|
General note:
The preview version is a working compiled version, which is intended to provide a technology preview peak into the new exiting features of the next version.
Gizmox is obligated to the process of stabilizing the major technology concepts presented during the future previews versions releases and until the release candidate of version 6.4. However, along the process, Gizmox may change functionalities, behaviors, structures, formats and developer objects naming according to the progress and maturity process of the technology and community feedback, therefore, it is not recommended to make intensive development use on top of the first previews.
The first preview versions will be free of charge and will not contain licensing restrictions, however, Gizmox is free to determine when, during this previewing progress the product becomes stable enough and require *commercial activation.
*The Express Studio will always remain a free open source version.
Contents and exclusion notes:
The following list provides the major known distinction between the different functionality levels of the different features of the platform. In addition, there might be other un-known incomplete features and inconsistent behaviors within the platform.
- Full skin-ability, documentation & UI customization support for the following set of visual controls:
- Button
- Form
- GroupBox
- HeaderPanel
- ListView
- MainMenu
- Menu
- MonthCalender
- NavigationTabs
- ProgressBar
- PropertyGrid
- RibbonBar
- TabControl
- ToolBar
- WorkSpaceTabs
- A set of exciting new sample themes, which were created using the new skin designer, is released along with the preview version:
- Black
- Facebook-like
- Gmail-like
- Google Analytics-like
- Partial or not fully documented skinning & UI customization support for all other controls/capabilities except for those in the following item (3).
- Major temporarily (for P1) non-skin-able controls/capabilities:
- Scroll-bars
- DataGridView
- DateTimePicker
- Silverlight (completely non-skin-able)
- High scalability optimizations for fast and minimal state persistence process is over all the system’s capabilities except for:
- PropertyGrid
- BindingSource (and BindingNavigator that cannot function without BindingSource)
- Beta-level supported browsers: Chrome, Safari, Opera
- Preview-level support (new feature): Skin & control level designers
- Major “suspects” for instability and/or incompleteness in preview 1:
- DataGridView
- DateTimePicker
- Support for IE 8
- Silverlight support
- Menus/Context menus
- General popup mechanism
Read 6.4 Preview 1 Change log...
|