What's New in Wijmo 2017 and Earlier

Check out the features and updates in Wijmo's historical releases from 2017 and earlier.

Wijmo Build 5.20173.409 - February 13, 2018

Build 409 has released. It includes a rolled-back fix for input buttons that resulted in making the input controls slightly oversized. It also includes a new, better fix for input buttons. We apologize for any inconvenience this introduced. We also included an enhancement to smooth scrolling on MacOS.

Notice: Wijmo 3 is now a Separate Download

As of build 409, we have removed Wijmo 3 from our Wijmo Enterprise download. The vast majority of our customers are using only Wijmo Core. So in order to make the Wijmo Enterprise download smaller, we removed Wijmo 3. To our loyal Wijmo 3 customers: not to worry, Wijmo 3 is still available to download separately! And Wijmo Enterprise still includes a license granting you the right to use Wijmo 3.

New TreeMap Control

Wijmo New TreeMap Control

TreeMap is a control for displaying hierarchical data using nested rectangles. Each branch of the tree is given a rectangle, which is then tiled with smaller rectangles representing sub-branches. A leaf node’s rectangle has an area proportional to a specified dimension of the data. Often the leaf nodes are colored to show a separate dimension of the data.

Angular 4, TypeScript 2.2 and More Interop

Wijmo continues to our commitment to releasing support for Angular and other interops. We recently expanded to support Angular 4. We also upgraded wijmo to support TypeScript 2.2. Angular resources Beyond that, we have also added external module support for loading wijmo components in different frameworks. We have released two samples to demonstrate this in React and VueJS as well.

Breaking Changes

[React] itemsSource property of Wijmo components is updated now each time when React updates component bindings. Because of this, if binding expression returns a new array or CollectionView each time it's called, even if it contains the same data (e.g. function getData { return [1, 2, 3]; }), you may get weird effects in some controls, and even get a "Stack overflow" exception, because controls detects a different data source by comparing references to the current and the new data source instances, and refreshes control if references are different. You should make sure that binding expression returns the same instance of an array or a CollectionView, until a new instance is really required by the application logic.
In previous versions of the FlexGrid, users had to click the *first* cell in the top-left panel to select the whole grid. In new versions, clicking *any* cell in the top-left panel will select the whole grid.
The default behavior of the Tab key when the FlexGrid has the focus has changed. By default, the Tab key cycled through the grid cells (Excel style). The new default behavior is to let the browser cycle through the elements on the page (to improve accessibility). You can revert to the old behavior by setting the new keyActionTab property to wijmo.grid.KeyAction.Cycle.

Change Log

Added two new properties to improve FlexGrid keyboard accessibility: keyActionTab and keyActionEnter. These properties allow you to customize the behavior of special keys so the grid becomes more accessible or more compatible with Excel.
Added a new property to improve FlexGrid screen-reader accessibility: rowHeaderPath. If provided, this property specifies the name of a binding to use as a provider of 'row header' accessibility values. If not provided, most readers will use the content of the first visible column as the row header.
Reduced code size of the Angular, React and Vue2 interops.
The AngularJS Benchmark sample has been updated to the latest versions of vendor libraries.
Added a TreeView.loadTree method to rebuild the tree after making changes to the itemsSource array.
Added a new PivotField.sortComparer property to allow customization of the sort order in dimension fields. This is similar to the CollectionView's sortComparer property, except it applies to pivot dimensions (grid headers) as opposed to measures (summary data).
[FlexGridPdfConverter] added support for PivotGrid.
Added several new properties to make the Calendar control more customizable: formatYearMonth, formatDayHeaders, formatDays, formatYear, and formatMonths. All these properties represent format strings used to format different parts of the Calendar in month and year view.
Added time zone offset date format parts ('z', 'zz', 'zzz') to Globalize.formatDate.
Added a new FlexGrid.itemValidator property to improve validation support, especially for unbound grids (bound grids can be validated using the CollectionView.getError property which provides the same functionality).
[Wijmo5 Mvc][FlexViewer]Internet error displays after running different report quickly in "FlexViewerExplorer" sample. (TFS 257523)
FlexGrid exports the default border and style of merged cell to xlsx incorrectly.
[ReportViewer][PdfViewer] ReportViewer and PdfViewer are partially localized when setting Cultures. (TFS 258374)

Wijmo Build 5.20153.109 - December 10, 2015

Improved Globalize to support formatting of fiscal years and quarters with the following format specifiers:
- 'EEEE': government fiscal year
- 'eeee': corporations fiscal year
- 'U': government fiscal quarter
- 'u': corporations fiscal quarterThe conversion from calendar to fiscal date is culture-dependent. If you are not using the appropriate culture file (and don't want to), then you can specify the conversion factor by setting the wijmo.culture.Globalize.calendar.fiscalYearOffset variable to an array containing two integers that represent the offset (in months) of the start of the fiscal year for government and for the private sector. For example, the Japanese culture uses a three month offset for the government's fiscal year and no offset for the private sector: wijmo.culture.Globalize.calendar.fiscalYearOffsets = [3, 0];
Added support for Japanese characters (IME, Katakana, Hiragana) in InputMask control.
Added automatic label rotation for category x-axis. The labels are rotated to avoid overlapping if axis.labelAngle is not specified.
Improved CollectionView.trackChanges to allow tracking of changes made to items that are not the current edit item. The most common scenario is pasting blocks of data into a FlexGrid.
Improved FlexGrid.childItemsPath property to accept arrays of strings in case items at different levels use different property names for their child items.
Changed the default value of the InputTime.step property to 15 (which seems to be the most common/useful setting). This causes the control to display the drop-down button by default; to remove the button, set the step property to null.
Added support for opening FlexGrid.dataMap dropdowns using the keyboard (F4, alt+up/down, like WinForms and WPF/Excel)
Improved the Control.dispose method to remove all Wijmo event listeners from the control being disposed (dispose also removes all HTML event listeners added with the Control.addEventListener method).
Added a DropDown.autoExpandSelection property that determines whether input controls should automatically select whole words/numbers when clicked. This applies to all controls that derive from DropDown, and makes it easier to edit dates, times, colors, etc.
Added a ComboBox.headerPath property that allows decoupling the values shown in the combo's input element from the values shown in the drop-down list.
Added five new glyphs to wijmo.css:
- wj-glyph-step-forward
- wj-glyph-step-backward
- wj-glyph-file
- wj-glyph-calendar
- wj-glyph-clock
The FlexGridXlsxConverter class adds support for row headers export. The behavior is controlled by the IFlexGridXlsxExportOptions.includeRowHeaders property.
Improved InputMask handling of delete key with masks that contain numbers in the template (e.g. "99-55-9999").
Added FlexGrid.selectedRows and selectedItems properties. Both can be used to get a list with the currently selected rows or their associated data items. When the selectionMode property is set to ListBox, they can also be used to set the selected rows or data items.
Refactored wijmo.grid.filter.FlexGrid filter by removing the OData-specific getODataFilterDefinition method and replacing it with a call to the collection view's updateFilterDefinition method; which if present updates the filter definition used on the server-side. This refactoring allows other CollectionView implementations (such as BreezeCollectionView) to support server-side filtering.
Improved BreezeCollectionView sample to show server-side filtering.
Added a FlexGrid.showAlternatingRows property to allow disabling alternate row styling without changing any CSS rules.
Added a FlexGrid.updatedView that fires when the grid finishes creating/updating the cell elements for the current view (e.g. after binding, refreshing, resizing, scrolling, etc.)
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