Fabrizio Balliano

It’s time for a big P4A release before the summer vacation :)

The changelog is really long as usual but there are no explosive changes or new features, the main focus was porting from the old FCKEditor to the new CKEditor 3.3 (that now has come to a complete and stable feature set).

I also worked on updating all various softwares we embed (Zend Framework and jQuery plugins), fixing some bugs and reworking the AJAX stack.

After CreaLabs (the company I previously own) closure don’t worry, I’ll still continue to work and support P4A, I’ll keep using it for all my jobs and I also have some big plan for the future releases :)

So here you’ve the full changelog:

- Zend Framework was updated to 1.10.3
- FCKEditor was dropped and CKEditor 3.3 was added
- all AJAX stack was rewritten to use JSON instead of XML
- in full AJAX environment external javascripts are loaded only if
they were not loaded before
- in full AJAX environment widgets can now execute javascript code before
or after the HTML substitution
- focus internal management was rewritten
- P4A_Mask::setLeftSidebarWidth(), setRightSidebarWidth(),
getLeftSidebarWidth() and getRightSidebarWidth() methods were added
- jQuery::form was updated to 2.43
- jQuery was updated to 1.4.2
- jQuery UI was updated to 1.8.1
- jQuery::autocomplete plugin was replaced by jQuery UI autocomplete
- mask’s right sidebar is now shown correctly
- P4A_Data_Source::exportToCSV() deprecated method was removed
- P4A::isPopupOpened() deprecated method was removed
- P4A_Mask::unsetFocus() deprecated method was removed
- P4A_Mask::displayText() deprecated method was removed
- P4A_Table::setHeader() deprecated method was removed
- P4A_Box::setValue() and getValue() deprecated methods ware removed
- P4A_DB::getAll(), queryAll(), getRow(), queryRow(), getCol(), queryCol(),
getOne() and queryOne() deprecated methods ware removed
- P4A_Output_File now supports the “new window” param
- P4A_DB_Source::rowByPk() method now returns the retrieved row
- pt_BR translation was added to products_catalogue sample application
(thanks to Cassiano Faria)
- es_MX translation was added to products_catalogue sample application
(thanks to Edgar Joel)
- Yahoo CSS reset was updated to 3.1.0
- P4A_I18N::normalize() $num_of_decimals params now has a default value
- P4A_Table_Rows’ onformat event now passes a 5th parameter to the interceptor
method, this param is the complete row
- P4A_DB_Navigator::setRootLabel() and getRootLabel() methods were added
- P4A_DB_Navigator::allowMovementToRoot() method now supports a 2nd param
(root element label)
- P4A_DB_Source::getRowPosition() now adds “GROUP BY” clause
- default CSS font is now “Verdana,Arial,sans-serif” to match
jQuery::UI settings

Download P4A 3.6.0
Have fun!

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Hello everybody,
I finally take a bit of time to experiment generating a 64bit ISO image, I have no 64bit hardware so I used an Amazon EC2 instance (that was pretty cool!) to do the job so here you have, the Ubuntu Mini Remix has a new release ready for you to download, be sure to check it out!

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A new release is out today full of nice fixes and small improvements!

Changelog:

* Backend:
* Brasero style checksums support was added (#575825)
* bugs with virtual packages for languages packs were solved
(#580578, #525635)
* workarout for portuguese (pt_PT) language management was implemented
(#582200)
* GUI now uses kdialog, zenity, dialog or builtin (in that order) if
available. (#577197)

Download UCK 2.2.1 now!

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Once I had a blog on wordpress.com, when I moved to my own domain I kept the old site alive just as as an old things archive (everything was imported in this new blog anyway so nothing is lost).

Starting today fabrizioballiano.wordpress.com is not available anymore, it simply did not make sense anymore.
Have a great weekend everybody.

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If you want to create an Ubuntu based Linux distro keeping control on every single part of it? Instead of remastering an Ubuntu Desktop ISO try the Ubuntu Mini Remix and add just what you want, you’ll have a much cleaner result!

Ubuntu Mini Remix 10.04 is out today for free download!

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Just a quick update to let you know that I just released the Ubuntu Italian Remix 10.04.

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Changelog:

- Zend Framework was updated to 1.10.1
- P4A_Data_Source::exportToCSV() method was marked as deprecated
- P4A_Data_Source::exportAsCSV() now can be called directly from an event handler
- translations were updated

Download P4A 3.4.4

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I had a few hours to spend working on UCK so I’m publishing a new release right now :) here’s the changelog:

* GUI:
* splash notes were updated
* a new configuration screen was added to allow selecting which
languages will be available on the livecd boot splash (gfxboot).
This was necessary because the language packs codes do not match
gfxbook locales.
* the default gfxboot language can be chosen only between the
gfxboot available languages (easier selection).
* default gfxboot language selection was made mandatory

* Backend:
* a workaround for the chrooted gnome-terminal was implemented

Download UCK 2.0.12

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I’m really happy today, a brand new UCK version is freely available, here the nice changelog:

* GUI:
* ISO mime type check was removed because new Ubuntu ISOs
have “x-iso9660″ mime type
* a bug with cd language selection was solved
(thanks to Wolf Geldmacher)

* Backend:
* .lz initrd support was added (thanks to Wolf Geldmacher)
* new isolinux configuration format is now supported
(thanks to Wolf Geldmacher)
* if a local copy of gfxboot-theme-ubuntu is found inside ~/tmp
it won’t be downloaded from bzr, allowing better customizations
(thanks to Wolf Geldmacher)
* gfxboot-theme-ubuntu source download routine was completely rewritten
using wget instead of bzr

But the most important thing is that Wolf Geldmacher, the guy who provided most of the patches for this release, is joining UCK development team, this is an awesome news!

So now hurry up and download UCK 2.0.11 while it’s hot!

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Changelog:

- Zend Framework was updated to 1.9.5
- jQuery::form was updated to 2.36
- tooltip javascript was enhanced to make it location aware (bug #1908495)
- setTooltip() methods were moved to P4A_Widget
- tooltip support was added to P4A_Tab_Pane
- PEAR::Net_Useragent_Detect was updated to 2.5.1
- tooltips hiding methods now have a timeout to allow clicking links inside the
tooltip itself
- new_window parameter was added to P4A_Redirect_To_File() and P4A_Redirect_To_Url()
global functions
- P4A_DB_Source::_composePkString() was fixed handling multiple primary keys
(bug #2833159)
- onautocomplete event was added, it can be used to create a custom search for
fields instead of using P4A’s default one
- P4A_DB_Source::setTable() now supports a second parameter “alias”
- P4A_DB_Source::setTableAlias() and getTableAlias() methods were added
- P4A_DB_Source::addJoin*() methods now support alias on table (see code reference)
- P4A_Table elements/page user selector was added (disabled by default)
- P4A_Table::showElementsOnPageBar() and P4A_Table::hideElementsOnPageBar() were added

Download P4A 3.4.3

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