Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Custom Input Controls, Status Bars, and ToolTips
Code On Time release 6.0.0.31 introduces the following features, enhancements, and bug fixes:
- Custom Input Controls are now supported by the client library.
- It is possible to assign input edit controls at runtime.
- Data fields feature the ToolTip property that allows displaying a standard browser tooltip for each field.
- Data views feature Css Class Name property assigned to the 'div' element that represents the data view on a page.
- New tutorials for the Status Bar are now out: 1)http://codeontime.com/learn/feature-tour/status-bars and 2) http://codeontime.com/learn/data-controllers/status-bar.
- Business rules fully support drag and drop.
- Control and User Control property pages and Project Explorer context menu offer "Edit in Visual Studio" option.
- Data Controller properties integrate "Edit Handler" option on the action bar and in Project Explorer. Selection of an option will open either the business rules handler or a shared business rules handler.
- Option "Edit Rule in Visual Studio" is now available for "Code" Business Rules in Project Explorer and designer.
- Dragging a page node after the parent with children is now correctly inserting the dropped page after the last child page of the target.
- Designer toolbar offers Open button to open the project files in Windows Explorer.
- New designer toolbar option "Develop" will open the Visual Studio solution of the code generator project.
- Data Sheet view will automatically set focus on the first cell of the first row when activated from the action bar menu.
- The bug with the loss of focus in the data sheet view in edit mode is fixed.
- The sync is disabled when editing in the data sheet.
- Improved processing of Read-Only When property in form views.
- Advanced menu will work without membership enabled.
- Application pages are sorted by index to fix the "out-of-order" page indexes in legacy projects and projects with custom baseline.
- Designer correctly saves the Status Bar definition.
- Web Site Factory creates a solution file during "Generate" phase instead of when "Develop" action is requested.
- Blob processor uses case-insensitive methods when detecting the utility fields ending with ContentType, Length, and FileName.
- Virtualization node sets now offer CreateField and StatusBar methods.
- Method BusinessRules.NodeSet() can be invoked when processing data controller actions without raising an exception.