The beta program will last for the next two weeks or so, after which we hope to start shipping the GA version.
New features include:
New Swing Desinger Pro and Free editions
Support for all Swing & AWT widgets including new JDK 1.4 widgets **
Support for all Swing containers including JPanel, JScrollPane, JSplitPane, JTabbedPane, JDesktopPane and JInternalPane
Support for most Swing Layout Managers including Absolute, Flow, Border, Grid, Card, Box and GridBag **
Support for Swing menus and popups **
Change Look & Feel on the fly (Metal, Motif, Windows)
Support for multiple code generation styles (VAJ, VE, JBuilder, NetBeans, etc.)
New wizards for JFrame, JPanel and JApplet
Standard SWT Designer features like templates, morphing, cut/copy/paste, unlimited undo/redo, etc.
Powerful graphical support for GridBagLayout **
SWT Choose Bean command to drop 3rd party SWT widgets **
Code Generation pref to create all components as fields by default **
Preference for automatic go to definition on selection on design page
Added SWT separator to palette
Enhanced and simplified SWT menu creation
New TitleAreaDialog wizard
New license manager
** Professional Edition Only
Send any bug reports concerning Swing Designer to support@swt-designer.com