Wijmo 2020 v2 has Landed
Wijmo 2020 v2 has landed. This release includes new Barcode and TransposedMultiRow components, new custom editors for FlexGrid, new PDF security features, and much more. We are also announcing support for Angular 10 as well as Vue 3!
Let's dive in.
Angular 10 Support
Angular 10 has just released, and Wijmo already supports it! As always, we are committed to supporting the Angular project and its community.
As of 2020 v2, we are shipping ESModules. Previously, we had to disable ESM for compatibility with Angular 7 and 8 and an issue in the AOT (ViewEngine). Now, we have enabled ESM and Wijmo will work seamlessly with the compiler.
Read more about Wijmo and Angular 10.
Wijmo Performance Gains in Angular 10
Now that the Ivy compiler is tree-shaking and making smaller packages and Wijmo provides ESModules, your applications will be smaller than ever. The compiler will remove any unused modules and compile only the JS needed for production. When we tested, we saw about a 40% reduction in sizes of Wijmo application bundles after enabling ESM and upgrading to Angular 10.
Vue 3 Support
Vue 3 is currently in beta. We are also releasing a beta version of Vue 3 support. Wijmo's Vue 2 package is compatible with Vue 3. We will continue to test against Vue 3 as it nears official release.
Read more about Wijmo and Vue 3.
OpenFin Platform API Demo App
Wijmo Stock Portfolio is a financial sample that demonstrates the usage of Wijmo Components in an OpenFin application. The previous version of this app loaded multiple OpenFin applications in separate windows, allowing the user to organize the desired workspace.
OpenFin's new Platform API provides the ability to organize windows & views into logical workspaces out-of-the-box. The new Stock Portfolio App uses OpenFin Platform API and Wijmo Components.
Read more about the Wijmo Stock Portfolio.
Barcode Control for JavaScript, Angular, React, and Vue
We have added new barcode components for creating 26 types of barcodes from QR Codes to UPC barcodes. Barcodes represent data in a visual, but a machine-readable way. They are used around the world to share and track information. Wijmo barcodes are rendered completely in JavaScript and require no server-side dependency.
Try our live demos in the framework of your choice:
Read more about barcodes for JavaScript, Angular, React, and Vue applications.
Custom Editors in FlexGrid
FlexGrid has always had fast editing similar to Excel. But many customers want a richer editing experience based on data types. We offered ways of doing this before, but they required custom coding. Now, we introducing custom editors for FlexGrid columns.
Now you can specify custom editor controls using a single "editor" property on the Column class. The editor property simply needs to have an instance of a Wijmo input passed to it. You can use any Wijmo input that you want, including Date Picker, Numeric Textbox, AutoComplete, Color Picker, and more!
Take a look at the default editor (a simple textbox):
Compared to a custom editor using InputDate:
With custom editors for FlexGrid, you can really improve the user experience when editing data in a grid.
- JavaScript Grid Custom Editors Demo
- Angular Grid Custom Editors Demo
- React Grid Custom Editors Demo
- Vue Grid Custom Editors Demo
Read more about custom editors for FlexGrid.
PDF Security
We have introduced a new wijmo.pdf.security module that offers some nice features for protecting PDF files. This new module gives you the ability to password protect PDF files. This includes the ability to specify a separate user password and owner password.
You can also define permissions for the PDF document including:
- Annotating
- ContentAccessibility
- Copying
- DocumentAssembly
- FillingForms
- Modifying
- Printing
You can try our demos to test these settings yourself!
- JavaScript PDF Security Demo
- Angular PDF Security Demo
- React PDF Security Demo
- Vue PDF Security Demo
New TransposedMultiRow Component
This component is a specific request from some of our customers in Japan. MultiRow is a popular UI convention in Japan and Transposing Views can be popular too. We have had a MultiRow component and also a TransposedGrid component. Now we have combined these two visualization techniques into TransposedMultiRow.
The MultiRow aspect allows you to defined multi-row layouts for a single record in a grid. Traditionally, there is a single visual row, but MultiRow breaks that paradigm. The transpose aspect is to repeat the records horizontally instead of vertically like in a traditional grid.
Here is an example of a MultiRow:
And our new TransposedMultiRow using the same data:
Note that the records scroll horizontally instead of vertically.
Feel free to try these for yourself in our live demos:
Chris Bannon