SWT Designer v4.1.0 Released! - 3.1GA, Configurable Layout

[Eric Clayberg]

Major new SWT Designer v4.1.0 release includes support for new dockable flyout palette & property panes, property filtering, automatic variable naming, improved NLS support, improved Eclipse Forms support, new wizards, Eclipse 3.1 GA support plus many other new features.

See the New & Noteworthy page.

Support for Eclipse 3.1 GA

New Dockable Flyout Palette & Property Editor

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- Dock the Property Editor & Palette to different sides of the design view
- Palette & Property Editor may be easily collapsed and expanded
- Palette & Property Editor available as separate views

:arrow: 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
- New preference page for configuring properties

:arrow: Automatically rename variables based on text property

- Rename always, never or only for defaults
- Specify renaming patterns using text, classname and acronym
- New preference page for configuring variable names

:arrow: Enhanced NLS support

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

:arrow: 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
- Enhanced support for FormLayout
- Support for drop down toolbar items and menus
- Support for ColorRegistry & FontRegistry
- Support for Eclipse 3.1 GridLayout enhancements
- Added tooltips for FormLayout popup figures

:arrow: Enhanced JFace & RCP support

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

:arrow: Editor & Property Pane enhancements

- New toolbar options to evenly distribute controls
- Keyboard navigation for menus
- New Rename command to rename multiple widgets at once
- New Set Layout command on the context menu
- New Autosize widget command for null layout
- New Change Style command on the context menu

[mupf3l]

Hi,

is there any example to this topic? I remember using non visual components when I used visual age. It was an interesting thing, coded and connected controller components to the visual ones.

brgds,

Papick G. Taboada

[Eric Clayberg]

is there any example to this topic? I remember using non visual components when I used visual age. It was an interesting thing, coded and connected controller components to the visual ones.

You can read more about it on the New & Noteworthy page for v4.1.1.



To use this with SWT, make sure that you are using the latest v4.1.1 build.

[ncook]

Aside;

What exactly is Eclipse 3.1 GA? I've seen the 'GA' elsewhere on this site, but not on the main Eclipse site.

Inquiring minds want to know

[Eric Clayberg]

What exactly is Eclipse 3.1 GA? I've seen the 'GA' elsewhere on this site, but not on the main Eclipse site.

"GA" is the standard industry abbrevation for "General Availability". That refers to the final release of a product as opposed to any beta or milestone release.

[ncook]

Interesting, thank you.