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Apache Royale 0.9.12

  • MXRoyaleBase

    • Added missing mx.messaging.Producer to MXML manifest.
    • Ensure that SecureHTTPChannel, AMFChannel, and SecureAMFChannel are included in SWC.

  • Fixed broken download locations for playerglobal.swc and Adobe AIR SDK in InstallAdobeSDKs.xml script.

  • Compiler and command line tools now require Java 11 or newer to run.

Apache Royale 0.9.10

  • RoyaleUnit

    • Added BDD-style expect() method for natural language assertions
    • Added a number of new asserts, including checks for NaN, less than, greater than, less or equal, greater or equal, within range, is of type, throws exception, and matches regular expression.

  • Emulation

    • Various bug fixes ...

  • Jewel

    • Various bug fixes ...

Apache Royale 0.9.9

-MXRoyale

  • MXRoyale has been split 2 libs : MXRoyaleBase (mostly non-UI code) and MXRoyale (mostly UI code). Users of MXRoyale should see no immediate changes as the build of this swc remains the same.
  • Listen to children's resize events to fix some layout issues
  • Various fixes to measured sizes (ComboBox, and other UI components)
  • Fixes to labels in item renderers not displaying correctly
  • ComboBox prompt fixes
  • ArrayCollection.refresh() updating lists
  • Various fixes to labels in item renderers not showing correctly
  • Add option to add custom header renderers to data grids
  • Fix issues with Menu.show() when receiving non-null parent arguments
  • Improve emulation of ADG's expand/collapse behavior

-SparkRoyale

  • ComboBox sizing improvements

-Basic

  • Improvements to DragBead's out of bounds behavior

-RoyaleUnit

  • Fix coercion error in MetadataRunner when expecting an exception in a test, like [Test(expected="RangeError")]

-Reflection

  • getQualifiedSuperclassName() can find the superclass of a Class object in JS, matching the behavior of SWF

-Examples

  • Ace example running in Maven
  • Added Jewel TriStateCheckBox example in Tour De Jewel

-Jewel

  • Improved:
    • Added emphasized and secondary sass settings for Jewel CheckBox / Switch
  • New:
    • Added Jewel TriStateCheckBox and some associated beads: TriStateCheckBoxTooltipState, TriStateCheckBoxState
    • Added ComboBoxReadOnly bead

-Icons

  • Icon constants have been added to MaterialIconType and FontAwesome5IconType

Apache Royale 0.9.8

  • Core

  • Added getClassStyle function that gets an Object with all styles in a CSS className.

  • Basic

    • Move getParentEventTarget() from EventDispatcher to UIBase to reduce required dependencies. This allows EventDispatcher to be used in non-GUI contexts, such as Node.js.
    • UIBase: added loadBeads hook method
    • Added BrowserResizeListener bead that listen for browser resizing and resizes a component accordingly. The old bead was renamed to "BrowserResizeApplicationListener"
    • StyledUIBase & ClassSelectorListSupport: added replaceClass method
    • Added ILabelFunction and LabelFunction bead
    • Added LayoutChildren: A bead to trigger the layout in children. Added support in StyledLayoutBase.
    • Added interfaces for better extension in Basic and Jewel: IColumns, ITableModel, ITableView, ITextButton, IPaddings, IPositioning
    • Paddings: New bead to add padding in mxml to a component
    • Positioning: New bead to add positioning in mxml to a component
    • Add SelectionDataItemRendererFactoryForCollectionView to handle ISelectionModel for components that uses selection and add/remove/update items at runtime.

  • RoyaleUnit

    • Fixed issue where CIListener incorrectly escaped quotes in messages.
    • Better error messages when [BeforeClass] or [AfterClass] is detected, but the method is not found by reflection.

  • Jewel

    • ASDocs: multiple refactors in many components to document and describe components better.
    • Item Renderers
      • Refactor to make Basic Layout the default (horizontal was the default).
      • Initializers now use new Paddings bead. Create a default if one is not found.
      • Remove the minimum height of 34px, so we can have renderers with less height.
    • New BinaryImage component.
    • Card:
      • New CardExpandedContent: Used for content like navigation bars that need to avoid padding.
    • Button, CheckBox, RadioButton:
      • add "spanLabel" to separate the text from other decorations like icons and get more control over styling.
    • Image: added "loadComplete" event.
      • New ClipImage bead for images to allow clipping.
      • New ErrorImage beads.
    • Added SimpleLoader component that shows an indeterminate spin circle.
    • DataContainer
      • dataProvider is now the DefaultProperty.
    • List
      • Added label function through beads.
      • New ListAlternateRowColor bead (should be temporary until we get nth-child css styles working in compiler)
      • dataProvider is now the DefaultProperty.
      • Fixes on SearchFilterForList.
    • ComboBox:
      • Fixed sizing issues
      • Improved speed of opening a popup.
      • New ComboBoxItemByField bead that lets you select an item by field.
      • dataProvider is now the DefaultProperty.
      • Add item renderer support at mxml (TLC) level.
      • Fixes to SearchFilter.
    • DateField:
      • Fixed sizing issues.
    • TabBar:
      • Multiple refactors to decouple functionality in beads and make renderers more flexible. Now we allow vertical layoutss and indicators in renderers can be positioned in different places.
      • Add "sameWidths" to make all buttons share the same width.
      • dataProvider is now the DefaultProperty.
    • Table
      • Refactored to get better scrolling and fixed header.
      • Added label function through beads.
      • New TableAlternateRowColor bead.
      • Solved RTE when setting columns at runtime.
      • Added Initializer.
      • New TableAlternateRowColor bead (should be temporary until we get nth-child css styles working in the compiler)
      • Removed CRUD beads and added new CRUDTableItemRendererFactoryForCollectionView.
    • DataGrid
      • Multiple fixes in column dimensions to allow more configurations.
      • Added sorting through DataGridSortBead.
      • Added swapping of columns.
      • Added label function through beads.
      • dataProvider is now the DefaultProperty.
      • Added item renderer support at mxml (TLC) level.
    • PresentationModels refactor for List and DataGrid based controls to allow more flexibility.
    • NumericStepper:
      • Fixed sizing issues.
    • New responsive beads: ResponsiveSize, ResponsiveResizeListener and ResponsiveLabelVisibility.
    • New TileHorizontalLayout and TileVerticalLayout beads.
    • New ViewLayout for View.
    • Removed Jewel ControlBar since it was just an HGroup.
    • Jewel Themes:
      • Lots of changes to accommodate the rest of component development and fixes in Jewel.
      • Added fluid text sizing responsiveness, so size of text shrinks or grows depending on device to fit on different screens.
    • Start of VirtualDataGrid component (still has some issues).

  • Collections

    • ArrayList.length now is bindable.

  • Maven Distribution: The distributions built by Maven should now be equivalent to those of the Ant build.

  • Maven Archetypes:

    • Updated royale-simple-application-archetype
    • Nw royale-jewel-application-archetype.
    • New royale-jewel-module-application-archetype.
    • New royale-jewel-crux-application-archetype

Apache Royale 0.9.7

  • Reflection support improved (supports access to custom namespaces) including improved utility methods
  • Added a 'getTimer' emulation to Core library, similar to 'flash.utils.getTimer'
  • added [RoyaleArrayLike] implementation support to Royale Collections, and BinaryData
  • improvements to XML/E4X conformance, and memory footprint
  • General improvements in Bindings, including function bindings
  • Added new Router classes
  • Added AMFLocalStorage, a javascript version of the Flash runtime LSO (Local Shared Object)
  • Added new ItemRendererInitializer bead infrastructure to decouple better item renderers functionality
  • Added ToolTipRemovalWhenItemRemoved for renderers that use tooltips.
  • Fix bin/mxmlc and bin/compc scripts that did not understand certain default compiler options in royale-config.xml
  • Crux:
    • Improved:
      • Crux can now be used in MXRoyale and SparkRoyale applications
    • New:
      • Added support for using Command pattern to Crux
      • Added Documentation in royale-docs site
  • Graphics:
    • New:
      • Added new high-parity swf graphics emulation (UIGraphicBase)
  • Jewel:
    • Improved:
      • Massive refactors and improvements
      • Hierarchy improved in many Jewel framework branches to make StyleUIBase the base of all components and unify APIs.
      • StyleUIBase now improve width and height, so we can use NaN values to unset values. For JS this means return to default values.
      • Card: Added new subcomponents (CardHeader, CardTitle, CardPrimaryContent and CardActions)
      • Button: Added new unboxed and outlined styles (also to IconButton and ToggleButton)
      • CheckBox and RadioButton now can size the icon part
      • ComboBox can now configure custom renders and supports rowCount, and fixed percent width. Also, popup adapts to data provider length.
      • List supports now variableRowHeight, scrollToIndex and can be navigated with arrow cursors (up/down)
      • Item Renderer: Use the new Initializer infrastructure
      • Remove mappers to rely on basic ones, also remove CRUD beads (Add, Remove and Update item beads)
      • Layouts, Group and Container supports variableRowHeight
      • Layouts many fixes and improvements in alignment, and now children dispatch a "sizeChanged"
      • Viewport and ScrollingViewport refactor. Viewport has now clipContent so Container can activate/deactivate
      • added tabindex in many components and to Disabled bead (=-1)
      • Prompt beads now support changes at runtime
      • TabBar: fix AssignTabContent bead when change dataProvider
      • Jewel Themes was updated to show many visual improvements in colors and styles. Flat and Light themes are almost finished. Still Dark themes are work in progress.
      • Tour De Jewel was updated to show all the latest updates
    • New:
      • Runtime Theme Switch. Can be seen working in Tour De Jewel
      • StyledUIBase now adds min and max width and height properties.
      • Added VSlider. The original Slider is now HSlider.
      • Added Paddings bead
      • Added VContainer and HContainer for clipped content
      • Added DataGrid
      • Added ButtonBar
      • Added ComboBoxTruncateText
      • Added DrawerFooter
      • Added VirtualList and VirtualComboBox to load huge amounts of data in a performant way
      • New colors for text and icons (lightest, light, normal, dark and darkest)
      • Added Jewel TodoMVC and TodoMVC with Crux examples following the TodoMVC website guidelines. Also added more blog examples.
  • Icons
    • Refactored classes IIcon classes to support more icons sets
    • Added FontAwesome v5 support (also v4)
    • Icons now support Material and FontAwesome (more sets can be added)
  • SVG:
    • Fixed SVGImage when using Maven
  • Network:
    • Improved:
      • URLLoader now respects contentType passed in via URLRequest.
    • New:
      • Added URLVariables emulation
  • MXRoyale:
    • Improved:
    • New:
      • mx.net.SharedObjectJSON - new alternative
  • Maven:
    • Massive improvements
    • Now Maven can generate a valid distribution (SDK) to use in any IDE (tested on VSCode and Moonshine)
    • distribution can be JS only
    • SASS generation is now separated from main build to a profile to save lots of time when no need to build themes
  • RoyaleUnit:
    • [Test(async)] may be used to define asynchronous tests
    • [BeforeClass] and [AfterClass] metadata must be added to static methods
    • [Test] metadata supports an 'expected' attribute to expect a thrown exception
    • Fixed incorrect order of expected and actual values in assert messages
  • RoyaleUnitUI: An optional UI to display the results of RoyaleUnit tests
  • Dozens of bugs reported, investigated, and squashed. For details of closed bug reports see GitHub Issues list.

Updates to the RELEASE_NOTES made after this file was packaged into the release artifacts can be found here:

https://github.com/apache/royale-asjs/wiki/Release-Notes-0.9.7

Apache Royale 0.9.6

  • Compiles faster.
  • For applications targeting JavaScript, you can now incorporate the vast resources available in existing, free JavaScript libraries.
  • Many additional components are available:
    • for the Jewel component set, Wizard, PopUp, TabBar, Module, ModuleLoader, FooterBar, Badge, ScrollableSectionContent, and HorizontalListScroll are now available.
  • Emulations of many other components are available.
  • Many improvements and fixes in the Jewel component set:
    • Full implementation of DateField/DateChooser.
    • Components now work correctly on IE11 and on Android/iOS mobile devices.
    • Many improvements to all themes, such as styles for new components and a disabled style that was missing in some components.
    • Many beads have been added for Jewel components:
      • Search filter bead on Jewel ComboBox
      • SearchFilterForList bead to use with Jewel List and TextInput
      • RequiredSelection for DropDownList
    • Improvements to focus handling.
    • Button now extends from new BasicButton.
  • Many improvements on Tour De Jewel demo app to show components and beads introduced in this version.
  • Added BrowserOrientation bead.
  • Added loadCSS, to load external CSS dynamically.
  • Added generation of source-maps to all Royale libs for better debugging of framework code.
  • Added new RoyaleUnit library for unit testing.
  • Improvements to AMF / RemoteObject Support.
  • AMFBinaryData api now matches flash.utils.ByteArray, (the missing feature is non-UTF String encoding support). It therefore now works for deep cloning via readObject/writeObject and registerClassAlias.
  • Updates to Royale collections library with support for sorting and filtering via ArrayListView. Simple example added to Tour de Jewel.
  • A conforming runtime implementation of AS3 Vector (typed Arrays) was added for javaScript output, with options for avoiding certain runtime checks.
  • int, uint, Class are now represented as simple, distinct types (Class is now not an 'Object', int is now not a 'Number', for example), and these support indirect 'as' or 'is' type checking and instantiation, matching swf behavior.
  • General improvements and additions to the Reflection library.
  • New Apache Royale Crux MVC/DI/IOC application architecture library (based on Swiz Framework) was added, with some simple examples.
  • Added and updated documentation in many areas of ASDocs reference.
  • Dozens of bugs reported, investigated, and squashed. For details of closed bug reports see GitHub Issues list.

Updates to the RELEASE_NOTES made after this file was packaged into the release artifacts can be found here:

https://github.com/apache/royale-asjs/wiki/Release-Notes-0.9.6

Apache Royale 0.9.4

Known Issues:

  • Users only using Basic components and not MXRoyale or SparkRoyale emulation components should delete frameworks/libs/MXRoyale.swc, frameworks/libs/SparkRoyale.swc, frameworks/js/libs/MXRoyaleJS.swc, and frameworks/js/libs/SparkRoyaleJS.swc from their library-paths (or from the file system).

Updates to the RELEASE_NOTES made after this file was packaged into the release artifacts can be found here:

https://github.com/apache/royale-asjs/wiki/Release-Notes-0.9.4

Apache Royale 0.9.2

  • Added ApplicationParametersBead and ApplicationParametersCaseInsensitiveBead
  • Added virtual item renderer management for fixed row height vertical lists.
  • Added Menu and MenuBar
  • Added DividedBox
  • Many CSS default values are now in the basic.css theme.
  • Theme support. Now compiler will copy all resources in "assets" folder to target
  • Added JSON2ASVO, a utility that creates AS classes from a JSON result
  • Added JSONReviver, a class that converts JSON to AS classes sort of like AMF
  • Added HScrollViewport
  • Added VScrollViewport
  • Fixed bugs in XML parsing and converting back to strings
  • Fixed Maven distribution so you can use in IDEs like VSCode, Moonshine and more.

Updates to the RELEASE_NOTES made after this file was packaged into the release artifacts can be found here:

https://github.com/apache/royale-asjs/wiki/Release-Notes-0.9.2

Apache Royale 0.9.1

  • The ASDoc example was upgraded to look better, show events, and provide permalinks.

Updates to the RELEASE_NOTES made after this file was packaged into the release artifacts can be found here:

https://github.com/apache/royale-asjs/wiki/Release-Notes-0.9.1

Apache Royale 0.9.0

Apache Royale is an SDK that provides the capability to cross-compile MXML and ActionScript applications to HTML/JS/CSS so they can run in a browser without Flash.

Apache Royale was previously released by the Apache Flex project. You can see RELEASE_NOTES for earlier releases in the Apache Flex releases.

Updates to the RELEASE_NOTES made after this file was packaged into the release artifacts can be found here:

https://github.com/apache/royale-asjs/wiki/Release-Notes-0.9.0

Please report new issues to our bugbase at:

https://github.com/apache/royale-asjs/issues

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