release-2025-01-27-08.34/+0100

Improvements

• completely re-wrote library for displaying grids: Vue CSS Grid Layout replaces the ancient GridList library, which is the foundation of many changes from this release and makes future maintainence and improvements possible, #451
• new behaviour in drag & drop of elements in edit mode: dropping on another element causes elements to swap positions, dropping in-between two elements causes other elements to move to the right, #451
• grid edit: elements can now be moved out of the grid at right and bottom, which automatically increases the size of the grid, #451
• new UI of settings view: settings are now organized in tabs, #452, #283
• added possibility to disable global grid for specific grids, #399
• added possibility to cut / copy / paste elements in grid edit view, #419
• added possibility to move all elements to top/right/bottom/left in edit view, #451
• context menu for grid elements can now be opened by long-tap on iOS / Safari in edit view, #451
• added keyboard shortcuts for grid edit view, #451
  • Ctrl + C, Ctrl + X, Ctrl + V: copy, cut and paste the current element
  • Ctrl + Shift + C: copy all elements of the current grid
  • Ctrl + Z: undo
  • Ctrl + Shift + Z: redo
  • Del: delete current element
  • Ctrl + Arrow[Up/Right/Down/Left]: move all elements to top/right/bottom/left

Appearance settings

• many new possibilities to specify the appearance of text and cells, #168
• specify text position, font family, font size, font color, maximum number of lines, line height, border color, border width, space between elements and border radius, #390
• specify handling of too long texts: adapt automatically, truncate or ellipsis
• specify if keyboard letters should automatically be sized bigger
• specify font-size, background / border color and font color at element-level overriding the global settings
• specify if background or border should be colored for colored elements (color categories), #259
• added dark color schemes for "Fitzgerald" and "Goosens" in order to be able to use the grids in a dark mode

Bugfixes

• resolve issues in OBZ imports, see #466
• no truncated texts in elements anymore (if not specified by option), #179

Other issues closed as side-effect: #285, #287, #288, #403, #28

Support us

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to ARASAAC, @arasaac-dga and Manuela Santos, @ms-mialingvo - without your immense feedback and testing I would not have been able to achieve the high quality of all of these changes!

The features of this release were funded by netidee.