mostly UI suggestions

[Paul Singleton]

I hope you welcome (some of) these ideas based on my initial experience with 1.1.2 Free edition:

Inspector could also offer spinners for adjusting integer properties e.g. GridData.hSpan, where +/-1 etc. is common

Content Pane's popup align images could have tooltips showing which property and value they would set, or they could highlight same in Inspector

Inspector's combos could expand to show all items if possible (as with all popups, you can't do much else on screen while they're there, so use the available space for user's convenience) (choosing named colors is fiddly)

Do named colours relate to swatches in 'Color' dialog? I guess you can't add tooltips to the (Windows) swatches, but could you add mini swatches to Inspector's combos?

right/left cursor keys could expand/collapse complex properties in Inspector

(optionally?) show all inner borders of a GridLayout in Content Pane

delete Control Tree items from keyboard

merge TabFolder and TabItem into a single virtual composite (you can't really have one without the other) (and SashForm doesn't need SashItems)

could layout-less composites nevertheless have a 'layout' property, with a pulldown list of alternatives? from the designer's point of view, layout is essentially a (complex) property, not another control

[admin]

I hope you welcome (some of) these ideas based on my initial experience with 1.1.2 Free edition:

Of course.

Inspector could also offer spinners for adjusting integer properties e.g. GridData.hSpan, where +/-1 etc. is common

Ok, done.

Content Pane's popup align images could have tooltips showing which property and value they would set, or they could highlight same in Inspector

I can add tooltip, but I am not sure that understand, what text to put there. Can you give couple examples?

Inspector's combos could expand to show all items if possible (as with all popups, you can't do much else on screen while they're there, so use the available space for user's convenience) (choosing named colors is fiddly)

Ok, agree, color selection is really inconvinient. Done. Now it will try to show full content of combo.

Do named colours relate to swatches in 'Color' dialog? I guess you can't add tooltips to the (Windows) swatches, but could you add mini swatches to Inspector's combos?

This is good request, but its implementation is not so easy to make it right now. As you may be know, CCombo does not supports custom draw items, or even just Image, only String's. So, we will need to replace List in its drop down to Table, but this requeres some time.

right/left cursor keys could expand/collapse complex properties in Inspector

You can use +/- or space. Left/right are used for navigation inside of editor.

(optionally?) show all inner borders of a GridLayout in Content Pane

Can you please describe more, what do this mean? Margin borders? Or?...

delete Control Tree items from keyboard

Ok, done.

merge TabFolder and TabItem into a single virtual composite (you can't really have one without the other) (and SashForm doesn't need Sas**tems)

Mmm... I don't like this. There are two separate widgets in SWT, why should we hide them? Can you describe scenario, how to work with such virtual composite?

could layout-less composites nevertheless have a 'layout' property, with a pulldown list of alternatives? from the designer's point of view, layout is essentially a (complex) property, not another control

Ok, good request. Done.