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| <h1><font face="Verdana">Eclipse 3.4 - 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> |
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| <h2><font face="Verdana"><a name=m1>Milestone M1</a></font></h2> |
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| <td colspan="2"> <hr> </td> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"><b>SWT for 64-bit Windows</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">Windows x86_64/AMD64 has joined the lineup of supported |
| configurations for which SWT and Eclipse are routinely built. To use it you must be |
| running on a 64-bit edition of Windows with a 64-bit JRE. (Note that the 32-bit |
| versions of SWT and Eclipse can still be used on these configurations with a 32-bit JRE). |
| <p><img border="0" src="images/swtwinx64.png" alt="Eclipse on Windows 64"></p> |
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| <td colspan="2"> <hr /> </td> |
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| <h2><font face="Verdana"><a name=m2>Milestone M2</a></font></h2> |
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| <td colspan="2"> <hr> </td> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"><b>SWT RTL support for Linux GTK</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">SWT now provides support for mirroring on Linux |
| GTK platforms. |
| <p><img src="images/swtgtkrtl.png" alt="RTL on Linux GTK" /></p></td> |
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| <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"><b>SWT inline input method</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">StyledText has added support for inline input |
| method in Win32, GTK, and Carbon. Note that this is an early implementation |
| and that the API is subject to change. |
| <p><img src="images/swtinline.png" alt="Inline input method" /></p></td> |
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| <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"><b>SWT features in TextLayout and |
| StyledText</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">TextLayout and StyledText now allow different |
| strikeout colors, underline colors, and different underline styles. |
| <p><img src="images/swtunderline.png" alt="SWT Underline" /></p></td> |
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| <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"><b>SWT full screen state</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">API was added to put a Shell into a full |
| screen state. This is preferable to creating an ON_TOP shell the size |
| of the screen, which may not obscure the task bar or other desktop adornments under |
| certain operating systems.<p><img src="images/swtfullscreen.png" alt="Fullscreen" /></p></td> |
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| <td colspan="2"> <hr /> </td> |
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| <h2><font face="Verdana"><a name=m3>Milestone M3</a></font></h2> |
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| <td colspan="2"><hr /> </td> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"><b>SWT on HP-UX IA64</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">SWT will now run (in 32-bit mode) on HP-UX Itanium |
| machines. |
| <p><img src="images/hpux.png" alt="HPUX" /></p></td> |
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| <td colspan="2"><hr /> </td> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"><b>Alpha on shells</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">There is new SWT API that allows the |
| setting of an alpha value on a shell. Note: some operating systems do not |
| support this functionality. |
| <p><img src="images/alpha.png" alt="alpha" /></p></td> |
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| <td colspan="2"><hr /> </td> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"><b>Image transfer support</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">New API was added to support copy and paste |
| of an image to and from the clipboard.</td> |
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| <h2><font face="Verdana"><a name=m4>Milestone M4</a></font></h2> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"><b>Accessibility for Mac OS X</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">Eclipse is now accessible on Mac OS X Carbon. |
| The Mac screen reader, VoiceOver, can be turned on and off with <b>Command+F5</b>. |
| The snapshot below shows the VoiceOver cursor highlighting a tool item |
| in Eclipse. |
| <p><img src="images/voiceover.png" alt="VoiceOver showing focus on Eclipse tool item" /></p></td> |
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| <td colspan="2"><hr /> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"><b>URL transfer support</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">There is new Drag and Drop API to support the |
| conversion between text in URL format and a platform-specific representation |
| of the data. |
| <p><img src="images/URL-transfer-before.png" alt="URL transfer before" /> |
| <p><img src="images/URL-transfer-after.png" alt="URL transfer after" /></p> |
| For further details, see <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet284.java">Snippet 284</a>. |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"><b>Create a region from a path</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">There is new API to flatten a graphics path |
| into line segments. Line segments can be used to create a region, which |
| is used for non-rectangular shells. This <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet285.java">snippet</a> creates |
| a circular shell from a path. |
| <p><img src="images/regionfrompath.png" alt="Region from Path" /></p></td> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"><b>OpenGL support on Solaris</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">OpenGL support has been added on the Solaris-GTK |
| and Solaris-Motif platforms. |
| <p><img src="images/solarisopengl.png" alt="Solaris OpenGL" /></p></td> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"><b>Proxy settings on Mozilla-based |
| Browsers</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">Mozilla-based Browsers now support access to |
| the web through a proxy. This can be set by specifying the <code>network.proxy_host</code> and <code>network.proxy_port</code> java |
| properties at startup. |
| <p> For more info see <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/swt/faq.php#browserproxy">How |
| do I set a proxy for the Browser to use?</a></p></td> |
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| <h2><font face="Verdana"><a name=m5>Milestone M5</a></font></h2> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"><b>Regions on controls</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">You can now set a Region into a Control, which |
| allows for the creation of non-rectangular controls. This <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet294.java">example snippet</a> |
| created the snapshot shown below. |
| <p><img src="images/regiononcontrol.png" alt="Region on Control" /></p></td> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"><b>Tristate buttons</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">API was added to allow for tristate check buttons |
| similar to the check buttons in a table or tree. This <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet293.java">example snippet</a> |
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| created the snapshot shown below. |
| <p><img src="images/tristate.png" alt="Tristate button" /></p></td> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"><b>Print control to GC</b></td> |
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| <td width="70%" valign="top">API was added to allow the printing of any Control |
| to a GC. For more info, check out <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet292.java">Snippet |
| 292</a>. |
| <p><img src="images/printControl.png" alt="Print a Control" /></p></td> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"><b>Browser now uses XULRunner 1.9 |
| interfaces</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">The Browser widget has been updated to work |
| with the upcoming <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/XUL:Xul_Runner" target="_blank">XULRunner</a> 1.9 release (which is compatible with older |
| XULRunner versions). This affects all Browser instances on Linux, as well |
| as Windows and OSX Browser instances created with style SWT.MOZILLA. |
| <p><img src="images/xulrunner19.png" alt="xulrunner19" /></p></td> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"><b>Drag and drop improvements on |
| Mac</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">When inserting an item into a tree, an indicator |
| is now displayed to show where the item will end up. |
| <p><img src="images/mactree.png" alt="Mac tree insert" /></p></td> |
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| <td width="30%" valign="top" align="left"><b>SWT for Windows 64-bit Itanium |
| Edition</b></td> |
| <td width="70%" valign="top">Windows IA64 has joined the lineup of supported |
| configurations for which SWT is routinely built. To use it you must be |
| running on Windows 64-bit Itanium Edition with a 64-bit JRE.</td> |
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