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Griffon 0.1.2

Overview
0.1.2 Release Notes

Overview

Griffon 0.1 – "Lego Griffon II" – is a maintenance release of Griffon 0.1.0

Principal Features

For a list of features added in 0.1.0 see the Griffon 0.1 Release Nodes

More Groovy Meta-Enhancements

Swing classes have benefited from a number of meta-class driven enhancements, you'll now be able to call iterator-friendly methods on Swing models for example.

def jlist = swing.list(data: [1, 2, 3, 4])
jlist.model.findAll{ it%2 == 0 } == [2, 4]

def data = [
  [nick: 
"Mr.G", name: 
"Guillaume Laforge"],
  [nick: 
"jez", name: 
"Jeremy Rainer"],
  [nick: 
"blackdrag", name: 
"Jochen Theodoru"],
  [nick: 
"mittie", name: 
"Dierk Koenig"],
  [nick: 
"shemnon", name: 
"Danno Ferrin"]
]
scrollPane {
  def mytable = table {
    tableModel(list:data) {
      propertyColumn(
        header: 
"Nickname",
        propertyName: 
"nick",
        editable: 
false
      )
      propertyColumn(
        header: 
"Full Name",
        propertyName: 
"name",
        editable: 
false
      )
    }
  }
}
mytable.model[0] == [
"Mr.G", 
"Guillaume Laforge"]
mytable.model << [
"Mr. Grails", 
"Graeme Rocher"]
mytable.model.size() == 6

See GRIFFON-44 for a full list of enhancements

One Big Jar option

Basic support has been added for packaging for the Java Store GRIFFON-71. when executing the package script an optional flag -jar will create the application jar with all packaged libraries. The flag can also set an alternate location: -jar=./OneBigJar.jar.

MacOSX Fidelity Improvements

Mac OSX fidelity has been improved

SwingPad has improved it's menu support
griffon run-app now has a not-hideous icon in the dock.

Notable Plugin Updates

Three new plugins have been added: AbeilleFormsBuilder, CSSBuilder & TridentBuilder.

Sample Applications

Griffon 0.1.2 ships with 4 sample applications of varying levels of complexity demonstrating various parts of the framework. In order of complexity they are:

File Viewer

File View is a simple demonstration of creating new MVCGroups on the fly.

WebStart of Application

Source: Subversion Link

To run the sample from source, change into the source directory and run griffon run-app from the command prompt.

Font Picker

Font Picker demonstrates form based data binding to adjust the sample rendering of system fonts.

WebStart of Applicaiton

Subversion Link

To run the sample from source, change into the source directory and run griffon run-app from the command prompt.

Greet

Greet, a full featured Griffon Application, is a Twitter client. It shows Joint Java/Groovy compilation, richer MVCGroup interactions, and network service based data delivery.

WebStart of Applicaiton

Subversion Link

To run the sample from source, change into the source directory and run griffon run-webstart from the command prompt. Because Greet uses JNLP APIs for browser integration using run-app will prevent web links from working.

SwingPad

SwingPad, a full featured Griffon Application, is a scripting console for rendering Groovy SwingBuilder views.

An installer will be forthcoming.