Sotacs Tapestry Components / News: Recent posts

upgraded to Tap 4.1.1 bug 1704968 fixed
AjaxTextField is compatible with 4.1.1 now.

To achieve compatibility witn both 4.0.x and 4.1.x
ServiceLink support in NavigationBar had to be disabled. This is due to incompatiple API changes from 4.0 to 4.1

DynamicImage : Bug 1660518 was fixed (thanks to Julio C. Rivera)

DynamicImage :
An API was added to generate image maps with tooltips. It is also possible to add both JavaScript and/or DirectLink events to the map areas. Illustrating examples of image maps have also been added to DynamicImage

NavigationBar :
1) New parameter 'encoding' introduced. Fixes the problem that non-ascii characters have not been interpreted correctly by the caching mechanism.

2) Menu intialization is performed inmediately after inserting the menu in the page. This makes menues appear more quickly when they are loaded. Before this, the menues appeared at the end of page loading.... read more

some bugs in the example web app fixed

updated to ehcache1.2.3 which supports automaic expiration of elements now.
Caching id more effective and it is no longer necesary to provide idleTime in the ehcache config file.

NavigationBar full cachable now. Very small generated HTML.
Caching even on the browser boosts performance

There's a new component: NavigationBar is a sophisticated JavaScript powered hierarchical navigation sidebar, that displays it's items vertically.
Subfolders open and close expanding/collapsing the menu.
Model by API or XML.
Freely layoutable. Static preview HTML is turned into mouse-over highighted, selection-marked menu on the client. Folders open/close with JavaScript.

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