We have just released an updated version of the PMAP demo that is now compatible with Morfik 2.1. This contains a full version of the Tree control.

Please visit the request demo site to get your copy!

Morfik 2.1, a long anticipated release, is out! This promises to be a game changing release in many aspects, especailly custom controls and lego-like building-blocks application development. I’m checking out this new release right now. Be assured our PMAP stuff will be adopted soon ;-) Stay tuned!

New service people! As of today, we are launching Morfik-specific hosting services for those of you who want to focus on your businesses instead of getting into the nitty-gitty details of hosting and the Morfik XApp Hosting service is not adequate for any reason.

Please check out our summary here and do let us know what you think!

Great news folks! Our demo of PMAP (the PannonRex Morfik Advantage Prorgram software kit) is here! What is in it for you?

• PMAPTree control: a flexible tree control supporting XML and JSON, keyboard navigation, and more.
• PMAPCommon module: with tons of useful functions on both the client and server side, like image list handling, hash map handling, high performance string handling, fast XML processing on the client side, and more.
• PMAPDateUtils module: an extensive set of functions to handle date & time tasks natively and some gems like firstDayOfWeek(), nthDayOfWeek(), incDateDays(), getDayOfMonth(), ISO8601ToDateTime() ,  and more.
• The PMAPTree control demo application with various examples of how to use the tree and how to populate it from various sources, among other things.
• A number of patches to the Morfik FrameWork code, making development more efficient and adding some new functionality.

All the above stuff is tested with Morfik FX 2.0.5.18 & 2.0.5.27 and is only a click away, so don’t hesitate! We are very liberal with the demo license as well: you can use the full version components included in the demo in live applications. All we ask is give us feedback and credit in your apps!

So go and request your demo package today!

Hi Just a quick note to let the Morfik community know: I was able to port the analog clock to Morfik in like 4 hours from not knowing anything about the new way of life to production code. The new custom control architecture is far superior to the previous one, although not for the faint hearted. And some enhancements (like length (e.g. 4px), TColor and TFont properties) would be in order!

I’ll add some more features and then the Clock joins the PMAP control collection!

A more detailed account to come…

Yes! Morfik 2.0 is out at last! After a very long hiatus (the last true “beta” was released sometime early summer) the new Morfik 2.0 Web Application Builder is out.

I’m (quite:-) closely following the Morfik saga since late 2005 and did have many long discussions with Aram, Fuad, Mauricio and Shah about direction in the past three years, sometimes pretty heated chats about the vision and execution, so I’m not an unanimous supporter of everything Morfik, but version 2 is a very significant step in the good direction.

The new visual design concept with themes, states, popup customization, etc. is a major step forward for web application design. I see real innovation here.  Go and check out the tutorial videos, it is worthwhile! I wouldn’t say that I’m fond of the sixties look of the new demo apps (and of the new Morfik site itself), but the design flexibility is impressive and the functionality seems to be very well thought out.

I’ll be looking into the new version in the coming days and weeks (we do have some projects that now will have to be ported anyway, especially our PMAP controls and libraries), so stay tuned for new comments to come.

Finally it is up & running! Our GanttProto demo application is up on appspot.com. My goal was to see how such a complex visual control can be done in the browser after one developer told me that it was impossible :-) I did have a suspicion that it is doable, based on my experience with the Calendar control, but you never know… :-) At the same token it is also a good test-case for our PMAP Grid control (coming in another announcement soon).

Read on for technical details…

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Today we released version 20070925 of the PMAP tree view component with some quick fixes.

Highlights:

• Enhanced Opera keyboard support (still with some visuals issues)
• Fixed a bug when clicking to the left of a leaf node (thanks JM!)
• Surfaced getTreeNodeByExternalID() so that you can use it to find a particular node of interest independently of the tree structure or of the actual (language dependent) title of the node (you will have to set the external ID before using this function ;-)
• The demo app displays the version string of the tree control in the Log upon startup.

Our PMAP partners are receiving the latest builds today.

Happy coding!

Today we released version 20070912 of the PMAP tree view component.

Highlights:

• Fully supports Safari and works on Opera (with some keyboard handling and visuals issues)
• A new property (SelectionColor) is introduced to make it easier to set the selection color (no need for editing the css file any more)
• Tree nodes now can be expanded with the left & right arrow keys in addition to using Enter
• The demo app has been updated.

Our PMAP partners are receiving the latest builds today.

Happy coding!

We have released the initial documentation set for the tree view control here in the blog.

Please go to the PMAP page and then click on the Navigation panel on the right to access the documentation.

Make sure you drop your comments so that we know what you would like to see improved!