Elevate Web Builder 2 Release Delayed Again

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Posted by Tim Young on Sun, Apr 26 2015

Unfortunately, I'm still not quite finished with the Elevate Web Builder 2 documentation, so the release is going to be delayed for a few more days. I will be uploading a new preview build today, however, so that everyone can start using the release candidate product. My apologies for the delay.

These are the new features in the release candidate:

• You can now bundle external images, fonts, etc. in addition to Javascript using the project manager. However, the web fonts are not being registered yet, so don't use them yet. I'll be adding this in before the final release.



• There's a new "Reset Interface" option in the form designer that allows you to reset the interface of a control to its default state. This is useful when switching out control interfaces.



• There is now support in the dataset transactions for fail-safe commits. You can retry commits that fail as many times as necessary. In addition, this means that commits are asynchronous also, and so you can use transaction wrappers around dataset update events without worrying about timing issues with the transactions, or trying to chain together event handlers.



• The TDatabase.Load method is now called LoadRows. This is due to the inclusion of a new TDatabase.LoadColumns method. The general idea here is to allow for more dynamic datasets from the back-end web server application.



• You can use user/password parameters for authentication instead of http headers. There's a new TDatabase.AuthenticationMethod method for specifying this (default is headers).



• The object persistence is done, meaning that you can now load/save TPersistent descendants to/from JSON using a couple of method calls.



• There's a new TViewport class whose instance is attached to the TApplication global class instance. You can use it to specify whether or not to show scrollbars in the browser viewport (separate X and Y overflow properties), as well as retrieving information about the browser viewport size.



• The TGrid control is done. It includes automatic fit for columns (right stretch) and the ability to turn on/off column headers and lines. It can now also have a transparent background, which you can see in action in the multimedia example (see below).



• The TAudio/TVideo controls are done.



• Double-taps are now being properly mapped to OnDblClick events for touch environments.



• There's a new standard interface that is more in line with the Windows8/Metro style. If you liked the old one, then you're going to have to wait a little while before I can update it for all of the new controls that have been completed since I switched out the old interfaces. I've also got a more rounded interface that will be published soon, also, and it uses Google's Open Sans font, by default.



• There are new clElevate* colors that represent a default color scheme that is used in the default standard interface. It contains 3 shades of black, gray, blue, orange, and green, as well as a gray background fill color.



• The TEWBDatabaseAdapter component for Delphi now includes a HandleRequest method that will take an incoming TServerRequest from an EWB server module and handle all of the messy details of processing the request and generating a response. In addition, there are now new TEWBDatabaseAdapter.OnAuthenticateUser and TEWBDataSetAdapter.OnFilterRows events that allow you to automate authentication and filtering of datasets. The TEWBDatabaseAdapter now also handles URL user/password authentication (see above).



• There are 3 new sample projects, one for multimedia, one for layout properties, and one for object persistence (see above).



• There are quite a few little bug fixes and minor changes to the interfaces. If you've modified/customized the interfaces at all for your projects, then you may have to adjust your modifications to accommodate some of these changes.

If you encounter a bug with the release candidate, please report it, but don't necessarily expect a fix before the actual release. If it's anything more than a very simple fix, I'll probably delay it until after the release. I'm planning on doing a quick minor release anyways in order to clean up any leftover issues that needs to be addressed.

If you don't see a particular feature/control property, method, or event, then it won't be in the initial release. Just submit an enhancement request and I'll work it in ASAP.

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Elevate Web Builder 2 Presentation at TDUG Meeting

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Posted by Sam Young on Tue, Apr 21 2015

Tim and I were graciously invited to showcase Elevate Web Builder 2 at the Toronto Delphi User Group meeting scheduled for May 4, 2015. If you will be in the Toronto area, you'll want to be sure to attend. Tim will be demonstrating Elevate Web Builder 2, focusing on the exciting new features and ease of use that are the highlights of the new version.

The meeting will be held at the Northern District Library, 40 Orchard View Blvd. in Toronto, from 6-8 PM. We hope you can attend - we are very excited about the product, and of course it would be great to meet you and be able to put a face to the names of those we've been communicating with over the years.

For more information, you can visit the TDUG website.

If you will be attending or if you have any questions, please email me at samyoung@elevatesoft.com and let me know.

We're looking forward to seeing you there!

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Product Status Updates and Development Notes

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Posted by Tim Young on Mon, Apr 20 2015

Just a quick status update on all of our products, and some notes to address various issues:

• XE8 support is coming soon, probably this week or next.



• If you have a support issue (not a question, such as "How do I....?") for EDB or DBISAM, please contact us at support@elevatesoft.com directly. As great as the peer help is on the support forums, it's not fair to those helping out since they're providing their time free-of-charge. I consistently see issues being posted on the support forums from customers that I know have a number of grandfathered support sessions. If you have support sessions, please use them. If you don't, then I don't think that $19 for a support session is going to be a burden for most developers.
  
  To find out if you have support sessions available, please visit this area of the web site:
  
  Support Sessions
  
  (you must be logged in)
  
  If you're unsure about whether to contact us directly or not, go ahead and contact us directly and simply ask if the issue is appropriate for the support forums, or whether it is something that requires a support session.



• I know that I've been scarce on the EDB/DBISAM support forums, and that EDB/DBISAM haven't been getting much attention over the past year. This is, unfortunately, the case when I'm heavy in development on a different product (EWB 2). Due to the fact that we're short on developers here, major product revisions have to be done in a serial fashion, so while I'm working on a new EDB revision, EWB won't be seeing many major improvements, or vice-versa. I know that it must be frustrating to see so much attention given to EWB when you're not an EWB user, but EWB is an important part of our future since it has the potential to make the company much stronger. So, indirectly, this type of development means more resources for adding improvements to the other products. Be sure to check out EWB 2 when it's released next week. It's pretty cool and works well with both EDB and DBISAM.
  
  EDB 2.x is finally going to see some major improvements coming up in early summer. Most notably, Mac support, nested transactions, and a web administration interface. I've also started work on a profiler/tracing layer for the EDB Server, which is really cool because you can see everything that goes on in the EDB Server, including how long it takes to execute every SQL statement, etc.
  
  EDB 3, while it's been stalled for a while, is still on the map. It will be a departure from EDB 2.x in several ways, though, which is why a) it's been stalled and b) I'll be doing a round of improvements (noted above) before continuing on with EDB 3 this summer.
  
  DBISAM has been in "legacy" mode for some time now. We'll continue to release new updates for new Delphi compilers, and try adding little improvements where they can be added. Internally, we still use DBISAM and now have it replicating data back and forth between here and our Chicago web server. If you're interested in this type of functionality for DBISAM, let me know and I'll consider publishing it as part of the product. It's completely fail-safe, and maintains transaction boundaries while replicating.



• I cannot stress enough how important it is to us that everyone has been keeping up with their subscriptions. It is not only greatly appreciated, it is vital to keeping revenue coming in. If you haven't renewed your product subscription lately, then please re-consider doing so. If you have an issue with your subscription, then please let us know and we'll be happy to help you out in any way that we can.

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Now Accepting Elevate Web Builder 2 Pre-Orders

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Posted by Sam Young on Mon, Apr 6 2015

We're now accepting pre-orders for Elevate Web Builder 2. Elevate Web Builder 2 will be released on April 27, 2015, so buy now to get a jumpstart on your next web development project.

Purchasing Elevate Web Builder 2 now will give you access to the Elevate Web Builder 2 Preview, as well as Elevate Web Builder 1.x.

Pricing

Pricing for Elevate Web Builder 2 is as follows:

• The price for a new Elevate Web Builder 2 license is $359.00



• If you have renewed your Elevate Web Builder subscription or purchased a new license within 6 months of the Elevate Web Builder 2 release, your upgrade price is $159.00



• If you currently own Elevate Web Builder and have not renewed your subscription within 6 months of the Elevate Web Builder 2 release, the price to upgrade to Elevate Web Builder 2 is $259.00

More Information

Elevate Web Builder 2 is a rapid application development tool for web applications. It is simple and easy to create fully interactive web applications by simply dragging and dropping components on to forms, and then changing their appearance and behaviors as desired. There is absolutely no need to learn JavaScript in order to use Elevate Web Builder 2. The product includes a compiler that compiles standard Object Pascal source code into JavaScript, and you can then quickly and easily deploy your application to the web server of your choosing. This means that you can continue to leverage existing language skills and take advantage of the many optimizations that the compiler can provide compared to hand-coded JavaScript solutions.

Some of the new features in Elevate Web Builder 2 include:

• A brand new UI layer that supports both design-time and run-time UI element manipulation using the same codebase



• Control interface functionality that allows for re-skinning controls interactively



• The ability to create and install components into the IDE



• The ability to create new form classes and use them as the basis for forms in your application



• New layout management functionality



• New graphics capabilities, including alpha transparency, gradients, rounded corners, shadows, and opacity



• Several new controls/components, including a tabbed page panel, header panel, group panel, icon, animated icon, progress bar, and toolbar



• Complete touch support



• Support for run-time type information in the compiler, which allows for loading/saving objects to/from JSON with one call



• Support for loading and running back-end Elevate Web Builder Web Server modules in the IDE

You can view some live demos of Elevate Web Builder 2 example applications using the following links:

• HTML Form Submittal Example



• Data-Bound Controls Example



• Slide-Show Example



• Painting Example

You can also view a tutorial video on creating new controls with Elevate Web Builder 2 here:

• Elevate Web Builder 2 Control Creation Tutorial

We'll be posting more online demos and tutorial videos in the coming weeks. To be sure that you're notified, check to see that you are set up to receive blog post email notifications in your user profile. To access and update your user profile, make sure that you're logged in to the web site and click on your name in the upper right-hand corner of any page on the site.

As always, if you have any questions at all, feel free to contact me at: sales@elevatesoft.com

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Elevate Web Builder 1.05 Build 4 Released

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Posted by Tim Young on Mon, Apr 6 2015

Elevate Web Builder 1.05 Build 4 is now available for download. If you're an existing customer, then you should be receiving an email shortly with download instructions. This build contains a bug fix for a commit issue with ElevateDB datasets, and is detailed here.

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ElevateDB 2.18 Build 4 Released

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Posted by Tim Young on Mon, Mar 23 2015

ElevateDB 2.18 Build 4 is now available for download. If you're an existing customer, then you should be receiving an email shortly with download instructions. This build contains bug fixes for several incident reports, which are detailed here.

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