Bindows 4.1 (beta)

• Features
  • Key Bundles
  • Collapsible Panel
  • Threestate Checkbox
• Improvements
• Known Bugs and Issues
  • All
  • Accessibility
  • Internet Explorer
  • Mozilla
  • WebKit

Features

Key Bundles

We have developed a key bundle feature. It is similar to a string bundle, but where a string bundle contains strings selected by user language, the key bundle contains BiKeyStroke objects selected by direct overwrites.

User definable key bundles

As a developer you can decide to replace the entire key bundle or override specific shortcuts. Add the <KeyBundle/> tag to the <Resources> </Resources> section.

See the sample KeyBundleTest.xml for example use

Built-in overrides for Mac clients.

The default keybundle includes a set of keystrokes that are used only on a Mac. These override the PC keystrokes automatically.

You can also add your own shortcuts. BiKeyboardEvent and BiMouseEvent include two new methods matchesBundleShortcut(sName) (keyboard events only) and matchesBundleModifiers(sName).

The output from BiKeystroke.toString() is different on a Mac than on a PC. It displays the modifier symbols that a Mac user expects. Both formats work as input when parsing a shortcut string (disregarding platform).

Collapsible Panel

Bindows 4.1 beta includes a new panel component that animates by between open and closed states. It can be configured in a number of ways and can hold any Bindows components. It can be docked to any side inside any Bindows component and also operates as an inline component.

See the samples CollapsiblePanelTest and CollapsiblePanelTest2 in the applauncher for example use

Threestate Checkbox

We added a class which adds a third state to BiCheckBox. The check-box may display a third "undetermined" state. This is useful e.g. when handling a single property for multiple objects at the same time.

For example use, see the ThreeStateCheckBoxTest in the applauncher

Improvements

In response to customer requests, we added several minor improvements

See the changelog for details.

Bug fixes

This release contains several bug fixes. See the changelog for details.

Known Bugs and Issues

All

• Drag-n-drop is not working when continuous selection is used. This is used by default for OLAP grids and if you need to be able to drag a cell in an OLAP grid you should turn off dragSelection of its selection model.
• Right to left is not working correctly for BiTree, BiGrid, BiTreeView nor BiOlapGrid.
• Multiple smaller issues with Right To Left (RTL) exists.
• BiTree2 loses selection when update is called.
• BiToolBar with icons might return wrong preferred size before icons are loaded. To make sure this does not lead to trouble set the image size for the icons or preload the images.
• Non pixel border widths results in incorrect behavior. Please only use pixel border widths for best result.
• BiWizard puts first focus on the Next/Previous buttons even though there are text-fields etc on the selected page.
• When putting a BiIframe in a BiWindow the focus-root is not honored.
• There is no way to refer event target within an action in markup
• Nested async calls make events bubble
• Menus: No support for multiple frames. The menus will open in the frame where the Bindows script file (application.js or bilauncher.js) was added.

Accessibility

• Jaws articulates the word "blank" before the selected value of some components e.g. BiDatePicker.
• The selected item in BiComboBox, BiList, BiDatePicker or BiCalendar does not receive focus and is not followed by magnifiers.
• In Bindows, the standard key combination Shift+Ctrl+F6 is used to navigate out of a child window and out of an iframe. This has a meaning in Window-Eyes so an alternative key combination needs to be added.
• Slider: Holding arrow key buffers a lot of keypress events without refreshing the view.
• Splash Screen: Jaws sometimes reads splash screen contents
• Jaws 7.10 reads the entire text content of a focused component.
• Iframes: It is sometimes possible to tab through the links in an iframe and when reaching the end end up anywhere in Bindows.
• Iframes: Certain versions of Jaws and Window-Eyes do not articulate the iframe element title but the content document title, which cannot (must not) be altered by Bindows.
• Sometimes descriptions are articulated twice or more.
• Ctrl+Tab does not trigger a keydown or keypress event in IE7 if the browser tabs are displayed. The keydown event is used in Bindows to switch between child windows and between tab pages. Switching between tab pages can still be done by focusing the tab list and using the arrow keys. However, there is no built-in alternative for switching between sub windows in Bindows. The recommendation if you want this functionality is to launch your application using biExec which opens a new window without tabs and therefore with the events active. This also applies to FireFox
• The method getDescription for iframes may not work depending on which screen reader is used. A workaround is available in the accessibility developers guide.
• When leaving a sub menu the screen reader should say leaving sub menu instead of just "leaving menu".
• Focus outline is sometimes not visible for some components and also depends on how you focus them; tab or shift-tab.

Internet Explorer

• A text field that is blurred sometimes still shows the caret and the selection color is still using the Highlight color which makes it look like it is still focused.
• Move and resize handles do not work when used to move the application window.
• The gauge label is not always centered correctly. Consider using the much more advanced BiGauge2 instead.
• Don't use https:// with PNG images. We use a plugin (AlphaImageLoader) to display PNG images (as IE doesn't handle transparency correctly without it). For the image to be displayed it needs to be cached, and SSL content is, by default, not cached. It may be possible to turn on caching for the image, in which case it should work.

Internet Explorer 8

• Problems starting applications in Protected Mode (Windows Vista Business)
  In Windows Vista - Business Edition, Internet Explorer 8 has the option of turning on/off the "Protected Mode" for the various zones. We have received reports that turning off the "Protected Mode" causes an error when trying to open a new window. This is a problem when using BiLauncher which requires the permission to launch a new window. The workaround for this problem is to turn on the "Protected Mode" option. This is the value by default and is recommended to leave the option enabled. In Windows XP there are no reports of errors. The "Protected Mode" option is not available in Windows XP since all zones have "Protected Mode" enabled.

Mozilla

• Ellipsis for overflowing text will not appear in mozilla based browsers.
• Icons in menu items work inconsistently between Mozilla versions. This is due to differences in the Mozilla toolkits used by different browsers.
• Labels with text align center and icon position set to top or bottom are a bit jumpy, i.e. the icon move around depending on the state.
• BiKeyboardEvent keyCode is sometimes incorrect in a keypress event (for special keys). The reason for this bug is that Internet Explorer and Mozilla are handling keyboard events differently.
• Focus and blur events are inconsistent when using BiRichEdit.
• Right to left does not work for BiToolBar.
• Avoid using -moz-appearance when creating custom themes. Sometimes setting a border cannot override the border set by the appearance property. The workaround is to change the theme to not use -moz-appearance CSS-tags.
• SVG charts does not support gradient color fillings on sections (columns, bars etc...) .

Firefox 2

• OSX: Native scrollbars do not disappear when closing a combo box. The native scrollbars are also interfering in strange ways in the AccordionTest. This is due to a bug in Firefox 2. There is now way around this bug in Bindows but it has been fixed by Mozilla in Firefox 3.
• OSX: Text in gauges is not visible. The problem does not appear in Firefox 3.
• The caret is sometimes not shown in a focused text field. This is a Mozilla bug and has been fixed in Firefox 3.

Firefox 3

• Firefox 3 cannot launch local files due to security
  This is not a Bindows problem. The FF team writes: "Support for Cross-Site XmlHttpRequest has been removed until the specification becomes more stable and the security model is improved."
  http://ejohn.org/blog/tightened-local-file-security/
  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=230606
  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424923
  http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0/releasenotes/

WebKit

• ToolBar doesn't show uncomplete buttons in WebKit

Safari

• Bindows focusing system is not supported on Safari 3.2.1 and older.

Chrome

No known issues