[news.eclipse.tools.ve] Feature Requests

["Sébastien Alonzo" <salonzo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

First of all, congratulations to the whole team for this much needed (and
awaited) editor.

I used the WSAD 5 JVE on a few occasions and I must say that this new
version is a real improvement (both in performance and usability).
Still, there are IMHO some key features missing ... such as the inability to
rename a widget without saving the class and doing some refactoring (which
leads to resynchronization between visual and source, not to mention a
couple of compilations).
Ok it works fine but it takes a loooooong time, especially when you do
*real* developement with more than 3 widgets ;-)

I think this is a key feature because it makes the code much more
maintainable when your widget is called jButtonSave instead of jButton5.

Another interesting feature would be to be able to customize the palette so
we could add a new category with specific widgets (e.g. 3rd party
java-beans, or custom components) ... which would probably lead to the need
for a bean-info editor so one could design his own beans ;-)
Ok, I think it's pretty obvious that I'm a former VAJ user ... still I think
this is worth it.

I'm pretty much aware, that it's possible to do the same thing with the
editor as it is, but my point is that it's both difficult and slow to do and
these features would really prove themselves useful if implemented.