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1st October 2009

TreeGrid 6.0 released and replaced the 5.9 version

The original TreeGrid website is at www.treegrid.com

  
 

15th July 2009

New TreeGrid build 5.9.12 released
Various bugs corrected, especially Firefox 3.5 falling down.
List of all changes
  
 

17th June 2009

New TreeGrid build 5.9.10 released
Various bugs corrected.
List of all changes
  
 

5th April 2009

New TreeGrid build 5.9.8 released
TreeGrid is now compatible with IE8 final, both quirk and strict modes, both standard and compatibility modes.
List of all changes
  
 

2nd March 2009

New TreeGrid build 5.9.5 released
TreeGrid is now compatible with IE8 RC1, both quirk and strict modes.
List of all changes
  
 

15th December 2008

New TreeGrid build 5.9.2 released
TreeGrid is now compatible with IE7 page zoom feature (right bottom zoom button). Only in strict mode (pages with appropriate !DOCTYPE tag).
Added events OnCustomStartEdit and OnCustomEndEdit for better support of custom editing controls. To the downloadable examples was added new example to show custom editing control - input with hint list box.
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30th November 2008

TreeGrid 5.9 released

Gantt chart is now interactive, every Gantt item can be changed by mouse inside the chart.
Gantt chart notation was changed, now it is generated by Type='Gantt' and <C> Gantt... attributes instead of gantt function. Many other updates and improvements in Gantt chart.
See the Gantt chart example, see also Large Gantt chart with 3000 rows.

TreeGrid now supports right to left (RTL) texts and languages (html attribute dir='rtl'), used in the Middle East countries.
Also supports Persian and Arabic dates and calendar (Hirji/Jalali). This RTL version is available only on request.

Popup menus, Defaults and custom Enums support collapsible groups (tree) in the menus.
New cell type "Abs" to display more html items absolutely positioned inside cell.
The Columns menu can be divided into more columns.
Added function Dispose to delete grid instance.
Added events OnMouseMove, OnMouseDown, OnMouseUp.

To the web has been added onsite search feature, it is placed on bottom left.
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23rd October 2008

New TreeGrid build 5.8.2 released.
Corrects serious bug in 5.8 version, in reloading pages in server paging and in detail tables in all browsers except IE.
List of all changes

  
 

15th October 2008

TreeGrid 5.8 released

TreeGrid is now compatible with Google Chrome.

Gantt chart was updated, added dependencies between tasks. Added milestones. Other various updates done in Gantt chart.
See the Gantt chart example.

Added events to display dynamic external object like Adobe Flash, Microsoft SilverLight or any custom JavaScript objects.
There are available examples demonstrating usage of Adobe Flash and Microsoft SilverLight.

List of all changes

  
 

4th September 2008

TreeGrid 5.7 released

According to many requests the Gantt chart example was rewritten, extended and included directly to TreeGrid code as Gantt module.
The Gantt chart can be generated like any other HTML type calculated cell by gantt function.
See new Gantt chart example.
List of all changes

  
 

2nd August 2008

New TreeGrid build 5.6.9 released.
Exports tree to Excel using expandable Excel outline.
List of all changes

  
 

26th July 2008

New TreeGrid build 5.6.8 released.
Corrects problems with editing in Firefox 3.
Adds few new settings like OnHint or CalendarButtons.
Updated Gantt examples, added version with separated start and end date.
List of all changes

  
 

22nd July 2008

New TreeGrid build 5.6.7 released.
Corrects especially bug in compression in 5.6.6 build in trial version that caused wrong iteraction among rows and had various side effects.
The 5.5.6 trial build should be upgraded to 5.6.7.
List of all changes

  
 

13th June 2008

New TreeGrid build 5.6.4 released.
Changed and re-styled Calendar dialog. All custom CSS styles must be updated to support the new calendar!
Updated Toolbar/Space buttons. Now they can be used as tabs to build tabber and support submenu to use as main menu. See Button type cell attributes.

TreeGrid server - Corrected serious memory allocation bug in server library under Linux (TreeGrid.so) shipped with TreeGrid 5.6. This bug could cause the library crash.

Many other changes and bug fixes. List of all changes

  
 

31st May 2008

TreeGrid 5.6 released

Added Date and number ranges
Now a user can enter more values or value ranges in one cell. The calendar component supports choosing more dates or date ranges by mouse dragging. In the defaults dialog can be selected more items.
The date ranges and more values in one cell are useful especially in standard filters. By this feature a user can filter like using between clause or more values can be searched by one filter.
The feature can be set by cell attribute Range.

Added Undo / Redo
Now can be undone all modifications (row add,delete,move,copy and cell value change) done since the last save, one by one or all at once. Also they can be redone again.
These features are available by actions Undo and Redo and are by default set to CtrlZ and CtrlY. The undo buffering must be permitted by <Cfg Undo='1'/>

All generated HTML code is compatible with XHTML 1.0 and also with .xhtml extension.
Added Hint - (attribute <Cfg ShowHint/>) - when cell value is not displayed complete, it is displayed above the cell when mouse hovers the cell.
Added Tip - (attributes <Cfg TipStart TipEnd TipPos/> and cell attributes Tip TipClass) - alternate custom tooltip.
Added dialogs shadow - (attributes <Cfg Shadow.../> - now dialogs, menus, messages and tooltips can have a shadow under the box.
Updated calendar - (attribute <Cfg AutoCalendar/> - calendar is shown while editing date and reflects changes in input and vice versa.
Added opposite filtering behavior in tree - to show all rows that fulfills the condition (instead of hiding all rows that don't), can be set by <Cfg StandardFilter='2'/>
Added possibility to expand Enum type as custom menu - (attribute EnumType) - the Enum is expanded as pop-up menu instead of built-in <SELECT>
New actions Indent and Outdent to easily change row level in tree.

New example - How to create Gantt chart with TreeGrid.
New example - How to create PivotTable with TreeGrid.

New icons for Toolbar in Modern style (ToolbarModern.png and ToolbarModern.gif for IE6). Old icons are still included in Toolbar.gif.

Many other new features, changes and bug fixes. List of all changes

  
 

12th April 2008

New TreeGrid build 5.5.10 corrects few bugs.
List of all changes

  
 

2nd April 2008

New TreeGrid build 5.5.8 corrects few bugs.
List of all changes

  
 

1st April 2008

New TreeGrid build 5.5.7 corrects bugs with GMT attribute and datepicker in 5.5.5 build.
List of all changes

  
 

30th March 2008

New TreeGrid build 5.5.5 corrects few bugs in 5.5 release.
Added attribute <Lang><Format GMT='1'/></Lang> to show dates and times set in number of milliseconds in GMT instead of local timezone.
Added actions SortAscAdd and SortDescAdd to provide sorting in the standard order (first clicked column is the first sorted column).
List of all changes

  
 

17th March 2008

New TreeGrid build 5.5.4 corrects few bugs in 5.5 release.
Added attribute Cache for caching / forcing download all modified TreeGrid files and data source xmls.
Now Trial version has implicitly set debugging attributes to help development. The default values in trial are: <treegrid Debug='1' Cache='0'> and <Cfg DebugCalc='1' DebugActions='1'/>
In registered version these debugging attributes can be set explicitly.
List of all changes

  
 

10th March 2008

TreeGrid 5.5 released

Added TreeGrid modules
Now TreeGrid script can be compiled with selected modules to reduce its size and provide particular features only.
TreeGrid core script is now only 45 kB long, with all modules included has 220 kB.
TreeGrid modules for trial version can be downloaded here and for registered version here.
TreeGrid modules are available only for version 5.x.

Added mouse and key action schema
Now the mouse and key actions can be fully customized without writing any JavaScript code.
You can choose what will happen when a user clicks by mouse, drags some content, presses some key and so on.
See Events and Actions.

Updated sorting and grouping
The sorting and grouping routines are now about 4x faster than the older ones.
Also many new attributes and settings have been added for sorting and grouping, for example:
- grouping according to only part of string (by one or more characters) [MaxChars]
- to mark row to be always positioned on top or bottom or sort particular rows only within specified sections [SortPos]
The fast sorting and grouping is available only for version 5.x.

Updated styling of TreeGrid. Added many new classes to let style all TreeGrid parts.
Added two new modern style designs and updated original two. Now TreeGrid has four full and good looking styles.
Our web site also changed its style design.

Updated and corrected cell and rows selection by mouse dragging, see <Cfg> attribute Selecting.
Added possibility to download all data by AJAX synchronously, see <treegrid> attribute Sync.
Added validation of EditMasks when saving to check incorrect not edited values, usually empty required cells, see <Cfg> attribute Validate.
Added automatic filling cell values by mouse dragging like in MS Excel, see actions Fill...



New version is not backward compatible in these items:
CSS styles are changed, custom modified Grid.css files should be updated. Many css classes have been added, classes for pop-up menu and toolbar have been renamed.
Left panel icons in Grid.gif have changed their positions, new icons for space rows added. Custom modified Grid.gif should be updated.
API events OnClick, OnDblClick and OnRightClick are called always before any predefined grid action and if return true, suppress any such action.
<Cfg> attribute Selecting is now boolean type and ignores other options. For other options should be used actions and <Cfg> attribute SelectingCells.



Changed prices for Extended support, now one year support costs 20% of licence price and for whole lifetime it costs 60% of licence price.



Now is version 4.x obsolete and unsupported.
All purchased licenses (and serial codes) for version 4.x without Extended support have been automatically upgraded to version 5.x with these features disabled:

TreeGrid modules compilation
Space row cells
Search and advanced filters feature
New fast sorting and grouping routine

To enable these features, you need to upgrade your licence to "normal" 5.x version for 40% of licence price.

  
 

10th January 2008

New TreeGrid build 5.1.4 corrects many bugs since 5.1 release.

  
 

6th December 2007

TreeGrid server library 3.0 released

Updated stability and thread safety.
Now works in PHP under Windows and Linux as universal PHP extension for all PHP 5.x versions.

Added grouping feature.
Added export to Excel feature.
Added support for localized sorting, filtering and grouping.
Added new aggregate functions.

  
 

6th December 2007

TreeGrid 5.1 and 4.7.1 released

Updated grouping feature, added many new attributes for grouping.
Updated compatibility with TreeGrid server library 3.0
Corrected memory leaks in IE.

Added new documentation, TreeGrid feature index - index of XML attributes and API items according to individual features.
Added new downloadable examples demonstrating server side paging with sorting, grouping and export. And also new examples using Server side library.

  
 

21st October 2007

New TreeGrid build (5.0.18) corrected some problems.

  
 

4th October 2007

New TreeGrid build (5.0.12) corrected some problems.
Added new script GridEOnDemand.js for loading the main GridE.js script on demand only.
Added possibility to send and load complete configuration from server instead of cookies.

  
 

13th September 2007

New TreeGrid build (5.0.9) corrected some problems as usual.

  
 

2nd September 2007

New TreeGrid build (5.0.8) corrected problem with dialog and menu position in some browsers.

  
 

28th August 2007

New TreeGrid build (5.0.7) corrected some problems.
Added list of defaults or any attribute for edited cell downloaded from server side on demand.

  
 

20th August 2007

New TreeGrid build (5.0.6) corrected some problems.
Added progress bar for printing and export.

  
 

12th July 2007

TreeGrid 5.0 and 4.7.0 released

New major version is available
The new major version 5.0 is automatically available for customers who purchased TreeGrid 4.x Grand with sources.
Other customers with Extended support please contact us to get free upgrade.
Other owners of any previous release can upgrade to the 5.0 version in our e-shop with 60% discount.

TreeGrid 4.7.0 is available for all owners of 4.x version. It is the same component as TreeGrid 5.0, but has disabled searching, advanced filters and space row cells new features.
This means that technical support for TreeGrid 4.7 continues as support for 5.0.

New features in TreeGrid 5.0 only
New search and advanced filter capability. TreeGrid now can search in cells or rows like Google or by any formula expression. It can filter, select, mark by color or focus the found cells or rows. You can also prepare list of predefined filter formulas to let a user to select from. See Searching and advanced filters tutorial

Space rows can now show cells like a standard row, these cells can also be editable or calculated. Now you can prepare any user interface for advanced TreeGrid control like toolbar buttons, result formulas, global inputs and settings and so on. See Space rows tutorial and Special rows done by Space rows tutorial

Other new features and updates in TreeGrid 5.0 and 4.7
Changed configuration format saved to cookies. Now it is about ten times smaller. To reduce cookie size you should use column names as short as possible.
Updated styles, added some minor things like rounded corners.
Space rows can be moved outside the grid, toolbar can also be placed inside the grid like a space row.
Cell actions - Formula or JavaScript code run after cell change or button is clicked.
Many other updates and bug fixes.

Documentation for TreeGrid XML data format was rewritten.

Pricing of Extended support changed
Price of Extended support is now 10% of license price for one year and 50% of license price for whole product lifetime.
The TreeGrid Grand with sources license now does not contain Extended support automatically.

  
 

30th April 2007

TreeGrid 4.6 released

Added compatibility with browsers' Strict mode.
TreeGrid now supports all W3C CSS1 modes: Strict mode (CSS1Compat), Almost strict mode (CSS1Compat) and quirks mode (BackCompat).
This means that all <!DOCTYPE> tag settings are supported now.

  
 

4th April 2007

New TreeGrid build (4.5.12).
Updated compatibility list, especially with Mac browsers.

  
 

27th March 2007

New TreeGrid build (4.5.9).
Added possibility to use empty values in Int, Float and Date cell types. To differ between empty and zero values.

  
 

5th March 2007

New TreeGrid build (4.5.4) updated grouping, corrected some problems.
Added possibility to sort, filter or group rows inside actual page when used server paging.
Added attributes to show context menu for a cell.

  
 

26th February 2007

TreeGrid 4.5 released

Added grouping rows to tree. TreeGrid can now automatically group rows according selected column(s). User can choose pre-defined grouping type from select box or drag column header(s) to group row. This feature can be used to build Pivot tables like in MS Excel. See Grouping tutorial
Removed the limit of maximum rows in tree node. Now every row can have own limit and if the count of children exceeds this limit, the children are grouped to sub-nodes. Sorting, filtering and calculations still affect all the children as originally.
Added formula to toolbar to show, for example, count of all or filtered rows.
Added space rows - custom html rows not divided to sections or columns, never scrolled.
Added simple pager as foot space row with links to all pages with indexes.

  
 

2nd January 2007

TreeGrid 4.4 released

Added advanced calculation order. Especially in tree you can define more directions of calculation order. Now you can satisfy all needs of calculation order. See calculations tutorial.
Added advanced master - detail relationship for tables and trees. See master / detail tutorial
TreeGrid now supports selection of range of cells instead of whole rows. Cells can be also selected by Ctrl + mouse dragging.
Added possibility to freeze and unfreeze columns - moving columns between sections.
Update Radio type to have more buttons checked - more check boxes or radio buttons in one cell as binary mask.

Added function for synchronization data with server. TreeGrid can now automatically check and download any changes from server done by other clients. See example Sharing and synchronization.

  
 

2nd January 2007

TreeGrid server 2.0 released

TreeGrid server side library was updated to be compatible with the newest TreeGrid component and many new functions have been added. See compatibility section.

Added functions for sharing data among clients.
Added functions for synchronization data with client side, new function in TreeGrid 4.4.
Updated use in server script, especially for PHP and Java.
Updated stability.

  
 

20th November 2006

TreeGrid 4.3 released

Added export to MS Excel or any other spreadsheet program that can handle .XLS files or data in HTML tables. Exports are done include formatting.
Updated row/cell (state) background colors. Added possibility to change all default colors by XML attributes. Added alternate coloring - highlighted stripes. Added custom colors for cells and rows in XML.
Added new button type "Defaults" to show list of predefined values to choose one instead of editing cell value. It is similar to combo box where you can input new values. See Right buttons tutorial.
Added copy button to panel to copy actual row structure or all data.
Added selecting rows by Ctrl + click and Shift + click.

  
 

8th November 2006

TreeGrid 4.2 released

Updated row's identification in uploaded data (by id attribute). Added many new possibilities how to identify uploaded rows in server script. Added tutorial to show these ways: Rows' identification tutorial.
Added printing capability.
Added grid resizing by mouse dragging. Added tutorial to demonstrate this function: Resizing
Added related enum type (relationship between enum types).
Added XML attributes and API events for custom sorting and filtering.
Added and updated many error messages to simplify debugging.
Many other minor updates and addons.

Updated documentation, created new documentations TreeGrid Basics and TreeGrid FAQ.
Now is Extended API documentation accessible online. So the online documentation is now complete.

Examples for ASP.NET, JSP and PHP was completely rewritten, added many new examples to demonstrate using TreeGrid in these environments.
Added examples for ASP 3.0.
Created TreeGrid JSP framework for Java to simplify writing code in Java to support TreeGrid.

Added new online examples and updated TreeGrid web pages.

In downloadable evaluation version is included Extended API, including documentation.

  
 

28th August 2006

TreeGrid 4.1 released

Added compatibility with KHTML engine, browsers Mac Safari 1.2+ and Linux KDE Konqueror 3.0+.
Tested on Internet Explorer 7.
Updated compatibility with Internet Explorer 5.x.
Added new cell type "Radio" as group of radio inputs.

New license type added. Personal license for individual developer. Its licensed to developer's name. For purchasing this license type contact us at sales@coqsoft.com first.

  
 

17th August 2006

Added tutorial about editing, multi-line editing, masks and special cell types as Img and Link. Updated expert tutorial with cell spanning and merging example.
Added example to demonstrate Extended API functions and events.
To Extended API version were added new events and functions.
Updated compatibility with Netscape Navigator 8 and Opera 9.

  
 

8th August 2006

TreeGrid 4.0 released

New major version was released.
The prices have been updated. Price for main component stayed the same, but there have been added new components with restricted functions for lower price:
FreeGrid (free version with maximum 33 rows and minimal 3 columns), PureGrid (grid without tree, paging, calculations and filtering, base price $200), PureTree (tree with maximum 3 columns, base price $200).

The web site was rewritten, now is completely based on TreeGrid components. Many examples have been added.

TreeGrid now completely supports variable rows height and multi line editing. Automatic row's height update while editing. Maximum height setting possible for any row.
Added masks for editing. Any RegExp string can be used as editing mask. Immediate validation - user can press only those keys that are suitable for the mask.
New column types "Link" and "Img" to simplify display and edit images and links. New column type "List" to display any repetitious html code.
Automatic extents computing - resizing marked columns and rows to let TreeGrid occupy the same rectangle for ever.
Many minor updates.

  
 

1st June 2006

TreeGrid 3.8 released

Grid is now much faster with large tables. There is live example of table with one million rows.
Added wildcards support to <treegrid> attributes Body_Url and Page_Url. Now the url can differ according to grid and page settings or every page can be downloaded from different url.
Added many data events to Extended API.

  
 

15th May 2006

TreeGrid 3.7 released

Added support for many invisible columns, now grid supports unlimited count of invisible columns.
Updated dragging functions among more grids. You can see this feature in Expert tutorial, the fifth example Dragging.
From Standard and Grand license texts was removed obligation of displaying a link to www.treegrid.com.

  
 

1st May 2006

TreeGrid 3.6 released

Added support of variable row height. Now all rows can have different height.
Added cell merging / spanning feature.
Added support of multi line editing in text area.
You can see new features in Expert tutorial, the first example Expert editing and cell spanning.

  
 

1st May 2006

TreeGrid server 1.2 released

Added Linux version - TreeGrid.so library.

  
 

24th April 2006

TreeGrid 3.5 released

Updated cell formats for numbers, dates and strings, new documentation added.
Added menu for selecting displayed and hidden columns.
New functions for selected rows copying and moving.
New tutorials added: Advanced, Expert.

  
 

13th April 2006

TreeGrid 3.4 released

The examples were completely rewritten. Added examples for ASP.NET (C#,Visual Basic), PHP, JSP (Java), HTML.

Created tutorials to show using TreeGrid from the simplest empty grid to tree, calculations and other advanced functions.
You can see tutorials there: Basic, Advanced, Calculations
Added sessions support to preserve state during client / server communication.

  
 

10th April 2006

TreeGrid server 1.1 released

Added support for UTF8 strings (for PHP). Added exported Java functions. Documentation were rewritten.

TreeGrid.dll is now thread safe to avoid server errors when many requests income at once.

  
 

6th February 2006

TreeGrid 3.3 released

In version 3.3 there were images shrunk to only two files, 5 kB long. Now there is no need to caching images any more.
All required files were moved to one default directory. Now all required files, including script, images, styles, texts and default settings are smaller then 100 kB.

Added copy & paste support. Now you can copy selected row values to clipboard and paste them back to grid or to any text editor or spreadsheet program like MS Excel. You can also paste values from any editor to grid. This function is not available in Opera.

Updated cell formulas. Many aggregate functions added. Debug mode for cell formulas.

Added sample ASP.NET web page to show data communication by page submit and ASP.NET using DataTable to access a database. Updated ASP.NET web service sources.

  
 

26th January 2006

TreeGrid 3.2 released

Version 3.2 supports fully asynchronous communication with server.
There have been added examples to demonstrate other TreeGrid capabilities such as user rows, html code in cells, buttons, user dialogs and so on.
TreeGrid.dll was updated to 1.0.2.

  
 

16th January 2006

A section for registered users added
Now are latest updates of registered version available for customers in section Download / Registered version. The customers can download latest version and documentation according to their serial code.

  
 

15th January 2006

TreeGrid 3.1 released

Version 3.1 contains full support of server paging with sorting, filtering and pre-calculations. Supports native TreeGrid.dll server component or any user server script communicating in described way. TreeGrid now supports up to million rows.

  
 

15th January 2006

TreeGrid.dll 1.0 released

Now is available the server side support component. This is DLL library for Windows systems. This DLL supports server side paging, updating, sorting, filtering and pre-calculations upon XML file or data. The library is written in pure C++ and is much faster and much less memory consuming than any code you can write in managed languages as C#, Visual Basic or Java. The DLL can be used in any server script languages that can use DLL on Windows systems (ASP.NET, Java servlets / JSP, PHP, ...).

  
 

12th December 2005

TreeGrid 3.0 released

New major version was released.
Data format completely switched to XML. Internal code was completely rewritten and now is much faster. TreeGrid now supports two ways of paging. TreeGrid now supports up to 20 000 rows with sorting, filtering and calculations of all rows. Many other changes and updates.