Gowut v0.8.0 public release

Changes and new features in v0.8.0:

• Significant event system improvements.
  • Event types are now categorized. This category can be accessed with EventType.Category(). Events that existed before fall under the ECAT_GENERAL category. These can be used/added to any components.
  • 2 new event types in the ECAT_WINDOW category: ETYPE_WIN_LOAD and ETYPE_WIN_UNLOAD. These can be used to detect the window load and unload events. They are to be used for Window only.
  • A new event type in the ECAT_INTERNAL category: ETYPE_STATE_CHANGE. This is an internal event type which is related to state changes in component internals such as changing selected tab (TabPanel) or expanding/collapsing an Expander.
    These internal events usually have a parent event designating the source sub-component (such as a tab component of a TabPanel or the header component of an Expander) and the mouse coordinates for example.
• Event sending from clients are now asynchronous (instead of synchronous). The GUI Server implements proper RW locking.
  Component re-rendering is still synchronous (to avoid browser specific DOM rendering errors).
• Server now has an AddStaticDir() method which can be used to register a folder whose content will be served (recursively) by the server when requested.
  For example you can place your images, custom CSS files and any other static content in a folder, tell the Server about this folder with the AddStaticDir() method,
  and you can reference these files in your components.
• A new component: Timer. You can use this to generate a timed event or a series of timed events periodically.
  Practical uses include refreshing a component periodically, or checking if a Window is still open.
• Set a max age for the gwu session id cookie (to preserve session id after browser restart).
• The 'Showcase of Features' example app has been updated to demonstrate the new features.
• Other minor changes, improvements and more optimization.

Gowut v0.7.0 public release

Changes and new features in v0.7.0:

• A new example application: "Showcase of Features".
  The application is written using Gowut (of course) and showcases the component library.
  You can start it by typing (from the root of your GOPATH):

  go run src/code.google.com/p/gowut/examples/showcase.go
  

• New component: Expander
Expander shows and hides a content component when clicking on the header component.

• A new TableView interface which defines methods associated with a component rendered into a table.
  Allows changing border, cell spacing, cell padding and default horizontal and vertical alignment for example.
  Used for: Panel, Table, TabPanel (and TabBar)

• Added many new methods and constants to the style builder.

• Panel improvements:

  • Constructors to create panels initialized with a different layout, e.g. NewHorizontalPanel().
  • New helper methods to add space consumer components.
  • New methods as part of the TableView.

• Changed CSS styles (beautified) of many components.

• CheckBox and RadioButton now have additional style classes for the disabled state.

• "Mass" code optimization.

• Other minor changes, improvements and bug fixes.

Gowut v0.6.0 has been released!

This is the first public release. Main features include:

• A component library to assemble your user interfaces with
• A GUI server which serves browser clients
• Session management
• Automatic event handling and dispatching
• (CSS) Style builder to easily manipulate the style of components
• Many features are yet to come, but I think it's worth sharing it with the World.