Aranea Blog

After some time of waiting and debugging we are proud to present Aranea MVC 1.2 as production-ready. Please visit our downloads page to download your copy, read the migration guide, and explore the demo application here.

Among its features I would like to point out some that should pay for the worth of upgrading:

• browser history navigation support so that the back and forward buttons take you to the pages you have visited and continue there (of course, this optional)
• updated dependency scripts to provide up-to-date functionality together with bug and performance fixes, now you can enjoy the latest features of protoypeJS, script.aculo.us, tinyMCE

There are also many minor changes to improve performance, e.g.:

• generated SQL is better (“x < y OR x = y” vs. “x <= y”)
• SelectControl and MultiSelectControl can also localize it’s data immediately on page load
• the modal dialog automatically provides scroll bars for long content
• OverlayRootWidget is now part of the API as a base class for any root widget of the overlay mode with sensible defaults
• overlay  mode can now be closed with one command no matter how many widgets there are in the flow

Switching to this version should be quite easy without any conflicts. However, should you have any concerns, let us know of the problem in our forum or issue tracker.

In few days, I’m going to also show some tricks to resolve some integration issues. First, I will show how to use a custom implementation and design for modal dialog (overlay mode). Secondly, I will also explain how jQuery can be introduced to an Aranea project. If you wish to hear about a common way to solve a problem in Aranea, you may leave a reply here.

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