qooxdoo 1.0-beta1 (2009-11-25)

qooxdoo 1.0-beta1 is a preview release for the upcoming 1.0 version.

Framework

#2891 Mouse capturing now works even if the user leaves the browser view port.
#2919 Mouse Capturing: Captured events are now bubbling
#2795 All native events can now be cloned without breaking any of the public API
#2856 Drag and drop events are now bubbling
qx.event.Command has been split up into two different classes. One, qx.bom.Shortcut, handles the shortcut functionality. The other, qx.ui.core.Command is the high level command.

All legacy code has been removed.
Improved browser detection and added qx.bom.client.Browser which can be used to get the browser name and version number. Thanks to Sebastian Werner for contribution.
Fixed some issues with the size calculation on qx.bom.Viewport and qx.bom.Document.
Safari 3 always returned the wrong value for isStandardMode on qx.bom.Document, this is now fixed.
Fixed an iframe issue in Firefox. Whenever the iframe got a new parent element Firefox did load the wrong source under certain circumstances
Prevent inline root from growing endlessly if the height of the element is implicit (=defined by the content)
New method qx.util.DisposeUtil.disposeTriggeredBy()
Corrected several destructors
Fixed wrong format and size return values in qx.io2.ImageLoader
Added a Serializer util class that produces a native JavaScript object.

Firefox 1.5 is working again
#2230 For Internet Explorer 8, fixed unreachable TextField when a TextField is lying over a image.
Fixed mouse events in iPhone.

qx.io.remote.RequestQueue stopped sending when too many requestHandler throw an exception. Applied a patch that places the request handler in a try/catch block to prevent a program crash upon exception. If an exception is thrown, an "aborted" message is now issued to the application.

History manager has been refactored. It now supports the native hashchange event and IE support has been improved. Additionally the state is now available as property which makes it bindable.
Fixed loading issue in BOM libraries in IE
Improved low-level blocker class.

#3075 Fixed size hint calculation for some edge cases
Removed the color grey as valid color, because this is not a valid color for IE6 and IE7.
Added property wrap to qx.ui.basic.Label, to allow or deny line breaks. But this feature only works with rich labels.
Added property blockToolTip to qx.ui.core.Widget to disable a tool tip.
Removed limitation of not be able to change the scaling mode and/or the source of a qx.ui.basic.Image widget during runtime.
Fixed alpha PNG issue at decoration util class.

The data binding is no longer experimental!
Added two new data stores:
- JSONP data store.
- YQL data store.
Two new delegate methods for the data stores:
- Added the possibility to change settings on the created request.
- Added the possibility to manipulate the data returned from the request.
Improvements to the form controller concerning init values and binding options.
Improvements to the selection handling of the controller

Form validation is no longer experimental!
The placeholder now also supports password fields.
Minor improvements to the resetter.
The model selection array for RadioGroup's, RadioButtonGroup's, List's, SelectBox'es and Trees has been changed from a native JavaScript array to a qooxdoo data binding array.

#730 Large menus are no longer cut off at browser window
#2847 Option to use native browser scroll bars in all widgets.
Changed unblock and unblockConten behavior from our Blocker. Both methods take now care of the number of block and blockContent calls, before the Blocker is removed. To force a unblock, two new methods are added forceUnblock and forceUnblockContent.
Adjust the Table to the Selection API and renamed the clearSelection method to resetSelection.
Table column model has a new method setColumnsOrder(), the remote table model new setters for attributes sortColumnIndex and sortAscending
The getPreviousSiblingOf() method of Tree has new param allowing search to be restricted to current nest level
Progressive: removed experimental indications. The Progressive interface is now considered reasonably stable. Contributed and maintained by Derrell Lipman.

The auto completion now works with the key word this and you can type the tab key without having a valid sub key like qx..
Done some improvements on the property window do make it more reliable for internal exceptions.

Demobrowser GUI and demos are now generated jointly in one generator process
A search field has been added to the demo browser which makes it possible to search for the names of demos.

#1649 throw information will now be displayed for every method which can throw errors.
#1780 You can now include API doc for all used libraries of the application, using the API_INCLUDE config macro.

#2907 Generator jobs "test" and "test-source" now honor the "libraries" job, so that additional libraries used in the application are also considered for the test application.

A new bash COMPSPEC file allows tab-completion of generator jobs (tool/bin/generator_compspec.bash)

The generator now only prints stack traces when invoked with the -s command line option
#2376 Dependency checking is more accurate now, also after library changes; unknown global symbols are warned about
#2800 Add new option to split off I18N data in separate files, using config key packages/i18n-with-boot = false [experimental; not working for source versions]
#2129 Resource information is now maintained on the package level, not globally in the loader script, which greatly reduces loader script sizes; using this with the new packages/<part>/no-merge-private-package key allows theme-specific packages to retain their own resources
#2879 Add facility to hook JS code into qx.$$loader.decodeUris(), using compile-source/decode-uris-plug or compile-dist/code/decode-uris-plug
Parts are now being verified after package collapsing, to make sure they contain all required classes
Speed up in the generation of .po files
"#ignore" compiler hints in class code are functional again
The clean-files action key now allows Python-style file globs
Improved logging when checking/downloading contribs
Various parser bugs fixed
[BUG #3031] If create-application.py is invoked with both namespace and application name parameters, only the namespace will be modified to only contain valid JavaScript identifier characters.
[BUG #2038] New generator job "info": Prints some basic environment information for debugging.
[BUG #2220] The "copy-files" job will now overwrite target files that are write-protected.

#2868 Set translate/poentry-with-occurrences = false, to disable the generation of location comments in .po files
New add-script config key allows inclusion of arbitrary Javascript files
The loader template for the source/build versions is now configurable (compile-dist/paths/loader-template and compile-source/loader-template)
A new generator option -m/--macro allows specification of let macros on the command line
extend and run config keys now allow the use of macros; bear in mind that these keys are evaluated very early, so the referenced macros should usually be within the same file to take effect

qx.util.ColorUtil.hsbToRgb now returns the RGB value as array instead of a map.