Version 0.3.3 of mobl has been released. Mobl is a language for rapid development of mobile web applications using HTML5 technologies. Programs written in the mobl language are compiled to a combination of HTML, Javascript and CSS and can run on any webkit browser, specifically those on iOS and Android devices.

New in this version compared to 0.3.2:

  • Bugfix where destroyAll() wouldn’t trigger an update to lists (thanks by Dave Gardner)

  • New async feature in controls, useful for operations that take a longer time to complete (e.g. database-intensive calls and web services calls):

    var results = async(SomeService.someCall())
whenLoaded(results) {
  list(result in results) { ... }
}

    this is equivalent to:

    var results : [ResultType] = null
script {
  async {
    results = SomeService.someCall();
  }
}
whenLoaded(results) {
  list(result in results) { ... }
}

    i.e. it performs the call asynchronously, allowing the UI to fully render, then, when the call returns, the result is assigned to the control/screen variable. The whenLoaded control simply takes an argument and if its value is null, it will show a “Loading…” screen, otherwise it will render its body.

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