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| <h1>Eclipse Project 4.5 RC1 - New and Noteworthy</h1> |
| <p>Here are some of the more noteworthy things available in the Mars milestone build RC1 (2015-05-14) |
| which is now available for <a href="http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/#4.5_Stable_Build" target="_top">download</a>. |
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| We also recommend to read the Tips and Tricks, either via <b>Help > Tips and Tricks...</b> or online for |
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| <li><a href="#Platform">Platform</a></li> |
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| <td class="title">BIDI: SWT Controls now support AUTO text direction</td> |
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| The auto (a.k.a. "contextual") text direction implies that the base text direction is derived from the direction |
| of the first strong (either LTR or RTL) bidi character. Auto text direction is the most appropriate choice when |
| the text content is not known in advance and, hence, it is not yet possible to decide which base direction value, |
| LTR or RTL, would be most suitable at run time. |
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| Support for auto text direction has been introduced at the SWT Control level. Auto text direction can be applied |
| through the existing <code>Control#setTextDirection</code> API. The new value for auto direction is expressed as |
| the bitwise disjunction of (<code>SWT#LEFT_TO_RIGHT</code> | <code>SWT#RIGHT_TO_LEFT</code>) bit fields. When |
| applied onto a Composite control, the auto base direction (similarly to LTR and RTL ones) is inherited by the |
| child components. |
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| For example: |
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| <li><code>org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Table.setTextDirection(SWT.LEFT_TO_RIGHT | SWT.RIGHT_TO_LEFT);</code></li> |
| </ul> |
| Result: |
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| <img src="images/auto-text-direction.png" alt=""/> |
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| <b>Note:</b> Auto text direction is not yet supported: |
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| <li>in StyledText</li> |
| <li>upon Control creation (but only through <code>Control#setTextDirection</code> call once the Control has been created)</li> |
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| <p>The above features are just the ones that are new since the previous milestone |
| build. Summaries for earlier Mars milestone builds:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.5/M7/">News for Eclipse Mars milestone build M7</a></li> |
| <li><a href="https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.5/M6/">News for Eclipse Mars milestone build M6</a></li> |
| <li><a href="https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.5/M5/">News for Eclipse Mars milestone build M5</a></li> |
| <li><a href="https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.5/M4/">News for Eclipse Mars milestone build M4</a></li> |
| <li><a href="https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.5/M3/">News for Eclipse Mars milestone build M3</a></li> |
| <li><a href="https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.5/M2/">News for Eclipse Mars milestone build M2</a></li> |
| <li><a href="https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.5/M1/">News for Eclipse Mars milestone build M1</a></li> |
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