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| <a name="PTP600">PTP 6.0.0 Changes</a> |
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| <p>A number of new |
| features and changes have been included in the 6.0.0 release.</p> |
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| <li>The <code>property</code> element has been removed completely. Since properties and attributes |
| were essentially identical, removing the <code>property</code> element reduces confusion as to when they should be |
| used.</li> |
| <li>The <code>buttonId</code> attribute on a <a href="#Widget"><code>widget</code></a> is now global. In the previous version |
| button IDs were local to each tab. This allows a button on one tab to change the state |
| of a control on a different tab;</li> |
| <li>The <a href="#ControlState"><code>control-state</code></a> element now supports obtaining state by comparing |
| an <a href="#AttributeType"><code>attribute</code></a> value to a string;</li> |
| <li>The <code>saveValueTo</code> attribute on a <a href="#Widget">widget</a> has been renamed to simply |
| <code>attribute</code>. This is to reflect the fact that an widget can read from and |
| save to an <a href="#AttributeType"><code>attribute</code></a>.</li> |
| <li>The <a href="#LineArg"><code>arg</code></a> element now has an <a href="#AttributeType"><code>attribute</code></a> attribute. If |
| supplied, this will be compared to the <code>isUndefIfMatches</code> string rather than the element content in |
| order to determine if the argument is defined or not. |
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| <a name="PTP501">PTP 5.0.1 Changes</a> |
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| <p>Aside from some significant bug fixes, there are a number of new |
| features with the 5.0.1 release.</p> |
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| <li>The <code>widget</code> component has been split up into |
| three components: <a href="#Widget"><code>widget</code> </a>, <a |
| href="#ButtonGroup"><code>button-group</code> </a>, and <a |
| href="#Browse"><code>browse</code> </a>;</li> |
| <li><a href="#Action"><code>action</code> </a> push-button |
| functionality has been added;</li> |
| <li><a href="#ControlState"><code>control-state</code> </a> |
| elements have been added to all UI control descriptors;</li> |
| <li>The launch tab <a href="#LaunchTab"><code>import</code> </a> |
| controller type has been modified (largely for maintaining uniformity |
| of implementation) to subclass the <code>dynamic</code> controller;</li> |
| <li>Ability to inspect invisible discovered (excluded) properties |
| and attributes via a "View" button (see <a href="#TabController">note</a>) |
| has been added;</li> |
| <li><a href="#Preferences">Preferences</a> have been added to |
| help with the debugging of <a href="#StreamParsers">stream |
| tokenizers</a>;</li> |
| <li>Resource Manager "environment" handling has been totally |
| rewritten in order to support the exclusion of properties associated |
| with invisible or disabled widgets, and to allow for the restoration |
| of their values when re-enabled.</li> |
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| <p>In addition, some tweaking of the SWT "knobs" was necessary to |
| get the XML to reflect more closely the behavior of the Java classes |
| (especially in terms of defaults).</p> |
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