Changes

This section describes the changes made since the previous version of the client.

Merge of desktop and mobile widgets

In the Mendix 5 client release, the difference between desktop and mobile widgets has been lifted. The widgets and other UI parts have been moved to a single namespace, mxui. The mobile namespace (mobile) has been removed and common functionality has been merged. Widgets should now be defined using dojo.declare, and inherit from mxui.widget._WidgetBase.

Namespace changes

• The contents of the mobile.dom namespace has been moved under mxui.dom

Deprecations

Deprecated functionality is supported for two major releases after the deprecation notice to allow for code updates. After this deadline, deprecated functions may be removed from the platform.

Deprecation notes also exist for version 3 and version 4 of the platform.

• mx
  • .mobile lost its meaning because of the merge of desktop and mobile widgets.

• mx.ui
  • .getLocale has been deprecated, use dojo.locale instead

• mendix.lang
  • .inArray has been deprecated, use dojo.indexOf instead

• mxui.dom
  • .removeElement has been deprecated, use mxui.dom.orphan instead
  • .setTextContent has been deprecated, use mxui.dom.text instead
  • .getTextContent has been deprecated, use mxui.dom.text instead
  • .textContent has been deprecated, use mxui.dom.text instead
  • .removeChildNodes has been deprecated, use dojo.empty instead
  • .clearSelectOptions has been deprecated, use dojo.empty instead
  • .getAncestorClass has been deprecated, use dojo.query instead
  • .getElementsByTagNames has been deprecated, use dojo.query instead
  • .getAncestorNodeWithAttribute has been deprecated, use dojo.query instead
  • .setHTML has been deprecated, use mxui.dom.html instead
  • .getSelectOptions has been deprecated, use mxui.dom.getSelectOptions instead
  • .selectOption has been deprecated, use dojo.attr instead
  • .hasClass has been deprecated, use dojo.hasClass instead
  • .getClass has been deprecated, use dojo.getAttr instead
  • .setClass has been deprecated, use dojo.replaceClass instead
  • .addClass has been deprecated, use dojo.addClass instead
  • .addClasses has been deprecated, use dojo.addClass instead
  • .removeClass has been deprecated, use dojo.removeClass instead
  • .show has been deprecated, use dojo.style instead
  • .hide has been deprecated, use dojo.style instead
  • .setReadOnly has been deprecated, use dojo.setAttr instead
  • .unsetReadOnly has been deprecated, use dojo.removeAttr instead
  • .applyDisableStyle has been deprecated, use dojo.setAttr instead
  • .applyEnableStyle has been deprecated, use dojo.removeAttr instead
  • .setOpacity has been deprecated, use dojo.style instead
  • .insertCss has been deprecated, use mxui.dom.addCss instead
  • .escapeHTML has been deprecated, use mxui.dom.escapeString instead
  • .getFormElementText has been deprecated, use dojo.getAttr instead
  • .getStringSize has been deprecated, use dojo.contentBox instead
  • .clone has been deprecated, use dojo.clone instead
  • .getFirstElement has been deprecated, use Element.children instead
  • .getFirstChild has been deprecated, use dojo.query instead

• mobile.widget
  • ._Widget has been deprecated, use mxui.widget._WidgetBase instead

• mxui.widget
  • ._Widget has been deprecated, use mxui.widget._WidgetBase instead