Presentation styles changes

Modifications to consider when using presentation styles.

New Table.showGrid style attribute

Starting with GBC 4.00.01, the TABLE and TREE containers can configured to display vertical and horizontal lines individually, with the showGrid style attribute.

For more details, see Table and Tree style attributes reference pages and Showing table grid lines.

New Table.alternateRows style attribute

Starting with GBC 4.00.01, the TABLE and TREE containers can use the alternateRows style attribute to render odd/even rows with a different background color.

For more details, see Table and Tree style attributes reference pages and Alternate background color of odd/even rows.

New Table.rowHover style attribute

Starting with GBC 4.00.01, the rowHover style attribute for TABLE and TREE containers can be used to disable visual effects when the mouse hovers a given row.

For more details, see Table and Tree style attributes reference pages and Distinguish row on mouse hover.

Changes with Window.toolbarPosition style attribute

Starting with GBC 4.00.01, the toolbarPosition style attribute for Window objects supports now the "bottom" position.

For more details, see Window style attributes reference page.

New Toolbar style attributes

Starting with GBC 4.00.03, Toolbars can be configured with the aspect, itemsAlignment and "size" style attributes, to define the rendering and placement of buttons, as well as the arrangements of icons and texts and button sizes.

For more details, see Toolbar style attributes reference page.

Changes with UserInterface.browserMultiPage style attribute

Starting with GBC 4.00.02, when using the GBC front-end with a GAS/web browser, the browserMultiPage style attribute for UserInterface defines if the forms of a child program are displayed in a different folder tab, only if the child program was started with RUN ... WITHOUT WAITING. In prior GBC versions, child programs started with RUN (not using the WITHOUT WAITING clause) also displayed in a separate brower tab. This makes not much sense, as the parent program is frozen and waits for the child program to terminate. Consequently, browserMultiPage=yes has no more effect with a simple RUN instruction and child program forms will display in the same browser tab displaying parent program forms.

For more details, see browserMultiPage.

New UserInterface.desktopMultiWindow style attribute

Starting with GBC 4.00.03, when using the GDC front-end, the desktopMultiWindow style attribute for UserInterface defines if program forms are displayed in the same unique window container, or in a dedicated window container.

For more details, see desktopMultiWindow.

New UserInterface.applicationListVisible style attribute

Starting with GBC 4.00.03, the applicationListVisible style attribute for UserInterface can be used to define the visibility of the list of programs displaying on the front-end.

For more details, see applicationListVisible.

New UserInterface.windowListVisible style attribute

Starting with GBC 4.00.03, the windowListVisible style attribute for UserInterface can be used to define the visibility of the list of windows opened by the current program.

For more details, see windowListVisible.

Deprecated style attributes

The following style attributes are deprecated:
  • Toolbar
    • toolBarTextPosition (use aspect style attribute instead)

Desupported style attributes

The following style attributes are desupported, as a consequence of common Universal Rendering using GBC on all front-ends (there is no more Native Rendering mode):
  • Common style attributes
    • localAccelerators common style attribute
    • showAcceleratorInToolTip common style attribute
  • ComboBox
    • autoSelectionStart
    • comboboxCompleter
    • completionTimeout
    • qtStyle (QT lib specific feature)
  • Action/MenuAction
    • androidActionPosition
    • androidActionWithIcon
    • androidActionWithText
  • CheckBox
    • iosCheckBoxOnTintColor
  • DateEdit
    • showGrid
  • DateTimeEdit
    • enableCalendar
    • showGrid
  • Edit
    • dataTypeHint (use KEYBOARDHINT form field attribute instead)
    • spellCheck (with GBC, browser spell check is used)
  • Form
    • resetFormSize
  • Image
    • imageContainerType (was anyway GDC-experimental, use WEBCOMPONENT instead)
  • Menu
    • position
  • Message
    • position
  • RadioGroup
    • autoSelectionStart
    • completionTimeout
  • Table
  • Tree
  • TextEdit
    • integratedSearch
    • spellCheck (with GBC, browser spell check is used)
  • ToolBar
  • Window
    • Core:
      • border (as the desktop window border)
      • errorMessagePosition
      • formScroll
      • ignoreMinimizeSetting
      • menuPopupPosition
      • messagePosition
      • statusBarType
      • position: values "center2" and "previous"
      • tabbedContainerCloseMethod
      • toolBarDocking
      • windowMenu
      • windowOptionMaximize
      • windowOptionMinimize
      • windowSystemMenu
    • Action Panel:
      • actionPanelButtonSize
      • actionPanelButtonSpace
      • actionPanelButtonTextAlign
      • actionPanelButtonTextHidden
      • actionPanelDecoration
      • actionPanelHAlign
      • actionPanelScroll
      • actionPanelScrollStep
    • Ring Menu:
      • ringMenuButtonSize
      • ringMenuButtonSpace
      • ringMenuButtonTextAlign
      • ringMenuButtonTextHidden
      • ringMenuDecoration
      • ringMenuHAlign
      • ringMenuScroll
      • ringMenuScrollStep
    • Start Menu:
      • startMenuAccelerator
      • startMenuExecShortcut2
      • startMenuShortcut
      • startMenuSize
    • Mobile Specific:
      • materialFABActionList
      • materialFABType
      • iosRenderSystemActions
      • iosTintColor
      • iosNavigationBarTextColor
      • iosNavigationBarTintColor
      • iosToolBarTintColor
      • iosTabBarTintColor
      • iosTabBarUnselectedColor

Changes in earlier versions

Make sure to check the upgrade notes of earlier versions, to not miss changes introduced in maintenance releases. For more details, see Presentation style changes in BDL 3.20.

Notable changes introduced in maintenance releases:
  • The sanitize style attribute, also available since GBC 4.00.01.
  • The Folder.lateRendering style attribute, also available since GBC 4.00.02.