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[ANN] v4.3 - SWT Designer, Swing Designer & WindowBuilder Pro [message #8383]

Tue, 07 March 2006 04:17

Eric Clayberg

Messages: 979
Registered: July 2009
Location: Boston, MA

Senior Member

Major new v4.3.0 release includes support for editing RCP Perspectives,
visual tab order editing, Eclipse 3.1.2 & 3.2M5 support, enhanced SWT
FormLayout and Swing SpringLayout support, enhanced custom SWT widget
support, code gen enhancements, plus many other new features.

http://www.instantiations.com/windowbuilderpro

http://www.instantiations.com/windowbuilderpro/docs/introduc tion/new_and_noteworthy_430.html

o Support for Eclipse 3.1.2 & 3.2M5
o Support for creating and editing RCP Perspectives
- New wizard for creating Perspective Factories
- Perspective declaration added to plugin.xml
- Perspective palette includes common and local views
- Change view locations and sizes with drag/drop
- Create folders by stacking views
- Manage placeholder & fast views and view & perspective shortcuts
o 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
o 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
o Enhanced SWT support
- Support for alignment to any control in FormLayout
- Enhanced attachment feedback in FormLayout
- Support for custom SWT property editors
- Support for cross-parent alignment for SWT absolute layout
o Enhanced JFace & RCP support
- Support for SectionParts
- Support for properties of buttons on JFace Dialogs
- Support for "parent" argument of ViewPart.createPartControl(Composite
parent)
- Support for custom FormToolkit's
o Enhanced Swing support
- Support for alignment to any control in SpringLayout
- Enhanced constraint feedback in SpringLayout
- Support for morphing to subclass/other
o 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
o 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

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Re: [ANN] v4.3 - SWT Designer, Swing Designer & WindowBuilder Pro [message #8445 is a reply to message #8383]

Fri, 10 March 2006 00:51

Messages: 29
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

> o Enhanced SWT support
> - Support for alignment to any control in FormLayout
> - Enhanced attachment feedback in FormLayout
> - Support for custom SWT property editors
> - Support for cross-parent alignment for SWT absolute layout
> o Enhanced JFace & RCP support
> - Support for SectionParts
> - Support for properties of buttons on JFace Dialogs
> - Support for "parent" argument of ViewPart.createPartControl(Composite
> parent)
> - Support for custom FormToolkit's

Shall I use JFace or SWT? JFace maybe a better choice, but SWT is better
supported in "SWT Designer, Swing Designer & WindowBuilder Pro".

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Re: [ANN] v4.3 - SWT Designer, Swing Designer & WindowBuilder Pro [message #8476 is a reply to message #8445]

Fri, 10 March 2006 13:48

Eric Clayberg

Messages: 979
Registered: July 2009
Location: Boston, MA

Senior Member

"xy" <nhsoft.xy@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:duqijr$m6r$1@utils.eclipse.org...
>> o Enhanced SWT support
>> - Support for alignment to any control in FormLayout
>> - Enhanced attachment feedback in FormLayout
>> - Support for custom SWT property editors
>> - Support for cross-parent alignment for SWT absolute layout
>> o Enhanced JFace & RCP support
>> - Support for SectionParts
>> - Support for properties of buttons on JFace Dialogs
>> - Support for "parent" argument of
>> ViewPart.createPartControl(Composite parent)
>> - Support for custom FormToolkit's
>
> Shall I use JFace or SWT? JFace maybe a better choice, but SWT is better
> supported in "SWT Designer, Swing Designer & WindowBuilder Pro".

I don't understand the question. It isn't an issue of using one or the
other. You can use both together if you like.

SWT Designer has excellent support for the creation and editing of all
common SWT, JFace and RCP components.

-Eric Clayberg
Sr. Vice President of Product Development
Instantiations, Inc.
http://www.instantiations.com
http://www.windowbuilderpro.com/

Author: "Eclipse: Building Commercial Quality Plug-ins"
http://www.awprofessional.com/title/0321228472

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