Spartacus Released



We've just released a Feature Pack for Gaia Ajax Widgets. The name of this Release will be Spartacus. For all existing (Q3) users this release will be free which means that if you've already purchased the Q3 2007 Release you can download Spartacus for free. In addition we've also made a lot of changes to our website as you can see, the whole website design is completely remade and we've also gotten ourselves a logo.


Spartacus Gaia Ajax Release


Some of the features in Spartacus are listed here;
  • Added up Focus override for most of the Controls
  • Several new Widgets; FishEye, DisappearingPanel (useful for having Context Menus), DraggablePanel, TabControl and WizardControl
  • InPlaceEdit can now be either a "single line edit box" or "multiple line edit box"
  • Three new skins; "light_blue", "ivory_white" and "mac_light"
  • Several new samples, e.g. the "50 different ways to read Ajaxian Website sample"
  • Scrolling for Menu if there are two many items to display at once
  • Double clicking Window Title bar to maximize/restore the Window
  • Double click TreeView Items in addition to that both Single Click and Double Click now sends over X and Y coordinates to the server
  • TreeView Control can now move Nodes around in Ajax Callbacks meaning you can actualyl change the order of nodes in the TreeView
  • New project called "Extensions" which contains all the extension controls
  • Compression of JavaScript files which reduces the bandwidth by 40% on JavaScript files
  • If you get an error on the server you will now get notifications about this with the possibility of viewing the entire ASP.NET error report
  • When the Gaia Window is minimized the Caption Title bar will reduce the text amount so that the title doesn't obscure the action buttons
  • You can now scale the Window Height according to how much content is within the Window
  • Windows can be brought to front from Ajax Callbacks
  • The animation speed of the Accordion can now be defined
  • New skin for Accordion called "accordion_light_blue"
  • Accordion can now have more than one Active View set initially
  • The AutoCompleter can now have it's text set in Ajax Callbacks
  • And finally we now have 100% Safari Support! This is a feature we know many of our existing customers have been wanting for a long time...
And the above is just some of the new features in the Spartacus. In addition we've got more than a dozen of bugfixes so this is now effectively our largest release ever. Especially a lot of bugs in Window, TreeView and RichEdit has been sorted out making your life more comfortable. Read the changelog to see if your request has been sorted out but I think we've implemented almost every single user request we've had so this is great news for you as a user of Gaia.

Some of the new and brushed up samples are shown here;
In addition we've added a couple of themes to the download this time which means you can just set up the theme for the .aspx page and everything should look beautiful "out of the box".

If you download Gaia you will get the full changelog.

Also in this release we have 100% SharePoint compatibility so as from now on you can use Gaia Ajax widgets to develop SharePoint Ajax websites. Jan Blomquist has published a Video about Gaia Ajax and SharePoint which you really should watch if you're developing for SharePoint.

Download the Spartacus Release