Change Log of JFormDesigner 6

6.0.6.4 (IntelliJ IDEA plug-in only)

IntelliJ IDEA plug-in: Fixed deadlock in IntelliJ IDEA 2019.1 when opening a form in a Gradle project.

IntelliJ IDEA plug-in: Fixed form designer did open as text in IntelliJ IDEA 2019.1 EAP.

Note: This release requires IntelliJ IDEA 2016.1 or later. Use JFormDesigner 6.0.6 for IntelliJ IDEA 12.0 - 15.0.

I18n: Fixed NPE when creating new form with i18n enabled, but properties file does not exist.
IntelliJ IDEA plug-in: Fixed ConcurrentModificationException when using Darcula theme and Nimbus L&F in IntelliJ IDEA 2018.3 and later.
Disabled animation if Nimbus L&F is active to avoid occasional ClassCastException.
Minor bugs fixed.

NetBeans plug-in: Fixed NPE when saving modified form and properties files while closing project.
Minor bugs fixed.

IntelliJ IDEA plug-in: Disabled Look and Feel switching if Material Theme UI plug-in is installed and enabled.

IntelliJ IDEA plug-in: Fixed too large MigLayout scaling on HiDPI monitors running on Windows in a JetBrains Java 8 VM.
Minor bugs fixed.

NetBeans plug-in: Support Apache NetBeans 9.0.
NetBeans form converter: Convert per property custom code to per component "Pre-Initialization Code" property.

Scale system icons in file chooser tree on HiDPI monitors.
Scale size of java.awt.Window based components (e.g. JFrame) on HiDPI monitors in "Test Form" command and in generated Java code.
SpinnerModel editor: Fixed test spinner in edit dialog for model type List.
Java code generator: Fixed NPE when component class does not exist (regression in 6.0).
Eclipse plug-in: Removed key binding Ctrl+Shift+D from "New JFormDesigner form" command to avoid conflict with another command.
IntelliJ IDEA plug-in: Scale position and size of top-level form components on HiDPI monitors when changing default font size in IntelliJ IDEA Appearance Settings dialog.
IntelliJ IDEA plug-in: Fixed garbage painting of some fields in Binding dialog on Windows 10 in IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2 (and later) if IntelliJ theme is active.
Catch exceptions in Look and Feel initialization and show them in Error Log view.
Use secure connection when checking for updates.

I18n in IDE plug-ins: Fixed escaping of characters in properties files if encoding of properties files is not ISO-8859-1.
IntelliJ IDEA plug-in: Minor fixes for the Darcula and IntelliJ themes.
IntelliJ IDEA plug-in: Form classpath now includes resources output folder of Gradle projects (requires IntelliJ IDEA 2017.1 or later).
NetBeans plug-in: Fixed missing selectionMode and rowHeight properties for org.jdesktop.swingx.JXTable SwingX component.
Minor bugs fixed.

Eclipse plug-in: Fixed "Class/method not found" errors when creating actions or event handlers (regression in 6.0).
Eclipse plug-in on Linux: Avoid crash when running Eclipse under GTK+ 3 by forcing usage of GTK+ 2.
Eclipse plug-in on Linux: Fixed crash when using GTK+ look and feel (which is now no longer available in JFormDesigner when running in Eclipse).
Eclipse plug-in: Fixed rare deadlock when opening a form.
Eclipse plug-in: Fixed rare SWTException: Widget is disposed error when closing a form.
IntelliJ IDEA plug-in on Mac: Fixed rare NullPointerException: textInactiveText.
Stand-alone on Linux: Fixed Syntax error: "(" unexpected when launching JFormDesigner.sh.
Stand-alone on Mac: Fixed starting JFormDesigner if Java 9 is installed.
Mac: Fixed painting of handles on Retina displays.
Minor fixes for the Darcula L&F.
JTabbedPane: Tab background and foreground colors were not used in "Test Form" and in runtime library.
Minor bugs fixed.

MigLayout support.
Support for HiDPI monitors (scaled UI and images).
New modern icons (including 2x resolution).
Stand-alone: New modern user interface.
Stand-alone: New "Wide Layout" option shows Properties and Structure views side by side.
IntelliJ IDEA plug-in: Darcula theme support improved.
NetBeans plug-in: Support Darcula L&F (requires Darcula LAF plug-in).
Design view: Improved grid selection figure (handles always at cell bounds).
Properties view: Improved property editors for data types Dimension, Insets, Point and Rectangle.
Properties view: Color editor now supports hex color values (e.g. 0x00ff00 or 0xaa00ff00).
Properties view: Search for multiple property names.
Look and Feels: Highlight application L&F in toolbar combobox.
Increment/decrement numbers in text fields using Up/Down keys (Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down in multi-line text fields).
Command-line tool: Batch convert layout managers (e.g. from FormLayout to MigLayout).
Code generator can now write IntelliJ IDEA non-nls tags (//NON-NLS). Enable it in the Preferences dialog.
Stand-alone on Linux: Now using GTK+ look and feel.

GroupLayout: Fixes in layout design (from NetBeans 8.1 and 8.2).
Eclipse plug-in: Test form window did not receive focus.
Eclipse plug-in: Resize Eclipse Preferences dialog when it is too small for JFormDesigner option pages.
NetBeans plug-in: Resize NetBeans Options dialog when it is too small for JFormDesigner option pages.
Disabling project specific "Java Code Generator > Layout Managers" settings did also disable project specific "GridBagLayout" settings.

System Requirements: Oracle Java 6, 7 or 8 required.
System Requirements: Eclipse 3.2 - 3.5, Eclipse 3.x Carbon and Motif, IntelliJ IDEA 9.0 - 11.1 and NetBeans 7.0 - 7.1 no longer supported.
Dropped JBuilder plug-in.
Dropped "Show Diagonals" and "Squint Test".
Dropped Abeille forms converter.
Dropped JGoodies UIF lite components.