What's inside

ActiveWidgets 2.5 is a UI component library which is implemented in javascript and runs inside the web browser. ActiveWidgets controls generate html on the client-side and can communicate with the server asynchronously using XMLHTTPRequest object (AJAX-style).

ActiveWidgets library includes powerful datagrid control, collection of the standard form elements, data formatting and validation classes and simple XMLHTTPRequest wrapper.

What's new

Version 2.5.2 adds support for Firefox 3.0 and Opera 9.5. This version also fixes few bugs found in the 2.5.1 release.

ActiveWidgets 2.5 includes major improvements in browser support, performance, visual themes, API and end-user functionality.

The new version works in all major browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

The new implementation of the 'virtual scrolling' in the grid control allows 2x-3x faster initialization and scrolling. The performance improvements are especially noticeable in grids with the large number of columns (50-100) as the grid now renders only the cells in the visible area instead of the full row.

ActiveWidgets 2.5 also adds two new visual themes - 'vista' and 'system'. The 'system' theme combines vista, xp, aqua and classic themes into one package so that the theme appearance matches the current user operating system.

The grid control now supports copy/paste operations, has new navigation/selection api, allows using text indices for better handling of JSON datasets and many other improvements.

Examples

Visual themes -

• System: quirks, strict
• Vista: quirks, strict
• XP: quirks, strict
• Aqua: quirks, strict
• Classic: quirks, strict
• Mono: quirks, strict

Datagrid -

• Virtual scrolling demo (up to 100,000 records)
• Updating 'realtime' quotes demo
• Using images and other controls.

See all examples here.

Where to start

Have a look at the source code of the files inside /examples/quickref/ folder and other examples.

The reference documentation and tutorial/examples are available at the ActiveWidgets website.

Installation

Just copy /runtime folder to your webserver.

Debugging and Source Code

ActiveWidgets library is provided both in compressed format (/runtime folder) and in full source code form (/source folder).

Support Forum

The best place to find more information about the grid library is ActiveWidgets support forum. You may find that someone already had a similar problem and found a solution and we would be very grateful if you share your own experience with us and other developers.

Thank you very much!

ActiveWidgets developers.