Ext JS 3.2RC1 released

[edspencer]

We're pleased to release the first Release Candidate build of Ext JS 3.2 today. The recent 3.2 beta has been received very well and has had a minimal number of bugs reported so I hope we can move swiftly to final.

We'll issue a blog post when final hits (probably next week), but in the interim I'd greatly appreciate any feedback from people using the 3.2RC - as always, the bug forum is the place to post any bugs you encounter

Changes since the beta:

* Significant HBox and VBox layout speed improvements
* Moved Ext.ux.SliderTip to Ext.slider.Tip, included in ext-all builds
* Moved Ext.ux.form.SliderField to Ext.form.SliderField, included in ext-all builds
* Performance improvements to AnchorLayout and ColumnLayout
* Fixed a bug with the new Slider implementation
* enableBubble moved from Container to Component
* Fixed IE6 rendering glitch when using 'under' as the target for errors on a CompositeField
* New Themes Viewer example
* Updated the YUI charts version from 2.7.0 to 2.8.0
* Numerous performance enhancements and bug fixes

You can download the Ext JS 3.2RC1 here, and view the examples and documentation online.

Thanks and enjoy the release.

[conorarmstrong]

Excellent work guys! Well done!

The composite field is the killer extra feature for me.

Looking forward to the full release...

[steffenk]

Hey, great! The themeviewer example is an excellent one to see most components with the theme, thanks!
And yes, i love the composite field too. I love the whole framework!

[meroy]

+1 from me. It's a joy to develop with Ext JS.

[Max_nl]

* Significant HBox and VBox layout speed improvements

Any details on how these are achieved, and if that may require changes to existing code?


My project worked fine with 3.1, but no longer works properly in 3.2RC1 and I'm not sure how to debug that.

Basically what I have is:

- a border layout.
- in the east region a Panel with cardlayout layout and different cards in it.
- what card is shown depends on what the user clicked in the center region.

One of the cards uses vbox layout, and is giving issues.
When activated it initially only shows the title of the card, and not the contents.
If I resize the border layout regions, it does display the contents of the card properly.

[edspencer]

Any details on how these are achieved, and if that may require changes to existing code?

The previous code was doing the right thing (usually) but in an inefficient way. We removed most (hopefully all) of the inefficiencies in the code and made it more amenable to unit testing.

We put it through a lot of testing internally in different edge case situations but it sounds like we missed something. Would you mind filing a full bug report on the bugs forum so that we can get this addressed for 3.2 final?

[BlueCamel]

Changes since the beta:
* enableBubble moved from Container to Component

What is enableBubble? I searched the API docs for this and could only get matches on the bubble method. Is this the same thing?

EDIT: Never mind! I did find it using browser search as a method of component. For what ever it's worth, searching 'enableBubble' in the API docs search field didn't return any hits. Not sure why.

[meroy]

One of the cards uses vbox layout, and is giving issues.

Have you tried setting layoutOnCardChange to true. The issue you described may be coming from the slight optimization made to CardLayout for the 3.2 release.

      ...
      layout: 'card',
      layoutConfig: {
         layoutOnCardChange: true,
         deferredRender: true
      },
      ...

[Max_nl]

Have you tried setting layoutOnCardChange to true. The issue you described may be coming from the slight optimization made to CardLayout for the 3.2 release.

Thanks for the tip.
Setting layoutOnCardChange indeed solves it.


Created a bug nevertheless: http://www.extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?p=450384

[js_coder]

I notice that tests are distributed with 3.2. How can I run the test suite (how can I get it)?