aware_support wroteIt is funny that Elmar mentioned the only feature that is left to be done in the schedule of the new release - being able to combine queries, objects forms etc on the same screen. We are still thinking whether/how to do this feature in the new release.
Other than that the following features have been already implemented in the new release:
1) Improved visual perspectives that support multiple splittable and closable panels
2) New horizontal menu with icons
3) HTML editor
4) Editable comboboxes with "search ahead" functionality
5) AJAX-driven comboboxes for references that query the server for contents as you type
6) New interface for query results screen that supports dynamically adjustable column widths
7) AJAX support for dynamically re-calculated fields on forms
8-) Pop-up dialogs when adding references and filtering query results
9) Other minor improvements
Sounds sweet! I think introducing a "page component"-level to AwareIM will make it awesome!
Does your framework feature something like UpdatePanels in ASP.NET AJAX? My idea was to to let AwareIM construct page components -that are wrapped with something like update panels- instead of only complete pages. On the NEW page level the configurator could than define which components cause other components to do a partial page reload... AwareIM might even be able to figur it out automatically because it knows the components relation to each other.
To create pages like we are used to in AwareIM the configurator would simply have one component (that used be a page) added to the page that only updates itself (and perhaps other nessessary page components like navigation).
Does that make sense? Just my 2 cents... as usual 😉. I´ve used various Ajax frameworks in the past and but haven´t used EXT yet so I don´t know how they are handeling partial page updates.
Best regards,
Elmar
