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• Hidden several not usefull MenuItems, like File > Convert line Delimiters ....
• Moved MenuItems from Elements menu under the Actions Menu on the MenuBar
• Moved the Debug Client Launch MenuItems from the Actions menu to the Run menu
• Removed custom "New Form" option in the main toolbar and moved the New .... options into the default Eclipse mechanism for "New ..." operations (File > New or New button on toolbar or Alt-Shift-N keyboard shortcut)
• Removed Classic Search view: Search can be triggered through keyboard shortcuts as well as though buttons in the main toolbar area and the menubar 
• Renamed "Profiler View" to just "Profiler"
• Hidden the Profiler view by default
• Moved Tasks view next to Bookmarks view
• Improved enabling/disabling of Solution Explorer nodes, menuItems & ToolBar buttons based on the current context
• Better visual feedback on which nodes are enabled/disabled in the Solution Explorer
• Cleaned up and aligned the Context menu's of the Form and Method Editors, to show only relevant entries and to follow the same menuitem order

Form Editor

• Added a configurable Palette for placing containing all available elements
• Added Alignment guides when placing/moving/resizing elements 
• Inlined Form Editing toolbars
  

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• Supports Drag 'n' Drop of elements
• Supports "click select - click place" way of placing elements
• Supports placing the same element multiple times by holding down the Control-key while drag/dropping items from the Palette
• Servoy-aware beans automatically show up in a "Servoy Beans drawer"  
• Non-aware Java Swing components (JXxxx-named beans) are in a separate drawer, hidden by default
• Templates automatically show up in the Templates drawer
• Templates can be applied to existing elements while dragging by dropping them while hovering over existing elements in the Form Editor. Use Control modifier to do a place, instead of an apply 
• The content, display and behavior of Palette is fully customizable:
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  • New drawers can be
  added or new elements can be added to existing drawersorder
  • created from Tamplates
  • Order of drawers and elements can be altered, 
  drawers
  • Drawers and elements can be made visible or hidden. 
  • The Palette can be inlined in the Form Editor (by default) or can be added to the Perspective as a regular view. In the latter case, the Palette will be automatically removed from the Form Editor. When the view is removed from the Perspective, the Palette will appear in the From Editor again automatically. 
  • Newly created elements have better defaults settings for their properties
    • Containers (Tabpanel, Tabless Panel & Split Pane) are transparent by default (so the transparency setting of the form controls the bahavior)
    • Checkbox & RadioButton fields transparent by default 
    • Default size of TextArea HTMLArea & RTFArea
    • Media field disabled by default
    • HTMLArea and RTFArea not editable by default

  Alignment Guides

  The Form Editor in Servoy 6 provides a sophisticated mechanism for aligning newly placed, moved and or resized elements. The snapping to grid and the display of the grid have been disabled by default in favor of the new alignment guide functionality. 

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  Optionally, Smart Anchoring can be turned on: Smart Anchoring will automatically set the anchoring properly when aligning an element to one of more edges of the Form

  

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  Also added is a click-able Anchoring feedback area on selected element. Clicking the feedback icon pops up a menu with options to quickly set the anchoring options

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  Other

  • Added option to toggle the display of the Rulers (default: on)
  • Added option to toggle the display of "Page break" lines (default: off)
  • 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
  • Added Same Width/Same Height options
    • Available as buttons on the toolbar
    • Available as entries in the context menu of the Form Editor
    • Available as keyboard shortcuts (Shift-W & Shift-H)
  • Added Same Width/Same Height feedback on elements in the Form Editor, based on the selected element
  • 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 keyboard shortcuts for:

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      Send to Back/Bring to Front (resp. Control+\] & Control+\[)

    • Group/Ungroup (resp. Control+G & Control+U)
    • Same Height/Same Width (resp. Shift+H & Shift+W)
    • Anchoring Top - Right - Bottom - Left (resp. Shift+-, Shift+*, Shift++ & Shift+/)
    • Big step move (Control-Alt-Arrow keys)
    • Big step resize (Shift-Alt-Arrow keys)
  • 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 

  To be done: 

  • Make it possible to add new Drawers to the PaletteMake it possible to drag Forms from the Solution Explorer directly onto existing Tabpanels/TablessPanels/SplitPanels in the Form Editor 

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  • There will be a behaviour change if a font in html_area is expressed in "pt" instead of "px" -> it will get smaller.
  • Non-modal Dialogs in WC rendered inside the main window, instead of as new browser windows due to JSWindow implementation, allowing multiple modal and non modal in the same window
  • application.getTimeStamp() in the Web client will return the timestamp based on the timezone of the Client and the time of the Server: Before it would just return the timestamp based on the time and timezone of the server.
  • When asking for elements and/or parts of forms that extend other forms, the inherited elements/parts are also returned in Servoy 6, whereas prior to Servoy 6, only the non-inherited elements would be returned and the (hierargy of) super forms(s) had to be inspected. 
  • When using labels with labelFor link to other elements in TableViews to control the TableView header rendering, the first lable will now determine the height of the header 

  Form Design

  Conditional formatting (including row coloring in grids)

  Inheritance model

  Misc.

  Drag 'n' Drop

  • onDragOver doesn't fire anymore for elements that are layered below other elements
  • all drag 'n' drop events don't fire anymore on disabled elements

  Web Client specific

  • DND operations can be canceled by the Escape key (Behavior already existing in the Smart Client) 
  • When onDrag returns DND.NONE, the 

  Solution Model

  Client Design mode

  Scripting API

  Plugins & Beans

  New OpenID plugin

  Dialogs plugin

  DBTree(Table)View beans

  PDF plugin

  PDF Output plugin

  Misc.

  Public Java API