SmartClient™ SDK Change Log

New Major Subsystems

Enterprise, SilverWave and BlackOps skins, three more professionally designed, free (LGPL) skins
Calendar component: complete drag and drop, databound event editing similar to Google Calendar
TileLayout & TileGrid components: display records as a series of tiles, with databinding, load on demand, filter and sort, and drag and drop capability
Advanced Filtering: client- and server-side support for field-operator-value filtering of data, including arbitrarily nested queries
Filter Builder: specialized form for end user construction of advanced filters of arbitrary complexity
SQL Templating: customize the SQL generated by SmartClient's SQL connector right in the DataSource file. Clause by clause overrides make it easy to add simple and complex joins, grouping and aggregation while retaining full search features and database independence
Transaction Chaining: a transaction where some operations depend on the results of other operations can be declared with simple XML in your DataSource
DataSource Wizards: generate fully functional DataSources from existing Hibernate entities or SQL tables with a simple point and click wizard in Visual Builder
Batch DataSource Generator: connect SmartClient to your entire object model in one step by generated DataSources from SQL tables, Java Beans or other metadata with a customizable process.
CSV / Excel Export: just call grid.exportData() to export the current contents of the grid to Excel via CSV, including current sort, filter criteria, column order and column visibility
Batch Uploader: provides an interface to upload a CSV, validate it and allow the user to make corrections before committing, all without coding.
New client features
ColumnTree component: ITunes™-like tree navigation (one column per level) relations declared in DataSources and automatically "do the right thing" for a databound drag
Printing: comprehensive and customizable support for rendering printable views of SmartClient applications
Formula and Summary fields: built-in wizards for end users to define formula fields that can compute values using other fields, or summary fields that can combine other fields with intervening / surrounding text. Available in all DataBoundComponents, easy to persist as preferences
ColorPicker component: a full-spectrum color selection component similar to those found in graphics packages and other desktop software
HeaderSpans: second level headers in grids, for grouping related columns
Grid row rollover effects and controls: general purpose ability to attach SmartClient components to rows, allowing rounded selection, controls that appear on rollover, and more
Grid header rollover: drop-down menus appear on rollover, offering column show/hide, freezing and grouping options that previously required right click to discover
Data autofitting: horizontal and vertical autofitting to data for ListGrids
AutoFitTextAreaItem: autofits to contained text as the user types
DataSource: new dataProtocol:"clientCustom" for in-browser storage and third party transports like GWT-RPC
Datasource: dsRequest.componentId for identifying source of requests
SelectItem: new selectItem.selectOtherValue and selectItem.separatorValue
i18n for messages related to ListGrid groupBy and freezen pane features
Class: log methods available as both instance and class methods
ListGrid: listEndAction and related properties available in Visual Builder (allows new record creation)
ListGrid: support for selection represented as a special checkbox column (selectionAppearance:"checkbox")
Tree/ResultTree: new property "discardParentlessNodes" allows simplified one-shot tree loading * DataSourceField: new attributes "javaClass", "javaCollectionClass", "javaKeyClass" for populating JavaBeans/POJOs
ListGrid: new convenience method "toggleFrozen()"
DataSource: new attribute "autoDeriveTitles" for simple user-visible titles auto-derived from typical field name identifer conventions (camel caps, underscore separator)
FormItem: New properties "prompt", "iconPrompt"
loadDS tag can now accept a comma-separated list of dataSource names
DataBoundComponent: Added cell hilite system (from CubeGrid) for styling cell data without code.
DataBoundComponent: support for databound dragging operations across all dataBoundComponent types
DataSource: new methods for type:binary field data: downloadFile(), viewFile()
DataSource: New attribute sendExtraFields for outbound data: if true, include fields that are not specified in .fields
DataSource: New field types "datetime" and "time"
DataSource: New property preventHTTPCaching
ListGrid: groupBy uses displayField if set instead of the field itself, if no optionDataSource is set
ListGrid: new helper methods invalidateCache(), willFetchData() - calls appropriate methods on .data.
ListGrid: new notification method dataArrived() passed through from ResultSet
DetailViewer: new methods DetailViewer.formatCellValue and DetailViewerField.formatCellValue
CubeGrid: New optional method facet.getValueTitle() for facet titles autogenerated from data
CubeGrid: New properties for better control over context menus
RadioGroupItem: can now disable at item via new method setValueDisabled()
Flashlet: new method setSrc()
Dialog: new property messageStyle for skinning
DateChooser: new override points todayClick(), cancelClick()
DateItem: inputFormat no longer must be initialized if displayFormat is initialized to any of the standard short formatters
CheckBoxItem: new properties for 3-state checkboxes (unset, true, false): new property "allowEmptyValue", new property "showUnsetImage"
CheckBoxItem: new properties "showTitle", "labelAsTitle" for better control of title/label
Canvas: new method setEdgeOpacity() for translucent edges
Canvas: new string method resized()
Canvas: new method markForDestroy() recommended as safer destroy() technique
ListGridField/LinkItem: New target "javascript" for type:link - allows for link interception in relevant click method
Selection: new i18n property selectionRangeNotLoadedMessage
ListGrid/TileGrid: New property autoFetchAsFilter to allow autoFetchData to do a filter (search) rather than strict match (fetch)
OperationBinding new property invalidateCache (this operation will always invalidate local cache if true)
ResultTree: new property defaultNewNodesToRoot
DataSourceField: new property childTagName (controls the XML tag used for each subelement during xmlSerialize(), if multiple:true)
New server features
PostgresDriver: Implemented SQL data paging
XML: new utility method recordToXML()
Config: new static method getProperty() to access server.properties
DSResponse: New convenience methods getRecord(), getRecords(), getFieldValue()
Visual Builder: SQL and Hibernate browser
HibernateDataSource: new transaction management methods
Server-side support of textMatchStyle:"startsWith" - SQL and Hibernate dataSources
Support SQL access by connecting through Hibernate configuration files
Workaround for MySQL 5.x bug with long fields and specified default values
Client Bugfixes
RPCManager: Convert error window text to HTML format to preserve line breaks in multiline errors
Window.js: Correct operation of returnValue() when new dialogs are launched from the callbacks of other dialogs
WSDataSource: populate .sortBy in returned data, in case a partial dataset is returned
PickList: Fix for incorrect rendering of otherTitle
GridRenderer: Fix for unnecessary scrollbars in scrolling menus with 1 row of content
PickList: Fix for databound PickList causing spurious item selection when PickList is re-shown
ListGrid: Several grouping issues fixed relating to record update/filter
CubeGrid: Use DataSource fields as defaults for facets if databound
CubeGrid: Fix for "stacked" checkbox in chart window showing wrong state
Canvas: don't crash if border is incorrectly specified as numeric
Canvas: Fix for calling setPadding()/setMargin() after create() but before draw()
DataSource: allow defaultParams for protocol:"postMessage"
FormItem: flags to control display of errors and allow custom display of errors
ListGrid: fixed issue with ListGridField.optionDataSource causing queues to be immediately sent
ListGrid: fixed edge case where manually set validation errors could be associated with wrong rows when inline editing
ListGrid: fixed display issue with frozen fields and grouping when opening/closing folders
ListGrid: Fixed setFieldProperties() not supporting some properties
ListGrid: stopped spurious occurrence of "getCellRecord called with bad rowNum"
ListGrid: Fix for startEditingNew with no existing dataset
DataBoundComponent: support addData() for components with no DataSource
Button: setIcon(null) now clears the icon correctly
XML Serialization: escape XML special characters in property names in nested structures
SectionStack: removeSection() now accepts section IDs
SectionStack: programmatic expandSection() with visibilityType:"mutex" was not collapsing previously opened section
TabSet: when tab is deleted, select the closest tab instead of the first
Scrollbar: Respect showRollOver or showDown when applied to the scrollbar thumb
Reference Explorer: searches now generated history entries for easier navigation
HTMLFlow: Fixed bugs where certain <script> tags were not recognized correctly
Visual Builder: Fixed deployment to non-root webserver locations
DateItem: Fix when entering invalid values while enforceDate:true
DateItem: Fix tabbing to date fields when editing ListGrids by cell
Canvas: Improved rendering compatibility with future versions of Firefox (post-3.0)
Canvas: Fix for htmlElement-embedded widgets that are both relpos and hidden
DataSource: added SQL data paging support for SQL Server 9+
JSONEncoder class for JSON serialization / deserialization
RPCManager: switched fallback encoding for params to be strict JSON instead of just valid JavaScript
RestDataSource: with dataFormat:"json" and dataProtocol:"postMessage", serialize to JSON
RPCManager: added handleTransportError() API to make resending 503 and similar error codes simpler
History: fixed an issue where History module would form a bad URL to empty.html in IE under HTTPS if window.isomorphicDir is an absolute URL
Slider: support rounding to a specified precision when dragging over continuous range
FileItem: fixed various cross-domain issues with FileItem if document.domain is set
FileItem: allow FileItem to be clear()d
ListGrid: fixed bug where recent FF would not render rows past 900,000 because Firefox changed maximum legal image size
Dialog: added "Done" as a standard button, with doneClick() handler
DynamicForm/FormItem: if user input is invalidated, do not reset the input to the last good value; leave the bad value in place unless rejectInvalidValues is set.
DynamicForm/ValuesManager: Fix for useLocalValidators:false when databound
SearchForm: generate appropriate criteria for a ComboBox with optionDataSource in a SearchForm
Server Bugfixes
HttpProxy: fix for sending long parameters when httpMethod=="POST"
HttpProxy: Provide clear error status codes for server unresolvable or connection refused errors
RPCRequest: Correctly encode the content-disposition filename when downloading so spaces work

Changes in 6.5.1

ResultSet: fixed dataArrived() not correctly receiving startRow/endRow
ResultSet: fixed problem that prevented manual ResultSet instantiation
ResultSet: fixed bug with neverDropUpdatedRows setting incorrectly integrating new/updated records into local cache even if they don't match the current criteria. This fixes the issue reported on this thread in the support forums
ResultSet: correctly incorporate updated record into cache when the server changes the primaryKey of the record
Re-Login: fixed JS error in obscure case where an iframe is used as a relogin window that ultimately targets loginSuccess.html
Window: Fixed bug where an autoSize:true Window would abandon autoSize mode as soon as a drag resize interaction happened anywhere on any child. Now only applies if the Window itself is drag resized
Canvas: fixed issue whereby components could get into a focused state when disabled
ListGrid: fixed filterByCell not working on the filterEditor
ListGrid: grouping media now uses TreeGrid opener (expand/collapse) media instead of folder media by default
ListGrid: fixed bug where drag and drop onto a grouped grid would not fire dataChanged()
ListGrid: fixed bug that allowed grouped nodes to be dragged out of ListGrid
ListGrid: fixed missing disabled ListGrid header image in TreeFrog skin
ListGrid: fixed JS error if setValueMap() is called ona hidden field while the inline editor is showing.
ListGrid: fixed bug with inline editing that ensures rowNums don't get mismatched on successful save of multiple rows (reported on this thread of the support forums)
ListGrid: when groupBy is used with frozen columns, the group name no longer appears twice (once in the frozen pane, once in the rest of the grid)
ListGrid/ResultSet: fixed issue with newly added records not being grouped correctly when grid is in groupBy mode
ListGrid/DateItem: fixed two issues related to DateItems in grids reported here
ListGrid: improved handling of ListGrids that have frozen columns + incremental rendering + inline editor showing.
ListGrid: providing missing ListGrid schema attributes "canFreezeFields", "canGroupBy" - affects XML->JS translation datatypes and availability of these properties in the VisualBuilder.
ListGrid: fixed bug with inline edit mode where boolean fields would sometimes not respond to mouse clicks correctly when another edit field had focus (TreeFrog skin only)
ListGridField: fixed field.cellAlign not taking precedence over field.align
DataSource: added new API resultBatchSize that enables auto-chunking of large datasets returned by the server to avoid the 'script running too slowly' dialog
TabSet: fixed tabs being erroneously selected on context click
FusionChart (Charting): fixed bug where user defined colors weren't being used for single series charts
DataSource: don't JS error if server returns null/error data as a json transport response.
HTMLFlow: when parsing out embedded script blocks, correctly handle type='text/javascript'
TreeFrog: made it easier to drag resize components with shadows by allowing shadows to be used as control points for the drag start interaction
EventHandler: fixed a bug affecting Firefox 3 final that resulted in mouse coordinates being incorrect when the page was scrolled
EventHadler: fixed a bug affecting Firefox 2 where drag and drop interactions could receive incorrect coordinates
EventHandler: new API getDragRect() - returns page-relative coordinates of whwatever element is being dragged
Time: Time.UTCHoursOffset now applied to stored value rather than having stored value be offset by this amount. This fixes a problem with potential negative time offsets in some rare cases.
Improved Opera compatibility.
Canvas: fixed the no-drop indicator failing to show up in some cases.
DynamicForm: improved documentation around showErrorText/showErrorIcons/errorOrientation
This release rolls up all addendums from prior versions, recorded here.

Changes in 6.5

HibernateDataSource: support ORs for multiple values on a single field (CubeGrid data fetching)
HibernateDataSource: don't rebuild Configuration or SessionFactory unless necessary
HibernateDataSource: explicitly close database connections
HibernateDataSource: better exception handling and reporting
CubeGrid (Analytics): support for inline editing with both UI and programmatic access
CubeGrid (Analytics): significant performance improvements for large dataset rendering, smoother scrolling.
CubeGrid (Analytics): support for yet larger client-side datasets (smarter indexing)
CubeGrid: correctly reset selection on setData()
ListGrid: default dragTrackerMode changed to the more visually appealing setting of "title".
ListGrid: added 'quickDrawAheadRatio' which allows specifying a different drawAheadRatio when the viewport is being rapidly changed by the user (e.g. drag scrolling)
ListGrid: significant performance improvements for large dataset rendering, smoother scrolling.
ListGrid: added unsort() API.
ListGrid: inline editing now correctly respects addOperation and updateOperation settings on the grid.
ListGrid: new 'groupBy' feature allows grouping/ungrouping of rows by a particular column, aggregating rows by like values. Search for 'groupBy' in reference docs for relevant APIs and see the examples in the Feature Explorer under Grids->Grouping.
ListGrid: fixed row numbering bug with inline edits triggered when multiple edit rows were shown beyond the end of the grid's data.
ListGrid: header context menu titles can now be more directly internationalized.
ListGrid: new APIs getCellValign(), getCellAlign() to enable programmatic control of cell alignment.
ListGrid/ListGridField: cellChanged() now receives a reference to the grid as last argument.
ListGrid: new API: headerMenuButton autoChild - When the user rolls over the header buttons in this grid the headerMenuButton will be shown over the header button in question. When clicked this button will display the standard header context menu. This headerMenuButton API is used to show the header menu button in all skins by default.
ListGrid: new API: getHeaderContextMenuItems() - hook that allows specification of custom ListGrid header context menu items.
ListGrid: new API: stopHover() - fired to clear Hovers that can be set programmatically.
ListGrid: performance/look and feel: when ListGrid.leaveScrollbarGap is set, the grid now attempts to predict if hscroll will be introduced or not, removing the flashing hscrollbar.
ListGrid, TreeGrid: frozen column support, compatible with inline editing. Search for 'frozen' and 'freeze' in the reference docs for a list of new APIs and see the examples in the Feature Explorer under Grids->Frozen Columns.
TreeGrid: added setNodeIcon() API.
TreeGrid: new API getDropFolder(). When the user is dragging a droppable element over this grid, this method returns the folder which would contain the item if dropped. This is the current drop node if the user is hovering over a folder, or the node's parent if the user is hovering over a leaf.
SectionStack: new APIs: addItem()/removeItem() allows adding and removing items directly from sections.
SectionStack: new APIs: itemIdent/itemStartIndent/itemEndIndent - enables easy indentation of items in a section.
Menu: implemented 'submenuDirection' that controls switching media and location of the submenu icon.
Menu: fixed keyboard navigation of submenus for submenues that opened to the left (will now correctly expand on left arrow).
Menu: added autoDismiss property that allows the menu to stay up through several clicks on it. Used by the ListGrid header context menu to allow showing/hiding of multiple columns without having to re-open the context menu.
Layout: fixed layoutMargin not being incorporated in dropLine position calculation in some case resulting in a slightly-off drop indicator
Layout: new APIs showMember()/hideMember() that hook default animation for Layout.
Layout: new API: leaveScrollbarGap. This setting avoids the layout resizing all members when the vertical scrollbar is introduced or removed, which can avoid unnecessary screen shifting and improve performance. Default is false.
Layout: new API: memberOverlap enables overlapping of members.
Layout: new API: stackZIndex: controls the relative zIndex of members that overlap.
Layout: new APIs: getMemberDefaultBreadth()/getMemberOffset() - allows the manipulation of the calculated breadth/offset for members of the layout. These are advanced APIs generally intended for use by component developers.
Fixed a rare case of drag and drop not correctly resolving the drop target when multiple dropTargets are stacked on top of one another with custom handlers
ValuesManager: now supports 'disableValidation'.
JSTranslater (server API): fix to correctly escape IE reserved words 'export' and 'debugger'.
DataSource: sped up client-side filtering logic.
DataSource: clientOnly DataSources now support a one-time fetch against their dataURL, if one is defined. Results are integrated into the client-side cache and that cache is used from that point forward.
DataSource: in clientOnly mode, the DataSource will not auto-generate sequence values for
DataSource: more lenient type conversion for startRow/endRow/totalRows after transformResponse().
RPC DMI, DataSource DMI (Java Server): fixed re-throw of exceptions generated inside reflection call to application code - now handles subclasses of Error correctly.
DataBound Components: local field specification now correctly overrides DataSource-derived field type.
Initial offline mode support: various pieces of the system either work against cached data or queue deltas for later submission to server on reconnect
Beta support for Adobe AIR runtime.
Validators: new vlidators: notADate, notADecimal.
New Taglib: <isomorphic:jsString> makes it easy to pull arbitrary content from a JSP or external file into a correctly escaped JavaScript string, making it easy to embed in SmartClient components.
RichTextEditor component now part of LGPL package.
ResultSet: new API willFetchData() allows you to check if your proposed filter criteria will result in a fetch to the server.
ResultSet: refetch from server on change to textMatchStyle (percolates from higher-level APIs)
ResultSet: application of more restrictive criteria always results in client-side filtering (unless it's disabled completely)
Messaging (Server push): unsubscribe from JMS on unregister
TabSet: improvied layout of 'controls' that can be placed in empty space past the tabs. Previously one had to explicitly size these to align with the TabSet edge in some circumstances.
ResultSet: some configurations could result in multiple overlapping fetches to the server to fill the cache - fixed.
Toolbar: optimized component init time for cases where members were added post creation, but before draw.
TabSet: new API tabIconClick() - fired when the icon on the tab is clicked on.
TabSet: new API closeCLick() - fired when the close icon on the tab is clicked on.
TabSet: new API: getTabPane() - returns the pane for a given tab.
TabSet: new API: showPaneContainerEdges - controls whether the paneContainer shows edges.
TabSet: new API: getPaneContainerEdges() - allows specification of custom edges for the paneContainer.
TabSet: new API: symmetricEdges - controls whether or not the same edge media will be used regardless of tab bar position.
TabSet: new API: leftEdgeSizes/topEdgeSizes/bottomEdgeSizes/rightEdgeSizes - allows customization of edges sizes for assymmetric eges.
TabSet: new API: showPartialEdges - allows custom specification of which edges are shown.
TabSet: deprecated APIs: pickerButtonHSrc, pickerButtonVSrc, scrollerHSrc and scrollerVSrc - all still supported for backward compatibility, but replace with: pickerButtonTopSrc, pickerButtonBottomSrc, scrollerTopSrc, scrollberBottomSrc.
TabSet: scrollers now correctly introduced if tab width overflows due to content change.
TabSet: disabled tabs no loger selectable from the tab scroller dropdown.
SimpleType: normalDisplayFormatter(), shortDisplayFormatter() APIs now make the entire record available as the fourth argument
Improved Date validation to reject some invalid day values and prevent runaway CPU usage in IE6 for some very large values.
Fixed memory leak that could occur with manually created ResultSet and ResultTree objects.
ValuesManager: fixed memory leak related to this component.
DynamicForm: fixed clearFieldErrors() incorrectly forcing redraw.
DynamicForm: automatically caches and reuses PickLists when safe
DynamicForm: new APIs to help with reporting validation errors in alternate formats: getItemErrorHTML(), showInlineErrors, showErrorText, showErrorIcons, showErrors() errorOrientation, FormItem.getErrorHTML(), FormItem.showErrorStyle, FormItem.errorOrientation.
DynamicForm: now supports initialCriteria, and autoFetchData.
DynamicForm: added file upload support. See the 'Uploading Files' overview topic in the reference docs (search for 'upload') to get an overview of the available options.
SpinnerItem: Fixed clicks on spinner buttons stealing keyboard focus from the field in Firefox.
DateChooser: baseNavButtonStyle - enables styling of navigation buttons and date display at the top of the component.
Server-side DSRequest object now returns values if getCriteria() is called for an 'add' operation, as a convenience.
New skin: TreeFrog
Scrollbar: media used by this component now configurable via the standard StretchImg APIs.
ViewLoader: handleError() now called on eval() and XML->JS translation failure, not just failure to get components from the specified URL.
Client serialization engine now correctly escapes \r to handle round-tripping to the server. This is generally irrelevant, but technically more correct.
Window: new APIs: defaultMinimizeHeight, minimizeHeight control the resulting height of a minimized Window.
Window: new APIs: modalMask, showModalMask, modalMaskStyle, modalMaskOpacity - allows styling of the modal mask that is shown for a modal Window. This can help focus the user on the modal window by showing the rest of the screen as greyed out or some other effect.
Calendar: new UI component - search the reference docs and see examples int he Feature Explorer.
History: fixed 'show non-secure elements on this page' dialog in IE6 when used with History module under SSL.
SelectItem/ComboBoxItem: new API: defaultToFirstOption - Select the first option as the default value for this item.
Canvas: new API: snapTo and related methods - allows configuration that forces children to 'snap to' various edges/corners of the Canvas.
Canvas: new APIs: precentBox, percentSource - allows slaving the sizing of the canvas to another Canvas.
StatefulCanvas: new API: overCanvas autoChild - Auto generated child widget to be shown when the user rolls over this canvas
StatefulCanvas: deprecated API: showFocus, replaced by showFocused.
StatefulCanvas: new API: showFocusedAsOver - if true, enables the use of over state when focused when showFocused is true. This is the default. This API is used in the new TreeFrog skin to show alternate focused icons on various UI components (e.g. Buttons, FormItems).
DateChooser: new APIs: alternateWeekStyles, alternateStyleSuffix - enables alternating styles for the weeks.
FormItem/StaticTextItem: new API: clipValue - allows control over clipping of the item if it exceeds the fields width.
FormItem: new API: stopHover() - fired to clear any Hovers that can be programmatically set.
XML serailizer (Java server): when serializing attributes, back off to using the getNodeName() API when getLocalName() returns null (e.g. Elements constructed via DOM level 1 APIs).
FileAssembly Servlet (Network Performance): Now accepts HTTP POST (very rare scenario, but now available).
FileDownload Servlet (Java Server): new API: stripPathComponents: Instructs this servlet to remove the specified number of paths components from the URI before looking for the file on disk. This is useful if you're injecting a version string into your URI that isn't actually part of the path and you can't stript this off more efficiently at a different layer (e.g. Apache mod_rewrite).
HTMLPane/HTMLFlow: improved script block parsing performance
HTMLPane/HTMLFlow: improved handling of inline script blocks and remote script loading
HTMLPane/HTMLFLow: automatically skip loading of SmartClient modules, load all scripts via HTTP GET.
HTMLPane/HTMLFlow: new API: transformHTML() - provides hook for transformation of retreived HTML.
HTMLPane/HTMLFlow: now handle inline absolutely or relatively positioned SmartClient components.
Support dismissal of SmartClient components bound to click masks when the user clicks on SmartClient-managed IFRAMEs in e.g. HTMLPane/HTMLFlow.
New API: isc.addDefaults() - copies any properties that do not already have a value to the specified object.
The embedded Tomcat servlet engine that's part of the SmartClient SDK now supports a '--maxThreads' option. Likely applicable only to those doing deep prototyping with the SDK.
Developer Console now automatically backs off to the skin specified on the page it is launched from, if it can't load the 'SmartClient' skin. This allows for the use of the DeveloperConsole with deployments that push out only the custom customer skin.
Beta support for Firefox 3.0 (beta 4)
List: new API: removeEvery()
DateItem: fixed issue with namespace mode.
ResultTree: fixed potential for multiple firing of callbacks for auto-created ResultTrees.
DateChooser: added new APIs for specifying custom media for date/month icons. Filter down for 'icon' when looking at DateChooser instance reference doc to see new APIs.
XMLTools: ~10% performance improvement in toJS().
ViewLoader: improved performance of repeated calls to same URL.
HTMLFLow: suppress multiple calls to same URL between page load and draw.
XML/WSDL: fixed problems of soap envelope not being generated in some cirumstances.
XML/WSDL: fixed xsi:type being generated in SOAP messages that didn't call for it.
XML/WSDL: allow complexElement and complexType definitions of the same name.
XML/WSDL: fixed subelement namespace handling: use referenced element's namespace if it refers to another element or use parent's namespace if it refers to a type.
XML/WSDL: improved compatibility with older xslt engines.
XML/WSDL: improved support for loading a WSDL service from multiple files.
XML/WSDL: fixed top-level element namespacing when loading an .xsd that would later be used with a .wsdl.
Client-side XSLT: fixed client-side XSLT processing breaking with URLs that contain anchrors in Firefox 2.0.14 (recent Firefox regression).
Drag and Drop: Improved performance of drag and drop interactions in Firefox.
Debugging: worked around bug in Firebug that resulted in incorrect stack traces output by SmartClient.
Beta support for Internet Explorer 8 (beta 1)
Support for Safari 3.1
Many documentation improvements.
This release rolls up all addendums from prior versions, recorded here.

Changes in 6.0

SmartClient now also available under the LGPLv3!
HTMLFlow: new evalScriptBlocks feature parses and evaluation include script blocks and included scripts
ResultSet: user updates are now automatically integrated into paged datasets that have partial cache, without requiring new data from the server.
SmartClient Server: Removed direct dependency on Xerces parser. As a result, if you are using JDK1.5+, you can omit the xercesImpl.jar and xml-apis.jar from your deployment. SmartClient will then use the native Java parser/serializer (or whatever is configured in your environment) to do its work.
SmartClient Server: Java DMI methods will now be passed the ServletContext and RequestContext, if they ask for it in the method signature.
SmartClient Server: Improved Java DMI error reporing.
Significant improvents in GridRenderer performance in IE7 and lesser improvements in all other browsers. This improves ListGrid, TreeGrid, and CubeGrid rendering performance.
Fixed edge case with SectionStackHeader drag-resize in some cases resizing the wrong component.
A remove operation on a clientOnly DataSource that matches no records now no longer returns an error.
DataSources marked clientOnly: true that do not specify any testData, but do specify a testFileName or dataURL will automatically fetch once against the specified URL with no criteria, then work against a local cache from there. This enables another mode of rapid prototyping.
Large, pervasive improvements in documentation.
Various Visual Builder improvements.
Fixed some edge case glitches with animation.
New APIs: ListGrid/TreeGrid.transferSelectedRecord(), transferSelectedRecords().
The optional 'data' parameter to History.addHistoryEntry() is now documented.
Improved HTMLFlow SCRIPT block parse and execute engine to accept all valid script declarations.
New API: ListGrid.getEditedCell()
Improved Plugin Bridges integration with Flash, Applets, custom plugins.
Fixed issue with Reference Docs bookmarkability in some cases.
Extensive new topic on SmartClient Skinning in the Reference Docs.
Added extensive links from Reference Docs to Feature Explorer examples
All bug fixes against previous versions posted in the Addendums have been applied to this build.

Changes in 5.7.1

Fixed context menu positioning in Safari 3.x Beta for Windows
Fixed issue with ListGrid.chartData() failing on a databound grid
Fixed issue with embedded Flash objects burning through elements positioned in front of them on the page
Added example showing how to generate a DataSource dynamically from Java Bean (see /examples/server_integration/DataSourceGenerator.java).
Fixed bug with TreeGrid animateOpen/animateClose of the root node
Fixed bug with column show/hide on a TreeGrid causing the tree field to shift unexpectedly (only happens if tree field is not the first field).
Fixed invalidation of multiple ResultSet caches on same thread causing all but the first invalidations to fail
Enhancement: accept a single node in lieu of an array as node.children in Tree
New API: DataSource.childrenField
Fixed ListGrid.removeSelectedData() not working as expected on non-databound ListGrids
Fixed issue with users being able to use Layout resizers to get into a state where the resizer is off the screen and page scrolling is inroduced.
Fixed observation breakage with Canvas.scrolled()
New APIs: ResultSet.getValueMap(), ResultSet.allMatchingRowsCached(), ResultSet.allRowsCached()
Fixed bug with SmartClient reference not correctly showing the correct entry when linked to directly.
Fixed sizing of Canvases created with Canvas.htmlElement on Moz/FF platforms
Enhancement to Reference Documentation: show attributes and methods inherited from superclasses up to, but no including Class or Canvas in all components
Support foreignKey definition pointing to another field in the same DataSource
Fixed scriptInclude transport interperting wrapping a single argument callback in an array
Enhancement: show the fully constructed URL for scriptInclude transport in the RPC tab of the Developer Console
Fixed problem with selecting items in a native select box when the values contained HTML
Enhancement: can now directly change the DataSource ID of SalesForce DataSources from the Visual Builder
New APIs: DataSource.callbackParam, OperationBinding.callbackParam
New APIs: DataSource.requestProperties, OperationBinding.requestProperties
Fixed bug with dropOnShortening not working corretly in some cases
Fixed issue with dynamic binding of TreeGrid to a new DataSource not correctly defaulting to a single tree field to match behavior of TreeGrid init with no fields
Fixed bug with XML requests containing valid, but non-ASCII tag and attribute names being incorrectly encoded for SmartClient server consumption
Enhancement: derive implicit foreignKey relationship between two datasources by finding first matching field name in lieu of an explicit foreignKey setting
Enhancement: ListGrid.fetchData()/filterData() now accepts a DynamicForm as criteria and automatically calls getValuesAsCriteria() to derive the criteria
Enhancement: Support trees being initialized with Tree.data for modelType: "children"
Fixed issues with Window.dismissOnEscape when the window had a parent element
New Kapow module: enables easy integration with the Kapow Technologies Mashup Server
Fixed issue with showing menus inside windows breaking the window's modality
Fixed DynamicForm checkboxes continuing to respond to clicks when disabled
Fixed DateChooser not defaulting to today's date when shown on an empty date field after having been moved to a different month and/or year on another field
Enancement: when RPCManager DEBUG threshold logs are enabled, automatically truncate log statements longer than 25000 bytes to avoid large data loads from freezing the browser temporarily. This limit can be removed by enabling another log category as specified in the message that warns about truncation
Fixed: missing LayoutSpacer schema.
Expanded documentation

Changes in 5.7 Final

Fixed issue with 'align:left' not working correctly if there was no icon in a button and iconAlign was set to 'right'.
Visual Builder code panes switched from Canvas to TextArea to make selection for copy and paste easier.
Fixed databound comboboxes losing data in certain edge cases.
Fixed JSTranslater loop detection logic swallowing exceptions in some cases.
Fixed ListGrid.draw() failing to poupulate the edit form properly if edit values had been set before draw.
DynamicForm.setItems() after construction could fail to apply the current form values to the new items.
Window now uses a Canvas for body instead of a Layout if the items object provided is raw HTML.
Layout: new property 'defaultLayoutAlign' - applies to all Layout members. Previously to achieve this behavior, every member had to specify a layoutAlign to override the default.
JSTranslater: when translating Maps, ignore any complex keys as they produce invalid JS.
Window: supports contentsType 'page' and 'fragment' to allow Window.src to be specified as either compelte pages or chunks (similar to HTMLPane/HTMLFLow).
Fixed RadioGroupItem/RadioItem handling of boolean keys in valueMaps.
Layout: dropLine (shown when reordering or dropping into a Layout) is now user-configurable.
Documented DateRange Validator.
Fixed Visual Builder save/load breaking on pathnames that contained spaces.
Additional functionality documented on Hover class.
XML->JS translation: <children><children> on a field with multiple=true now produces an empty array instead of an empty object with an empty array.
Fixed NPE in RPC DMI if client passed null for data.
Fixed ListGrid firing selectionChanged twice when a record was selected in single selection mode.
Fixed Hover positioning not taking its shadow size into account for auto-placement when re-shown.
Enabled XPath support for Safari 3 series (beta support)
Added more agressive caching of ResultSet filter criteria such that a more constraining filter is applied on the client instead of turning around to the server. Can be disabled with criteriaPolicy="dropOnChange" on the DataSource.
HTMLFLow: additional hooks: loadingContent() and contentLoaded()
HttpProxyServlet moved to comm.isomorphic.servlet, backcompat stub still present in com.isomorphic.tools.
Support for headerBaseStyle, headerTitleStyle at ListGridField level.
Extensive documentation on SmartClient JAR files and their dependencies in the 'Deploying SmartClient' overview topic in the reference docs.
Exception wrapping in RPC DMI and DataSource DMI moved to IDACall handleDSRequest/handlRPCRequest so that end users can override this behavior. The default behavior remains the same as before.
List.sortByProperty() now takes an additional, optional 'context' parameter that allows additional context to be passed into normalizers. Higher level constructs such as ListGrids now pass additional context to normalizers.
Additional metadata now available on RPCRequest that are DMI-mapped. RPCRequest.getAppID()/getServerObjectID()/getMethodName()/getARguments().
Support for low level dom element size matching via Canvas.htmlElement/htmlPosition/matchElement
Maked Windows can no longer be dismissed with escape keystroke.
Visual Builder: if an error occurs during load or import, warn, but make content that did load available for editing.
Visual Builder: new Import feature allows import of any XML or JS file, so long as they conform to Visual Builder parameters.
Documented ResultSet.invalidateCache()
Visual Builder: FormItem IDs now user-editable.
HibernateDataSource: fixed type='text' length > 1999 fields mapping to type 'string', thus producing fields that are too short. Now maps to type 'text'.
HibernateDatasSource: fixed add opertions breaking on dynamic datasources in some cases.
Lots and lots of new documentation system-wide.

Changes in 5.7 RC1

Fixed: calling 'setProperties' to update ListGrid.fixedRecordHeights, bodyStyleName, bodyBackgroundColor now successfully applies the updates to the rendered grid.
Fixed: avoid an error if ListGrid.validateRow() is called with a rowNum beyond the end of the list
Enhanced: support navigating through options in databound SelectItems by entering first character if the entire set of options has been loaded
New: additional filtering APIs for DataBinding: ResultSet.applyFilter(), ResultSet.initialLength, ResultSet.initialData, ResultSet.neverDropUpdatedRows, DataSource.applyFilter(), dataSource.fieldMatchesFilter()
Fixed: issue in Mozilla based browsers where setting opacity of a dynamic form could break change handling
Fixed: resolved a case where styling including large negative margins could cause page coordinates to be misreported for relatively positioned widgets
Enhanced: Additional ListGrid APIs for customizing header button appearance
Enhanced: DynamicForm.getItems()/getFields() to make fields and items more truly synonyms
Fixed: Fix for a bug where callback passed to saveAllEdits() could fire when multiple rows were being saved, some of which failed validation
Fixed: Fix for a case where hitting the Escape key during RPC requests could cause the requests to fail in Mozilla based browsers
New: DynamicForm/FormItem.selectOnFocus
Enhanced: Have editable ListGrids pick up a number of additional editor properties directly from the field definition. See the editing documentation group in the reference document
Fixed: FormItem titles now render focused state if showFocused is true for the item
Fixed: fixed a case where a child widget could be clipped by its parent even with keepInParentRect set to true
New: Canvas.showNextTo() method
New: MenuItem.action()/Button.action() methods
Fixed: resolved an issue where in some cases Layouts would fail to react to changes in member size due to content changes
Fixed: avoid an error with "isOneOf" type validators applied to fields with no specified set of valid options or vauleMap
New: new StatefulCanvas.showTitle property
Fixed: PickList.optionFilterContext is now working properly
Fixed: Fix for a case where hierachical menus could fail to display changes to their underlying tree of options
New: SelectItem/ComboBoxItem fetchData() method to fetch options for databound items
New: SelectItem/ComboBoxItem dataArrived() notification method for databound items
New: ResultSet.updateCacheFromRequest allows DSResponses to omit successfully saved data from add/update requests.
Fixed: resolved some issues with inline editing of TreeGrids
Enhanced: support for databound TreeGrid drag and drop behavior for modifying the underlying data
Enhanced: cache-sync for ResultTrees. Databound trees will now update to display changes made to the DataSource data via standard addData()/updateData()/removeData() APIs
Fixed: in some cases a Menu could be rendered offscreen after being dismissed via Escape keypress
Enhanced: various improvements to Window.maximize() / Window.restore() default behavior
Fixed: Fix for a case where Slider value labels would be hidden inappropriately in some cases
Fixed: ListGrid now behaves correctly if server does not provide a totalRows for paged results
Fixed: Calling setButtons() on the ask dialog could cause errors in some cases
Fixed: Fix for an issue where in some cases position:"relative" canvases with showEdges set to true could appear with mis-positioned edges
Enhanced: FormItem.timeFormatter added for customizing Time values displayed in fields other than TimeItems
Enhanced: ListGridField.displayFormat/inputFormat allows for consistent field-level control over display of dates and times
Enhanced: added some FormItem properties for customizing hover appearance
Fixed: minor visual "flash" when rolling over different parts of a SelectItem in some browsers
Enhanced: support for specifying dragTarget as a widget ID as well as a live widget instance
Enhanced: support for specifying tabBarControls as IDs in addition to live widget instances
Fixed: avoid a possible error if a RadioGroupItem is specified with valueMap set to ["true","false"]
Enhanced: Major improvements made to the Visual Builder tool, particularly for saving/retrieving stored SmartClient projects
New: Documented "autoChild" subsystem, used for customizing many automatically generated components.
Fixed: Resolved an issue where TabSet scrolling controls would not be written out in some cases
Enhanced: Improved support for custom handling of validation on hidden fields in DynamicForms and ValuesManagers.
Fixed: avoid an error if a FormItem is specified with colSpan:0 - treat as 1 instead.
Enhanced: support for customization of SelectItem/ComboBoxItem pickLists via pickListProperties
New: canvas.showDragShadow/dragOpacity for customizing drag appearance
Enhanced: Improved logging capabilities on SmartClient objects: object.echo, object.echoAll, object.logEchoAll
Fixed: SmartClient SQL prototyping: primaryKeys are no longer part of the values clause of a SQL Update
Enhanced: FileAssembler servlet no longer sends expires headers for URLs it intercepts
Fixed: ensure that when global servlet.compress flag set to false we don't serve compressed files even if fileAssembly.js enables compression for this URI
Enhanced: Added CSS to the list of mime types that can be compressed - affects FileDownload servlet, CompressionFilter
Fixed: Fixed loop detection logic in JSTranslater.toJS()
Fixed: JMS RealtimeMessaging provider now rebinds correctly if server goes away, then comes back up.
Fixed: CompressionFilter, could fail on some containers that did not provide a default charset
Enhanced: added setProperties() transformers to BigDecimal, BigInteger, java.sql.Date, java.sql.Time, java.sqlTimestamp
Enhanced: in setProperties(), if passed an inbound Map for a value that takes what looks like a bean, try to instantiate that type of bean using newInstance() and populate it via setProperties()
Fixed: FileAssembler could serve stale assembled file if compression was previously enabled, but subsequently turned off.
Fixed: in getValues() getValueSets(), if the operationType is remove, call through to getCriteria() getCriteriaSets(), just like we do for fetch.

Changes in 5.7b1

SmartClient 5.7b1 is a beta release - partial list of fixes and enhancements:

New: Beta level support for the Opera browser
New: Beta level support for the Safari 3.0 beta for Windows browser
New: Beta level support for the Adobe Apollo desktop runtime engine
New: Support for drag and drop of records between databound ListGrids, supporting standard ListGrid dragDataActions
New: Chart interface and FusionChart implementation, with ListGrid and CubeGrid integration
New: APIs for retrieving and setting view state (tree open nodes, selected nodes, etc) on ListGrid and TreeGrid (see ViewState group)
Enhanced: Toolstrip enhancements to allow vertical operation
New: listGridField.canToggle for one-click value changing for boolean and valueMapped fields
New: jsonPrefix/Suffix to enable easier wrapping of JSON responses to avoid spoof attacks
Fixed: server bug where using Java null as a key in a Map would be serialized as JavaScript not acceptable to IE ("null" string key in Map already OK)
Fixed: workaround for IE native bug when FileLoader loads dozens of JS files in a single FileLoader.loadJSFiles() call
Fixed: issue where saving tree nodes would pull in entire Tree datastructure
New: API DynamicForm.itemChange()
Fixed: certain special characters hanging search in documentation viewer
Fixed: simultaneous native tooltip and SmartClient hover if setProperties(prompt) called
Fixed: inability to suppress prompt on filterEditor in ListGrid
Fixed: a server bug that, with schemaless XML to JS transform, would drop the second and later elements of the same name
Enhanced: dynamic WSDL loading (loadWSDL()) now works without the SmartClient server
New: added example configuration for connectng Messaging module to Apache ActiveMQ
Enhanced: expanded documentation on component schema
Fixed: Admin Console: case where changing the default database would not update to display the new default database
Enhanced: If a layout is initialized with a null slot in the members array, log a warning message and remove the empty slot
New: support for dsRequest.useFlatHeaderFields
New: WSDL tab in developer console now allows interactive testing of WSDL services
Fixed: an issue where SpinnerItems allowed trailing alpha characters to be entered
Enhanced: Modifications to the Time class and related systems to ensure that all Time type fields are stored and retrieved as UTC timezone times rather than local times. Avoids the need to adapt time values to browser locale
Enhanced: MenuButtons now hilite the access key by default
Fixed: disallow editing of fields marked as disabled in a ListGrid.
Fixed: bug where relogin dialog could fail to be displayed after session timeout in Internet Explorer on HTTPS sites using document.domain
Enhanced: expanded documentation of properties used to customize ListGrid headers
New: implemented additional ListGrid styling control via ListGridField.baseStyle, ListGrid.recordBaseStyleProperty
New: exposed FormItem.form - read only property to access a FormItem's dynamicForm.
Fixed: an issue whereby user could not reliably tab through toolbar buttons on the SmartClient ask / warn dialogs.
New: support for customizing the cursors applied to the SplitBar class
New: troubleshooting documentation covering the most common issues arising during SmartClient installation.
Fixed: Internet Explorer-only bug whereby list grid editing focus could unexpectedly be taken from the edit field in some cases.
New: class RestDataSource provides cookbook integration with generic back ends (Ruby, PHP, Perl, etc) using XML or JSON communication over HTTP.
New: exposed various advanced properties on the Class class which apply to expanding the SmartClient class system, including class.init() class.addPropertiesOnCreate
Fixed: bug where a Canvas could be mis-detected as having been explicitly sized by the end user if setOverflow() was called with certain timing
Fixed: bug where the view could not be automatically detected by a ViewLoader if the last created component auto-created peers
Fixed: problem where getters and setters would not be automatically shown in documentation viewer
New: ListGrid method 'focusInFilterEditor([fieldName])' to focus in the filter editor for a field (if showing)
New: system helper methods isc.sortObject() and isc.sortObjectByProperties() for sorting javascript objects by key or property values.
Fixed: case where old views would not be hidden in response to viewLoader.setViewURL()
Fixed: issue in the ListGrid whereby if leaveScrollbarGap was set to false, when scrollbars were hidden, the space used by the scrollbar would not always be reclaimed
New: publicly supported APIs DynamicForm.setValueMap() and ListGrid.setValueMap() for updating the valueMap of fields at runtime
New: methods 'fetchData()' and 'filterData()' on the DynamicForm and ValuesManager class. Allows the developer to perform a fetch and display the first record returned in the editor
New: API LinkItem.linkTitle
Fixed: a number of minor platform-specific ListGrid inline editing bugs
New / Enhanced: Menus now support items and setItems() as synonyms of data and setData()
Fixed: a number of minor platform-specific ListGrid inline editing bugs
Fixed: JavaScript error that could be caused by modifying the size of certain Layout widgets
Enhanced/Fixed: TabIndex management improvements
Enhanced: Reference Documentation expanded and improved
Fixed: updating titles of SmartClient ask and warn dialgos
Fixed: CubeGrid facet drag reordering in column headers could error out depending on mouse position on drop
Enhanced: StretchImgButtons.wrap property applied to button titles
Fixed: SectionStack.setSectionTitle() could fail to update the title in certain SectionStacks
Fixed: SpinnerItems would allow trailing non-numeric characters to be entered
Fixed: Format of values from SelectItems with multiple specified as true when committed to the server now matches format of native HTML multiple select items.
New / Enhanced: New ListGrid attributes recordBaseStyleProperty and recordCustomStyleProperty allow for greater control of per-record styling.
Fixed (platform-specific): FormItem.setDisabled(false); could leave items inaccessable in some cases
New: Standard "mustBeExactLength" error message for lengthRange validators where max and min values match
New / Enhanced: New filter-editor related APIs: ListGrid.filterOnKeypress and ListGrid.filterByFilterEditor()
Enhanced: Improved support and documentation for dateFormatter (may be applied to ListGrids / ListGridFields or FormItems
Enhanced: WSDL schema viewer in the developerConsole now allows interactive tests of WSDL services and generates sample requests and responses.
Enhanced: Safari support for Messaging (server push) and limited support for XPath selection
New: Tab.canClose and Tab.canCloseTabs properties
New: Support for ListGridField.icon
New: Support for Button.iconClick
Enhanced: isOneOf type validators pick up any specified valueMap as the set of valid options by default.
Enhanced: comboBoxItem pickLists now auto-size to their content by default
Enhanced: Enforcing item.length limits for textual data in all form item types, not just TextItems
Enhanced: Improved and expanded localization APIs and documentation
Enhanced: Various documentation updates and additions, including HTTPProxy installation, clarifications on Skinning
New / Enhanced: support for dataSource.schemaNamespace
New / Enhanced: support for new dataSource / operationBinding dataProtocol settings "postXML" vs "postMessage"
New: Added RPC tab to the Developer Console for improved RPC debugging
Enhanced: Improved handling of optionDataSource, displayField and valueField on FormItems and ListGrid fields.
New: Window APIs dismissOnEscape and shouldDismissOnEscape()
Fixed / Enhanced: Text based form items where changeOnKeypress is true now fire change handlers in response to context menu cut/paste
Enhanced: Support for building Hibernate dataSources in the dataSource wizard (visual builder application)
New: isc.showLoginDialog() API to handle complete login flow
New: ComboBoxItem.showAllOptions attribute
Enhanced: APIs for finer control of accessKey hiliting in button title
Enhanced: Improved support for menu fields
New: Server side support for JDK 1.6
Enhanced: SDK embedded servlet engine updated to Tomcat 5.5. Note that Java SDK is no longer required to run the embedded server.
Enhanced: Numerous skinning improvements

Changes in 5.6 Final

Major new documentation on Visual Builder and XML component usage
RichTextItem documented and exposed, examples added
DataSource Wizard added to Visual Builder
Ability to save multiple files in Visual Builder
New "Extending" folder in Feature Explorer with several examples
New Hibernate and Spring examples and docs
New SalesForce module with source code, used as an extensive WSDL binding example
Separated out Visual Builder palette data to allow customization
New isc.askForValue() built-in Dialog, similar to window.prompt()

Changes in 5.6b3

New / enhanced documentation areas: custom SimpleTypes, WSDL binding, useFlatFields schema flattening, TreeGrid load on demand, comboBox custom filtering, XML schema chaining, custom drag trackers
Enhanced: listGridField.optionDataSource can now be used to fetch valueMaps from other DataSources dynamically
Enhanced: listGrid/treeGrid.dragTrackerMode now offers several different drag appearances
Fixed httpProxy URL hardcoding
Fixed issues with cross-file references from WSDL<->XML Schema files loaded at different times
Enhanced: ViewLoader and HTMLPane can now use HTTPProxy from cross-domain content loading
Enhanced: canvas.hoverWrap for controlling wrapping in hovers
Enhanced: new XMLTools.xmlSerialize() API
Enhanced: support for cross-domain relogin
Enhanced: new API FormItem.changed() fires *after* a change has been committed
Enhanced: better DMI error reporting
Enhanced: DynamicForm now uses StaticTextItem whenever field.canEdit is false, not just for selected data types
Fixed escaping of special chars in History entry titles
Enhanced: ComboBox now has filterClientPickListData() override point for customized filtering and display rules
Fixed inability to title first history entry in IE
Enhanced: listGrid.getEditValue() and similar methods now get latest user-entered when called on current edit cell
Fixed JS error resizing contentsType:"page" HTMLFlow before draw
Fixed JS error possible when LayoutSpacer was last in a Layout (introduced in beta2)
Fixed native text drag selection allowed in some form elements in FireFox
Enhanced: DynamicForm/ValuesManager.setValues() now automatically handles an Array (uses first member if Object)
Fixed ListGrid.startEditingNew wiping local datasets when DataBound
Enhanced: ValuesManager.addMember()/removeMember() now takes String ID
Enhanced: ValuesManager now warned about mismatched member form DataSource settings
Fixed CubeGrid facetValue drag and drop issue when using raw Numbers as facetValueIds
Fixed XML datetime parsing expecting exactly 3 digits for milliseconds
Fixed hanging a drag by mousing up outside the Window (IE only)
Fixed spurious error messages for isColor validation and other non-error XML transform cases
Enhanced: Shortened XML messages for SOAP services by sharing namespace prefix definitions
Fixed issues with tabIndex auto-assignment for multiple forms being added and removed from Layouts
Fixed large margins causing click to not be fired in certain deeply nested components in FireFox/Safari
Fixed spurious errors for private properties when serializing Java Beans
Fixed titleOrientation:"top" causing some form layouts to overflow
Fixed warning/alert dialogs being able to be dragged offscreen
Enhanced: can now explicitly mark a SectionStack section or section.item resizeable
Fixed deprecation flag sticking in SmartClient Reference
Enhanced: SectionStack headers and other widgets now respond to two rapid click as two distinct clicks instaed of a double click, which would no-op
Fixed JS error when hand-instantiating a ResultSet with a String value for resultSet.dataSource
Fixed bugs handling XML Schema xs:extensions (XML Schema inheritance)
Enhanced: ToolStrip now has built-in separators and resizers
Fixed avoid spurious drag scrolling (eg drag scrolling triggered by dragging a scrollbar thumb of another widget)
Fixed bug where manual calls to listGrid.validateCell() would not clear old errors
Fixed dateTime values being sent in local time with some servers

Changes in 5.6b2

History module - in IE only you can now set the title of the history entry by passing a title to addHistoryEntry() and/or setting one via setHistoryTitle().
Automatically apply an isOneOf validator on fields of type "enum"
Drag reorder indicator now shown in all skins
Fixed CubeGrid facet height not auto-adapting on h-resize.
Support right-collapsing resize bars via resizeBarTarget: "next"
Fixed erroneous introduction of scrollbars into IFRAME created by HTMLFlow/HTMLPane when (contentsType is "page")
Menus whose overflow previously exceeded browser height (and made selection of some items impossible without a scroll wheel) now size to the browser height and automatically introduce scrollbars.
Fixed TabSet.updateTab() erroring out in some cases if called before component is drawn.
Fixed VLayout limiting scrolling when a LayoutSpacer was present at the end.
Fixed Shift-F10 keyboard shortcut showing context menu on the wrong element in some cases.
Isomorphic web.xml files now comply with strict dtd verifiers (for Geronimo)
Improvements in web service binding compatibility
Numberous ListGrid inline edit, validation API fixes, updates.
Update APIs and docs for ListGrid.getFieldState()/setFieldState()
Fixed Developer Console sometimes truncating logs on reconnect to main window (introduced in 5.5b1)
Don't bother trying to call non-public methods (bean introspection) in DataTools.getProperties(). Harmless, but generated bogus errors.
RPCRequest.paramsOnly deprecated in favor of useSimpleHttp. Old property still supported for backompat. Also fixed RPCRequest.params being dropped on a POST if RPCRequest.data was also specified.
Improvements to Layout Drag and Drop interactions.
Various documentation fixes.

Changes in 5.6b1

SmartClient 5.6b1 is a beta release - partial list of fixes and enhancements:

isc.FL alias for isc.FileLoader
Ascending/descending images in TreeGrid skins were reversed in some skins. Fixed.
Added default edge media for skins other than SmartClient.
FileDownload configuration - added default expiration for mimeType image/x-icon: 1day
Added collapse indicator on all Layout resize bars.
Fixed some pickLists overflowing offscreen, introducing page-level scrolling.
Improved stack trace reporting in IE7
Fixed problem with Window maximize/minimize inside Layouts.
Improved support for the Window.src attribute
New API: RPCmanager/RPCRequest.promptStyle and related attributes.
Improved i18n documentation - making it easier to determine localizeable strings in SmartClient components.
New SmartClient module: History - supports synthetic history creation and navigation via back/forward browser buttons and direct history navigation in IE, Firefox.
Various reference documentation fixes.
Fixed certain kinds of links in the reference documentation view not working.
Fixed TreeGrid dragTracker disappearing when dragged node had no icon.
New APIs: ListGrid.getFieldState(),setFieldState(),fieldStateChanged()
Added extensive documentation on performance optimization techniques. See Optional Modules->Network Performance and sub-topics in the reference docs.
New API: isc.clone()
Added example of integration with Hibernate and associated documentation in reference docs.
Ensure that all DSResponse records go through valueXPath interpolation when returned via the Java RPCManager class.
Embedded HSQLDB bumped to latest release version (1.8.7).
DataSource DMI: provide DSRequest criteria as bean binding to target method if DSRequest values are null.
Fixed TabSet.getSelectedTabNumber() reporting incorrect tab if new tabs were dynamically inserted before the currently selected tab.
Significant usability, stability improvements to Visual Builder tool.
Improvent to TreeGrid spring-loaded folders: allow spring-loading even if the current drop target will not accept a drop of the currently dragged data.
Fixed keyboard navigation of Menus not starting at first menu item in certain circumstances.
New API: ListGrid.autoSaveEdits and other multi-row edit properties.
Support page setting document.domain. This case is automatically detected, no configuration is necessary.
Support keyboard navigation on a closed, databound select iff all data is loaded.
New API: TreeGrid.canDropOnLeaves().
Fixed bug in ListGrid.cellHasChanges() side-effecting submitted values in certain circumstances.
Callback supplied to ListGrid.saveEdits() now fired on validation failure and takes additional params.
Added additional styling options to DateChooser.
Various SelectItem/PickList fixes.
Various ListGrid inline editing fixes.
Fixed ListGrid.showField()/hideField() called before draw() would produce incorrect result.
Fixed xmlNamespaces specified on DataSource operationBinding not being respected.
Fixed slide/wipe animations of members with showEdges: true inside Layouts.
Fixed single-section SectionStack having first section forced open even if it was explicitly marked expanded: false.
DMI configuration - When serverConfig specifies lookupType="factory", the create() method of the factory is now dynamically passed the serverConfig configuration as a Map. This allows you to to retrieve custom attributes of the serverConfig object.
Tab scroller menu on TabSet had problems with long tab names. Fixed.
Fixed rendering issues with ComboBox icons.

Changes in 7.0