What's New - v4.2.0

• Support for SWT Visual Inheritance

• New "Free cell mode" edit policy for SWT GridLayout

• Support for non-visual beans

• Enhanced SWT support

• Enhanced JFace & RCP support

• Enhanced Swing support

• Code Generation & Parsing enhancements

• Editor & Property Pane Enhancements
   

• v4.1.0

• v4.0.0

• v3.0.0

Support for SWT Visual Inheritance

• 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

New "Free cell mode" edit policy for SWT GridLayout

• 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

Support for non-visual beans

• 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 SWT support

• 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

Enhanced JFace & RCP support

• 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

Enhanced Swing support

• 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

Code Generation & Parsing enhancements

• 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

Editor & Property Pane Enhancements

• 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