Release Notes for Ext 2.2.0

Release Date: August 4, 2008
Current Version: 2.2.0 (rev 2547)
Previous Version: 2.1.0 (rev 2042)

Overview

Full Firefox 3.0 support
Added Ext.History component and sample
Completely refactored Checkbox and Radio controls
Added CheckboxGroup and RadioGroup components and sample
Added MultiSelect and ItemSelector extensions and sample
Added FileUploadField extension and sample
Added XMLTreeLoader extension and sample
Added several new Drag-and-Drop samples
Added GMapPanel extension and sample
Grid performance improvements
Many general improvements and bug fixes
Extensive documentation improvements
Various locale file updates

Change Log

Adapters

Ext Base

Added UTF-8 to defaultPostHeader to support international char sets properly

Ext.core

New properties for isGecko2 and isGecko3
Updated useShims property to be Gecko2-only on Mac
Fix for isArray and array check fix in Ext.each

Ext.Element

Event registration improvements
Updated Gecko/Mac overflow auto fix to be scoped to Gecko2 only
Shim border fix for IE8

Ext.EventManager

Event handler registration logic refactored to fix DOM leak issues

Ext.Updater

Now extends Ext.util.Observable
New overrideable getDefaultRenderer method
Fix in update method to preserve passed in config options correctly

Ext.data

Ext.data.Connection

New disableCachingParam config

Ext.data.Record

Fixed type coercion bug in isModified

Ext.data.Tree

New Node.isExpandable method

Ext.util

Ext.util.ClickRepeater

Fixed scope issue when unregistering interal event handlers

Ext.util.Date

Various date format fixes

Ext.util.Format

Fix in htmlDecode to handle ampersands correctly
New nl2br (newline to BR) function

Ext.util.History

New component

Ext.util.KeyMap

Added stopEvent as a valid config option for the addBinding method

Ext.widgets

Ext.Button

Fixes to minimize mouse handlers created on buttons

Ext.Component

New initPlugin method for more flexible plugin initialization
Fix to ignore state events if stateful=false

Ext.Container

Updated onDestroy to call destroy on the container's layout if available
Fixed default scope passed to the cascaded function in Container.cascade

Ext.DatePicker

Marked constrainToViewport config as deprecated (it's not currently used)
Changed disabledDaysText and disabledDatesText to default to "Disabled" instead of ""
New configs for minDate, maxDate, disabledDays, disabledDaysRE and disabledDates
New methods setDisabledDates, setDisabledDays, setMinDate and setMaxDate
New showToday config to show/hide the Today button and footer
Fixed selectToday to check for disabled Today button before changing the date

Ext.DataView

New mouseenter and mouseleave events
New trackOver config to enable mouse events
Fix in getNodes to calculate the end node correctly

Ext.Editor

New canceledit event
Fixed issue with TriggerField editors not blurring correctly on key navigation
Fixed editor wrapper element scrollbar issue in FF2/Opera

Ext.PagingToolbar

Added beforechange and change events and changePage method
Fixed handling of 0 entered into the page field

Ext.Panel

Change to set ownerCt on buttons added to panels
Fix for FF2/Mac scroll bar issue on contained items
Fix panel disabling support in IE
Fixed in destruction order of internal components

Ext.ProgressBar

Fix to only attempt progress updates if rendered
Added support for the text config in the wait method
Fix for preserving the proper progress width in ratio to the value on resize

Ext.QuickTips

Added autoRender support to fix initial display issues

Ext.Resizable

Change to render the resize proxy to the document body instead of as a sibling to its element so it doesn't interfere with Component position calculations

Ext.Slider

New dragging property and changecomplete event
Fixes for slider with minValue != 0
Fix for preserving the proper thumb position in ratio to the value on resize

Ext.StatusBar

Fix for setting the proper default icon on clear

Ext.TabPanel

Fix to position the tab strip spacer element correctly for tabPosition bottom
Fix for FF3 to raise the contextmenu event correctly on tab strip right-click

Ext.Tip

Fixed IE7 repaint bug on initial show

Ext.Toolbar

Fix in addField to add the fields to the items collection rather than the Toolbar items

Ext.Window

Added doLayout call on resize

Ext.dd.DDCore

Fixed null error in isValidHandleChild

Ext.dd.ScrollManager

Fix to enable overriding scroll frequency in the scroll config object

Ext.dd.StatusProxy

Fix to remove float style from ghost elements when adding them to the proxy to prevent proxy box collapse

Ext.form.Checkbox

Completely refactored to support new visual styles

Ext.form.CheckboxGroup

New component

Ext.form.DateField

New showToday config to show/hide the Today button and footer on the associated DatePicker
New methods setDisabledDates, setDisabledDays, setMinValue and setMaxValue

Ext.form.Field

Fix to prevent initializing the data value to emptyText
Fix to preserve the originalValue on init
Fix for odd FF/Win issue when changing OS window focus that disabled editing
Change to default error messages to basic tooltips if no field container el is available

Ext.form.FormPanel

Change to make the form tag into the panel's body element

Ext.form.HtmlEditor

Scoped disabling the font, link, lists and source edit buttons to Safari2 only (Safari3 is OK)
Various fixes to improve initialization
Fix to prevent multiple event handlers from being setup (resolved double line break issue in IE)
Fixed issue of IE allowing toolbar commands to apply to content outside the editor body

Ext.form.Label

Added setText method

Ext.form.TextArea

Fixed onKeyUp not calling its superclass method

Ext.form.TimeField

Fix for broken field on DST boundary dates

Ext.form.TriggerField

Fix for trigger icon alignment to field in IE
Fixed missing scope to properly remove the document mousedown handler after mimicing blur

Ext.form.Radio

Completely refactored to support new visual styles

Ext.form.RadioGroup

New component

Ext.form.TextField

Fix for selectOnFocus support
Fixed broken key filtering when using maskRe in non-FF browsers

Ext.grid.ColumnModel

Fixed configchange event declaration name typo

Ext.grid.EditorGrid

Fix to align editors correctly with mixed-height row content
Fixed bug in preEditValue that prevented html decoding when needed
Added onDestroy method to clean up column model's editors on destroy

Ext.grid.GridPanel

New deferRowRender config

Ext.grid.GridView

New configs for controlling cell and row selector class and depth
Fixes to sync the invisible focus element on row add/remove actions
Moved some rendering logic to afterRender (improved performance)

Ext.layout.BorderLayout

Added destroy method to clean up splitbars created by layout

Ext.layout.ColumnLayout

Target size calculation fix for IE

Ext.layoutContainerLayout

Added support for subclass destroy functions

Ext.menu.Item

Improved tolerance for mousing from a menu to its submenu without dismissing the submenu too quickly while passing over other menu items

Ext.menu.Menu

New ignoreParentClicks config to ignore clicks on menu items with child menus

Ext.menu.TextItem

Updated constructor to support config object in addition to just text

Ext.tree.TreeDragZone

Fix to honor the hlDrop config on invalid drop repair

Ext.tree.TreeDropZone

Fixed highlight calls to check enableFx first to avoid possible errors

Ext.tree.TreeEditor

Fixed editor alignment to node when autoScroll is on and the node is outside the scroll area

Ext.tree.TreeLoader

Fixed type coercion bug in isLoading
Updated createNode to support new TreePanel.nodeTypes

Ext.tree.TreeNode

New getLoader method
Fixed null error in destroy when no child nodes present

Ext.tree.TreeNodeUI

Refactored internal support for Ext.data.Node.isExpandable

Ext.tree.TreePanel

Ability to specify dataUrl or a TreeLoader config in addition to a TreeLoader instance
New nodeTypes support for more flexible node declaration and creation