Handheld Designer Changelog

What's new in Handheld Designer 1.6.0

Oct 2, 2014
  • Bug fixes and compatibility enhancements.

New in Handheld Designer 1.5.1 (Apr 7, 2014)

  • Fixed a regression that caused a missing jQuery Mobile CSS file when hosting an app using the built-in hosting.

New in Handheld Designer 1.5.0 (Mar 12, 2014)

  • Upgraded to jQuery Mobile version 1.4.0
  • Allowed selection of jQuery Mobile versions for backward compatibility
  • Removed jQuery Mobile Theme Roller
  • Recognize and use jQuery Mobile theme CSS files
  • Added ability to extract jQuery Mobile theme from Theme Roller ZIP file
  • Added zoom option to design view.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented navigation from the syntax error list to the location of the error.

New in Handheld Designer 1.4.4 (Sep 30, 2013)

  • Added keyboard shortcut for “Run in Default Browser” menu item. (Thanks, @refugk and Steve S.)
  • Fixed a bug in the HDDatabase “find” method. (Thanks, Saku V.)
  • Fixed a bug that prevented use of percentage widths and heights in certain cases. (Thanks, Matthew J.)
  • Switched CDN for hosted jQuery Mobile files to Microsoft (!) due to some missing files in the official CDN.

New in Handheld Designer 1.4.3 (Aug 28, 2013)

  • Fixed a bug where a JQMTextbox text color wouldn’t always respect the value set in a theme.
  • Fixed a regression introduced in 1.4.2 the prevented the onOrientationChange event from firing properly.
  • Fixed a bug where the user’s scripts would fail to export at all if there was a syntax error in the code and JavaScript minimization was enabled.

New in Handheld Designer 1.4.2 (May 28, 2013)

  • Fixed a bug that prevented multiple viewings of a sample image in the Sample Gallery. (Thanks, Jonathon K.)
  • Fixed a bug with the JQMTextArea “value” property not returning the correct text. (Thanks, Peter F.)
  • Fixed a bug where selecting menu File/New Resource when the project hadn’t yet been saved could crash the app. (Thanks, anonymous crash report submitter.)
  • Fixed a bug where the HDPhotoSwipe object was crashing the app when run on Mac OS X 10.7. (Thanks, Carlos R.)
  • Fixed a bug where the HD news popover wouldn’t display properly when using a non-U.S. English locale. (Thanks, Carlos R.)
  • Fixed a bug where undoing a center vertical alignment could crash the app. (Thanks, anonymous crash report submitter.)

New in Handheld Designer 1.4.1 (Apr 23, 2013)

  • New object: HDPhotoSwipe, an interactive image gallery based on the PhotoSwipe JavaScript library. (Thanks, Paul T.)
  • When removing a resource that appears in javascriptIncludes or cssIncludes, an option is provided to remove the resource from the project includes. (Thanks, David S.)
  • Command-D now toggles between design-view and the previously viewed tab.
  • New application preference: choose the default HDDiv content editing mode (Markdown or HTML)
  • It is now possible to drag (copy) resources out of projects into the Finder, and between projects.
  • Added “Export” toolbar button, and an option to skip exported file overwrite warnings.
  • When including a javascriptInclude file ending in a “.coffee” extension, type=”text/coffeescript” is now added to the SCRIPT element.
  • New application preference to enable a compact object palette.
  • Improved crash reporter and added a problem/suggestion reporter
  • Removed status bar
  • Upgraded to jQuery Mobile 1.3.1
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the use of “(none)” as the list view default icon.
  • Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented the runtime from determining correct device orientation.

New in Handheld Designer 1.4.0 (Apr 2, 2013)

  • New object: JQMSimplePopup. Display themed popup dialogs with text and buttons.
  • Support for filtering list views and automatic list view dividers.
  • Improved event editing.
  • New option to deploy all web-app pages as a single HTML file.
  • Upgraded to jQuery Mobile 1.3.0 and jQuery 1.9.0.

New in Handheld Designer 1.3.2 (Feb 5, 2013)

  • Several bug fixes:
  • Added missing "theme" property to JQMListView (Thanks, David S.)
  • Fixed crash when importing resources to a project that had not yet been saved. (Thanks, Duane K.)
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the ThemeRoller from loading correctly on Mac OS X 10.7. (Thanks, Philip K.)

New in Handheld Designer 1.3.1 (Jan 9, 2013)

  • Added an option in project settings to export and use local copies of jQuery and jQuery Mobile source files when exporting a web-app.
  • Added a “focus” method to controls to permit manually assigning focus to a control.
  • Added ability to define a custom icon in the list view and navbar item editors. (Thanks, David S.)
  • Fixed a bug that occasionally prevented copy/paste between pages. (Thanks, André R.)
  • Fixed a bug with the gotoPage property pop-up menus were not properly reflecting renamed pages. (Thanks, Ralph B.)
  • Fixed a bug presenting Markdown content that contained multi-byte characters. (Thanks, André R.)
  • Fixed a bug causing duplicate events in gotoPage handlers when run within PhoneGap. (Thanks, Ralph B.)
  • Fixed a bug where some page transitions didn’t look correct in the device viewer when viewed at a zoom level other than 100%. (Thanks, David S.)
  • Fixed a bug where changes to properties of certain jQuery Mobile objects malfunctioned after the page ID was changed. (Thanks, David S.)
  • Disabled AJAX page loading when using HDApplication.gotoPage with an external page.

New in Handheld Designer 1.3.0 (Nov 12, 2012)

  • Updated graphics to support Retina displays.
  • Support for new iPhone 5 display size.
  • Support for animated page transitions.
  • Integrated jQuery Mobile Theme Roller.
  • Code-free page navigation
  • Many more enhancements and fixes. See the Handheld Designer blog (http://handhelddesigner.com/blog).

New in Handheld Designer 1.2.1 (Jul 20, 2012)

  • Several small bug fixes

New in Handheld Designer 1.2.0 (Jun 25, 2012)

  • Added ability to create customized user-interface layouts for each device and orientation.
  • Added support for footer toolbars.
  • Added support for jQuery Mobile navigation/tab bars
  • Added support for true fixed toolbars
  • Added support for "mini" controls
  • Upgraded the jQuery and jQuery Mobile libraries
  • Changes for Mountain Lion compatibility
  • Many more enhancements and fixes.

New in Handheld Designer 1.1.0 (Apr 14, 2012)

  • Added support for jQuery Mobile header toolbar and list view objects
  • Added support for CSS3 box shadows
  • Added support for server-side redirection
  • Upgraded to jQuery Mobile 1.0.1
  • Improved documentation
  • Many more enhancements and fixes...