ActiveWidgets 3 early preview

ActiveWidgets 3.0 will be released before the end of the year and I have put online a small preview of the new code. No sources yet, just a small demo -

http://www.activewidgets.com/demo/3p1/grid.htm

The key features of the coming version -

The complete set of controls, including menus, toolbars, panels, dialogs etc., basically it should have every component you need to build a typical CRUD application.

Layouts, docking, forms to assemble the components into functional application views.

Templates. Very fast, self-updating, and used from the bottom up to build the components themselves.

Define the whole UI in a JSON structure (i.e. constructor config) or use compact jQuery-like API with chaining, change events and automatic DOM sync.

Very fast datagrid with smooth 60fps scrolling (using GPU acceleration, new CSS3 stuff etc.)

IE8+ in standards mode

Running side-by-side with AW 2 (no conflicts when loaded on the same page).

I am expecting beta at the end of the summer - by that time the docs, tutorials and samples should be available. For now it is just a small demo, and I will be posting more during the next weeks.

Alex,

I am very pleased you are continuing your work on this fine product and I know this question may be a little premature.

Will existing applications / code require a rewrite to run under v3 when released?

Thanks,

Alex,

That's great news.

The demo is very impressive - I'm looking forward to v3.

Thanks for all your efforts.

Justin

Excellent!

Alex,
Please make sure to keep back compat
Otherwise would a show stopper for upgrade - too much code deployed in production ...
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Love it!!

Keep up the good work Alex... looking forward to seeing the end result..

Wow this is wonderful news. Keep up the good work!

good work

Hi Alex,

Any news on a release date for AW3 ??

I am very keen to see it...

Thanks

Jez

Dear Alex,

Can you think of including following items :

1. Paging up/down in grid on key UP/Down movement with Ajax. It is expected that the data which is not seen in visible area of grid should not be fetched. It should be taken as and when PgUp/PgDn keys are entered.

2. Filter criteria on columns is missing compared to other products in the markets

3. Column order should be able to change and saved. It means column swapping or re-ordering.

4. Printing of Grid content with Print button is going to be very much useful

5. Active widget on mobile and tablets should be lighter component.

6. Do you have any plan for making it perform faster in Stock trading products where no of rows would be very high and needed very quick update.

7. Pagination should be another item that can be looked into

Will AW3 support composite or embedded controls?

Yes, there will be composite controls in AW3. I am going to release the next preview version during the next week.

I Alex

we already have the release 2.0 and would like to migrate to 2.6.4
and then to 3.0

What do you suggest us, should we wait the new release 3.0 until the end of this year or going with 2.6.4 right now?

thanks
Adrian

I would suggest going with 2.6.4 right now. As for the new version 3.0 it is better to wait until it is fully stable, and this will take some time (definitely not there yet).