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• Improved visual feedback while resizing/moving elements using the keyboard 
• When placing fields through the "Place field..." button in the Toolbar of the Form Editor, the fields are placed in the order in which the dataproviders were selected in the "Select Data Providers" dialog 
• Better placement of horizontally placed fields through the "Place field..." button in the Toolbar of the Form Editor
• The value of the Alignment Guide > Small Offset preference is used for the distance between the elements in the "Leftward" and "Upward" distribution actions
• Added option to toggle the display of the Rulers (default: on)
• Added option to toggle the display of "Page break" lines (default: off)
• Added option to toggle the visibility of inherited elements that don't have any overridden properties (default: show)
• 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 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 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 (No undo possible!)
• 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 focusedselected
• 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 Form Editor sets the method as the field's onAction event handler
• Improved inline editing of Labels & Buttons in the Form Editor. Proper support added for Control-X/C/V keyboard shortcuts

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For Servoy 6 the goal was to introduce automated refactoring support for JavaScript. In order to be able to do automated refactoring, the refactoring mechanism needs to be able to analyse all the JavaScript code and determine exactly what every bit of code is, what it's scope is and how it is related to other bits parts of the code.

In order to achieve this, the entire builder process for the JavaScript source has been rewritten, to better parse and analyse all the JavaScript source code and infer typing information from it.

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Added support for automated JavaScript source code refactoring. The following refactoring options are available:

• Rename...: to To rename variables (global, form and local (inside functions)), functions and function parameters. The rename refactor will change the name both for the declaration of the object to be renamed as well as all references to the object.
• Extract Local Variable...: Creates a local variable (variable inside a function declaration) based on the selected code within the function. Everywhere the the selected code that was extracted to the variable occurs in the function will be replaced with a reference to the new variable
• Change Method signature...: Alters the signature of an existing method and updated all calls to the method to use the new signature. Newly introduced parameters can be given a default value, so all calls to the method can call the method with the default value for the new parameter.
• Introduce Parameter...: Takes a hard-coded value inside the code of a function, creates a new parameter from it, replacing the hard-coded value with the parameter and also update all calls to the method to send the previously hard-coded value as value for the newly created parameter 
• Inline...: Replaced a method call with the code of the called method 

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