A few ideas

[scharf]

SWT Designer is really cool

Playing with it, here a few ideas I collected:

- allow manipulation in the component tree:

- deletion of a component
- moving to a control another parent (sometimes it's very hard to drop a new component into the composite it should be in.

- if a container has no layout set, put a string in there (e.g "please choose a layout manager" and make it red). It drove me crazy because I could not drop a component in a Group (and I assume I'm not the only beginner that faces this problem).

- allow test-running of wizard pages (it would be ok to run in a simple dialog)...

- that's an eclipse bug: if new plugins add toolbar items they are not visible unless the perspective is reset. So, I don't see the "run" button in the java perspective (I have customized it and I don't want to loose my setup). So, it'd be cool if one could run from a context menu or with a shortcut...


Michael

[admin]

SWT Designer is really cool

Thank you, I am glad that you like it.

Playing with it, here a few ideas I collected:

- allow manipulation in the component tree:

- deletion of a component
- moving to a control another parent (sometimes it's very hard to drop a new component into the composite it should be in.

Yes, we already received feature request for moving controls inside of tree. Moving is already done, so we need to implement only delete.

- if a container has no layout set, put a string in there (e.g "please choose a layout manager" and make it red). It drove me crazy because I could not drop a component in a Group (and I assume I'm not the only beginner that faces this problem).

Hm... I.e. draw string on component image. Interesting idea. We will try, how this will look.

- allow test-running of wizard pages (it would be ok to run in a simple dialog)...

This is already implemented, but WizardPage is part of prefessional version.

- that's an eclipse bug: if new plugins add toolbar items they are not visible unless the perspective is reset. So, I don't see the "run" button in the java perspective (I have customized it and I don't want to loose my setup). So, it'd be cool if one could run from a context menu or with a shortcut...

I don't think that this is bug, as in your case, you already have customized perspective and don't want to change it. Ok, we will try to add this feature.

[admin]

Ok, I think in next version you will see all requested features:

05 Sep 2003 - Version 1.1.2
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[*] Now Designer will use options from "Code generation" page during
generation of field names.
[+] Drag&Drop support in control tree.
[+] Context menu in control tree.
[+] "Test..." item in context menu.
[+] "Please choose a layout manager" message for composites without
layout manager (optional, can be turned off in preferences).
[*] H/V_SCROLL style bits for Text.

[scharf]

Ok, I think in next version you will see all requested features

Wow! I am very amazed! Keep up the good work!

Michael

[admin]

We are always happy to implement good feature requests.

[Paul Singleton]

- if a container has no layout set, put a string in there ... It drove me crazy because I could not drop a component in a Group

or (OK I know this is rather late )
- have a default layout from the outset
- add a default layout when user tries to drop on it
- popup a "which layout?" dialog when user tries to drop on it
- offer layout choice in container's context menu

[admin]

Default layout and items in popup - may be, we will consider this.
Add layout on drop can not work, because we show feedback for adding new control using information about existed layout.