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The visual editor was
upgraded with many new features to make
designing your user interface easy.
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Multiple selection and
logical grouping of components allow
screen designers the ability to apply
actions and properties to all selected
components.
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New formatting actions
for justification, size and spacing save
time in designing screens built using
freeLayouts.
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Drag images from
either the Navigator or Package Explorer onto
components to change any image attribute.
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Deal with multiple
XUpdate directives in a single file by
visualizing them individually.
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Rules-based schema verification eliminates
unneeded attributes and enforces proper component relationships.
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Enhancements in the outline allows the
user to view and manipulate a file's Document
Object Model. Many features were added
to the outline view to increase it
usefulness when dealing with large files.
- New Drag and Drop allows you to
reorder components, change parents and move and copy
event handlers.
- Displays logical elements of the
file including: events, include
statements and Managed Client Objects,
allowing developers to see all aspects
of the file in an easy to use tree view.
- Connect a component's event to Java
Event handlers by easily dragging and
dropping class methods from the Package
Explorer onto the component.
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Studio replaced it own
property view and replaced it with the standard eclipse
properties view to make changing
component properties a snap.
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Property values are
validated against the schema to eliminate
incorrect values, which will be reported in the
status bar.
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Grouping of properties
by categories makes it easy to find the
property you want.
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View actual property
names or easy to understand display
names.
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The customizable palette gives developers
the ability to change properties on
components in the palette as well as define
new components that when dragged into the
visual editor or outline view, create the newly defined
component.
- Create new components with the
properties you want or define plugins
that you have created.
- Modify existing components with the
properties that you commonly use.
- Create new drawers to house new
classes of widgets.
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Studio provides two form-based configuration
editors to change properties of the
nexaweb-client.xml and nexaweb-server.xml
files. The form editors makes it easy to
find and change properties related to:
logging, loading screen, thread pools,
stylesheet, etc... |
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Developers can design gradients using the
editor provided in any stylesheet form editor. |
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New features were added to project creation and
maintenance, making handling projects a easy. |
- Configurable project structure.
- Easily upgrade to new versions of Nexaweb using
the "Add/Upgrade Nexaweb Support" action.
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