VSADT 9.1 - Release Notes

This minor release of the Visual Scheduling Add-in Developer Toolbox (VSADT for short) contains the following enhancements and improvements:

1. Not One Text per Bar but One Text per Entry

Now the application can make use of one text per entry on activity and allocation bars. When used, then the text for the whole bar is not shown anymore. When this new feature is combined with using the other new feature of font attributes, the application can use it to emphasize important information on some bars.

2. Long-Awaited Font Attributes for Mostly All Texts

Up to now, all texts were shown with the same font attributes as font family, size, style, and weight. These attributes were inherited by the parent elements in the DOM. Only some texts like table titles had a fixed font size defined by the widget itself.

Now nearly all texts can be shown using font attributes set by the application. Currently, only timescale texts are fixed in size and the other font attributes cannot be set explicitly.

The application can define its own default for the font attributes now only be inheriting from DOM but by using settings. On many data objects, there now are additional properties to define font family, size, style, and weight explicitly. These object types include bar texts on activities and allocations, table texts on activities, allocations, entities, grouping level definitions, resources, and skills. When using row definitions, the attributes can be set cell by cell. Other properties are existent for the table title, the date line captions, and period highlighter entries.

This gives plenty of possibilities for emphasizing some texts besides coloring, that was possible before. The application now can force its own look & feel also inside the widget.

BTW: Since all font attributes are put directly from option values and object properties into the DOM, the application can also use CSS variables if desired.

3. Miscellaneous

Completion of Coloring Customization

New settings VerticalSplitterWidth and TimescaleWeekendTextColor for further completing the adaptability.

Graphical enhancement on timescale 

On the one hand, the scroll buttons in the timescale now are placed in the vertical middle of the timescale. On the other hand, the rectangle besides the timescale above the vertical scrollbar now is filled with the timescale background color.

Fixed bugs

As always, several bugs reported by customers and our team have been fixed.