Swing Designer v4.0.0 Released! - M6, JGoodies FormLayout

[Eric Clayberg]

Major new Swing Designer v4.0.0 release includes support for JGoodes FormLayout, SWT_AWT support, enhanced keyboard navigation, custom swing properties & editors, better custom widget support, code hiding, Eclipse 3.1 M6 support plus many other new features.

Support for Eclipse 3.1 M6 & Eclipse 3.0.2

Support for JGoodies FormLayout

- Graphically manage columns and rows
- Graphically manage cell alignment and column/row spanning
- Graphically reorder and resize columns and rows
- Automatically handle gap columns and rows
- Intelligently convert existing layouts to JGFL
- Support for different units like pixels and dialog units
- Support for all predefined FormLayout types
- Support for grouping and ungrouping columns
- Color highlighting for grouped columns and rows
- Floating layout assistant for cells, columns and rows
- Intelligently merge and split columns and rows

:arrow: Support for the SWT_AWT bridge allowing SWT and Swing to be mixed

- New SWT_AWT palette (requires SWT Designer)
- Embed any Swing widget into an SWT or RCP window

:arrow: Enhanced Swing support

- Support for custom Swing properties, editors and customizers
- Support for instantiating custom JTable/JTree/JComboBox models
- Added support for parsing and editing JTable columns

:arrow: Enhanced NLS support

- Enhanced NLS support to allow selection of any messages class
- Added ability to auto-externalize strings for newly added widgets

:arrow: Editor & Property Pane enhancements

Code Parsing enhancements