Monthly Archives: November 2008

GrailsUI 1.0.1 Bugfix Version Released

The 1.0.1 bugfix version of GrailsUI has been released. This version fixed some trivial bugs that were leftover from the 1.0 release as well as several bugs that the community uncovered in the last couple weeks. The full list is here. Some highlights are:

Draggable lists work in IE
DatePicker fixed for IE and [...]


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SpringSource buys G2One

SpringSource announced today that is has acquired G2One, Inc.. Here is the official press release. So what does this mean for Groovy and Grails? Good things, people. Good things. More marketing and advertising money to spread the word. More force behind driving the technologies. More clout for you, [...]


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GrailsUI Component Accessibility Example: Switching Tabs in TabView

Recently, someone asked a very good question on the Grails mailing lists about GrailsUI. How can someone add a button within each tab in a tabView that switches to the next tab? Well, there is nothing within the GrailsUI API that allows such custom behavior, so it’s not like you can just add [...]


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Adding Row Expansion to the GrailsUI dataTable

One of the coolest features of the GrailsUI dataTable is its ability to turn on row expansion. In order to have enough data to do this, we need to know a URL for the dataTable to load on row click. We also need to turn the rowExpansion feature on in the tag. [...]


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Using GrailsUI dataTable tag

The GUI dataTable is the most complicated tag to set up, because there is a lot of data configuration required. You have to correctly set up the column definitions in the tag, and you have to set up the controller to serve up the proper data.
Let’s start from scratch with the basic book / [...]


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Check out the latest GroovyMag to see an interview with me about the 1.1 release of GrailsUI: