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| <title>What's New in 4.20 (PDE)</title> |
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| <h2>What's New in 4.20 (PDE)</h2> |
| <p>Here are descriptions of some of the more interesting or significant changes made to the Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) |
| for the 4.20 release of Eclipse. They are grouped into:</p> |
| <ul> <!-- NOTE: Sync ../topics_WhatsNew.xml with this! --> |
| <li><a href="#dialogs-wizards-views">Dialogs, Wizards and Views</a></li> |
| <!--<li><a href="#editors">Editors</a></li>--> |
| <li><a href="#APITools">API Tools</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#pde-compiler">PDE Compiler</a></li> |
| <!--<li><a href="#api">API Enhancements</a></li>--> |
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| <!-- ******************** Dialogs, Wizard and Views ********************** --> |
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| <td id="dialogs-wizards-views" class="section" colspan="2"><h2>Dialogs, Wizards and Views</h2></td> |
| </tr> |
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| <tr id="pde-enable-swt-resource"> <!-- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=572924 --> |
| <td class="title">Preference option enabling non-disposed SWT Resources error handling</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| <p> |
| The preference option <b>Enable SWT reporting of non-disposed resources when creating a new launch configuration</b> |
| has been added to <b>Plug-in Development</b> preference page to enable adding <code>-Dorg.eclipse.swt.graphics.Resource.reportNonDisposed=true</code> |
| to VM arguments when creating a new launch configuration. |
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| <img src="images/swtnondisposed.png" alt="" /> |
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| <td id="editors" class="section" colspan="2"><h2>Editors</h2></td> |
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| <!-- ******************** End of Editors ********************** --> |
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| <td id="APITools" class="section" colspan="2"><h2>API Tools</h2></td> |
| </tr> |
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| <tr id="pde-missing-ee"> <!-- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=570438 --> |
| <td class="title">Preference option for "Missing EE descriptions" removed </td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| The preference option <b>Missing execution environment descriptions</b> option in |
| <b>Plug-in Development > API Errors/Warning</b> preference page is now removed. The functionality |
| to report such errors/warning and their quick-fixes are also removed. |
| <p> |
| <img src="images/pde-option-removed.png" alt="" /> |
| </p> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <tr id="pde-unnecessary-increase-in-version"> <!-- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=572842 --> |
| <td class="title">Report multiple increase of the service segment or minor version </td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| API tools now reports if the service or the minor version is increased multiple times in a single release. |
| <p> |
| <img src="images/pde-unnecessary-increase.png" alt="" /> |
| </p> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td id="pde-compiler" class="section" colspan="2"><h2>PDE Compiler</h2></td> |
| </tr> |
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| <tr id="pde-change-bree"> <!-- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=475708 --> |
| <td class="title">The "not a perfect match" problem has a quick fix to change the BREE</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| The "not a perfect match" problem has a quick fix to change the BREE. |
| <p> |
| <img src="images/pde-change-BREE.png" alt="" /> |
| </p> |
| </td> |
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