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| <TR><TD colSpan=2><H2>ECF UI Additions</H2></TD> |
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| <B>Able to open links in internal browser</B> |
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| For the IRC chat window, URLs now appear as underlined, and when clicked on will open the internal browser window for the given page. |
| Here's a screenshot:<p></p> |
| <img src="images/screens/ircweblink.png"> |
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| <B>New Connect Wizards for IRC, XMPP providers</B> |
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| Using the <b>org.eclipse.ecf.ui.connectWizard</b> extension point, there are new connectWizards for IRC and XMPP providers. The wizard classes may be |
| found in the two (new) plugins: <b>org.eclipse.ecf.provider.xmpp.ui</b> and <b>org.eclipse.ecf.provider.irc.ui</b>. |
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| <B>Simplified RosterView class</B> |
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| Using the Presence API Refactoring described below, a simplified and extensible roster view class was created in the <b>org.eclipse.ecf.presence.ui</b> |
| plugin: MultiRosterView. This view presents multiple rosters, using the MultiRosterContentProvider class present in the same package. This |
| replacement roster view will be used to introduce other features into the roster user interface, and is also suitable for extension |
| by subclasses or replacement. |
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| <B>Presence API Refactoring to Support JFace Content Providers</B> |
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| The presence API (plugin: <b>org.eclipse.ecf.presence</b>) has been enhanced to support JFace viewers. Specifically, |
| the roster interface classes (IRosterManager, IRoster, IRosterEntry, IRosterGroup, IRosterItem) have been enhanced |
| so that they can easily be used as the basis of an JFace ITreeContentProvider. This allows the |
| use and automatic update of a roster (buddy) list by an ECF provider that implements the presence API (e.g. the XMPP provider). For example, here is code in the new plugin |
| <b>org.eclipse.ecf.presence.ui</b> that creates a tree viewer to display multiple rosters: |
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| protected void setupTreeViewer(Composite parent) { |
| treeViewer = new TreeViewer(parent, SWT.BORDER | SWT.MULTI |
| | SWT.V_SCROLL); |
| getSite().setSelectionProvider(treeViewer); |
| multiRosterContentProvider = new MultiRosterContentProvider(); |
| multiRosterLabelProvider = new MultiRosterLabelProvider(); |
| treeViewer.setLabelProvider(multiRosterLabelProvider); |
| treeViewer.setContentProvider(multiRosterContentProvider); |
| treeViewer.setInput(new Object()); |
| } |
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| With this approach, the UI/viewer code does not need to know anything about the messaging to change/update the roster |
| model. This model is managed by the ECF provider (XMPP) and when |
| The MultiRosterContentProvider class (and others to support this new approach) are available |
| in the (new) plugin: <b>org.eclipse.ecf.presence.ui</b>. See the classes in the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.docs/api/org/eclipse/ecf/presence/ui/package-summary.html">org.eclipse.ecf.presence.ui package</a> |
| for example usage and reusable base classes. |
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