Swing Designer v4.3.0 Released! - 3.2M5, Visual Tab Editing

[Eric Clayberg]

Major new Swing Designer v4.3.0 release includes support for visual tab order editing, Eclipse 3.1.2 & 3.2M5 support, enhanced Swing SpringLayout support, code gen enhancements, plus many other new features.

See the New & Noteworthy page.

Support for Eclipse 3.1.2 & 3.2M5
Support for visual tab order editing for SWT & Swing

- Clicking "Tab Order" button places editor into tab order mode
- Click on components in desired tab order

:arrow: Enhanced NLS support

- Show widget icons in locale table
- Added "Delete key" & "Delete locale" actions in locale table
- Show tooltip with components in locale table

:arrow: Enhanced Swing support

- Support for alignment to any control in SpringLayout
- Enhanced constraint feedback in SpringLayout
- Support for morphing to subclass/other

:arrow: Code Generation & Parsing enhancements

- Major performance enhancements (windows open 2X-3X faster)
- Option for creating Swing components fields in initializers
- Support for "${default_name}" in variable name template
- Enhanced support for factories
- Support for Java5 enum properties and EnumSet

:arrow: Editor & Property Pane enhancements

- Support for required properties
- Preference for highlight/ignore required properties
- Show class hierarchy tooltip and double click to open
- New tree-based image selection dialog
- Support for selecting images from classpath jar's