- Fix Mop support again
- Fix undefined 'deprecate' in AbstractTextField and AbstractTextArea
- Minor NodeJS fix
- Fix Mop support
- Fix Mop-integration support
- Upgrade tests stack
- Add travis support
- Remove hardcoded dependency in favor of npm packages for Jasmine and js-beautify
- Migrate specs to Jasmine 2.5.2O (npm run test:jasmine)
- Revamp NodeJS tests runner (npm test)
- Migrate Phantom.js tests runner to Karma (npm run test:karma)
- jshint and other minors fix.
- implement initial support for NodeJS
- Other minor fixes
- Replaces montage-Checkbox--checked by montage
- Adds missing focus on mousedown
- defers JSON.parse() of serialization from init to deserialize to avoid double parsing
- updates spec accordingly
- updates code using frb’s getBindings to expect a Map instead of an object
- updates version for next release
- updates frb dependency to 4.0.x
- overall speed improvements
- Fixes missing classList on named param DOM element and cleaning up.
- Fixes a bug when setting the value of an attribute wouldn't triggers a draw.
- Adds support for event listeners on DOM elements in the serialization.
- Fixes deprecated warning when accessing the property KeyEvent.keyIdentifier.KeyEvent.keyIdentifier will be remove from Chrome 52. Keep support for old browsers and webkit.
- Makes sure to have the correct anchor position when centring an overlay.
- Bug fixes and improvements to Controls:
- bug fixes to checkbox
- Fixes bug in Slider where order in serialization of setting/binding on min/max/value would modify outcome
- adds example of a slider with sticky label
- adds space and enter key events to button
- Makes sure a control is not disabled after having set a binding on the property enabled/disabled
- Deprecates the property enabled within Control, disabled should be used
- Removes deprecated enabled usage in Control and the PressComposer
- Keeps cursor position within a text input when using a converter
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Addresses a regression around live edit and rootComponent
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Adds promise property to Button along with "montage--pending" matching CSS state. Useful to handle actions that triggers asynchronous work, now Button when set promise will become unresponsive until promise resolves.
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Improvements with the injection of templates:
- Named parameters are not mandatory anymore.
- Adds support of named parameters and start parameter at the same level.
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Addresses a bug where some events would be dispatched twice when a certain pattern of add/removeEventListener
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Fixes an issue with condition component
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Improvement when the overlay component should surrender when it the active target:
- Surrender when the overlay is not a modal and shown.
- Add overlayShouldDismissOnSurrenderActiveTarget delegate method in order to override the default response.
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Addresses a bug in Mopped Apps caused by special handling of WeakMap shimming in montage.js. The goal was to avoid to require the module that contains the shim in collections at all. We'll re-visit that optimization later and apply it to Map and Set as well.
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Fixes an infinite loop in localizer in IE11 when key and values are both undefined
A big, long due and tested release that brings many bug fixes and performance optimizations through montage, collections and frb, as well as some new features and components. Load time has also improved significantly.
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Improvements to Event Management
Besides performance improvements, composers improved significantly in stability, support for PointerEvents was added, composers' interactions and nesting was improved as well. Work was donne to suppress "emulated" mouse events on touch within the framework.
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Succession
A new control-flow component in the vein of repetition, substitution, condition, that helps build linear, hierarchical user interfaces. Samples in .info
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Adds ImageGallery component and sample
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Improves support for IE10 and IE11
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Replaces Q-based Prommises with Bluebird-based Promises
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Improvements to Loader and adds a new Montage Studio loader
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Improvements to Localizer
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Experimental: Component Build-in/out
This feature is not final yet and API may change. It allows the ability to address in CSS the moment when a Component enter and exit the document.
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EventManager
Fixes an issue under Firefox and Safari.
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RangeController
Moves visibleIndexes to Repetition.
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Repetition
Performance Improvements.
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TreeController
Updates to the new version.
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Component
Makes creating Component templateObjects lazy and on-demand. Reduces memory consumption.
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Core
Fixes super infinite loop in observed getter/setters.
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DocumentResources
Fixes a bug affecting Firefox that was allowing components to be entering the document before their CSS stylesheets were loaded.
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EventManager
Makes preparedForActivationEvents public. Fixes a case where the first touch in an app would be lost. Adds support of PointerEvents. Adds support of devices with multiples pointer types. (mouse/touch). PrepareForActivationEvents is called when a pointing device (mouse/touch) is moved over a component’s element. Blocks emulated mouse events. Adds a blocksEmulatedEvents option to disable the filtering of emulated mouse events. Fixes an issue that was blocking the logic for prepareForActionEvents on Firefox. Reduces transient string concatenation in bubble/capture identifier based method name lookup/building.
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Repetition
Uses the PressComposer for managing the selection. Adds support of PointerEvents. Adds support of devices with multiples pointer types. (mouse/touch). Increase performance.
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Flow
Fixes an issue that was preventing selection when clicking for the first time on an iteration.
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PressComposer
Adds support of PointerEvents. Adds support of devices with multiples pointer types. (mouse/touch). Makes sure the PressComposer operate just when the main button is pressed. Cancel a press when a scroll or a translate occur.
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RangeController
Enhance RangeController filter/sort binding speed.
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Composer
Composers lazily load their logic by default. Reduces unnecessary allocations of empty functions. Adds the property isLoaded.
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Target
Adds load/unload functions that will load composers.
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TranslateComposer
Support Pointer Events Support devices with multiple pointer types. Better logic to steal claimed pointers. Fixes issues with composers claiming the same pointer. Does not listener on wheel events by default. Fixes bug with inner scroller Components (were not working). Add unload function (releases listeners). Backwards compatibility for the Flow Translate Composer. Does not listen on wheel events by default. Stops sending translate events when a movement is beyond a extreme (max/min Translate X/Y). Performance improvements (less translateStart events sent when handling wheel event, less listeners, and diverse improvements). Cancel a translate when a scroll occurs.
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Component
Adds Button Component. Adds Checkbox Component. Adds TextField Component.
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EventManager
Fixes a possible property being accessed on null.
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Native
Removes the Native package from the devDependencies.
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MediaController
The Montage MediaController does not use the native MediaController Object anymore (just supported by Safari), it will directly manage a media element.
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TranslateComposer
Fixes an issue that was making the translateComposer unusable with a wheel button of a pointing device under IE9-11.
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RangeController
Fixes a bug that prevented a repetition clear selection to work.
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SegmentedBar
Add SegmentedBar component.
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Montage
Add .info loader
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Collections
Update the Collections package to version v1.2.2.
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Montage
Update window loader to transition to .mr in a backward compatible way.
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Repetition
Don’t cancel the event touchmove in order to fix the bug with the webkit accelerated scrolling.
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Window Loader
Update window loader to transition to .mr in a backward compatible way.
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Repetition
An iteration will become active after a short delay. A selection is canceled when a pointer has been pressed and moved.
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Component
Fix an issue when initializing the classList of a Component from a SVG element. Fix component dispose function, unregisterEventHandlerForElement was called with the wrong parameters. Do not allow an element to be assigned to multiple components.
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Montage Testing
Update the Montage-testing package to version v0.4.1.
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Flow
Adds responsive/liquid properties to Flow and fixes several bugs.
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Translate Composer
Can be disabled to make it stop claiming pointers and preventing default.
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Abstract Image
Better support across different browsers of the 1x1 blank data url image.
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Collections
Update the Collections package to version v0.2.1.
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FRB
Update the FRB package to version v0.2.18.
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Event Manager
Add object pooling to minimize garbage collection of objects used inside event-manager listener registration.
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Abstract Number Field
Allow null values in AbstractNumberField.
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Template
Guard against non-existent serialization.
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Select
Fix selection bug when a new contentController is set.
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Mr
Update the Mr package to version v0.15.6.
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Component
BREAKING: deprecate
prepareForDraw
in favor ofenterDocument
.
- Fix "url" module id.
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Repetition
Adjust erroneous logging of an error state when iterations are reused.
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Browser Support
Better support for Android 4.0.3 Update Mr to fix issue in Firefox Fix some dom corruption issue in IE
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Logger
Add support for rendering logs with colors in browsers that support it. Improved the logging of the component's draw cycle so that they are less verbose.
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Template
Fix bug that would cause a deadlock with inline styles.
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TranslateComposer
Handle touchcancel to fix issue with control center on iOS 7
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Repetition
Fix bug in repetition which cause it to render iterations incorrectly if the content was changed after it was added to the draw list. Exclusively use one pointer or another to change selection.
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CheckBox
Now dispatches the action event after the checked property is changed
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RadioButton
Can be toggled with space bar key
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Mop Support
Fixed a bug in the mr config that was preventing mop bundling from collecting the dependencies in html files.
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Browser Support
Remove dependency on the NodeParent interface on DocumentFragments which isn't widely supported.
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Template
Make all urls in the template be rebased in the same way.
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RangeController
Add an optional content parameter to the constructor to avoid having to
initWithContent
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PromiseController
Add a meta file and cleanup jshint warnings.
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Flow
Fix an issue with flow selection where the selection of the contentController was not being respected.
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Browser Support
A better fix for IE's innerHTML issues.
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TreeController
Fix an issue with the findNodeByContent equality parameter.
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Component
Fix getDomArgumentNames missing names after calling extractDomArgument.
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Template
Add the ability to set a template dirty and configure it with a refresher object. Add replaceContentsWithTemplate function.
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Montage
Reduction of jshint errors
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Mr
Fix bug in packages with names that start with a digit.
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Substitution
Added a workaround for an IE bug in its handling of innerHTML. http://jsfiddle.net/89X6F/
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Component
Fixes a regression where the component was allowed to draw before the stylesheets were loaded. Fixes a broken shim for requestAnimationFrame.
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Template
Fixes a bug when two nested aliased template objects using
:iteration
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DocumentResources
Fixes preloading css file contents as soon as possible.
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Montage
Better JSDoc annotations.
super()
methods are now cached for better performance.addRangeAtPathChangeListener()
is more tolerant changes along the path. Existing document resources are now taken into account when loading the page for the first time. (#1397) -
Path Listeners
*PathChangeListener functions an now accept parameters, document and components.
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url
montage/core/url
has been removed, use theurl
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Target
dispatchEvent() now return a boolean to signify whether or not the defaults were prevented.
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Component
Some cleanup to the component's draw list handling and implementation of an object pool to help with GC.
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Template
Better handling of css loading. Better handling of errors in deserialization.
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Blueprint
Added event blueprints.
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KeyComposer
Fixed issue that caused the KeyComposer to not work unless "keyPress" events were listened to in two places. KeyComposer fires the key event on the itself rather than the activeTarget directly.
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RangeController
Can now track selection with an Array, Set or SortedSet. Better selection management.
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TreeController Added findNodeByContent() to be able to locate content in the tree.
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Repetition
Added aliases and template properties so that binding to
@repetition:iteration.object
is possible. Using aliases this can be exposed by the owner template. Some never used properties were removed for performance improvements. Fixed a bug in selection where a selected object could not be part of the content array. -
Overlay
Added ModalOverlay to force user response Added AbstractAlert and AbstractConfirm. Better handling of activeTarget, will not show if the activeTarget is not surrendered. Dismisses with escape key. Overlay can now have a delegate that affects it's position and behavior.
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AbstractButton
Now only has a label property, value is gone.
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AbstractImage
Now handles cross origin via the
crossOrigin
property. Now doesn't modify the src property when rebasing. Properly handles the case where the image is in browser cache. -
AbstractSlider
Can now move continuously rather than the 1% minimum step. Fixed bug for initial knob position. Uses a simplified dom structure.
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AbstractTextField
Fixed bug with setting the value to 0. Now uses the
activeTarget
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Flow
Added a
hasElasticScrolling
property to flow.reel which allows the space between individual tiles to stretch as they are dragged.
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Montage
Avoid the warning message: "Trying to replace element
<div></div>
which has no parentNode" Remove some extra logging in the Gate.
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Mr
Update the Mr package to version 0.15.1. Fixes an issue requiring dependencies with ".js" in their name in script-injection mode. More info here.
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Mr
Update the Mr package to version 0.15. Fixes an issue with requiring modules with relative path as the main file in package.json. More info here.
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Key Composer
KeyManager now emits key events on the composer, not the target. This fixes an issue where you had to listen for keys on the component and the composer.
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Montage
Fix issue that was causing, at times, a component to enter the document before its stylesheets were completely loaded.
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Montage
Remove reference to alpha state in readme.
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AbstractTextField
Correctly handle setting TextField to 0. This specific value was being ignored.
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AbstractSlider
Improve implementation to only use two elements.
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Montage
FRB and Collections are up-reved to address an issue in Chrome 30's introduction of ES6 Array methods.
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PressComposer
Fix issue with capturing the pointer in touch to make nested composers work better only the most outer one would capture the event. PressComposer now only works with a one touch press gesture. Removed touch listeners on correct phase to stop leaking listeners.
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Montage
Bump Mr version to 0.13.4. Fixes an issue caused by a Safari bug on the very first load. Montage would not work at all because promises engine couldn't work.
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Template
Fixed bug with relative url's not working in image and iframes elements.
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NumberConverter
New property "forceDecimals" that adds 0's to the decimal part of a number to make sure it has the number of decimals specified in the "decimals" property. It is set to
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AbstractButton
Fixed an issue with the
enabled
property that wouldn't be respected when set tofalse
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TranslateComposer
Added support to the standard
wheel
event. This was an issue in Firefox. -
Blueprint
Fixed a bug in the cardinality initialization. Fixed a bug in the AbstractSelect blueprint.
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Flow
Fixed a bug in the Flow selection where an hidden iteration could become deselected.
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MediaController
Overhaul change to the MediaController API.
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AbstractVideo
New abstract UI type - AbstractVideo - It provides an API and the base code to implement a video ui widget. An example of its usage can be found in the digit Video component.
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Flow
Fixed a bug that was braking future usage of a TranslateComposer. If the flow was the first component to be interacted with a slider (that uses the TranslateComposer internally) wouldn't be able to slide.
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Montage
window.Touch fix for desktop browsers (Chrome 29 in particular).
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Template
Fix templateDidLoad not being called on component templates with no serialization.
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Flow
Fix flow animating without having the pointer. Enhance mouse wheel heuristics. Fix translateStart/End issues.
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TextField
Reject value change when user is editing.
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Components
Add AbstractToggleSwitch.
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Repetition
Fix repetition to correctly add the
selected
class to iterations' elements that are components too. -
Overlay
It enters and exists the document everytime it is shown or hidden.
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AbstractSlider
Add active state. Add vertical mode.
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AbstractTextArea
Fix issue with null placeholder text.
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Target
Removed
willSurrenderActiveTarget
and addedsurrendersActiveTarget
that asks the target to surrender the activeTarget status. -
Several bug fixes
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Component
Rename leaveDocument (mistake) to exitDocument
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RangeController
Check content exists before attempting to read contentConstructor
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TreeController
New APIs see dead18372cfdbce8238315f7e956c0f9c483ee36
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Serialization
Added 'module reference' type to be able to deserialize and require a CommonJS module.
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Template
Fixed an issue when using a 'clear' label in the serialization
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Loader
Better error reporting when missing/wrong 'main' module/object information
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Repetition
Fixed bugs in childComponents management so that they are properly cleaned up.
Base Components
Add delegate methods to AbstractTextField Improvement to keyboard handling in AbstractNumberField
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Flow
Performance improvements. Better support of Firefox/IE10
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Documentation
Improvements to the converter documentation.
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RangeController
addContent()
added to allow direct creation of objects in the content of the RangeController. seecontentConstructor
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UndoManager
UndoManager now accepts promises and batching.
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Repetition
Pressing on an already selected iteration now does nothing instead of toggling it.
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Flow
Flow is now positioned absolute so that it expands to fill all the available space.
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AbstractSlider
The slider now uses a translate3d to take advantage of gpu acceleration.
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Directory Structure
All non-components have been moved from the ui directory to the core directory. Composers have been moved to the root directory.
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Core
Montage.create()
has been replaced by aspecialize
method on the constructor. Thespecialize
method returns a constructor function that can be invoked with thenew
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FRB bindings
Functional Reactive Bindings (FRB) have replaced the old bindings. More info >
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Component
Lifecycle methods
(See also Component draw cycle.)
enterDocument
is called every time the component's element is added to the DOM. WhenenterDocument
is called the element is already in the DOM. The first timeenterDocument
is called, a Boolean with valuetrue
is passed in. In this situationenterDocument
replacesprepareForDraw
.exitDocument
is called every time the component's element is removed from the DOM. WhenexitDocument
is called the element is still in the DOM.dispose
is called when the component is discarded.
classList
Added a
classList
property to all component instances. You can use this property with the same API as the element'sclassList
without impacting the draw cycle performance. The property can be used to great effect with FRB bindings to do things like:classList.has('complete') <- @owner.isComplete
.DOM arguments
Components can now receive DOM arguments. A DOM argument is specified in the component markup by adding a
data-arg
attribute and assign a name to its value. DOM arguments can be referenced after the firstenterDocument
with theextractDomArgument(name)
method. When a component has a Template with parameters, each template parameter element is replaced with the corresponding component argument element. -
Template
Templates can now have DOM parameters. A DOM parameter is specified in a template using the
data-param
attribute on the DOM node that represents the parameter.data-param
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Serialization
A lot of the serialization code has been refactored to a separate project mousse and made more generic.
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Components
The contents of the montage/ui directory have been split between the ui directories of the core montage framework and the digit, matte, and native template packages. The montage/ui directory now contains the following directories:
- base (contains abstract components, described below)
- condition.reel
- flow.reel
- loader.reel
- overlay.reel
- repetition.reel
- slot.reel
- [substitution.reel](http://montagejs.org/docs/substitution-component .html)
- text.reel (replaces dynamic-text.reel)
- component.js
Substitution
The substitution's API has substantially changed to a template based approach that makes use of the new component arguments API.
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Abstract components
In an effort to make basic components easier to create and more consistent, the abstract components now provide a super class that widget sets can specialize with their own template. This is how the digit widgets are implemented.
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Core
require The package/module loader was refactored into a separate package named mr (Montage Require). This project can be now be used independently from Montage itself.
promise The promise module was refactored so that it uses Q instead of it's own copy.
Fixed issue in distinct property descriptor
Better support for WebWorkers.
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Serialization
Changed the serializable defaults of properties defined using
Montage.defineProperty|ies
to reduce the amount of times the developer needs to specify a different behavior from the default. The default used to be false in all cases, now it is true unless the property is non enumerable or non writable (writable: false
or has aget
but noset
). Improved the handling of serialization across iframes by more accurately identifying object types. Added more delegate methods. -
Events
Added a dispatchEventNamed convenience method and improved event wrapping in general.
All events can now be observed on the application.
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Template
Added
instantiateWithInstancesAndDocument
method.Added templateObjects to expose the objects used in the template's serialization block.
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Component
Added querySelector[All]Component to query the component tree.
Added templateObjects so that the component can easily access the object references form it's template's serialization. It also allows the component to pass in instances so that these are used instead of being instantiated when the template is loaded.
Added component definition support to Component, this allows the component to programmatically expose it's API.
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multi-window
Added multi-window application support. When used extra windows can be opened within the same application.
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Various
ArrayController now returns the objects when removing form it's contents.
Added InvertConverter.
Some fixes in TranslateComposer to respect the return value when stealing the pointer;
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CSS
Changed all class names use by Montage to adhere to our new Naming Convention.
Added global disabled style
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Components
Some styling improvements
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Flow now can do elastic scrolling which allows the spacing of the repeated items to be vary with speed. Recycling of dom nodes was also improved by adding a no-transition class so that css effects are reset as the tile is reused. The flow now also exposes a slotContent property which allows another component to be placed inside the 3d scene.
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DynamicElement doesn't always empty it's content.
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Usability improvements to InputRange on mobile.
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Rich Text Editor no longer prevents other input fields in the same page from getting the focus, other small bug fixes
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Extras
Object Added
values
andmap
to Object.Element Added
isElement
to Element.RegExp Added
isRegExp
to RegExp. -
Tools
-
Optimizer
- Added Montage Optimizer
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Mint
- Improved error reporting for globals.
- Added support for linting directories.
- Added ability to ignore filenames.
- Added correct copyright linter.
- Added JSDoc linter.
- Added command line option to select linters to run.
- Added --debug parameter.
- Improved documentation.
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Minit
- Added Application template
- Better destination for component template.
- Small bug fixes
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Sample Applications
Sample application have been moved to individual repositories.
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New skeleton components
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New TextSlider component
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New willFinishLoading delegate method on the application delegate
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A classList property on the Dynamic Element to more conveniently toggle classes
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Better support of different document context in serialization
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New property change API
In prior Montage releases if you wanted to be notified when the value of a property changed, or an array was modified, you used the addEventListener() API to register a listener object (or function). This API has been replaced with addPropertyChangeListener(), which does everything that addEventListener() did, plus more.
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Changes to data binding
In this release, bindings can only be serialized on the source object in the binding. Practically, this means that the arrow in the binding serialization can only point from right-to-left, not from left-to-right. Also, the double-arrow syntax (<<->, for example) is no longer valid.
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debugChangeNotifications()
To help debug and inspect change listeners that you’ve registered on an object, call debugChangeNotifications() This is temporary stop gap which will be replaced by better debugging tools soon.
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KeyComposer and KeyManager
Montage now includes a mechanism for easily listening for and responding to keyboard events, including individual keys, or key combinations that you specify. It consists of two Montage objects: KeyComposer and KeyManager. You create a KeyComposer object and specify the keys, or key combinations, that you want to respond to, as well as the listener object that defines the necessary handlers. A default instance of the KeyManager prototype listens for native key events on behalf of all active KeyComposers. It then invokes a callback method on the listener object you specified.
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TokenField
The TokenField component is a text input component that displays tokens as its content.
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Flow component
The Flow component now supports selection handling and a feature called “stride”. The stride of a Flow component defines points at regular intervals where scrolling should stop. For example, suppose you are creating a carousel of album covers and you want the scrolling to stop when it reaches a position where the next album is always positioned at the center. In this case the stride value would be the scroll distance between an element at the center and the next element at the center. If you wanted scrolling to stop at every second or third album you would set a stride to double or triple of that value. That way you could have, for example, a page showing 10 albums, and you would be able to scroll 10 albums at a time, never stopping in the middle.
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DynamicElement
The DynamicElement component takes a string of plain text or HTML and inserts it into the component’s associated DOM element, clearing any existing content.
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Draw cycle changes
After the willDraw phase all the components needing draw are sorted by their level in the component hierarchy. They are then processed in reverse order. This ensures that all the childComponents needing draw have drawn by the time the parent's draw is called. The didDraw uses the same list but processes the componets in top down order (the reverse of draw)
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Components
Autocomplete Textfield Added An Autocomplete Textfield extends the Textfield component to support suggestions for the user to pick values. The HTML markup for the Autocomplete is the same as the standard HTML5 markup (). Wrapping the HTMLElement as a Montage Autocomplete component adds Data Binding support for all writable attributes of this element and allows the Developer to provide suggestions to the user based on the entered value.
Popup Support HTMLElement and Montage Component for the anchor property Change willPositionPopup(popup, anchor, anchorPosition) to willPosition(popup, defaultPosition). Change autoDismiss to autoHide Support autoHide only for non-modal popups Support string values (eg: 20px, 30%) for position parameters. If a number is provided, default to 'px'.
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Template
instantiateWithDocument(document, callback)
method is added to use plain html templates without an owner.Backwards compatibility for id attribute based references in serilization is removed, you should now use the data-montage-id attribute.
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Data binding shorthand in serializations
This release introduces a new shorthand syntax for declaring data bindings in a serialization. The new syntax includes an arrow symbol that indicates the source of the binding and whether its one-way or two-way.The symbol can take one of the following forms:
<-
– One-way data binding, bound object on right->
– One-way data binding, bound object on left<<->
– Two-way data binding, bound object on right<->>
– Two-way data binding, bound object on leftExample:
{ "inputText": { "prototype": "textfield", "bindings": { "value": {"<-": "@slider.value"} } } }
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RichTextEditor component
RichTextEditor is a lightweight component that provides basic HTML editing capability. It is wrapper around the HTML5 contentEditable attribute, and depends on the browser’s level of support of the execCommand() method. The RichTextEditor lets you set, on a specific text selection range, various formatting attributes including text and font styles, colors, justification, list style and paragraph indent level. It also supports drag-and-drop of images, plain text, or HTML fragments between two HTML documents, or the desktop and the document. Images can also be resized within the editor.
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Flow component
This release introduces the first drop of the Flow component. Flow is UI component that allows the design of scrollable 3D-layouts. Flow is useful for creating a wide range of visual interfaces from 3D carousels to common vertical and horizontal scrollable lists.
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Extending components
There are three options to extend a component’s template:
- If the extended component doesn’t wish to introduce changes in the template, the component can set its templateModuleId property to point to the parent module’s template.
- Create a new template that will completely redefine the markup of the component with no relation to the original template.
- Set the extends property of the template that points to the template to be imported and where. This is similar to the “decorator” pattern of the proposed Web Components feature. This approach is useful when the component needs to add additional CSS data, or reuse the original markup. The template object will be accessible through the template label of the serialization.
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Auto packaging
Many applications will initially only use their own modules and those provided by the Montage package. As long as that’s the case, you do not need to make a package.json; just put the data-auto-package attribute on your Montage script tag.
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Pop-up component updates
The Popup component API has been updated to provide better support for popup positioning.
anchor
The HTMLElement or Montage component below which the popup will be anchored on the page. To specify a custom position for a popup, use a delegate (see below). If an anchor is not provided, the position property is used, if provided. If no positioning support is provided, the Popup is displayed at the center of the screen by default.position
An object with properties named top, left, bottom and right that specify the position of the popup. This property is used to position the popup if no anchor is specified.delegate
An object that defines methods that are invoked by the Popup component. The only delegate method currently supported is willPositionPopup(). This method must return an object with any of the following properties: top, left, bottom or right. Values assigned to these properties must strings in valid CSS units (“10px” or “50%”).content
The Montage component that will be displayed in the popup.modal
If set to true, the popup is rendered with a mask underneath. A non-modal popup is hidden when the user presses the Esc key, or clicks outside of the popup. The developer is responsible for hiding a modal popup. Default is false. Modal popups never auto-hide themselves.autoHide
Optional. The popup will be automatically hidden after the specified number of milliseconds. This property has no effect on modal popups.
-
Adding
ownerComponent
property to the Component. When the template is deserialized we populate the ownerComponent property of any component created within it's serialization with the owner of the template. -
Adding
setElementWithParentComponent
function on the Component. This formalizes the API to set a detached element to a component. The caller is responsible for appending the element to the DOM before prepareForDraw is called on the callee. -
Serialization changes
- Specifying types and references
-
Changed the way we specify an object by merging the module id and the name into only one string using
"<module>[<name>]"
(e.g.:"montage/ui/button.reel[Button]"
). When the name matches the last part of the module id then it's automatically inferred and there's no need to provide it. The last part of the module id is considered to be the last path component (e.g.:"event-name"
in"montage/event/event-name"
) transformed to CamelCase with dashes stripped (e.g.:"EventName"
). When the last path component ends with".reel"
then the component is considered without its".reel"
suffix (e.g:"RadioButton"
for"montage/ui/radio-button.reel"
). Under these new rules we reach the following equivalence:"montage/ui/button.reel[Button]" === "montage/ui/button.reel"
. -
The possibility to point to an object instead of just being able to declare an instance of a specific prototype. We were using the pair
module/name
to declare an instance of that prototype, with this new change only one property is needed --prototype
-- using the rules defined in 1). If, instead of a new object, we just want to point to an existing one the newobject
property name should be used.In practice this means a change from:
```javascript { "label": { "module": "montage/ui/button.reel", "name": "Button", "properties": {...} } } ```
to
javascript { "label": { "prototype": "montage/ui/button.reel", "properties": {...} } }
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- Serialization labels are now used as the value of the identifier property by default.
- Specifying types and references
-
Properties with a leading underscore in their name are now {enumerable: false} by default. i.e. defining a property as
javascript _name: {value: null}
is equivalent to doingjavascript _name: {value: null, enumerable:false}
-
Components
- Repetition: Adding indexMap property to provide the necessary underpinnings for large data handling.
- SelectInput: Adding values and value property to be able to bind directly to the value of the selected option(s)
- Scroller: Replaces Scrollview. Now uses the Translate composer.
- Scrollview: deprecated
-
Browser Support
- Better support for Firefox
- Better support for Opera
- Native Controls based on HTML5 input elements
- Composers to add aggregate events and time dependent behaviors as is needed for scroll momentum and bouncing.
- Component Contents to make it easier to use existing wrapper components such as repetition in your own.
- Condition Component API improvements to lazily load parts of your component tree and easily show or hide sections of your page.
- Misc bug fixes and optimizations mostly in the loading of the app and the require/package system..
- Added UndoManager. It stores actions that can later be undone or re-done, example of usage has been added to the PhotoFX example.
- Custom Events now propagate through component tree by default if dispatched on a component.
- Addition of
.didCreate()
MyPrototype.create()
orMontage.create(MyPrototype)
is for instantiation. From v0.5, this will call didCreate() on each begotten instance implicitly for initialization purposes. It does not accept arguments and occurs before the serialization has an opportunity to set initial properties. All parameterized initialization must occur as the result of observing setters on those properties.Montage.create(MyPrototype, {property descriptors})
is for subtyping. This will not call didCreate().
- All components now have the ability to easily dispatch an action event.
- Condition component improvements
- PhotoFX example improvements
- Added flow component for reference purposes, the API is not ready yet.
- IE10 Fixes.
- Bug fixes in:
- Packaging for require
- Dependent properties listening
- Promises
- Selection in ArrayController
- Scrollview
- Various other areas
- Packaging:
- All applications must be packages with
package.json
files. - The
data-package
attribute is no longer necessary and defaults to"./"
, meaning that the application’spackage.json
is in the same directory as the containing HTML.data-package
may be overridden with a relative URL to the directory containingpackage.json
, and must contain a final forward-slash. - The default directory for packaged modules is now the root of
the package instead of
lib
. This can be altered from its default with thedirectories.lib
property inpackage.json
. - require("x.reel") now loads require("x.reel/x.js").
- Removed the run-time
mappings
configuration for module loading. Usemappings
inpackage.json
instead. - require("my-package/my-module") no longer maps to require("my-module") inside of my-package. require("my-package") still maps to require("") which maps to require("my-main-module").
- You can now require a module with the same name as your package, provided that you do not override the "main" property of your package. Previously, there was no default main property.
- All applications must be packages with
- Serializer:
- Each package has its own module identifier name space, so
serializations must be scoped to a package. To identify the
containing package,
Serializer
must be constructed with arequire
argument if the serialization contains any Montage objects.- Added
Serializer.initWithRequire
- Added
Serializer.initWithStringAndRequire
- Added
- Swapped the names
serialize
andserializeObject
.serialize({labels: objects})
andserializeObject(object)
are the new signatures.
- Each package has its own module identifier name space, so
serializations must be scoped to a package. To identify the
containing package,
- Deserializer:
- Swapped
deserialize
anddeserializeObject
. - Renamed
deserializeObjectsWithLabels
todeserializeWithInstances
. - Consolidated
deserializeObjectsWithElement
anddeserializeObjectsWithElementAndLabels
intodeserializeWithInstancesAndElementForDocument
. - Consolidated
deserializeObjectsWithDocument
anddeserializeObjectsWithDocumentAndLabels
intodeserializeWithInstancesAndDocument
.
- Swapped
- Some names have changed to distinguish reels from templates. A
reel is a directory that encapsulates all parts of a reusable
component. The name only exists as the
.reel
extension for such directories. A template is an HTML file for a reel.- Renamed
hasReel
tohasTemplate
. - Renamed
reelDidLoad
totemplateDidLoad
- Renamed
deserializedFromReel
todeserializedFromTemplate
- Renamed
loadReel
toloadTemplate
- Renamed
reelWithModuleId
totemplateWithModuleId
- Renamed
reelWithComponent
totemplateWithComponent
- Renamed
- Components must be styled with CSS classes instead of element identifiers. Identifiers for component elements are no longer generated, and were never generated in a fashion that was consistent after structural changes.
- Removed
prototypeMethod
,prototypeSet
andprototypeGet
convenience methods, any code using these methods will have to be updated to either use the needed prototype directly or useObject.getPrototypeOf(...)
- Added copyright notices to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Normalized files to Unix text encoding.
- Fixed auto-complete textfield.
- Added progress bar test.
- Draw cycle improvements.
- Checkbox animations.
- Module namespace restructured.
- First version before breaking changes.
- New serialization format introduced.