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Posts tagged: VisionX

New "Report Demo" application

We have a nice looking Reporting application in our solution store. It's a standard JVx application with a styled table.

But it's not a table demo! It demonstrates report creation for offline data manipulation. Simply create Excel sheets for your contacts, change the contact offline and update the online record with a simple upload. The Excel file has choice fields and allows same features as the online form.

Here it is

Reporting demo

Reporting demo

of course, it's free :)

Simply open the solution store and install the application

Reporting application

SIB Visions in den Top 1001

baukasten   Unser Produkt VisionX verhalf uns zu einem Artikel in der aktuellen Computerwelt, TOP 1001.

Darin erklärt der Autor auf eindrucksvolle Weise wie KMUs von VisionX profitieren können. Der Artikel bezieht sich auf die Zielgruppe kleine und mittelgroße Unternehmen, doch das Prinzip kann auch auf große Unternehmen übertragen werden.

Falls die aktuelle Ausgabe der Computerwelt nicht zur Hand ist, kann der Artikel auch hier nachgelesen werden.

New VisionX solution is available: Users and Roles

A new demo application is available for VisionX.
It's a very simple application that demonstrates the user and role capabilities of VisionX.

Users and Roles

Ready made solution

The application has two screens: Overview and Project types.

The overview screen has three buttons:

Overview screen

Overview screen

The buttons Report and Details are not enabled for users with role Read. The Add button near type field only is visible for users with Manage role. If a user has Read role, the window title will contain (readonly). The assigned user roles will be shown beside the project name.

VisionX Feature - Export a desktop application

At the end of the "new features" week, we'll introduce another great VisionX feature. It's the export of an application as desktop application.

What does desktop application mean?

VisionX usually creates 3-tier database applications. The GUI is separated from the business logic and decoupled from the database. The GUI usually runs on client machines, the business logic on application servers and the database could be on the same machine as the application server or could be a different server machine in your network. If you use our HTML5 launcher, the GUI and business logic will run on the application server. This means that the application seams to be 2-tier (Client/Server), but no worries the applications are always 3-tier.

A desktop application should/could work without an application server because it's overhead for some use-cases. This means that the desktop application contains the GUI and the business logic. It directly uses/connects to the database and you could say that such an application is a 2-tier Client/Server application. A desktop application needs manuall "installation" and manual updates. If you have small departments and/or don't have a lot of infrastructure/servers, a desktop application might fit perfectly.

VisionX?

All applications, created with VisionX, have an ant build file that makes it possible to create war files and do deployments. It's an easy task, for developers, to create a desktop application from the created files. It's enough to define the classpath that contains all libraries, use the right main class and add important start parameters. The steps are the same as for any other Java application.

But our applications have some additional features like an application help. This help can be created with VisionX and it's an online help based on vaadin. The integration of an online help into a desktop application makes the task a little bit tricky.

VisionX does all necessary steps for you and your desktop application will be ready after some seconds. The application is packed into a zip archive that contains an executable jar file (start via double click), a bat file for windows, a sh script for linux/mac and an exe file for windows. The installation is very easy because every modern OS is able to extract zip archives without additional tools.

New JVx feature - Focus index

The next great feature of JVx is the customizable focus order.

The focus order defines the navigation between components via Tabulator or Enter. If you press Tab in an Editor with index 1, the focus will jump to the component (e.g. an Editor) with the next higher index. If you didn't define an index, the default focus order of Java will be used.

We introduced

setTabIndex(Integer)

in IComponent. This makes it possible to easily configure the focus order. We also have support for this new feature in VisionX. It's really helpful:

Set focus order

Set focus order

The designer shows the focus index and it's possible to set the index via customizer.

New application frame feature - No menu

All our applications have a menu and a toolbar. This is great for backend applications but not always good for web frontends. Our web UIs have a different menubar, styled for web, but it's always visible. If you have simple web forms, you won't use a menu. We did some changes and have new options for applications without menu and toolbar :)

Some impressions with standard (backend) Desktop application and as (frontend) web application:

Backend application (Swing)

Backend application

 
Frontend application (Vaadin)

Frontend application

It's very simple to hide the menu. Simply set an application property via application.xml or directly via launcher - that's it. We changed our web menu and allow access to internal panels and components. It will be possible to hide buttons, change layouts, etc.

It's still possible to create your own, custom, application frame or extend our pre-defined frame. The new feature will be available in the next VisionX update.

Popup menu feature

We have another useful VisionX feature for you in the queue. It's the support for popup menus. It'll be possible to create and use popup menus for UI components. We had to change JVx to support this feature. It's now easily possible to work with popups because UIComponent got a new method: setPopupMenu(IPopupMenu).

The feature will be easy to use for end-users because it's not rocket science and we re-used existing VisionX concepts. Here's a first screenshot:

Popup menu integration

Popup menu integration

Oracle Forms (FMB) to Java conversion

If you're an Oracle Forms user and think about a different technology for your applications, watch following screen cast. It shows how we use VisionX to migrate FMB (windows) to Java, in seconds. Simply watch 90 seconds and it's done :)


JVx Application Stack


Another use-case is the integration of a Java screen, directly in your Oracle Forms application. See our solution in action:


JVx Application Stack


The first video shows our record navigion similar to Oracle Forms and of course, we have a solution for Forms' Enter query mode.

VisionX Update 2.0.121

Great news for all VisionX users!

The current update release 2.0.121 is available for download. Please check your download area.

The release is more than just an update release. It contains all currently available features. We wrote about some of them:

Repeating frames
IDE integration
QR Codes
Features for developers
Ready made solutions

It contains current JVx, ProjX libraries and source code.

If you miss some features after upgrading, please contact our product support because previous versions provided features without valid license. If the features are already licensed, no worries.

We have a product and feature overview for you.

Repeating frames - Oracle Forms related feature

We have a really cool new feature for you. It's comparable to repeating frames of Oracle Forms. It's more or less a free-form table. Every row is a panel with custom components and every row shows the same components but bound to our DataBook.

A short video will demonstrate how it works:


JVx Application Stack


We use the name ComponentTable for the control. It'll be available in one of the next VisionX nightly builds but will be limited to our OracleForms license option.