This release adds Java and .NET backend examples to the existing PHP example, including diagram sharing and I/O in the Java example. The key handler has been changed to not consume all key events for the page, only key events from the graph container are processed. The automatic tree layout now positions the layout correctly in the visible area. The in-place editor position is now wherever the label is and no longer jumps around. A "snapshot" action has been added to request that the current back-end produce and transfer a static image of the current graph.

The mxEditor constructor now takes parameters describing the session, the initialisation URL, the sending URL and receiving URL. The function mxSession.post is now named notify and the post event is also renamed to notify. mxSession.urlPost has been renamed to Session.urlNotify. The preview action for CSS links in VML has been corrected. Tooltips on palette items in Firefox were not displaying correctly for icons used for drag and drop. This has now been corrected.

It is now possible to insert a custom conditions in actions in the XML config file so popup menus can be configured just in this configuration file. mxGraph.addEdge has been added so that the event fired correctly describes the addition of the edge. mxGraph.isCellVisible and isCellCollapsed have been added so that they might be overridden to call something other than the model, for example, the view, to implement a filter.

The CSS overflow property is now properly handled across all browsers for hidden, visible and auto modes. When both terminals of an edge are selected and moved, previously the control points were reset. This is no longer the case, since the behaviour did not make sense. The mxEditor.getUrlPost method has been added, which may replace the variable, for greater flexibility with dynamic URLs.

isEnabled in the handlers has been renamed to enabled for consistency and the isEnabled() and setEnabled() methods have been added to access them. An additional click was required to activate tooltips in Internet Explorer, this is now fixed. mxTooltipHandler.isEnabled has been renamed to enabled and accessor methods added for it. mxObjectCodec has been refactored to reduce the method sizes.

Cell ID types are now strings in strongly typed back-ends, like Java and .NET. mxGraphSelection.doAddCell and doClear have been renamed to tryAddCell and tryClear. mxCell.transient has been renamed to mxCell.mxTransient. Clearing the selection in IE only happens now if the event is handled in mxGraph, previously, events outside of the container cleared the selection.

This release fixes the majority of important outstanding bugs due for the 1.0 release. mxGraph is feature complete for the first stable release with a few outstanding bugs. Assuming no showstoppers are reported the next release will be the 1.0 final. Also of note, a new mxDraw example has been added, which demonstrates a generic drawing application. Some unification of method and class names was performed, resulting in the following changes: * mxXMLRequest -> mxXmlRequest * mxUtils.createXMLDocument -> mxUtils.createXmlDocument * mxUtils.getInnerHTML -> mxUtils.getInnerHtml * mxUtils.parseXML -> mxUtils.parseXml * mxUtils.getXML -> mxUtils.getXml * mxShape.createSVGGroup -> mxShape.createSvgGroup * mxShape.createSVGShadow -> mxShape.createSvgShadow * mxShape.createSVGGradient -> mxShape.createSvgGradient * mxShape.configureHTMLShape -> mxShape.configureHtmlShape * mxShape.configureVMLShape -> mxShape.configureVmlShape * mxShape.configureSVGShape -> mxShape.configureSvgShape * mxShape.updateHTMLShape -> mxShape.updateHtmlShape * mxShape.updateVMLShape -> mxShape.updateVmlShape * mxShape.updateSVGShape -> mxShape.updateSvgShape mxEdior and mxSession have had added linefeed encoding parameters so that the linefeed used by the back-end may be set. The popup menu had a bug fixed where the popup position was not taking in account whether a window was scrolled. The creation of strings for VML and SVG have been factored out in mxCylinder so it is easier to customize the shape. mxShape.apply now accounts for the state of a shape rather than just the style. Pressing control and clicking in Firefox has the default behaviour in the browser to open images in a new window. mxGraph now overrides this behaviour to prevent it happening. mxGraphModel has a new method getNearestCommonAncestor which determines the first common ancestor in a tree for two nodes. mxGraph has the helper methods getChildren and getCurrentRoot added. getCurrentRoot obtains the root node of the view (i.e. the root node of the display). Shift-click has been added as a popup menu trigger for Mac browsers and Opera. The gradient rendering of mxCylinder in IE using VML has been fixed. mxUtils has a new method, htmlEntities, which replaces the greater than, the less than and quotes symbols for you. The event processing of edge labels has been corrected. Previously you had to double click on the edge to edit a label, now the event correctly fires on the actual edge label. You can also grab edges by their labels. mxGraph.selectCells used to select group cells, but now only leaves are returned. The method mxGraph.filterCells has been moved to mxGraphModel.getCells. The gradient rendering for swimlane titles in IE (using VML) used to just show the colour, not the gradient, this is resolved. mxGraph.getSwimlaneAt now returns the innermost swimlane of the position, rather than the topmost that matched. The mxEditor.connect method has been added to assist with starting a new session. Two URLs are accepted as parameters, one is the initialisation URL and the other is the URL used to maintain communications with the backend for this session. The session object for the session created is then returned. The default value for mxGraph.isSwimlaneNesting is to now set to true. The methods selectVertices and selectEdges have been added as action types in mxEditor. The line breaks from mxUtils.link, linkInvoke, linkAction were removed to enable the method to be used for more general purposes. Many of the default values in mxEditor have been set to false, this is to ensure you do not get implicit behaviours you are not expecting, without having explicitly enabled them. The new mxEditor.isMovePropertiesDialog defines whether or not the properties dialog is moved when invoked at another position whilst the dialog is open somewhere else. The methods mxWindow getX and getY have been added to obtain the window position. The perimeter of vertices has been changed to take into account any spacing due to a STYLE_BORDER being set on the vertex. mxClient.langua

This release provides a significant improvement in application start-up time through the utilization of compression techniques. A real-time feedback example has been added to demonstrate the principle of updating the display based on back-end state. Double click handling of edges in Internet Explorer is fixed. It improves the event handling architecture and the usability of popup menus, panning and edge connections. A read-only example has been added that demonstrates a non-editable graph but with interactivity such as highlighting and tooltips.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

JGraph Ltd Announces the Beta Release of mxGraph

Offering the Capability to Draw in Every Web Page

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND - September 27, 2006 -- mxGraph (http://www.mxgraph.com) is a diagramming library that enables Web developers to provide a rich user experience in a native Web browser. From now on, every Web page can explain their story in pictures and allow the readers to fully interact. Most importantly, it requires no plug-ins to operate. With XML configuration, the look and feel of the drawing application means that the ability to program Javascript is not required to produce rich customized-looking diagramming applications in a Web page.

"Our customers have already seen the clear advantages of fast browser-based drawing without any need to wait for a server on the network to send updates." said David Benson of JGraph. "In addition, working with browsers without plug-ins means you know every user can, in essence, draw on your Web page. Even though this is a beta release, we've been deluged by pre-orders for the product. With this much functionality in the beta, and a packed development schedule over the coming years, I can see mxGraph fast becoming the de-facto standard for online diagramming."

Steve Wood of high-tech company Informavores, found mxGraph's capability to be a perfect fit in his product requirements - "The ability to edit complex diagrams within a Web browser is the final solution we need to move our entire application to a thin client architecture. mxGraph is a critical component for rich Web applications. There's nothing like it on the market today."

"We have worked hard to make mxGraph intuitive, yet powerful", said Gaudenz Alder, lead architect of the mxGraph component, "I think developers will be pleasantly surprised by how easily they can produce a powerful Web-based diagramming application and I hope they will test it out for themselves online at the Web site."

JGraph Ltd is based in the U.K. and Switzerland and has been producing diagramming toolkits for developers since 2000.

CONTACT:
David Benson
Business Development Manager
JGraph Ltd
+44 (0)20 7871 2332
http://www.jgraph.com

This release makes a number of, currently, experimental changes that mean it is not assured to be stable and that Java 1.3 can no longer be used. The double buffering support has been developed so that the buffered image is retained constantly making panning and scroll much faster and reducing the time taken to start a drag or resize in a large graph. The option to request that graphics hardware acceleration is used for the double buffering is available, but switched off by default. Also added is the concept of a buffered overlay image for transparent drawing on the foreground without having to redraw the static buffered graph.

Double buffering in JGraph previously consisted of off-screen buffers created in the root handles and size handles to buffer drag-and-resize previews on a per-case basis. However, the review buffered the entire graph image, so recreating the buffer on each operation was expensive in CPU terms. The off-screen buffer and off-screen graphics that are the graphics object of the buffer have been moved to the JGraph class. Also, the cachedLabelBounds and cachedExtraLabelBounds variables in EdgeView were never set (since getLabelBounds() and getExtraLabelBounds() were never called) and have been removed.

In addition to supporting an image on the background, a Component may now be drawn as the JGraph background for applications such as mapping. Some performance improvements have been made in the GraphLayoutCache relating to making cells invisible. In the model there have also been performance improvements around the functionality that removes cells.

The main change for this release is native support for VML in Internet Explorer. This means IE is supported natively without the requirement for the Adobe SVG plugin.

The graph variable in EdgeRenderer has been replaced with a weak reference to ensure that static edge renderers release their reference to the current graph when all other objects do. Also, an example showing the use of a custom cell view factory and an example showing a selection model being synchronized between a graph and a tree were added to the examples package.

We have released our first technology preview of MxGraph. Using Javascript to provide the interactivity, MxGraph attempts to get as much graph toolkit functionality as it possibly can in an SVG-enabled browser. Currently only IE 5.5+ with the Adobe 3 SVG plugin and Firefox 1.5+ are supported, but Opera and Sarafi will follow shortly. We're looking for beta testers willing to report issues who have a serious application for the technology. The plan is to make as much of the software as possible free for personal and academic use, in terms of beta dates we're still in the tidy-up process. There's also a brief tutorial available on how to use the demo. The tutorial is posted on the new forum dedicated to MxGraph