Design Changes and Improvements

Four major areas of redesign

The new features of Builder Xcessory 5.0 streamline the process of creating and using components. The following four major areas are affected by these design decisions:

• Builder Xcessory Palette

  The manner in which data is saved and displayed in the Palette has been completely redesigned in Builder Xcessory 5.0, so that you can easily add and manage large numbers of new components.

• Customizing Builder Xcessory

  On most platforms, both widgets and C++ components can now be added without recompiling Builder Xcessory.

• Builder Xcessory Class Member Editor

  The Class Member Editor has been significantly enhanced to be configurable from the normal Builder Xcessory initialization files.

• ViewKit Components on Palette

  Builder Xcessory 5.0 includes the ViewKit menu and dialog components on the Palette and significantly enhances ViewKit code generation.

Features and improvements

Builder Xcessory 5.0 includes the following features and improvements:

· Java 1.1 Support.

Builder Xcessory 5.0 supports the new AWT 1.1 delegation event model. Java applications generated with Builder Xcessory 4.0 will work with Builder Xcessory 5.0.

Note: Builder Xcessory 5.0 Java code generation is limited to the AWT components provided. Builder Xcessory does not support adding new Java components or JavaBeans.

• Cleaner presentation of methods and instance variables in the
  Resource Editor.
• Support for the CDE widgets.
• Position and state (iconified, normal) of the principal Builder Xcessory windows are saved on exit.