[ANN] v3.0 - SWT Designer, Swing Designer & WindowBuilder

From: Eric Clayberg (clayberg_at_instantiations.com)
Date: 12/14/04

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    Instantiations has shipped version 3.0 of SWT Designer, Swing Designer and
    WindowBuiler Pro. This popular family of products provides a comprehensive
    GUI design environment for creating rich client Java applications.

    What's New in Version 3.0:
    --------------------------------------------------------------

    o Support for Eclipse 3.1
    o New support for Eclipse Forms
       -- Create "flat look" user interfaces
       -- New wizards for FormPages, DetailPages and MasterDetailsBlocks
       -- New Eclipse Forms palette supporting all Eclipse Forms widgets
       -- Support for ColumnLayout and TableWrapLayout
    o Support for Swing Visual Inheritance
       -- Inherit from any JFrame, JDialog, JApplet or JPanel subclass
       -- All inherited widgets are visible
       -- Access inherited widgets exposed by public or protected accessors
    o Enhanced support for custom Swing panels
       -- Access subcomponents exposed via public accessors
       -- Add new children to subcomponent containers
       -- Automatically recognize custom bean properties
    o Improved layout manager support
       -- Improved null layout support
       -- Improved Swing SpringLayout support
       -- Improved SWT FormLayout support
    o Improved editor ergonomics
       -- Added Replicate Width and Replicate Height commands
       -- Enhanced visual feedback for null layout move and size operations
    o New and improved code gen options, wizards and properties
       -- New event handler code generation options
       -- New wizards for Eclipse EditorParts & SWT Shells
       -- New wizards for Swing Applications
       -- New support for top right control in CTabFolder
       -- New support for JSpinner models (number, list and date)
       -- New support for FormData width & height
       -- New support for integer, boolean & String constants and fields
       -- New SWT custom widget support for String[], Font and Color properties
       -- New support for externalized key editing
       -- New support for JLabel.setLabelFor()
       -- New support for SWT Shell.defaultButton property
       -- New support for "bounds" property under null layout

    For complete feature details go to
    http://www.instantiations.com/windowbuilderpro

    All three products are available immediately for Eclipse 2.0, 2.1, 3.0, 3.1,
    IBM WebSphere Studio 5.0, 5.1, 5.1.2 and Rational Application Developer 6.0
    running on Windows 2000/XP or Linux/GTK2. The price per developer for
    WindowBuilder Pro is $299, SWT Designer is $199 and Swing Designer is $199.
    To purchase, go to http://www.instantiations.com/windowbuilderpro/order.html

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