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| <h1>What's New in SWT for 3.0</h1> |
| <p>June 24, 2004</p> |
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| <p align="right"><b>SWT and AWT/Swing Interoperability</b> |
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| <p>Embedding Swing/AWT widgets inside SWT widgets is now supported on Windows with JDK 1.4 and above, |
| and on GTK and Motif with recent early access versions of Sun JDK 1.5.</p> |
| <p>This screen shot shows an SWT Shell containing a Swing JTable to the right of an SWT Tree.</p> |
| <p><font face="Verdana" size="2"><img src="swt-swing.gif" align="CENTER" alt="swt and swing"></font></p> |
| <p>Here is the <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-swt-home/snippits/snippet135.html"> |
| SWT snippet</a> that was used for this example.</p> |
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| <p align="right"><b>Browser Widget</b> |
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| <p>SWT has a new browser widget that can display HTML documents. This native widget is supported on Windows (using Internet Explorer 5.0 and above), |
| Linux GTK and Linux Motif (requires Mozilla 1.4 GTK2; Mozilla 1.5 GTK2 and Mozilla 1.6 GTK2 are also supported), Mac (Safari) and QNX (Voyager).</p> |
| <p><font face="Verdana" size="2"><img src="browser.gif" align="CENTER" alt="browser widget"></font></p> |
| <p>See the <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-swt-home/snippits/snippet148.html">SWT browser snippet</a> |
| and the <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-swt-home/faq.html#browserplatforms">SWT FAQ</a> for details. |
| The Eclipse Browser plug-in shown above is available from the Eclipse download page in the Example Plug-ins.</p> |
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| <p align="right"><b>Mac OS X Improvements</b> |
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| <p>The Mac OS X implementation of SWT has been significantly extended and improved, particularly in the following areas:</p> |
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| <li>Eclipse Launcher support, including launcher arguments and tilde expansion for the -data parameter</li> |
| <li>Stability and Performance</li> |
| <li>Native Drag and Drop Support</li> |
| <li>Printing support using the Quartz-based Mac OS X Printing Manager. Developers can now print high-quality output on raster and PostScript printers, generate PDF files, or use the standard previewer. |
| <p><font face="Verdana" size="2"><img src="osx-print.gif" align="CENTER" alt="osx print preview"></font></p></li> |
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| <p align="right"><b>Complex Script and Right-to-Left Language Support</b> |
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| <p>In order to handle right-to-left and complex scripts it is necessary to deal with several problems. |
| For example, languages like Hebrew and Arabic are written from right to left, which requires the |
| text to be reordered according to the Bidi Algorithm described in Unicode annex #9, before drawing and measuring. |
| Other languages, like Arabic and Farsi, require contextual shaping, which means that the same character can assume |
| different forms according to its position in the word. Other common problems are combined characters or ligatures |
| (two characters that are joined together). Languages like Thai have special rules for word breaking and cursor navigation. |
| Windows supports all cases previously mentioned. On GTK support for Bidi is implemented but complex scripts |
| (Thai, South Asian scripts) are still not properly tested and implemented.</p> |
| <p><font face="Verdana" size="2"><img src="bidi.gif" align="CENTER" alt="complex scripts"></font></p> |
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| <p align="right"><b>Virtual Table and Improved Table Performance</b> |
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| <p>In addition to significant performance improvements in this release, Table now supports the SWT.VIRTUAL style. |
| This lets developers create tables with large amounts of data quickly. When TableItems are needed, they are created on-demand.</p> |
| <p><font face="Verdana" size="2"><img src="virtual-table.gif" align="CENTER" alt="virtual table"></font></p> |
| <p>Here is the <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-swt-home/snippits/snippet144.html"> |
| SWT snippet</a> that was used for this example.</p> |
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| <p align="right"><b>Other Improvements</b> |
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| <p>There were numerous other new features and improvements in this release, including:</p> |
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| <li>Multiple Monitors</li> |
| <li>Non-Rectangular Windows</li> |
| <li>Add Items to System Tray</li> |
| <li>GTK Accessibility</li> |
| <li>TIFF Image Decoding</li> |
| <li>Color Cursors</li> |
| <li>Colored Cells in Tables</li> |
| <li>Italic Font in StyledText</li> |
| <li>Linux GTK on AMD64</li> |
| <li>Post Mouse/Keyboard Event to Event Queue</li> |
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