easily to encapsulate pure-client components as ZK components with 100% Java API.
  • 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.
• Simple yet flexible threading model.
  • Thread-safe component handling.
  • True server-side Modal dialog.
  • Suspend and resume event listeners freely.
• 100% Customizable User-Interface factory.
  • Loading ZUML pages not only from Web contents but also any repository such as database.
  • Customizing the features of sessions, desktops and pages.

What's New

• New Features Tracker
  • 3000873: Tabbox can auto grow size when select a larger size tabpanel
  • 3015861: Able to specify the first day of a week for each session
  • 3016379: Able to control if a panel is draggable in portallayout
  • 3000339: sizedByContent="true" considers both header and row content
  • 3014112: A way to specify custom DOM attributes, such as onload
  • 2824949: Calendar: different color for previous and next month
  • 2019205: Customization of Calendar's disabled days
  • 2824946: Calendar Day Renderer
  • 2997091: Media attribute support on style sheets
  • 3001081: Reuse UUID if possible to minimize memory use at client
  • 3006351: Able to specify the tag name for a macro component
  • 3012360: Applet supports all attributes, e.g., archive and mayscript
  • 3010188: disable ZScriptVariables lookup for performance
  • 3016605: Support onMouseOver and onMouseOut at the server
  • 2936220: Grid/Listbox/Tree sizedByContent="true" determins width
• Bugs fixed
  • 3005129: Multiple VariableResolver added to PageImpl
  • 3000881: Tabbox inside hbox should not expand 5 thousand width
  • 3000860: tab without label looks strange
  • 3000936: Javascript error when change tree size with autopaging on
  • 3000987: Listcell.setLabel() fails when listbox is on mold 'select'
  • 3002536: Datebox can't select month with ZK3 and 5 on FF in French
  • 3002607: The textbox in readonly bandbox can't use "backspace" key
  • 3003180: Resizing header don't work on IE8 if one column is invisible
  • 3004412: The bandpopup over the popup
  • 2997402: Imagemap rightclick/doubleclick wrong coordinates
  • 3004588: The height of the panel will not set the max height
  • 3005284: (Chrome)Groupbox hflex="min" in borderlayout wrong sized
  • 3006276: East bottom cut if East higher than Center.
  • 3005632: Listbox fails to replace with empty model if in ROD mode
  • 3006707: The title of the groupbox shouldn't be strikethrough(Chrome)
  • 3006718: The hflex listbox after separator cause wrong width on IE6
  • 3006762: The scroll bar appear after select a child node and close
  • 3006772: The focus arrow will not clean after close and open the tree
  • 3006796: Some ZHTML widgets won't be bound (bind_ not called)
  • 3007194: The lastest tab right edge will not align with scroll button
  • 3007217: Button.mold=trendy isn't applied to buttons in Messagebox
  • 3005122: Colorbox#setColor on client side
  • 3007908: modal window not centered if child sized with hflex="min"
  • 3007911: Borderlayout in Borderlayout with hflex="min" not resize OK
  • 3008291: Listbox _syncFocus not properly called
  • 3008276: Listheader hflex with no label gives js error
  • 3008898: Bandpopup hflex="min" not properly sized
  • 3008277: (Chrome/Safari)hflex breaks Listbox layout
  • 3010663: boxes do not resize when browser window is resized
  • 3006341: Slider UI broken
  • 3006313: Slider#getCurpos() does not work
  • 3010936: A ZHTML with native namespace without head causes JavaScript error
  • 3009925: Clients.evalJavaScript is broken in zhtml with native namespace
  • 3012310: enable crawlable will show unwanted labels
  • 3010511: Applet in content of Html Tag
  • 3011489: Decimalbox format issue
  • 3012994: Grid with menu and Upload failed in zhtml (native namespace)
  • 3013126: Treeitem will disappeare when setDisabled on the treeitem
  • 3013538: Clients.reloadMessages throw exception
  • 3013539: Treecell can't change its label when others items disabled
  • 3007738: The setImage of the comboitem isn't works
  • 3013433: (Chrome) grid in tabpanel not resize when browser resize
  • 3011477: Clear the frozen in the grid cause JavaScript error
  • 3012466: Listbox's selection issue
  • 3013683: The column in grid without width will calculator wrong width
  • 3011319: Datebox may select wrong month
  • 3014084: Press "Enter" in a multiline and inplace textbox lose text
  • 3008328: Intbox uneditable on FF if treerow draggable/droppable=true
  • 3010419: Auxiliary Headers don't render in iPhone
  • 3014660: Combobox setValue issue when onChanging
  • 3014664: tabs & tabpanels cut half width if set hflex="1"
  • 3014668: intbox doesn't accept 09
  • 3014743: longbox and decimalbox doesn't reject 33ee34
  • 3013637: Popup can't conver listbox in select mold (IE6)
  • 3017010: Listbox - combination of checkmark and sorting does not work
  • 3015032: Flashchart generated IndexoutOfBoundsException
  • 3017526: Panel height calculation bug
  • 3017859: decimalbox fail to handle 3.5%
  • 3017606: Browser window might lose focus
  • 3017938: The menupopup appears at a wrong position
  • 3018735: listbox/grid/tree sizedByContent="true" shall show header
  • 3018688: Recursive Loop in class XmlContentRenderer
  • 2997698: quoted special characters in decimalbox
  • 3019383: Failed to change the position of a root component to the end
  • 3019360: button in os mold, setDisable() not add class -disd well
  • 3019524: Window/panel does position wrong if only left specified
  • 3019517: Listbox selectAll checkmark bugs
  • 3020040: Listbox.removeItemFromselection not work correctly
  • 3020565: Failed if add listhead and listitem to ROD listbox (zkmax)
  • 3020609: Dragging modal window might fail if dragging too fast
  • 3010511: Removing Applet causes JavaScript error in FF2
  • 3021174: setLeft at a invisible window case js error
  • 3021217: Put a invisible Panel in a portallayout cause js error
  • 3021278: Hide the column of the grid, the css of the odd row is gone
  • 3013640: Incorrect scrolling of auxheads if used with frozen columns
  • 3021591: Window position parent not working repeatedly
  • 3021739: Form's reset button unable to reset textbox
  • 3022161: setVisible on a window that in second tab cause js error
  • 3022197: Set 2nd tab of tabbox in 2nd tab be selected isn't work
  • 3022274: Vertical tabbox in invisible comp has big height when onShow
  • 3022237: Image of toolbarbutton not disabled correctly (ie8)
  • 3022178: Extra bottom border for selected tab
  • 3022174: Scroll remains upon closing tabs
  • 3022669: listbox hflex="min" sizedByContent="true" not work