These Release Notes contain an overview of the new and changed features of Application Designer Version 8.0. The following topics are covered:
See Hardware and Software Requirements in the Installation documentation.
Ajax Developer is a new plug-in for Eclipse 3.4. It supports the usage of version control systems such as CVS and SVN by avoiding linked folders. This new plug-in is better integrated into the Eclipse environment than the old plug-in. It supports Eclipse standard views, automated project builds, error marking, and many other Eclipse features. For detailed information, see the Ajax Developer documentation.
Note:
For your convenience, the old Eclipse plug-in is still supported.
The corresponding documentation has been moved to
Appendix H - Using Eclipse
with Application Designer 2.4 Functionality.
It is now possible to specify a spin range with the FIELD control. New properties are available for this purpose. See also the sample 80_fieldspinrange in the cisdemos project.
The new property alwaysflush can be used
to enforce that a flush method is executed even when the field value was not
modified.
This is a new control. For further information, see LINECHART in the Layout Elements documentation.
This is a new control. For further information, see ROWTABSUBPAGES Control in the Working with Pages documentation.
Support for maxlength has been added to
the TEXT control.
Using the new property onloadbehaviour it
is now possible to define the loading behavior for the client side. For further
information, see
Setting
the Client-Side Loading Behavior in the Layout
Elements documentation.
The statusprop property for input controls
such as FIELD has been split into two separate properties:
statusprop and
displayprop. See
Dynamically
Controlling the Visibility and the Display Status of
Controls in the Layout Elements
documentation. See also the sample 80_displayprop in
the cisdemos project.
Status messages can now be shown as message pop-ups. See the
description of the usemessagepopup parameter in the
section cisconfig.xml
which is part of the Configuration documentation.
The new property headernowrap is now
available for COLUMN and
CVSCOLUMN. The
new property nowrap is now available for
GRIDCOLHEADER.
Several new classes have been added to the Java API for the workplace framework. Using these classes, you can do simple customizations of the MFWPFUNCTIONS behavior without writing much code. For further information, see Customizing the MFWPFUNCTIONS Behavior in Working with Pages.
The COLINFOS control is deprecated. It is recommended that you use the
visibleprop property of the GRIDCOLHEADER control
instead.
A revised and updated documentation set is available with this Application Designer version.
A new chapter, Automated
Testing, is now available. It provides information on the
testtoolid property which has been introduced with
version 2.4.
