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Thread EWB 2.03 B2
Thu, Dec 10 2015 9:40 AMPermanent Link

Godfrey

Ultimatesoft

Hi

Any news on a new build for 2.03 or are we in for a christmas bonus with 2.04?

Godfrey
Thu, Dec 10 2015 4:11 PMPermanent Link

Tim Young [Elevate Software]

Elevate Software, Inc.

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Godfrey,

<< Any news on a new build for 2.03 or are we in for a christmas bonus with 2.04? >>

Bonus. Smile I'm finishing up 2.04 right now with a Unicode symbol browser for the icon fonts, and then it will be ready to go.  So, it will most likely be Friday or Monday.

2.04 will include:

- New icon font support (395 built-in icons from Font Awesome ready for your use), and the use of the new icon font for all control icons (close, minimize, etc.) in standard EWB controls

- New web font support in the external files for each project so that you can use fonts like Open Sans from Google with your projects

- New Caption property editor in the IDE that makes it easier to deal with multi-line captions.

- New Content property editor in the IDE for editing the content of control interfaces as text or a symbol (used with icon fonts)

- New Find in Units option in the IDE

- Better compression for emitted JS, saving an extra ~10-20% in size, depending upon the application

- New option in the control interface editor for resetting an element's properties to their default values

- New TSizeGrip control that allows you to size any container on which it is placed

- Lots of bug fixes

In general, the icon font support took a lot longer than expected, and required a lot of little changes.  Overall, though, it's a great improvement and allows for multi-colored (single color at a time, of course), multi-sized, icons that look great on any display resolution.  The icon font included/installed with EWB is a cut-down version of Font Awesome from here:

https://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/

in both OpenType and WOFF web font formats.  It's called EWBIcons.

To reduce its size, all of the social/brand icons were stripped.  Plus, 3 EWB-specific icons were added.  You can still use any icon font that you want, such as the Google Material icon font, but you'll have to modify the control interfaces accordingly so that they point to the correct symbol code points.

As for the size savings of the better JS compression and the icon font:

Data-Bound Controls example project (single form)
Compressed

2.03:

HTML 224,195
JS       532,928

2.04:

HTML 188,567  (this is with the 85KB icon font embedded)
JS       443,693

By default, 2.04 includes/embeds the OpenType version of the icon font with every project, and that is the 85KB version.  The reason for this is that older versions of WebKit used for the older stock Android browsers don't like WOFF format web fonts.  If you don't need to target these browsers, you can change the embedded icon font to the WOFF format in the Project Options dialog to save an additional 40KB in the HTML file.  You can also use something like Font Squirrel to sub-set the font into the bare minimum number of icons, but at a certain point you'll start to hit a point of diminishing returns because the size is already fairly small.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com
Fri, Dec 11 2015 1:45 AMPermanent Link

Godfrey

Ultimatesoft

Tim Young [Elevate Software] wrote:

Godfrey,

<< Any news on a new build for 2.03 or are we in for a christmas bonus with 2.04? >>

Bonus. Smile I'm finishing up 2.04 right now with a Unicode symbol browser for the icon fonts, and then it will be ready to go.  So, it will most likely be Friday or Monday.

Cool.  Looking for to it.
Fri, Dec 11 2015 5:06 AMPermanent Link

Chris Holland

SEC Solutions Ltd.

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> - New Find in Units option in the IDE

Like this one......

Chris Holland
Fri, Dec 11 2015 8:17 AMPermanent Link

Steve Gill

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<< - New Caption property editor in the IDE that makes it easier to deal with multi-line captions. >>

Thanks Tim, I've been waiting for this one.

= Steve
Fri, Dec 11 2015 8:59 AMPermanent Link

Mark Brooks

Slikware

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Tim Young [Elevate Software] wrote:

>>Bonus. Smile I'm finishing up 2.04 right now with a Unicode symbol browser for the icon fonts, and then it will be >>ready to go.  So, it will most likely be Friday or Monday.

Looks fab. Happy Xmas Tim.
Thu, Dec 24 2015 12:31 AMPermanent Link

Godfrey

Ultimatesoft

Tim Young [Elevate Software] wrote:

<Bonus. Smile I'm finishing up 2.04 right now with a Unicode symbol browser for the icon fonts, and then it will be ready to go.  So, it will most likely be Friday or Monday.>

Any news on 2.04?

Godfrey
Thu, Dec 24 2015 7:50 AMPermanent Link

Tim Young [Elevate Software]

Elevate Software, Inc.

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Godfrey,

<< Any news on 2.04? >>

Per this thread:

http://www.elevatesoft.com/forums?action=view&category=ewb&id=ewb_general&page=1&msg=8649#8649

2.04 got delayed a bit.

However, it's ready to go, but we hit another snag yesterday:  our code-signing certificate expired, so we're just waiting on the cert from Comodo and then I will be able to get it up on the web site.  Hopefully that will be this morning so that I can get it up before Christmas. Smile

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com
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