What’s New - v4.2.0

Inherit from any Composite or Shell subclass

All inherited widgets are visible

Access inherited widgets exposed via public or protected accessors

Inherited widgets appear in tree with "i" decorator

Position widgets freely in any open cell

Insert new rows and columns between existing cells

Rearrange rows and columns via drag/drop

Double-click or right-click on header to set/clear horizontal/vertical grab

Interactive column and row spanning feedback

Right-click on the header area to access the popup header menu

Right-click to delete rows and columns

Filler labels automatically managed

Option for Text widgets to automatically grab horizontally

Option to automatically right-align label widgets to the left of text widgets

Non-visual beans placed in a "(non-visual beans)" category

Marked in source with "// @wb:location=X,Y" tag

Option for creating non-visual beans as fields

Reorder non-visual beans via drag/drop

Enhanced support for custom SWT widgets

Option to generate Eclipse 3.0-style GridData

New "Set tab order" command on container context menu

Automatically autosize widgets in null and FormLayout

New "Autosize widget" command for FormLayout

Reparenting support for Forms ExpandableComposite and Section

Enhanced layout assistants for FillLayout & GridLayout

Support for protected properties in SWT

Support for SWT Point property

Support for 3.2 CoolBar vertical style

Support for 3.2 sortColumn/sortDirection properties

Show events for label and main controls for field editors in popup

Support for name/icon properties for views/editors

Support for view category editing and creation

Support for toolbar/coolbar managers on design canvas

Create ID field for new ViewPart

Wizard for ViewPart adds view declaration in plugin.xml

Wizard for EditorPart adds editor declaration in plugin.xml

Create view/editor extensions when needed

Automatically adapt non-form control

Add/remove paintBorders/adapt using popup menu

"Adapt control" popup items for Forms API

Support for clientVerticalSpacing/marginWidth/marginHeight properties for ExpandableComposite/Section

Show value feedback for insets/padding in GridBagLayout

Support for focus traversal policy for Swing

New "Set tab order" command on container context menu

Automatically autosize widgets in null and SpringLayout

New "Flatten Hierarchy" action for Swing container

Option for changing size to preferred on move in absolute layout

New "Autosize widget" command for SpringLayout

Don’t show sub-components when "isContainer == FALSE" in bean descriptor

Support for custom layout managers

Support for JBuilder XYLayout and XYConstraints

Support for Swing components from fields

Mark container as focus cycle root when setting focus policy

Option for specifying default code generation method

Option to to surround method invocation code with try\{}catch\{}

Support for "this" prefix before field

Option for disabling complex expressions evaluations

Option for enable/disable reparse after custom component change

Support for options for position of event handler inner class

Option for removing "real" event handlers during component remove

Provide JDK 1.5 versions of ResourceManager as needed

Ignore during parsing methods that have single argument subclass of EventObject

Support for components from static factories

Support for borders from static factories

Understand SWT code for controls with more than two arguments in constructor

Support for adding new controls with complex constructors

Support for constructor arguments for SWT controls

Support for enumeration properties

Option for automatically drop down combo property editors on activation

"Expose property…​" item added to property table popup menu

Option to automatically direct edit new widgets

Support for editing layout properties with multi-selection

Refresh custom components palette after receiving focus

Support for preferred property descriptors

Remember expansion state in image selection dialog

Group constructor properties in complex "constructor" property