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• Inlined all Form Editing toolbars into the Form Editor.
  Note: through the Form Editor Preferences the toolbars can be show in the main toolbar area again
• Added a Palette to the Form Editor, for easier element selection and placement
  • 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 dropping/placing 
  • Content of Palette is fully customizable: new drawers can be added or new elements can be added to existing drawers, order of drawers and elements can be altered, drawers and elements can be made visible or hidden
  • Servoy-aware beans automatically show up in a "servoy Beans drawer"  
  • Non-aware Java Swing components are in a separate drawer, hidden by default
  • The display and behavior of the Palette is fully customizable 
  Added context aware
  • customizable
  • 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. 
• Added alignment snapping guides for easier placement of elements:
  • The alignment snapping guides are like the grid snapping guides, but then the snapping is based on proximity to existing elements of the form and/or the form edges.
  • The snapping guides offer three configurable offsets and one configurable indentation size
  • Optionally, Smart Anchoring can be turned on: Smart Anchoring will automatically set the anchoring properly when aligning an element with one of more edges of the Form  
• Turned of Grid by default, since the new context aware snapping guides make the grid redundant
• Added option to remove the Rulers
• Added the drawing of the Form border
• Added form offset inside the editor viewport, for drawing the Form Border
• 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 editor Form Editor feedback optionspreferences:
  • Show anchoring feedback (default = true)
  • Show alignment feedbackfeedback (default = true)
  • Show same size indicatorsShow Gridindicators (default = true)
  • Show Grid (default = false)
• Added keyboard shortcuts for:

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

  • Group/Ungroup (resp. Control-G & Control-U)
  • Same Height/Same Width (resp. Shift-H & Shift-W)
  • Anchoring Top - Right - Bottom - Left (resp. Control-, Control*, Control-+ & Control-/)
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To be done: 

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

Script Editor

CSS Editor

Miscellaneous 

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