[ANN] rIDE 2.4 released

[wilstrand]

Dear All!

Here comes version 2.4 of rIDE!

The Property Inspector has been heavily updated and is now rather advanced.
It now handles multi-level customProperties and customPropertySets which
can be inspected and edited freely. Fill- and strokeGradients are now integrated
for inspection and editing. The editing handles of the gradients can be dragged
even outside the window boundaries by dragging the "cross-arrows" in the Inspector.

The Property Inspector treats native and custom controls in the same way. A color property
of for example a button gets a clickable "Color Chooser to the right of the value field.
Both the property name and value are analyzed to display proper controls for editing.
The Inspector does the same with a custom Control. Try selecting a custom control,
for example a Data Grid, and then choose "Custom" from the Combo box at the top of the
Inspector.

Or you could try building your own custom control, add some custom properties to it and
inspect and edit. Here you can experiment with the property names and values to see the
effect in the Inspector. Choosing a property name ending with for example "color" will have
the Inspector display the same color editing controls for your custom control as if it was a native.

You're probably guessing by now that these features aims at a streamlined and consistent
mechanism for creating, editing and inspecting controls. And you're right! Next version
of rIDE will get new and integrated tools for creating, editing and inspecting native as well as
custom controls.


Enjoy this rIDE!
Download: http://tapirsoft.on-rev.com/ride/

With my best regards,
Mats