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

[Eric Clayberg]

Major new Swing Designer v4.1.0 release includes support for new dockable flyout palette & property panes, property filtering, automatic variable naming, improved NLS support, improved custom widget 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 Swing support

- Added icons for borders and an option to show them in control tree
- Show position in title for BorderLayout, JScrollPane, JSplitPane
- Improved support for custom Swing widgets and customizers
- Added support for JGoodies Component Factory and widgets
- Added JTable on JScrollPane palette entry
- Enhanced support for SpringLayout
- Enhanced support for JTable columns
- Added tooltips for SpringLayout popup figures

: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