I'm happy to announce that VisionX 5.4 is on the way. The code is complete and tested. We have some additional tasks to do, but it's ready!

It's one of the really cool things. It has a bunch of new lib versions and got updates for mobility. The web UI of applications is faster than before and we have full responsive support built-in. Not only for web applications, also for desktop applications.

Another big milestone is the new mobile client. It was built from scratch. It's a wonderful piece of software, built with Flutter and Dart. It's one native app for iOS and Android. We will replace the old client in the near future. The new client supports all our layout features and much more... it's modern!

Here are some impressions

New screen wizard		Responsive for Desktop		Web settings
Mobile settings		Responsive mode

Some impressions of our new mobile client

What else is new?

Be patient

Our good old JVx icon got a new design for 2020! It's also the new icon for our brand new

The old icon:

The new icon:

The icon now contains the open source hint in the middle, as closed circle, and also our company colors. We love it.

Wir suchen Verstärkung für unser Framework Team. Wenn du immer schon an einem Open Source Framework mitarbeiten wolltest und Forschung/Entwicklung genau das ist was dir zusagt, dann bewirb dich bitte!

Hier ist die genauere Beschreibung

I'm happy to announce that our Workflow Engine will work with Oracle Forms.

The current state is beta but we'll release our Workflow engine in the next days. We found some time to test the integration in Oracle Forms and the result is soo cool. It works like a charm.

So it will be possible to embed our Workflow engine in your oracle Forms. It'll be possible for your users to design custom flows and processes. The engine itself is database driven and will work with your Oracle Forms application.

More details will follow in the next days, but here's a first impression:

Workflow Engine - Oracle Forms

It's a standard Oracle Forms window/canvas with our Workflow Designer, embedded as Java Bean.

Feel free to ask your questions

We improved the support for standard MacOS LaF in our Swing UI and VisionX. The LaF has a lot of rendering problems. We tried to use another LaF implementation but had other problems. So we decided to keep the standard Java MacOS LaF.

The problems

• The InternalFrame border problem
• The field border problem
  

  Field border problem

  A simple JTextField has a 5 pixel focus border. This is horrible because the focus is about 2 pixel. The other problem is that a JTextArea wrapped in a JScrollPane doesn't have the 5 pixel border. This makes it hard to create nice looking layouts.

  We fixed this problem:

  Field border without gap

  Looks better. One problem is that the JScrollPane doesn't paint the focus if the JTextArea has the focus. This is a LaF problem and we didn't find a workaround for this problem.

• Application Menubar

  Standard Java appliacations show the menubar in the same frame

  Application menu

  If you set the system property:

  System.setProperty("apple.laf.useScreenMenuBar", "true");

the menu will be placed in the menu bar of MacOS:

macOS Menu

We fixed the problem that setting the menu to null will keep the menu as it was.

• Comboboxes

  The height of Standard Comboboxes is wrong:

  Combobox wrong

  We fixed the problem as good as possible:

  Combobox fixed

• VisionX Toolbar height

  The toolbar height was wrong because of layout calculation problems:

  Wrong Toolbar height

  We fixed the problem and the toolbar height is correct:

  Toolbar fixed

• VisionX Wizard gaps

  The image gaps in VisionX wizards was not recognized:

  Wrong gaps

  It looks better without gaps:

  No gaps

• Wrong button rendering

  If you had a button without an image and a button with an image, the height of the button without image was higher than the button with an image. This is a LaF rendering bug:

  Wrong size and font

  The fonts are also different. We didn't know why there has to be such a difference, but we fixed the problem in Swing UI:

  Button with correct size and font

All changes are available in our nightly JVx builds

The next big update of VisionX will be available by the end of this week.

We have awesome features for you and your applications.

Some impressions:

New Web Elements		New Tutorial Apps
More Web Settings		FontAwesome Support
New Web Menubar support

More details will be available in the next days

The upcoming release of VisionX will support CSS styling. We'll show you a first impression with a short video:

The editor supports autocompletion and syntax highlighting:

VisionX CSS Editor

We did integrat the RSyntaxTextArea for this. If you want to know how this works, check the documentation.

We have a new AddOn for all VisionX users. It's the Embedding AddOn.

The new AddOn makes it possible to embedd one work-screen into another work-screen. Simply re-use screens in other screens.

Get an impression

The AddOn is commercial and not included in VisionX. Contact our sales team to get more information!