What's New - v4.3.0

• Support for creating and editing RCP Perspectives

• Support for visual tab order editing

• Enhanced NLS support

• Enhanced SWT support

• Enhanced JFace & RCP support

• Enhanced Swing support

• Code Generation & Parsing enhancements

• Editor & Property Pane Enhancements
   

• v4.2.0

• v4.1.0

• v4.0.0

• v3.0.0

Support for creating and editing RCP Perspectives

• New wizard for creating Perspective Factories
• Perspective declaration added to plugin.xml
• Perspective palette includes common and local views
• Change view locations and sizes with drag/drop
• Create folders by stacking views
• Manage placeholder & fast views and view & perspective shortcuts

Support for visual tab order editing

• Clicking "Tab Order" button places editor into tab order mode
• Click on components in desired tab order
• Ctrl+click a component to move its tab position to another
• Shift+click to add/remove a tab stop from a component

Enhanced NLS support

• Show widget icons in locale table
• Added "Internalize key..." & "Remove locale..." actions in locale table
• Show tooltip with components in locale table
• Use Enter and Tab to navigate locale table
• Support for ClassName.class.getName() as BUNDLE_NAME in NLS
• Automatically sort keys in properties files

Enhanced SWT support

• Support for alignment to any control in FormLayout
• Enhanced attachment feedback in FormLayout
• Show warning when change number of columns in GridLayout
• Support for scrollbars events of ScrolledComposite
• Support for icons of custom SWT controls
• Support for custom SWT property editors
• Support for SWT customizers
• Support for cross-parent alignment for SWT absolute layout

Enhanced JFace & RCP support

• Support for SectionParts
• Support for properties of buttons on JFace Dialogs
• Support for "parent" argument of ViewPart.createPartControl(Composite parent)
• Support for custom FormToolkit's

Enhanced Swing support

• Support for alignment to any control in SpringLayout
• Enhanced constraint feedback in SpringLayout
• Support for morphing to subclass/other
• Support for "Insets" argument of EmptyBorder
• Added "Set frame size" menu for frames

Code Generation & Parsing enhancements

• Major performance enhancements (windows open 2X-3X faster)
• Option for creating Swing components fields in initializers
• Option for adding 'final' to event handlers parameters
• Support for "${default_name}" in variable name template
• Ignore 'null' assignments in field declarations
• Support for parents passed as arguments
• Support for parsing refactored methods in any order
• Enhanced support for factories
• Support for static methods from current class
• Don't create default constructors until needed
• Support for public/protected/default static fields in superclasses
• Check that variable name is not reserved Java identifier
• Support for Java5 enum properties and EnumSet

Editor & Property Pane Enhancements

• Support for required properties
• Preference for highlight/ignore required properties
• Show class hierarchy tooltip and double click to open
• New tree-based image selection dialog
• Support for selecting images from classpath jar's
• Option for enabling/disabling "Test" action
• Enable copy, but prevent cut for top level components
• Minimal support for JBuilder OpenTools API
• Use better plus/minus images for property table
• Support for selecting images in projects with multiple source folders