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| <h1><font face="Verdana">Eclipse 3.0 - New and Noteworthy in SWT</font></h1> |
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| <li><a href="#m1">Milestone M1</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#m2">Milestone M2</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#m3">Milestone M3</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#m4">Milestone M4</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#m5">Milestone M5</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#m6">Milestone M6</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#m7">Milestone M7</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#m8">Milestone M8</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#m9">Milestone M9</a></li> |
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| <h2><font face="Verdana"><a name=m1>Milestone M1</a></font></h2> |
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| <p align="right"><b>Eclipse launcher for Mac |
| OS X</b></p> |
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| <td width="70%" valign="top" align="left">The |
| Eclipse Launcher has been ported to Mac OS X. |
| <ul> |
| <li>All Eclipse launcher arguments can be |
| specified via the "Eclipse" section in Eclipse's Info.plist |
| file. Please note that the standard "Java" section in |
| Info.plist is ignored since we are no longer using the |
| JavaApplicationStub. So if you want to run Eclipse on the 1.4.1 VM you |
| will have to specify the path to the 1.4.1 binary with the "-vm" |
| argument and not with the "JVMVersion" tag.</li> |
| <li>When specifying the workspace location |
| via the "-data" argument, you can use tilde expansion as |
| known from /bin/sh. So "-data ~/Documents/workspace" will |
| put the workspace in your Documents folder.</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p><img border="0" src="macosx1.jpg" width="466" height="253"></p> |
| <p><img border="0" src="macosx2.jpg" width="466" height="268"></p> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"> |
| <p align="right"><b>Other Mac OS X |
| improvements</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top" align="left">Drag |
| and dropping views and editors now works on the Mac, and UI performance is |
| significantly better thanks to various SWT improvements. (Note that most |
| of these Mac improvements will also be in the upcoming Eclipse 2.1.1 |
| maintenance release.)</td> |
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| <td colspan="2" valign="top" align="left"> |
| <hr> |
| </td> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"> |
| <p align="right"><b>SWT support for right to |
| left languages</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top" align="left">SWT |
| now provides for the mirroring of controls as required by right-to-left |
| languages like Hebrew. The affected SWT API includes Display.map(), |
| SWT.LEFT_TO_RIGHT, SWT.RIGHT_TO_LEFT, SWT.LEAD, SWT.TRAIL, a new GC |
| constructor, and GC.getStyle(). This is implemented on Windows at this |
| point (but not on other window systems).</td> |
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| <td colspan="2"> |
| <hr> |
| </td> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"> |
| <p align="right"><b>SWT supports multiple |
| monitors</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top" align="left">Multiple |
| monitors are now supported by SWT. See the new Monitor class, |
| Display.getMonitors(), and Display.getPrimaryMonitor(). SWT clients should |
| use the new multi-monitor API when positioning and sizing dialogs, menus, |
| etc. This code snippet shows usage: <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-swt-home/snippits/snippet120.html"> |
| center a shell on the primary monitor</a>.</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td colspan="2"> |
| <hr> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"> |
| <p align="right"><b>SWT supports color |
| cursors</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top" align="left">SWT |
| now support color cursors on Windows (on other window systems, the bit |
| depth is reduced internally if necessary). These code snippets show usage: |
| <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-swt-home/snippits/snippet119.html">create |
| a color cursor from a source and a mask</a>; <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-swt-home/snippits/snippet118.html">create |
| a color cursor from an image file</a>.</td> |
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| </td> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"> |
| <p align="right"><b>Improved SWT clipboard</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top" align="left">SWT |
| support for the clipboard has been improved by the addition of way to |
| query whether a data type is available on the clipboard. SWT clients |
| should use this API when deciding to enable or disable a paste menu or |
| button (clients currently use Clipboard.getContent() which is slow and can |
| have negative side effects such as deleting data from the clipboard in a |
| cut operation). This code snippet shows correct usage: |
| <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-swt-home/snippits/snippet122.html"> |
| enable/disable menu depending on clipboard content availability</a></td> |
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| <hr> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"> |
| <p align="right"><b>Added TIFF Image Decoding</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top" align="left">SWT |
| now supports TIFF image decoding for T4-encoding CCITT T.4 1D.</td> |
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| <hr> |
| </td> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"> |
| <p align="right"><b>Added MenuDetect Event</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top" align="left">You can now use the |
| SWT MenuDetect event to determine when to show a context (pop-up) menu (instead of hooking |
| MouseDown and testing the button). This code snippet shows correct usage: |
| <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-swt-home/snippits/snippet131.html"> |
| show a popup menu (wait for it to close)</a></td> |
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| <h2><font face="Verdana"><a name=m2>Milestone M2</a></font></h2> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"> |
| <p align="right"><b>Accessibility on GTK</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">The SWT Accessibility API is now |
| implemented for GTK using GTK's ATK.</td> |
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| <td colspan="2"> |
| <hr> |
| </td> |
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| </table> |
| |
| <h2><font face="Verdana"><a name=m3>Milestone M3</a></font></h2> |
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| <hr> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"> |
| <p align="right"><b>HTML browser widget</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">SWT has a new |
| browser widget that can display HTML documents. This native widget is |
| currently supported on Windows (using Internet Explorer 5.0 and above) and |
| Linux GTK (using Mozilla 1.4 GTK2). |
| <p><img src="browser-windows.gif" title alt="SWT window containing new browser widget" style="width: 467px; height: 271px;" width="467" height="271"></p> |
| <p>See the <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-swt-home/snippits/snippet128.html">SWT |
| browser snippet</a> and the <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-swt-home/faq.html#whatisbrowser">SWT |
| FAQ</a> for details. Please be aware that the Browser API is still in flux |
| and may change before the end of Eclipse 3.0.</td> |
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| <td colspan="2"> |
| <hr> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"> |
| <p align="right"><b>Tables with colored |
| cells</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">The SWT table |
| widget now supports setting the foreground and background colors of |
| individual cells. |
| <p><img src="table.gif" align="CENTER" alt="table widget with multi-colored cells" width="371" height="237"></p> |
| <p>See the <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-swt-home/snippits/snippet129.html">SWT |
| colored table snippet</a> to find out how.</p> |
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| </td> |
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| <h2><font face="Verdana"><a name=m4>Milestone M4</a></font></h2> |
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| <p align="right"><b>Non-rectangular windows</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top"> |
| <p>An SWT shell can now have an irregular |
| shape defined by a region created from an arbitrary combination of |
| rectangles and polygons.</p> |
| <p><img src="non-rect.gif" title alt="Irregularly shaped SWT window" width="394" height="242"></p> |
| <p>See the <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-swt-home/snippits/snippet134.html">SWT |
| non-rectangular window snippet</a> for details.</p> |
| </td> |
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| <td colspan="2"> |
| <hr> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"> |
| <p align="right"><b>Accessibility API for |
| custom text widgets</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top"> |
| <p>SWT custom widgets that provide text |
| editing capability must implement the new AccessibleTextListener to |
| provide caret offset and selection range information. Custom text editor |
| widgets must also notify the screen-reader of text-related events by |
| calling Accessible.textChanged, Accessible.textCaretMoved and |
| Accessible.textSelectionChanged when appropriate. This new accessibility |
| extension is required for proper interaction with the native accessibility |
| story on GTK. See org.eclipse.swt.custom.StyledText for an example |
| implementation.</p> |
| </td> |
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| <hr> |
| </td> |
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| </table> |
| |
| <h2><font face="Verdana"><a name=m5>Milestone M5</a></font></h2> |
| |
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| <td colspan="2"> |
| <hr> |
| </td> |
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| <td align="left" valign="top" width="30%"> |
| <p align="right"><b>Printing for Mac OS X</b></p> |
| </td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">SWT for Mac OS X now supports the Quartz-based |
| Mac OS X Printing Manager. This allows SWT applications to print |
| high-quality output on all classes of raster and PostScript printers, to |
| generate PDF files, or to use the standard previewer. |
| <p><img src="macosx-printing.gif" alt="Print preview" width="466" height="300"></p> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td colspan="2"> |
| <hr> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td align="left" valign="top" width="30%"> |
| <p align="right"><b>Improved native tab folder</b></p> |
| </td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">The SWT native tab folder (<code>TabFolder</code>) |
| can now be created with tabs located on either the bottom or the top, just |
| like the emulated tab folder (<code>CTabFolder</code>).</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td colspan="2"> |
| <hr> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td align="left" valign="top" width="30%"> |
| <p align="right"><b>Improved keyboard support</b></p> |
| </td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">SWT keyboard support has been improved. There |
| are now key events for keys like Caps Lock, Scroll Lock, and Pause. And it |
| is now possible to distinguish key events coming from the numeric keypad.</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td colspan="2" height="16"> |
| <hr> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| </table> |
| |
| <h2><font face="Verdana"><a name=m6>Milestone M6</a></font></h2> |
| |
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| <td colspan="2"> |
| <hr> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"> |
| <p align="right"><b>Embedding Swing widgets inside SWT widgets</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top" align="left">SWT now supports embedding |
| Swing/AWT widgets inside SWT widgets. Until now, this support was internal |
| and only worked on Windows. It is now working on Windows with JDK 1.4 and |
| above, and on GTK and Motif with recent early access versions of Sun JDK |
| 1.5. |
| <p>This screen shot shows an SWT Shell containing a Swing JTable to the |
| right of an SWT Tree:</p> |
| <p><img src="swt-awt.gif" width="463" height="343"></p> |
| <p>(<a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-swt-home/snippits/snippet135.html">SWT |
| snippet</a> showing how this screen shot was created.)</p> |
| </tr> |
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| <td colspan="2"> |
| <hr> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"> |
| <p align="right"><b>Multiple sizes of shell images</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top" align="left">Images are displayed by the window |
| manager in the trim as well as other locations like the program switcher |
| (Alt+Tab) and the task bar. Depending where a shell's image is displayed, |
| the platform chooses the image with the best size. SWT now allows the |
| application to provide images of varying sizes for the operating system to |
| choose from. |
| <p><img src="shell-images.gif" width="420" height="135"></p> |
| <p>(<a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-swt-home/snippits/snippet138.html">SWT |
| snippet</a> showing how to do this.)</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td colspan="2"></td> |
| </tr> |
| </table> |
| |
| <h2><font face="Verdana"><a name=m7>Milestone M7</a></font></h2> |
| |
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| <td colspan="2"> |
| <hr> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"> |
| <p align="right"><b>Table and Tree widget improvements</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">The SWT <code>Table</code> widget now allows a |
| column to be scrolled into view by calling <code>Table.showColumn(TableColumn)</code>. |
| <code>TableCursor</code> uses this new method to ensure that the current |
| cell is scrolled into view. |
| <p>Also, both the <code>Table</code> and <code>Tree</code> widgets now let |
| you set the font for a row or an individual cell.</p> |
| <p><img src="table-tree.gif" align="CENTER" alt="table and tree widget with multiple fonts" width="457" height="196"></p> |
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| </tr> |
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| <hr> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"> |
| <p align="right"><b>Browser widget </b><b>improvements</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">The SWT <code>Browser</code> widget has new |
| methods to determine if the receiver can navigate backward or forward. See |
| <code>Browser.isBackEnabled()</code> and <code>Browser.isForwardEnabled()</code>. |
| <p>Also, it now provides notification when the title of the document |
| changes. See <code>Browser.addTitleListener(TitleListener)</code>.</p> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td colspan="2"> |
| <hr> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| </table> |
| |
| <h2><font face="Verdana"><a name=m8>Milestone M8</a></font></h2> |
| |
| <table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="80%"> |
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| <td colspan="2"> |
| <hr> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"> |
| <p align="right"><b>New Look for CTabFolder</b></td> |
| <td width="70%"> |
| <p>CTabFolder now supports a simple look (default) and a curved look.</p> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td colspan="2"> |
| <hr> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"> |
| <p align="right"><b>Virtual Table</b></td> |
| <td width="70%"> |
| <p>Table now supports the SWT.VIRTUAL style. This allows you to create tables with large |
| amounts of data quickly. When TableItems are needed, they are created on-demand. |
| (Note: The API to do this may change between M8 and M9).</p> |
| <p><img src="virtual-table.gif" align="CENTER" alt="A Table with 1,000,000 items"></p> |
| <p>(<a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-swt-home/snippits/snippet144.html">SWT |
| snippet</a> showing how to do this)</p> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <td colspan="2"> |
| <hr> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"> |
| <p align="right"><b>Tray & TrayItem</b></td> |
| <td width="70%"> |
| <p>You can now place icons in the System Tray. The System Tray is usually a row of small |
| icons located somewhere on the Task Bar on some operating systems.</p> |
| <p><img src="tray-item.gif" align="CENTER" alt="An SWT TrayItem in the Windows XP system tray"></p> |
| <p>(<a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-swt-home/snippits/snippet143.html">SWT |
| snippet</a> showing how to do this)</p> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td colspan="2"> |
| <hr> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"> |
| <p align="right"><b>TextLayout & TextStyle</b></td> |
| <td width="70%"> |
| <p>StyledText has been rewritten to use the new classes TextLayout & TextStyle. This means that |
| it will now correctly render complex scripts, BIDI, and baselines for bold fonts. TextLayout styling |
| includes font, color, line wrap, alignment, line spacing, hit test, measuring, caret navigation, |
| bidi reordering, and more. The TextLayout classes are available for general use however the API |
| will change between M8 and M9.</p> |
| <p><img src="text-layout.gif" align="CENTER" alt="Draw internationalized styled text on a shell"></p> |
| <p>(<a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-swt-home/snippits/snippet145.html">SWT |
| snippet</a> showing how to do this)</p> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td colspan="2"> |
| <hr> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"> |
| <p align="right"><b>Display.post(Event)</b></td> |
| <td width="70%"> |
| <p>SWT now lets you generate low level keyboard and mouse events to enable automated |
| UI testing tools. |
| <p><img src="post-mouse.gif" align="CENTER" alt="Post a mouse event to a Button"></p> |
| <p>(<a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-swt-home/snippits/snippet142.html">SWT |
| snippet</a> showing how to post mouse events)</p> |
| <p><img src="post-keys.gif" align="CENTER" alt="Post key events to a Text widget"></p> |
| <p>(<a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-swt-home/snippits/snippet146.html">SWT |
| snippet</a> showing how to post key events)</p> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td colspan="2"> |
| <hr> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"> |
| <p align="right"><b>64 bit Linux GTK port (AMD)</b></td> |
| <td width="70%"> |
| <p>SWT now runs on 64 bit AMD processors running GTK Linux. |
| <br>Eclipse on 64 bit GTK Linux is not yet production quality, and the Browser widget is not implemented, |
| however we would like people to go ahead and use this platform and report bugs against it.</p> |
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| <td colspan="2"> |
| <hr> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| </table> |
| |
| <h2><font face="Verdana"><a name=m9>Milestone M9</a></font></h2> |
| |
| <table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="80%"> |
| <tr> |
| <td colspan="2"> |
| <hr> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr> |
| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"> |
| <p align="right"><b>Browser widget on Mac OS X</b></td> |
| <td width="70%"> |
| <p>The SWT Browser widget is now available on the Mac. It uses Safari, the Mac OS X default web browser.</p> |
| <p><img src="safari.gif" align="CENTER" alt="Safari browser embedded in SWT application"></p> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
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| <td colspan="2"> |
| <hr> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"> |
| <p align="right"><b>Italic Fonts in StyledText</b></td> |
| <td width="70%"> |
| <p>The SWT StyledText widget now supports italic fonts.</p> |
| <p><img src="italic.gif" align="CENTER" alt="StyledText displaying italic text"></p> |
| </td> |
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