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| <h1><font face="Verdana">Eclipse 3.3 - 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> |
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| <h2><font face="Verdana"><a name=m1>Milestone M1</a></font></h2> |
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| <p align="right"><b>Printing support added on GTK+</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">Printing support has been added for GTK+. It is important to note that the user must |
| be running with GTK+ 2.10 or newer in order for this support to be utilized.</td> |
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| <p align="right"><b>Option to print line numbers added to StyledText</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">When printing a StyledText, line numbers can now be printed by setting the |
| <code>StyledTextPrintOptions.printLineNumbers</code> field to <em>true</em>.</td> |
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| <p align="right"><b>System tray support added on OS X</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">Icons placed on the system tray will now appear when running on OS X in the status bar. |
| <p><img border="0" src="images/osxtray.png" width="234" height="75"></p> |
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| <p align="right"><b>PNG format write support</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">Images can now be written to disk in PNG format |
| <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet246.java">(example snippet)</a>. |
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| <p align="right"><b>Browser profiles now utilized on GTK+ and linux-motif</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">The Browser widget is now utilizing profiles on GTK+ and linux-motif. As a result many previous shortcomings |
| have been fixed, including the inability to display https pages, not rendering visited links properly, and not caching visited pages. |
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| <p align="right"><b>Browser support added on PPC</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">Browser support has been added for the PowerPC architecture (GTK+). |
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| <p align="right"><b>GtkComboBox now utilized when available</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">GtkComboBox is now utilized natively for users that are running with gtk+ version 2.4 or newer.</p> |
| <p><img border="0" src="images/gtkcombobox.png" width="155" height="37"></p> |
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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"><b>Color cursors on Mac OSX</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">You can now create color cursors on Mac OSX. |
| This <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet119.java">example snippet</a> |
| created the cursor shown in the snapshot below. |
| <p><img border="0" src="images/mac-cursor.png" alt="A Color Cursor on the Mac"></p> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"><b>JPEG/PNG image loading performance improvements</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">JPEG images now load from 30 to 70 percent faster, and PNG images load 2 to 3 times faster, depending on the image. |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"><b>GraphicsExample</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">Try out the new SWT GraphicsExample, which showcases some of SWT's graphics capabilities. |
| This example is available with the Example Plug-ins on the Eclipse Project Downloads page. |
| <p><img border="0" src="images/graphicsexample.png" alt="GraphicsExample"></p> |
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