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| <title>Eclipse Platform What's New in 4.15</title> |
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| <h2>What's New in Eclipse 4.15 (Platform)</h2> |
| <p>Here are descriptions of some of the more interesting or significant changes |
| made to the Eclipse Platform for the 4.15 release of Eclipse. They are grouped into:</p> |
| <ul><!-- NOTE: Sync ../topics_WhatsNew.xml with this! --> |
| <li><a href="#ViewsAndDialogs">Views, Dialogs and Toolbar</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#Debug">Debug</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#Preferences">Preferences</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#StylingThemes">Themes and Styling</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#GeneralUpdates">General Updates</a></li> |
| </ul> |
| <p> |
| Plug-in developers will also be interested in the corresponding |
| <a href="../../org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/whatsNew/platform_isv_whatsnew.html">What's new</a> |
| document in the plug-in developer's guide.</p> |
| <p>We also recommend to read the <a href="../tips/platform_tips.html">Tips and Tricks</a>.</p> |
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| <td id="ViewsAndDialogs" class="section" colspan="2"> |
| <h2>Views, Dialogs and Toolbar </h2> |
| </td> |
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| <tr id="project-explorer-default-to-hierarchical"> <!-- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=491185 --> |
| <td class="title">Hierarchical project layout by default in Project Explorer</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| To better handle multi-module, nested and hierarchical projects, the default project layout in <b>Project Explorer</b> |
| view has been changed from <i>Flat</i> to <i>Hierarchical</i>. |
| <p>You can restore the layout to <i>Flat</i> using the view menu (<b>⋮</b>).</p> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td id="Debug" class="section" colspan="2"> |
| <h2>Debug </h2> |
| </td> |
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| <tr id="formfeed-character"> <!-- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=553282 --> |
| <td class="title">Console View now interprets form feed and vertical tab characters</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| The interpretation of ASCII control characters in the <b>Console View</b> was extended to recognize the characters: <abbr title="ASCII code 0x0C"><code>\f</code></abbr> - form feed |
| and <abbr title="ASCII code 0x0B"><code>\v</code></abbr> - vertical tab (in languages that support it). |
| <p> |
| This feature is disabled by default. You can enable it on the <b>Run/Debug > Console</b> preference page. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <img src="images/formfeed.png" |
| alt="Result of formfeed interpretation. Insert newline and indent next line to column where formfeed was found in previous line."/> |
| </p> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr id="termination-time"> <!-- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=251642 --> |
| <td class="title">Termination time in Console View</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| The <b>Console View</b> label will now show the termination time of a process in addition to the launch time. |
| <p> |
| <img src="images/process-termination-time.png" alt=""/> |
| </p> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td id="Preferences" class="section" colspan="2"> |
| <h2>Preferences </h2> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr id="resource-rename-mode-preference"> <!-- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=560100 --> |
| <td class="title">Preference to select resource rename mode</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| A preference has been added in the <b>General</b> preferences page, that allows you to select the resource renaming mode |
| in the <b>Project Explorer</b>: either open an inlined text field or a dialog. By default, the inline rename mode is selected. |
| <br/><br/> |
| The preference can also be specified via product customization: |
| <ul> |
| <li>org.eclipse.ui.workbench/RESOURCE_RENAME_MODE=inline</li> |
| <li>org.eclipse.ui.workbench/RESOURCE_RENAME_MODE=dialog</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p><b>Note:</b> Rename that would affect more than 1 resource is always performed with a dialog.</p> |
| <p><img src="images/resource-rename-mode-preference.png" alt="Rename mode in General preference page"/></p> |
| </td> |
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| <td id="StylingThemes" class="section" colspan="2"> |
| <h2>Themes and Styling </h2> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr id="dark_welcome"> <!-- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=559611 --> |
| <td class="title">Welcome screen in dark theme</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| When Eclipse is in dark theme, the welcome screen also appears dark on macOS and Linux. |
| <p><img src="images/dark_welcome.png" alt="Welcome screen in dark theme" width="608"/></p> |
| </td> |
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| <td id="GeneralUpdates" class="section" colspan="2"> |
| <h2>General Updates </h2> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr id="ui-performance"> <!-- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=553533 and https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=553535 --> |
| <td class="title">Interactive performance</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| Interactive performance has been further improved in this release. |
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| <tr id="redraw-treeviewer"> <!-- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=553787 and https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=553788 --> |
| <td class="title">Redraw is turned off by default during collapse and expand operations in tree viewer</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| To improve interactive performance, redraw is turned off by default during the collapse and expand operation of tree viewers. |
| This significantly improves these operations compared to drawing the updates synchronously. |
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