I’m really pleased to announce that the version 1.3.1 of moo.rd has been released today.

New syntaxes, new powers

moo.rd has become more powerful, flexible, modular and elegant: in a few words, a totally another library. Amazing enanchements has been made, a lot of new components, constructors and capabilities has been added. But one article isn’t enough to describe all these changesets, so we’ll found some tutorials and exaplanations on this blog in the next days.

Remeber, no one component is still the previous…

However, i want to report here some of the changeset/enanchements i created.

First of all, the 1.3.1 is totally based on the MooTools 1.2 version, so it uses the new MooTools syntax and logic.

New version, new library

As i said above, this version brings many super features. Not only all the components have been enanched, but every line of code make good use of the MooTools syntaxes, and are now fully-fashionable. moo.rd is now a real powerful and modular library which extends MooTools and attach to it a lot of amazing and useful features.

New native functions and new extensions for a fully modular OOP code

Some native functions have been attached to the Native constructors and the previous have been totally enanched.

In addiction, i created new extensions to the core language, like the Overlay Utility Class that is included into many other Classes, for a more flexible and modular OOP code.

The browser.js and type.js are extensions to respectively the Browser Hash and the $type function.

New effects, new fashion

The Fx effects are one of the most apprecciated components of moo.rd, so i have enanched all their functionalities. You can use an effect in three ways: by creating an instance, by using the Element.fx metod which returns an instance or by using the Element.effect method that uses the Element.Properties Hash to store and retrieve an Fx instance and use it immediately (returning the element).

In addiction, the effects files have now new namespaces to more accurately describe their contents and purposes: base, morph, fade, move, toggle, extra, cycle and cycles. You can learn more about in the last article dedicated to them: Fx effects: less instances, more enanchements

Customs Winows

The Customs are already here, more powerful than ever.

Now you can customize every features of these modal boxes and create all the main browser’s windows: alerts, confirms and prompts with your own styles.

New Table and Make

A lot of new features have been added to the Table and Make Classes.

Glider, Cycle and Cycles, what a wonderful news!

With the Glider Class you can create fully-customizable slideshows with all the features you’ve ever loved: caption, arrows, arrows of the keyboard support, thumbnails, full-screen mode and many more.

The new Fx.Cycle and Fx.Cycles Classes let you to make amazing cycle slideshows based on amazing transitions that you can pick from the internal storage (25 kinds of different transition currently available). Not only, you can create your own transitions with ease.

Virtual Boxes

The new Virtual.Box, Virtual.Ajax and VIrtual.HTML Classes let you to create virtual modal boxes and create respectively professional image presentations, dynamic contents (loaded from the server) and static html contents,. All feauters are fully-customizable, for example the entry effect and the caption.

One instance, infinite possibilities. Just add ‘virtualbox’, ‘virtualajax’ and ‘virtualhtml’ as values of class names to your links and have fun.

In addiction, there are the "single" versions of each Virtual Class, to allow you to create modal boxes with all the features mentioned before, but not bound with a collection.

Download Fashion

As i described here some time ago, now you can download moo.rd in a completely comfortable and fully safe way.

The Download Builder will include all the components needed by the components you choose. In addiction you can decide the compression type and whether include the MooTools framework into the same script. So you can customize the download of moo.rd as you want, in all its features.

New examples

For showing the new mechanics of this latest version i have written a lot of demos that you can find in the example section. There you can pick all the sourcecodes to learn how to work with the 1.3.1 and see this last one in action.

Try it out!

Now it’s time to try moo.rd 1.3.1 out, so go to the download page and get it now!

Don’t forget to post here your thoughts and your tips, and open a topic in the forum to report bugs or suggestions.

RD

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