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One of the files in the XUI 3.2 release somehow became corrupt and could 
not be opened. The file containing the NetBeans plugins has now been 
replaced and is available at

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/xui/XUI_3_2_NetBeans_6_0_plugins_.zip

please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.

-Luan

Some news about upcoming features of XUI 4.0 can be found in the Wiki at 
http://www.xoetrope.com/wiki/XUI4

For anyone using POJOs, Hibernate or Spring the new XPojoPanel should be 
of great interest. See http://www.xoetrope.com/wiki/XPojoPanel

Anyone interested in a MIDP version of XUI? Can you or would you like to 
contribute/test/get involved? 
 
See http://www.xoetrope.com/wiki/XuiMobileMIDP for an introduction.

The XUI 3.1 files are now on the SourceForge file release system.

More details will follow.

The XUI 3.1 Release candidate is now available on the file release 
system. An updated manual will be upload sometime next week.

This release contains a large number of fixes and editor enhancements 
and we recommend all user to upgrade to 3.1.

A last minute addition to Kalideoscope 3.1 is drag and drop form 
generation for databases. Within NetBeans select the runtime view, 
configure a database connection and then drag a table on to a page and a 
form complete with data bindings and validations will be created. The 
database table will also be registered as part of the XUI data model as 
part of this action and in can be viewed using the data visualizer.

The second Beta of XUI 3.1 is now on the SourceForge File Release System.

Please note that the NetBeans release now includes what was known as the 
Carousel module, which in the process of being renamed to XUI Pro and 
XUI Enterprise, but more on that later.

The Eclipse plugin will follow shortly. All source is in SVN.

We hope that this will be the last beta and we expect to make the full 
release in the next two to three weeks.


The major changes in XUI 3.1 are as follows:

1 DatabaseTable constructor widened to take a project reference
2 Added an isAvailable/setAvailable method to ServiceProxy
3 XServiceHelper added
4 commit and setAutoCommit methods added
5 Alignment options ignores case
6 Drag and drop support refactored
7 DataConnection refactored
8 XTree extended with findNearestPath
9 Multiple selection support added for lists
10 Warning added for unclosed connection
11 Debug message time logged
12 Added an exclusive mode for the docking app
13 Vertical text alignment options added
14 Style support extended
15 XPageAnnotationProcessor extends
16 Submenu support added.
17 Painters moved and refactored

1 DatabaseTable constructor widened to take a project reference
==================================================
The DatabaseTable class constructor was widened so as to be
consistent with its other constructors, and the dependant
classes were updated accordingly (DatabaseTableModel and
CachedDatabaseTable)

2 Added an isAvailable/setAvailable method to ServiceProxy
==============================================
This allows the proxy to be included or excluded from a call and to record a
common state value other than the return value.

3 XServiceHelper added
===================
A simple helper class to facilitate access to services

4 commit and setAutoCommit methods added
====================================
These new database methods will make it possible to do batch updates with
the database connection and database table models.

5 Alignment options ignores case
==========================
The alignment options for the XEdit component are now case insensitive.

6 Drag and drop support refactored
===========================
Drag and drop support has been refactored to make it more extensible and to
implement the inspector transfer handlers

7 DataConnection refactored
======================
Synchronization fixes added and then refactored

8 XTree extended with findNearestPath
==============================
This new method searches a tree and attempts to select/highlight the 
given path.
The method is designed to be used after a tree binding has updated the 
tree. In
this scenario the tree nodes may be different from the original tree 
model nodes
and therefore the normal methods for selecting a tree path will fail.

9 Multiple selection support added for lists
=================================
Multiple selection support has been added for list components implementing
the XListHolder interface. The XListBinding has also been updated to save
list selections for multiple selection lists. If a list allows multiple 
selections
then the output node of the binding will contain an array of Objects
corresponding to the selection.

10 Warning added for unclosed connection
==================================
A warning has been added for unclosed connections. The executeQuery returns
result set and this needs to be closed before another statement can be 
used on
the same connection. Unlike previous versions the connection will be 
closed prior
to opening a new statement and therefore it is advisable to explicitly 
close the
statement using the matching closeQuery call before making another call. 
Prior
to this change the success of such queries varied with the database 
being used.

11 Debug message time logged
==========================
The time of a debug message is now logged by default. This behavior can be
turned of with DebugLogger.setLogMessageTime( false );

12 Added an exclusive mode for the docking app
==============================================
Added an exclusive mode for page display so that a docking app can display
an initial page without sidebars so that a logon page can be displayed.

13 Vertical text alignment options added
========================================
Extra alignment options have been added so that text in labels and other
components can be aligned vertically.

14 Style support extended
=========================
The style support has been extensively updated so that a whole range of
options can be set via the styles, including size and position.

15 XPageAnnotationProcessor extends
==============================
The annotation processor has been extended so that it searches for
annotations of superclasses if the superclass implements the new
XAnnotatedPage interface. The change is designed to allow creation
of common page classes that are then customized within an
application. The base class can now use annotations.

16 Support for submenus added
=========================
Menus can now have nested submenus. These menus can be created with the
usual menu XML.

17 Painters moved and refactored
===========================
The painters now use the SwingX painters interface (slightly different 
from the
original version used by XUI).  However, since the SwingX version uses 
generics
it has been necessary to add an extra version of the interface to the 
API. The
extra version simply forwards the call to the existing methods. As part 
of this
cleanup the painter classes in XUI's Swing package have been moved to
the net.xoetrope.swing.painters subpackage.

v3.1 RFEs
========
1741355 Add a post activation page status
1739211 Add a build target for the docking framework jars
1730591 Add invalid initialization warning

v3.1 Bug Fixes:
===============
1799578 Z Order changed when using dialog dismissed
1735784 Flag added to control maximization/minimization of docked frames
1747918 Docking framework constraints mixed up
1794860 Checked for a null binding in Data property editor
1758445 Dragging resizes components
1790609 Reflection cache and property conversions
1787537 Missing component class halts application
1773085 XMetaContent wordwrap
1739693 XScrollableMetaContent doesn't include setContent
1739589 HSQLDB doesnt open with spaces in path
1737636 XListTableBinding not retrieving data      
1737626 XListTableBinding NPE on Save      
1737154 Validations not loaded when custom validation factory used    
1736376 Gridbag constants not handled correctly      
1735157 Dynamic bindings not working
1734904 getPropertyTypeName fails
1731270 isValid method fails      
1724413 Prepared statements don't work in all cases
1727010 DataConnection has wrong reference to routes







v3.0
====

1 Added support for multiple page loaders
2 Modified the build and the XContentHolder interface
3 Replaced Flexdoc with a new docking framework
4 Added an HTML Builder
5 Toolbar support added
6 New splash screen functionality
7 Component resgistration extended
8 Extended localization support
9 Added support for multiple projects
10 Added input validation feedback
11 System colors support added
12 Extended style support added
13 Validation triggered on page transition
14 An exception handler has been added to the attribute evaluator
15 SWT support enhanced
16 Made the home page optional
17 Annotation support added
18 Extended the shutdown hook and application lifecycle listeners
19 A LayerLayout has been added
20 A ColumnLayout has been added
21 Repeat syntax support extended
22 Component customization support added
23 XPainter replaced with SwingX Painter
24 POJO support added
25 Data bindings refactored
26 Event handling refactored
27 Validations refactored
28 Action handling added
29 Set startup objects
30 Drag and drop support added
31 Unknown attributes now set reflectively
32 Map page names
33 A minimal embedded http server
34 SystemTray support added
35 XuiProxy added to ease Xui-Swing integration
36 Collection support added for tables
37 XModelHelper moved to the core
38 BeanShell support added


1 Added support for multiple page loaders
=========================================
Previously only a single page loader could be used and normally this was
the XuiBuilder class. By adding support for multiple loaders we can support
multiple file formats, including html via additional builders. The
individual builders can check the file types and attempt to load the
requested pages. This change involves a number of modifications to the
interface including renaming the XPageManager.setSecondaryLoader method to
XPageManager.addSecondaryLoad and adding a return value to the
XPageLoader.loadFrames method

2 Modified the build and the XContentHolder interface
=====================================================
Fixed up the build and the source for the full set of JDKs/compiles. The
XContentHolder interface was modified to as the return type checking 
prevented
the getComponent method from returning an Object instead of a Component
(which would not work for the SWT/HTML components).

3 Replaced Flexdoc with a new docking framework
===============================================
Replaced the frlexdock framework with a new docking framework
based upon the MultiSplitLayout from Hans Muller/SwingLabs. The
new framework features drag and drop, zooming, docking etc...
and should be considerably more flexible and reliable

4 Added an HTML Builder
=======================
The HTML builder makes it possible to load pages from HTML and generate 
a Swing
user interface from those pages. The builder makes uses of a set of 
prototype
tag handlers that instantiate Swing components for the the HTML elements and
add them to the page. TableLayout is used for handling tables and this 
library
is added o the libs folder. This new feature also makes use of the new 
support
for multiple page loaders so that it is not necessary to specify whether 
or not
a page is XML or HTML, whichever is found will be loaded. As the 
XuiBuilder is
the initial builder it will get preference and will make teh first 
attempt to
load the page. An HTML builder can be installed or configured by startup
parameters.

5 Toolbar support added
=======================
A new element in the framsets file has been added to provide support for
toolbars. The toolbars will be treated as a special page and docked into 
the
application frame. A new widget, the XToolbarButton has also been added 
to help
implement toolbars. The toolbar buttons can take both text and icons.

6 New splash screen functionality
=================================
New splash screen functionality has been added with the XSplashWindow 
class,
based on work by Werner Randelshofer. The new class is set as the main 
entry
point, loads and then invokes the XUI start class proper. This new splash
functionality appears alot quicker than the previously documented method of
creating a splash screen.

7 Component resgistration extended
==================================
An extended method of registering components has been added. Now by 
specifying
the reflect="true" parameter for a component it is possible to register a
component in a single line. Any subsequent access of a component 
attribute will
use reflection to find the appropriate accessor method, and these 
accessors are
then cached for reuse. To register swing components for example all that is
needed is the following:

  <Component name="JButton" class="javax.swing.JButton" reflect="true"/>

in the project's components.xml file

8 Extended localization support
===============================
A set of new classes for loading resource bundles has been added. Of these,
the new EncodedLanguageResourceBundleLoader class allows an additional 
file, a
'.propety_encoding' file to be specified for each language. The file can 
include
a value for the associated properties file endcoding and a set of font 
maps for
that language. The font map can be used to replace fonts on a 
face-by-face basis,
or as a combination of face name and point size.

9 Added support for multiple projects
=====================================
Added support for multiple projects, so that more than one project can run
simultaneously in the same JVM and in the same application frame. The change
required significant internal API changes so that the references to the 
project
are consistent with the project ownership. Mostly classed had relied on 
calls
to getCurrentProject(), but with multiple projects this may change 
during the
life of the application the initial reference is now saved internally by 
many
classes, but in other cases it is passed as an new argument.

Multiple project support will allow modular applications to be built and 
then
aggregated into a single end user application.

10 Added input validation feedback
==================================
Input fields can now display feedback based upon the success or failure of
input validations. So far the validation feedback styles are set on a global
basis via the XBaseValidator.setValidationColors method.

11 System colors support added
==============================
Support for the system colors has now been added and the named colors can be
used in the style files. For example a value

<color_fore value="activeCaption"/>

can now be specified. See the java.awt.SystemColor class for more details

12 Extended style support added
===============================
Styles including values other than the basic font and color attributes can
now be created. The styles are created as instances of XStyleEx instead of
the basic XStyle and these new styles can have any style attribute. When the
styles are loaded storage is added for any style name. Once the style 
has loaded
it is marked as closed and further styles can not be (by default) added.

This extension of the style system will make it possible to handle far more
component attributes as styles and therefore further consistency can be 
added to
applications.


13 Validation triggered on page transition
==========================================
Added a TriggerValidations startup properties that is set to true by the 
new
project wizard - and therefore older projects will be unaffected. The 
flag is
read by the PageManager and if true causes the validations to be checked 
prior
to page transition. If the validations fail the page transition will be 
blocked
such that the user must review and correct the reported validation errors.

14 Added an exception handler to the attribute evaluator
========================================================
<<<<<<< .mine
An exception handler has been added to the attribute evaluator. The 
handler gets
called in case of an exception and can override the result returned by the
attribute evaluator. The evaluator may be of use in case, for example, an
evaluation depends on a list selection and where that list may not have a
selected values - the list would otherwise return a value such as null 
or -1 to
indicate the error and this is probably not a valid value for the evaluated
attribute. Say a path of a/b/${c}/d/e is enetered and ${c} depends on say a
list selection and that list is not fully initialized.
=======
An exception handler has been added to the attribute evaluator. The 
handler gets
called in case of an exception and can override the result returned by the
attribute evaluator. The evaluator may be of use in case, for example, an
evaluation depends on a list selection and where that list may not have a
selected values - the list would otherwise return a value such as null 
or -1 to
indicate the error and this is probably not a valid value for the evaluated
attribute. Say a path of a/b/${c}/d/e is enetered and ${c} depends on 
say a list
selection and that list is not fully initialized.

15 SWT support enhanced
=======================
A major revision and implementation of the SWT widget set has taken 
place. The
most important widgets are now wrapped and usable in XUI. The 
applet/application
has also been updated to share the very latest XUI infrastructure. A 
number of
helpers, utilities and layout components have also been included. Along 
with the
core SWT development a sample SWT application manager has been included, 
the
'XUI International Soccer Manager', demonstrates how to build a complete
application using XUI and SWT.

16 Made the home page optional
==============================
The home page can now be excluded by specifying a value of NONE if the 
startup
properties. Preventing the home page from loading may be desireable in 
the case
of framesets or other application types where the frames file may also 
contain
a specification for the home page.

17 Annotation support added
===========================
Added annotation support such that the page class can have the following
annotations
Added annotations:


@Page( "foobar" )
class MyClass extends XPage
{
  @Find
  private XButton myBtn;

  @Bind( "a/b/c" )
  private XEdit myInput;

  @Validate( "CreditCardRule" )
  private XEdit cardNumber;

  @Event( method="doProcessing", type="ActionHandler" )
  private XButton processBtn;

  ...

  public void doProcessing()
  {
    ...
  }
  
  ...
}

18 Extended the shutdown hook and application lifecycle listeners
=================================================================
The Shutdown hook has been extended to support multiple lifecycle 
listeners. The
lifecycle listener gives an application the opportunity to perform 
cleanup and
shutdown activities before the JVM exits. Typically an application may 
wish to
close file or database connections or free up resources before exiting. 
A new
listener, the DataBaseLifecycleListener has been added as ahelper for those
applications using a database like HSQLDB in in-memory or standalone 
mode that
requires the database to be shutdown  via a SHUTDOWN query.

19 A LayerLayout has been added
===============================
The LayerLayout is intented for use with pages and panels where you want to
overlay one set of components with another. All the children of the 
container
with the LayerLayout are given the same size and hence overlay one another.
The components are locted in the order in which they are created.

20 A ColumnLayout has been added
====================================
The column layout is a layout in which you can define columns of 
components. The
components are added in rows, but align to the columns. An example usage 
is in
creating forms where a left hand column may contain labels or captions 
while the
right hand column may contain the input fields. Indentation, spacing and 
padding
may be added to control the layout and define the location of individual
compoents.

21 Repeat syntax support extended
=================================
The Repeat syntax has been extended to support bindings and events, this 
should
improve the ability to create templates containing bindings and events.

22 Component customization support added
========================================
A new facility for customizing components has been added such that a 
collection
of method calls can be made to customize a component and set properties 
on that
component. The facility is itself customizable, supporting adapters to 
control
how the properties are applied to the component. For example in the case 
of a
table the property may apply to the table columns rather than the table 
itself.

23 XPainter replaced with SwingX Painter
========================================
The painter classes have been refactored to extend the SwingX Painter 
class. The
SwingX interface was very close to the XUI interface and by using the SwingX
version we will have access to a wider range of painters.

24 POJO support added
=====================
Support for using POJOs as a backing for the XUI data model has been added.
POJOs can be configured from a variety of sources, including hibernate. 
Most of
the configuration takes place automatically via reflection and little 
needs to
be done other than pointing XUI at the root of the POJO model.

25 Data bindings refactored
===========================
The data bindings in XUI 3.0 have been significantly refactored to work 
off a
common interface. Not only does this unify and simplify the constuction of
bindings, but it also makes it possible to have greater control over the
creation of bindings and the provision of diagnostic services

26 Event handling refactored
============================
The event handling  has been refactored and now supports registration of new
event types. The registration works in much the same way as the daba 
binding and
component registration, with support for multiple configuration files on a
module or project basis.

27 Validations refactored
=========================
The validation handling has been refactored and now supports 
registration of new
valiudation types. The registration works in much the same way as the daba
binding and component registration, with support for multiple configuration
files on a module or project basis.

28 Action handling added
========================
A registration facility for actions has been added. Actions can be added 
on a
global level or within a named context, corresponding to items such as 
menus,
toolbars or pages. Actions can be used in place of event handlers by 
specifying
the type as "Action".

29 Set startup objects
======================
Multple startup objects can now be added simply by adding startup property
entries in the form

StartupObject<N>=Name;className
StartupObject<N>=Name;className;XProject

where <N> is a counter starting from 0. In the second example the object is
constructed via  aconstructor that takes an instance of the project as an
argument

30 Drag and drop support added
==============================
Drag and drop supported has been added for selected Swing components. 
Support is
enabled by adding dragEnabled="true" as an attribute. Additional support 
can be
registered by adding a transferhandlers.xml file to the project. The 
setup is
similar to that of the data bindings.

31 Unknown attributes now set reflectively
==========================================
If there is no way of setting the attributes of a component directly, or 
through
the XAttributedComponent interface, or through a ComponentAdapter then
reflection will be used to set the properties. The methods signatures are
parameter types are set using the JVM type signature syntax.

32 Map page names
=================
A page name can now be paramaterized or mapped, so that a frames file or
startup.properties file can specify a key instead of a page name. This 
key can
then be mapped to a specific page depending on the context or on startup
parameters.

33 A minimal HTTP server is embedded
====================================
A minimal http server is now embedded at 
net.xoetrope.optional.http.XHttpServer.
When customized this server will allow a server appplication to signal a 
client
via a http request. By customizing the server with a response handler the
application can then respond with special actions, such as a wake-up or by
requesting updates/new data from the server.

34 SystemTray support added
===========================
Support for the system tray or launch area has been added. 
When a system tray icon is added the application can choose to stay 
resident in
memory after the main window has been closed by setting the "ExitOnClose"
startup property to false. The advantage of doing this is that the data 
model
does not need to be reinitialized if the main window is just being 
redisplayed.
This initialization can be significantly quicker than normal startup as all
the classes needed by the JVM are already loaded. If remote data is used the
startup gain may be even greater as network access may not be required.

The tray icon provides two menu items, one to open the window and the second
to close the window and exit the JVM.

This version of the class uses the SwingLabs version of the tray support 
and is
therefore limited to Swing. If JDK 6 or later is being used then the 
JVM's tray
support could be used for non Swing applications.

35 XuiProxy added to ease Xui-Swing integration
===============================================
The proxy can be used in place of an applet class where the XUI fraction 
of an
application needs to be integrated with an existing or legacy Swing 
application.
The proxy extends JPanel and encapsulates the XUI elements of the 
project. An
example application is included in the XUI source tree.

36 Collection support added for tables
======================================
The modelling of tables has been refactored so that more generic 
implementations
can be provided, the first of which is construction of tables from 
ArrayLists
and vectors. The new class XCollectionTableModel supports the new 
XTableModel,
XRowModel and XFieldModel setup.

37 XModelHelper moved to the core
=================================
The XModelHelper class has been moved from the optional packages into 
the core
at net.xoetrope.xui.data.XModelHelper.

38 BeanShell support added
==========================
Beanshell scripts for XML attribute values can now be used. The inclusion of
the Beanshell support sees some minor refactoring of the scripting 
support to
help distinguish the support for various scripting languages. The 
scripts used
can also be defined on a page level basis so the complete scripts do not 
need
to be embedded within a single attribute.

v3.0 Bug Fixes:
===============
1503082 Fixed the initial size for the ScaleLayout
1513158 Save path is Windows specific
1514935 Cannot switch between Swing and AWT
1514901 Synth file name ignored
1514802 New Project: inconsistencies
1517675 Initial page name does not set frame center
1541816 Unable to read guides
1566922 Model attributes had to be lowercase
1588596 XBaseModel doesn't handle locale decimals
1657332 Panel layout problems
1695066 Trimmed white space for values loaded from property files

With the release of NetBeans 6 beta 1 we have updated the code of XUI 
4.0 to support NetBeans 6. The new project wizard and the editor now 
work within NB6, but there are still some errors and some features that 
do not work 100%. We expect to get these sorted out over the coming 
weeks and to have a fully functional plugin when NB6 is finally released.  
 
Although the code is in the XUI 4.0 branch at present we will probably 
issue a maintenance release (probably 3.2) to support NB6. 
 
If anyone would like to try out or test this module prior to the first 
snapshot is at 
 
http://www.xoetrope.com/downloads/dev/xui4/XUI4dev1.zip 
 
The code isn't completely up-to-date with the XUI 3.1 version, but we 
should get another update out shortly once the 3.1 version is made final. 
 
Please feel free to log any issues in the bug tracker.

The XUI site has been a little quiet since JavaOne, but we are slowly 
catching up on our backlog of work, and we have some exciting news!

XUI 3.1 ON THE WAY
-------------------------
XUI 3.1 is on the way. The 3.1 release is mostly a maintenance release 
with minor changes, some of which are required to fix problems with the 
tutorials and other applications developed with XUI 2.x.

CAROUSEL GPL
-------------------
However, the major news here is that the source code for Carousel will 
be placed under the same SVN repository as XUI. Carousel will be 
released under a dual GPL and commercial license, so for developers it 
will be free to try but for commercial deployments it will still require 
a full license.

Carousel is a fairly big project with lots of source, so it will take a 
few days to get it all done. In that time we will refactor the code so 
that some of the more experimental features will be more cleanly 
separated. We will also ammend the build for both XUI and Carousel so 
that it is a little cleaner for those with different disk layouts to our 
own.

UPDATED DOCUMENTATION
-----------------------------------
Since JavaOne we have been pretty busy and one of our major goals, a 
revamp of the documentation, didn't make it for JavaOne. However, since 
JavaOne we have installed a new content management system and we are 
gradually replacing and updating all the content. The XUI zone, 
http://www.xoetrope.com/xui has been reworked and now features lots more 
screenshots, videos, articles and so forth. All the old content is still 
available.

CONTRIBUTIONS ANYONE?
----------------------------------
As part of this new drive to open up XUI we want to see more community 
involvement. We have already had some excellent contributions from the 
community and we will showcase some of these contributions on the site. 
With the release of Carousel it will be even easier to get started with 
XUI and to build applications for a broader range of businesses and we 
hope to support a number of subprojects. Some elements of XUI are 
already embedded in other frameworks and are usable on a standalone 
basis so we want to provide the community with a place to feedback 
updates and enhancements and a place to find support.

We also know there are plenty of commercial deployments of XUI out there 
in all sorts of applications from television UIs, branch banking,  
management consoles, medical devices, product selection and retail point 
of sales, so we also want to encourage users to showcase their 
applications.

The Java Developer's Journal is holding its annual poll. Please vote for 
XUI at

http://java.sys-con.com/general/readerschoice.htm

every vote counts and will help raise the profile of XUI.

XUI 3.0 was released at JavaOne 2007. The latest release includes lots 
of features designed to make it even easier to build fast and great 
looking applications.

Due to the pre JavaOne rush we were unable to get the new XUI website up 
and running in a finished state, so it will be a week or so before the 
new site is live. We will have lots of new documentation, manuals, 
samples, tutorials, screenshots and videos on the new site amongst the 
extended content.

In the mean time, if you have any questions or queries feel free to post 
them to the forums and we will get back with a speedy response.

The XUI wiki contains details of some of the new features:

http://xui.sourceforge.net/wikka/wikka.php?wakka=XuiWikka
http://xui.sourceforge.net/wikka/wikka.php?wakka=XUI3

It's done. I hadn't noticed the RFE till I got your message :-(

I added a static method XDockableHeader.setUseGradientHeaders to control 
use of the gradients in the headers. However the header was also 
ignoring the background color passed in the color array and that is 
fixed. The way the gradients are painted has also been modified. So you 
may want to try the gradients again before switching them off. I'm just 
about to commit the code.

I have an 'alternate' session for JavaOne, so it is not guaranteed, but 
we will have a stand in the pavilion in any case. The presentation is 
about Swing Vector Graphics.

-Luan

Greg Gnaedinger wrote:
> Hi Luan, 
>
>   I hope all is well. 
>
>   I just wanted to check if there's any possibility of accomodating
> Feature Request 1660901. The application into which I've integrated the
> docking framework has been well received and is functioning well. The
> only source code modification that I've had to make locally has been to
> bypass the GradientPaint in XDockableHeader's 'paintComponent' method in
> order to render the header with the uniform background color. It has
> been necessary to do this because my application is oriented
> horizontally, and the wide panel header ends up rendering mostly white.
> This, in turn, becomes confused with rows in adjacent JTables (which
> have a white background in Windows L&F). 
>
>   Thanks,
> -Greg
>
> p.s. Will you be posting your JavaOne presentation? What is/are the
> topic(s) you'll be presenting?
>
>   

Hi Luan,=20

  I hope all is well.=20

  I just wanted to check if there's any possibility of accomodating
Feature Request 1660901. The application into which I've integrated the
docking framework has been well received and is functioning well. The
only source code modification that I've had to make locally has been to
bypass the GradientPaint in XDockableHeader's 'paintComponent' method in
order to render the header with the uniform background color. It has
been necessary to do this because my application is oriented
horizontally, and the wide panel header ends up rendering mostly white.
This, in turn, becomes confused with rows in adjacent JTables (which
have a white background in Windows L&F).=20

  Thanks,
-Greg

p.s. Will you be posting your JavaOne presentation? What is/are the
topic(s) you'll be presenting?

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XUI 3.0

This release is only very slightly changed from Beta 1, and most users
will not see any difference. The release will also with any luck be the
last beat before the final release of XUI 3.0, so SHOUT if you see
anything wrong, missing or out of place. Our focus now moves to updating
the documentation and samples for the full release.

We are also looking for some example XUI 2.0.X applications for the
purpose of writing and checking an upgrade guide and therefore we are
looking for a handful of projects to upgrade. We will undertake the
upgrades on a first-come first-served basis. If you are interested
please contact me (luano at userts.sourceforge.net).


Kalideoscope 3.0
An updated version of both the NetBeans and Eclipse plug-ins is also
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XUI 3.0

This release is only very slightly changed from Beta 1, and most users 
will not see any difference. The release will also with any luck be the 
last beat before the final release of XUI 3.0, so SHOUT if you see 
anything wrong, missing or out of place. Our focus now moves to updating 
the documentation and samples for the full release.

We are also looking for some example XUI 2.0.X applications for the 
purpose of writing and checking an upgrade guide and therefore we are 
looking for a handful of projects to upgrade. We will undertake the 
upgrades on a first-come first-served basis. If you are interested 
please contact me (luano at userts.sourceforge.net).


Kalideoscope 3.0
An updated version of both the NetBeans and Eclipse plug-ins is also 
available. The update features significant updates and numerous fixes 
and therefore all users are advised to use this latest update. The 
feature list for version 3.0 is now closed and only severe and critical 
bugs will be fixed prior to the final release.

Hi,

I'm looking to use XUI for a new application, I have some experience
with it as I'm a long term OfBiz developer, but I can't find any
documentation on the following point...

I want to be able to navigate items on a page using the arrow keys, is
there a recommended way to do this?

Thanks for your assistance.
-- 
Kind Regards
Andrew Sykes <an...@sy...>
Sykes Development Ltd
http://www.sykesdevelopment.com

XUI 3.0 Beta 1 and Kalidescope v3 Beta 1 for both NetBeans and Eclipse 
is now available. More details are available on the Wiki at 
http://xui.sourceforge.net/wikka/wikka.php?wakka=XUI3.

Documentation is a little thin on the ground at the moment, but we will 
update that and provide some new examples over the next few weeks.

Carousel 3.0 will also be released (still pre-beta), next week. The 
editor component of Carousel provides some useful features for all XUI 
users such as database setup and support for database and POJO bindings, 
but more on that later.

Over the last few weeks we have had great support from an number of 
users and as a result we produced a series of nightly builds that helped 
fix lots of little problems, making the latest build a great improvement 
over previous version. So, please don't hesitate to report even the 
smallest issues, every report/suggestion counts!

Hi Greg,

I'll try to take a look sometime next week, but please log a bug. It may 
be that the look and feel settings are overriding the background 
colours. This is normally the case for certain components in the Windows 
L&F, but I can't remember off hand.

Regards

Luan

Greg Gnaedinger wrote:

>Hello Luan, 
>
>I've added an additional item to the 'Feature Requests' tracker on the
>XUI project page: 1650909 "Docking: removeDockable of a minimized
>panel".
>
>Thanks for adding me to the project; my userid now correctly associates
>with the request entered.
>
>p.s. If I may ask a question...this is not urgent though. The 4-element
>array of colour defaults taken as input to the addDockable interface do
>not appear to be implemented (?). Specifically, element zero initializes
>the field called 'headerBkColor' of XDockableHeader; however, that field
>is not used by the header's paintComponent method: 
>
>    Color bkColor = getBackground(); <= instead of 'headerBkColor'?
>    g.setColor( bkColor );
>
>Just wondering if this is intentional for now? 
>
>Thanks,
>- Greg
>
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Hello Luan,=20

I've added an additional item to the 'Feature Requests' tracker on the
XUI project page: 1650909 "Docking: removeDockable of a minimized
panel".

Thanks for adding me to the project; my userid now correctly associates
with the request entered.

p.s. If I may ask a question...this is not urgent though. The 4-element
array of colour defaults taken as input to the addDockable interface do
not appear to be implemented (?). Specifically, element zero initializes
the field called 'headerBkColor' of XDockableHeader; however, that field
is not used by the header's paintComponent method:=20

    Color bkColor =3D getBackground(); <=3D instead of 'headerBkColor'?
    g.setColor( bkColor );

Just wondering if this is intentional for now?=20

Thanks,
- Greg


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We hope to release a first beta of XUI 3.0 and Kalidescope 3.0 in the
next week. With this we will stop adding new features till the final
release, at least at the rate we have been doing over the last few
months. So, this is a call for action - are there any features that you
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Hello,=20

In response to the call for feature requests, I've added the following
item to the 'Feature Requests' tracker on the XUI project page. =20
1645530 "Docking: one-touch control (icon) for zoom".

Thanks !!
- Greg

p.s. I haven't been able to find how to join the project (in order to
submit non-anonymously).=20

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We hope to release a first beta of XUI 3.0 and Kalidescope 3.0 in the
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release, at least at the rate we have been doing over the last few
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The proxy can be used in place of an applet class where the XUI fraction 
of an application needs to be integrated with an existing or legacy 
Swing application. The proxy extends JPanel and encapsulates the XUI 
elements of the project. An example application is included in the XUI 
source tree.

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next week. With this we will stop adding new features till the final 
release, at least at the rate we have been doing over the last few 
months. So, this is a call for action - are there any features that you 
would like to see in XUI 3.0 that have not been added (even if they are 
on the list of RFEs)?

A Java Web Start demo of the docking framework has been added to the 
Wikki at http://xui.sourceforge.net/wikka/wikka.php?wakka=DockingFramework.

This is the first of what will hopefully be the first of several demos 
we post over the coming weeks.

Version 0.7 for Eclipse 3.2

This is the first snapshot of Kalideoscope built from the common XUI 3.0 
codebase. Most of the features should be compatible with/comparable to 
the NetBeans version.

This release has not had extensive testing for different usage 
scenarios/patterns, so please let us know of ANY difficulties, errors or 
problems.

One of the main tasks to be completed in this Eclipse plug-in is the 
management of perspectives. We would like to hear from anyone who can 
offer some help in completing this task.

Support for the system tray or launch area has been added. When a system 
tray icon is added the application can choose to stay resident in memory 
after the main window has been closed by setting the "ExitOnClose" 
startup property to false. The advantage of doing this is that the data 
model does not need to be reinitialized if the main window is just being 
redisplayed. This initialization can be significantly quicker than 
normal startup as all
the classes needed by the JVM are already loaded. If remote data is used 
the startup gain may be even greater as network access may not be required.

The tray icon provides two menu items, one to open the window and the 
second to close the window and exit the JVM.

This version of the class uses the SwingLabs version of the tray support 
and is therefore limited to Swing. If JDK 6 or later is being used then 
the JVM's tray support could be used for non Swing applications.

The system tray/stay resident option may be particularly valuable when 
used in conjunction with an embedded webserver, as a remote server could 
thereby signal the application to wake up and display new data or alerts 
as when such data becomes available by simply making a request to the 
client application's server. The same process could also be used to 
provide a tighter integration between a web page/web application and a 
XUI application.

New feature:

A minimal http server is now embedded at 
net.xoetrope.optional.http.XHttpServer. When customized this server will 
allow a server appplication to signal a client via a http request. By 
customizing the server with a response handler the application can then 
respond with special actions, such as a wake-up or by requesting 
updates/new data from the server.