Kexi 0.1 beta 4 Changes

(since beta 3 version)

Much improved Form Designer

• Form designer is now integrated as Kexi component (KexiPart)
• New features for editor to ease form creation even more : Widgets are resized as you edit text to fit the text, dragging a widget holding Ctrl key copy the widget, editing can be started by double clicking.
• Pixmaps are managed using a collection, what means can be stored outside of GUI project files, and can be shared by multiple forms.
• Connections can be created using a new dialog or by drag-and-drop
• Added a combo in toolbar to select widget style
• Support for label's buddy widget (using context menu)
• Tab Stops are editable using a special dialog; it can be managed automatically (from top-left corner to bottom-right).
• New widget icons
• Lots of bugfixes and corrections for designer

Much improved Query Designer

• Saving, loading improved
• On switching between SQL and Visual modes, query design is preserved (using parser).
• Layout of tables in query's relation view is stored together with query schema.
• Renewed SQL history view now can be switched off and simple SQL status panel can be displayed instead.
• Kate Part (text editor) is now integrated for SQL View. Also works on win32 version.

Fixes in Table Designer

• Better updates on user's row/cell deletions/editions.

Data Table View

• Fixed data refreshing when needed.
• Improved combobox widget's drop-down button.
• Cell focus fixed in few cases.

Overall improvements

• Many fixes for action handling, action availability updates. &dirty& window's flag better updated.
• Kexi Core (Parts, Actions) API improved
• Developer's Documentation, especially KexiDB Documentation improved.
• Added --edittext [<object_type>:]<object_name> command line option: like --open, but the object are opened in Text Mode.