Please visit the request demo site to get your copy!

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

• 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!

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

A more detailed account to come…

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.

Read on for technical details…

This is a prototype of a fully interactive (i.e. editable) Gantt (project) diagram created entirely with HTML & DOM, without any plugins/Canvas/VML/SVG whatsoever. We use only a minimum set of graphics (e.g. the project milestone diamond is one graphic image).

The client side was developed with Morfik, and we used Morfik M2 Beta 2.0.2.1 to create the browser application. It is hosted on Google App Engine, so the server side is written in Python (at the moment not much there:-). BTW since most of the code is independent from the Morfik Framework (does direct DOM manipulation), it is an easy port to straight JavaScript or to other toolkits, so let me know if you are interested…

Morfik M2 worked pretty well (it is a beauty), I needed it badly to create a client-only (or “Express”) version of the demo, so that I can host it on Google App Engine. Porting the code from the 1.x branch was pretty straightforward, even some issues have been fixed in the framework, although I still had to (re-)apply some of my patches :-) I did not use the fabulous effects library yet, as it does not work with IE in the current beta. Google App Engine was a snap to use – kudos to Shah Besharati for the integration sample! BTW I ended up using Komodo Edit 4.3 (free) for the GAE work – pretty neat.

Right now the Gantt is not really functional, all you can do is resizing columns, resizing the left/right side, expanding/collapsing WBS nodes, dragging and re-sizing task bars (without much effect on task data:-) and scrolling around (Alt+mouse scroll wheel will scroll horizontally). You can also switch between two visual themes. We will add more functionality later.

You can play with it freely, will not write anything back to the server. It is running on a high availability server, so I’m interested if you will have any issues.

In the next couple of weeks I’ll be working on the smarts behind the scenes to make it really functional. I’m open to ideas how to make it really useful, especially in a Web 2.0 way, so please keep the comments coming!

More later…

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!

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!

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!