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Feathers Release Notes

Noteworthy changes in official releases of Feathers.

1.1.0 PRERELEASE

  • List, GroupedList, ScrollContainer, and ScrollText all extend Scroller, instead of using it as a sub-component. The scrollerProperties property on each of these is now deprecated because all public properties of Scroller are now direct public properties of these components.

  • Focus management and keyboard control can be enabled with FocusManager.isEnabled = true.

  • Slider: measurement now includes thumb dimensions and a new property called trackScaleMode has been added.

  • Added ILayoutObject to support extra data for layouts to use.

  • AnchorLayout: added to support fluid layouts and relative positioning.

  • MultiColumnGridLayout: added to support fluid layouts on standard columns with device responsiveness.

  • All sub-components are created from factories and can receive custom names for theming.

  • PopUpManager: Supports custom root to place pop-ups somewhere other than the stage.

  • PopUpManager: modal pop-ups receive a different focus manager.

  • PickerList: supports prompt when no item is selected.

  • Panel: A new container similar to ScrollContainer, but with a header component too (defaults to feathers.controls.Header).

  • PanelScreen: An IScreen implementation based on Panel.

  • ScreenNavigator: added hasScreen(), getScreen(), and getScreenIDs().

  • ScrollContainer, List, GroupedList: better auto-sizing with a background skin.

  • BitmapFontTextRenderer, Scale3Image, Scale9Image: option to turn off the use of a separate QuadBatch.

  • Scroller/Button: better blocking of touches on children when scrolling with touch.

  • TiledRowsLayout, TiledColumnsLayout: supports separate horizontal and vertical gaps.

  • IVariableVirtualLayout: added function addToVariableVirtualCacheAtIndex() for more specific control over the cache of item dimensions. The following implementation can be added to existing classes to simulate the old behavior:

      public addToVariableVirtualCacheAtIndex(index:int, item:DisplayObject = null):void
  {
  	this.resetVariableVirtualCache();
  }

  • IVariableVirtualLayout: added function removeFromVariableVirtualCacheAtIndex() for more specific control over the cache of item dimensions. The following implementation can be added to existing classes to simulate the old behavior:

      public removeFromVariableVirtualCacheAtIndex(index:int, item:DisplayObject = null):void
  {
  	this.resetVariableVirtualCache();
  }

  • ScrollText: now properly handles visible and alpha properties.

  • ListCollection: added removeAll(), addAll(), addAllAt() and contains().

  • Scroller: adds an invisible overlay during scrolling to block touch events on children.

  • Scroller: scrolling animates forf mouse wheel.

  • List, VerticalLayout, HorizontalLayout: optimized case where useVirtualLayout is true and hasVariableItemDimensions is false.

  • Screen: default value of originalDPI is DeviceCapabilities.dpi. It used to be 168. Can still be changed.

1.0.1

This release includes a number of bug fixes.

  • Scroller: FeathersEventType.SCROLL_COMPLETE always dispatched after last Event.SCROLL.
  • ScrollBar, SimpleScrollBar: thumb position properly accounts for padding.
  • Scroller: mouse wheel detection properly accounts for contentScaleFactor.
  • ScreenNavigator: calling clearScreen() during a transition no longer causes a stack overflow.
  • ScrollBar, SimpleScrollBar: can drag to minimum and maximum if they aren't a multiple of the step.
  • Header: Fix for runtime error when rightItems aren't IFeathersDisplayObjects
  • TextInput: better selection/cursor recovery when changing text programmatically.
  • TextInput: Moved fontSize contentScaleFactor multiplication into StageTextTextEditor.
  • FeathersControl: requires isInitialized to be true before it can validate.
  • FeathersControl: clipRect properly accounts for scale.
  • GroupedList: added missing documentation for setSelectedLocation().
  • ImageLoader: does a better job keeping aspect ratio when only one dimension is explicit.
  • ImageLoader: properly scales content when dimensions are explicit.
  • ImageLoader: no runtime errors if content loads after dispose.

1.0.0

No major API changes since 1.0.0 BETA. Mostly bug fixes and minor improvements.

  • Fix for memory leaks in List, GroupedList, and ImageLoader
  • PageIndicator properly handles ImageLoader or other IFeathersControl as symbol
  • IGroupedListHeaderOrFooterRenderer extends IFeathersControl
  • Header: fix for "middle" vertical alignment
  • Updated for Starling Framework 1.3

1.0.0 BETA

Initial release. The following major changes happened in the last month or two leading to the beta.

  • GTween library removed as a dependency. All animations switched to the Starling Tween class.
  • as3-signals library removed as a dependency. Switched to Starling events.
  • TextInput: supports swappable text editors, similar to the text renderers used for uneditable text. The default StageTextTextEditor uses StageText to allow text input, which is ideal for mobile. The TextFieldTextEditor uses a TextField of TextFieldType.INPUT instead, and it may be a better choice for desktop. A static function, defaultTextEditorFactory, has been added to FeathersControl.
  • TextInput: now has events for focus in and out.
  • Item renderers: Switched to ImageLoader for icon and accessory textures, which has a source property that supports Texture instances or String URLs to load textures from the web. Properties like iconTextureField and accessoryTextureFunction now have new names like iconSourceField and accessorySourceFunction because values other than textures are now allowed. Similarly, iconImageFactory and accessoryImageFactory have been renamed to iconLoaderFactory and accessoryLoaderFactory.
  • Item renderers: accessory may be positioned. See layoutOrder and accessoryPosition properties.
  • Added dispose() method to AddedWatcher so that theme resources like textures be disposed.
  • Added ScrollText component to display text in an overlay on the native display list. Useful for long passages of text that may be too large to convert to a texture.
  • ScreenNavigator: added events for transition start and complete.
  • ToggleSwitch: TRACK_LAYOUT_MODE_STRETCH is now TRACK_LAYOUT_MODE_ON_OFF.
  • Slider: TRACK_LAYOUT_MODE_STRETCH is now TRACK_LAYOUT_MODE_MIN_MAX.
  • ScrollBar: TRACK_LAYOUT_MODE_STRETCH is now TRACK_LAYOUT_MODE_MIN_MAX.