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• Added the drawing of the Form border
• Offset the Form inside the editor viewport, for drawing the Form Border
• Visual feedback of Forms being transparent
• Elements marked as invisible are displayed semi-transparent
• Elements marked as invisible do not generate an "Element in form "...." is outside the bounds of form." builder marker when placed horizontally outside the bounds of the form
• Added "Snapping mode" shortcut on the toolbar to quickly toggle the Alignment mechanism to use:
  • None
  • Grid
  • Alignment (default)
• Added "Toggle Feedback options" shortcut on the Toolbar to toggle the Form Editor feedback preferences:
  • Show anchoring feedback (default = true)
  • Show alignment feedback (default = true)
  • Show same size indicators (default = true)
  • Show Grid (default = false)
• Added support for quick pan of viewport using SpaceBar+MouseDown+MouseMove (allows for quick scrolling the viewport if the Form is larger than the Form Editor area)
• Added forced lasso select for layered elements through Shift modifier when starting the select using the mouse 
• Form part height can be set by double-clicking the part label 
• Form parts can be resized using the keyboard
• When resizing form parts using the mouse, if the Control modifier is pressed while the resize takes place, anchored elements also are resized based on their anchoring settings
• Form (parts) can be resized using the mouse by dragging their edges 
• Form and Form Part can be resized in both dimensions at the intersection of the Form's right edge and the form part bottom edge (a3)
• While hovering over the Form part label, a vertical resize cursor is shown 
• Added location & size feedback in the status bar of Servoy Developer for the selected element 
• Added "Revert Form" option to Context menu of the Form Editor, to undo all changes since the last Save at once
• Added "Preferences" option in the Context menu of the Form Editor
• When pressing the Tab key while focus is on an element in the Form Editor, the next element in the tab sequence is focused
• The preferred size of beans is used when placing beans on a Form
• When placing a new Tabpanel through the new Tabpanel button on the toolbar, the Tabpanel is dimensioned to the dimensions of the largest form, also taking into account the Form's border and navigator settings
• Splitpane elements get a name prefixed with split_ when placed on a form
• Splitpane elements render like a Splitpane in the Form Editor, instead of like a Tabpanel
• Tabless panel elements get a name prefixed with tabless_ when placed on a form
• Tabless panel element renders like a empty container element, instead of like a Tabpanel
• Visual appearance of elements representing Tabs on a Tabpanel changed to let the element better resemble a tab, especially on transparent Tabpanels 
• Drag & Dropping a method from the Solution Explorer onto a field in the formEditor sets the method as the field's onAction event handler

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• Make it possible to drag Forms from the Solution Explorer directly onto existing Tabpanels/TablessPanels/SplitPanels in the Form Editor 
• Size feedback in the status bar for Form
• Fix the show/hide/reorder behavior of the Toolbars of the Form Editor

Script Editor

To be fully described

Still to be done

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JSDoc Typing info

• Wiki Markup
  Support for typed Arrays: String\[\] or Array\<String\>

• Support for typing JSFoundSets and JSRecord to be of a specific datasource: JSFoundset\<datasource\> or JSRecord\<datasource\>

Misc.

• Automatic JSDoc @type setting on global and Form variables 

Still to be done

• Investigate if the "Paste to JavaScript console" option in the Context menu of the Script Editor can be removed or made to work
• Investigate if the "Run as ..." and "Debug as ..." options in the Context menu of the Script Editor can be removed or made to work

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• Added QuickFix to create the unresolved method on builder markers for unresolved methods attached to events and commands 
• Added "Element in form "...." is outside the bounds of form." builder marker for elements placed below the last Form part. Note: elements placed below the last form part on a form are not instantiated at runtime, thus are not in the elements array or visible on the Form
• Added builder marker to warn about dataprovider of type text with a small length that are attached to HTMLArea's or RTFArea's, as these type of fields generate more markup in the dataprovider than the user actually sees

Miscellaneous 

• Added a Servoy Active Solution Working set: the workset functionality of Eclipse allows to limit the scope of operations like searching or display of builder markers. The Servoy Active Solution workset is a pre-defined workset that contains the Active Solution and all it's modules. The Servoy Active Solution working set can be used in:
  • Problems view: The contents of the Problems view can be filtered to only show the builder markers for the active solution. Click "View menu" > Configure Contents > Select "Servoy Active Solution Filter"
    
  • Searching: In the Search dialog, the scope of the Search can also be restricted to the Servoy Active Solution workset:
    
• Servoy MarketPlace integration
  • Servoy MarketPlace can be opened in Servoy Developer, through Help > Servoy MarketPlace
  • When supported by the product in the MarketPlace, the product can by instantly downloaded and installed into Servoy Developer 
• Added option to show the firstForm of the solution that is being activated (see Window > Preferences > Servoy > Form Editor) 

• Wiki Markup
  Improved output to console of Javascript objects: \{name: someValue} instead of \[object Object\]

• Added predefined update url for JSDoc plugin (https://www.servoyforge.net/projects/jsdoc)
• Updated Servoy Developer to Eclipse Helios (3.6)
• Reduced memory footprint of solutions in Servoy Developer by about 40% 
• Added command line Solution Exporter
• Added JUnit testclass for running JSUnit tests contained in a solution within the JUnit framework
• Made update of Calculations and Aggregates in the Replace Table action optionalDeveloper to Eclipse Helios (3.6)
• Reduced memory footprint of solutions in Servoy Developer by about 40% 
• Added command line Solution Exporter
• Added JUnit testclass for running JSUnit tests contained in a solution within the JUnit framework
• Made update of Calculations and Aggregates in the Replace Table action optional
• In the Debug Smart Client, a call to application.showUrl(...) will open the URL in a browser within Servoy Developer
• In Table Editor, when creating a new column containing the text "email" or "url" in the columnName, automatically set the type to "Text" and the length to resp. 254 or 2048 (based on the specifications for email addresses and urls)

Solution development

Behavior changes

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• Support added to Icons on Tabs of a tabPanel
• Support added for .replaceSelectedText(...) on fields
• Partial Dialogs plugin support (see #Plugins & Beans) 
• Added support for editable HTMLAreaPerformance improvement of the Web Client due to compression enabling by defaultHTMLArea
• Performance improvement of the Web Client due to compression enabling by default
• Moved all styling of Tabpanels to the servoy_default_webclient_stylesheet.css 
• Moved default form background-color into servoy_default_webclient_stylesheet.css 

Plugins & Beans

New OpenID plugin: Web Client only plugin to 

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• When installing Servoy with the database option unchecked, the installation will now contain the previously missing servoy.properties file
• Compression is enabled by default on the Servoy Application Server for serving HTML, CSS and JavaScript files, which improves the performance of the Web Client
• Ability to alter the max. allowed idle connections on the Servoy Application Server without restarting
• Lazy loading of the datamodel of database server clones, resulting in faster Servoy Application Server startup and no unneeded overhead for database server clones that aren't going to be used
• Added ability to specify the user directory for Smart Clients on the Admin page 

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