WT Toolkit / News: Recent posts

There will be a presentation of WT Toolkit in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology this Saturday. In addition to demonstrating WT Toolkit, we (i.e. me and Marco) will also discuss the difficulties and pitfalls facing AJAX developers, and we will compare WT Toolkit with other popular AJAX toolkits like Prototype and Dojo.

Date: 19th May, 2007
Time: 17:20 - 18:00 HKT (+0800)
Venue: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Room 4480

This release improves widget creation latencies in Internet Explorer by more than 2x in general.

You can download the newest code package of WT Toolkit by the following link:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=157600

This is another bug fix release.

1. The weired table layout expansion seen while editable cells
are clicked in wtSpreadsheet widgets is fixed.

2. It fixes a problem with the wtVariableSpreadsheet widget in
Internet Explorer where the "trash" icon is sometimes not
rendered.

You can download the newest code package of WT Toolkit by the following link:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=157600

This demo shows off the capabilities of WT Toolkit's charting widgets.

Demo URL:
http://wt-toolkit.sourceforge.net/demo/charting_demo.html

Video of demo in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gebei6BEQZk

This is a bug fix release. It fixes a bug in the pie chart widget class which causes pie charts to be inaccurately rendered.

You can download the newest code package of WT Toolkit by the following link:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=157600

Major changes in 0.3.0 to 0.2.x include -

1. The toolkit's garbage collector is now automatic, and fast! This enables you to use signal-slot event handling without worrying too much about lapsed listeners.

2. The SVG/VML graphics engine has undergone a major overhaul. For example, you can now color your vector graphical widgets in RGBA colors, instead of being limited to RGB or CSS color codes.

3. You can draw G=(V,E) graphs with WT Toolkit 0.3.0 with the wtGraph* family of classes. An example use for this is drawing UML graphs.... read more

This demo shows off the capabilities of the upcoming WT Toolkit 0.3.0's G=(V,E) graph module.

Demo URL:
http://wt-toolkit.sourceforge.net/demo/test_wtumlclass.html

Video of the demo in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3DLLX_-dzQ

The UML demo is still under active development, in parallel to WT Toolkit 0.3.0. If you want to play with the code now instead of waiting for 0.3.0 release (which should happen soon), you can checkout the development code from our SVN repository.

We have written a few widget demonstrations for WT Toolkit to show WT Toolkit's functionalities.

Basic widget demo 1:
http://wt-toolkit.sourceforge.net/demo/widget_demo.html

This demo shows off most of the basic widgets in WT Toolkit, such as windows, window mangers, popup menues, buttons, layouts, editable spreadsheets, and various form input widgets whose input values can be submitted via AJAX-style RPC.... read more

We have just completed the API documentation of WT Toolkit sans the vector graphics module, for which the documentation will be written and released with WT Toolkit 0.2.2, which will be the next release of WT Toolkit.

You can read our API documentation at
http://wt-toolkit.sourceforge.net/doc