Introduction The Web and mobile development market are growing rapidly with more and more enterprises needing a strong presence on both platforms. This leads to a need for significant time and money investment creating applications which fulfil the needs of both platforms. Most vendors provide separate component set for touch devices does not alleviate the […]

Introduction In the upcoming ZK 6.5, we will introduce a new component called ‘Cardlayout’ enabling end-users to switch components like switching cards. On tablet, this navigation operation is supported by simply swiping through components. Check out the demo below to see how it works exactly! Live Demo Implementation Like HBox or Hlyout, developers can add […]

Introduction Previously in ZK, applications exceeding the boundaries of browser resolution relies on desktop browsers to automatically generates scroll bars by using CSS style overflow attribute so users can view the entire page but this feature unfortunately is not available on tablet or mobile browsers. In upcoming ZK 6.5 where responsive design and one codebase […]

Introduction When applying a new look and feel for ZK components, developers need to go through various steps from designing new style component images, cropping those images following ZK theme rule to preparing several CSS files in order to create and apply a new theme. ZK Online Themer, also known as the ThemeRoller is an […]

Introduction Tablets are inherently different from desktops. Screen sizes and resolutions are smaller, finger-swiping replaces mouse-pointing and yes, sometimes, the tablet rotates. Web designers need to take these distinctions into consideration when designing web applications to make tablet surfing experience a bliss. The soon-to-be-released ZK 6.5 introduces new features that enable developers to design user […]

Introduction The upcoming ZK 6.5 focuses on incorporating responsive design principles to afford developers the ability to create web applications which have an excellent user experience on desktops and tablet devices without writing separate applications. Designing for tablets The experience of tablets is different to that of desktops. Not only are their screens smaller, the […]

Introduction There already a lot of components in the ZK framework. In this blog post, I will introduce a new one that I　have created: Accordion, a horizontal accordion component that is based on liteAccordion, a jQuery plug-in. Accordion includes the following features: Supports any ZK components as children Supports all the native themes (basic, dark, […]

Introduction In upcoming ZK 6.5, we will introduce a new component ‘Dropupload’ which leverages HTML 5 technology, allowing users to upload by dragging files into the component whilst retaining original operating habits. In addition, compared to ZK’s traditional file uploading method, ‘Dropupload’ can get rid of the overhead of pooling server (in order to check […]

ZK Team is pleased to present to our users a preview version of a great, free, and API based ZK Add-on component – Openlayers, which integrates a powerful JavaScript Map library Openlayers. The current version supports; 13 different layers including Bing, Google, OSM, WMS 13 different controls including MousePositon, OverviewMap, PanZoom, PanZoomBar, Panel, SelectFeature etc. […]

Starting from ZK 6, all information, including selection, opened objects, sorting and multiple selection, are now maintained in the model rather than within the components (listbox, combobox, etc.) for providing better flexibility Which means that two components are now able to share a common model. However, in some use cases we may want two components […]