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| <font class="indextop style2">New and Noteworthy</font><br>1.0.0 Milestone 7</font> |
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| <TR><TD colSpan=2><H2>Skype Provider</H2></TD> |
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| <B>Skype Provider</B> |
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| Skype Provider Available at <a href="http://ecf1.osuosl.org">ECF OSU Open Source Lab site</a>. See |
| also <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Skype_Provider">here for some screen shots</a> |
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| <B>IRC Bot Loose at irc.freenode.net</B> |
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| An IRC bot based upon the ECF <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Bot_Framework">Bot Framework</a> is |
| running at irc.freenode.net. See <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/IRC_Bot">IRC Bot</a> for details. |
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| <B>New Roster and Messages Views</B> |
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| There are new roster and messages views: |
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| <img src="images/screens/contactsandmessages.png"> |
| These views also are significantly refactored, simplifed, and made more extensible. See the classes |
| <b>org.eclipse.ecf.presence.ui.MultiRosterView</b> for the Contacts view, and <b>org.eclipse.ecf.presence.ui.MessagesView</b> |
| for the Messages View. Both are in the <b>org.eclipse.ecf.presence.ui</b> bundle. |
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| <B>Communications Perspective</B> |
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| Communications Perspective Added. </p> |
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| <img src="images/screens/communicationsperspective.png"> |
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| <B>ShareCode Available</B> |
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| ShareCode plugin available after IP approval. The <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Shared_Code_Plugin">ShareCode plugin, by Marcelo Mayworm</a> for the |
| <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Google_Summer_of_Code_2006">2006 Google Summer of Code</a> are now availble in the EF repository. These plugins are available via |
| anonymous CVS with the following path: <b>/cvsroot/technology</b>, the following module <b>org.eclipse.ecf/examples/plugins/org.eclipse.ecf.example.sharecode</b>. |
| See the <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Shared_Code_Plugin">ShareCode wiki page</a> for more info. This plugin will also be in a future distribution |
| of ECF. |
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| <B>All ECF Chat and Messages Views support viewing Hyperlinks</B> |
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| All ECF Chat, Messages, and Collaboration views now support embedded hyperlinks. To activate, |
| simply hold down the <b>CTRL</b> key |
| while pointing at the link: |
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| <img src="images/screens/hyperlinkchat.png"> |
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| <B>Hyperlink Recognition for Communication Protocols</B> |
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| Hyperlinks in text editors, java editors, etc. are now recognized by ECF and if clicked will result |
| in a connect dialog for the chosen protocol. For example: |
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| <img src="images/screens/ecfhyperlink1.png"> |
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| <B>Dynamic Menu Contributions to Roster View</B> |
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| The MultiRosterView now can be extended using the org.eclipse.ui.menus.menuContribution extension point. TODO |
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| <B>Chat View Class Consolidation</B> |
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| Several chat view classes have been consolidated so that now there is only one chat view org.eclipse.ecf.presence.ui.ChatRoomManagerView. |
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| <B>New Automated Build</B> |
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| ECF now has an automated build and server setup to run automated builds. It will be going active sometime within the next |
| week (5.11.2007), and we will be doing daily, and weekly integration builds. Thanks particularly to Pete Mackie and |
| Ted Kubaska for making this possible, and getting the build environment together. |
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| <B>Examples of Extending MultiRosterView Context Menus</B> |
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| The ECF MultiRosterView can now be easily extended with additional functionality. |
| To do this, all that is necessary is to implement the new Platform UI extension point: |
| <b>org.eclipse.ui.menus.menuContribution</b>. Here's an example that adds an URL |
| sharing capability to the MultiRosterView context menu, when a roster entry is |
| selected. The following is from the <b>org.eclipse.ecf.presence.collab.ui</b> plugin. |
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| First, the extension declaration: |
| <pre> |
| <extension |
| point="org.eclipse.ui.menus"> |
| <menuContribution |
| locationURI="popup:org.eclipse.ecf.presence.ui.MultiRosterView?before=additions"> |
| <dynamic |
| class="org.eclipse.ecf.presence.collab.ui.URLShareRosterEntryContributionItem" |
| id="org.eclipse.ecf.presence.collab.ui.dynamic2"> |
| </dynamic> |
| </menuContribution> |
| </extension> |
| </pre> |
| With this declaration, the following code will be invoked when the user clicks the |
| right menu button on a roster entry (from URLShareRosterEntryContributionItem): |
| <pre> |
| protected IAction[] makeActions() { |
| // check for Roster entry |
| final IRosterEntry entry = getSelectedRosterEntry(); |
| IContainer c = getContainerForRosterEntry(entry); |
| // If roster entry is selected and it has a container |
| if (entry != null && c != null) { |
| final IChannelContainerAdapter channelAdapter = (IChannelContainerAdapter) c |
| .getAdapter(IChannelContainerAdapter.class); |
| // If the container has channel container adapter and is online/available |
| if (channelAdapter != null && isAvailable(entry)) { |
| URLShare tmp = URLShareRosterContributionItem.getURLShare(c |
| .getID()); |
| // If there is an URL share associated with this container |
| if (tmp != null) { |
| final URLShare urlshare = tmp; |
| // Create action for sending |
| IAction action = new Action() { |
| public void run() { |
| // Actually send URL to selected user |
| urlshare.sendURL(entry.getRoster().getUser().getName(),entry.getUser().getID()); |
| } |
| }; |
| action |
| .setText(Messages.URLShareRosterEntryContributionItem_SEND_URL_MENU_TEXT); |
| action.setImageDescriptor(Activator.imageDescriptorFromPlugin( |
| Activator.PLUGIN_ID, Messages.URLShareRosterContributionItem_BROWSER_ICON)); |
| // Return action for sending |
| return new IAction[] { action }; |
| } |
| } |
| } |
| // Else return null...meaning we have no menu contribution to make |
| return null; |
| } |
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