EControl Form Designer Pro

Change Log

Version 2.3 (07.09.2009)

• CodeGear RAD Studio 2010 support.
• Improved design grid painting.
• Customization of Tool Component Palette.
• Registration of standard actions (StdRegComps.pas)
• Redesigned standard actions (cut, copy, paste, delete, undo, select all). Now they derived from TEdit____ actions. This allows using them for edit controls and for designer.
• Property search functionality. In object inspector press TAB and input first letters of property display name to search it in list.
• Using drag images when dragging component from component palette or component tool list.
• Minor fixes and improvments.

Version 2.20 (22.04.2009)

• Extended events support (in resource files)
• Extended guidelines styles
• Group operations
• Local/global markers
• Parent dragging limitation (ON/OFF)
• Operations in inactive mode (ability of using component combo, object tree, object inspector with inactive designer)
• Other fixes and minor improvements.

Version 2.10 (23.09.2008)

• CodeGear RAD Studio 2009 support
• Other fixes and small improvements

Version 2.01 (08.06.2008)

• Improved component editor for TOleContainer
• Corrected behavior of in-place captions editing
• Fix: form scrolling in design surface
• Fixes in action list component editor
• Other fixes and minor improvements

Verion 2.00 (25.04.2008)

• Full Unicode support.
  Property names and values in object inspector, property editor supports Unicode.
  Tools palette supports Unicode.
  In-place text editing supports Unicode (if it is defined in in-place component editor).
• Designer Object Tree control - analogous to Delphi's object tree. Object TreeView displays a tree diagram of the visual and nonvisual components you place on a form, data module, or frame.
• Tool list with component palette. Allows in-place rearranging, autocollapsing, vertical categories, components filtration, etc.
• Frame which contains inspector lists for properties and events, component compobox. It has default popup menu, default designer events processing and "Object Inspector Properties" dialog. Use this frame to quickly integrate standard object inspector.
• Frame which encapsulates standard component palette (BDS). Provides default toolbar, popup menu and "Tools Palette Properties" dialog.
• Frame which encapsulates standard object tree view window with default toolbar and popup menu.
• Edit control derived from TCustomEdit and provides features: Unicode text editing, right-side button, popup list, left-side status area. It is used as base control for TPropertyEdit.
• Panel control with list of buttons. Buttons may be organizd in list or in grid. Base control for TPalettePanel.
• Tools list - list of items organized in categories. Base control for TPaletteToolList.
• Hints managing for component palette panel, component palette tool list, object inspector.
• Designer support drag & drop operations.
• Redesigned structure of component registration manager. Now managing registered components more safe and comfortable.
• Component combo box automatic hint.
• Ability to control value to be written to property in property edit and in inspector list.
• Ability to control objects selected in inspector list and in component combo box. This feature allows using multi-level design environments when controls and components edited in designer do not coincide with objects edited in object inspector.
• New methods, events and properties to make designing process better controlled by the application.

02.07.2007 (v 1.50)

• NEW: In-place text editing mode. This mode allows in-place editing of labels, panels, buttons ... captions; listbox, combobox, listview... items and others text properties on form. Design process becomes more interactive, user should not open object inspector to edit any text on the form. Comfortable navigation and entering in edit mode (press Enter or mouse click on the text). In-place editor settings are managed by in-place adapters. There are several adapters included package for standard library. You may write own adapters for custom components.
• Unicode support. Properties display names and categories names may be defined as Unicode string. Implemented support of interfaces: IWideProperty, IWideProperty10.
• Minor improvements and fixes.

20.05.2007 (v 1.45)

• Delphi 2007 packages.
• Undo and Redo operations. It is possible to undone any change - adding, deleting, sizing , moving, property change in object inspector,...
• ReadOnly designer mode. Blocks any changes in designer.
• Minor improvements and fixes.

05.04.2007 (v 1.40)

• Full library documentation.
• BDS style designer operations.
• Customizable markers.
• Improved Design Surface.
• Easy script integration.
• Minor improvements and bugfixes.