What's New - v4.1.0

• New Dockable Flyout Palette & Property Editor

• Added new Property Manager

• Automatically rename variables based on text property

• Enhanced NLS support

• Enhanced SWT support

• Enhanced JFace & RCP support

• Enhanced Swing support

• Editor & Property Pane Enhancements
   

• v4.0.0

• v3.0.0

New Dockable Flyout Palette & Property Editor

• Dock the Property Editor to the top, bottom, left or right of the design view
• Dock the Palette to the left or right of the design view
• Palette & Property Editor may be easily collapsed and expanded
• Palette & Property Editor available as separate views

Added new Property Manager

• Important properties are highlighted in bold and sorted to the top of the list
• Hidden properties are removed from the property list
• Hidden properties may be toggled on and off
• New preference page for configuring properties

Automatically rename variables based on text property

• Rename always, never or only for defaults
• Specify renaming patterns using text, classname and acronym
• Use the first n elements of the text value
• New preference page for configuring variable names

Enhanced NLS support

• Added flag icons for all locales
• Support for ResourceBundle.getBundle("name").getString("key")

Enhanced SWT support

• Support for setting SWT tab order within a container
• Added BIDI (RIGHT_TO_LEFT) support for SWT GridLayout, FlowLayout and RowLayout
• Added an Eclipse Forms Composite wizard
• Added an SWT Dialog wizard
• Support for direct edit/double click for ToolItem
• Support for drop down toolbar items and menus
• Support for ColorRegistry & FontRegistry
• Support for Eclipse 3.1 GridLayout enhancements
• New Autosize widget command for null layout
• Added tooltips for FormLayout popup figures
• Support for Forms borders/adapt for SWT frames
• Enhanced support for FormLayout
• Keyboard navigation for menus

Enhanced JFace & RCP support

• Support for adding existing actions for ApplicationWindow/ViewPart
• Enhanced display of ViewParts and EditorParts

Enhanced Swing support

• Added icons for borders and an option to show them in control tree
• Show position in title for BorderLayout, JScrollPane, JSplitPane
• Added support for JGoodies Component Factory and widgets
• Added JTable on JScrollPane palette entry
• Support for JMenuBar for JApplet
• Enhanced support for JTable columns
• New Autosize Widget command for null layout
• Added tooltips for SpringLayout popup figures
• Resize JFrame using content pane handles
• Improved support for custom Swing widgets and customizers
• Support for object properties
• Enhanced support for SpringLayout
• Support for AbstractButton.setMnemonic(char)
• Keyboard navigation for menus

Editor & Property Pane Enhancements

• New toolbar options to evenly distribute controls
• New Rename command to rename multiple widgets at once
• New Set Layout command on the context menu
• New Change Style command on the context menu
• Option to highlight borderless containers (with dotted outline)
• Added read-only "class" property
• Use the Esc key to cancel an add operation